ice ice bama

Ice covered the state of Alabama last week.
This delayed student teaching. I can't believe how bored I got at home.

Dodgeball started on Thursday. We need to practice or have some kind of strategy. We won the first four rounds but lost the rest.

I finished reading the Hunger Games series. Loved it! I wish that I hadn't finished them before the ice. Right now I'm not sure what I want to read. Claire loaned me My Sister's Keeper. I know a little bit about it but I'm not sure if I'm ready for a sad story.

Sam and his roomies have started having a Movie Night. Tonight it's my pick. I wanted to make them watch the Changeling because it would spark a more interesting discussion. However, I am not suppost to tell anyone my pick. I told Sam and he told Jon David. So now, I feel like I have to pick something else. Hmmm...

Post College... the Middle School of Adulthood

"Failure"

I feel like it's a repeating theme in conversation with all my 20-something friends. Since graduating nearly 3 years ago, I've been floundering around trying to find my place in the world or at least a place that feels a little more stable. I've lived in 5 places in one city and worked 6 different jobs. With a forced smile, I'm constantly searching for something in my field or at least something that didn't sound lame when I imagine having to tell someone what I do.

Is it the economy?

Is it me?

However, it seems to be everyone. Most of my friends have expressed their frusterations with not being where they hoped they would be in a career or a relationship at this stage of life.

I wish I could just snap my fingers and see how it is all going to turn out because I keep thinking that maybe in 6 months.... maybe a year...

maybe tomorrow.

My First Flash Animation

I'm taking Interactice Design this semester and I'm learning how to make flash animation. This is my first video. It's a little slow but I'm still pretty happy with the way it turned out.

Brett Robbins made the audio about 4 years ago.
He was making fun of a time when we actually had a contest in the car to see who could make the highest sound. Glad I finally had a use for that CD.

So here's the flash animation: Hey Brett!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y8gxKVrff8&feature=channel_page.

Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup

After bragging about how my cat, Lemons, and saying he was the most perfect cat in the whole world. He is sooo well behaved and NEVER does anything bad. I come home to find that he peed on my pillow. As soon as I walked into my room he ran away like he was in trouble. I wondered why he was being so jumpy and then I could spell "the accident". It took me a while to figure out where it was coming form.

I was literally pissed.
Threw the pillow away.
Admitted that it could have been worse.
Washed everything on my bed and drove to Target to buy a replacement pillow.

No more bragging about the cat.

remember to let her into your heart

In college, I knew this girl that had an "illness" and she would talk about it all the time. Everything she did was somehow related to her "illness". Everything from her grades, campus activities, dating, etc. She managed to work it into every sentence like it was the one thing that MADE her!

Drove me crazy! I couldn't stand it.

Earlier this year I realized that I was just like her... only it wasn't an illness that I was letting define and limit who I was and what I did. I was letting my past do it. I don't even have a particular bad one... just a little disappointing. But I was letting things that disappointed me keep me from trying or believing that I do or feel certain ways.

So recently, on a trip to NYC with my amazing bestie, Allison, I meet this really wonderful guy. I thought he was really cute, smart, and funny. I had a great time talking to him. Then he started calling and I liked talking to him. Every day I liked him a little more. Then he asked about coming to visit me.

Freeze. This is the part where I usually shut down. The part where you have to take a risk. Twice in my life I've had someone that really cared about me ask me to take a chance of them and even though I wanted to... I punked out. Missed the boat. So I was seriously considering duck-n-dodge topic until he gave up.

Then I was realized what I was doing and decided it was silly. It wasn't that big of deal and I let him. I had a great time. I don't know where it's going or what it means. But I'm happy. Really happy.

return from her stay on the moon

I never dreamed that I'd start a blog...

I used to only write when I was sad but latley I've been really happy.

I feel like I found myself again and it's wonderful!

It's cheesey but I can't wait to see where I'm going.

So here's the start of the offical record of everything that's new.