Last August Post

Since it's the last day of August and will September in an hour I thought I'd add one more post and make it 15 for August. :) I'm sure I can find lots of randomness to blog about...let see...

• we won our game tonight. That makes our record 4-1. 
• we booked (well reserved) a beach house for our honeymoon. (We are just gonna go to good ole Destin for a week and use all the money that was going to be spent for a huge resortinjamaica trip for stuff for our apartment. I am still beyond excited to have my favorite beach house, in my favorite city all to myself with my favorite person. :D We are going to have a blast!)
• Online classes are going great. The one class I was worried about turns out to be one of the easiest. 
• It's getting cooler outside! Slowly, but it is! 
• I'm going to start back running in the morning.
• I found out one of my real life friends has a blog! :)
• I am convinced chicfila puts crack in their food. I crave it every.single.day. Not only crave it, but eat it. ;)
• I forgot how fun it is to work with html and design web layouts and stuff. That was my only reason in having a myspace. I'm seriously considering doing it as a part time job. Web design that is.
• I went to the tanning bed once and later that day someone commented on me looking darker. I was THAT pale...one tan visit made me look darker. I will be going again tomorrow. AFTER I run. MUST run.
• Part one of the last Harry Potter movie coming out (geek, I know)
• I have so many things coming up to look forward to that it would be impossible to not be happy. Take a look: my sis's bday, my bday, thanksgiving, my last vb season(currently in progress), only having one more semester of school left, Christmas, baby shower and Christmas party all wrapped into one for our vb manager, getting MARRIED(!!!), moving out, our honeymoon.....I am SOOOOO excited about it all! :)

TADA!

It's done! For now anyway. I'm never completely satisfied with web layouts...but this will do for now. :) Like?

Ridiculous YouTube Videos

I found this on another blog. I love it. HAHA after you watch this one, watch the music video below.




Just thought I'd share these ridiculous videos. lol

New Layout

I am not even close to being done remodeling our blog. Just wanted to make that clear. I have been messing around on it for a while now, and I have an idea about how I want it. I'm just too tired to stay up and do it right now. It will be fixed within the next few days.

Monndddaay

Happy Monday everyone! Mine has been like any other day. Slept in, showered, did a little school work, had a chicfila salad, and then I went tanning because I am PALE. Now I'm off to watch game film and practice for our first home game tomorrow! I wish I had more going on to blog about, but it has just been the same old stuff. I plan on starting back running within the next few days. All this eating out after games for free is catching up to me. Oh I am excited to get to go to bham in the morning. Drew has a doc appointment and I'm sure we'll get lunch somewhere yummy. :) I hope you all have a great week!

Oh one more thing. I plan on working on our blog tonight. Glamin it up a little. It's so dang dull looking.

Pretty Proud. :)

Well its been quite a while since I've posted anything. I have been kinda busy since school and vb are in full swing. The online classes have been great since I don't have to wake up and get ready and actually go to class. I have literally slept until 10 everyday this week. I wake up slowly [I am NOT a morning person] and eat breakfast and do some school work and play multiple games of monopoly deal with drew. We are addicted. We both love monopoly but it takes forever to play. I saw something about the monopoly card game on a blog so we decided to give it a try. It's fun! After games and work I get a shower and get ready for practice. I run to chicfila for a quick salad with chicken nuggets on it before practice. Everyday. That has been my schedule all week long.
 Today was different though. It was day 1 of the season opener tournament. The team met at a cute little coffee house for a paid-for meal this morning before we hit the road to play...kicked butt in our two games and then got right back on the bus and came home. We get to do it all over again tomorrow. The second day of tournaments are just not fun. Everyone is I'm always tired and cranky from playing and traveling the day before...I've got my pillow, blanket, and ipod all ready to take with me. I'll be the one in the back of the bus asleep. :)
I do have to brag about my self for a sec. This tournament is the same tournament where I became a bench rider (well stander. We don't sit, we stand) last year. Something about the gym it is held on makes me feel and play weird. It is probably just mental, but whatever it is, I can't seem to shake it off. Well, things got off to the same start as they did last year. I wasn't playing my BEST at first so I got taken out and didn't play the whole last set. Well see, last year, I would have gotten mad, given up, and stood at the end of the "bench line" pouting because I wasn't playing..but this year, I knew I hadn't been playing as well as I should have and decided it wasn't just about ME...so I stood on the sidelines and cheered my team on as they won. Then something happened...she PUT ME BACK IN. I got another chance...something I didn't get last year. I actually did WELL this time too and got to play in every remaining set today. I was so proud of myself. I know I could have played a lot better but I am proud of my attitude and I felt like I was more mature about the situation. I am going to try my hardest to be this way all season long. Oh! While we were eating our brunch this morning, one of our new managers told us BIG NEWS! She is PREGNANT!!! :D We are all so excited for her and can't wait to throw her a baby shower. We have already started planning it for the night after we are in the Christmas parade. Can't wait to go by some babylove cuteness! :)

Yay For Friday!

I love how I can't sleep during normal hours anymore. I'm exhausted all day then night time comes and I'm wide awake. Tylenol pm just makes me groggy and grouchy the next day, so I try to stay away from it. It's sounding great right about now though.

I am SO glad I was off from practice today. My body and self confidence needed it. It's hard having 3 hours a day where a couple of people constantly point out everything you do wrong. It wears you down. Its TONS better than last year...BUT the games haven't started and that's when it seemed to go downhill  last year. Only 70 something days left...but who's counting? It's really not as bad as I make it sound. I'm just getting burnt out and ready for a new chapter in my life. It will come soon enough though.

I'm taking advantage of tomorrow. I have NOTHING I have to go do so I'm going to be sleeping in, working on my online class stuff (speaking of, there is SO much work for these classes. I am going to be busy busy for the next few months), eating some yummy foods, and cuddling up with my boo while we watch some movies.

Drew's wedding band came in today! It's sooo cool. It's a new Titanium ring made out of carbide tungsten. It's BLACK! Just what he wanted. I am looking forward to him wearing it. I don't wanna be the only one with a ring on anymore. We haven't made up our minds as to what the wedding date is. I guess it's better name would be "marriage date"...since we aren't having an actual wedding.

I guess I'm going to try this sleep thing again. Wish me luck. Hope every one is doing well! Happy weekend!

A Little Update on Life.

This week has pretty much consisted of...sleeping in while Drew is working out at the gym, waking up when he gets home to breakfast in bed, working on our golf puzzle and being lazy, making lunch runs to chicfila, volleyball practice...shower, dinner, sleep, repeat. It has been relaxing, but I'm ready for a little something more. I am just feeling differently about some things this year than I have before...I don't exactly know why. Maybe I am just growing up and my views and everything are changing, I don't know. For instance, I HATE being cold...but I am soooo looking forward to cold weather. I cannot wait to wear sweat shirts and comfy shoes with fur in them. I'm so sick of sweating every time I take a step outside.

School.
Luckily for me, class starts in one hour! (side note: all of our classes are online this semester) I have a few tough ones, but I know that if I get it over with now, then spring (when I have spring fever and won't be able to focus on anything but getting married and moving) will be extremely easy. So if I can stay awake long enough, at 12a.m. I'm going to be looking through 5 different syllabuses and planning out a "school work schedule" so that I can keep up with everything and get it all turned in on time. I'm such a nerd to be excited about it. haha. Some people have such a hard time getting through college and to be honest, I probably would have been one of those people had it not been for volleyball. I already have 36 hours behind me and I just graduated from high school last year. I am so thankful to have gotten a scholarship to do something I love in return for all of my college expenses plus more paid for. SOOO thankful.

Volleyball.
Practice this week has been so so. I feel like it has been pretty goood, but sometimes I feel like our coaches like to only focus on the bad...and they seem to think practice hasn't been going so well...They also said they don't think we've wasted any time though...that the bad days are needed some times. They have been bringing on the pressure to get us used to it before the games start...which btw is MONDAY! I can't believe it's already starting so soon! I have been working my butt off to try and get a spot on the floor and I can't tell if it has paid off or not. I still have two more days of practice..at least. I guess I'll find out Monday. If not, I'll be as supportive as I can for my team mates...

Getting Married.
So....we have been back and forth with this huge decision. We are beyond ready and excited to get married....the big questions now are: 1) Get married in town or where ever we chose to honeymoon? 2) where do we want to move to and go to school next fall? We could go ANYWHERE. Nothing is holding us here. I am just going to continue praying about it and hopefully God will show us where he wants us to be!

Sunday Review

Today has been a pretty nice day. It started with sleeping until 11 and then having breakfast cooked by Drew. Eggs and Bacon yuuuumm. :) Then we worked on the puzzle we started a few days ago. It's golf themed, go figure. I'll post a pic once it's done. After we had enough of the puzzle for today, Drew dyed my hair...BLACK! It looks so GOOD. My eyebrows are naturally black, so it looks like it's supposed to. The sun makes my hair light brownish/red. Then we ran some errands and I got a few new beauty products that I'm excited about and got dinner. Here are the new products I'm excited to use:

China glaze polish VIII

China glaze polish in emerald fitzgerald

Biolace shampoo and conditioner

finger paints polish shades of fall

bigsexyhair root pump plus

I'm excited to try a new look with my hair and have my nails painted in fall colors. I've recently started to keep my nails painted and I thought I needed some new colors. I love dark rich colors. Tonight I plan on doing nothing but relaxing. I need to enjoy this week because school starts next week along with our volleyball games. I'll be busy busy. I'm looking forward to it though because like I've said before, I'm ready to get another semester behind me and I can't wait for the new year so that we can start for real planning everything for the wedding and moving out. Hope everyone's weekend went well! 

It Wasn't So Bad.

ok, so we ended up going to the water park even though it was overcast. It turned out to be really fun. I feel like the team really bonded well and I got to know some of the new girls better. All the prayers for rain were not unanswered though. About an hour after we got there is STORMED. We luckily had a pavilion to retreat to and wait it out. It only stormed for about 30 minutes (we spent that 30 minutes walking over to the concession building and getting ice cream :) then it cleared up and became a beautiful sunny day. It kinda was like a huge sign to me. God is the one in charge. He will answer prayers, but it might not always be in the exact way you wanted Him to. I need to learn to accept this and my life would be a lot easier knowing it's not all under my control. That's a whole other topic for a different time. After we got our fill of water slides and sunburns, we changed and stopped at a hole in the wall bbq restaurant on the way home. They had pretty good food and everyone was so drained and starving, so we were pretty much quiet the whole time we ate. We were just ready to get home and rest.Oh and this little short trip (about an hour ride each way compared to our 2-5 hour each way trips) was a major reminder to update my ipod pronto and bring it along with a pillow and blanket from now on. I should know better. Ha.

I'm craving some buffalo chicken fingers for supper and some movies with my tobe. :) Coach says today is "faturday"..get it? FAT+SATURDAY=day to eat whatever we want-aka "faturday".
 Happy weekend everyone!

Praying For Rain

Don't you just love it when you take an AMAZING 2-3 hour nap during the day and then you can't sleep that night? Yeah. I should have just fought it and stayed awake all day, knowing I have vb in the morning..but I couldn't. I was soo sleepy for some reason. So I took a nap. It was a GREAT nap...and now I'm laying here wide awake watching the time tick away dreading practice in the morning. This.Sucks. While I'm laying here I'm also praying that it STORMS tomorrow. All day. Because...instead of a fun overnight white water rafting trip, this years "fun" trip is a few hours at a red neck water park. I'm slightly disappointed and therefor not looking forward to it. Coach gave us today off from practice and in return we have to practice for a few hours in the morning before leaving for said "fun" trip...UNLESS it's raining. PLEASE GOD...send the rain. I'm dreading it for a few reasons...one I'm on medication that says all over the bottle to stay out of sunlight. Am I going to tell my coach this? NO. I'm not being known as the one who complains and whines about everything this year. No sir. So I will just wear my sunscreen and hat and fine somewhere to sit and watch everyone else fry. Two, I'm pretty sure everyone is going to be tired from practice and just ready to go home and shower and sleep, but instead we are going to be in the heat and have about 5 slides that are supposed to entertain us for hours. I just don't see that being fun. I know I sound very pessimistic right now, but I'm not looking forward to this one bit. I can think of so many other things I could do on a Saturday...even a rainy one. I could cuddle up with Drew and watch movies all day...clean my disaster of a room...read blogs! So again...please pray for rain in AL tomorrow. :/

Long Post.

It has been a few days since I have posted anything. I just haven't been inspired to do much of anything. Please say an extra prayer for me..I've been feeling really down and not like myself lately. I went to the doc and I should start feeling back to normal soon. :/ This post will probably be pretty long because I have lots on my mind.

I guess I'll start with volleyball, since it's consuming a lot of my time lately. It's going fairly well. I just don't know how the season is going to go. I HATE sitting the bench and that's all I did last year...well this year I have a chance to actually be on the floor....but I'm not sure how long that will last. I haven't been quite up to par with my volleyball skills ever since I started playing in college. I'm not sure what has changed the way I play. This is my last season, so whether I play or not I'm going to try and enjoy it. I'm going to try my hardest to be there for the people who are actually on the floor and I'll try my best when I do get a chance to play. Being a part of the team is a blessing all in it's own. I mean heck, it's paying for my college and we are constantly told how many girls there are that would kill to be in our places...so I think I need to work on not being so selfish. If I'm not the best person to have on the floor to win games then I need to be supportive of those who are. Sure, it's easy to just say these things..but I really want to accomplish that this year. No more dissing the people on the floor and tearing the team a part. It's time to grow up and be a true teammate.

My future hubby has been so good to me the past few days. He knows I'm not feeling the best so he has done so much for me to help me out. I'm so grateful that I have been blessed by someone who truly loves me and wants to make me happy. I couldn't ask for anyone better. He has brought me breakfast in bed ALL WEEK, cleaned my room (it was a wreck) while I was gone to practice this afternoon, and took me out to dinner and a movie after practice to try and get me out of this funk I'm in. It was so sweet to get out of practice and see a text that said, "Come home and shower as soon as you get out of practice. We are going out to eat and to a movie. I love you!" Makes me smile. :) We went to one of my favorite places in town, which is a Mexican place and then had time to kill before the movie started, so we decided to run to old navy and look around. I found a CUTE purse on clearance for $7 so he had no reason to say no to that. :) I haven't had a new purse in forever and we needed something to put our candy in that we were going to sneak into the movie. lol We saw Charlie St. Cloud. It was about a B- in my book. Overall I had a GREAT night and I think Wed night should be date night every week. :)

So...I have been rethinking the whole destination wedding thing. When I'm actually realistic about it, Drew and I aren't the dress up to go eat or the biggest social couple...so why would we go to a resort where both is pretty much are things you do while at a all exclusive resort? I'm thinking that a cute little room one beach house in Destin or somewhere similar would be perfect. We could go to the grocery store and get groceries for most of the week and go out some nights. We would get to cook meals together and wear whatever we wanted  while we ate. We could go shopping and find things for our new apartment and it just over all seems like a totally better idea. I'm definitely going to look at beach houses ON the beach and see what I can find.


& one last little thing. I'm trying to think about optimistic stuff...so here are some things I'm looking forward to:

-COLD weather. I'm so tired of the hotness and sweat.

-for fall classes to begin. I'm ready to get another semester behind me.

-My bday! I'll no longer be a "teen". The big 2-0! :D

-Thanksgiving. Foooooood.

-Christmas...more Foooood. lol and family :)

-The new year. Once January gets here its time for full on planning. Down to every last detail. Our new home, what school we will go to, where we will get married, honeymoon, everything.

I hope everything is going great on everyone else's end. I really enjoy reading everyone's blogs and I'm always excited when I see a new post. I know my blog posts aren't really exciting or about anything anyone's interested in probably, but as time goes by maybe I'll get better at this whole thing. Good night!

Random Saturday Stuff

My mind is kinda everywhere today...so this post is a little random.

Its FINALLY Saturday. I made it through the first and worst week of volleyball. The heat + the unairconditioned  gym was not a very pleasant atmosphere for physical activity. Everyone sweat like 3 gallons of sweat per day. Overall it was a pretty good week of practices up until yesterday. I'm sure it was because everyone had weekend fever and could barely focus on practice. We had to pay for it with running suicides...everyone picked it up after that though. We did our insanity video and she let us go home early because it was Friday. :) My Dad and his wife had left earlier yesterday and will be gone until Sunday, which left the house all to Drew and I. We piled every comfy thing we could find into the living room floor and made ourselves comfortable while we ate buffalo chicken fingers and cheese sticks from Papa Johns, filets that he grilled, and we each had our own little tub of ice cream (I had sherbet). If you couldn't tell last night was cheat night. We ate all this while watching Repo Men. It's a really good movie in my opinion. After the movie went off I pulled out the laptop and did some blog stalking reading while Drew watched Get Rich or Die Trying. I saw clips of it and it was alright I guess. I hadn't seen it before. We went to bed pretty late but we both slept really good. We both got up and got our showers and now Drew is fixing breakfast. :) Today is pretty much going to be a lazy/get stuff done around the house day...can it be both? I think so.

 I am actually looking forward to cooler weather...which is a first for me. I usually would rather sweat than be cold any day but I'm getting pretty tired of sweating when I walk outside to get into my car. Ridiculous. I can't wait to wear

big comfy sweatshirts

my skinny jeans and uggs-they are sooo comfy

dark rich nail polishes

Here are some of my favorites from this summer:

Summer favorites

1) Salads & coke 0- I have pretty much eaten a salad at some point everyday this summer. my favorite is chicfila's side salad with their chicken nuggets, croutons, and ranch dressing. Top it off with a coke 0 and I would be happy with eating this meal for lunch everyday from now on. I'm sure this "summer fav" will continue on into "fall favs"

2) AE boyfriend fit shorts- They fit perfectly in the waist and are perfect length for comfort. I don't feel like my butt is hanging out, but I don't feel like a grandma. I have them in light and dark wash. I lived in them this summer. 


3) Vera Bradley keychain wallet- I have started to dislike carrying a purse around everywhere I go. All I need when I go somewhere are my keys and money.  Money goes in side, keychain loop attaches to my keys. That was easy. The fun patterns are just a plus.

4) Droid Eris- Drew and I opened up our own verizon account and got great deals any phone we wanted. After playing with several, we both really liked the Eris. It has everything you could ever need in a phone.

5) Travel-sized toiletries- They come in handy when you just need a quick shower after your workout at the gym. My favorite shampoo (the one pictured above) luckily comes in travel size and so does my favorite body wash. :)

6) Tevas, maybelline mascara, and black nailpolish- always a fav of mine.

Buffalo Chicken Salad

Drew has been making this for weeks, but I never tried it because up until now I didn't think I liked buffalo sauce...but OMG. It is DELICIOUS. He is making more as I type this because I wanted some for dinner on a muli-grain sandwich round. mmm :)

It's REALLY simple. All you need is:


1 1/2 tbsp of ranch

1 1/2 tbsp of buffalo sauce (we use Moore's)
1 tbsp of I can't believe it's not butter
about 1/2 lbs of chicken




1-Grill the chicken
2-Mix the other three ingredients 
3-blend together into a chicken salad texture. (we use a magic bullet)

I like to put it on these. 

Volleyball Day 1

Here I am staring at the computer screen feeling like an 18-wheeler hit me and then threw it in reverse and ran over me. Today was so easy kicked.my.butt. It was day ONE of volleyball season. We had a pretty fun and intense practice. The only thing I can complain about are the half dollar sized blisters on BOTH heels. Our new shoes=ouch. After practice we headed to the aerobics room and did the physical test dvd of INSANITY. It was extremely hard...and we had wore our legs out at practice right before. It was not pretty. I wore our grey volleyball t-shirt from last year and about maybe 20 minutes into practice it had become a charcoal color and was ringing wet. DISGUSTING. I wasn't going to waste all of that hard work by eating like crap today, so I stuck to the diet my personal trainer had given me. I feel great and I know it will only get easier and I will only feel better as the days go by. I have to do it all over again in the morning. I better be seeing some results from this..even if it is just a few inches added to my vertical. :)