Man how time flies....

Me and my mom were watching a telelvison show that was airing on the National Geographic channel that talked about 9/11 which this coming September will have been 10 years since that happened also yesterday was 6 years since Katrina which if you know me is near and dear to my heart.  But the concept of time is crazy of course we all have birthday's where we get older supposedly the old we get the wiser we get sometimes I think this is true then there are other times I think maybe not...As I looked back I thought about what I was doing 10 years ago....To give you a picture of what I was like here is me with my two best friends Jennifer at the beach with my family...

We look really happy and carefree which is the truth we really were that way just enjoying life.I was a freshman in High School 10 years ago. I played volleyball loved going to church hanging out with my group of close friends and hanging out with my best friends. My favorite place at the time and still is till this day was the beach. We were growing up and learning life lessons having fun and just enjoying being teenagers. I will never forget the day that happened I remember the entire day I remember what I said and what happened as I have gotten older that day sticks with me. I remember hearing about and thinking someone was talking about a movie trailer...they said no it was real not until I saw it on TV did I believe it. I will never forget it things after that changed here in the country we lived in after that things were different. I knew people who had family members and even I had friends who were part of branches of the service who went off to fight an evil we hardly new anything about. Sercuity in airports and transists would never be the same it would be tighter. Fear would have a different face...loss would mean something different,but we as americans would become more patriot more proud to be what this country stands for and we would rally around each other to help and support each other through such horrific things. 10 years seems just like yesterday to me but yet still so far away its sometimes is fuzzy but still just as clear as day. Since then I went on to graduate high school and go on to college and then graduate college, make new friends experince new things. Things change people change and time moves on 10 years is a long time and lots of this happen but time moves on....

Until next time....

Becuase I knew/know you I have been changed for good...

So It's been a while but things are starting to calm down a little...lots of things have happened but that's for another blog post...

If you know me at all you know that one of my favorite musicals is WICKED. Which just in case you have no idea what I am talking about...it's based off a book which was turned into a musical about the Wicked Witch and Glinda and what happened before Dorthy showed up. Its really a great story about friendship....
One of my favorite songs in the musical is "For Good" which is sung by Glinda and Elphaba(Wicked Witch) the lyrics for me have for some reason always resonated with what's going on in my life whether that be recent or past stuff....

The whole idea of the song is that becasue of the friendship that they've had with each other and what they meant to each I have been chaged because of that....
I find that no matter what I have been through all the changes and stages in my life that I am truly blessed to have friends and family who love me. Like the song says "Because I knew you I have been changed for good." Those of you who read this after I post it know who you are whether we were friends at GWU(you girls and guys know who you are) or here at home (you know who you are as well) or even my family who is most important to me...
Because I Knew/Know you I have been changed for Good!!!

Listen to the lyrics below while the song plays those of you who have changed my life for good, and made me a better person...this songs for you....

Until next time I am who I want to be...

Who Am I???

You asked "Who are you?" with a puzzled look on your face like you didn't know...I replied with
"who I am is....
some one who drives her car barefooted, someone who bites her nails, someone who wants to be trendy but will always be that same girl in t-shirts and jeans, someone whos heart is caring and loving, someones who's friends are important and more like family than friends, someone who loves to bake, someone who if she could would finish the next great novel, someone who loves the beach, someone who likes to be girly, someone who oneday wants to find forever...whatever that may be, someone who cherrishes her college years and what they taught her, someone who has known what love is and was, someone who strives to do her best, someone who jams out with music up as load as it can go in the car,someone who's faith is important to her, someone who thinks she is beautiful and loves her body, someone who..." I then stopped paused and said to you...
"Who I am is who I want to be...and that's all that matters."

Read the post above this....

so the post above this is something that came to me on my way this afternoon...I don't know what brought this on but I had to write it down...I know it's been a while but this is the perfect way to start back...

Dancing in the street in a place that feels like home PART II....

So its been a while since I have posted but this one will be worthwhile! This past weekend I went back to Gardner-Webb for homecoming. It was wonderful lots of fun things went on...I got to see friends I hadn't seen in a while, and my girls of course. This pic is of me, Mason, and Katie Grace...but I also hung out with Micah, Elisa, Jessica, Lauren Shirkey, and others....

I love these girls a ton! I had a great time with them this weekend as I always do. The longer I am friends with them the more I know how blessed I am to have them as my friends. They make me laugh and smile, and some time cry happy tears. After talking to them and finding out what was going on in there lives it makes me happy to see my friends happy and enjoying the college life. They are always a encouragement to me.

I also got to see friends that I started out with when I was a freshman. I always love seeing them it reminds me of all the great memories we had while we were students there. When we all get together it seems like nothing ever changed. He we are on Saturday at the game...can we say GWU Billboard much...

These girls are great! It was great to get to see them this weekend and enjoy each others company and talk about how  our jobs or what's going on in our lives. It's just awesome but also a little weird to be acting like grown ups.

So homecoming....what does it mean?? For me it means returning to see old friends and current friends as well as remenicing about the things we used to do when we were at GWU as well as telling my girls about it so they can experience those things. I love the fact of returning back to some where that feels like home. Some where that is comfortable but just fits. The problem that I always find I have at these things is I want to spend time with my friends I haven't seen in a while but also give most of my time to my girls. Its hard even now to figure out to mesh both together. I had that problem before I graduated on how to mesh the things I took from college with my new graduated life. I guess maybe I am just at a crossroads who knows.

So all thought this title is similar to another post it is also different with things that happened this weekend:

-Danced in the Street

-Ate yummy food

-Watched a moive

-Went to the homecoming dance

- Went to Cook Out

-Went to the football game

Like I said a fun filled weekend...

Anyways I can barely hold my eyes open...so it is oft to work.

Excited and Nervous...but I didn't get here alone...

        So tomorrow I start my new job at Truliant this is my first big girl job since I graduated college. I am truly excited to be doing something besides staying home all day. But I am also nervous...I know they picked me beacause they think I am the best for the job, but I am nervous b/c I don't want to do anything or forget anything that might screw it up. It's not that I don't believe in myself I do, but I still have those nervous butterflies.
      I will say lately my friends and family have been encouraging me not to be nervous that I was going to be great at this job. When expressing the nervousness to my friend Katie Grace last night she was as always encouraging to me not be nervous and  gave me some words of wisdom straight from God out of her devotional :
" You need not fear the future, for I am already there."
These were such wise words from my friend who I love dearly and they did calm my nervousness and all along with some other things she sent me I cried tears of comfort.I preceeded to tell her about some verses in my bible that I had read over to hopefully to calm my nervousness knowing that Jesus was looking out for me and that's how I had come to be in this job otherwise I wouldn't have been if not for his plan. I told her that I had read over Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 that talks about a time and place for everything to happen and then I read over my favorite verse Psalm 119:76  that talks about God comforting us with his love just like he said he would.  Later on as I went back I found a passage in my bible that said something similar that I had from a previous sermon to what Katie Grace had sent me. So in turn I shouldn't be nervous b/c God is with me and is looking out for everything tomorrow that will go on. So I will not worry any longer...

Also I wounldn't have gotten here with out some awesome people in my life...my family,my friend, my Church family, and certain others...yall all know who you are...
THANKS FOR BEING SO ENCOURAGING....with out you none of this could have ever happened...from my college graduation to me now having a job...
Thanks!!!
Until next time...

In the South College Football is a religion...

So first I got a call from my sweet Gardner-Webb girls this week. It made my day to hear from them and surprised me when my phone rang. I miss them dearly, but get to see them soon they are always an encouragement to me!! :)
Here is a picture of  KG and Elly while they were talking to me, Mason and Lauren were there too but are not pictured...

In my house and all my life football has been a big part of it...particularly college football. I would dare to say that I went to several games when I was in my mother's womb. My mom also has pictures of me at Clemson games as a toddler and even after my brother was born my Mom has pictures of us at Clemson as kids my brother in his little Clemson onesie and me in my Little Clemson cheerleading outfit. As we got older we would go to the games and even when we weren't there Saturday's in our house were and are generally during college football season...our Saturdays have been consumed with football.Even now for the last couple of Christmas' we got bowl game tickets to see Clemson play in different bowl games.

Here is a recent picture of us at the last one we went to It's the Music City Bowl in Nashville,TN we won.... 

It's just always been apart of my life...even when I was looking at colleges I chose not to go to the first school I looked at because they didn't have a football team my thought was "What do they do on Saturday's if they don't have a football team?" The answer I got was that they went to soccer games...somehow my brain couldn't fathom that. When I did finally choose where I was going to go college I chose Gardner-Webb University...for other reason but one being they had a football team. Most of my college Saturday's in the Fall were spent going to football games to support my team. I made sure I was in the student section there early for the games and try to be on the first or second row with my friends. Now that I have graduated I spend most of my Saturday's watching football with my family or attending Clemson/ Gardner-Webb games. I have always enjoyed the game of football and I get very emotional but I love the game of football...and will continue to do so until I die...as the saying goes:

"In the East, college football is a cultural exercise.

On the West Coast, it is a tourist attraction.

In the Midwest, it is cannibalism.

BUT IN THE SOUTH, COLLEGE FOOTBALL IS A RELIGION."

 – Marino Casem, Alcorn State University

Until next time here's hoping you are cheering on your team this Saturday and enjoying college football!!!