ROYAL WEDDDINNNGG!

T-minus one hour and fifty six minutes and counting! I am so excited to see Prince William and Kate get married. I probably wouldn't be as pumped, but I loved being in London and I toured and went to a service at Westminster Abbey and it is awesome to see places I've actually been before :). Nicole, Lib and I decided to just stay up all night while we waited for the wedding, because I didn't finish a paper I was working on until after two. We are heading to the tridelt house to watch with everyone on the big screen at 5:30, and I am so freaking pumped! If we weren't all so exhausted and gross looking I would post pictures. But, we are, haha.


I was also looking through pictures I have from London earlier trying to find some in Westminster Abbey, but I just remembered we didn't take any inside. I cannot wait to find out what Kate is wearing and see the processional to Buckingham Palace and the kiss! Woooo!


Stuart is also coming today for an interview for an internship, and my Linkous Lady has her fashion show today. If I can manage a few hours sleep, today is going to be awesome :). Woo!

Miscellany Monday

I finalllyyy decided to upload some pictures to my computer so I could blog :). Since this will be such a hodgepodge, I am going to link up with Carissa's Miscellany Monday!

1. I took the day off on Thursday and left Wednesday night to surprise Stuart while he drummed for IV :). He also played on Friday so I got to see that as well. We had a great weekend- we hiked off the Blue Ridge Parkway, went beer tasting, saw the Lincoln Lawyer (so good, we both loved it!), and just spent some time together. It was awesome :) Here we are on the top of Humpback Rock:

2. One of my good friends, Kelley, is getting married in June and she is giving me wedding FEVER! Ahhhhh! Even though that is a least a couple years down the road ( I hope!), I love searching for wedding related stuff. I can tell you that these will be a part of my wedding wardrobe, Stephen Bonanno monogrammed sandals. They look just like my beloved Jack Rogers, but the color options are awesome. I love the idea of incorporating them with my something blue, a white base with blue stitching. So adorable! See :)

3. Formals is this weekend!!! It is my last as an active sister, and I am excited to get all gussied up and hang out with some of my favorite people. Jim is coming to go as Heidi's date, and that makes me even more excited. Ahhhhh!


4. I just did some spring cleaning in my room and I have a hugeeee garbage bag of clothes that were either too big or I just didn't wear. I can't wait to try and sell some at Plato's closet and then donate the rest to Goodwill. I love a clean and organized closet :)


5. I am ready for sprinnnnggg! I hate that I got a nice big taste of it, and yet I woke up to snow this morning. Come on Blacksburg, bring me sundress weather!


Have a great week!

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Happy St. Patrick's Day from the CAUS Dean's Office at Virginia Tech! Here I am with my green pashmina, green ringed travel coffee cup and my eyes, which change, but are green because of the pashmina. Ignore my dirty hair, haha ;).

 I have a little red tint to my hair, so does that make me a little Irish? I wish! I'll be celebrating tonight with some of my favorite girls, watching this movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209095/. It's called Leprechaun in the Hood. Oh my! 


"Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me. "
St. Patrick

Have a great day and don't get pinched!

WILW!

I'm linking up with Miss Jamie again for some What I'm Loving Wednesday :)

* Being back in Bburg :) I loved being home with my fam for the week, but I am glad to finally be back "home" :)

* Veronica Mars! Yet again :) I am just now starting the third season with my roomie and we have spent many hours on the couch watching (she is even re-watching it!). It's so good!

* Cinnamon Burst Cheerios! They are delicious and I am currently eating a bowl now while watching VM and doing this. Sooooo good with almond milk!

* The weather for the rest of the weekend. It has been cold, rainy and nasty this week and tomorrow it should hit the 60's and by Friday, the 70's :) So excited!


* My glittle is getting initiated this week! Although initiation is long (two nights!) and we stood out in the cold for an hour earlier tonight for the first part, it is so worth it. I am so excited for her to be my "official" sister. Love my fam!

* As allllwaaayyysss, I am loving this sweet, sweet boy. He has really been a source of strength and a great shoulder to cry on. l am SO grateful for him, and through everything he has been the best; always there with two arms to hold me and a forehead kiss to soothe me. He has to be sent by God, because I don't know how I would have made it through two surgeries and four deaths close to me in the last year. Moon and back, boots!

 Head on over to Jamie's and play along!

Happy Birthday Hev!

At midnight one of my best friends in the entire world will be 23! AHHH, we are getting so old. Anyways, I'm sitting in her living room counting down the minutes with her, and I thought I'd do a little birthday post dedicated to her :)

 This is Hev's eighteenth birthday- clearly black and white themed :) We went to dinner at a local restaurant and got all dolled up for it. She is the blonde to the left of me! This is right around the time Hev and I got close, and I am so thankful to have her as a friend. She is someone I can call no matter what the time, just for support!

 This was the summer after I graduated high school and Heather's mom had come to visit for a while. We literally filled up an entire Facebook album with goofy pictures like this one. We always have the best adventures together, whether we are just driving around Hampton and stopping at Chilis for chips and salsa, and a molten cake, or if we are heading out of town, like the next picture...

 This is at Hev's cousins wedding a few summers ago. We hopped in the car at the crack of dawn one morning... literally before dawn, and headed out west towards Knoxville. We helped out with the stuff for the wedding, and laughed our way down the road. She even put up with my multiple pee stops... y'all I am a bad roadtrip partner cause I ALWAYS have to pee! 

Clearly a picniked picture from either her nineteenth or twentieth birthday, where we started our tradition of me straightening her hair and counting down the minutes til midnight! We have lots of traditions and little things we do together, that we both think it's important to keep up! 

Another one of our adventures to New Jersey to visit her old roommate Kaitie! We had a great time driving through farm land and we even saw our news crew heading to Philadelphia to cover Michael Vick's signing with the Eagles. We hit NYC, tried on Tiffany's rings, and spent a day on the Jersey Shore... unfortunately no Snooki sightings! We always come home with stories and all kinds of inside jokes. I love that we have a great time no matter what we do :)

 This picture was taken this summer in my apartment. Hev came up with me to help me celebrate Coley's birthday. That night we took a ton of pictures, and again, had great stories to tell and retell to each other. 

Hev,

I hope your birthday is everything you've dreamed of and more. You are such a sweet, loving kind person and I know you will be the best teacher of those little children :) I thank God for such a special friend that I can do so many fun things with, and still cry with when we are down. I pray everyday for you BFWT and for your happiness in life! I know God has great things planned for you :)


I love you BFWT!
Meg

Top Two Tuesday :)

Head on over to Taylor's for her Top Two Tuesday :) This week is all about money! Which, clearly, as a poor college student I don't have nearly enough of! 

The top two things I have learned about money are:
1. Never buy anything not on sale :). Honestly, I never do. I head straight back to the clearance rack in clothing stores, and it has saved me a TON over the years. This past September, I walked into Ann Taylor Loft and bought a skirt and two dresses for eight dollars... TOTAL! I love both of the dresses and wear them all the time. I do try and buy food that is on sale, or that I have coupons for as well. I never want to pay more for anything than I have to :)

2. One of the best ways to stretch your money is to do it yourself! I love making homemade gifts or desserts or decorations. I find supplies and add a little paint or glitter to it, and there you go. Some of my favorite gifts have been ones that I have done homemade. I made my best friend a book of letters from all her family and friends for her 21st birthday. I shopped for scrapbooking stickers on sale, I printed the letters at home and I bought a scrapbook that was on sale because of the color. It was inexpensive, but special, and I am very proud of it :)


Tminus two days until SPRING BREAK! I have two classes, a midterm and four and a half hours of work left until I can enjoy a manicure with my roommate (courtesy of her lovely parents for my birthday), a quick night in Charlottesville, and home with my little for the weekend before her externship! I then have a bridesmaid dress fitting (AHHHHHHHH!!) and Hev's birthday on Friday. Come on Thursday at 1!


 

What I'm Loving Wednesday

Head on over to Jamie and link up to another What I'm Loving Wednesday :)

1. A great run at the gym tonight :). I have been "training" (I say that loosely and with quotes because I am not a great runner) my roommate, Nicole, and she pushed herself so hard tonight. I am so proud of her!


2. Panera. Plain and simple. Delish! And a great dinner after our run tonight :)

3. iChat. Hahaha. I know, I am so 2003, but I get to talk to my bffs from home, and I get to talk to Stuart all without texting on my dumb phone! Plus, I hate facebook chat with all my being!

4. Veronica Mars. Nicole got me hooked on it, and I am in love. This show is so good. I am mad they canceled it after only a few seasons! Plus, Kristen Bell is so adorable and has the best body. What great inspiration for our ab workouts we do while watching ;)

5. This boy is coming this weekend :). I can't wait to see him again!

6. I am done for the week! I have classes on Mondays and Wednesdays, so as of 5:15 on Wednesdays I am done :). I still have to go to work tomorrow and do some more work, but no classes!

Lovin My Hokies!

While I wait for Heather and Jim to arrive, I figured I'd join up with Kelly's Show Us Your Life- Alma Maters! 


If you have read my blog for any amount if time, you know that I am a HOKIIIIIEEEEE! I love Virginia Tech more than anything, and I am so proud that I will receive my B.A. from this amazing school in May :) (And my B.S. next May or December... AHHHH!)


Virginia Tech is known as a big football school, and football we play! I absolutely LOVE hokie football, and I have been a fan since birth!

See! This is me at two maybe? I'm honestly not sure, but I have been rockin that orange and maroon all my life :)

With some of my delta loves (and dolphinman!) at a football game last fall. There is nothing like watching good ole Frank and the boys put a whoopin on another school. Beamer Ball baby!


Although my love runs deep for all things Hokie football, I actually am here for more than just that :). I am getting my B.A. in English (and eventually a B.S. in Human Development) from a famous Engineering school. Whoops!


Actually, Tech has a TON of majors, and I have absolutely loved being in a big school (with a greater percentage of men ;) ) but in a smaller major. I have gotten to know my professors really well, and I have a tight fit group of other English majors that I went abroad with this summer!

I also joined a sorority here, and Greek life is a big part of Tech. It is not something that everyone is involved in (percentage wise, it is not big at all), but those who are involved in Greek life are generally involved elsewhere on campus as well. There are a ton of clubs and sports teams to get involved in, and there is always something going on. 

I love being the big school in a small town, because everything revolves around college life! We have great places to eat (#1 college dining in the country!), a really good bar scene, and you can get pretty much anywhere on the bus, which is free with your Hokie Passport (ID card). Literally, this place is the best ever. Promise I'm not biased ;).

There is nowhere else I could have dreamed of spending my college years, and I will be heartbroken to leave... why do you think I decided to stay for a second degree?!? Haha. 

My Valentines :)

As much as Valentine's day is for significant others, I think it's a great reminder of love in general. While I have one Valentine in particular, I have a few people that I love as well (not to say if you aren't listed, I don't love you!) :)

My first Valentine, my Daddy. He's the man who has always wanted what was best for me from day one, for the last twenty-two years. And he is the smartest man I know (he will tell you so!). He even called me today to see how my Valentine's day was going, and Daddy is not a phone person. I love you Daddy! Without you and mama (your own special Valentine!) I would not be the woman that I am today. I thank God for giving me the both of you as parents. The picture above is from Christmas, and I was standing on our hearth, so that is why I look so much taller :)

My BFWT! I am so excited she is coming to visit me this weekend :) Heather was my Valentine a few years ago, and we had the best time together! I came home and spent the day with her and her roommates. She even got me a little dog that I still have in my room to this day:) Hev, we need to take more pictures together this weekend. All I have of us lately are these from Coley's birthday, and a few from your graduation! Love you!

 Heidi. We actually did spend this Valentines day together! Her boyfriend is in Chicago, and Stuart went back to Charlottesville, so we vowed to be each others Valentine's this year. We had lunch together (with Nicole) and have chatted most of the day (although we chat most of the day every day). She even got me a card, which she read to me but didn't give to me, haha. We have helped each other through four years of college, and I am not sure what I am going to do next Valentine's Day when she is all the way in Atlanta!


 

 Coley :). Nicole has seriously been my Valentine every day for the past three years, and I am so glad we have both decided to stay another year! She is someone I am so comfortable talking to, and she is someone who I know I can pray for and with on a regular basis. She is the best. And although she's spending some quality time with her own Valentine tonight, I know we will be back to watching Netflix, laughing, and spilling our hearts out tomorrow. Love you rooms!

 My sweet, sweet Valentine. I don't know what I would have done without him the last few months (or year and a half, for that matter). He has been my source of strength, especially lately, and I just fell head over heels in love with him again this weekend. He takes care of me and holds my hand and makes me laugh and lets me spend our romantic evening on the couch in a blanket watching Psych with candles lit. And its perfect. I know he was sent to me for a reason and I am so glad he is mine. He even homemade my present this year- he melted old records in the oven, shaped them into a heart, spray painted one side red, and then took 45's, cut out the center, spray painted them orange and put pictures of us in them. Seriously, the best present ever! He even had flowers sent today to surprise me, even though he spent all weekend here :). I love you babe, and I am so lucky to be yours ;)




P.S. I love all of these people, every day, and will tell them, everyday. I just think Valentine's Day is a good reminder to show the people we love, that we love them. I got the best of both worlds this Valentine's day. I got to be the "taken" girl this weekend, and the "single" girl today with some of my favorites. 




Happy Valentine's Day!

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changeeesss

Anyone else under the age of thirty remember that song? Maybe, it's just me. I do have an affinity for 70's singer/songwriters... no seriously, I do. Anyways, in new news... I get to stay an extra year here in the 'burg! I am graduating in May with my B.A. in English, but I will stay on to get my B.S. in Human Development-Child and Adolescent Studies. I'm doing this so I can become a Child Life Specialist... hopefully by Winter 2012. 



Can I just take a second and scream? AHHHHHHHHH! A life plan! But one that is going to require a lot of hard work and money. My mom and dad will still be paying tuition, but I will need to find a job to pay for other stuff, like groceries and gas. My poor online shopping habit will have to take a little siesta. I know, I probably sound like a spoiled brat, seeing as so many people put themselves through college, and I have the utmost respect for them. I am just fortunate enough to have parents with the means and the desire to support me, and although this isn't a huge deal, it is still a big change for me. 


However, I cannot wait to become a child life specialist! This seriously is going to be the most fun job in the world. I will get to work with kids, explain things to them, and become their confidant during some of the most scary and difficult part of their lives. But I also get to be with them when they leave the hospital. I get to play games and color and make them smile. I get to HELP, which is all I wanted to begin with. Thank you God for leading me in this direction!


Also, tomorrow I get my GRANDLITTLE! Since I know she doesn't read my blog... I can say that she is one of my former pnm's that went Tridelt! AHHHHH. She is going to be a perfect addition to my family :) Here is my little and I at formals last year :)

Plussss, this guy is coming this weekend to take me to our date party, and to celebrate Valentine's day with me :) I am making a homemade italian dish, and I practiced earlier this week... it is delicious! I promise to post the recipe soon. 

(this is us at the ACC championship game... I love seeing him in orange and maroon ;) )

Just a little disclaimer... I am doing a project for a class right now that requires me to take only film pictures... y'all remember film right? That stuff that costs money! AH! I will be posting some pictures after my project is due... but I will have no new ones until then :(

I can't wait to steal a few that are taken by other people so I can tell y'all about my weekend on Monday though!

Have a great Friday :)