merry christmas to me

I'M GETTING A NEW CAR!!!!!!!!!!!

i love austin!

so ive been in my new apt for about a week or so and i love it! its just real cute and newish and i love it. the only i dont love is that its going to take about an hour to get to work with good ole austin traffic. i dont do well in traffic...so that will take some getting used to. getting up at 6 so that i can leave by 7 and be at work by 8 is going to take some getting used to. people tell me my body will get used to it, and i sure hope theyre right. another great thing is that as of christmas eve i dont work at heb anymore! ive worked there for a fourth of my life almost - thats the most pathetic thing ive ever heard. well, at least im free now. however i will give props to the heb in cedar park that i worked at this past week - they run a good store and the people that work there are pretty great. i guess anything is better than the crappy mgmt in college station and bryan.

so this is my last week of freedom before i enter the 'real world' where you dont get a spring break or summer and you have to get up realllly early. why does anyone rush thru college to get to this? my advice to my fellow college friends..stay there for as long as you can take it without going crazy. its a lot more fun.

i bought some new running shoes for a ridiculous amount of money but im hoping to get some wear out of them. first of all its almost the beg of the year and who doesnt suddenly have that inspired feeling to work out all the time? second, my fellow working woman friend christian told me that you soon realize you dont have many people to hang out with so you work out more. being here only a week or so, ive already picked up on that and she just might be right. so we'll see if i become the running enthusiast ive always dreamed of being...

oh yeah, christmas happened too, huh. well, christmas was great. i hadnt decided on what i wanted before the christmas deadline so i just got money basically which was great bc setting up a new place can add up. ive been living off of christmas leftovers for the past 3 days which has been nice yet makes for repetitive meals. the gift exchange that goes on b/w my sister and her husband is awesome. they give each other things that really they want. like for instance, my brother in law gave my sister a heavy duty utility knife/pocket knife and a wine opener. my sister in return gives eric the pretty in pink soundtrack. so its always interesting to see if the present theyre opening is really for themselves or the other. likewise, i think their kids are learning to do the same thing. my present from berkeley and ellie - a dora the explorer watch. i luckily have small wrists but its definitely a kids watch. its lime green and pink and my favorite part is for sure the flower charm that dangles off the face. so its good to be 23 and have that to wear to work. but overall it was a good christmas...the kiddos got so many presents they didnt know what to do with themselves...the adults ate a lot and all took afternoon christmas naps and then everyone got to go to their respective homes when they were tired of family bonding. good times...

buckwild

this entry is a little outta order, but it is a memory i never want to forget and i know it will provoke laughter by those who read it who were present. ive discussed in previous entries how amusing it can be to play games with big groups of people bc phrases are blurted out with little or no preparation.
for example:
rielly - "baby cats"
ben - "meow"

me - "youre such an idiot"
ben - "i am no indian"

kel - "ok, so patin described this pretty well earlier...personally i think of it as a decoration kind of thing...like from africa...like an african decoration..." evidently kel wasnt familiar with what bamboo was...

oh man..i laughed a lot that last week...thanks guys..

I GOT A JOB TODAY!!

I GOT A JOB TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so i woke up around 130..in the afternoon today and noticed i had a couple of missed calls. so, i checked my voicemail and i hear the voice of the lady i interviewed with. keep in mind that im barely awake listening to this. next thing i know, shes telling me she wants to offer me a job if im still interested. still interested?? are you kidding?? yeah, i am! thats probably the best way ive ever been woken up before! so i wasnt sure if i was still sleeping and it was all a dream so i made sure to save it and listen to it again. yep, it was true. so i had already transferred to the heb here and told them i would work this week so im going to go ahead and do that. i could use the money and i think it will be enough of a scenery change that i wont go crazy. and just being able to keep in mind that ill only be working at heb for another week is like the greatest thing ever!!!!!!! no more heb!!! its like im being freed from prison. not like i know what thats like, but its gotta be a really good feeling. so yeah, life is good. what a great christmas present.

bye college station..

well..my computer is moving to austin tomorrow and although i will return for my roomies graduation, my computer will not. so, this is it. i dont think its hit me that im really leaving cs for good. of course ill be back for visits bc ill soon realize i dont really have many friends there, but i wont ever live here again. but lets be honest, i wont really miss the town so much as the people. but eventually my friends will all leave too, so i probably wont miss it at all. i stretched out my stay for as long as i could but i know its time to go now. although still without a job, i know that the Lord has something for me and im just hoping that its somewhat soon. i love austin and know that living there is going to be great. so in leaving...im going to get a little sentimental and give some farewell shout outs...obviously it would be impossible for me to name you all, but ill do my best...

-first of all, my roomies, eileen and kel - i love yall. although we didnt get to see each other much at the beginning of the semester, i think we made up for it in the end. eileen - ill miss your passion for cleaning...you probably thought i was going to say Lord, huh? well, ill definitely miss your encouragement in that area as well. kel - ill miss going thru your old clothes and making fun of them bc lets be honest..those were some of the best times of this semester. but most importantly, im glad i acheived the goal of making you pee in your pants tonite. couldnt have asked for anything more.

-alison, ash, and lydia, matt, and joshy - i regret not hanging out more this semester with yall but i enjoyed every second when we did. yall are so fun and i expect visits from you all!! joshy - thanks for driving 100s of miles with me for mission. give esau extra hugs for me!!

-the boys - you know who you are. patin - ill miss seeing you laugh and oddly miss you picking on me all the time. thanks for our date - ill never forget it ;) rie - ill miss the cookies and the shoulder rubs. ryan - thanks for getting me hooked on yet another hour long weekly tv show. we'll have to have some discussions when the new ones start airing next year. mike - sad that we lost the hugging friendship..yeah...thanks for introducing me to the wonderful world of halo. ill never be as good as any of yall, but it was fun to try. i love you guys!

-ben - you never cease to amaze me with your stories and the ridiculous things you get yourself into. i hope to keep you as a friend for a long while so that i will always be entertained. thanks for all the laughs and i hope that you graduate before 2008...

-jaclyn - thanks for listening to me whenever i wanted to throw all my problems on you and vent. you have been such an encouragement to me this semester and i will really miss hanging out with aundria and kita with you. keep an eye on kita for me, k?

-kristen - you crazy married woman. im so glad you hung out so much this semester and for not turning into one of those girls who gets a boyfriend or married and drops off the face of the earth. ill miss the sonic dates and the bond we have over anything edible. keep eating those cheetos!!!

-and to those of yall who are leaving this town as well...way to graduate - isnt it a great feeling to be done? really done. ill be thinking of yall as i head on out to the real world myself and will be feeling your pain when you dont get a spring break or a summer...

well thats about it. packing took a little longer than planned...as usual...so now its six in the morning and im supposed to be getting up around 8. awesome. well, my next entry will be from my new home...come visit me in austin!!! bye college station.

this one goes out to kelly miller..

kelly lynn...i will miss you more than you know. i dont think i have laughed as hard as i did tonite in a long time. and i think i give kel most of the credit for that. my roommates and i are putting on a garage sale which we're pretty excited about. you wouldnt think 3 college girls would have a lot of stuff, but thats where youre wrong. kel is an amazing packrat and hasnt stopped pulling out more crap from who knows where to sell. we're talking hideous clothes, makeup from HS, you name it. eileen brought stuff from dallas to sell and i get in these moods where i want to basically own nothing i guess so i end up deciding i dont REALLY need a lot of my stuff. i think i have more stuff to sell than i have in my room. its all about the money. we're all dirt poor and so any extra income would be great. except kel who's already in the hole bc she keeps buying our stuff! you know that saying, 'one mans trash is another mans treasure'? well, me and eileens trash is kellys treasure. gotta love her. the best part is when you have that sentimental piece of clothing or object and you kinda want to keep it but you pass it by your roommates for approval and before you can even give a justification for wanting to keep it, youre met with 'no, nope, thats the ugliest thing ive ever seen, youve got to be kidding, how old is that, please tell me youre joking' thats when you just agree and say, yeah...ill trash it...but secretly you hide it in your closet bc theres no way youre letting go of it.

so thats been fun. everyone else has been studying for finals so its given us something to occupy our time since no one will play with us. speaking of..finals. it was nice not to have any of those. no more studying. thats such a great thing. but its not like this huge difference in your life. you dont really realize that you arent having to study even though everyone else is. its just kinda normal. kinda hard to explain..i guess youll just have to find out for yourself when you get to that point.

so im moving in two days to austin and im pretty excited. sad to leave all my friends for sure but luckily i am going to be living with super fun morgan johnson and will be enjoying my new home with fellow austin friends. im looking forward to being closer to the fam and being able to start a 'new chapter' of my life in a familiar place. new chapter basically meaning life away from college life and hopefully entering the 'real job' world in the near future. until that happens though ill probably make some trips back to good ole cs bc honestly i know ill miss it and the people there.

so thats what my life consists of now. still looking for a job and still havent heard back from either place i interviewed with. needing to pack but having a hard time as usual. wasting time on facebook and kinda wishing i never knew about it bc its so addictive. for now...off to bed bc im running on 2 hours of sleep and i think im delirious...

AI

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