This past week has been wonderful! I have so enjoyed just relaxing and not having to follow a strict schedule. My mother was still at work all week,so I spent my days running last minute holiday errands for her and then keeping our new puppy. She was sick this week and we were all really worried about her since she only weighed 1 pound but now she is doing much much better. I have also gotten to spend a lot of time with my grandparents, which I love. They celebrated their 58th wedding anniversary on Wednesday. They truly are an inspiration to us all.
I am so sad that I live so far away from the Atlanta area. The majority of my friends live in or around Atlanta and are all planning little get togethers,but it is just too far for me to go and come in one day. Hopefully we will be having a post-new year's party that my parents will let me drive up for.
Today as I was catching up on reading blogs, I discovered the cutest scrapbooking software on smilebox. I have had so much fun creating cute e-cards and scrapbook pages this afternoon.
I still have several more gifts to wrap for my mama and I am waiting on one more to be shipped. I love the holidays and I am extra excited this year because I only asked for 1 or two things so I will have lots of fun surprises.

On a side note my parents had my mother's co-workers over last night for a Christmas Party and one lady and her husband showed up completely drunk. It was awful, their speech was slurred and she is normally so closed off and conservative but last night she was the life of the party. We were all very worried about them because they just kept drinking and had about an hour drive home. I would like to think that most adults would have the composure and class to know when they have had too much or atleast be able to hold their liquor better!

Happy Holidays everyone!

Giving Thanks/Christmas Cheer

I have been doing a lot of thinking lately. Maybe its the time of year, or maybe its the fact that I have a lot more spare time than usual.
I am so thankful to have the amazing family that I have. My mother is my best friend and I look to her for everything. My grandparents are two of my favorite people in this whole world. My grandmother is the perfect southern I am thankful to God for making me who I am. He gave me a good head on my shoulders and the courage to stand up for what I believe in.
I am thankful for the little things. Just a smile, a hello or a short conversation with an aquaintance can make the biggest difference in my day.
I am thankful for my friends. Since I am so close to my family, it has always been hard for me to make really close friends. In high school I had one or two close friends but in college I feel like I have truly made friendships that will last a lifetime. These girls are there for me no matter what. They always listen to my problems no matter how small and will always be there when I need a friend.
I am also thankful for my community. I love the fact that I am from a small historic town. Its part of what makes me myself. Our downtown is absolutely adorable and everywhere that I go I see someone that I know.
I am thankful for all of the opportunities that I have been offered in my life. So many doors have been opened for me and after a semester I know that I made the right choice by going to the college that I chose.
I am thankful for Christmas Music and Peppermint white mochas from Starbucks :)
AND I have a brand new precious puppy, Millie, to be thankful for
I know this was kind of a rant, but thanks for listening!

Trying to figure out life...

I am DONE with my first semester of college!! The most annoying part is waiting for all of my grades to be posted...Next semester I am going to be a sophomore and in the fall I will be a junior. It scares me so much that the path that I am set on right now in college determines what I am going to do for the rest of my life. Currenlty I am a political science and public rhetoric major with pre-law intentions. For the past three years my life plan has been to go to law school and come back to my hometown and work as an assistant district attorney and someday run for district attorney.I participated in mock trial for all of high school and decided that being an attorney would be the perfect career for me. It would be a great combination of my passions for helping others, public speaking and history of government. Lately I have been thinking that being an attorney might not be the perfect career choice for me anymore. I love the political science department at my school and will most likely stay in the department, but I am leaning towards a masters in non-profit or an MBA in non-profit management instead of Law School. One of the most important things to me is that my career be something that I enjoy and something that will help me make a difference in the world. I had a short talk with my mama tonight before she left for dinner and we both agreed that I would be good at something working with children or elderly people and I promised her that I would not go into education. She suggested that I look into Child Psychology or Psychometry...That sounded really interesting to me because I could work with children and psychometrists are the people who test students for gifted programs and mental disabilities. The only problem is since I am so far ahead in school, I would have already had to declare a major in psychology and completed certain courses before hitting 30 hours, which I completed this semester...
but the good news is I am leaning very strongly towards a career in the non-profit sector. My sorority's philanthropy is the Children's Miracle Network and at a Christmas fundraiser the lady that works at the local children's hospital told us about her college experience and its the exact same as mine! She was a poli sci major and then got a masters in non-profit. All of my friends turned and looked at me and were like its you!
Sorry for the long rant, but I have just been thinking about all of this for a long time.
P.S.
It feels so great to be home and I am puppysitting my new little sister tonight :)

I almost forgot

I am so so happy that Saxby won yesterday! A big thank you to everyone who went out to the polls and voted :)

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas...

Things I am loving about Christmas so far:
1. Christmas Music
2. Cold Weather! (Scarves are my favorite)
3. Almost time to go home :)
4. Decorations everywhere
5. Christmas Parties!!

This week has been fairly stressful so far with a final, a quiz and two projects due. I have gotten all of my work done and I am pretty sure I that I made an A on my final this morning!! Teachers are starting to get ready for the break too and have been cancelling class like crazy!
Tomorrow is the annual hanging of the greens on front campus and I am so excited to be a part of this celebration, then the annual Holiday Jazz Band concert. After that I am off to the Kappa Sig Christmas Cocktail Party with a live Jazz Band. Friday night I am working at this huge holiday fundraising event at the Antebellum Governor's Mansion on Campus. Its a black tie event with over 250 guests from our community. I am in charge of coordinating things between the student ambassadors and the Mansion/college staff...i get to have a walkie talkie.haha and then after that I am off to the Tacky Christmas Sweater party with some of my favorite girlies.
Thats all the fun I will have until next friday.
Starting Saturday morning I will be MIA due to the 5 cumulative finals I will be taking next week. I am even missing my families trip to pick up our new puppy :(
Thank goodness I will get to play with her lots over the break.

Secret Santa swaps are in full swing this time of year. I have one on Sunday night with some of my close friends from my pledge class. We decided this would be a lot more economical than getting presents for everyone, but the girl I have no clue what to get the girl whose name I drew. She really likes twilight, so I am thinking about getting her a poster for her dorm room, a cute scarf/hat/gloves combo and then a picture frame with a picture of all of us in it. Any ideas?
and then the one I am really clueless about is for Monday. The Student Ambassador Team consists of around 70 students and we are all working different events all of the time, but for the Secret Santa exchange I drew the name of a senior girl that I have never met before... I'm thinking Bath and Body Works?