Life as I know it.

I haven't blogged since I had the class in May but I feel as though I might need to.

I tend to never shut up or be able to turn my brain off.

As most of my readers know (if you still are reading) I moved out in April for the first time. A lot of things are totally different than I expected them to be.  I love it 98% of the time.  When I first moved out I missed my family and the convenience of living down the street from my friends.  It's amazing how those friendships change after you move a whopping 30 minutes away.  I have figured out a lot about myself and others in the past 5 months. I dated and lost my best guy friend of 9 years for a random girl he met in DC, I have realized that my mom is truly my best friend, I have dated a couple of guys that have totally wasted my time, became close with my roommate and have a job that I love.

It's all bittersweet but I feel like life is usually like that for me.

I haven't quite found my way yet but I'm getting there slowly but surely. All I want for my future is to become a better version of myself.

Personal.

I have been in a mood for a long time now.  Not a good mood one either.  I find myself crying.  A lot.  I try to embrace change but I'll be the first to admit that I am horrible at accepting it.  If you have read past post then you would know that I recently moved to Edmond from Moore.  I was excited but now it has turned more sad.  I miss my family, I feel alone and my cat hates me.  I have an amazing roommate but that doesn't fill the void when it comes to missing someone.  I know it will get better but I can only wish that that time comes quicker.

In the past week I became single, found out scary medical news about my 8 year old cousin and learned more about my moms current medical conditions (she has 3 issues going on now).

It's tough to be optimistic sometimes but at least I have cable and internet now.

After getting that out I feel much better, Pinterest helped too.

Dead Week?

I must say that this semester has blown by. I haven't decided if that's a good thing or not though. Sometimes I feel like our generation doesn't live life to the fullest.  We live to dates and not day to day. It's good to look towards the future but you must also live in the present.  This is something that I have always struggled with and I am trying to let that go.  It's a tough one for sure. 

I found out some great news today too. With Public Relations and Advertising combining it has helped me to keep both successfully! Instead of having to take both capstone classes I get to substitute a class for my Ad minor. Is it sad that news like this makes my day??

Anyways good luck everyone with projects and studying for finals!

Smile at everyone you encounter today it may change their entire day. :)

Country Music.

Country music pretty much consumes me and I love it so much!  Miranda Lambert is by far my favorite and recent events have led me to this song.  It's amazing check it out. :)

Bloggity Blog Blog

Almost everyone in the class has presented the blogs that they followed.  I think that everyone chose some great blogs and all of them were really interesting. My favorite blogs to hear about were the photography blogs because they were very visually stimulating.

On a side note I secretly love the new Justin Bieber song....

Judge away.

Furniture!

I decided that when I moved out I was going to take my old dresser that has been in the garage for longer than I want to admit.  It was too big to fit in my last room because I have too much crap.  After pondering what I was going to do about my bedroom furniture for the new house, I figured heck why not redo all of it?

I wasn't able to take pics of the process because I was a little messy.  It was easy though but kind of time consuming.  It took me all day Saturday basically.

• The first thing you do is sand your furniture down. (With a sander or by hand.)
• I chose to use primer (2 layers) as my undercoat to save a step but you can choose whichever color you want. 
• After letting the spray paint dry for an hour I chose black to be my top coat (2 layers).
• Another hour (or less) I put 2 flat clear coats on over the black.
• Finally I got to distress the dresser by using sandpaper (60).

It was a fun project and I did my nightstand and TV stand the same way on Sunday!

Good little worker bee.

The past two weeks have been absolute madness but I almost like it that way.  Last week was the infamous Live Central Week which meant that I was at school working more than I was home. When I did make it home I was packing to move into a house in Edmond! I started moving my things on Friday after a long day of work and ended up staying the night in the empty house with my roomie.  The following day we started painting the ceilings. I discovered that painting the ceilings is one of my least favorite things to do!  I have been packing all week and slowly moving my things everyday. 

Needless to say I am exhausted.  Good news though is that my bf is coming home tonight for a week! I'll give some back story in case you are curious. We have been really good friends for 9 years and we dated back in October when he was back for a month on leave, he's in the Marines, and long story short it did not work.  We talked a lot and decided that we did not want to be with anyone else so we got back together.  I'm pretty excited for the next week!

(Yes, my title is a Motion City Soundtrack reference.)