So maybe...

I should post again! :) It's been awhile.

Where to start? My days have been crazy and as I guessed, the blog has been put on the back burner. Sorry, y'all!

Two weekends ago I went home for the first time in a long time! It was great to get to sleep in my own bed again! I mixed up a bunch 

of cookie dough to freeze and bring back to the sorority house my sisters loved that! We pretty much revolve around cookies. There's a batch baked at least once a day. And there's always raw cookie dough being eaten. Unhealthy, I know. but OH so good! One day, my friend Leslie and I went on a photo shoot at the local park. We had an absolute blast and got some really crazy pictures!

 I got to go to church at my home church. Which was nice, but really weird! I'm so used to the wonderful church I'm going to up here. I thought they were very similar, but in fact their very different!

I came back for 3 days of classes and then headed back home! I basically just chilled at home. Saturday morning I headed up to GT to hang out with Leslie and attend my first ever college football game! It was quite the experience. I'm a UGA fan, so being in enemy territory was very interesting to say the least! Experiencing life on a big campus and actually living the differences of small college life/big college life was really cool but bordering on culture shock! We had fun none the less. Did the whole nine-yards. Ya know, climb down the alcohol covered bleachers in a mass of people to rush the field. Stand in a sea of even more people just because and to watch the crazy frat boys tear down the goal post. It took them a good 20 minutes, btw. Somebody yelled out "THOSE ENGINEERS!!" 

My best friend, Lauren, was in town this week! Her schools fall break was this week so she flew down from up north. I didn't think I was going to get to see her, but she worked it out and drove up to see me yesterday!! I was able to show her around our itty bitty campus and we hung out for a few hours. It was soo nice to see her! It's been hard not having her just a few miles away! :( 

This past week went by really really fast. It was pretty rough though. I've been smacked in the face by the real world a lot recently and it's really starting to wear me down. But I know this is where I'm supposed to be and I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing. So I'm hanging tight and continuing to listen for guidance from my Heavenly Daddy.

Next week is going to be super crazy, too! Initiation starts tomorrow night! Yikes! I'm really excited though! I can't wait to be officially part of the first. finest. forever. I LOVE it!!! On the topic of greek life.. this week was greek week! During greek week we have all kinds of contests to earn points. The sorority with the most points at the end wins! We had a banner competition, sidewalk chalk competition, powderpuff football, trivia night, toga night, and a talent competition! Here are a few pictures: 

for Toga night we all dressed up like we were in a wedding! We won most creative :) We had another sister dress up like an "expecting toga lady". It was hysterical. She won craziest toga.

this was our banner. The lady is supposed to be our director of greek life, Debbie 

Here's our powderpuff team! We tied our first game, so in order to make it fair and to keep the games going we took some of our girls and some of our opponent, Tri Delta's girls to make one team! Thus we were TriPi :P and we dominated!!

Here's some of my sisters with our chalk art! I left JUST before this picture was taken but we had a lot of fun making it! The goal was to draw something that promoted greek unity. We made one crest and combined a piece of each sororities crests to make a big one! Unfortunately we didn't win, nor did we even place. But that is a topic that must not be discussed in the house ;) We're a little bitter about this :P

Sooooo that's all for now! All of my sisters are coming back from Greek Gala now so I'm going to see how it was! I skipped out on it :) I'm not much for parties and my diamond, grand diamond and I had a diamond date instead! :D

I'll update soon! Hopefully! :)

<3 me

Procrastinating...

I've been doing quite a bit of it lately. That and eating.. I can't decide which is worse! 

Actually, I haven't been procrastinating too badly. I've been too busy to truly be procrastinating.. It's more like switching to a different assignment when I get bored or frustrated on one. 

I dropped British Literature yesterday!! SUCH a relief. That class was ridiculous and I didn't even need the credit! I should've been taking EH102, but my adviser put me in British Literature. It's a very, very tough class and I was putting sooo much into it but my grades weren't showing it and my other classes were hurting on its behalf. So I'm hoping that by dropping it I will be able to focus more on the classes that I actually need and will be able to bring those grades up!

Last Friday my Alpha class and 2 seniors and 2 sophomores went to the Ronald McDonald House! (RMH is our philanthropy) We drove down to the RMH at Egelston and served a meal for the families staying there. I've got to say that that is THE nicest RMH I've ever seen! I stayed in one a year ago when Ryan was in the hospital and it was nice but this one was arguably as nice as the Marriott! For those who don't know

, the Ronald McDonald House is a place where families can stay when their children are in the hospital undergoing intense treatments that require them to be away from home for an extended period of time. For instance there was one family there whose daughter has leukemia. They had already been there once before but were back for a second round of treatment. The next treatment on the schedule could potentially take 100 days to complete! So instead of having to pay for a 100day hotel stay they can stay at the RMH for 20 bucks a night. This includes meals! It's such a wonderful organization and you don't know how much it means until you're put in that situation. I stayed at the RMH in Chattanooga for only two nights, but in that two nights I saw people who's lives were falling apart because of their children's illness but they were able to cope because they were given a nice place to stay, warm meals and were surrounded by those going through the same thing they were. It was a therapy of sorts. Those families become your family and you grieve and rejoice together! 

Having been, sort of, in their position once it was easier to see just how grateful they were for a warm meal and a smiling face. To be able to serve those families made my heart sing and I want to go back soo badly!

Part of our philanthropy is to collect pop tops! So! If you guys would like to help us support RMH you're more than welcome to keep your pop tops in a jar or something! Just let me know if you want to help and I'm more than willing to come pick them up when you're ready to turn them in!! 

One week until Fall break!! You have nooo idea how excited I am! I finally get to go home! I've been home once in two months! And even then it was for less than 12 hours! I can't wait to sleep in my own bed and see friends! Not to mention a break from school! :)

Anywayyy just a quick update to let you all know I'm still alive!

Hope to post again soon!!

Me