"I wanna dance with somebody!"

My iPod got a fair share of play time this weekend on the trip to KC and back...Beyonce, Whitney, and a new friend named Matt Wertz made guest apperances.


Friday a couple of my girlfriends and I braved the cold and rain and drive to KC for shopping and a birthday outing! It was the first road trip I had gotten to take in the new wheels and I was PUMPED! Here's a few pics we had our paparazzi take :)
Brittni, Me, & Carrie


Shopping fun!


Car dancing on the way home!

A blast! We only got lost once, but thank goodness for them boys we let come with us!


I sent out my press release today at my internship! Fingers crossed it gets good coverage! I am really getting into writing for the hospital. Every day there's something new and different going on. It's fun to come in a learn what's going on and how it's helping the community.


House update: I have my friend's brother-in-law who is a former realtor working on digging up some dirt and after all the phone calls I made today I finally got somewhere. I'm going to the recorder's office tomorrow afternoon to see what I can find there on the house. My parents are 100% behind me on this one so I'm really hoping I get somewhere with it!

7 weeks til:
FREEDOM! Friends :) Trips! Sunshine! NO SCHOOL!

can't wait.

Suggestions among others...

I'm a big fan of paying it forward. Lately it's mostly been just simple things like book titles and music but both can go along way, especially to those who feel the music deep in their soul and use books as their "vacation" from the real world. So here's a few titles you should more than likely check out...
I Run to You
Never Alone
Free to Be Me
Heart Like Memphis
Like the Last Time

Debbie Macomber and Teri Blackstock are beginning to capture most of my reading attention. They write about everyday topics you can identify with and that really touch you. Blackstock is more of the mystery writer while Macomber is a novelist. Her most popular series is about a woman who has been through a lot and decides to open her own shop, a knitting shop. After reading this series (the 4th one due out the end of april!!) it makes me want my own shop even more! Who know, maybe r&r will be opening sooner that I thought?

Ah, the living situation. Ugh, lease is up at the end of May and there's so many options, but nothing solid. Until today I had pretty much come to the conclusion I would be at home next year. I have been stalking this house in Springfield. Literally. It's sad, but I love this little cottage and all it's potential! It was taken off the market a few months ago and so I got up the courage to call the realtor and ask what happened to the house. It's been foreclosed on soooo our loan officer at the bank is investigating to see what he can come up with in terms of what will happen to the house. Fingers crossed, heart in prayer! It would be the first dream of mine to come true :)

"Lucky to have been where I have been, lucky to be coming home again." --Jason Mraz

Going Solo...

I did my first press release from start to finish Friday!! I was so proud :) And I got to interview my dad for it and was able to understand all the medical terminology I had to include! If you know me then you know I have trouble spitting words out, let alone knowing what they mean, so this was a pretty big deal for me. My internship adviser was very pleased with me and got really excited about turning it into a news story! Maybe you'll be watching it on the 5 o'clock soon...

Ah, it's the week before Spring Break and not a closed book or document in sight. The students were fretting with all of their might. The professors were piling the workload higher and higher in hopes that students would return and not fly by.

I've always wanted to be a poet like my mother, and that is far from it! She has this "little black book of poems," she calls it. They are hilarious. I'll have to post a few sometime.