100 Day Picture Challenge - Day 51

Day 51 - A picture of you wearing sunglasses

You will rarely see me outside during the day without sunglasses. Even when it's cloudy :)

100 Day Picture Challenge - Day 50

Day 50 - A picture of yourself

This picture kills me every time. We go to the Kodak Theater and this is what I make Kinz take of picture of me with.

100 Day Picture Challenge - Day 49

Day 49 - A picture of you and your best friend(s)

Kinsey. Bianca. Summer.

These three girls, I can tell just about anything to. They are the best of the best.

100 Day Picture Challenge - Day 48

Day 48 - A picture of you more than 10 years ago

Only my mother would send me fishing with a big bow on my head.

100 Day Picture Challenge - Day 47

Day 47 - A picture of your favorite animal

I don't really have one...so we'll just go with dogs. I love my Sawyer, but I love almost any dog that will let me pet it :)

100 Day Picture Challenge - Day 46

Day 46 - A picture that you edited

One of my little princesses :)

100 Day Picture Challenge - Day 45

Day 45 - A picture of your favorite cartoon character

Belle

She's my absolute favorite and has been since I was 3 :)

100 Day Picture Challenge - Day 44

Day 44 - A picture that describes your life

Craziness.

100 Day Picture Challenge - Day 43

Day 43 - A picture of you celebrating

Speak Now Tour
Not a picture of ME, but this is how we celebrated Nikki's 15th birthday.
And when you're fifteen, feeling like there nothing to figure out, well count to ten, take it in, this is life before you know who you're gonna be...

100 Day Picture Challenge - Day 42

Day 42 - A picture of you listening to music

Port Chuck Concert :)

Obviously not paying attention to the camera when there are 4 HOT men on stage singing.

100 Day Picture Challenge - Day 41

Day 41 - A picture of your favorite weather

Sunshine. Preferably warm, if not hot. Anything but cold.

100 Day Picture Challenge - Day 40

Day 40 - A picture of your friends

I know this isn't ALL of my friends, but these are the ones I'm closest with. Summer Kay, Kinsey McCall, Bianca Alex Russo, Kaitlin, Kamberry and Amber.

100 Day Picture Challenge - Day 39

Day 39 - A picture of your favorite food

Pretty much any good Mexican food is gonna make me happy, but Ted's in Broken Arrow is my absolute favorite. They start off with chips, salsa (atomic salsa is the best), cheese dip and tortillas, all complimentary. Then you order. I always get one chicken enchilada a la carte because I love eating the chips and stuff before my meal gets there and I then can't eat a whole meal. Then you get a complimentary sopapilla, which is to die for. We've been going here for years and no one in my family has ever had a bad experience.

100 Day Picture Challenge - Day 38

Day 38 - A picture of your favorite drink

Sonic's Cherry Limeades. Hands down.

100 Day Picture Challenge - Day 37

Day 37 - A picture taken at school

One of the things I miss about living on campus...having lunch with my sisters at Flo's. Their chicken salad sandwiches were the bomb. And their forks, spoons, knives and takeout containers were all made from potatoes (hence the saying) as part of NSU's going green campaign.

100 Day Picture Challenge - Day 36

Day 36 - A picture of your pet

I seriously have one of the cutest dogs in the world. Sawyer Finn. He's a 3-year-old toy poodle and he weighs about 2.5 pounds. His hair is really long right now so it looks lighter, but he's apricot color.

100 Day Picture Challenge - Day 35

Day 35 - A picture of your hometown

Keota, America. This isn't how it looks everyday, but I'm not driving to town just to take a picture. This is on Old Timer's Day, they have like arts and crafts and food and all that good junk. As you can see, it's a pretty happenin' place.

100 Day Picture Challenge - Day 24

Day 34 - A picture of your favorite morning

The first morning I got to spend with my kiddos at Disney World. It's so awesome being able to experience this as a child (okay, I was 15), then getting to come back with Riley, Jaxie and Lulu and see them experience that. It's pretty awesome.

100 Day Picture Challenge - Day 33

Day 33 - A picture of somewhere you went today

I haven't gone anywhere yet, but I went to Walmart last night and I'll probably go again today sometime. 

100 Day Picture Challenge - Day 32

Day 32 - A picture of what you did today

I haven't done it yet, but I know what I'm gonna do. I have class tonight. Fun, right?

100 Day Picture Challenge - Day 31

Day 31 - A picture of food you made

I kept thinking "um, I don't cook!" Then I remembered I made this for Riley's 6th birthday :)

Might As Well...

So as upset as I am, I probably shouldn't be writing this blog, but this is something that's been weighing on my mind for awhile, I'm just too nice to say it on a normal day. But doesn't it suck when you do something to help someone out and it just comes back to bite you in the butt? Yeah, it pretty much does.

So some of you may know, back in May or June, my dad got this "great new job" and he was gonna do this and help me out with that and blah, blah, blah. So when their car died, after much thought and discussion, I decided to let them use my car. Okay, I was going to give them my car in exchange for a new car that he and my mom would make payments on until he paid off the value of my car, by that time I would hopefully have a job and be able to take over payments myself. I had thought by the end of the summer I would have a new (to me...not necessarily new) car that I could drive back and forth to school. Well, then Gam got sick. So that kinda put a damper on things because she was supposed to be the one to co-sign for me a car through her credit union so I could get a low interest rate.

I don't let that get me down too much, I keep looking for cars. Mom and I planned a trip to Florida in November, I was gonna have a new car by then that we could drive down there, things would be great. Deadlines started coming, excuses kept flying and I started realizing a trip to Florida wasn't gonna happen. Did I mention in the mean time, I'm driving the van to school? Not too bad, it's a nice vehicle, but it doesn't like taking the curves in the mountains at 70 mph very much and it's a pain in the ass to park!

School started two months ago. I was thinking I'm moving to Nashville in January, no big deal, I'll have a car by then. I've had no social life all summer long, I can handle it a little bit longer. But now the outlook is grim and I feel like I'm never going to get out of here. I am seriously losing my freaking mind staying here, being tormented by those demons that have always said "you'll never make it, you might as well give up now, you're never going to achieve those dreams." I'm just so sick of being here that I can barely stand it and I don't know what to do because I have no way out. The only time I can do something I want to do is if it's planned wayyyy ahead of time or if Kambrye comes to get me or if I go somewhere in the middle of the night. And let's face it, my friends can't hang out in the middle of the night. Oh or when I go to class on Wednesdays and even then I'm lucky that things don't get planned over that. Sometimes I drive around after class just so I don't have to go home. I'm tired of getting yelled at and having people pick fights with me just because they're in the mood to argue.

And here's the kicker, I had this good job, I didn't have a set schedule, but I was paid well and treated even better. It gave me some extra spending money so I didn't have to spend my "moving money," and I was able to help out a friend when she needed me. I haven't been able to work since my dad started using my car. And I haven't seen Jeannie and Caiden in almost 3 months. So I stopped by there today to tell her I could probably start working weekend nights because we had two vehicles. Well, the one weekend I need a vehicle to go to WORK, my sister is taking the van to go to Oklahoma City and my parents are taking my car to go to Oklahoma City. Awesome. So I guess I get to call Jeannie tomorrow and tell her to not make plans because her sitter is unreliable.

So here we are, 4 months later and things are still the exact same way they were in June, except I'm a lot more pessimistic and definitely loosing my sanity and patience. Life is so freakin' overrated sometimes and I'm ready to give up on mine at the moment.

100 Day Picture Challenge - Day 30

Day 30 - A picture of your favorite quote

Meet Sterling. This little boy had a brain tumor that was causing him to have horrible, horrible seizures. I mean, like 10-20 A DAY! Could you imagine that? He had to have a grid put in his brain last spring to figure out where they started and how they could stop them, because completely removing the tumor could cause irreparable damage.

Anyway, I had always liked this verse, but it wasn't until I found Sterling's story that I knew the true meaning. Sterling's family is a devout Christian family and they do many things to serve the Lord. That's what I love about families like Sterling's, because even though they're going through a hard time, they can still do things to serve others and our God. This picture is from the day he went into surgery, they fixed up his hospital gown all nice and neat and he went to surgery like that, I thought it was cool.

Little did I know that a few short months later Joshua 1:9 would become my "life verse." It reads: Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.

Remember how I said the surgery was last spring? Sterling is nearing the 6-month mark of being SEIZURE FREE. How amazing is that?

100 Day Picture Challenge - Day 29

Day 29 - A picture that can always make you smile

Me and my sisters. Between us we have 7 moms, but only 3 that we share. Rach is a new face to the blog, she's on the far left. She's also the youngest at 16. Then of course, you know me, the oldest. And you've heard of Kinsey more than a few times, she's the younger middle child and the tallest. And last, but not least, is our Little B, she's the shortest and the older middle child. I would do anything for these girls.

100 Day Picture Challenge - Day 28

Day 28 - A picture of your favorite place in the world

Nashville aka NashVegas aka The Nash aka Home. I seriously get so homesick for this city that I cry. I miss it so bad and I can't wait for the day I can call it my permanent home.
'Cause I can guarantee, things are sweeter in Tennessee.

100 Day Picture Challenge - Day 27

Day 27 - A picture of your favorite night

This one was a toss up because there's been so many. But I'm gonna go with July 21, 2010. This was the night that started it all. My first night ever in LA. First time at GHFCW. First time to do some hardcore fangirling over GH with my best friend. The night I met Ronnie Marmo. The night I had a chance to punch Guza (but didn't). The night we went to West Hollywood with strangers, the night those strangers became our Moms. Yep, all-in-all I would say it was a pretty awesome night.

100 Day Picture Challenge - Day 26

Day 26 - A picture of something that means a lot to you

My friends. They mean THE WORLD to me. I am and always have been closer to my friends than I have been my family. And that says a lot, because I'm pretty close to my family. I guess it was just the way I was raised, I value friendships more than just about anything.

100 Day Picture Challenge - Day 25

Day 25 - A picture of you from last year

Almost a year ago exactly. My hair was sooo short, but it looked totally cute. And I love this outfit. #conceited :)

100 Day Picture Challenge - Day 24

Day 24 - A picture of someone you miss

Kaitlin. She's off in Spain having the time of her life. I miss her like crazy!

100 Day Picture Challenge - Day 23

Day 23 - A picture of your favorite book

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series was like my entire teenage years. This book has made things come full circle and it's weird how things in my life are so similar to those in the Septembers lives in this book. Friendships do stand the test of time, but you have to work at it equally with the other person(s).

100 Day Picture Challenge - Day 22

Day 22 - A picture of something you never leave the house without

My Kathy bag. I rarely carry anything other than KVZ. She's not a high-end designer, but I love her! Honestly, I'm never as happy with my purses if they're not Kathy's. Of course, my purse is always full of all my junk.

100 Day Picture Challenge - Day 21

Day 21 - A picture of something you wish you could forget

That night in Savannah, Georgia. Beautiful town, horrible memories.