Memory Lane Blog-Style

So this may or may not be interesting to anyone else, but today I came across some blogs I wrote in high school from myspace. I'm going to copy two of them onto here. What is ironic.... is the first is quite relevant to how I feel now, though in a different context, and the second is just funny. :)

OLD BLOG NUMBER ONE: December 29, 2006

Why is it that we're all "waiting" on life to go our way?

That may seem a bit random, but on the way back from the doctor today my Mommy & I were talking about how life just seems to pass you by. (She brought up "how much I've grown up & changed" & that type of thing.)

So I got to thinking...we're always "waiting" for something. Trust me, I'm guilty of it too, maybe even more than other people, but it hit me today. We think that after we graduate life will just fall into place and we'll be fulfilled? Well, that's not how it happens. As soon as we graduate, we're going to be off to college. But THEN when we get there, we'll be focusing on after we graduate and "starting life."

Well excuse me, but what the hell is this? PRE-Life? I don't think so.

These experiences we're encountering in high school and when we were younger have helped shape who we are becoming and who we will CONTINUE to be. You don't get a free pass & a personality change with your college diploma. What you get is MORE work, more goals, more things to overcome, more building opportunities, and DIFFERENT things to work towards.

People are always saying "I can't wait to graduate, then everything will get better." Well, I can't wait to graduate either, but that's just because high school is dumb. lol. I don't think it'll be my "easy button" when I get my high school diploma, I think it will be my chance to CONTINUE growing into the young woman I already have started to become.

Everyone is a child, everyone is a teenager, everyone becomes an adult. It's our lifestyle choices that we make that shape how we will look back on our life when we're 80 and go "damn, that was a good run."

Everyone is always working towards things and once they get them, it's on to the next thing they want or need. Don't get me wrong, goals are GREAT, they're the basis of life really, I have plenty. Probably more than I should. But why don't we ever just "stop and smell the roses" like old sayings recommend? I mean, honestly, I don't like the smell of roses, but you get what I'm saying.

I'm just wondering, how do people ever "become fulfilled" and what am I missing? There are plenty of things that I haven't done yet that I'm going to do. PLENTY. I want to fall in love, I want to have a kid (yeah, maybe just one, lol) I want to travel the world...I want to learn to dance like the people in Pearl Harbor (haha) and TONS of other things, but I don't want my life to turn into a timeline. Age 9 - went through hell. Age 16 - first wreck. Age 22 - graduated from college. Age 26 - got married. I don't WANT that. I want to remember all the "in betweens." All the laughter and inside jokes, all the hugs and kisses, all the mushy stuff, everything I've learned from. And yes, I know I sound like a cheeseball. lol.

Ok...I'm off my soap box, comment it and make YOUR feelings on the matter known? <3

Bye Guys

BLOG NUMBER TWO: February 24, 2006

I have a tendency--

--To race my microwave by seeing if I can get something I need from my car or room, etc. when or before my food is done.

-- To really like fruit roll ups...and not share them with my brothers.

-- To be overly obnoxious

-- To fall UP the stairs...yes, it can be done

-- To run my words together when I'm excited...or any other time, but mostly just then

-- To talk too much

-- To watch WAYYY too many DVD's. It's so unhealthy.

-- To get annoyed very easily

-- To be extremely unable to trust people, but expect them to be able to trust me

-- To be slightly possessive. (no, that's mine.)

-- To like playing in the mud, but not being dirty afterwards

-- To be a huge smartass at times

-- To use my hands when I talk...even on the phone.

-- To be stupid

-- To make jokes at the worst times

-- To sleep too much. To the point where I'm even more tired after I wake up

-- To fight too much when I'm telling the truth, so I look like I'm lying

-- To like Disney movies and be able to quote them

-- To yell at the TV during Steelers and UGA football games

-- To stay up WAYYY too late watching movies or talking on the phone.

-- To carry on many conversations at one time...on the phone and in person.

-- To always want to wear my *favorite* jeans

-- To obsessively watch "House"

-- To list things I want to do before I die that continues to grow every 2.3 seconds. I check it all the time.

-- To love all boys with accents...British, Australian, Southern. ooh la la.

--To act hypocritical when it comes to clothing and style

--To wish I was different

-- To try to be quiet when I'm down stairs at 2 in the morning, but then make a ton of noise walking up the stairs

-- To speak before I think on numerous occasions.

-- To be semi-obsessed w/ Nickelback...

That is a trip down memory lane for sure. :)

Don't know where to start at all. Let's just go over yesterday, because I hardly remember Thursday except for going to Taco Bell at like midnight and eating it with a smirnoff? I dk. Anyways, yesterday Seth worked and I went to school. In Religion we watched this AWFUL movie. Only awful because it made me really sad. I dk if you all have seen it, but it's called The Mission with Robert DeNiro and Jeremy Irons. It really made me MAD/UPSET.

Then after, Seth and I somehow found our way to the Gwinnett Braves game. They lost. :/ But that's bc Ortegano was like NOT GOOD in the first FOUR innings. Don't know why it took that long for him to be taken out. They scored 6 of their 7 runs on him. Literally. But then we got to see some fireworks and I got to see Zach and Toad. (Yep. That's Zach's friend Greg, but his nn is Toad.)

Anyways. That's really it. Today or tomorrow I have to get 10 pages of papers done. (two 5-pagers) and I am REALLY lacking the drive for it, AND lacking interest in the subject. Oh well. Has to be done.

This is all for today

Inception = Amazing

Wow. I am having a good weekend, I think. :) First let's talk about yesterday. History test was kind of overwhelming. I almost used up an entire blue book to answer the questions. If you don't know, that is a lot. Then in Psyc I felt very bland... I felt like the test was designed honestly (on his part) but in a way that pretty much means we can't get an A. I would not be surprised to get somewhere around 50% even though did I study? Yes. Did I go to class? Yes. Did I participate and understand? Yes. I still feel like some of the questions were obscure and the essays were too vague. Oh well. It's done. Then in Religion we watched a movie called "Ushpizin." It was STRANGE. I wasn't entirely sure what the point was for probably the whole movie. I'll have to watch it again. I liked their names though, Moshe and Mali.

Now today, that is a whole different, much more interesting story. :) I slept in for the first time in weeks! I woke up when Seth left at like 9, but I went back to sleep for about 2 more hours. Then I got ready, Seth came back, and we met up with Elea and Derek. We went to Carabba's (yum!) where Seth got ceiling water dripped on him. haha. Then we went and walked around the mall and even looked at pretty rings. ;) I'm not sure how either of us feel about this yet though. (Sorry to my parents if you are reading this! You may want to stop NOW!) That was fair warning, right? Well anyways, there was this gorgeous one that Seth actually picked out and I loved (perfect, right?) And it was on sale! Luck? Yeah, maybe. But we aren't sure.... how we feel about this... I don't want to share those feelings with the whole blog-world right now. I'll keep ya updated though.


THEN we went to see Inception. Besides the fact that Leonardo Dicaprio and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are gorgeous and Ellen Page is phenomenal, it was a BEAUTIFUL movie! It was so fascinating and made you question things and life and truth and reality. It coincided kind of perfectly with my Psychology of Dreams class - let me tell you I will be writing a journal or five about it for that class! It is impossible to sum up this movie with simple words or to even begin to form a real reaction to the movie, because it was almost more than a movie - more like an experience? It was really SO good. Some people may not have liked it, but I could care less. I thought it was brilliant. I thought it was just what our society needed - something to THINK about. Most movies just show facts or "truths." I love how open to interpretation it was and how it was a lot to do with WHO was watching the movie. From what I gather, Seth liked it too. :) I will have to see it again. I can feel it becoming one of my favorites because I'll never watch it exactly the same. Oh brilliant!! :) :) That really makes me happy.

On that note, I am going to bed since Seth won't watch another movie with me tonight. ;) I know he's tired but my mind won't stop because of that movie. haha. Going to read maybe.
Night blog readers! :)

If you want something to read and reflect on...

So I've been feeling a lot of stress for the past little while and I realized that I haven't blogged at all about anything really and that that was not allowing me to get out the thoughts that I inherently do not talk about normally. SO. Here is my blog on my week and the topics that have really gotten to me in a way.

First of all, I'll do kind of an update. Tomorrow I have two mid-terms. Yep, History and Psychology. I am quite scared of the History one for this reason: It is completely essay and short answer and it counts a lot! This does not look so great for me considering I am really not super-interested in how this man teaches his class. I find myself falling asleep in his 2.5 hour class and it can't all be because of lack of sleep. It's 10 am. I've had at least 7-8 hours of sleep, maybe even more, but that is doubtful. Here is the thing. He is monotone! He can't get excited about his stuff! I mean, I think this applies to a lot of things people do. We approach it as a necessity and we don't get excited anymore. I mentioned that I am not excited about school anymore - it almost comes in bursts.

Psychology. Psychology is really challenging me to read more into things more than it has in several of my other psyc classes. Here's how. Dr. Kunkel is making us confront theory. He doesn't really give you the out of saying "I like" or "I dislike." I love that about the class. As vague as it is (not exactly GREAT for multiple choice tests) it is definitely something I will learn from. Here is the thing. I will probably get a B, simply because vague and studying......... but, I will learn more from it than classes I have gotten A's in. So what is more important? My GPA, which will remain fine if not great, should not be the only goal in college should it? That leads me to some things that have been said in class. "Without conflict we have no meaning. We need our demons AND our angels." I also love his approach to psychotherapy. He said something like "We drown together. Want to go up? Because I'm going up." If that doesn't make sense, well I'm not surprised. But he is saying that to be a good listener and helper you have to be able to experience something with someone without influencing how they do it. You can help them to the top by example, not by telling them in words. It was kind of brilliant.


Now my religion class is proving to be just as interesting as my Psychology and it is the ONLY reason I might do well on my History midterm tomorrow. Doesn't make sense yet, huh. Well Religion and the part of History we are covering have common overlapping themes. I think in Religion that, hey, that is kind of like blah blah blah in History. Thank you Dr. Tietjen for helping me pass History! haha. But besides that, what do you think about this? Judaism has a facet that talks about how your vocation, your sex life, your clothing, your food, everything has to do with God. So if your vocation has to do with God, then by going to work you are practicing your religion, if you are truly invested. I am a fan of this concept. If we were on Facebook, I would click "like." It makes me feel as if what I love to do (volunteer) and what I wish to do in my career (help and/or guide) is going to mean something to someone other than myself and the people involved. I also dislike that I feel as if I don't have the time to volunteer anymore. This is not literally true, but my feeling this way is true. I do feel this way. I do feel like my priorities have shifted in a way in which I am not happy. This won't change overnight, but I can slowly change this part of my life so I can get back to feeling as if I can do the things I love again. I'll get there. It's a journey, right?

Another thing this brought up is that college is selfish. It's inevitable. College is only about us. It isn't about our parents. It isn't about our siblings. It isn't about the greater good. It's also something we have to get over and also to realize is a learning experience rather than completely "real life." I don't go to college for anyone but myself. It may FEEL like it is expected, but expectations are not rules and not even rules can MAKE a person do something. I'm going to leave that open-ended...because I'm not done yet.

Good bye!

Oh, Life, Oh Life, Oh Life

Hm. I have nothing completely interesting to blog about, mostly because the majority of my energy is being directed at my school stuff that is going on. Yesterday I took my first exam - Got a B, which is better than I expected! He graded it very leniently. Thankfully.

Here is one thing. Today in Dreams the professor made a few points I'm still contemplating. Someone asked him if he "agreed" with something. Well that was not the best wording. His answer? "You don't care if I agree with you, just like I don't care if you agree with me." At the same time as being sarcastic, it was VERY true. No one TRULY cares if someone agrees. Someone can truly care about someone's thoughts, but not if they "agree." So to that, I say touche!

Another thing we talked about was the ability to be reflective. Freud says this ability is much harder, more transcendent, than the ability to observe. People who never get past the version of life as far as experiences is psychotic, those who never get past observing are neurotic, and a healthy human being can and does reflect. It makes sense to me. I kind of love the concept.

"Those who say do not know, and those who know do not say." THAT came up in Religion today. We are studying the Daoists/Taoists. :) Love.

SATURDAY!

Have I mentioned at all that my weeks suck? Well yesterday I woke up with a sinus headache. It was fantastic. But I'm not blogging about that, it's boring.

Monday I have my first test of the semester. Lol. And then Friday I have TWO midterms. Isn't that fantastic? I'm going to need some pills! hahah. And they are back-to-back classes. Plus I have no idea what to study for my Psychology MT. He is so vague!!

Well anyways. Yesterday we completely cleaned and reorganized our kitchen. It was good because it needed to be done! So then we decide that we need to move around our bedroom furniture. It ended up being that pretty much everything got moved, but we definitely like the new layout! Luckily. Plus it gave us a chance to do some major cleaning behind the furniture! haha. Now all we need to do is get a rug for the bedroom and get the carpet cleaned and presto! We both like how things ended up. Then we went to Wal-Mart and we bought some cheap chairs and a table for our deck. It is such useless space right now and it needed to feel more lived in. I mean, we've been here a year and we've signed our lease for another one. We also bought the dogs a new dogbed that they seem to like. They alternated between sleeping with us and sleeping in it last night, so we are working on getting them to sleep in their own beds!! Exciting. :) haha.

Other than that........ My life is average? lol. I'm going to go fix some lunch in a minute and maybe do a bit more cleaning. Seth is supposed to bring our new vacuum home with him today, so I'll wait on that. Oh and our complex is installing fans in the apartments! Yes! Then we went have to use the air as much! Score.

Other than that not a whole lot going on. I'll probably start my studying for my Religion test on Monday.

Au Revoir.

Thursday

Okay, so today was better than the past two days for a few reasons. Reason number one: I have passed both of my History quizzes so far. Reason number two: In dream group, Lauren brought incense that smelled REALLY good so I went and bought some. Burning it right now. :) I think it was called Nag Champa? Not positive and I'm not checking. Reason number three: Seth brought me a huge Coke to keep me awake in my third class that I appreciated very very much :) Plus I got to see him at least once between 9 am and 10 pm. :) Reason number four: We watched a Gandhi movie in Religion. Which, I really like this movie, because it's inspiring. Reason number five: I got either a 10/10 or a 10/12 on my World Religion paper. I couldn't read the last number, but either way that's good! Reason number six: I found the type of incense that I wanted and now I'm burning it. Unfortunately I have the windows open since I live in an apartment complex. Boo. I wanted to smell it better. But maybe I'm calming down the neighbors? haha. OH, and: Reason number seven: Tomorrow is Friday!! 7.5 hours and then it's the weekend for me!!!!!

Now, Reason that I'm not 100% happy: I am so frustrated with this job hunt. I keep getting pushed under the rug.

Oh, School

Honestly, I'm not even sure what to say about the last two days. I went to my first day of class on Tuesday. 10 am my History class starts - I am bored by halfway through. Which is good, that means I wasn't bored for the FIRST hour. I find out that we have a quiz in that class basically every single day - the first one was today, Wednesday. After this class, I go to my Psychology of Dreams class at 12:30. The professor is kind of... I'm not sure the word. He's very passive, laissez-faire-ish? Like "the responsibility is on the student." And when asked the required length of journals he says "it's not how long, it's what." Kind of goofy I guess, but I kind of like him. Then I went to my Philosophy class - we started learning about Hinduism. Speaking of which, Hinduism is kind of fascinating. It seems to be more of a lifestyle than a religion - and I do not mean that in any sort of bad way. Maybe that IS how religion is supposed to be, rather than the western culture's approach.

Then I went with Seth and Elea out to dinner right after class at 5:30. When Seth and I came home, I wrote my paper for Philosophy (yes, a paper due on the second day of class..) And briefly studied for my History quiz. Then I vegged out. I had too. Yesterday was basically over 8 hours of school. Condensed. Ugh. Ugh. Oh well.

So today, in History Erica and I realize that maybe we didn't study the right book for the quiz? And we didn't. So we quickly studied it before the quiz. We at least passed! Hooray! Then in Psychology we broke into our "dream groups." I didn't mention this before, but 1. Renee and Andi are in my Psyc class and 2. we have dream groups. obviously. Our "dream groups" are basically 5-7 people from the class that meet every day to discuss our dreams and/or class material and/or both of those things in tandem. Not entirely sure what we are supposed to do yet! Oh well. So then, after that class, I went to Philosophy and turned my paper in, and then sat for 2.5 hours. I really like this professor, he's really cool, BUT, by 3:00 or later my interest in school has greatly deteriorated, as would be expected. I feel bad about that, like I should be better prepared to pay attention. But I'm not. Sorry Dr. Tietjen!

Now I'm at the apartment. Typing this in order to procrastinate studying for ANOTHER quiz in History tomorrow and writing my Dream Journal. Sounds kind of stupid. But my hand hurts.

Disney Pics

These are some of the CUTEST pictures from Disney, mostly of Ava. :) She is such a doll...... Mom got them uploaded faster than I thought. :) I'm quite impressed. Off to college classes in the morning, bright and early. FANtastic.

Grey's

To be honest, I have probably posted this on here before, but it's one of my most favorite quotes EVER.

"So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don't, and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said that it'd be easy, they just promised it'd be worth it."
- Grey's Anatomy

Disney Channel

So I'm watching the Disney channel. Yes, I'm 20 years old. But Freaky Friday was on - which I love. The one with Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis before Lindsay Lohan was crazy and Jamie Lee Curtis didn't have grey hair. I just love that movie - it seems like something my Mom and I should have done/should do. haha. It's amazing how eye opening it is for a Disney movie, lol.

I'm not entirely sure how that relates to anything, but I guess it does. That we should see other peoples' perspectives. HOWEVER. When the perspective of another is hurtful, disrespectful, and does not regard the other person, then it becomes in your better interest to cut them from your life. I had to do that. I haven't spoken to this *person* in over a year - and HONESTLY, I couldn't be happier! She was toxic! She made everyone else feel inadequate, she was narcissistic, she didn't take responsibility for her actions like a normal adult-aged person, and she was shallow. I know it sounds like I'm bashing - but I'm not. I'm not perfect. BUT, I take responsibility for myself and my actions and would never be able to act the way she did. If anything, I act older than my age rather than younger. I'm not narcissistic - my feelings get hurt for my siblings or my friends more than they do for myself. I'm emotional, but I try to be careful with how I deal with my own issues rather than blaming others. And I am far from shallow - I'm actually so emotionally deep that I haven't found the bottom yet and that is turning out to be more difficult than you can imagine.

Oh. This was brought on when my friend Hannah had a "friend" do something similar to her and it hurt me more for her than it probably did for me last year. I SO want to just spill out everything that I've experienced because of my ex-friend but I had to stop myself and realize that I can't push my feelings onto her and just be there for her and let her know how it went down without involving the emotions as much. If that makes sense. Which it probably doesn't. But here's the moral of the story? Friends are not always what they seem, and if they DON'T come off as genuine they probably aren't. If you do immediately have a connection with someone don't hold back - but be sure that you don't overlook their faults. We all have faults, but overlooking someone else's is probably clinically insane.

You don't overlook the faults of your family or your "boyfriend/spouse" so why do we try and do it with friends? It's kind of stupid on our parts, isn't it? We pick apart those that are closest to us, and yet our "friends" can get away with a lot.. I think we all have to have that experience with that one person that makes you mistrust. But you experience it differently depending on age. We have to learn how to deal with it through different stages of our lives and grow from it rather than let it hurt us. We have to let go of the negative feelings. I'm not saying forgive, because I'm not a hypocrite and it always takes me a while to forgive, but some things are unforgivable.... And other things need to be internalized and dealt with that way rather than extending forgiveness when it hasn't been earned.

I have no idea if I make sense.
Needless to say....Hannah, I'm sorry you had this experience too. Maybe we can help eachother figure it out. It's a process. lol.

Just 'cause

"God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way."

Just because I needed it and maybe you do too?

Uno Mas (One More, right?)

Sorry if I spelled the title wrong - I probably did! Did I Hannah?

So here's a "real-time" update. We are back from Orlando, Fl. We had a good time, but I've got to admit it was a bit tiring at times. I would like to mention that I bought the new Chelsea Handler book (Chelsea, Chelsea, Bang, Bang) and it's hilarious. FYI. :) IF you like her humor. Which I do.

Anyways, right now we are sitting in the bed. Seth is watching the race at Daytona, Chevy is asleep on my feet, Lucy is asleep under the bed, and people are driving cars on TV. :) I had a good time this week but I've come to realize this: I like my family individually, but together, we can be a disastrous combo. Together, it's like everyone's personalities clash in so many small ways that it escalates. I don't mean all the time, but it's more than when it's just some of us. I realized this pretty early on in the trip, but didn't feel it was appropriate to say during my recap of the days. Families are weird entities. Each individual has faults and redeeming qualities. But put anyone into a group and you'll have some issues, right?

ALSO... today is July 3rd. Saturday. Tomorrow is July 4th, SO...


Monday marks the last day of my summer vacation. On Tuesday my hellish, shitty, no-good, very-bad schedule starts. Yay. Monday thru Friday, 10 to 5:15. Hello Hell, my name is Amelia. Please let me make it through. Thanks.

I'm not excited, nor happy. I'm not even energized. Normally I'm like "yay, that much closer to graduation at least" but... it isn't happening yet. Maybe I'm just tired. But more than likely, I'm burnt out on school...since that has been the case for like a year. Oh Lord, just let me make it through this one final year with a good GPA, a good GRE score, my sanity, my loved ones (and their sanity) and nothing too terribly bad. Maybe a job too. :) I think part of this is that I miss my friends from school. I miss Hannah and Elea, lol. School without my bff's is silly. Where is my motivation??? haha. I know, I know. I'm supposed to be a big girl and motivate myself. BUT. Too bad. I'm not. I need outside motivators. haha. Oh I'm a mess you guys. :) But you love me. :) I love me at least and I'm pretty sure Seth does too. ;)

Night y'all!

AFTER Sunday in Orlando

So after Sunday in Orlando well, here it goes! If you need to catch up, please scroll down. Monday (aka Day 3) was spent fairly lazily at first as we were exhausted from the day before. OH! On Sunday, Ava, Mom and Mark went to the Magic Kingdom! I can try and post pictures for that, but it will be a while. I believe I've mentioned that my mom does not enjoy loading and sending pictures? It's still true. SO we shall wait and see when I get those - needless to say, Ava had a BLAST! She had breakfast with the Princesses and got to meet them all, etc etc. The Snow White ride scared her.

So Day 3, Monday, we swam in the pool a lot and then around 3 o'clock me and mom and Ava went to the "Bibbity Bobbity Boo-tique." First off, WHAT a cute name. Secondly, she loved it and looked adorable before, during, and afterwards. :) Let me see - it was located in Downtown Disney. She got a "fairy godmother in training." They put her hair up, put make up on her, did her nails, put fairy dust (glitter) in her hair and ta-da! Mom bought some of the pics the professionals took, so they shall come later too. :) Here is an "after shot" that I got. Can you imagine her when it comes time for prom? Oh so cute.


After the "boutique" we met up with the boys at this place called T-Rex. It had a bunch of different themed rooms and we thought it would be cool. Okay. We were wrong. It FREAKED Ava out. By the time we were half-way through dinner she was so scared she was digging her nails into my arm whenever the T-Rex moved. We even asked for the least scary room.... I don't want to know what it would have been like in a scarier room! It was cool though, but way expensive. Isn't she cute? Here is a really good picture of ALL of us from the trip, taken that night. It's actually pretty good, huh?



So after Monday was over we went back and swam some more and got ready for Tuesday (Day 4) AKA Blizzard Beach! I love Blizzard Beach, minus the being in a bathing suit with skinny folks. Sorry, but I don't like you, and I don't like being half-naked around you, and I know this is too much of a blanket statement. But if you think it includes you, it might. We went on the tube rides, the boys did the summit plummit thing (I've done it once a few years ago - don't need to repeat the experience!) But they did, lol. We went to the lazy river a few times (I like it. lol.) We did the wave pool, some family tube rides, some individual tube rides. Overall, a good day. :) No pictures yet - Mom bought them from the Disney people. Again, we shall wait until they are safely delivered to my inbox. Love you Mom! :)

Wednesday was another "lazy day." We did the pool and whatnot and tried to recoup from the days before. Hard when your feet are blistered to hell, BUT, we didn't let that bother us. lol. We went and ate at Macaroni Grill, went to Downtown Disney (Seth saw some cool cars, we went into a funny store, saw the House of Blues, etc.) But the reason for going was to see Eclipse. Me and the boys and Seth went - Will and I are Team Edward, Seth and Zach are Team Jacob. lol. At least I've read the books and I know I win! ;)

This is Seth and I on Wednesday night (Day 5) waiting for Eclipse to start! The boys were there too, but no pictures. After Wednesday night (we got back to the condo at like 2 am) we got up late on Thursday to do Universal Studios (the original one.) This is the one with E.T., MIB, Twister, Jaws, The Mummy, The Simpsons (new), and those rides. :) There was a cool rollercoaster the boys rode (I am a chicken. I admit it. It went STRAIGHT UP. No way, not when I was soaking wet from the rain!) Speaking of that part. Okay. So we did Twister and The Mummy. While waiting in line for Jaws it starts POURING RAIN. We wait for an hour. Then give up and just go out in the rain and get wet. Who cares. It rained from like 4 until after we left at 9. We did all of the rides except the Simpsons (it was kiddie) and we couldn't find the Back to the Future entrance because we're retards.

Overall, good days.

Friday was our last real day there. We swam a lot, Mom and Mark went to their movie while I babysat Ava at the "big pool" in the complex. We swam, we ate, we relaxed. Then today (Saturday) we left at 10 this morning and got to Carrollton at around 6. We got our babies!! :) :) I missed them so much! They got groomed and got their Fourth of July bandannas. Cute. More pictures to come surely - but these tell the story for now! We had a good time! And now I have my babies back!! :)

Orlando - Harry Potter!

OH MY. I would say I'm exhausted, but really, sleeping a few hours in the car has sustained me for a while. :) Where do I even begin?! I told you it was going to be a blog of epic proportions when I got back from Orlando...and I suspect I will be right (as usual!) I'm kidding. My family would be sure I knew this. haha. Well here ya go. On Thursday, Seth and I dropped our babies off at their doggie vacation AKA Bark Avenue for the week. Sad day. :/ And then Friday we babysat Ava and took her swimming for several hours - too bad the "plan" to wear her out backfired. ha. Go figure. ;) WELL then the good stuff began the next day. Saturday we left at 8am for Orlando!! It took a while...but we figured it would. We ate at Bob Evans - which, btw, we need here. AND we need a Macaroni Grill around here. Please Georgia? Be nice?

So Sunday Seth, Will, Zach and I went to Universal Studios - Islands of Adventure for the Harry Potter attraction(s)! Oh my God. If you're jealous, you probably should be. It was VERY realistic and I was impressed with almost everything. :) The first picture below is Hogsmeade. It was funny because the snow glitters. :)


This next picture was taken by Seth while we waited in line for a ride - obviously it's me and my brothers. :p See any resemblance? At all? Maybe? I wish. They're so pretty. haha.

This was them inside Hogwarts - there were a LOT of cool pictures that were in there but I'm NOT posting them all! Here's the dish - lots of holograms (sp?) and lots of cool things. The pictures even talked and moved and stuff! And yeah. It was really cool.

Here's Hogwarts from the outside, taken on the bridge at the first entrance to the HP part of the park.

Gryffindor won! Or was winning? I don't know. And I know I spelt that wrong, at least I'm partially sure. I haven't read the books since middle school, give me a break.

WELL, on the day that we went to Islands of Adventure we got there SUPER early (as in, before the park opened at 9 am, we were there at like 8) And we waited in line for a while, starting sweating even before getting anywhere, BUT we finished doing a lot in the Harry Potter part before the HUGE masses of people arrived. It was just a...small mass of people at first? Well then the rest of the day was easy peasy. We went to the Dr. Seuss part of the park (yes. ages 13, 16, 20, and 22) Here are the boys with the "conductor" at the Dr. Seuss ride - it went soooo fast! I am kidding. The last picture is me and Zach on the ride.
I think I'm going to do a separate post for other days of the week. This was Sunday, to reiterate. :)