The Corner of Despair

Welcome to, what I call, the corner of despair in my living room. This has become quite an unpleasant place to be...yet a place that I am banished to due to my schoolwork this summer. I'm taking nine hours of graduate classes this summer. I had kinda always wondered why everyone gasped so much when I told them how many hours I was taking this summer. I now know why. Because taking 9 hours is crazy. Not to mention, possibly humanly impossible. We shall see. Okay, now I'm just being dramatic...it's not that bad. But due to my relaxing weekend, I've been having to read about 80 pages a day and just had to spend the last 3 hours sitting in this corner writing a 7 page paper. Now I see why you should never procrastinate. Ahh, hindsight is always 20/20. Just wanted to give you a glimpse of what I've been up to. Now, back to work! I can at least take comfort in the fact that it will all be over on July 12. Ahhh.

Relaxing Weekend

This weekend was quite relaxing. The calm before the storm you could say. On Saturday Matt and I had a great day of watching movies and relaxing at the pool at our apartment complex. It's a nice pool that's great for laying out and just dipping in whenever you get too hot. We rented the movie "The Guardian" with Ashton Kutcher and Kevin Costner. If you haven't seen it I strongly recommend it. Great movie. Really makes you think. It's about rescue divers in the Coast Guard and the sacrifices they make for others. Inspiring. One of those things that just made me stop and think twice about just how selfish I can be. Anyway, see the movie.
We also went to the Country Stampede to see Phil Vassor and Gary Allan play on Sunday night (we had free tickets). It was fun for about 2 hours, then it was hot and dirty (and we only had one lawn chair for the two of us) so we went home before it was over. All in all a relaxing weekend. Just what summers are for!

What a beautiful bride!

Last Friday Matt and I went to the wedding of one of my friends from the sorority. It was so much fun seeing everyone again, and she was such a beautiful bride!!! I love, love, love her dress. Not a great picture angle, but I hope you can still see her dress and see just how elegant she looked. AND, my favorite part, they had a little "candy bar" for you to fill up goody bags that had "Jamie & Drew" on them with all sorts of white candies (this was their take-home gift for the guests). What a great idea! The middle picture is me filling up my bag and the bottom picture is me talking to my friend Kelly and behind us you can kinda see the candy bar in the pretty glass containers with scoops. It was really pretty...and tasty! I'm still kicking myself for leaving my goody bag on the table when we left the dance at the end of the night...dang it!!!

Road Rage!!!

The picture choice was based on the fact that this picture was taken while we are in a car. Matt is driving and I'm in the passenger seat. You can kinda tell because Matt's left eye is on the road. :) And although this picture is from 2004...it's the closest I could find to illustrate me in a car. Look at my young little husband with the shaggy hair...I pretty much look the same. Anyway, man I've got to get better at getting to the point of my blog a little faster, my road rage. I would categorize myself as a 9.5 on a 1-10 scale when it comes to road rage. I just get so angry when people around me are inefficient with their driving time. I am not ashamed to lay on my horn at any moment if anyone around me angers me. I've probably used my horn 3 times in the last week...which in my mind is a maybe a tad above average. For example, I'm turning into the Wendy's parking lot this weekend and the car in front of me is having some sort of mental battle on whether to dine in or drive thru so they hesitate, keeping me from being able to pull in all the way and leaving me in the way of oncoming traffic. I quickly lay on the horn to alert them of my presence. Matt then refuses to get out of the car to dine in because we'd have to walk in behind the people I "assaulted with my horn." (Drama king). But today when proceeding to leave the Wal-Mart parking lot I was not so quick on the trigger. As I'm driving down the aisle a beat up truck (with 3 punky kids headed to the Stampede) starts backing out, clearly not seeing that I am coming--actually that I'm right behind him and he's about 2 seconds from hitting me. And I freeze under the pressure. Here's an instance when I REALLY NEED to use the horn, and I can't find it! You know, that feeling of running your hands all over the steering wheel, nervously trying to make a noise. Seriously with one millimeter to spare, the truck sees me and stops...barely avoiding the collision. I then, a good 2 seconds after he sees me, proceed to lay on my horn and glare. I'm not sure why...I guess at that point it was a natural reaction. I drive on and for the first time, feel kinda bad for my road rage. I guess it's just not that fun when it's a delayed reaction...then it seems kinda mean. A lesson should be learned from this. Stay out of my way! :) Honk, honk!!!

CHEERLEADING!

I love, love, love coaching cheerleading. If you know me, then you've probably heard me talk "cheer talk" or tell a cheer-related story at least once or twice. I started coaching because there was an opening and it sounded fun. I couldn't have predicted how much I was going to enjoy working with the girls and getting to be a part of the high school sports scene again. This will be my 3rd year and it's sure to be the best yet. It's really fun working with the other cheer coaches and we all take it pretty seriously so the program has recently experienced a vast restructure...for the better! This year we're planning to take the girls to some competitions, which will be a lot of extra work, but also should be great fun! As you can see, 99% of the time, I love these girls. Sad but true how much of my life revolves around cheer, but since it does, stay tuned for more cheer-related updates. Oh, and the pic is from our cheer camp. Some of the senior girls are making funny alien-like signs with their fingers. It's hard to tell and it kinda looks like some of them are making a not-so-nice sign...but they're not. :)