Monday, September 19, 2011

weekend getaway & birchbox

it's official. i have ordered my first birchbox. SO excited :) i also ordered the "twistband hair ties" because with all the review videos people claim they don't leave a crease in your hair...which i'm hoping is true (something that always happens to me). the link for them is below.

http://www.birchbox.com/shop/hair/twistband-hair-ties

anyways...i have already told several people about birchbox and i plan on using it for gifts for birthdays and christmas for my sister and cousins. it's such a great concept and totally affordable.

so this weekend i got to get away and out of the house for a bit. i drove to tallahassee on saturday morning to go to the FSU vs. Oklahoma game. i was SO excited to go because one of my best friends goes to FSU and i hadn't seen him almost a year and i was able to see another friend who is a graduate assistant coach for Oklahoma. i was so excited to see both of them but i wish i could have spent a little bit more time with each of them as well. obviously i was a little torn of who to cheer for...but to play it safe i went with FSU. i sat in the student section and i figured i'd probably not make it out alive if i wore anything with Oklahoma on it. but it was such a good game and there were a good five minutes where FSU almost had it, but Oklahoma came back real fast and won.

that's pretty much all i have to say today...i am so worn out from this weekend.

but seriously. get a birchbox. now.

Sunday, September 11, 2011

blogging.

so i am going to give this blogging thing a go. i have done it before for class and off & on since then...but i decided it's time for a fresh start.

it's kind of hard believe how fast time has gone by...i've graduated from college in north carolina and am now working as an assistant preschool teacher. but what gets me the most is how i can remember the little details of where i was ten years ago today. my dad was driving my sister and i to our school(s). i was in middle school and we always listened to the radio on the way. my mom had (and still does have) a routine of watching GMA every morning and she called us panicking cause she saw the planes hit in the background shot. then when i got to school our homeroom teachers had channel 1 news on. we went about our regular class schedules, some kids went home, but most of us stayed at school. but every teacher just let us do our own thing that day and most wanted us to reflect on what 9/11 meant to us.

it's definitely a day i will never forget.