a weekend of free

this past weekend, i made the trip home to visit the family as well as go to a doc's appt and visit jerry for a much needed haircut. on this rare occasion, i had a friend from school to ride home with me! while it meant that i wasn't able to blast my ipod, i enjoyed the conversation. being a typical boy, he requested stopping for fast food about halfway home. since he was the only one eating, he decided to pick cookout in thomasville, nc. however, once we exited the highway, we were overcome with a pleathera of fast food restaurants. of course, he quickly changed his mind and wanted bojangles. as we got out of the car, we never imagined the scene that would unfold as we walked in the restaurant. as i opened the door, we could hear very loud music coming from what we thought were the overhead speakers. WRONG. THERE WAS A LIVE CONCERT IN THE MIDDLE OF BOJANGLES! crazy! thankfully, j took a pic and i am now able to share it with everyone! while it is kinda hard to see the man, he is in the center back with a sweet vest on rocking out to country music. it was kind of like a karaoke set-up with the laptop and huge speakers, except for the fact that the man didn't need the words to be displayed in front of him because he knew them all. i am so glad i was able to experience that!

since that was the start of my weekend, it could only get better from there! thursday was pretty chill with momma since it is "on your own" night at the eddy residence. friday began with shopping! we were only supposed to spend a little time at southpark, but ended up staying there for about 3 hours! l got a new pair of jeans at nords, while i got a new red coat! we also stopped by lucky brand jeans and i was able to get a $99 pair of jeans FOR FREE!!!! momma made a big deal to say she was disappointed in my last pair getting a huge hole in the leg (of course, those jeans being the ones i had on) and the sales guy said he would trade them. super exciting! i was already planning on buying a pair and that made the decision all the easier! however, i did have to leave my other pair of jeans behind, and that was a little hard at first.

friday night celebrated baby c's half birthday! i can't believe how big she is getting! oh, how they grow up so fast. i was finally able to see her sit up and i couldn't even believe it! the c's made an awesome dinner and mom made a delicious apple pie to go with it. it was really nice to have some good ole family time.

saturday was game day. GO TARHEELS! thankfully we beat ECU but i must say that nick johnson had a pretty good game! while i was cheering for my heels, i was also hoping that he would do a good job! during the game, b came over to hang out for a while. we went to brueggers where the cashier gave us a free cookie! apparently we both stayed up too late during the past week because once we got back to my house, we both ended up taking a nap in my room for almost an hour. sat night proved a fun time at k's sister's house with our boys. the rain moved the party inside where we played beer pong with a 3 year old (her choice of drink was chocolate milk).

sunday morning was supposed to mean church, but alas, the parents let me sleep in. MUCH NEEDED must i say. i drove back to school during the panthers game, since i figured it wouldn't be much of a game anyways. come on, panthers! the rest of sunday was filled with unpacking and studying. this coming week is going to consist of lots of reading and studying, but i am ready! one test down today thank goodness and now all i have is another test and paper. can't wait for friday night!

all in all, this weekend was pretty great. free concert. free jeans. free cookie. can't expect more than that!

my lack of work ethic

well, it is my senior year of college and i seem to be lacking in work ethic (can't you tell, i am blogging instead of reading!). it is only a few weeks into the fall semester and already i feel like i am soooo far behind in all my work. i try to read my required amount but all 5 of my classes require tons of reading each night! i know, i know, it is what i get for being an english major but normally the reading comes from my other classes, which are supposed to be easy! lame, more like super lame.

however, today i look a few little breaks from my work to hang out with k. we went to the usual spot, starbucks, for a lot of chat and a little work. i always love our starbucks talks because we get to catch up on little events that have happened in the last 12 hours since we have seen each other (yes, we spend most of our time together, it seems). but i am trying to spend as much time with her as possible, judging that this time next year we may be in completely different places! which will be crazy, since we have spend the large majority of our childhood together. if we aren't in the same place next year, it will be really strange without her. since i want to move to new york city, the chances that we are in the same city is very slim. :(

i can't believe it is already 11! off to read and such.

post soon, i hope. maybe with some pictures! (if i ever have time to upload them to my computer...

study, study, study!

So, finals week has arrived. ARGH! It is so stressful! I had my first final this morning at 8am, which was probably my easiest one. Now my next final is tomorrow at 4pm, but I just don't have the energy to study! Thankfully I have found two people to meet up with between now and the test, in hopes of learning lots of information! By this time next week I will be done!!! Well, at least for the summer!

Today I took a study break and baked blueberry muffins. All the girls commented on how good it smelled in our apartment! Must mean I didn't mess them up! Plus we needed it to smell nice after the party on Monday night. Thankfully we cleaned up on Sunday because otherwise our apt would be a mess for the next two weeks!

As for now I am enjoying the lovely weather and going to study!

NATIONAL CHAMPS!

Oh goodness, I still have yet to update this blog in roughly 2 months. I am obviously not too good at this thing!
However, exciting news from last week. WE WON THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP! I couldn't believe that it was barely a game! Obviously, the Tar Heels wanted it really bad (as if we didn't already know that due to Tyler...). It was definitely a unique experience to be at school when we won. Of course we all ran to Franklin street, which was piled with tons of students! I got punched in the eye, but thankfully it didn't bruise!
The University was really mean though, because I still had class at 9:30 the next morning. Basically, they left it up to each professor to cancel class and NONE OF MINE DID! I felt bad for my 9:30 professor because he was evaluated to renew his term here! Goodness, that was just mean.

On a more recent note, the girls intramural team that I am on won our championship last night! We were awarded the coveted BLUE shirt (which most of us already had one from winning freshman year). It was really exciting! We didn't really expect to win because the team that we were playing was really good! The beginning of the game went according to expectation because we were quickly down 0-1. Nevertheless, we prevailed and ended up going on a 5-0 scoring streak! I EVEN SCORED A GOAL (for those of you who don't really know, I NEVER score goals)! Apparently our defense really paid off because we won 5-2!!! Everyone was really excited!

Now, onto a wedding this weekend with my roommates. Potentially awkward, since I don't know the groom that well and I have never met the bride. Nonetheless, weddings are always fun!

Hope everyone is enjoying the nice weather! I want it to stay this way!

Much stress, little sleep.

Well, it is that time of the semester. midterms. and with midterms comes lots of work. papers, reading, tests. bleh.
and obviously i am horrible at keeping this new years resolution, along with many other resolutions.
however, i am going to attempt giving something up for Lent this year (Ash Wednesday is this Wednesday!) and i have decided on meat. i realize now that it is going to be super hard over spring break, since i'll be spending that at mom and dad's...where we eat meat for dinner every night. guess i will just have to finally try out C's vegetarian senior exit project cookbook!
i can not WAIT until spring break. although i can already predict that every teacher will assign at least one book to read over the break, given they can't comprehend the word BREAK in spring BREAK.
so, now that i have adequately given myself a break from reading, back to the books. In The American Grain awaits.
and i am also praying for sunshine. because this cloudy cold weather depresses me.
and also praying for baby C!!!!! you've gotta hold out until break so i can be there!

new years resolution!

To ring in the new year, I've decided to start my own blog.
Granted, I highly doubt I will update that often...but I will try to include anything exciting!

Spring semester starts a week from tomorrow and I'm kinda scared.
Hopefully it will be a lot better than last semester!

Enjoy the new year and all the football games!