Ready or not...here I come

Well, school seems to be rushing towards me more and more everyday. Each day I welcome with open arms and a little call to Addisson to make sure he is up in time for Madvilles band camp. Though, I'm sure I won't be able to say the same thing in a few weeks when I have to fight the early morning and head to a 7:30 Chemistry lab :( At least I will have Kaitlyn there in class with me. Ha. I am so ready to see my friends again and start playing some awesome music with the 2011 edition of Racer Band! Yet, I am not ready for the stress of the new school semester. Between 19 hours, working many night, Racer Band practices, studying, SAI, and a social life...I am going to need an outlet to relieve my stress. I didn't know how to balance things last semester...that could have been a factor of the many break downs I had. I think I will pick up working out again, I would need to find some time to fit it in, but I think that would be a good stress reliever. I ran for the first time in a while this morning and the rest of the day has gone really well...I am going to make this a part of my everyday and also come up with my own workout regime that is suited for me.

I have a goal to start pushing myself. Not only physically, but mentally as well. I want to challenge myself to my studies. I see school now as a foe who I want to defeat in any and every way possible. I have my head on straight now and I think this is going to be a good year. I need to create more self discipline in myself.

Self Discipline

–noun discipline and training of oneself, usually for improvement:

Yea, I had a lot of that once. High school, band changed me. Made me who I am today, made me want to work hard and succeed. I need to go back to that part in my life and bring it to the present with me right now. There was no greater feeling than achieving something you have worked so hard for.  I got this feeling numerous times in high school, and I have missed the feeling of it in my life these past few years. It's my fault, I haven't been pushing myself like I did in the past. That is my one most important goal for this semester. 

Sorry to go deep, but I have had quite a few of these moments this summer. Haha

:)) Everyone try to stay cool! 

New (School) Year, New Me

Harry Potter...after I watched it, for a few minutes I was a little disappointed. Here I was hyping myself up, but I expected too much from it I guess. The more I thought about it, the more I absolutely loved it. It's crazy to think they can get every little thing from the book into the movie...I noticed little nit-picky things like Ms. Norris's eyes were gold/yellow in this movie rather than red like they normally are. Ha, very, very picky I was. I saw it a second time the next  day with my little sister. It's really sad though to think 11 years of my life are gone :(, well not really gone, but that section of my life come to an end. Alex wants me to read the Hunger games now, I'll probably start that up soon :)

So this Summer I have had a lot of me time. I took time from my friends, and other things I would love to do and worked on me. I've come to realize that you really can't trust too many people in your life and once you find love, hold on to it really tight..as cheesy as it sounds, you really don't know what you've got until it is gone. I have not only better(ed) myself for me, but for everyone around me. I was going through a dark path for a little, I'm sure everyone has one of those at least some point of their life. But I had my friends and family there (and puppies) to keep me up no matter how low I got. I have the best friends anyone could ask for :)
I am excited about the upcoming semester and have set achievable yet challenging goals for myself  :)

So it's one of my favorite seasons once again!! MARCHING SEASON! Woo :)) Today was Madisonvilles first day of band camp and my little sisters first day too :) I'm so excited to watch her grow up in the same area of interest I did. She has grown up so fast. Racer Band will be starting quite soon as well, I am quite excited about our musical selections!! It's going to be hard for me to play rather to sing along with them haha.

I have to head out to play frisbee with Zoey and go on a Sonic run :)) I hope everyone had a marvelous day!

What would life be like...

Ok, in honor of Harry Potter coming out today/tomorrow, I am going to geek out a little here.

What would life be like if Hogwarts, witches and wizards, Hogsmead, magic wands, and all the other wonderful things that make Harry Potter what it is was real? And how do we know that it isn't real? Haha...oh here we go:

I would absolutely love life more than I already do. I mean...come on! What could you NOT do with magic? Oh yea, you could clean the toilet with your hands and a scrub brush, you could pick up the dog poop yourself, you would have to light a candle with a lighter!! What?! You would have to take broken things to repair shops, you could only sweep with brooms, you would have to try to remember all of your memories...I mean come on. Even though all of those things aren't THAT big of a deal, how awesome would it be with just a flick of a wand your toilet would be clean, dog poop would vanish into nothing, candles would light themselves, you wouldn't have to pay anything to repair a broken glass (or anything of your choice) and you could have a bowl of pensieve that contains your memories for you and you can go back and visit them whenever you want!

Life would never, ever be boring. You would pretty much see something new every day, though new dangers would lurk as well. Though Lord Voldemort is a powerful and evil wizard, I'm pretty sure I could convince him to go to the good side ;) I mean...what ever did Harry do to him besides survive and make him weak? I mean...come on. To kill the boy is a little too much to ask, he would have been a much more powerful wizard if he were on the "good" side ha. Here  I go rambling on about Harry Potter when I am supposed to be talking about what OUR life would be like.

School, going to Hogwarts would be awesome. But I would like it if there were a Hogwarts college...so I could still go into the profession I have chosen. Working with magical animals would be way to awesome for me to pass up. Though I wouldn't exactly want to be a groundskeeper like Hagrid haha. I would want to be a vet still. School would just be way more interesting...I hope I'm not the only one who thinks this.

Candy, I mean come on! Chocolate frogs that actually move! Seriously, how awesome is the variety of sweets in this world? And Butter Beer! JK Rowling describes this stuff to be amazing...yet I know someone who has made it before and they said it was disgusting. I view butter beer as a butterscotch flavored drink...a little creamy  :) 

Quidditch, I would love to play this sport. It seems a little more dangerous than most others, but it seems so dang exciting! I would want to be a seeker, yea yea...not just because Harry was one. I just feel like that would be the easiest thing for me to do...not sure why. Probably just because I would want to hide things in the snitches I caught. Hahaha.

I really can't believe I just typed all of this stuff in here...I guess after years of holding all my Harry Potter geekyness in since it's the last movie I needed to rid of it somewhere. The last movie....oh no. Bringing some tissues for sure! I would promise that this will be the last time it is mention in this blog, but I'm sure I will mention it some tomorrow as well being that I would have seen the movie!

"For neither can live while the other survives..."

Have a wonderful day!

Feels like 120.. .what?!

Well, yesterday was wretched. The heat, the humidity, the everything! Even at 7:00 in the morning, I took Zoey outside to potty and I felt like a brick wall had hit me as soon as I walked out the door. The weather channel on my phone was saying that it felt like 120 degrees outside, that's ridiculous. I really hope it isn't this hot during band camp...geeze. I jumped in the pool for a little bit yesterday and an hour was all I could stand. It was no different than being outside of the water, though I didn't check the temperature of it, I'm sure it was 90 or so.

Maddie (little sister) had a lesson with Addisson yesterday too, so I helped her with her homework a few hours before. She needs to understand that the more you practice the better off you are, and to not procrastinate, but I can't do much for her there because I ALWAYS put things off ha. So we went to the Grimms house a little and then to Kroger to get a few groceries. I could barely stand to walk from our car to the door anytime. My mom noticed this and asked me jokingly if I could walk any slower...I just slugged my way around everywhere. Zoey kept ringing the bell to go outside, but I knew it was to just play frisbee or basketball ha.

Not too much went on last night, I finished Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix while the storm came through.

Still no car, I'm driving my brothers car around right now. What I would love to have is a nice Nissan Versa...but that isn't happening anytime soon! HA. I'll have to get one of those when I graduate from college. Which will hopefully be in the next 2 or 21/2 years! I know I'm ready to be done stressing about grades and papers. Yet, I know after a few years of graduating I'll probably wish I was back. Oh well, I'll just live in the now.

HARRY POTTER TOMORROW...kinda. Ha. :))) Everyone have a wonderful dayyyy!!!

4 days until the end!

 Friday I took Zoey out to Friday Night Live, where she enjoyed all kinds of new sights, smells, and noises. She can barely stand the sound of a trumpet so I knew this was going to be an interesting trip. I am trying to socialize her as much as I can because I want to be able to take her out to band camp without her barking and going crazy everywhere ha. The Marching Maroons had a booth there trying to earn money because they are going to be going to New York to play in Carnegie Hall in February!! SO EXCITING...and I'm very jealous. Also helping the band raise money, there was a Jazz band set up at the corner of the street that Addisson was in :) I knew this was going to be a challenge for Zoey, but after the first few songs she settled down and enjoyed the activity around her :) They sounded wonderful of course!

I am a very impatient person right now. Only because the second half of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows comes out Thursday at Midnight! I am so pumped because it was my favorite book and so much goes down in the last half! I have re-read the book for the 3rd time this summer, just to make sure I'm prepared :)) I'm currently watching all of the movies (on the second right now, one of my least favorite). Alex wants me to dress up as Luna Lovegood...haha, but I doubt that will be happening. Addisson and I are driving up to Evansville to finish out the movie with Alex and Nathan!

Addisson and I will be getting there around 11:00 unfortunately due to Addisson having to practice for Hairspray at the Glema Mahr Center for the Arts showing Friday-Sunday this weekend! It's going to be good!! http://www.glemacenter.org/blog/

Unfortunately this week my car decided to quit on me. I have had the worst luck with cars ever since my wreck. Ugh, I know what I will be buying right out of college. My started was all buckled up this time so we went and got another one for it. It started one time and then it wouldn't again...the people at the shop think the engine is locked up...if that's the case I'm screwed ;/

My cousin just got engaged this weekend and I couldn't be more excited for her :)) It seems like just yesterday we would be at Grandmas playing barbies all the time! Hahaha.

SUPER EXCITED FOR HARRY POTTERRRRRRRR!! And sad too... :(

I hope everyone's week starts off wonderfully!

TGIF!

Well it's Friday, I really hope the rest of the weekend doesn't turn out how this Friday started! I went to the vet today, but I had to bring Sampson with me because he was scheduled for a bath. Sampson is out 7 1/2 year old Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. He is a really sweet boy that will lick ya to death :). We got to the vet and Laurie went to town giving him a much needed trim on the feet, belly, and a good scrub in the bath. While this was going on we noticed a little bump on his eyelid. Well, Dr. Walter checked it out and said that it was a growth, it needed to be removed because it was irritating his eye and would only get larger the longer it was on there. Poor Sammy, he went in for a bath, and then came out with that and surgery on his eye. He was a little dizzy from the medications to I had to carry him out and into the house. You always feel so bad when you have to see your animals like that, but it's always for the better. I sat Samps down on the couch and we fell where he was and went straight to sleep :)

While we were sitting on the couch watching a movie, I noticed that Sampsons breathing was irregular. I just thought it could have been the was he was laying there so I repositioned him to a better, more comfortable position. I was still a little worried, so I decided he needed a little pick-me-up. I got him some peanut butter on my finger because that is one of his favorite snacks! Yet, he didn't even make an initiative to smell it, so that's when I called my mom. She told me to take Sammy back to the vet and get his lungs and heart rate checked out, not worrying about the gas I would be losing, I packed Sampson out to my car and took a trip BACK to the vet.

As soon as I pulled into the PAC Samps jumped up like everything was fine, but I still wanted to make sure he was alright. Dr. Walter checked him out and said everything was completely fine. He was just breathing like that because he is an older dog and it takes a while for the medication to die down. I would have hated if something worse happened to him :(( Now he is knocked out on my moms bed, and probably will be there for a long time.

Finally relaxed I decided I would go for a swim in the pool. Zoey decided to join me...so there was no laying out for me. We played fetch in the pool for a little while and I sat her down so she could dry off. That was a negative...she had other plans apparently. She wanted to keep jumping in the pool until I had to go get her leash and tie her up in the shade to dry.

Finally, I was able to relax,

And soak up some of that wonderful sun :)

Yet, everytime I was out of sight of Zoey, she would yelp, and yelp, and yelp, and yelp, and yelp until she had my attention. I decided to take her in since she was dry enough and she yelped some more. Too bad for my brother and mom who had to deal with it now. After an hour in the pool I came to the door and saw that she had never left and was just waiting for me to come in and snuggle with her :)

Now I need to get ready to head to the Lake house with the Grimms and celebrate this wonderful weekend! Keep wishing no rain everyone and I will get back here on Sunday! :) Have a wonderful, sunny, dry, exciting weekend!!