Round and round it goes, where it lands no one knows

I am so lost right now. I am graduating in 81 days and I have no idea where I'm going to move after that. I know that you're thinking, "81 days is a LOT of days!", but not to someone who likes to have everything planned out as far in advance as possible! 

My parents have given me the option of moving back home so that I can work and save money for a couple of years. I like this because it would definitely be nice to be able so save a lot of money by not paying rent and grocery money, but I know that it would never work because for one thing, I've been living on my own for 3 years and it's really hard to go back home even for a vacation and not get back into feeling like I'm in high school again. I can't imagine trying to work and feel like that. 

Then on the other hand I have the option of moving pretty much anywhere to find a job. My only problem with this option is that I won't know anybody and I'll be in an unfamiliar place with a new job. It's like moving to college except there aren't 8,000 other people going through the same thing with you. 

Not only am I nervous about even being able to find a job, but also just what the future holds for me. What if I'm not good at my job? What if I hate it? I wish the road I'm supposed to take would show itself instead of making me go and find it. I know that it won't be easy, I'm not really expecting it to be. I just hope that I don't get to overwhelmed with all of the changes.

Usually when I tell people that I'm graduating a year early, they look at me like I've got snot coming out of my eyes. Then they tell me that I should stay in school as long as possible and enjoy the time I have here before I have to get a real job. Sometimes that hurts my feelings because of how hard I worked in order to graduate early. I also helped my parents out by saving them an entire year of rent and tuition. To me, that's more important than sleeping in a couple of mornings a week and going out late at night. I didn't really have the typical college experience to begin with, so I'm hoping that the transition won't be too hard after graduation.

I don't regret at all graduating a year early, I know it's going to give me some different challenges but I just didn't see a big enough reason to not do it. I'm scared about what the future holds, but I'm also excited to see where my road leads!

On top of things

When I graduated from high school and moved out of my parents house, I decided to get a bigger bed and leave my toddler (twin size) bed back home. Obviously, this would leave me with a bed when I come home to visit and I wouldn't have to sleep on the couch, right? WRONG. My bedroom has turned into the "first one who falls asleep gets the bed", room. So that means I have to choose between the couch and being woken up at 6:30 when everyone else gets up or the upstairs bedroom that has the worst ventilation ever. Seriously, the rest of the house is 55 degrees and it's 84 degrees upstairs. Way to go on the bonus room, parents.

Anyways, because I value sleep more than low body temperatures, I decided to take the upstairs bed. This means having to go downstairs in the middle of the night to use the bathroom. Guess what I found on my way down.

The cat sleeps on the bottom stair.

The cat would have been unharmed if my dad hadn't insisted buying the wall sconces with the bulbs that were on sale because they were being discontinued EIGHT years ago when we bought our house. Guess what, dad. Light bulbs aren't a renewable resource. Anyways, all the lights were out and my foot connected with poor Chloe's stomach. She's fine, but I had a mild heart attack when I realized that I couldn't see or catch my balance and was risking my life for my cat's life.

Then I couldn't remember why I went downstairs in the first place.

Shout-outs and Call-outs

Some days I wake up annoyed with the whole world, while other days I wake up and barely notice life's little inconveniences. Today was the latter luckily, so I was able to able to come up with not just a "call-out" post.

*Aggie Ring office! I sent my ring off to be resized only 2 weeks ago and I got a call today that it was back ! They said that it would take anywhere from 4-6 weeks so I was super pumped to get that phone call today. Just this morning I thought to myself that it would probably be another few weeks until I got to see it again. NOT ANYMORE!
*Ace of Cakes-I like this show so much more than Cake Boss. One because they don't yell, and 2 because they are hilarious! Also, I'm watching the show as I'm typing this and being seriously entertained.

*Know-it-alls. Especially the ones that don't know it all. I can't learn anything in class when you are constantly interrupting the professor to correct them!
*Cold weather-I am running out of warm clothes! And I'm dreaming of my trip to hawaii where there will be warm weather. Oh, did I bring that trip up AGAIN? Sorry.
*Grocery shopping and laundry-I don't like these grown up things. Especially when THEY DON'T END.

Sometimes I just have to laugh at all the things that could potentially ruin my day. Like slamming my finger in my bathroom drawer. And the dog that lives upstairs. I can't let everything bother me!

95 days and counting...

So this weekend was Taylor's 100's weekend! He found out that his base for pilot training will be...

...drum roll please....

TEXAS!!

I don't know why I even bothered to put this on here. Everyone already knows. Maybe it was for myself. I am so excited that Taylor will be living in Texas again! Same state dating, anyone? Hooray!

Anyways, after the reveal at dinner, we all loaded up our cars and headed to Keystone for the weekend. We decided not to ski this trip because A) I just dropped a crap-ton of money on my flight to Hawaii and my ski skills aren't worth the $75 half-day lift ticket. And B) I really did not want to have to check my bags because of all my ski gear.

Oh and my last ski run ended with my skis on opposite sides of the mountain. No thanks!

So since we didn't ski, we just got to hang out and relax in our condo on Saturday. It was the best Saturday I have had in a long time! I think it also went by the fastest too! In fact, the whole weekend flew by faster than it normally does.

On Sunday since it was Valentine's Day, we had a double-date with our friends Justin and Sammy at the movies! We saw the Valentine's Day movie (how fitting, huh?) and it was SO funny. After the movie, we went to different restaurants for dinner. Taylor and I ate at Pug Ryan's. It was super delicious and Taylor and I enjoyed making fun of our weird dining neighbors. (would you expect any different from us, though?)

After dinner we decided to hang out with the rest of Taylor's squad who had rented a couple of cabins within walking distance from ours. I have met some of these guys before, but haven't really gotten the chance to hang out with them. They were hilarious and so much fun!

This is Taylor with his friends, Craig, Mark, and Ryan! 

And he's Taylor and I at the end of the night...with Craig, too! 

Since I landed in Colorado on Thursday and we weren't leaving for Keystone until Friday night, I stayed in my usual Best Western Academy Hotel right outside of the Academy gates. As I was leaving, I realized that it would be my last stay ever in that hotel! Too bad, I didn't get one of the nice rooms for my last stay there!

Moving on...

I also realized as we were leaving our condo that it would be our last trip to Keystone as college students! How weird is that?!

Our next trip will be after Taylor's graduation with Whitney, Vic and Sarah. I can't wait for all the delicious food that Whitney and Vic are going to cook!

My flight didn't leave until around 7:30 on Monday night so Taylor and I decided to see a movie to pass the time in Denver. I picked When in Rome because I thought it looked kind of cute. (and in my defense it was the only movie showing that wasn't a boy movie.) It was the worst movie mistake I have ever made. Taylor even revoked my movie-picking privileges over it. Normally I like cheesy movies and disagree with Taylor about which ones are good or not. But we agreed this time...10 minutes into the movie! The plot was devised by a 17 year old girl I think. It didn't make a whole lot of sense and the acting was terrible!

Oh, sorry. This isn't a movie reviewing blog. My bad!

Anyways, now I'm back in Texas and counting down the days until Hawaii! I can't stop saying that! I've always wanted to go there but, never dreamed it would be this soon in my life! I am so excited and I can't wait!

I also can't wait to fly with Taylor for the first time! 8 hours on a flight with me! I sleep a lot on planes...and drool too. I hope he knows what he's getting into.

Flower Power

This is my Valentine's present from Taylor! He is so sweet and I LOVE them! I got them a week early because I will be in Colorado for the actual Valentine's Day.

So I just thought I would show them off!

Taylor also sends a card every year with my flowers and they always make me laugh so much because they are just so Taylor. He writes them just like he talks!

New Routines

This past week, I decided that I was going to try to get back into some sort of workout routine.  So, I stepped foot into the Rec center for the first time in TWO years.

When I realized this milestone, I had two thoughts: Holy cow I haven't worked out in two years. And Holy cow I'm about to graduate.

Since it has been so long since I stepped foot on an elliptical machine or lifted weights, I thought I was going to be out of my mind sore. Surprisingly though, I haven't been sore at all!

Hopefully that doesn't mean that I'm doing it all wrong.

So far, I have been going about an hour a day and my routine is:

15-20 minutes of cardio on elliptical
5 sets of 10 reps on the leg butterfly machine thingy (that's its technical name by the way)
5 sets of 10 reps on the sitting rowing machine
250 crunches/sit-ups (I think I need to add more of these)

My main goal from getting back into a workout routine is just to stay active. I always feel so much better after working out. My other goal is to have better muscle tone.

So, here's a funny story from my first day back at the rec. I went on Monday after I got off work at 5 and I knew it would probably be kind of crowded, but I honestly had no idea what was in store. There was some sort of event going on in Reed Basketball Arena across the street so there wasn't any available parking there. For some reason parking at the rec is incredibly limited, so since there wasn't overflow across the street, it was PACKED. I drove around the lot for TWENTY MINUTES trying to score a spot. I almost got run over so many times and I had three parking spots stolen from me by some extremely rude people.

It doesn't even end there though.

I walked into the rec and could barely get from one end to the other because of all the people! I've never seen it that crowded. I couldn't find a locker for my bag, so I ended up having to walk back out to my car to put my stuff up instead of waiting in line for someone to come and empty their locker. And then I came back in and tripped over part of the new rock climbing wall. Talk about embarrassing.

It took me a little while to find an open elliptical machine and then I didn't get to use any of the weight machines because I didn't really feel like standing awkwardly beside someone waiting for them to finish. And plus, I was in a hurry to get through so I could watch the new episode of the Bachelor. (Priorities, people)

I'm excited to get back into a workout routine, but I know it won't do much good if I don't start eating right, too. That is my biggest problem. Crappy food is just SO easy to make!

Also this week, I decided to send my Aggie Ring back to Balfour to have it resized. When I ordered it, it was a little snug but I decided to just live with it. Then it got to the point where I was taking it off during the day because it was so uncomfortable. So, as much as I hated to, I parted with my ring and will hopefully have it back in about a month and a half. I already feel weird without it. Sometimes, I'll look down at my hand and realize it's not there and then have a mini-panic attack thinking I've set it down somewhere and lost it.

I promise I haven't lost my mind, it just takes breaks sometimes.

This weekend I am going to Houston to lead a group of high school girls for a couple of days with Kirsten. I'm excited about it, but also nervous because it's going to require me to step out of my comfort zone a little bit. Hopefully I won't make an idiot out of myself like usual. (Open mouth, insert foot is the norm for me)

AND NEXT WEEK...I'm going to Colorado for Taylor's 100's weekend. It marks the 100th day until graduation and he will also find out where he will be going for pilot training!

I'm crossing my fingers for TEXAS! Woohoo! Same state dating!

*Here's a picture of me and my brother ages 4 and 5 months. I was apparently NOT happy about sharing the picture with someone else. This was also at Christmas time, so I'm really not sure why my parents dressed me in a tank top. Also, please notice Jesse's Texas A&M onesie! Woo!