Day 328: SSS

Our church is doing a sermon series on this book by Steven Furtick. We're also doing small groups, and I'm so excited about our College group that's meeting! I'm excited about the next 6 weeks, and can't wait to see what kind of neat discussions we're going to have.

Day 327: Who Am I?

For my education class on diversity, we had to write a personal heritage paper. Luckily, Mama had just spent like 7 months on ancestry.com to figure out all our family lines.

We found out:

what countries we came from (Germany, France, England)

what crazy inventions our family came up with (some type of shoe buckle, and a snow plow)

our family lived in castles (In England and Scotland)

I actually liked writing this paper. And I'm looking forward to sharing it with my classmates, and hearing about their personal heritages.

Day 326: My Life

Warning: This post may get a tad whiny.

These books are my new best friends. Plus an education book and a health book.

I'm taking 18 hours this semester. That's 7 classes for me.

Differential Equations

Probability and Statistics

Introductory Linear Algebra

History of Mathematics

Health

Exploring Teaching: Room with a View

Exploring Socio-Cultural Perspectives on Diversity

Therefore, I have no free time. Most of my free time is spent doing homework.

In high school, I never really had to do math homework. It just came pretty naturally to me.

Now? I do math homework like my life depends on it.

I've had to cut out so much of my social life because I just don't have time for it anymore. And that gets difficult when people are constantly asking "Hey, do you wanna go blah blah blah?" or "Hey, can you come to this thing with me on such-and-such a night?"

My answer for the next few months will probably be "As much as I would love to, no, I can't. I have homework."

And as much as you may want to say, "You're always doing homework. You can't possibly have that much."

Wrong.

Yes I do.

And it may kill me, but I'm going to finish the semester with good grades.

So if I have to do homework every second I'm not in class, so be it.

I'm going to do my best to maintain as much of a social life as I can. But I'm quickly learning, school comes first. always.

Day 325: Beyonce

Okay, I know I'm a little behind on this, because I haven't blogged in a few days, but lets get real...

That is gonna be one cool baby.

Day 324: Spy Kids

I took some kids I'm watching to see the new Spy Kids movie this afternoon. It was okay, but it's one of those things where after the first one, there's not anywhere you can go with the story line. But it was pretty neat to see the original Spy Kids all grown up.

Day 323: Life

Brice and I decided to have a game night tonight! He had never played Life, so we decided to play it first. We had some interesting Life situations going on...

Brice had no children...I had five. So I had to use two cars. I had twins, had a baby girl, then adopted twins. Too many children.

Our second game gave me an unfortunate career and salary...I did not like it.

Brice got an okay career and an amazing salary.

But then I got a midlife crisis and got a new career and salary. It was a little better.

Lesson of the day: We suck at life.

Then we played Scrabble. And Brice got a big word. So he won. :(

Day 322: Reading

I love to read. Love love love. And I especially love coming home after a long day, getting into my comfy bed, and getting to this screen here:

Reading blogs makes me happy. That is all.

Day 321: Sneak Peek...

...at my Halloween costume!

It's hard to tell from this picture, but they're purple! Any guesses as to what I might be? Let me know what you think! (If you already know for sure what I am, don't give it away!)

Day 320: Books

I am reading the best book right now! I always seem to find the best books on the bargain table at Barnes & Noble. I never set out looking for them, I just happen upon them. Like this one.

It's so good! I'm almost done with it, and I can't wait to finish!

In other news, Brice basically said I was insane today. Yes, dear, I know it might not be ideal to be taking four math classes in one semester, but you gotta do what you gotta do. And right now I've gotta do these four maths, two educations, and one health all at one time so that I graduate when I'm supposed to. This is going to be one rough semester. I'm already exhausted and it's only the second week of class. But, keeping it positive. I can do this. I just might have zero social life til December. But boy will I know how to do some math. 

Day 319: Black&White

The other day when Mama and I went shopping in Atlanta, we stopped at Home Goods. Well, apparently I was way behind the times, because I had never been in this delightful store. Holy cow. Amazing. I found so many cute things I wanted to buy. And some cute things I did buy.

Many of you know, I'm obsessed with giraffes. Not giraffe print. Giraffes. I think they are the most beautiful animals ever. Period. Well, the only giraffe figurines/statues I ever find are yellow. Because giraffes are yellow, duh. However, this in no way goes with any color scheme I've ever had in my room. Which saddens me. So, you can imagine my delight when I found this little beauty:

He matches perfectly with my black, white, and teal decor! I was extremely happy! I haven't decided if I'm going to leave him protecting the desk or not. I may move him, but my room is a mess at the moment, so he's staying put so he doesn't get broken. I love him.

Day 318: I swear I'm not crazy.

I have a little entertaining story for you from the other day.

I have a pair of prescription sunglasses that I leave hanging on my rearview like so:

 That way, when I get in the car, they're right there and I never have to search for them. Logical, right?

Well, every time, I get in the car, shut the door, take my regular glasses off and lay them in one of three places.

1. in my lap
2. in the cup holder
3. or on the passenger seat

So, this particular day, I had a ton of useful things that might come in handy crap riding around in my front seat. Well, on the way to the house I was house sitting at, I had to slam on brakes, because I came over a hill, and there's a line of cars stopped because THERE IS A MAN LAYING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD. And the garbage truck was pulled over on the side of the road. So traffic is stopped in both directions and people are trying to turn around to go a different way. I called my bestie, who was driving right behind me, and we decide that we just need to stay put, for fear that we would get hit trying to turn around, and also because we're nosy and want to know what the heck is going on.

Well, we sit there for a good 20 minutes, while man lies in road and Emily eats a Subway sandwich, waiting to see what was going to happen. We speculated that maybe he had gotten hit by a car, or fallen off the trash truck. Anyways, eventually the ambulance, police, EMS, and all that jazz get there and man gets loaded into ambulance. So we proceed on.

I get back to the house, and reach to put my regular glasses back on to go inside. but THEY'RE NOWHERE TO BE FOUND. Not in sight at all. Luckily, I had a pair of old glasses kept in this trusty sunglass holder in my car:

I put them on so I could see to look for my lost glasses. I looked all over that dang car. Took everything out of the front and back seats. Looked under seats. Looked in every possible crack the glasses could have fallen into. Nowhere to be found.

I called my mom to say, "What would you do if you had your glasses in your car, and now you can't find them, but you haven't gotten out of the car?"

She thought I was crazy.

That night, she helps me look ALL OVER the car. Still no glasses. I'm chilling out with the out of date prescription, stretched out old glasses I usually wear to the lake in case they get messed up or lost.

Next day, I search the car again. Nope.

That afternoon, I was getting ready to do some homework, so I brink in the 3-ring binder that was sitting in my front seat with some books. I opened it to get some paper out to take notes on, and there they were! Just sitting there. Sneaky little boogers. I was furious.

I was even more furious because I was about to get a new pair of glasses out of this ordeal, but now that has to get postponed for a little while since I found them. :(

Day 317: A special surprise

Disclaimer: Please do not think differently of me after reading this post.

Today, Mama and I went shopping for clothes like we do at the beginning of every school year. Except she had tricks up her sleeve.

She took me to the store I've been dreaming of since childhood. Every time a new catalog came in the mail, I would dream of the day Mama would take me to Chicago to visit the store where little girls' dreams came true. Except we didn't quite make it to Chicago today. We made it to Alpharetta, which is just as good! We went here:

I was so excited! I was geeking out just as much as all the little girls that were in there. I mean, how could you not get excited when you see this:

Too cute! And they had a historic section will all the dolls from different periods in history. But, my favorite, Samantha, has been retired, so they didn't have her on display :( But they had all the rest of them.

In the mall, they had this delicious little cupcake stand. Of course, we had to get one to try. And they came in these cute little cups, so all you had to do was grab a fork and dig in. Delicious!

And I got a whole bunch of new clothes! More on that later in the week.

Day 316: Weird.

As I was looking this morning on twitter, one of my favorite authors, Sarah Dessen, had tweeted about some doll that was being featured on Good Morning America. She had posted a link, so I went to check out these babies myself. I'll admit, it takes some talent to make baby dolls like this, but I find it highly strange. See for yourself.







Basically she makes these baby dolls look lifelike, so they look like real children! And she makes them so they're all about the same weight as a real baby! I read that when she's painting all the layers to make it look like baby skin, she even paints in veins. WEIRD.

Now, I don't know about you, but this doll would creep me out. However, it would be fun to walk around town with one pretending it's a real baby and see how many people comment on how cute your baby is...but they're ridiculously expensive. Like thousands of dollars. Yeah.

Anyways, go check out these babies for yourself here and look at some more of these creepy baby pictures. Some are cute, some are not. Let me know what you think! Would you get one?

And I'll leave you with the cutest baby I found on the website.








I want a baby orangutan now! Someone buy me this doll! :)

Day 315: Home Sweet Home

This past week, I've been house/pet sitting. And while I love doing it, and never mind doing it, it's always good to come home and crawl in my own bed! I just wish my own bed was located a little closer to school and such. House sitting always saves me so much gas because I'm not having to drive so far back and forth!

Day 314: The Help

A little over a week ago, I finished reading The Help. Of course, I had to read the book before I went to see the movie...

I thought the movie was wonderful!! If you haven't seen it yet, I would recommend reading the book first. Just cause I always try to...But the movie followed very closely with the book. I only noticed a few slight differences. So, go now. Run to your bookstore and then the movie theater!

Day 313: New badge

We got new student ids this year. So, today I went to get my new one! The old ones look kind of like a drivers license. These, however, are snazzy! And I got a special one since I'm a part of the Education program now.

I had to edit out my student id number. Don't need any of you stealing my identity! :)

Day 312: Same Ol', Same Ol'

Well, classes started back today...it was the same as always, I guess. First day, get your syllabus, do the easy section. Yada yada. Tomorrow is technically another "first day" since I still have new classes to go to. Those are the ones I'm excited about! I get to start some of my higher education classes. I'm really excited because I'll have those classes in the brand new Education building!! Yayy!! I can't wait to see what the inside of the new building looks like because the outside looks so shiny and awesome!!

Day 311: Tomorrow

I start back class tomorrow! I'm a little excited, and a little bummed. I'm ready for it to start because the sooner I start, the sooner it will be over with. But I know it's going to be a very busy semester, so I kind of don't want it to start.

This whole post is kind of pointless, but I needed to post something for project365. Please excuse my tired, allergy medicated self. I'm going to bed now.

Day 310: Famous People- Tenth Avenue North

The story of how I met Tenth Avenue North starts wayyyyy back in 9th grade. At my small Baptist private school, we had weekly chapel services. But one week in like March, I think, we would have three days of extended chapel called "Refuge." For Refuge, they would bring in a band and speaker to switch it up from our normal chapel. So, in 9th grade, they bring in this little band from Florida called Tenth Avenue North. They were really good, but nobody really knew who they were.

But every day, Refuge ended just in time for 9th grade lunch. So, the guys in the band would come eat with us. Mike, the lead singer/guitarist, would eat at my table every day. So, I have this totally awesome picture of the two of us, but I can't for the life of me find it. Sad day, I know. I'll keep looking and post it as soon as I find it.

Fast forward a little bit to 10th grade. Refuge rolls around, and our favorite band rolls back into town. They had gotten Tenth Ave to come play again! We were all really excited because that meant we would get to hang out with them a little more!! So, we all ate lunch together again.

Fast forward to Senior Year. I'm riding in the car with Mama, who always listened to the Christian radio station, and we hear this awesome song on the radio. After it finishes, the DJ says something to the effect of, "That was Tenth Avenue North blah blah blah." I quit listening because all that registered was Tenth Avenue North. I said, "Mama! That was the band that played for Refuge! On the radio!!"

So, a few months later, our church's youth group went to AtlantaFest, which you can read about here. Not a lot of us went, so we broke up into smaller groups. The group I was in would go everyday to hear some of the earlier, less known bands. Good thing we did! Because look who we spotted!

Two of our favorite band members! So, as I was talking to them, I said, "You probably don't remember this...but you guys came and played at my school for Refuge, and at lunch with us." And Mike goes, "I knew you looked familiar! Yeah, Tattnall!" and goes on listing all these teachers and administrators from school. So, we had a nice little chat.

Well, of course, none of the friends that were in the other half of the youth group believed that they remembered me, so we had to prove them wrong. They were amazed to find that I was telling the truth. So, it was pretty awesome.

Then, several months later, they came and played a show at a church in town. So, as I got up to the table to get my poster signed, they were like, "Hey! You again!" I think it's pretty cool that they remember me from that.

Day 309: Famous People 2011

We haven't really been to any concerts this year due to lack of funding/time. So, we haven't really met many people this year. However, we did go to the The Band Perry/Luke Bryan/Tim McGraw concert. And we did get to meet The Band Perry backstage at their tour bus. Read the full story here.

We usually go to concerts toward the end of the year anyway, so if we go to any during the remainder of the year, rest assured, I'll let you know if we meet anybody!

Day 308: Famous People 2010

In continuation of yesterday's post, here's famous people I met in 2010.

In March, the band Bluetree came to our church. They sing the song "God of this City." Chris Tomlin also did this song, but Bluetree wrote it. Anyways, they have personal connections with some of our church members, so they came and did a concert for us while they were in town. So, we all got to hang out and meet them after the show.

In April, one of the colleges in our town has a huge music festival called Bearstock. They get local bands to play all through the afternoon, then they bring in the big names at night. So, this particular year, they brought in The Maine, Jeremih, and Cartel. I think they brought in someone else as the closer but I can't remember who because we didn't stay for the last band. We went to get something to eat at Steak 'n' Shake. We're sitting there eating, and Cartel walks in!! The hostess sits them at the table right next to us!! So, they let us sit and talk for a few minutes, then autographed a menu for me.

Then, I met the lead singer from Cartel again in June at Six Flags for the Bamboozle Roadshow.

Backtracking to May for a little bit, our downtown has a Sunday in the park concert series. And Shawn Mullins came for this one. Daddy loves him, so we went as a family with Brice. And we got to meet him! Sadly, Mama, Daddy, and I have gone through every possible folder that picture could be in, but we can't find it! However, I do have a picture of the t-shirt he signed for me.

Then in November, my wonderful friends got me tickets to go see Bo Burnham in Atlanta! So we drove up there for his show, which was hilarious. And then got to meet him afterwards! He was so funny!