Mardi Gras Mask Making 101

10:04 PM Es Elle 0 Comments

TADA!!! the finished product! and it matches my dress PERFECTLY! I am *uber* excited, I can barely focus on my midterms! Can I just mention; I cannot believe I am already half way through the semester?! Cccccrrrrraaaaazzzzzyyyyy! 


Quote of the night: "nobody can hurt me without my permission" - mahatma gandhi


Listening to: "Me and Mrs. Jones" - Teddy Pendergrass ~ a candle lit bath is in order with this music!

Content.

11:40 PM Es Elle 0 Comments

Here's pretty girl on the way to church this morning! She is absolutely amazing! We had so much fun last night and this morning. She woke me up in the middle of the night (pretty sure she was still asleep) and patted me and kept saying something I could not understand over and then said "okay, let's go back to sleep now" and I said "what? Jessalyn?" and she was OUT! haha Then on the way to church she said she was so glad that I brought a drink for us to share and said "I just love you, Sarah" It was the sweetest thing ever. I wish I could have more times like this with her and will have to make time for it more the next couple of months before my life becomes hectic, for real. 
As anxious as I am about this big move, I am extremely excited. We are going back on the 9th to hopefully make a final decision and I cannot wait to know where I am going to be! I have already been looking up furniture and I now do not have to get as much as I thought I would because my brother is giving me a bunch of his stuff to use! They got engaged just in time; Michelle is redecorating his house! YES! ha I just have to put my girly touch to it and get a few other accessories. My latest obsession is the quatrefoil (my sorority symbol). I have been trying to find all kinds of wall decor in the shape of quatrefoils. I have got some pretty good things put together and you will just have to wait and see. I'll post some of my inspirations for this either later tonight or tomorrow! 


Listening to: "Peaceful Easy Feeling" - The Eagles :)

My Saturday :)

10:01 PM Es Elle 0 Comments

So I decided to let Jessalyn come stay the night with me tonight and have a girls night and go to church in the morning. I went to her house to pick her up and she said "You know what I like  to do most in a car? Drive! And what I like most in my tummy? A Baby!" haha I am thinking "wait a second..." It's so funny how we go through life always wanting more and wanting to do what the older people are doing and can't just enjoy where we are. I remember my dad always telling me to not rush my life and that there is a time for everything and to just be patient.This is so true. The older I am the more I want to slow time down and enjoy the NOW.

Here is a picture of her as we rode around with the windows down and she was dancing and having a blast. I told Jessalyn that it was her night and we would go eat anywhere she wanted and of course she chose Mcdonalds! (i have not had in over 9 months) we ordered almost everything on the menu!  As we were eating she told me it was the best dinner she ever had. haha if only we could all be pleased so easily! She then told me I was "the best" :) We are now watching a movie and eating ice cream. This beats going out any day!

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child.  There are seven million.  ~Walt Streightiff

11:10 PM Es Elle 0 Comments

Last night = ROUGH night

Updates coming soon... Nightie Night!

Quote for the night: Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

^Contemplative^

12:55 AM Es Elle 0 Comments

It's dangerous for me to be up and thinking unless I'm studying... just listening to a little Matt Wertz... need to be studying... I'll fall asleep soon, I pray.

And thank you for a house full of people I love. Amen.

12:41 AM Es Elle 0 Comments

Well it looks like we will be going to Auburn again in the future. I figured we would be making some final plans but looks like my parents had other plans in mind so we are still on the search for the perfect place. We did have a really fun time though, Coco got to play in the fields and we got to go in a bunch of places to see what we like and do not like. We spent time on the strip and ate outside Mellow Mushroom where Coco got LOTS of attention and we ate ice cream. It was very good weather and just a good time to spend with my parents riding around listening to oldies and looking at places for sale. I know my dad is not ecstatic about me going to Auburn but I think that was to be expected. Good thing Phil went before me!  He is being more positive about it than I thought he would be. :) I have been blessed truly with a wonderful supportive family. I am amazed by the unconditional love of a family and the older I get, the more important I realize it is. I could not ask for better parents or brothers, EVER! They have and will always be there for me no matter what; as I am for them. As my father always says; "Family; it's all that matters" and it's so true!

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family.  ~Lee Iacocca


The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.  ~Dodie Smith

On the road to change.

11:21 AM Es Elle 0 Comments

Well, I am on my way to Auburn right now to hopefully put the final plans together. My parents and Coco are with me to check out my, (hope to be)[soon to be] new place. I am so exicited and I hope that it is as perfect as it seems! I will update soon!
Quote of this moment: "The past will not pretend to be the present no matter how much you dress it up."

5:41 PM Es Elle 0 Comments

and I literally tore into that hershey's bar and in about 30 sec. this is what it was:

~$now $now Go Away~

10:34 PM Es Elle 0 Comments

Im getting ready to go eat with my parents and Im walking out the door notice that I have on a bright salmon top, flip flops, wet hair and I have put my make up on using a tad of base and face lotion. I would say that I am totally ready for spring. And I walk outside to a blasting snow storm pretty much. This weather is absolutely insane! I am so ready to migrate south and stay, I cannot take it anymore! 






On the flip side... good news is I do not have to go to Auburn for orientation so now I can just register and focus on now and finding my place. We are going down in two weeks to look at the place that I am thinking about getting and I am •uber• excited! I have started picking out all the things I want to decorate it with and most of them come from West Elm. :) My B'day is coming up soon and even though I am not very excited about being half way to 50; maybe it will help me get everything I need for my new place! My inspiration for decorating has come from following fellow blogger Madebygirl who is absolutely awesome at decorating and finding other homes of inspiration for all of us to drool over! I can already tell that this is going to be a huge distraction for me... as long as I can get it all done before Auburn then I won't have to worry about it while I am down there. 


Quote of the day: In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity ~Albert Einstein

•It's just a feeling•

However long the night, the dawn will break.

~ African Proverb

It's 1:35 am. Can't sleep.

*Break Time*

12:06 AM Es Elle 0 Comments

So I am taking a break from working my statistics assignment. It was due at 10:00 tonight and I just got a stats calculator (bc my teacher specifically said that I did not need one and of course the quiz requires us to use one). So I finish about half of the quiz and have all this anxiety bc I didn't finish it by 10:00 and submitted it half done and sent my professor an extension request, only to find out that she had already extended the whole assignment until saturday bc of the sleet. UGH. So its break time for me to re coop my thoughts and begin again. What better way then to type it out for the world to see :)
So I had this odd dream 2 nights ago that I have been meaning to get on here and tell you about. So I have this dream that I am in a house with everyone that I work with, all of my mutual friends, some people from church and a ton of children. It almost seemed as if there was a childrens church inside the home and I am not sure what we were all doing except some event that we were all involved in. The weather started to get really bad outside and it was raining and raining. We were in the basement of the house helping out with this children's event when someone says that the house is flooding because of the rain and there is no way out. The weird part about it is that everyone seemed okay with it. Of course we did not tell the children what was going on but the adults just accepted the fact that the house was flooding, there was no way out and we were all going to die and we should just entertain the children until our last breath. Kind of like a titanic type story. I kept imagining everyone in the house drowning and thinking "there HAS to be a way out of here where there is not flooding before the house actually does flood." I noticed that the people who said the house was flooding were disappearing and then showing back up and as they would walk away I would ask where they were going and the response would be "no where or ill be right back or over here" and I knew something was up. So I started searching around for different doors that might lead to the outdoors that would not open a dam into the area where everyone was. Well I finally saw 2 of my friends walk off and I followed behind them but in a distance to see where they were going but they didn't know I was following. As I go through a series of halls and doors I found my way to the outside where the house was not flooded but it was down poring where it would eventually over a long amount of time would flood. I am in the yard when my friends noticed that I am out there and say "What are you doing out here?!" and I said "Well I knew yall were going somewhere and I knew that something was up! We need to save these children and get everyone out of this house so they won't die!" and they said "This is exactly why we didn't want you to know that the house wasn't drowning yet because we knew you would try to save everyone and they can't all be saved! There is not enough time!"And I said "So we just let everyone die because we don't have enough time to get everyone?! We need to at least try and get the children out of there! We have to!" So after arguing back and forth they told me that they were not telling them about it and that was the way it was and if I wanted to go then I could go but everyone was staying. As I was standing in the yard, I was trying to decide if I should leave and save myself so I can live the rest of my life and leave them to the ignorance of thinking that the house was flooding which eventually would and all die. I wanted to stay just because I felt bad that I had found the way out and the others hadn't. They had not even tried, they believed the ones that said the house was flooding and it was enough for them. But what about the children? What about the innocent children that did not know either way and wouldn't until its too late?
This is the point at which I woke up.  I could not help but think that this parable was something that God had revealed to me in my sleep that everyone around me is drowning and I can only be responsible for saving myself. I can tell people the truth and show them the truth by walking away. If I had stayed they would think that the house was really flooding and I believed it too. This may be where I draw the line between compassion for others and my own self preservation. I have a tendency to always put others before my own needs and at some point I have to take care of myself.  I take on others struggles and problems as my own and can be run over from time to time. I will always be compassionate for mankind because that is who I am. It is one of my biggest strengths but can also be a weakness. Ok so don't think I am going to start being mean to everyone because you know that won't happen :) I just thought I would share that LONG dream with you and hopefully it added a little perspective to life.

"It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family." Philip Green 

MONEY MONEY MONEY

10:27 PM Es Elle 2 Comments

So I totally just made a spreadsheet of my living expenses and tuition for my parents while I am going to be in Auburn before I start Pharmacy School and lets just say the results are HORRIFYING! This is not including any "me" expenses! FASFA is definitely not going to cover that and not having a job, I don't know how I am going to do it. I do not know how anyone that does not have rich parents can go to a university because FASFA pretty much makes it impossible to pay for your tuition and living expenses. I know everything is going to work out fine and that's what my family keeps saying but golly that is a lot of money and I just really do not want them to have to pay for it. I guess I am doing the right thing to get out of this situation that I am in but I am just in shock! I tried pasting a picture of it to my profile. Not sure if it worked because I am having technical difficulties with this blog but I will figure it out! 


BTW - I am have a FABULOUS week so far! I absolutely love my life and thank God for the "almosts" in life.