Thanksgiving: The Ultimate Thankful Thursday

Alright everybody its time for the typical, cliché Thanksgiving post, but I’ve been slacking on my blogging due to school lately and I feel like this is important. Especially since I’ve missed the past like 4 Thankful Thursdays so just bare with me.

I am so thankful to have a family with as rich of traditions as we do. Every year since I can remember we have had a themed Thanksgiving. From Polish Thanksgiving, to When Pigs Fly (pink) Thanksgiving, to Spanish Thanksgiving, we have had it all. Each with its own special food to go with the theme (pink mashed potatoes, traditional Polish dishes, etc.) and each, of course, with costumes and names. Keeping with tradition, if you don’t have a name to go with the theme, you don’t eat. If you don’t have a costume, you don’t eat. We have games with VALUABLE prizes to be won and just so much laughter it can get a little overwhelming. I wouldn’t trade any of it for the world. When I moved to Fayetteville for school, the themes kind of took a back seat because it was too far for me to drive to New Orleans, but, thanks to my awesome brother and sister-in-law THE THEMES ARE BACK!!

Since it was their first time to host, obviously, the theme was the First Thanksgiving. We all dressed as Indians and Robley’s mom was the lone pilgrim. Robley’s parents were awesome and got way more into it than I think we were all expecting. Everyone looked super cute and it was really great to be surrounded by that much love and that much happiness. It also made me realize how lucky Brad is to have such fantastic in-laws. Seriously, they’re amazing. I couldn’t ask for a better sister-in-law, and her parents are just as fabulous as she is. They’ve also made me realize that having a spectacular, theme loving, good sported family is a requirement for the man I marry.

I am thankful for the opportunity to spend the holidays with my family. I am thankful for the family I have, who shower me with more love than I could ever imagine. I am thankful for my parents and for my brother and sister-in-law for showing me examples of awesome marriages that work and will last. I am thankful for my sister for showing me that there is more than one type of strength. I am thankful for the opportunities my parents have given me and allowed me to have that many other kids my age wouldn’t. I am thankful for the growing experiences this year has thrown my way so far, even if they weren’t exactly the experiences I had planned or had hoped for, I am learning a lot about myself this year and for that, I am thankful.

Happy Thanksgiving, Everybody!

P.S. If you would like to see pictures, please refer to my Facebook within the next couple of days!

What do You Want to do With That?

If I had a dollar for every time somebody asked me what I want to do with my major I wouldn’t even need to be in college. I would just take the money and create the life I want for myself. But instead, I’m faced with the awkward situation of explaining that I really don’t know what I want to do.

I don’t know what I want to do for the rest of my life. And that is TERRIFYING to me.

In a perfect world, I would be an undergraduate student forever, while getting paid to be in school, and just get to take classes on things that I think are cool and interesting and just never stop learning. That’s what I want to do. Never stop learning. I feel like there is always something more to know about a subject which I think is what drew me to majoring in history. But the world isn’t perfect, and I cant major in cool stuff.

I know I don’t want to go to law school, which is what most people assume I think. Part of me wants to teach, but only high school and only at a good school, but again the world isn’t perfect and things in the school system are changing which leads me away from that. Part of me wants to work in a museum, but that makes me worried that I’ll just be stuck behind a computer booking tour groups for elementary aged students forever and that just makes me want to vomit.

But it terrifies me that I don’t know what to do. I don’t want to listen to endless lectures on “well if you ask me you should…” I don’t want to hear all the pros and cons of each career path I think I’m interested in. But at the same time, I don’t want to start doing something and then figure out I hate it.

I’m not really so much concerned with what I want to do though. I know how I want my life to be and, to me, knowing what I want for myself is more important that what I want to do. I feel like that will fall into place as I am achieving the things that will make my life what I want it to be. I know I want to be happily married. I know I want to live in a big house, have dachshunds, have a couple kids, and be able to give them a great life. I know I want to make people happy. I know I want to do something that makes an impact on peoples’ lives.

So when people ask me what I want to do with my major, can I just say ask me in ten years when I’ve figured it out?

I'm Getting There

Two months

So it has officially been two months since Nick and I broke up.

Where am I now?

Healing is a difficult process, and it definitely is something that I struggle with. I hate change, I hate things that take time, and I hate having to wait things out. And that literally all this process is.

For the most part, I have accepted what happened and am moving forward. I am generally happy about what is going on in my life and all of the things that have happened to me in these two short months. It feels like it has been such a long time I honestly can’t believe it has only been two. I have realized that I have an amazing support system around me outside of Nick and have grown to appreciate that more than I ever think I would have, so for that I am grateful.

Like I’ve said before, the hardest part about this is not having my best friend. I don’t feel like we have any animosity towards each other and I know that neither one of us is mad so it’s not like we can’t talk and we do on occasion, but I miss that comfort of the every day contact. Of having that person that you could just talk to for hours and not want to slap them. I know that things have to change because, obviously, our relationship is different now, but that doesn’t make it any easier.

So it’s two months later. I am learning how strong I am, how great my friends are, how big of a support system they are. I am moving forward, but I still have days where I get sad. In my head, I feel like people expect me to be completely over it by now but I know that’s not true. I’m not completely over it, by any means. I’m moving forward and am happy but I still have some hope that we will be able to work things out and get back together, or at least be best friends again. Even though I know that most likely isn’t going to happen. I know that in time our friendship, my heart, and everything else that kind of got turned upside down will heal. I just hate waiting and not knowing what is going to happen. This is a big growing up moment for me, and it’s definitely difficult. Every day is different. But every day I can wake up and know that I’m okay and know that I am loved. I have good days and bad days and my good days out number the bad, so I feel like I’m doing okay.

I’m getting there.

Busy, Busy Weekend!

This weekend/week was super busy. First, it was homecoming week! This is always something that is really exciting because I feel like since my high school didn’t have football I kind of missed out on that. All week the sororities and fraternities were working on different competitions for homecoming including lawn decorations, banner competitions, a float for the parade on Friday, and other things. All the decorations have to do with the theme which was “Every Day is a Hog Holiday.” AOII’s holiday was Cinco de Mayo which we referred to as Cinco de Hogo.  

Other holidays included Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Years, 4^th of July, Valentines day, and Mardi Gras. All of the houses did a GREAT job. Congratulations to the ladies of Kappa Delta and Phi Mu for winning the homecoming competition!

After the homecoming parade and pep rally we had a date dash function that was themed “Throw down for your Hometown.” Of course I don’t have anything from high school here so I borrowed a gloriously sequined twirling uniform from my friend Taylor. We all got ready at the house together and then headed to the function. It was a blast…until I discovered that I had broken out in hives! Needless to say I decided I needed to leave. My friend Mary left with me and helped me find a Benadryl and make sure the hives went away as quickly as possible. We concluded that the hives were from a mix of an allergic reaction to the sequins/fabric/whatever it was washed in and being incredibly hot. It was the strangest thing! As soon as they showed up they were gone. I took a shower and the Benadryl and they went away very quickly and never came back. Hives aside, the function was a blast!

Today I started working at my new job! I am now a member of the Savoy Tea Company crew and I love it! The drive to Rogers kind of stinks but the job is very fun so far and my bosses and people I work with that I have met so far are very nice. The atmosphere is great. Organized, clean, friendly, welcoming, and fast paced. Just like I like it. It is very easy to learn, and I am very excited to see what this has in store for me. 

Thankful Thursday

Today I am thankful for all the opportunities I have had in my life. I have been blessed to be able to do a multitude of things and meet a multitude of people along the way whom I don't think I would have met any other way.

I am thankful for all of the things I have been able to accomplish at such a young age and for my friends and family who have supported me through out the way.

Short post today, but still important to be thankful.

Until next time!