Category: Ramblings

So as I approach the end of January I realize that 1/12 of this year is gone already!!! This is frightening to me as I do not feel like I have done anything great this entire month! Besides going to the gym I really haven’t done anything other than hang around the house. This depresses me as I am 26 years old and in the prime of my life. I feel like I should be more adventurous and exploratory! I am going to try to start working on that. I feel like I keep saying that I will do this when we move when I can plan better. It upsets me that I cannot plan my year or even the next few months(if you know me then you know that I love to plan because I love having something to look forward to). There are so many things I want to do like go on a vacation with Mike, meet up with Ann Marie somewhere fabulous and plan to go home and visit my family and friends again. What is holding me back? Hmm, the fact that after this Friday Mike and I will be officially free!! What a feeling! For over two years we have dreamt of the day that Mike has a successful thesis defense and we have viewed this as sort of a turning point in our life together. As we approach that day I am getting more and more anxious as we do not have anything planned for after as of now. No jobs lined up, no great location to move to and no new adventure that I have been longing for!! I am not down about this because I am being positive and believing that the reason that we do not have anything lined up right now is because the right thing has not come along yet. Everything will happen in due time and I will not allow this to get me down. Situations like this can make or break a person and can cause rifts and I do not plan on letting that happen! So I guess for the time being I am going to focus on being happy and having fun with Mike and Pumpkin! I have a great little family and I have a feeling that everything will work out for the best.

Just because I cannot see the end of the road doesn’t mean that there is nothing there waiting for me 🙂

“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.” – Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

Stay southern,

Not too much has been going on down here in Mississippi but I still feel as if I need to update as it has been a while. For the past few weeks we have not been doing a whole lot except for hanging around, with the exception of Mike’s FL trip. We have had people over for an almost poker night, helped a good friend move 😦 and went fishing(Mike more than me). I did catch my very first Mississippi catfish that I am very proud of! I have also been trying to be more motivated to workout more and it was going well until some scheduling changes. I am going to have be diligent with my working out to achieve the results that I want! Nonetheless, the healthy lifestyle is going pretty well! I am down 26 lbs as of today for a total percentage of weight loss of 16.39% 🙂 Life is pretty good and I can’t complain. I am super excited for football season and my Gamecocks!! Hopefully I will still feel that way after a few games!

Here is one of the bday girl!!

Stay southern,

On Friday we had some severe weather(as did most of the country). I have never experienced anything quite like it. Sirens wailed all day alerting us to seek cover. Although I never actually saw a tornado that day it was kind of freaky. It was so weird how not 5 minutes after the warning was lifted it was sunny and beautiful, we even took Pumpkin for a walk later on that evening and everything was fine only a couple of downed limbs and a lot of water was displaced. I managed to snap a few pics.

View from my office window, it was actually much darker than this pic conveys. As you can see the street lights were still on(this was at about 9:00 am)

On the way home for lunch yesterday Mike spotted something odd in a yard while we were stopped at a stop sign. It appeared to be a muskrat. After I got back to work I looked them up and apparently they are creatures of the night and like to be around water. Well this one was eating on the side of the road at noon sitting next to a storm drain. I think it there was something wrong with it.

*Side Note: As you may or may not know, I am a huge music person(I almost always have it playing if I am alone and or while I am cooking, cleaning and just plain living). Since I have been here I feel as if  I haven’t found any really good music that I just want to play over and over again(thats the tell-tell sign that I think a song is awesome). The last song that I obsessed over like that was If I Die Young by The Band Perry. You can ask Mike about the amount of times he had to hear that song haha. However a few weeks ago I finally opened my ears to Adele’s Rolling In The Deep and I’m obsessed. Idk why I didn’t like this song earlier as I love Adele and have her debut album(which is phenomenal). So I highly recommend this one! Rolling In the Deep- Adele

Stay southern,

Sunday was a very eventful day. We ran outside for the first time and it went pretty well! Mike and I were both surprised at how much we actually enjoyed it. I am actually looking forward to my next run! We also went fishing at the Noxubee Wildlife Refuge where we had quite the adventure, but not before it took like an hour to get a fishing license. When we got out on the boat and went to bait our hooks we realized that we left the bait in the car back in Starkville. Then one of us(not naming names) hooked a tree and then accidentally knocked the rod in the water, but then we were glad that the rod was attached to the tree so we could save it! After a day of fishing with out even one bite we decided to call it done but then it took us about 50 tries to back the trailer down the ramp, as we are both new to pulling a trailer. After all this we were exhausted! Oh did I mention that I am sun burnt, like pretty badly? But we had a great time and that’s what counts! I would definitely do it again. Here are a few pictures of the refuge and our day on the water.

Yesterday morning was one of those times when you say to yourself is this for real? I woke up as per usual around 7:30 and took Pumpkin outside. Our back ‘yard,’ if you can call it that, is a pad of dirt and a patio with a tall wooden fence as in we cannot see anything back there except the trees above our heads. As she is exploring I hear some rustling in the tree above but I just assume that it is a squirrel as they are quite active in that tree. I was mistaken as I look to my left and see a divot in the ground and turtle laying next to it. This kind of weirded me out so I went and got Mike and we came to the conclusion that the turtle fell from the tree as it was not damaged or hurt as if it maybe was dropped by a predator. Although I had no idea that turtles could climb trees. I know that there is probably another explanation as to how it got up there, but I’ll never know. Pumpkin of course had a great time barking and carrying on at the poor thing. She even dug in the dirt so much that she tracked the mud in and ended up having a surprise bath. She was less than happy about that! Mike looked it up and identified it as a box turtle. He put it outside the fence but I said that if it came back that we should just keep it as a pet back there! Its name will be Tortuga. There have been no more sightings.

Pumpkin and her muddy paws awaiting a bath

Stay southern,

So yesterday marked the 1st day of Super Bulldog Weekend here on campus. Although I have never experienced this I have been looking forward to it since the last home football game in November. The festivities for Thursday included a movie night at the stadium. One of the things I am most impressed with here at MSU, besides the beautiful and immaculately kept campus, is the huge jumbotron at the stadium. So when it was advertised that there was going to be a free movie screening I knew I was going to make it a point to go! I wasn’t disappointed. I am still amazed and the quality of the picture and the sheer size of that thing. I wonder what we need to do to get one of those at Williams Brice? Anyway, we had a great time with 3 other couples and enjoyed a perfect family friendly movie.