Monday, January 30, 2012

The jury's out, but my choice is you (:

So my weekend pretty much went exactly as planned...

and I loved every minute of it. (:

No disappointment at all this weekend! Scoree. lol

Friday night I went to Huntsville's singing. Blake dropped me off as he went to eat & hang with our other friends & I met Hannah & Shelby outside so I wouldn't have to walk into the singing alone like a loser. (; So we went in & immediately it was a lot of fun! Soon we were surrounded by friends & acquaintances & it was just great. We laughed. A lot. A little TOO much & a little TOO loudly at times. We sang. A little crazy. haha. It was a blast! The only bummer was that I was sooo hungry but couldn't quite bring myself to go down to the kitchen & eat. So I pretty much stole any gum or candy that anyone had within a one mile radius & drank water. lol Whoo! (I was pretty much told I was stupid by Shelby & she said she would go down there with me but I chose not too. So my friends are pretty nice. lol) I did good until the singing was over & Blake & JK came to get me...I complained for soooo long about being hungry that FINALLY Blake stopped at Sonic to get a drink & I could get some food! YAY! lol I got my food, we started to drive off, Blake slams on the brake for some dumb reason, my sweet tea falls to the floorboard, straw stabbed through it, leaking EVERYWHERE. I yelled for Blake to stop so I could pick it up & I tried to find a garbage can but there was not one ANYWHERE. So I got back in the car & we went over to Kroger's. Once there, JK went in to get something & get me another drink. I didn't think much about it until I was swigging good ol' Coca Cola, but I had went ALL day without drinking soda of ANY kind. Diet or regular. All because Dr. Oz said you could lose weight doing that. And that one bottle of Coke totally ruined my whole day. But by that time it was about 1 a.m. my time, I was eating a burger & I didn't really think it could get much worse than that. lol The guys dropped me off at Bailey's house & went on to JK's to stay. I got in the house & me & Bailey got to talking about alllll the stuff that had went on that night...the good things for me & the bad for her... (flat tires & messed up plans...boooo) we stayed up until almost 4 my time talking about everything and a lot with Sis. Tammy. (: We finally got into bed since we had a big day planned for Saturday!

Saturday we got up at around 11, got ready and met Brett at PF Changs at Bridgestreet at 12. The food was (as always) SO good & we had a good time just hanging out. Then they gave us these little red envelopes to celebrate the Chinese New Year: Year of the Dragon & told us we couldn't open them...SERIOUSLY? lol That's like BEGGING it to be steamed open or something. lol But anyways, they said we could get either 10-50% off our next meal, a free appetizer or a free dessert....if you open the envelope, whatever you won is null & void! So I guess we'll deal. lol But we're definitely planning another trip to PF Changs before March 4th! lol After eating, we walked to a few different stores around Bridgestreet...stared at TOMS for a while & spent what seemed like a whole lifetime in Papaya. Then we left & went to TJ Maxx & finally Coldstone Creamery...I got a Cherry Cheesecake Milkshake & although I had the SLOWEST worker there, he sure made a good milkshake (: Right after that, me & Brett went to Taylor's (her sister) house to get ready for church at Pleasant Grove. Church was good, Bro. Jimmy preached & it we were out right at 9 their time. After that, we went to Jarrod & Nathan's house to eat some pizza since we couldn't decide where to go. lol Me & Brett stayed there til 12:30 our time & we just HAD to leave. I got home around 1:30 & pretty much immediately passed out. lol

This morning I got up & cooked breakfast like every Sunday morning. We ate, went to Brown's Chapel for church, went to eat Chinese food (that I have been BEGGING for, for months!) & I got home in time to take about an hour 20 minute nap. Scoreee! lol We went back to BC tonight & then to Krystal's to eat with Brett, Alex, Joey, Seth & the Ider crew (Macy, Ashley, Cheyenne, Jesse)...it was HILARIOUS. And we were graced with the presence of Tonya & Jarad Brown again! lol 2 times in 2 weeks! ahaha It was seriously awesome though!

Now I'm home & pretty wore out...so I think I'll head to bed here in a minute.

Oh, by the way, our regular is next weekend (first!) so you guys should DEFINITELY come see us! We'd love to have you! (:

Love love!
-April

Friday, January 27, 2012

Singing's are hereeeee

YAY! It's singing season again!!! WHOO!

Okay, real quickly lemme mention last weekend. It was pretty awesome. We met up with Morgan, Mallory, Raeven, Jarrod, Brett, Bailey, Shelby, Ross, Mallory (Gaines) & Alicia in Scottsboro to eat at Zaxby's..delish. Then afterwards we just hung out...laughed like CRAZY. Saw Jared & Tonya & Whitney (shout out! (:) & after standing outside of Zaxby's (not wanting to leave but we didn't know where to go!) FOREVER Us, Alicia & the PG folks (the others had went to Wal-Mart)  decided to go to Dairy Queen. We hung out there for a while & too soon, it was time to head home.

Saturday morning it was storming as it did all day so we didn't go anywhere. That night we went to church & afterwards, got food at Rafael's & went to Alicia's house.

Sunday morning we went to Bryant & that evening we went to Brown's Chapel. Mom & Dad were at the hospital with Grandmother because apparently she fell off her porch, landed like 8 feet away, and broke a bone in her neck. They said there wasn't anything they could do so she came home & she's doing much better now. (: We went to eat at Rafael's again. lol Yeah. CRAZYYY weekend.

Tonight I'm going to Huntsville's singing & then staying the night with Bailey (: Tomorrow we're all gonna hang out & I believe go to PF Changs. Then tomorrow night, I'm going to Pleasant Grove with Brett! YAY! lol Should be lots of fun (:

See ya'll soon! (:

Monday, January 16, 2012

4 restaurants, 6 hours (you know you're curious!)

This weekend was the BEST weekend I've had in a while!

We'll start at Friday night. Friday night our plans got allllll flipped upside down but it ended up being great! We were supposed to hang out with Alicia & her roommate Courtney & go out to eat in Chatt & do whatever. Well I text my high school friend, Casey, to see if he would want to go with us since I have been begging him to hang out with us for like the past 3 years. Something was alllllways up. Well this time, he didn't text me back that night so I just assumed it was no for some other reason & made plans to go see Mal at her homecoming. I got the ride, was about to get ready & realized I didn't really have time after cleaning to make it to the top of the mountain by 5. About THAT time I get a text from Casey asking what's up? So I text him back saying I was going to ask him to come hang out but figured he wouldn't want to & by the end of our convo & a call to his cousins, I convinced him to go! So the plan was to go to BWW in Chatt with Alicia, Courtney, Shelby, Austin, Blake, Shana & Casey. Well I get a text from Alicia that ended up being we aren't gonna go, meet us afterwards. So that was the plan. Well we decided to go to Logan's in Tiftonia instead. It was closer to all of us & just as good really so that's what we did. We met them there & after a few minutes were laughing & cutting up like old times. It was kinda weird finally getting to see someone you knew since you were 3, but haven't got to see but twice (only for a few minutes) in the past 3 years. But it was awesome. After the initial awkwardness, Shana invited us to come over to hang out at their house which I was all too excited to oblige to, considering I didn't know if they'd ever want to hang out with us again seeing how retarded we are now, & it was already going on 9:30...I knew if we went all the way to Ider & had to make it back around 12 for Mom's sake, we wouldn't get to spend much time AT ALL with Alicia. So I text her, told her our plans & we went over to Casey & Shana's to hang out. We got there around 10 & since they lived only 5 minutes away, we left around 12:50...Shelby & myself kinda helped Shana set up her Twitter on her Kindle Fire while the boys serenaded us with their guitars. lol It was really chill...just the kind of night I love. So anyways, soon we headed home & after winding down, I finally got in the bed.

The next day, our Mom's step brother & wife decided they were gonna come over & bring some cousins since we didn't get to have Christmas with them. They brought some pizza & we made a couple of our homemade pizzas & we ate & hung out with them for a while. After all that stuff, I went home to take a nap because I suddenly got soooo tired after working on Grandmother's brand new sewing machine we got her for Christmas (supposed to be simple...soooo not. lol).  Around 6:30 Dad's waking me up for church so I hurry & get some decent church clothes on & we head over. Church lasted about an hour because Uncle Larry wasn't there so we got home, I ate leftover pizza & watched the show Being Human on Netflix with Mom. (Blake had left earlier in the day to spend the night & Sunday with JK & the Riverton folk...I was too wore out) Around 1 I got to sleep & slept sooooo good...

Until around 8:30 when Mom woke me up to cook breakfast. JOY. I don't even LIKE breakfast but on Sunday mornings, I'm the cooker (which I usually am anyways) & Mom's the kitchen cleaner. lol Muchhh rather cook than clean up the mess I end up making! (: Anyhow, biscuits, sausage, gravy, eggs & bacon later, we get our showers & head to church. Hardly anyone was there because a lot were at Riverton & Uncle Larry was still gone...so our service again, lasted around an hour. But it was sweet. After church Alexis came up to me & asked if I could come with her to see her grandpa (who is sick with cancer...) with her & her mom. So I loaded up with them & we took off. We FINALLY (after much debate) decided to eat at some Italian restaurant on East Ridge called Portofino's. It was pretty decent but we didn't eat much. We grabbed To-Go plates & were out of there & over to Mrs. Shirley & Mr.Gerald's. We got there & just spent some time with them. You could tell they loved the company...we brought them some food over & Mr. Gerald could actually eat some of his cheeseburger so that was good. Around 6 or so we headed out to go grab some stuff & get home. Well we decided we were kinda hungry again...really wanting a burger since seeing how good there burger looked! lol But somehow we ended up at Las Margaritas V in Tiftonia. Not a good choice. lol It wasn't that good...& after we got done eating Blake called me about meeting him at Lalito's in Trenton (MUCH better food!) so we headed to Rafael's to pick up Evan's food we had called in, then over to Lalito's to hang out with Blake & them & not eat again. lol (And that is the story of how I ended up at 4 restaurants in 6 hours. lol) After they got done eating, we had a text from Alicia saying to come to her house for a bit since we didn't get to Friday night, so we did! (What can I say, we're popular people! lol)  We were there for a while & around 11:30 (& after our "shout down" lol) we headed home & that's where I am now, in my room, SO sleepy (eyes about to close) at almost 1:30 a.m.....I think I'm gonna head to bed! (;

Goodnight guys! Sleep tight (: Love, love!

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Is anyone even out there?

Okay, I realize it has been FOR-EVERRR since I have posted a blog! Eh, make that about 2 weeks.

Since my last blog, I spent New Year's Eve with a few of my BEST FRIENDS! It was awesome. I had thought I was going to hang out with Mitchell but I kinda prayed about it & asked the Lord if it wasn't right for me to go, that he would just never text me to tell me what we were doing...lo & behold, I never got a text & I never text him! Who knows about down the road, but I definitely felt like I was NOT supposed to be with him that night! So instead, we went to church & then met Brett, Bailey, Olivia & Garrett at Cracker Barrel in South Pittsburgh (where just a couple weeks later, Zac Brown from the Zac Brown Band would be! AHH!) we laughed sooo hard that night & talked about a little bit of everything. By the time we got done eating & got back to Brett's house it was almost 11 o'clock! So we started a quick game of Phase 10 with Brett's ANCIENT cards & played a few phases before the ball dropped. For the last minute of 2011, Garrett & Bailey LITERALLY sat there & screamed at each other as I recorded it (and accidentally deleted it later...oops) & then a couple minutes after our HAPPY NEW YEAR! yells we "danced" in 2012. haha. Funny stuff...I love my friends. (: We quickly headed home since we new Bro. Jimmy & Sis. Towana wanted to go to bed!

Sunday morning we went to our church where we had our 2nd regular service in our brand stinkin' new church! It still doesn't seem real since a lot of December services were cancelled due to holidays & deaths... ): Bro. James Carl from Pleasant Grove & Bro. James McLain came to be with us so that was nice... & we had a few more visitors which was really more than I expected with it being the first day of the New Year! It was a good service & our first "real" food (I'm talking the mac & cheese, chicken, green beans, potatoes, etc...) dinner in the church so we were super excited to be off the "soups & sandwiches" kick of December. The food was OF COURSE delicious (just about everyone says Brown's Chapel has the best food in Holiness land...& I may be a tad bit impartial, but I believe it!) & we had a blast on our "young adults" table messing around with the "old people" table... (the old people are Kris & Evan, Aunt Lisa & Uncle Jamie & Mom & Dad I think. lol) After church, Me & Blake went over to Lex's where they played the guitar & I pretended I knew how to play my strumstick (; It was a blast! And that night, after church we went over to Aunt Connie & Uncle Larry's & we played around some more, but this time me & Lex sang while Blake played! We had a blast screaming at the top of their lungs & we discovered that Lex & me actually harmonize very well together! I guess it's the best friend thing (: Since my room was actually decent & Lex hadn't spent the night in a long time, she came over that night! We sat up til FOREVER talking about EVERYTHING & it was great! I've really missed her!

Monday morning we got up, had some breakfast & watched How I Met Your Mother until Lex had to go home to get ready for our "New Years Dinner" at Aunt Francis & Uncle George's house. She ended up getting sick so she didn't come over but we had our dinner & played Just Dance with Erika until she had to leave. Then me & Blake played dominoes (actually a LOT of fun) with our Grandmother & Great Aunts! lol We ended up playing until like almost 10 that night. haha. We really get into it!

The next day I had to work so that's what I did, & then on Wednesday evening after working again, we left to meet Aunt Norma Jean at Cracker Barrel (I know, what's with me & Cracker Barrel!?) so I could go to stay in Atlanta with her & the cousins for a few days! We ended up in McDonough (about an hour past ATL) around midnight or so & I had a GREAT time all week. I met one of Dylan's friends, Mason & he was pretty awesome too. We played Phase 10, 3 kajillion times & watched ghost shows & I Am Number 4...it was like a week of lazy days. Friday night they took me to The Varsity for the very first time! It was an awesome experience! Saturday morning we finally convinced Uncle Jerry to go to the doctor about his leg (which was like solid black, blue & purple from a surgery a couple weeks earlier!) & he ended up having to have surgery! So Saturday evening Mom, Dad, Blake, Grandmother & Aunt Marie came down to help Aunt NJ out & to come pick me up...Sunday morning we went to the hospital & stayed there all day until we went to eat at the Varsity and that afternoon we went home;. We pulled in the driveway about 5:10!

Monday morning I talked to Kim (my boss woman!) about my new schedule for classes. By the end of it, I had to give up one of my days of keeping Ally. I couldn't quit cold turkey...I love that girl way too much! But now I can focus a little more on school since I have 2 classes at the school & one online.

So I worked Tuesday & Tuesday night went to my orientation for my first class...Medical Office Practice. Superrr easy stuff. And I love it! So if anyone knows of an office needing a medical assistant, please let me know! I need a good job!!! I was super excited when I got in class & realized that I had not 1, not 2 but THREE people I knew in there! (Much better than NO ONE which I had last semester!) Theresa (my friend Ariel's mom who is like a mom to me!, Kaitlin (who I graduated with!) and her cousin Lacey (whom I've just been acquainted with)...but I was so happy to see them!

Wednesday night we went to church & I talked to the people at Curves & ended my membership (it'll be official when I pay the out fee tomorrow)...I was sad but it costs WAY too much money when it's SO hard to get there through the winter! So I'm going to do my best working out here at home & maybe I'll do some good!

Thursday morning I got up & went to class for Pharmacology Orientation which I have with Miss Morgan Cain & I'm super stoked!!! I think it'll be a pretty easy class & I can't wait (:

Tomorrow I go to officially get out of Curves & tomorrow night I think we're going to hang out with Alicia, Courtney & a few others that I hope can make it out! I guess we'll see & maybe I'll blog about that soon! (:

Love, love you guys! (: