Make the most of it.

This song has such a catchy melody to it, but when you actually listen to the words they get you thinkin'.  Listen to them, sounds morbid right? Well I thought so, maybe it's just me. But I thought they seemed pretty sad and depressing.  So I looked up the meaning, and this song was not written to be depressing but to give the message to people to make the most of the life that they are given.  Where I am right now in my life, this is so applicable! I spend a lot of my time thinking, "If only I had this...then I would be satisfied!" or "If things were like this, then I wouldn't be so annoyed." But instead of those thoughts, why not "Things are just great they way they are!" Life is too short to spend it complaining.  And we are not guaranteed longevity, so why spend our lives thinking of what could be instead of what is. It would be great if things worked out just as we wanted but they don’t. However the Lord is Sovereign and He has such wonderful and great things planned for us! How great is that?! I think it’s great. I have been really challenged these past few weeks but also so very encouraged.  My best is so very small compared to what I can be in the Lord. And trying to do it all on my own is exhausting! I will never please everyone nor will I be able to go on my own.  I am so humbled by the surpassing greatness of Jesus.  I pray each day that I will realize my need for the Lord, and that I will cling to His side for support and guidance.   

Hats and Headbands, the essenitials for a shower-free life.

It's a different kind of stressed when you don't care what you're wearing or what people think of your greasy hair because you simply haven't had the time to shower today. That's why they have hats and headbands, but when people see those items it screams "OH HEY, my hair is greasy under this but I was just hoping that no one would know about it because I tried to cover it up with a hat or a headband but obviously it didn't work for you. Great, but I don't care so go look at someone else with your unapproving eyes. I'm over it." Literally, that's what my head screams. I hear it all day long, sort of obnoxious. I don't live a shower-free life, but sometimes it would be nice to not have to worry about cleaning myself. Yaaa that sounds gross.

ice-cream

I love ice-cream. It is one of my most favorite snacks, or should I say indulgences. Either way, I love it. I had some today actually and I loved every minute of it.  I also had some ice-cream while over Spring Break.  Not only did I have just any ordinary ice-cream, first of all I had it in Disney World sooo that makes it better and also it was in the Magic Kingdom to be specific anddd Aladdin and I shared it which means we're dating now.  The ice-cream I had was amazing. It was pineapple soft-serve with pineapple juice on the bottom. YUM! Anddd it's good for you because it is fruit flavored :) So it's a win-win situation.

As you can see, I am really enjoying these ice-creams.  See the pineapple juice on the bottom? Heaven. Gosh, I would give a lot to have one of those right this minute. But I have to be health conscious..actually I don't really haaavee to. But I will be.

Remember the small things in life that bring you joy. (or really big amounts of ice-cream in this case)

Some Updates.

My hopes were to blog every night about my trip, but due to slow internet my frustrations got the better of me. I did however blog about my trip to Disney! It was so wonderful.  After the trip to Disney I was on the go traveling from place to place.  But I have made it back to my home away from home, High Point NC.  We will spend the rest of our break here except for when we leave for our final reception in Raleigh on Sunday.  We will make a day trip up to Raleigh, and then make our way back to High Point to start classes on Monday.

I bid you all a good night! I am going to hit the sacks in hopes of a very restful sleep before a very busy and productive day I have planned for tomorrow!

Disney willl never get old to me.

The excitement begins...

My cousin has taken many of her friends to Disney, but she told me that I was the most excited person she has ever taken. Want an accomplishment! But I didn't really have to try, it came naturally to me.  For me expressing my emotions and how I am feeling comes very easy to me. Once I was driving into Disney, through the elongated driveway where my excitement grew with every minute we drove, the child in me had officially come out and I was bursting with excitement.  Disney will never, to me, ever get old.

No crying babies, demanding mothers, or whining children could ruin my good day.  We started off the day by parking in "Happy Row 80" and drove the parking lot shuttle that was run by people in orange stripped uniforms. They were so cute! Everything I saw was exciting me, the uniforms, the parking lot shuttles, even going in the gates! It was such a wonderful experience. Disney does such a wonderful job with keeping dreams alive inside of children's hearts..or even college students hearts!

We then rode the Monorail over to Epcot which was an adventure in and of itself.

What a Happy Camper!

The view was awesome driving into Epcot.  They were having a Festival of Flowers which was so beautiful! Words will not due it justice--

The flowers were so pretty!



They had also done some of the characters in flowers--

...then they had Donald Duck...





...now we have Piglet and Eor...



Rabbit and his garden...

...look at 'dem veggies!

...I do not know those people.

Sleeping Beauty and her Prince (mine is on his way!)

Lady and the Tramp...

...Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs.

Timon and Pumba (the Asian people entrhal me!)

Simba and people I don't know...again.

The original crew.

To finish it off we have Daisey!





Look out Jasamine, you've got some competition. ME.



Also during my time at Epcot, I met Aladdin.  I have always had a hugeee crush on Aladdin so when I had the chance to meet him without Jasamine being there, I was thrilled to say the least.  So I turned up my charm and put on some lip-gloss then waited my turn in line full of little kids and demanded mothers that gave into their child's every need and whiny complaint.  Soon enough it was my turn to have an unforgetable encounter with Aladdin.  I stepped up to him and he says, "I love your pearls" I blush and grin but remember he can't read my mind and say, "Thank you". "So where are you from?" he asks, I respond "I'm from Asheville, NC--I live in the mountains" "Well," he starts, "We have some mountains in Agraba, have you been to Agraba before?" "No, I actually haven't" He goes on to say, "I could take you there sometime if you wanted on a magic carpet. But it is sort of scary, soo I don't know if you'd be alright with it." I stop him before he goes any further, "I don't think I would be afraid with you there." (what charm?!) Then he brings up Jasamine, "Of course, we would have to see if this is alright with Jasimine." To that I say, "Or we could not tell her?" He seems a bit taken aback so in my attempt to keep the conversation going I say, "But of course, I don't want to be a home-wrecker. Or a palace-wrecker for that matter."  He laughs, he loves my jokes..I mean who couldn't?! He then begins to talk about his palace, he says how it is so much bigger than Cinderella's Castle and of course I agree hanging on to every word he says.  (But now thinking back on him talking about how his palace is much bigger than any castle, was he maybe refering to something other than a castle? Do I sense an innuendo?)  The camera people hurry us up, comeee on! You can't hurry up love.  We take the picture and then meet up at my hotel that night and he takes me out to a lovely dinner and we now have futures plans to see one another in the near future.

We are so natural together!

The fun is not over yet! After we finished our tour of the different countries and a wonderful lunch in Morocco we hopped back on the Monorail to Magic Kingdom!

The Magic Kingdom was simply magical. We walked around and I was able to meet Mickey and many of my cousins friends she worked with!

 

Mickey, Emma and me!

I was also able to meet three of the Princesses!  A big advantage of going with someone who works there, is that we can go IN the EXIT meaning I didn't have to wait in a line that would have lasted us an hour or more.

I'm glad she was able to stay awake for this.

Cinderella and me.

My all-time favorite, Belle.

We also stayed for the fireworks at 8:00 and the parade before that.  But my camera could not get any decent pictures at night, so you will have to take my word for it.  The fireworks were amazing! Hands down, best fireworks show ever! (of course it helps when you have the man of your dreams beside you, Aladdin ;] ) They also did this amazing lights show with the Castle before the fireworks! It was all so wonderful and I am so thankful to have had the opportunity to go! It was a fabulous start to a very busy week!

Traveling.

For my Spring Break I am traveling with the Admissions team at school as an Ambassador.  We are hosting receptions in the southeast for admitted students.  The goal of the receptions is to give students a chance to meet other people in their area that are thinking about going to High Point University. Three other Ambassadors came as well as four Admissions Counselors.  Our first stop on the trip was Orlando Florida (that's Flo Rida without the space). We drove there. From High Point, North Carolina.  It ended up being about an 11 hour trip, anddd it wasn't as bad as I had thought it was going to be! And we made it to our hotel at about 7:00 in the evening. Then we went to dinner around 8:00 and came back and sleptttt, because even though you don't do anything while traveling it is still SO tiring! 

On Saturday we had a whole day to spend in Orlando, however we wanted. Since my cousin works at Disney, I chose to spend my day there :)