Procrastination

So I'm a bit of a procrastinator.  I must say it is not my best quality.  My main subject that I enjoy doing this in the most is physics..dun dun dunnn. So he assigns us homework each week. Each of which consist of about 15-17 questions. Well the assignments take a while to do...at least for me. Mainly because I don't know what I'm doing most of the time. So I hate them and I procrastinate for that very reason. And to add on last week are physics lab was complete hell!!!! I mainly think that it was horrible because it was the day that we had to go to school and it started bizzarding (not a word) outside. Also it was suppose to be an easy lab, but for some reason my group and I are just not physics oriented enough to quickly do these labs. So there's my update on physics!!!! Wooohooo! yay a for physics!

rambling

Well I'm pretty stressed over that literature paper due today. Thank God I have finally finished most of it. Honestly I've never been the best writer, so hopefully this class will help me improve. This post is pretty much going to be a ramble about random things, because I don't know what to talk about! I think I'll ramble about school for a bit. So this week up until spring break is starting to look kind of busy. A lot of assignments due in Dalton's class plus the fact that she changed the midterm layout. So instead of having a take home test we are now having a closed book, in class exam. I'm not sure if that should be a relief or not. I'm sure that the take home test would take a lot longer, but we would also have our book at least. Well hopefully it won't be that bad. Also we have a test in Coleman's class today, which she has not yet posted...the only thing about that is I honestly haven't learned anything so I don't know what she's going to be tested on. We've maybe only had class like three times this semester. Anyways I'm just ready for spring break to be here already!

Best dogs in tha world!

Honestly I don't have much to talk about this week. I mainly didn't do anything since we had such bad weather last week. So I stayed inside as much as possible. So here recently I have really been wanting a dog. Sadly the apartments that I live in make you pay a pet fee of around 200 dollars plus they add an extra 25 onto our rent if we decide we want a pet. This is the main reason why I haven't already gotten one. Also my Dad would probably get pretty upset with me if I did get one. I'm thinking that maybe after I graduate I will start looking for one. So for now I will settle for my dogs that live with my parents. They are super cute and I don't have to take care of them unless I'm at home, so that's a plus. 

About three years ago my lab that my siblings and I grew up with died. Her name was Swiss and she lived a long life of about 14 years, which is kinda long for a lab. After she died my parents SWORE they would never get another dog...well that definitely didn't happen. Anyways about six months after Swiss passed away we had a black lab puppy showed up at our door and this is how we came across Jake, who is our dog now! He isn't full lab. We think that maybe he has some Border Collie in him because the tips of his paws are white. 

So we had him for about six months when my Dad brought home another dog that he had found near my Grandparent's house. So pretty much their plans of never getting anymore dogs fell apart. My Dad has a soft heart when it comes to animals. Our other dog's name is Sasha!!! And she is a mutt as well. My Dad is obsessed with both of them, especially Jake. Jake is the first dog he has ever had that can catch a frisbee and well were still working with Sasha, but she's kinda slow when she first takes off. So I figured I would share a video of Jake catching his frisbee! Hope you enjoy! :))))

The typical girl blog

I suppose I will write about my Valentine's Day. Let me just say that I am somewhat of a hopeless romantic when it comes to Valentines day. I love it. And it has nothing to do with guys giving me things, because the truth is that I don't think I've ever received a Valentine's gift from a guy besides for this year. My main love for Valentine's Day comes from my
family. They make me look forward to it every year. My Mother and Grandma own a florist in Elkin (my hometown) and not to sound bias, but they create the most beautiful flower arrangements. Every year they get one of their designers to make me and my sister one and of course they are perfect!!!! This year I specifically went down the mountain just so I could get them and bring them back up to put them in my room. My Father, who will always and forever be my best Valentine, normally give me a gift. One year he bought my sister and I these beautiful key necklaces and he normally gets us a box of chocolates. Also Saturday night I did have a Valentine. And he also got me roses and chocolate. He cooked me dinner, which he loves to do. It works out pretty well actually because I haven't reached that stage in my life where I've wanted to learn how to cook. Pretty much he did very well. One of the best Valentine's I've ever had!

THE SNOW!

As you all can see, the snow finally came!!! Last weekend I had been monitoring the weather channel and it looks like we are expecting even more throughout the week!!!! I get really excited about snow mainly because I love to play in it. Now my boyfriend is one of those people that love to "look" at snow...he doesn't like to mess it up or build snow families (haha), not even so much as have snowball fights. He loves to look at it...that's it. Pretty much he's lame. I, on the other hand, love to do it all! Last night Sydney (my roommate) and I went and attempted to play in the small area in front of our apartments with a sled I went out and bought. It's one of those cheap plastic sleds. So we took that and tried to find a hill worthy enough to use it on.  Now I know what you're thinking...that's a stupid comment because we live on a mountain so there are tons of worthy hills. Well not really. At least not around our apartment. So our sledding attempt was not very successful...mainly because I went down this small hill and cracked my sled. And now I have a large bruise on my hip. It was still fun though. Sadly it was not snowball worthy, because it was still powdery snow. Also I'm sure most of you have noticed that they cancelled all classes up to 11......so we still have to go to school. I was a little bummed out about that. But at least I'll do something productive today instead of just sitting at my apartment.

My first physics exam

Well on Friday, the 13th (of course it would be on this day), I had my first physics exam. Pretty much I had been dreading this since I first started this class this semester. Ivy and I had been freaking out everyday last week and predicted that it would be a horribly hard and torturing test. Well anyways he of course gave us homework that was due the class before, which was on a Wednesday, and promised that it would be a "short" homework assignment and to me it was not very short. Whatever. So back to our test. We walked into class and sat down...he handed us our test and I immediately flipped through the test. I have never felt so much joy over a test in my life!!!!! It wasn't bad at all!!!! There was only two problems that required math and the rest were pretty much fill in the blank and true/false. I was so thrilled! The only thing bad that happened was that I ran out of lead and so I didn't get to fill out as much extra credit as I would have liked. But that's fine at least this test didn't ruin my Friday!!!!! But this doesn't change the fact that I'm still not very fond of the lab....it still sucks...every Wednesday.

Shotgun Shooting!

So I have been dating this guy for about 7 months now his name is John and he is pretty great! He is the only man I have ever dated that cooks for me and he is actually really good at it! Anyways Sunday we went with his brother to one of their friend's house and rode four wheelers. Their friend has a ton of land and trails that you can ride on and it's right next to the Mitchell River. The land is very beautiful and our original plan was to go fishing and shoot skeet! Although Sunday was a beautiful day I believe that the water was still to cold to really have any success at catching fish. So after an hour of fishing we finally gave up and headed to an open field to shoot. Now I have shot several handguns with my dad, but I have never shot a shotgun. John and his brother are very good at shooting skeet so I was very intimidated to shoot it! They first set up still targets to get me use to shooting the gun and then after successfully shooting those I started in on shooting skeet. Surprisingly I did pretty good for a first timer!!! They threw about 10 skeet for me and I hit 6 of them!! It was so much fun!!! I would love to do it again. I think that my dad and I are going to go shoot his one day, which I'm really excited about because I love spending time with my dad! I strongly suggest that if you've never shot a shotgun or skeet that you do, because I'm sure you really really enjoy it! So Sunday was a pretty good day until I got back up the mountain and started to feel bad. I have been feeling bad since Friday, but I thought that maybe my body would take care of it by itself. Sadly I was mistaken and had to go to the infirmary today and was diagnosed with strep throat. Don't worry I will not be in class tomorrow to be giving it to any of you, because this truly sucks!

Car Complications....

So I got sick late last week and totally forgot about posting on here. I find it sometimes difficult to remember to post three times on different days each week, so I have to get use to it. So I have a Pontiac, which is a car. And about a year ago I hit 100,000 miles and that usually is when your car starts to have "complications". My dad bought me this car when I was sixteen and I consider to have kept it in pretty good shape for the last 6 years. I love my car and really don't want a new one. But since I've had a 100,000 miles on it my power steering has really given me trouble. I believe that this is the second time it has gone out and it is really difficult to drive especially going down the mountain because of all the curves. So Saturday I ended up having to take my car home so my dad could take it to be fixed. The bad part about all of this is that I'm having to drive my dad's truck. Now his truck  isn't just a little pickup truck it is very large and bright red! Honestly I don't really mind driving it because I feel like it goes down the mountain better than my car does. The main problem is parking! Sadly after six years of driving I still have trouble parking. Even in my car I have trouble parking, so just imagine how it is for me to park a humongous truck. My apartments already have really bad parking, but when I drive this truck I feel like I have to park really far away anyways to keep from hitting someone's car. Anyways I hope to have my car back either this weekend or the next and I won't have to deal with the struggle of parking.

On Friday my roommate and I went bowling!!! We went with her boyfriend and one of his friends. Well I haven't been bowling in like ten years so I was pretty terrible. It's funny because when we started our first game Brandon, who is my roommate's boyfriend's friend, and I were both equally bad. So therefore I didn't feel that horrible about sucking because someone else sucked just as bad as I did hahaha! But it turned out that he actually ended up beating all of us by a long shot! So basically I was the ultimate loser for the night!!! But overall I did have good time at least. We then ending up coming home and playing the guitar, which was awesome because my guitar came with an amp and I hadn't hooked it up until last week. The main reason for this is because I suck at playing the guitar as of right now and I figured there was no need to be loud and suck. But it ended up sounding really cool because you can set it up to where it sounds like an electric guitar! Anyways I hope that soon I will be decent enough to post a video of me playing my guitar, but it will probably be closer to the end of the semester!

Let it Snow

For the past month I have been extremely eager to see a lot of snow in Boone. Like the amount of snow we got last year right before Valentines Day. It was so fun just to go out and play in it with my roommate, Sydney. Also I would really love to try skiing again...and yes I know they have machines at the ski slopes that make and blow snow, but I think it would better after theres been a snow storm. Well since were on the subject I suppose I'll tell you about my skiing experience. So this year for my birthday, which was on January 11th, me and my best friend went to Beech Mountain. Her grandparents actually own a house that is within walking distance of the slopes, so it was very convenient. We brought some friends with us, so altogether there was about 10 of us. Now let me just mention that this was my first time EVER going skiing. I had no idea how to ski, but everyone told me that all I had to know was "Pizza and french fries." Let me just say that those words did not help me that much for the first 2 hours of skiing and after hearing them over 60 times in one day it makes you never want to hear those words again. May I also just add that I was the only person in this group that had never been skiing before. Rachel, my best friend, has skied pretty much her entire life, so she is pretty good and rarely falls the entire time. So she promised me that she would teach me and stay with me the entire time. Well for those of you that have been skiing and are actually good at it know that when you go to ski you actually want to ski and not have to wait on someone who is falling down every minute. So this is how it was for me for the first two hours of skiing and I had almost convinced myself by this time that I would never try skiing again. Thankfully I started to improve and could actually make it down the majority of the slopes without falling more than twice. So by the end of it I really enjoyed skiing and I would love to go again! Also I pretty much could not move for the next two days, because I literally felt like someone had beaten me. I had very large bruises all over my legs and arms. But the experience was totally worth the pain.

My guitar

For the past year I have really wanted to learn how to play the guitar. Well for Christmas my wonderful Grandma bought me a beautiful black guitar!!! I was really excited about it! So for the past   month and a half I have been trying to teach myself how to play guitar with a little help from my sister and her boyfriend. My sister has been playing guitar for about five years now and Aaron has been playing since he was ten. Anyways so Saturday I went to visit them and had pretty much been practicing all day. Well one of Aaron's good friend came over later that night and he too can play the guitar. Let me just say that this guy is AMAZINGLY good at guitar!!!! Like I'm not talking about just casual strumming I'm talking about fantastic picking! I just hope that one day I will be able to at least be half as good as he is!