HaPPy HaLLoWeeN

boo!

Halloween this year was great, and I had a blast! Every night from Thursday-Saturday was filled with tons of stuff to do.

Thursday night: I hung out with my friends Nikki and Ashley after I got out of class. We decided to meet up with my friend/old neighbor Brett at a party. Nikki, Ashley, & I were the "walks of shame".....classy, eh? ;)

Friday Night: Friday, one of my best friends KENZIE came to town, so of course we had to celebrate. Calyn & I decided on being cowgirls that night. Kenzie was a sailor, her friend was an 80's girl, and Amelia was the Statue of Liberty. We walked what seemed like forever to a party in Normal, and it was a blast. We ended up at the frat ARG, and it was amazing to be reunited with kenz. :)








Saturday Night: If I had to pick my favorite night out of all three I would definitly say Saturday. I got to see a mojority of all of my favorite people and I overall had a blast!! At about 2:30 pm I went to work in my costume. A girl named Amanda, and I, were the two lucky ones that got scheduled to work on halloween.....yay....not ;). It ended up not being TOO bad, although I would have loved to have gotten out earlier, but oh well.
After work, I wasted no time and headed straight over to Nikki's. After I got a few drinks in me and played a round of beer pong, the party bus was there to pick us up. We all headed over to a guy that Nikki is friends with from work who was having a keg. Michael & I didn't last long there, and had to have our friends Wendy & Josh come pick us up. When they picked us up we headed on over to a friends house who was having a huge halloween party. It ended up being really fun. Michael & I walked back to my apartment after the party. Overall it was an AMAZING Halloween filled with all fun and no drama, just the way I like it!!
























(I also forgot to mention that this halloween was mine & Michael's one year anniversary of first hanging out ;) just thought i'd throw that in there. We decided to celebrate by dressing up together. Shockingly, that was Michael's idea. We were Cowboy's & Indian's if you couldn't tell.)

CHIcago

Last Saturday, Michael & I went to Chicago to look at potential apartments that he would in interested in. He is thinking about going to a college up there next fall, so we figured that we better get started on the whole apartment search. It ended up being more of a site seeing trip for me, and it was my first time in the city that I can remember. (last time was when I was a little kid with my parents) We also rode the train from Westmont to Chicago. That was also my first time on a train since i was a little :) It was just a day of firsts for me. It ended up being an AMAZING time and I cannot wait to go back!!!!!

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Photoshoot

The other day, me and my roommate Amelia, and our friend Calyn, decided to have a little photoshoot in Calyn's backyard. I love love love these girls :)

AMILLI

So I'm pretty sure that I have never mentioned how much I LOVE my roommate Amelia! She is probably the best roommate that I could ask for, and is guaranteed to be a long time friend. So here's a shoutout to you Amilli :)


NV Night with Coors Light



"Alcohol is our only friend" haha.
^Cute, eh?^

Girls Night

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The other night, my roommate Amelia, our friends Calyn & Maggie, and I decided to just have a little girls night and play games. And what would a game night be without APPLES TO APPLES :) It was a lot of fun and just figured I'd share some of the pictures taken.

Amelia was sad she only won one card.Calyn was runner upMaggieAnd last but not least.......
THE WINNER♥....ME!

Supposedly, when your all said and done with the game, the cards are supposed to be words that "describe you"......if that's the case, then I am Patriotic, Sultry, Demanding, Depressing, Fuzzy, and Shallow. Sweet set of adjectives to describe myself. I was very happy my results... NOT!

Photography

So this semester I enrolled in a photography class to help slim out my general ed. load, and to hopefully take some awesome pictures and learn how to develop them. We have had a few assignments since school started, and so far I love it. Our first assignment was called "Scavenger Hunt", and my film ended up being blank. Since it was blank, my teacher told me that I could just go around and take pictures on my camera of anything I wanted just so I could get a feel for the camera and learn kind of how to use the different things on it. My camera is a 35mm camera, and I can only use film that I can develop on my own. For this assignment though we got to take it to a Walgreen's and have them develop it for us. I just finally got this assignment back today and figured I'd share a few of the pictures that I took while I was experimenting with the camera. I took a variety of pictures and enjoyed playing around with the camera. I only hope that my next assignments will be better.

Here we go again...

WELP, its been quite a long time since I have updated this thing. A lot has happend in the past
few months.


I moved into a new apartment with a girl named Amelia Paccamonti on June 30th. So far things are going great!! Our apartment is a little ghetto, and we get nervous sometimes, but all in all its been amazing. I couldn't ask for a better roommate!!



I went on an awesome vacation with the Meiner family (aka, my boyfriends fam) and it was a blast!! I'm not even joking when I say that it was probably the best vacation I've ever been on. We went to Lake Sylvan, Minnesota for a week and a half and spent all that time on the lake. I learned how to ski, although I was not good at it at all, and got to jet ski & tube a lot. Jealous yet??




Two weeks after we got back from vacation, I started back at school.....here's where it gets boring. I'm going full time again this semester. I am taking Math 96, Biology, a Religions course, and Photography (my fave :]) So far it isn't going to bad. My classes aren't TOO terribly hard, but who likes school?........no one.

I am still working at the El Paso Golf Club as a waitress/bartender. As the summer went on I started to bartend almost full time, and so far I love it!! I like learning how to make new drinks, and feeling more responsible :).

NIU

I went to NIU in Dekalb last weekend for my best friend Kelly's 20th birthday. Everything from the ride there, the ride back, and everything in between was lots of fun. There were a few moments throughout the night that made me a little angry, but overall I had a great time with a few of my besties! :) I went with Leslie, and we made lots of stops on the way there. She picked me up around 4ish, then we headed to El Paso to get gas, subway, and pick up something from Kelly's house that her mom wanted us to give her. Then we headed to Minonk to go to Pop's, which is a place full of all kinds of candy!! We had to take a couple of detours on the way there because of construction but we made it. Then we finally headed on our journey up to NIU. It didn't feel like it took as long as usual, but when we got there we headed up to Kelly's room and started getting ready. Leslie's sister Lauren met us up there, and she braided my hair on the side while we were all getting dazzled up. We pre-gamed in Kelly's dorm, then finally headed onto the frat AKL. Leslie brought her video camera so it was a lot of fun filming things, and having stuff to watch so we could remember the next day.

Ashlie's Birthday

Tonight I went out with a few of my best friends for Ashlie's birthday at Logan's Roadhouse. It was a lot of fun, and veryyyy filling. It was fun to finally get with some of my girl friends again since I haven't really done anything besides party with anyone for a while now. I'm finally starting to work again out at the Golf Course, and I am so excited about it because that means I'll be making some moolah!! It's a little weird because I haven't had to situate my schedule (not that I really have one but..ya) around work, but it's a part of life and I'm just gonna have to deal with it ;)

today was really fun and eventful. I woke up, and missed my classes......imagine that. sleeping is just so much more fun. when I woke up, I got ready, and headed to Pontiac for an eventful day. When I got there, I picked up some McDonalds for Michael & I, and headed to his house. When I got there, he told me that the clubs were in Rhys' (his younger brother) car at the High School. We decided to go get him out of class and get them. After we waited in the office for 10 min. for him to get out of P.E. (which btw we saw some weird people getting into some trouble) we finally got the clubs and headed to the Elk's to do some golfing. We decided to golf on the back nine, and lemme tell ya................I was really bad. Golfing apparently is just not my thing. It took me many times to hit the ball, but Michael was a great teacher and gave me lots of good pointers that I will possibly use next time I decide to humiliate myself by golfing.

After we were done, we headed back to his house and I slept for a while while he watched some TV, then we got ready for our delicious cook out. I had steak, which I couldn't cut, so Michael cut it for me. It was some amazing steak and even though im not too fond of steak, I still thought it was pretty good. His family and I, plus his sister Emily's fiance, Ryan, played an interesting yet funny game of telephone for about half an hour. When all that was said and done, me, michael, emily, rhys, and william watched some home videos, which seems to be something that we tend to do often now a days. It was a very eventful and busy night, but it was so much fun, like always. His family is almost like my second family and everytime i go over there, I feel more and more comfortable around them.

When I left, I went to visit some of my old friends for a little St. Patty's Day celebration and it was really fun to finally get to see them again. All in all, today was a great day!