It happened, it's over, and I couldn't be happier.

I graduated! Can you believe it? When I started this blog, I was still working on my undergraduate honors thesis and counting down the days until I applied and was accepted into Grad school.

Grad school was not easy, hell it wasn't anything near easy. The classes seemed repetitive, the assignments pointless at times, and my internship was more time consuming and emotion pulling then I could have imagined. However, I managed! I passed, I finished, and I walked across that stage with lots of joy!

Graduation is bittersweet because it marks the end of my college career (yay!) but also the end of a short distance friendship between myself and 4 awesome girls! These would be the girls that I traveled to conferences with, the girls that I watch get married, the girls that have been my rocks for the past three years.

Although we are all graduating and moving on with life, we will forever have a bond of friendship. (It just won't be as easy when we live in 5 different places. )

Moral of the Story: Keep your head on straight and work hard. They tell me it will pay off!

You win some, You lose some

I am devastated. My Florida Gators have lost a game. We didn't just lose, we were crushed. The tide rolled over. It's hard to say but I think this year will not be the same. We lost a lot of great players last year and I am not seeing the same passion form the players on the field. Although I love my Gators, I am hoping that this loss was not the beginning of many more.

However, I did travel to Alabama to see the game and the trip was pretty darn fun. I went with a really great friend and then one of her friends. The road trip was 10 hours each way and we had a blast. We jammed to 90's classics like N'Sync, Spice Girls, and TLC. We chatted about everything, and we laughed A LOT.

When we made it to Birmingham we ate, drank, took pictures, got ice cream, and laughed A LOT.

We went to the game and we tailgated, visited the stadium, took pictures, and laughed A LOT.

Then we left early because the Alabama fans are relentless and I can only take so many foul remarks before I punch someone.

We will now continue scheduled blogging....

Sorry for the delay in posts. I have been busy. Very busy. Let's recap what has happened since August:

1. School started. It was fantastic and after the first introduction week I start to take over portions of the lessons. This was exciting and new and more time consuming then I had ever thought it could be. I went to school all day and then I went home and wrote lessons, practiced reading storybooks aloud, and tried to figure out how to help those students that weren't figuring it out. It was exhausting and I could not possibly give myself the 15 minutes needed to sit down and share the stories with you. Now that a month or so has past, I regret that choice because those stories were darn good and the details are quite as clear now.

2. A great friend married another great friend. The ceremony was beautiful and we had a fabulous time celebrating the beginning of their life together.

3. My friends and I had a Dexter themed dinner party to celebrate the new season. We made blood inspired dishes and it was awesome! Each dinner guest wore black because we were mourning the death of a character from the previous season. (No worries, I won't spoil the show if you aren't caught up.) I made a bag of blood spattered popcorn and served it in a super classy black trash bag. if you don't watch Dexter then please don't judge me. It makes sense if you do.

4. My sister turned 20! Holla!

That kinda catches us up to October. I am going to try to be better about making time for the blog. Seriously.

Movie Review

Remember when I told you I was so excited to see Eat, Pray, Love? I spaced out with this whole school starting business and never recapped the movie. Here I bring you my review:

I LOVED Eat, Pray, Love. I will not discuss in major detail the reasons for which I enjoyed this movie because I hate when people spoil a movie for me. However, I will say: Most of the movie is true to the book, Julia Roberts was fabulous, and the medicine man in Bali was the cutest old man I may have ever seen. Check out this clip of when Julia's character meets Ketut.

I really hate when Hollywood takes a book and butchers it to beyond recognition (a la Confessions of a Shopaholic) and puts the same title on the movie. It makes people less excited to read a book. Eat, Pray, Love did the exact opposite, my good friend and I went to see the movie and as we were walking out she said, "I think I might read the book because it seems like I would understand the movie better." That's an A+ Hollywood.

Moral of the story: See this movie! It will make you want to travel the world and have the experiences Elizabeth Gilbert did. or maybe that's just me.

Sometimes you just need a break...

I love my friends. Really I do. However, I am currently feeling like our friendship is not a great as it used to be. I am wondering if every friendship reaches a point where they question when the friendship broke down and if it will ever get better again. I have been having a rough few weeks with my friends and I just want to go back to the way things used to be.

I didn't really notice anything was wrong with my close group of friends until I was invited out with another group of friends. These second group of friends are not people I hangout with a lot and therefore we spent the time together catching up, laughing, and having a great time. I miss the times when my really close group of friends did that. Now all we do it gossip, talk about the crappy things going on in life, and discuss school. I think that we need a clean slate and a chance to laugh until we cry again.

My friends have made my last three years in Gainesville some of the best times I will ever remember and I would hate to have this awkward period ruin what we experienced together since we met. Our group has a lot of things coming up in the next few weeks because one of us is getting married and I hope the festivities will be remembered as happy and fun and not a memory of catty fighting.

What do I do? Do I try to pretend that things that have been done and said are forgotten? Do I talk to them and hope it doesn't make things worse?

It's my last first day of school

Today was my very last, First day of School as a student. I started my internship today and it was fantastic! I love my teacher, my school, my third grade team, the principal, and I know I will love the kids. I didn't know what to expect for preplanning, but it was a lot of meetings thrown in between a few minutes to decorate the classroom or eat lunch. I loved every minute of it and I cannot wait to see what the rest of the week brings!

This Friday is meet the teacher, where all the students and families come to school and they get to walk to the classroom, find their desk, meet the teacher, get the materials list, etc. I always looked forward to this as a child because its the first time you can see which of your friends are in your class! I am now looking forward to this as the teacher. I will get to meet families, meet the students that I will be teaching, and see all the handwork for the week paying off. I just have to figure out what I want to wear :)

Moral of the Story: This is gonna be a great semester and I am so excited to graduate in December with my Master's in Special Education...how crazy is that.

Spiders......are not my fortay.

I walked out of my house today and almost ran right into this guy!

I screamed a little scream, I almost cried, and then I sat my stuff down and took out my phone to catch him in the act.

I really, really, really hate spiders because they freak me out. They move so quick and have so many legs, I feel like you can never trust a spider.

I'm not sure what type of spider this is, but I do know that he is slowing creating a web of magic out side my front door. MY FRONT DOOR...the one I use like 5 times daily at least. I don't want to kill him because well I feel that death by human is unnecessary for this little guy because he really did nothing wrong except trespass on my front door. As of right now I will see how far he weaves his web and if I start t feel uneasy about him taking residence so close to my home I might have to evict him.


Moral of the story: If you have more than 2 legs, run faster than I, and get in my personal bubble..I might have to move.