Brokenhearted.

My heart is broken.

Friday Mama C took Baby Girl for her weekend visitation when she got there to drop her off she learned she would not be picking her back up Sunday afternoon like usual.  Baby Girl is back with her biological family now and won't be coming home.

If you haven't been reading a while, Baby Girl was our foster baby.  We have raised her for over a year, longer than her biological family had her.  She was "ours" to my family she wasn't just a foster baby.  My parents had plans to adopt her and a few months ago DHS  vaguely told Mama C their goal was to send her home by the end of summer after leading us to believe we would most likely get to adopt her.  We were given no date and little information.

I ask that everyone please pray for my family during this difficult time, Baby Girl was our world and now it is shattered.  Please pray that she will be taken care of and be kept safe her home life isn't the best situation.  

(Just like her NeNe)

I don't know what we will do without her in our life now.  

I will be thinking of you constantly sissy and nothing can ever fill this void in my life.

 

Recruitment Season

Oh recruitment time.
  As exhausting as it always was, I actually kinda miss it even all the singing. 

Unfortunately one year I had Mono during recruitment and I didn't even know it until halfway through the week. I just thought my throat was getting sore from all the singing and talking and then I started to feel feverish and noticed white pockets on the back of my throat. Eww.  This was a sign I should probably head to urgent care and sure enough I had Mono.  That explained alot of the pain and how miserable I was during the first 3 days of recruitment and talking and singing all day looonng.  I sat out or laid out in bed the next two days and felt much better by Bid Day. (My favorite day of course.)

 Well anyway my advice for going through recruitment...

1.  Don't stress! Seriously things will work out how they are suppose to and recruitment is fun, you meet so many great people and new friends.

2. Sounds corny but be yourself and relax.  Chapters want to meet the real you not the fake you for the week.

3. Don't be afraid to ask questions. I know when I would be rushing a girl I loved it when she asked questions because it helped get the conversation going and showed she had interest in my chapter.

4. Always be polite! Even if the house you are visiting isn't your top choice do not be rude.  The girls in other houses will still be on campus with you regardless if you choose to join their chapter or not.  You don't want to be known as the hateful girl during recruitment, you will get talked about.

5. Clean up your facebook, twitter ect.  You don't want to come across trashy and unclassy when you are creeped on by girls, which you will be creeped on.  I wouldn't delete or go inactive on my accounts because honestly when I would go to search for a girl I always thought it was a little weird and boring when I couldn't find anything just keep it classy.

6. Keep an open mind, it's your choice not those around you.

Also I would take a tote bag full of the things I might need like, comfortable shoes to walk in, a water bottle, snacks, mints, camera, hand sanitizer, baby wipes, bandaids, a battery operated fan, a watch,  and whatever else your heart desires. 

And of course one of my favorite Youtube videos on why you should join a So-rawr-ity.

Frat boys are super trust worthy. 



Grown Up Problems

 I am trying to get back into the habit of blogging again slowly but surely it will happen.

It's week 2 of the new job and I still love it, it is really a great new experience.  This week has been a rough one with the new life adjustments and some other tough stuff going on in my life but what are you gonna do? keep on keeping on.  

Sometimes I forget I am not actually just away at college and this is pretty much the intro to real grown up life which leads me to my next point...

Reasons I might not be a real grown up...

Mama C still did my laundry and cooked all my meals up until last weekend.

I love capri suns.

Pizza Lunchables and pizza rolls are in my top 5 favorite foods.

I rarely do anything by myself except go to work and thats just because it would probably be frowned upon to bring your mama or bestie along everyday.  

Party in the USA still ranks high on my favorite jams list.

I have forgotten to bring my lunch  to work everyday this week and picking a lunch spot for a different day every day of the week can be hard.  

I had to call my sister and ask her what options to choose for my benefits.

I'm still not real certain what exactly 401k is or where that money goes.

I'm still not real sure how I feel about big kid world but Papa C said just in case it doesn't work out for me I can always come home so thats reassuring.

Dirty hair don't care.

I have fine hair so I am one of those who have to wash their hair everyday and aren't blessed with hair that can skip a few washes and still look good.

The whole washing, drying and straightening process gets old real quick.  I have done some reading and a few of my friends have told me you have to start out slowly and "train" your hair to be able to go without washing.  This means your hair looking nasty every other day until it starts to get use to not being washed everyday.  

That is not something I handle well so I decided to try out a few dry shampoo's over the last several months.   My opinion on the dry shampoo's I tried...

(Suave,  Not Your Mother's & Dove)

Suave actually ended up being my favorite, it worked the best, didn't smell bad and the best part it was the cheapest!  All three were pretty good and lasted a while.  I tried another kind but can't remember the name at the moment but when I do I will update,  but it was terrible it lasted maybe 2 sprays and was empty and it was more expensive than these three, which were all pretty cheap at under $5.  

Any tricks to keeping your hair from getting oily when skipping washes?

 

New Spaces...

I  am finally all moved into my new place and I LOVE it!  I still have to put away all my clothes and of course decorate the place but lets be honest if I waited for all that to be finished before posting pictures well you might never see it.

 Here are some pictures I took right after we finished moving everything in so things are kinda crazy but you get the idea.

Once I finally get everything together and decorated I will post some updated pictures.

Also I started my new job Monday and so far I love it!

The company I am working for is really laid back and fun.

In my last job I had my own office that was pretty good size and now I will be in a cubicle but I actually like it and think I might like the cubicle better to be honest.  It isn't as lonely and it will be more lively working in the same room with the rest of my team.  

I will be on the lookout for some cute decor for my new office space so if anyone has any suggestions send them my way!

  

Since I have been gone...

Believe it or not I am alive and I haven't given up on the blog world or I didn't mean to anyway.

It seems I just didn't post one day because I didn't have anything to post and next thing I knew two weeks later nothing!  I'm such an awesome blogger I know.

I guess I have some updating to do!

I am MOVING Saturday and I start my new JOB Monday!

Whoop there it is!

I'm pretty excited.  It has all just happened quickly.  I have been looking for a new job for a little over a year now and nothing has been a fit until a few weeks ago I got a call from a company I had applied for but I thought they just weren't interested because I didn't hear anything for a while or in my mind a while anyway. (I can be a tad impatient.)  

Anyway I went through two rounds of interviews and they offered me the job by the end of the day of my second interview and asked me to start a week later!  

Overwhelming? Just a bit but I don't hate it!

As much as I will miss my roomies (Mama and Papa C, BH and Baby Girl)  I can't wait to start this new adventure in life.

One of my besties and sorority sisters ended up getting a new job the same week in the same city and will be starting the same day as me. Fate? YES! We are going to be living together and it is going to be a blast!

I'm not looking forward to the actual moving part because who enjoys that?  It is going to be hot and exhausting but worth it.

I will post pictures of our new place as soon as I can!

In the meantime I have been spending as much time with my favorite girl, this little tot!

(Mama C and Baby Girl)

She is a little fish and loves the water! 

My favorite picture! She looks so ornery here.

Bless your heart and the USA.

Of course other than that whole freedom thing...A few reasons I love America.

What colors are better than red, white and blue?

We have George Strait and George Bush.

Baseball. 

Fast food and plenty of options.  I know often this is stated negatively but you won't hear that around here.  I love me some fast food.  Besides what better place  to have plenty of fast food than America, there are thousands of gyms and weight loss options.  Don't blame McD's people.

Vegas.

Train wrecks, plenty of them for our entertainment purposes.  I'll be honest I don't dabble too much in wordly affairs I usually stick to the U S of A but I'm think we just might have more of these train wrecks than other countries.  Heck I think other countries send their potential train wrecks to America to derail.  Cough cough...the Beibs, Ozzy, Amy Winehouse must I really go on?  Let your crazy flag fly.

Movies.   America has the best movies.

 

Honey Boo Boo.   That just isn't something you can find anywhere folks.  That is straight up American bred.

While the list goes on with plenty more reasons of why I love America I don't want to make this a novel so I will just stop right there with my top favs.