Remember When??

Only one person will fully understand this post today, but I don't really care cuz I know not many read my posts anyway....

When I was little and had to get up early to go to school and obviously no kid wants to get outta their warm bed into their cold house, get dressed, and then eat cold cereal. So whenever it was one of those REALLY cold fall/winter mornings, I'd get up (get dressed under my covers, duh because it was cold!!), and go downstairs to make a warm waffle. While waiting for said waffle, I maybe would make sure the heat was turned up just a bit and spread a blanket out in front of the heater that came out from under the cupboards. I know Pathetic, but hey what's a cold girl supposed to do?!? My mom would come downstairs, see the t.v. on and turn it off after seeing no one in the room, of course being the addicted t.v. enthusiasts that I am, I'd yell up from behind the counter that I was Listening to the show (cuz I'd already seen it and could picture what was going on) while I ate my waffle on a blanket on the kitchen floor in front of the warm heater. 

You might be asking yourself, "What the hell brought this on??" Well, since you asked....I was doing my homework this afternoon and the heat came on. I was sitting at my desk with my foot on said heater (not recommended for obvious reasons) and thought "Wow, my toes are sooo warm now!!" and thus this memory popped into my head and I felt the need to share.

I hope everyone else's feet stay warm!!

I'm a Believer!!

First of all...can anyone name the WELL KNOWN movie that song is from!?!

So I had a strange day on Friday and if you're not into reading one of those OH MY GOD moments, stop reading cuz this story still blows me away and I still can't believe it happened.

In order to fully understand this story you need a little background first, I go to the gym with my friend Katie at school at least 4 times a week and sometimes it's way to early in the morning to function and I'm not really awake until I get home and shower.

So, maybe being exhausted isn't a great excuse, but I lost my student ID on Thursday morning after going to the gym (and I know it was after because you need your ID to get into the gym and I swiped my card that day). SO as any good student knows, your ID can get you places (not really but you do need it majority of the time), it is used to check out library books, GO TO THE GYM, get discounts on movie tickets, etc. Needless to say I was quite bummed when I noticed I had lost it. Katie told me to call the gym and ask to keep a look out for it, but I didn't want to be THAT person....so I decided to wait, knowing we'd go again Friday morning.

Mind you now, I looked EVERYWHERE for it! I only ever bring 1 bag to the gym with me and keep my card in the ONLY pocket inside (wasn't there), so I checked my clutch that I take to school (notta), I strangely decided to check the only bag I take to classes...again no luck. So I decided to test my faith (I know not my smartest move, but sometimes you just need to or just wanna see if someone's guiding/looking after you in life). What did I do you ask?? How nice of you to be so curious, well I said out loud "Alright, Grampy if you are watching over me at all, I'd REALLY appreciate a little assistance finding my ID". I know a little ridiculous, but it's been two months as of last week that he passed away and I was emotional.

So, Friday morning came and I was a bit very eager to see if Grampy was going to help me out or not. Mind you, I wasn't expecting my ID to float up in front of my face with an 'I miss you' signed by my grandfather letter attached to it, but I was expecting to search my every step to the gym, ask the front desk at the gym, and search myself at the gym where I usually put my stuff. I just thought if I had found it that Grampy was saying "hey I helped you and I'm watching out for you", sadly the ID was not found anywhere from my house to the gym or on the way back. I had a realization when I got home, a bit of sadness and slight disappointment that maybe he wasn't looking after me like I had hoped and or prayed that he had been. I acknowledge (aloud again) that "Ok Grampy, I understand you can't always produce a miracle and that's fine I understand that you're still with me". Then like I usually do, I switched my clutch that I bring everywhere with me (because it holds my house key, some $$, and usually my ID) from my gym bag to my school bag and sitting in my front pocket....MY ID!!!!!!!!!!!! You can imagine my excitement at the time and still looking back on it, I can't believe it happened.


Insert I'm a Believer song here, I was completely blown away!! Now maybe I'm being naive about this but I truly believe my grandfather was watching over me and testing my faith, so I would believe he's really there.

It's Been a While...

So it's been a while that I've complained about a roommate and honestly that's the best part about a blog is bitching expressing my frustrations aloud to those who care. First of all I wanna clarify for anyone that read my blog last year, that I have two different roommates in a different apartment. I knew one of the future roommates, we'll call her A, last year from the dance team and through a mutual friend and the second roommate I hadn't met until the start of school, we'll call her B. Now maybe that was a stupid move to not really know someone before agreeing to live with them, but hey it's working out cuz we are getting along like I never imagined. It's 3weeks into school and we already have almost no boundaries with each other, we like similar things, and can have any conversation with each other very easily...a dream roomie. The only thing I'd really change about B is that she do her dishes a little more often/frequently and before the food stuck to stuff - oh well. Now as for roomie A, I thought I knew here pretty well last year then she really started surprising me with her, let's say "night time choices"...yea one of those, well-I'm-lonely-and-didn't-wanna-walk-back-by-myself-and-he-was-standing-there kind of girl. Whatever her choice not mine and not my life to live. The thing I'd most like to change about her would be to relax, stop doing the dishes all the time, and if B and I choose to waste time and watch 3 or 4 back to back episodes of Teen Mom or Keeping up with the Kardashians on Netflix then it's not your place to 1) do the dishes so we can't hear it, 2) talk cuz you just feel like being heard, 3) Huff and stomp around the room cuz you don't feel like watching it and 4) Don't say you're going to do something else and not "waist your time with this anymore"...hmmm not really sure what your trying to say there...

Thankful Thursday?

I don't know if I've ever done a "Thankful Thursday" posting, but here goes!

I'm extremely thankful for all my friends and family, seriously I know people always say this but I'm happy to always have someone to talk or spend time with. Speaking of said people, last weekend was my sister's house warming party full or family and strangers. One family member that was there was my Grandmother T, just a little background that said Grammy T has Alzheimer's disease which means the short-term memory for her isn't very good. I gotta say though when we were little she used to ask us a bunch of times if we wanted something to drink or eat, now she just looks at our faces and says "oh I've asked you already haven't I"..innocent. Anyway, as the party started to wind down, my Grandmother came up to me and said, "You know I will be home" and I replied, "Oh anytime I need you?" and she said, "Well specifically tomorrow afternoon, if you needed to stop in". Oh Grammy how I love her oh so much!!

I hope everyone feels that loved today!!

Take Two

Hey bloggies,

I'm back in your world! Let me just explain that this past summer was the CRAZIEST time of my life. Since getting back from Italy in May, I started working crazy hours at work and had minimal time for myself and friends, let alone to blog. Also, if you follow my sister's blog My Show then you know we had a devastating death with losing our grandfather and before that I was trying (and still am) to help out as much as I can with my Grandmother. 

It was a long stressful summer, so it's good to back at school...until the stress begins. So for now I'll just write when I can and you can love it or leave it!

First Day of Camp

Summer Camp has started!! So expect children stories and counselor bitching stories :). I gotta say, I've been doing this for 5 years- which does and doesn't seem long- but today was probably by far the BEST first day ever!! I have WONDERFUL (know on wood-phew) children and few of them so far. I'm used to about 25 or so and just dealing with it....well today at max I had 13...13 that's it!! I couldn't believe it.

Also I donno, and of course I don't want to jinx it, but it seemed like my co-counselors and I just meshed right away. Usually in the best my co-counselors and I seem to step all over each other and try to take control (even though I don't mean too, I just like to lead sometimes- blame being a Leo..) anyway in the past Day 1 sets the tone. And literally today there was no awkward "Oh no you go ahead" or "Sorry you go..." it was all I or they stop speaking and one of the others added if we needed. And I'm almost kinda excited for the beach tomorrow morning (God willing I get the same angelic campers).

Hope everyone else had a great Monday!!

Italy

Long awaited, but hopefully it's worth it for all!! I had an amazing time in Italy, to say the least, I would go back at any given time. I started my trip in Logan Airport, to Madrid, Spain then on to Venice, Italy. After 3 days in Venice we traveled to Florence where we spent 5 days there and finally went to Rome for another 5 days. Here are some highlights from my trip...

With my roommate in Logan Airport waiting to get on the plane

Madrid, Spain's airport...it was so cool- Although security asked if I was from Mexico?!? oh well

Waiting for the next flight--don't we look fab after technically 12 hours, but also loosing a day :(

My favorite place(s) how could I possibly have just one? had to have been:

#1.) VENICE- no contest!  because of immediate beauty I fell in love with on arrival and how easily I was able to find my way around after the first night. It was a small feeling city that was very welcoming.

View of the canal right off the plane/bus

Hotels view...it was a small alley way like most streets

First hotel room with 3 other roommates

Imagine carrying your suitcase over this...I had too

Beautiful view...and me :)

I guess my kinda favorite part of being in Venice was people constantly coming up to a group of us and being so excited to hear us speaking English and getting to meet so many new people. While in Venice, I traveled to Padova and saw the Scrovegni Church and only stayed a few hours before heading back to Venice. I had a wonderful dinner the second to last night and met a group of singers from Belmont University and then attended their concert the following night--they were incredible!


2.) Pompeii  How could you not fall in love with a city full of so much history and still almost perfectly preserved since 79AD (yea I learned something, impressed?)

Entering the city!!

Some of the preserved pottery found in the ruins

Garden of the Fugitives (meaning people would tried to flee the volcanoe)

 

Just sitting in the Amphitheater 

 3.) Pisa- a wonderful day trip that 12 students including myself navigated to and back all by ourselves. Best part was playing tourist (well I was one haha) and "holding up" the tower :).

It was seriously gonna fall HA!

Doesn't even look like it was leaning that much...

Some girls on the day trip

We got back to the station and on the right train :) successful day!

4.) Rome- Last stop and amazing to experience the ruins always seen in movies :)

The Colosseum

Inside

At the Hard Rock Cafe

WONDERFUL RISSOTO

Family Dinner

Mum and Pop Pop of the family

Marzzapane and canoli YUM!!

Making my coin toss to Return

Making a toss with two coins for LOVE

A huge diamond that I thought should be mine

Lastly the Pantheon

5.) Florence- Santa Croche, the Duomo, and JERSEY SHORE cast!! this was a second stop along the way and within the first two hours (and in the middle of our seminar) we saw Jersey Shore- needless to say the seminar ended and resumed later haha.

In front of the Duomo

Just Mike... (Vinny, & Pauly not in pic)

A better picture of the Duomo

Just waiting for seminar to start again and what do you know

San Croche

Just met up with Mike for lunch haha

The view from the top of the Duomo!!

After climbing sprinting to the top with my friend Sarah

Another view- so beautiful

Last one I swear!

Sunset in Florence

Girls night out!! and free shots from the cute bartender!

Best Kebab in the world!!

Our Kebab makers :)

My bed on the left