Welcome back to Athens

So I am officially moved into my Lumpkin house and it's seriously awesome!  I cannot describe how much I love my room!  It's big with lots of storage and decorated exactly how I envisioned it.  I love everything about it!  And the house in general is just great.  Front porch with swing, back screened in porch.  Today was the first day I took a shower in the house because the water hadn't been turned on previously, and I can't even complain about the water pressure.  It was just right.  

It's been weird cooking for myself.  I am not the gourmet chef; my culinary experience ranges from mac and cheese to pb&j.  So this is really an experimental stage in my cooking.  And I feel oddly grown up.  So for my very first meal alone, all I was trying to do was heat up some Transmet potato soup in the microwave.  (I know, very top-chef.)  But seriously, how hard can this be.  I've been using the microwave since kindergarten.  Well, the heating-the-soup was complicated because we have no dishware, yet.  I had to heat up the soup in the styrofoam bowl it came in.  Bad decision.  Apparently styrofoam literally melts away when it is too hot.  I picked up the bowl and the bottom no longer existed.  I tried to catch the scalding soup with my hand.  Oops.  So my first cooking (really just heating up) experience in my new kitchen was a crappy experience. 

I am interning at Cine as public relations/publicity/events intern, and I am so excited!  It's such a cool, versatile space, and I am hoping to get experience doing tons of cool things.  So far I've been brainstorming how to attract sororities to the space for things like date nights and formals, and I've also been brainstorming an event for children for this summer.  Check Cine out!  Seriously!

Obsession of the Day: Other Blogs

I have become an avid reader of several blogs since I began writing my own.  I find one that I begin to like, and through one blog I find another, and so on.  

The first blog I discovered was dooce.com.  Check it out!  It's quite funny, and the look of it is just really cool.  I think that dooce is one of the most popular blogs on the web, and I know it beat out Postsecret.com as best American blog site.  dooce is just about a very sarcastic woman, Heather and her family.  Heather is a former Mormon turned atheist, and she has also battled severe depression.  She even had to check herself into an institution in order to save herself right after her daughter was born.

Heather's blog led me to theredneckmommy.com, another blog about a sarcastic mother.  Tannis, the mother, is a little untraditional.  She has tatoos and has posted naked pics of herself on the blog.  She also loves to talk about boobs and sex.  

I then found sarcastica.org, a blog about a 19 year old who just had a baby only a few days ago.  It's really cool how she has handled everything and hear her talking about becoming a brand new mom.  

From sarcastica, I found thespohrsaremultiplying.com.  I began to read this blog by yet another mother and her family when my heart was shattered.  Beautiful little Maddie passed away, and every word of her mother's just drips with unbearable sadness.  

From thespohrsmultiplying.com, I found what I believe to be my FAVE!  Mattlogelin.com.  I found it yesterday, and I spend most of the day reading all of the past posts and SOBBING.  Not just crying a little, not just fully crying, but sobbing.  Matt's story is heartbreaking.  A year ago, his beautiful wife Liz, his high school sweat-heart and the love of his life, gave birth to a little girl named Madeline.  The following day, Liz stood up to go visit her baby and collapsed.  Liz never woke up.  In 27 hours, Matt lost his wife and true love but gained a daughter.  His blog follows him coping with his life and raising a daughter on his own.  He is never sappy or over-dramatic.  He is just completely real, and sometimes his realty is earth-shattering.  

So, apparently I like to read blogs about people raising little children.  I didn't even realize that until just now.  Interesting.  Oh, and I really like to read blogs that make me cry (and laugh), often in the same post.  

"Oh my god look!"

That is what I exclaimed to Nature Boy as I just uploaded my new AWESOME background!  Ahh!

A collage of words

Looong time no see.  Apologies, apologies, apologies.  I've had a lot of things going on lately, which I know of course is no excuse.  Last week, I had 2 presentations, a paper, 2 tests, and a quiz.  And private life stuff, too.  Life has just been throwing me a lot of curve balls recently.  Just have to get through the next two weeks like every other college kid dreading finals, I guess.

This sounds silly, but it's just so nice to be writing on here again.  It makes me have a small giddy feeling in my stomach.  Even though I haven't been writing on you, blog, you are always in my thoughts.  Whenever I get online and do the whole, "gmail, facebook, webct" trio, the next thing I do is search the internet for a pretty background to add to you.  I am kind of obsessed, and nothing I come across seems good enough.

So last night I went to Twilight, a bicycling event in downtown Athens that is just really cool.  It was basically a mix of a bike race, college stumbling with drinks in hand, and families with their children.  Odd combination, but together it just clicked.  I know it was no Tour de France, but the bikes just seemed to go so fast!  When you just looked at the whole street as a whole, the bikers were a complete blur, and instead when you just focused on a single biker himself, the background became really blurry.  That might sound really weird (and I was completely sober, I swear!).  

This Tuesday my roommates and I are going through our final walkthrough of our house before we move in mid-May.  It's finally happening, and I'm so excited!  I can't wait to move in, get settled, decorate, and just have fun.  I'm quite obsessed with HGTV, in particular House Hunters and Property Virgins.  I watch both every night, always putting myself in the people's shoes on tv looking for their new home and decorating it.  And now I get to have my very own house (with four other roommates that is!) but still.  After living in a dorm for one year and then a sorority house with almost 60 other girls, I can't wait to have my own place.  It'll be like my very own episode on HGTV.