Sunday: a little more Funday than last week

Today is so much better. 
I got some very much needed needed sleep after getting sick yesterday.
After the game, I came home and passed out for about 4 hours. I then was up for about an hour to watch the beginning of the Duke-Virginia Tech game (which VT WON. Awesome.). Then I went back to sleep (around 9 ish) until 3:30 this morning.
Once I woke up at 3:30, I stayed awake for about half an hour and then slept until 6:45. I was awake from about 6:45-7:30. Then I crashed until 10:30 this morning.

Now the only thing I'm feeling is groggy from too much sleep and starving. Good thing Mimi (my grandma) made spaghetti for after church. There's a big steaming plate waiting for me at the table!

I will be returning to Norman this afternoon. Hopefully I'll be able to make it to all my classes this week except for the work out ones.

Happy Sunday everyone! It's Comment Love Sunday at FTLOB. Hop on over and find some new blogs to read!

Just a Quick Update to let you know I'm still alive!

Hey guys,

Sorry I have been MIA for the past couple of days. I have been ill and yesterday got kind of bad (after I took a nap).

I am starting my first round of exams, I had a piano exam yesterday and I will have another exam today at 3 p.m.

The weekend will be nice and relaxing, and sports galore! I'm going to the baseball opening day tomorrow, followed by women's gymnastics, and then rounding out the weekend with OU/OSU bedlam wrestling.

The good news part:
So Way back in October when I first started posting consistently, I mentioned that I wanted to apply for Teach for America (I have even had discussions with some about this goal too.) I turned in my application on Feb 4, and found out this past Tuesday evening that I made it past the first round and have been invited to a phone interview! I will be doing my phone interview this Sunday, and from there I may be selected for a final in-person interview the week of spring break. So exciting!

Second, I was featured over at FTLOB on Tuesday! I was super pumped to see my header when it popped up in my google reader! (And hello to the new commenters/followers that came from there! THANK YOU!)

Third, yesterday I was featured on Scenic Glory for her "In Her Shoes" feature. I knew this one was coming, but I was anxious to see what photos she would use for my feature.




If you haven't checked out FTLOB or scenic glory yet, you need to! That is where I have found a majority of the people I enjoy reading and people who inspire me.

I've also met a girl who I would probably call a close friend through For The Love of Blogs as well. She's a fantastically beautiful lady.

So go check out my features, and check out the blogs themselves as well! You'll love them!

I will update more this weekend when I'm not trying to study for tests, do laundry, and overcome being sick!

Happy Thursday! It's almost the weekend!!

Fab Friend Friday version 2.0

Like I promised last night, I am featuring another blog today for Fab Friends Friday (hosted by For the Love of Blogs). First off, if you are not a member there you should do it. I've met some pretty amazing people with some pretty amazing blogs just from being a member of that site. Because of this site (and another mutual bloggy friend) that I bring you my fab friend from today.

I had a really hard time trying to decide who I wanted to feature today. I have quite a few friends in real life that are on blogger, and quite a few of them update fairly regularly. But I decided today that I wanted to introduce to those of you a friend I made recently on the internet, just because I think she's a pretty cool person!

Todays Fab Friend is the wonderful lady named Lindsey over at TexaGermaNadian: My life in 3 countries

I found her through a mutual blog friend KY over at Travel Babbles when she was hosting her Around the World Wednesday.

Lindsey chronicles her life living as a Texan (she doesn't judge me for being an OU student!), a German (her hubs plays hockey in Germany), and a Canadian (hubs is originally from Canada and they visit there regularly during the summer). I enjoy reading her posts about the way things are for them in Germany, and if I must say so she's quite gorgeous:

She has a way of writing that's pretty witty, and a lot of times I feel like she kind of talks the way I do. We both agree that each other writes the way we think, and that it's pretty cool to find someone like that.

She's always reading and commenting on my posts, and she always replies back to my comments on her own posts. She's basically what you would want in a blog friend, and doesn't neglect the friendship (as far as I can tell! [And Lindsey, I'm sorry if I'm putting a lot of pressure on you!])

So head over to TexaGermaNadian: My Life in 3 Countries and show her some love. Read a couple of posts while you're there, they are sure to make you giggle (they sure do make me giggle almost every day).

From here on out, I think I'm going to rotate how my Fab Friend Friday works: real friend, new internet friend, real friend, etc.

I'm baaaaaaaack!

Hello friends,

I know I posted a couple days ago about how I promise that I am reading your comments and stuff, but I had fallen behind in reading your posts. sad face. So, now that it is 10 a.m. on Friday morning and I have been up for about an hour and a half, I am completely caught up with all of your posts! yay!

You guys have been having some amazing adventures while I have been M.I.A. I've gotten to enjoy some beautiful slide show videos, some posts that have made me giggle out loud (causing people to think I'm somewhat crazy), some posts that have made my heart hurt for you, and posts that still inspire me to be better.

I hope you have enjoyed my 30 Days of Truth posts, and I can't believe that I'm already on Day 14! And today's was also the last post that I had scheduled, meaning I am going to have to start writing them again! I only like to write/schedule a few at a time because how I feel about things seem to change a little bit from day to day, and who I want to write to changes a little bit too.
This has been an excellent project for me, as I am doing a lot of soul searching for this activity.

I am, however, looking forward to posting again more on my day-to-day life, and maybe even try to find something new to post weekly. I've been looking around a lot of blogs and it seems that almost everyone I enjoy has one day a week where they post the same thing. I'm not entirely creative, but I'm going to keep brainstorming and hopefully come up with something cool that will have you wanting to see it every week and maybe participate as well.

I started a new officiating job! I very much enjoyed being an official for football for the intramural department at OU for the past two years, and I decided that I wanted to try my hand at basketball this season. I have been doing training for that this past Mon-Wed, and got to officiate my first THREE games last night! I had so much fun doing it, but man am I out of shape! I've got four games coming up this Saturday too, so I'm very excited :)

Today is Fab Friends Friday at For the Love of Blogs, and today I wanted to tell of a Fab Friend of mine who is new to the blogging world. One of my best friends has been reading and following along on my blog, and she just recently made her own blogging world over at A Thousand Different Pieces. She's not quite consistent on posting just yet, but I love reading all the updates she posts! I also love that we share the same Girl Crush with Natalie Portman :) She and I are very similar in many ways, but different enough that it makes for us being the best of friends, and she is completely supportive of me and I her.

Oh, and she also happened to be the person I spent two weeks in Arizona with while I was there over Christmas break.

So go check out Erika's blog at A Thousand Different Pieces and show her some love.

Who's your Fab Friend today?