Sipping on hot tea.

Today has been an extremely lazy day for me. Currently, I am sipping on superfruit hot tea. It is so yummy! Earlier, I worked on an advertising paper for one of my classes. It was comparing 2 ads (bad or good) and it actually was pretty cool talking about my personal opinion on what makes an ad good. This semester seems like I am being pushed abruptly into all these concentrated classes and I kind of feel inspired to be an event planner. Kind of random. I thought I wanted to be a TV news producer but now I'm like ummm not really sure? I still want to do something with TV or radio and writing but I LOVE planning for parties/events. I was thinking stuff...like... big, extravagent birthday parties, fundraising events, anniversary parties, bachelor/bachelorette, themed events, etc. And if I did work for TV news stations or something along those lines I could totally do it in my part time. I don't know...my future is all up in the air and my head is a mess trying to think about it. Anyways, next time.


"These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which, as they kiss, consume." -Shakespeare

New To This (Continued)

At this point in my mom's life we realized now is the time to vacaton and travel to all the places she wanted to go. Over the next 2 years we did just that. A funny conversation I remember is begging her to allow me to shave my legs. She told me I could when I started 6th grade. Towards the end of my 5th grade year I was informed this would probably be the last summer she would be around. As devastating as that may sound, it didn't stop us. She lost a lot of weight and height that summer and I began to notice just how sick she really was. The first day of 6th grade started and I got to (finally) shave my legs. As silly as that may sound it was a highlight in my life. The second week of school started, so it was a Monday, and it was about half way through the day when I got a call from the office saying I had been checked out along with my best friend (at that point I considered my sister) and my Dad was waiting for us outside. I could tell by the sad smile on his face it was almost time. As we got home some of my immediate family had came in from North Carolina. At this point my mom had been home for a few weeks because she knew she wanted to pass away with the people she loved in the home she had created. Around 6 that evening our preacher came and said a sweet prayer, not to try and keep her around, but to bless her passing. I forgot to mention that this second go around with cancer was way more severe than the first. It was practically spread throughout all of her vital organs. I remember laying there beside her slowly listening to her lungs fill up with fluid. She finally passed and all I could think about was not getting to actually here her say goodbye because that day when I left for school she was already unable to speak. Sometimes that sheer memory tears me up more the whole idea of her being dead.

New to this....

So...some of my classes inspired me to BLOG! I'm not sure what to post yet so here goes with a brief history lesson. I was born on June 20, 1991 in Shelby, North Carolina. Shelby is a small town with a spread of various demographics. I had a spoiled "toddlerhood" considering I was the only child and my parents couldn't be more satisfied with every and anything I did. After my first year of school they realized they wanted to raise me in good ole' Touristville, USA...Sevier County, Tennessee. If you haven't ever heard of Dollywood or Ober Gatlingburg you should be ashamed and feel like an outcast. Just kidding, but really...EVERYONE is facinated with Dollywood. And NO, Dolly Parton does not live there nor are we all related to her. Anyways, I started 1st grade at small elementary school and stayed there until 8th grade. During this time period A LOT of things happened. In 3rd grade my parents sat me down and explained to me that my mother had been diagnosed with breast cancer. However, being so young I didn't realize how bad that news could possibly turn out. The thing I was excited about was getting to shave my mom's head. After many trips to the doctors and chemotherapy, radiation, and everything else imaginable (even some state of the art stem cell research experiments) we found out the cancer had been kicked out the door! Naturally, we were all ecstatic.


Part 2 coming soon....real soon!