october october.

i love this month. this time last week, i was getting so mad that it was still so hot, but right now, i'm sitting in the living room, wearing sweat pants and fluffy socks, and i'm wrapped in a blanket with the heat on. also, i have this heated mattress pad, and let me just say that it kills any motivation to get up in the morning. my bed was so perfectly warm, and my bedroom was so cold. it was sooooooo hard to get out of bed this morning...and hard not to get back in :)

it looks so perfect and crisp outside, and i'm stoked to wear some of the new sweaters that i bought with rachel last week :) last tuesday, before journey group, rachel and i had a little splurge trip to the mall. i think i spent a little bit too much money, but to be honest, i got some stuff that i know i'm going to wear, and that i really think i needed, so i don't feel that bad. also, let me just say that i needed that trip. sometimes i just have down days, and tuesday was one of those days. when i knew that i would be early to kennesaw, i asked rachel if she wanted to do some running around with me, and it was exactly what i needed. we were silly and it was perfect. talk about retail therapy...i don't think the retail part was the only therapy - i couldn't have done it without ms. glanzer :) i love the girls in my journey group.

i know that probably halfway through february i'll start missing the warmth of summer, right now, i couldn't be happier to feel the cool air on my skin.

currently watching: what not to wear...well, it's on in the background, but i'm not really paying that much attention to it...

just in case you were wondering...

here are some pretty random facts about me:

i took piano lessons for...i don't even know how long, and even though i don't play as much as i should, when i sit down in front of one, i always feel at home.

i played the violin in 5th grade.

my best friend growing up was a boy, and i always thought that was normal...then one day he asked me to be his girlfriend, and i said no. we weren't as good of friends after that.

i am addicted to caffeine, but as i have said countless times, it could be worse. it could be crack.

one summer at church camp, i ran into a bunk bed and had a giant "goose egg" on my head.

as a general rule, i am very clutzy, which should make that last fact very...un-surprising. that should be a word.

sometimes i make up words.

i had the chicken pox twice...and i gave them to my brother - ha!

i cheered football & competition for six years.

one time, i knocked over one of my mom's flower pots and broke it, and then i told her it was my brother. she made evan sit in time out, while i could play. i felt really guilty, but i never told her the truth.

i tend to remember what i was wearing for some really random memories...if that didn't make sense, i'll try to clarify...

one time when i was camping with my family (in a pop-up camper), a bird pooped on my head. i was wearing a purple shirt that had belle from beauty & the beast on it, and matching purple shorts.

i am the queen of writing 10-page papers overnight...a very bad habit to get into.

in elementary school, my friend and i started an "i hate heather wheeler" club, and i felt so bad that i cried when i got home, and asked my mom to pray for me before i went to sleep.

i know all the words to too many barry manilow songs.

i have more shoes and bags than i care to count.

i have cried in a lot of commercials...mostly publix, or anything that has kids, especially with leukemia. also, if it has old people, or kids that you can "adopt" through some program...and even the abused animal ones. wow.

i'm probably one of the biggest pack-rats i've ever known...next to my grandmother and my mother. it's genetic.

that's all for now. when i think of some more good ones, maybe i'll put them on here :)

currently listening to: the elephant love medley from moulin rouge...a movie that makes me smile and cry.

i love my life.

i love my friends. my family. my church. my dog. even my cat (my cat's really the only cat i like).

i love that i work for one of my best friends. that i'm in a journey group with people who get me. that i go to the best church around. that even though i've been thinking that my car was going to just break for the last six months, lucy is still moving. that God answers prayers.

i love smiling. drinking starbucks. laughing. talking. playing the piano. singing. reading. shopping. watching tv. watching movies. taking pictures. acting silly. listening. driving. creating. walking barefoot in the grass.

i love red wine. the way fall smells. oak leaf church. the way it smells after rain. when i have a good hair day. a new pair of shoes. macbooks. a good bag. jeopardy! television in general. football. the olympics. my camera. my iPod. GAP. target. new york city.

i could go on for hours about the stuff in my life that i love. i think that's definitely a good thing :) i love my life.

mountain day.

it's that time of year again, and i couldn't be more excited for mountain day this weekend :) seriously. i can't wait to be with everyone and to see people that i haven't seen in too long. i love berry and all of the kind-of ridiculous traditions that come with being a berry alum :) we're planning a pretty awesome picnic for lunch that i'm thinking will make everyone jealous...i am just so excited!

currently listening to: viva la vida

gas.

okay, this whole wait-in-line-for-three-hours-to-get-gas thing is ridiculous. i just feel like if people would act normal, then a lot of the "crisis" would solve itself. clearly, there are some big issues that we would still need to deal with, but if people will just get gas like normal instead of filling up every gallon, then i think that would take care of the ridiculous lines and the out-of-gas gas stations. i also think that if we would just spend money like normal too, then the economy will start correcting itself as well. i'm not saying that we all need to go out and just buy tons of stuff that we don't need, but if we don't spend, then the economy just stops basically. anyway, just my thoughts on this ridiculous gas "crisis" and our slowing economy...let's spend our way out of it! :)

currently listening to: firewood production and bagging :)

a new season.

i love fall :) i love the smells, the colors, the weather and the magic. yes, the magic of fall. i love everything about it, and on top of starting a new season literally, i'm looking forward to a new season in my life too. summer brought a lot of heartache (a lot of good stuff happened too, but...), and i'm looking forward to everything that fall has in store for me :)

the office starts this week!

currently watching: dancing with the stars.

whoa.

it has been too long since i last updated this thing. things after labor day have been pretty hectic, though, so that's probably why :) we started doing a lot of packaging with Premier, and although my last two weeks are blending together a little, i know that brian, peter and lee worked a lot harder than i did, so the last two weeks are probably a blur to them. i'm excited to get back to some normalcy in the office this week :) i feel like i was really out of touch with everyone in the last two weeks, so i'm looking forward to that getting back to normal as well.

bekah and i joined a new journey group with rachel glanzer and mache thigpin, and i am so so so excited about it :) we met for the first time last tuesday night, and i know that this is going to be a great experience for us. don't get me wrong, i love our berry journey group from last year, but i'm pretty excited to be in an all girl journey group. i am also excited to really get to know more people :) in case you haven't noticed, i am really excited :)

so, yesterday i rode down to LaGrange with bekah's family to watch her brother play football, and can i just say that i had a blast. i love football. i love it. i love tailgating. i love watching other football fans. i love the game, and i love screaming so loud that i damage my vocal chords :) i do have a really ridiculous-looking sunburn today (the sun was mostly on the left side of my body the entire game), but it's totally worth it. unfortunately, we didn't win, but the guys played so so so well, and the refs made some pretty crappy calls. i'm not one to always call, "ref," but they did make some calls that i really think changed the outcome of the game. oh well, what matters is that the guys played their hearts out, and they looked so good out there :)

so, i've been watching a lot of the office lately. if you've talked to me at all, then you know this, but i just really love it. i laugh in every episode. that show has some of the most talented writers, directors and actors ever. gosh. i love it.

hopefully it won't take me quite as long to update as it did last time, but you never know. i tend to get distracted...story of my life.

currently listening to: u2. i love this band.