Halloween series Part 3: Happy Halloween to Mine

So I prepared these cute little pics as e-cards for my family and friends for Halloween! Hope you enjoy!

Check in tomorrow for list of movies perfect family time after trick or treating!!

updates

So...haven't posted in awhile but things have been crazy. My family is moving soon so we have to pack up our house and clean as well as seperating out stuff for college and appointments(doc, dentists, etc.). All of this on top of normal summer stuff, so it's been alittle hectic. Still been hanging with Dan, Emili, Jeff, Chad, Joe, Nate, Lyssa and Ben. Been playing games, going to movies, and going to concerts (Conscience to Kill hells yes). So I'll try to post more often, even if its just a couple photos I've taken during the week. starting next post which goes up in......10 minutes or so.

Memory Lane

My night was spent doing what every senior should do at least once during their summer before their first year of college: looking back.......okay so maybe I didn't do my walk down memory lane quite as poeticly as that but it was awesome. I spent my night making lanyards with Emily, Playing N64(Smash Bros, Harvest Moon, SuperMario 64) with my boys(Daniel, Chad, Jeff and Nate)and watching Adventures in Babysitting with my little group. It was soo much fun to look back on things that were once such a big part of my life and see how far I've come since then.

XMEN!!!!!!

Ok, so tomorrow night, I'm going to the midnight premier of the new x-men movie, and I'm super pumped since I love this comic series and have seen all the other movies and equally loved them. So naturally I have to do something special for it. I knew that one of my favorite characters, Mystique, would be in it, so I figured why not come up with a make-up look inspired by her to wear to the theater. So this is what I came up with.

I love it personally. Im going with a group of friends, so idk what lyssa and jeff will think. I know Daniel and Chad will love (Daniel because I did it, Chad because he's as crazy a fan as I am of these films.)

senior year

It's finally done, no more classes. Hooray! All that's left is to get the diploma and I'll be free to start summer and finishing planning for college. I'd like to do a recap of some of the great things that came out of my senior year.

1. Tutoring- This gave me a clear sense of my passion for teaching and ultimately helped me figure out what i wanna do with my life.
   


2. "Tyrsa is the girl from that's what she said"- just plain truth



3. New Friends: Ervin, Chad, Laura, Taylor, Brandon, Krista.



4. Daniel: as always a favorite part of my day, still as sweet as ever and I love him more every day



5. Prom Committee and hanging in Burns' room (hours and hours of crepe paper flower making lol)


6. Great year for music: We the Kings, A Day to Remember, Flobots, The Nightmare revisited album...so many more.

And so much more, I can't think of them all right now. lol

Another great weekend :)

Well, it's not technically over, but it's been a great one. Spent a large majority of yesterday up in Ames, first for a college visit in the morning. Then we stuck around town, for the basketball game that afternoon. Once again, my fabulous friend, Chad, came with us. He was rallying for his new campaign for my residence at Friley Hall with him. He's soo funny, when he's trying to convince me of things. After supper, we took Chadwick back to his dorm to pick up some stuff, then took him home to Ankeny(I'm so stalking you, Chad.) Later that night, I went to see Awaken at my church. Guess who saved me a spot??? yep, you know who. Well anyway, the show was great, brought me to tears. I got two flowers from the show yay!!! :D

Making Decisions and Getting Sick

Well, I'm home sick. Today started ok, but 15 minutes before school started I started getting a sharp pain when I tried to breathe in. By the time 1st period was over, I was shaking and could barely breathe at all. Alex Ewing, one of my new favorite people, took me to the nurse and stayed with me as long as he could. I got taken to our urgent care clinic and was diagnosed with Pleurisy....a super painful inflammation of my lungs. I'm now on 600mg of ibuprofen 3 times a day for the inflammation and 150mg of a perscription twice a day for what that amount of ibuprofen does to my stomach. so yay on those grounds.

In happier news, Chad won in his campaign to get me to come to ISU. I'll be accepting my offer soon. But is he happy? kinda, but he's on a new campaign now: to get me to go live in the same dorm as him next year.....he's offering to get a much detested(by him) skype account. I'm intrigued.

Totally Awesome Weekend

So this weekend went swimmingly, I mean just amazingly perfect. Got to spend Friday night with my BF, Daniel, which was oodles of fun. Then Saturday, my mom and I went up to ISU for the B-Ball game. The best part of the game was we bought an extra ticket and I got to bring Chad with me!!! We had a great time catching up and watching the game,it was a real nail-biter between ISU and Kansas. Kansas won : 86-85 :( Afterward Chad, mom and I went to Olde Main Brewery for lunch/ dinner. YUMM! Afterward we dropped Chadillac at his drom and went to visit my oldest brother,TK, at work.
Sunday was alot more low key. I spent most the day at home with mom, watching Netflix(love the Flix) and playing MySims on Wii. We went out and got my hair cut, they took off 6 friggin' inches and I feel like my head is 10lbs lighter, hahah :D. I'll post a pic as soon as I can get one I can live with. TTFN

college confusion

Okay, so as of late, I'm completely confuzzled as far as college goes. I've narrowed my scope down to 2 colleges: Iowa State University and Drake University. Both institutes carry my program of interest, and are in my home state, so that's not where the controversy lies. The fact is that idk where I'd feel more comfortable.

ISU is a large state campus that pretty much dominates Ames(the city where its located) and has tons of people. Both of my older brothers(1 who dropped out during the semester and the other who left after the semester) went there and there's that feeling that I won't be able to handle it either. Several of my good friends this year are going there after graduation (including Ervin) and acouple of my older friends are freshmen there this(Chad and Cluney). So the familiarity of friends is a big draw to ISU.

Drake, on the other hand, is a medium-sized, private school(private as in not a state school and is almost ivy league), I've only met one or two people who've graduated from there and the only person I know who goes there is Daniel's cousin, Nate. So friends who I already know are pretty much out of the question, but with a smaller school it'd be easier to get to know more people. Also Drake has offered me a $10,000 scholarship to attend their institute, and that's not chump change.

Over all, what I want out of a college is a good program for my major, and not to feel lost in a crowd. I dealt with that for most od high school and I just started feeling like I'm part of something this year, so going back to nothing would suck big time. Mom and I are going to visit both campuses agian and she wants me to spend time with my friends at both universities to see if they can help sway me either way, so we'll see.

(Update 2/12/11: Chad has really pulled me to the ISU side of this puzzle.)

Still Alive...

I mean 3 things by this title. #1. I'm still out here, I just haven't posted in a while due to a large amount of college/scholarship stuff going on. #2. hehe, Portal reference(and as you know if i'm mentioning Portal, I'm probably going to mention Chad.) #3. I recently bought this song off iTunes!! Which brings me to my point for this blog: Its' time for the first best songs list of 2011!!

Best Songs 2011(part 1)

1. Still Around- 3OH!3(Loved this song, but never would've imagined it was sung by them)
2. You're So Last Summer-Taking Back Sunday
3. You or Your Memory-The Mountain Goats
4. The Only Exception-Paramore(Find me a girl who doesn't like this song and I'll show you a liar)
5. Dear God-Avenged Sevenfold(Once again not expected out of this band)
6. Boston-Augustana
7. All of Ludo's concept album "Broken Bride"(May as well be one song with the way it follows)
8. All About Soul-Billy Joel
9. Faithfully-Journey
10. Blame It on the Tetons-Modest Mouse
11. Modern Chemistry-Motion City Soundtrack
12. Come on Eileen-Dexy's Midnight Runners
13. Firework-Katy Perry
14. I'll Cover You(Reprise)-Cast of Rent(great movie and stage performance, I recommend both)
15. Please-Ludo

And I'm sure you know that I could just keep going but since I need to get back to work I'll leave at this and I promise to start blogging more regularly. Bye-bye for now

Happy Birthday Chadillac!!!

My only pic of me and Chad together and neither of us look at the camera

Happy Birthday Chadly!!!! :D

18 years ago, you were brand new...much like cell phones

Happy Wishes!!!!

Because the page had problems elsewhere

#1. Awesome

#2. Adorable, right?

#3. Funny, c'est non?

Mentioning...

Ok, so apparently I haven't been paying enough attention to a certain subject of some of my blogs since april, so he's to him.....Chad!!!

happy now???

cute animal pics

1. Fox -_-

2. Hedgehog ^-^

3. Cuttlefish ;)

click here to see internet profile on the above



4. Axolotl (MUDKIP!!!!) :)



Aren't they great??

For Chad.......

PORTAL CAKE!!!!!!

(You're Welcome, Marko)

Happiness is a Warm Gun....(Part 1)

The title is slightly disturbing but in this case true, because I'm talking about some pretty awesome things here: James Bond and zombies. Yes, this is quite random but still is kinda of a big deal for me.

Let us start with Mr. Bond. A new acquaintance of mine,Chad, has me remembering just how awesome THE international man of mystery was. I find myself re-watching my old favorites like: Live and Let Die and Diamonds are Forever(Sean Connery= best Bond ever). I fact in a bout of boredom last night i wrote out a secret mission for my new friend to attempt...we'll see how he does ;)

Its undeniable that James is what every man wants to be.He's charming, handsome, a great shot, a secret agent and he always gets the girl. I grew up wanting to be like him but also different.


As a 5 year old girl, i didn't want to watch the action flicks that my brothers watched(I was still into Disney movies) but I found myself oddly drawn to the Bond series ever since I saw Honey Rider in Dr.No. This was the first Bond flick I ever saw and I was surprised that the girls were given such independent personalities. Honey even pulls a knife on Bond!!!! In all actuality, all Bond girls are independent because they do not trust men, due to past traumatic incidents, but still a female character with the guts to threaten the main male charater was something I'd never seen at that point and was like,"That's awesome."

So from then on, I begged my brothers to rent Bond movies, wanting to see if more of these strong girls were in them, and to my delight, there were more. There were good girls, bad girls, girls who start out bad but ulitimately change to help the greater good. Every one of them damaged but functioning and everyone ofthem strong and skilled. I wanted to be one of them(hopefully without the damaged part though).

Anyway today, I even went to every English teachers nightmare, Wikipedia, and read up on the Bond Girls. It actually made some valid points on comparisons and differences from the Bond books to the movies.Which the books are great, but the movies are easier to get through but less detailed.

(NOTE: As of yesterday I finished rewatching all the Bond movies, with the exception of Quantum of Solace, which i refuse to recognize as a bond flick.)