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.)

playing with photos

My obsession with photoshop needed to be satisfided, so after some close looking on the internet, I found this great site called Picnik. It works great and though you have to pay for some features, alot of great ones are free. Here's a couple examples:

Arizona

So recently I went on a trip to Arizona, which I must say is a nice change from the cold Iowa winter. My mom and me went to the pool alot, took long walks, wore shorts and ate out. Admittedly some parts of the trip were not as nice as the above, but the thing that made the whole trip worth while was a trip to the botanical garden and a trip to Tortilla Flatts. Both gorgous and full of scenery. Don't believe me? Check out these pics I took:

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