Thursday Words to live by

Each week will feature a quote with words to live by.  This week...

Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.  Look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.  Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements for the future.  Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.  Live in the faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you! 

-  Christian D. Larson

Just keep drawing

My latest piece in art class.....100 points if you can guess who it is.  HINT: She's on a tv show...

How HOT is IT?

• Hot enough to fry an egg on your head.
• Hot enough to make you sweat like Richard Simmons.
• Hot enough to cause spontaneous combustions.
• Hot enough to make you not want to go anywhere.
• Hot enough to even melt all of Christian Aguliera's makeup off her face.
• Hot enough to make you think it's okay to eat an entire carton of ice cream.
• So hot that you begine to become delusional, and see things that aren't there.
• HOT ENOUGH to think that maybe Al Gore was right.....maybe there is some fact in global warming....

It's so darn hot lately.  Then we got 2 days of crazy unusual cold weather - like my sister and I had to sit outside with blankets while we were watching Charlie play (Charlie, who also had a sweater!?! on). Crazyness.

Banner Giveaway!

So Summer of Athena in the Middle.  My favorite blog to read...is giving away a bloggy banner, like the one that she is currently sporting.

So go on over there and enter to win (CLICK ME TO BE MAGICALLY TRANSPORTED TO THE GIVEAWAY!!)...and while you are at it....click to follow her, because she is FABULOUS!!

I'm back

Took a little break from the blog-o-sphere, and the internets for that matter.  1. I took a LONNNNGG vacation, and 2. Some days after staring at glowing squares all day long, the last thing I want to do is go home and do it some more.  I much prefer the white dullness of pages in a book these days.  But none the less I'm back.

What I did on vacation:

• Ate at all the places I'd been longing for that I don't have here in the 'Burg...PG's, Shiso Sushi Bar, Fridays, Broadway Pizza, Boston Market.
• Had an AWESOME Birthday with all of my friends.  Drank way too many buckets and bones ;) and enjoyed being silly and singing songs poorly while wrapped in a arm chain.  I wish every night was like that in life.  At one point I just stopped and took it all in - making note of everyones faces, and trying to take in the warmth and happiness I was feeling at that moment.
• Took a rainy, but wonderful trip to Jensen Beach with my mom.  We had some YUMMY food, went to an auquarium, and also to Blowing Rocks.  We also tried (key word TRIED) to fly a kite. We swam in the ocean and mom tried to get me to touch something slimy and disgusting. I saw my mom in a whole different light this trip.  I saw the young girl she used to be when she would go to the beach every weekend.
• I went to a place called the Lodge.  I did not like the lodge.  It was filled with crazy white people dancing poorly to bad music.  My besties love it though...and I would go anywhere with them.
• I dug for change for what seemed like an ETERNITY at a toll booth on the way back from the lodge, afraid that we would be there all night.  We came 3 pennies short, and it lifted the electric arm and just let us go.
• I ate AREPAS for the very first time, and oi are they delicous.  They kind of melt in your mouth.
• I went to an amazing July 4th party at Ashley and Lacey's house.  I played beer pong and flip cup, and volleyball in the pool.  I felt like I was in high school again...partially due to the fact that most of the people that went to my H.S. were there.

All in all I had an AMAZING time.  I miss the people in Florida so much!!