Catching Up

Okay blognation I hope you all had a very merry christmas "holiday" if you don't celebrate. I sure did & wanted to let you in on my festivities
On Christmas Eve we always go over to my Grandma's and spend time with dad's side of the family. With his two brothers & their kids & their kid's kids it gets a little crazy, but I love it!
Meet Merik (not really positive that's the correct spelling): My cousins Courtney's second child and let me tell ya I could take pictures of him ALL DAY. This boy knows how to work it.

these pictures were taken back to back he's hilarious! 

It was a good Christmas Eve. 

My Uncle got these lazer show things, my Aunt got a pearl pistol, Riley got this frog outfit. (and these gifts seriously are right up my crazy family's alley!)

Then I fell fast asleep & it was Christmas! Favorite presents: new vera bradley wallet with a print not even in stores yet, i pad case, photojojo things, post secret book, camera strap with my monogrammed name in it, glee season 1, greys seasons 1 & 2, custom reeboks, & my uggs of course.
My kitties came & joined in the fun, little did they know I had gotten them a Christmas outfit for the event *insert two very unhappy gatos here.*

No cats were harmed during our Christmas fun. 

Then we got down to it and tore into paper, fought ribbons and wrappings, and cut up taped boxes. My daddy got his Kindle & a lot of clothes that he was determined all went together nicely (they didn't) and mom's favorite present was her new gold watch band. She's had her watch for as long as I've been alive (hint: 20 years) and so I guess you could say it was a little worn down since she wears it every day & night. 

It was the best Christmas to date I think. 

(but I think I say that every year)

Then it was off to the ranch for the day. My Uncle Ricky & cousin Mauri were there to get their hunt on and they sure did! Driving in we saw this awesome hawk, I pulled an illegal U to go back take a picture

Photo credit to Nick Fordyce, Driving credit to me. 

Then Dad Nick & I drove around the ranch being careful not to "scare away the deer" and we came upon mister armadillo! Dad tried to catch him, not as easy as it sounds. Then the boys checked out a feeder & decided it was only the best plan to set it off and they probably could have caused some serious injury to themselves but they thought it was hilarious after it finished shooting corn at them. 

Also my cousin was successful in the hunting department! **If you are the faint of heart or you are some animal activist against swatting flys I apologize please skip over this texas nonsense* 

I absolutely love being home & everywhere in between. I can't get enough of cozying up to a fire and filling my head with nonsense tv shows on DVD. Hope you all are doing the same. 

On the night before Christmas [eve]

I can not believe it is almost the most wonderful time of year yet again, and as I have now officially finished up my final Christmas shopping with Nick & his little sister Linsey I must heave a huge sigh of relief to getting all that Christmas shopping out of the way. Now it's time to smile & sit by the Christmas tree, put ridiculous bows on my cats, bake some sort of Christmas sweet & enjoy the holiday magic! 
Tomorrow I will be off to my Grandma's to celebrate with dad's side of the family of awkwardness, dogs, cousins & kids. I love it all, the terrible food, the 'back in the good old days stories', the way to small ugly sweater gift, bring it on! Can't wait for everything, but for now I think I just want to say:

Merry Christmas 

(Nick & my super cheesy Christmas picture)

(She looks terrified, but it's love I swear) 

Home Sweet Home

I'm Finally Home!! 

I drove home from San Antonio this morning and could not have stumbled upon the prettiest day to come back home to. The second I got home I grabbed my camera & nothing else to take pictures of my arrival. 

First I was greeted by my one and only, Flo. 

She is the absolute best & I've missed her A LOT. She was not very happy to see me because one, I abandoned her and two, she was out of food, and as you will see later my kitty is all about the food. 

Then I had to smile because the whole house was done up in none other than my mom's over the top Christmas decor. 

After that I couldn't wait any longer I had to go outside because it was just such a darn good day! I might complain about how ghetto Corpus is and that my high school wasn't all that great, but my home, now that's a different story. 

and Flo came out & joined me & we watched boats motor by because I missed boats, I missed water, I missed the sunshine, and I missed all the smells! 

 I'm so glad to be home :) I'm now laying on the couch watching all the TV I want with my christmas tree (it should be our main christmas tree I swear it's the best one).

Until next time Blog Nation

Halfway Home

Although I said I couldn't wait to be home for the holidays, I'm really loving San Antonio. I kind of wish I lived here for an hour shorter of a drive home, it made the trip way easy. But I can't complain I've always been a little to obsessed with driving, seriously, give me a car that can go over 80, a road, and some music & I'm golden. I'd probably drop out of school and be a truck driver by now if I didn't despise 18 wheelers so much.
My dad had a good birthday too we went to some new pearl brewery district in SA and that place was right up my alley, when I got therei was dying for my camera, whenever I don't have it I swear something happens when I need it.
Today we are going to the outlet woo! But first we stopped at Costco & I got these kick ass nerdy glasses. I figured wearing glasses is already nerdy so I mine as well embrace it! (and I'd put up my picture but my greening I pad won't let me Foo!)
Anyways I just decided to let u in on my life because my dad driver SO SLOW!
Over & Out

My Finals Are OVER

I can not tell you how relieved I am that my hell of a week is finally coming to a close, and as I lay on my bed, finally well rested watching E & contemplating packing so I can go home I decided I needed to write before my brain turns off for good. 

If you were wondering I don't think my bad ass e mail helped my psychology grade. (I took that test at 8am this morning) 

Also I would like to talk about ALL NIGHTERS. Yes, about 75% of college students do it, but I myself have never seen the point (until last night). With my two tests today starting at the crack of dawn I decided that maybe cramming my brain at all hours of the night was the way to go. My thoughts after this experience was that I will definitely not be doing one again in the near future. I really feel that the only thing you get out of an all nighter is puffy eyes and a caffeine high. I didn't retain any more valuable knowledge for my test, I couldn't teach myself some breakthrough new accounting methods to help me pass my test, and I definitely felt like a zombie this morning. In summary: all nighter, not for me. 

In other news it is my daddy's birthday tomorrow! I am so excited to see him and to be able to celebrate with him (my finals usually last longer than this). Another thing about me is that I am 100% a daddy's girl & I miss him terribly. Now I know you think you have the best dad ever but I beg to differ, my dad is the best! He would do anything for anyone & spoils me rotten. So, Instead of going to my home sweet home tomorrow morning, I will be headed to San Antonio because he wants to see a Spurs game. Although I'm spent & want nothing more than to curl up with my 2 cats here I am packing up for San Antonio! 

Happy [almost] Birthday Daddy 

For your entertainment

Hellooo, 

    As hopefully you fellow readers have caught on it is Finals. I will now let you in on a little secret, this has been the WORST SEMESTER EVER. Yes, I have dug myself a hole and just can't get myself out of it. That being said I just realized I'm going to have a C in psychology A CEEE what the heck. That's an A+ class what's wrong with me. Anyways, why I'm telling yall this is because of the lovely e mail to my psychology teacher begging for a B basically and I hope maybe everyone can get some humor out of it (and pray that she gets some humor and has a soul to help me out as well) 

This e mail is 100% true I did not BS this one bit: 

Howdy, 
    It is that time again for finals, when every student calculates their grades and suddenly goes "oh my gosh that is so not what I wanted". Sadly, I am one of those students and I now get to bug you *I apologize for this because I know you are sick and I really hope you are getting better*. Anyways I have done the math and I need 100 (yes a perfect score) on this test in order to get a 79.5, which is I'm hoping a B? I'm not sure if you round up. 
   Now, before you realize that, wow I really am not the brightest color in the box, I digress, I was blessed this semester with having all four of my classes with their test in the same week, yours being the very last when I was at my wits end and only studying that morning to be honest, but sadly as hard as I tried, with reading before hand and coming to class I could never grasp as much information to the equivalent of a couple days of studying does. Accounting 229 is the most awful course of all time, (I think I'd rather take statistics and be a psychologist truthfully) and I just really couldn't figure out how to prioritize not failing this business class without all of my other courses suffering. 
   Now time for some sucking up, (but 100% true I swear) YOU are my favorite college professor of my college career I absolutely loved your class and your teaching was not the reason for my poor test scores, I take all the blame for those horrible numbers, I realize you have made this course as straight forward and as easy and interesting as possible for me and in no way is this your fault or problem it's all mine. I was just hoping in some way or how if I do pull out with a big 1-0-0 on this test that I will be able to get that big B- that I was hoping for. Also when we went to your thursday class with the wall flowers v. the loud mouths game/review you mentioned we would get extra credit or something, don't know if this played out or not so I also was wondering about that. 
   Now that you have read all about my sob story (sorry you couldn't enjoy this in person but since your ill I didn't think you'd be available) I guess I was just asking if there's was anything else I could possibly do to woo you, or that if I get a 100 that I'm golden for a B etc. Thanks for your time hope your feeling better see you bright and early Wednesday *oh PS my horrible accounting final? right after your final, WOOP. 


Happy almost holidays/finals 
& thanks for your time! 


Amy Urban '13 

WARNING. super lame.

hello blog nation it's 1AM I'm little bit delirious from sleep deprivation & studying but I would like to share possibly the best lyrics of all time. 


First off if anyone hasn't seen the movie Burlesque, you are missing out. 


These lovely lyrics & song come from that & I have been listening to it non-stop for the past couple of days. It reminds me of a certain someone, his name is Nicholas Ryan Fordyce :) (I promise his blog will be coming up shortly). But in short, he is mine & I am his, and I'm possibly the luckiest person in the world to have found him after my previous relationship woes (yuck). 


So anyways this song/lyrics (that I hope you love as much as me) goes out to this guy

Sweet love, sweet love 

Trapped in your love 

I've opened up, unsure I can trust 

My heart and I were buried in dust 

Free me, free us 

You're all I need when I'm holding you tight 

If you walk away I will suffer tonight 

I found a man I can trust 

And boy, I believe in us 

I am terrified to love for the first time 

Can you see that I'm bound in chains 

I finally found my way 

I am bound to you 

I am bound to you 

So much, so young 

I've faced on my own 

Walls I built up became my home 

I'm strong and I'm sure there's a fire in us 

Sweet love, so pure 

I catch my breath with just one beating heart 

And I brace myself, please don't tear this apart 

I found a man I can trust 

And boy, I believe in us 

I am terrified to love for the first time 

Can't you see that I'm bound in chains 

I finally found my way 

I am bound to you 

I am bound to 

Suddenly the moment's here 

I embrace my fears 

All that I have been carrying all these years 

Do I risk it all 

Come this far just to fall, fall 

Early bird gets [to blog]

I am currently in that really awkward stage where you got ready for an event way to early & now you are stuck with nothing to do because you don't want to commit to something too time crucial. So what better to turn to that this blog?! I really do have quite a bit of time to kill, an hour to be exact, but I just have so many great thoughts and ideas for this thing I really don't know where to start! But I do know this: 

1. There will be big dedicated entries to the people who I am with on the daily (I mean what's the point of having a bunch of pictures without knowing some background?)

2. At some point I will have to give an overview of who I am (don't you hate that question; who are you?)

3. And I will soon be talking about this weekend because it's a good one. 

I'm right in the middle of this weekend actually, with finally recovering from my semi formal last night, and now awaiting Songfest which seriously everyone I know & love is in, it's a little bit ridiculous. With all the long hours they've been putting into this I've gatta go see what it's all about. After songfest tonight will be DELT FORCE (I guess tidbit about my life I'm in a sorority & my boyfriends in a fraternity, therefore: this is my lifestyle. hahaha, really though I'm not that typical college kid, well maybe I am who knows) 

Ok this is all for now, I realize I said this deal was for pix & yet no pictures man I stink, maybe it's true purpose is a time killer! 

The Beginning

      Today is the day I finally get up the courage to start a blog! 

Yes, how corny, tacky, annoying, self obsessed can I be?! But I must say I'm pretty excited. 
A couple things before I really get started: 


1. I am the worst speller ever 
2. ...and grammar 
3. ...and punctuation


So why in the hell am I going to start a blog when I am socially inadequate at all of these things you might ask, well, truth be told I just like to write, journal etc. & I am absolutely obsessed with taking pictures. I know now-a-days it seems like everyone and their mom is running around with the big camera strapped around their neck, but I promise you I was one of the early ones to jump on that wagon and give it a shot. What I found was surprising and I've been addicted ever since. Although I am excited that 90% of the population has now also joined this trend it's also a little frustrating, yes I understand you can click a photo of the sky, lanscape, sunset, etc and edit the hell out of it until it looks really cool, but that's really not what I think it's all about (I digress I do edit my photos as well, who doesn't, but you get my point). Anyways I hope this lame-o blog will entertain all of you folks who have come across it and if not, well, it sure will entertain me.