Day 186

Today has been a good day. I got today off from work so I slept until about 9:00. I went downstairs and ate breakfast. As planned, the whole family then set out to the garage. Half had been cleaned last Friday while I was at work and the 2nd half was going to get done today. So we took everything out of the garage, rinsed out the garage and rinsed off the items that had been covered in spiderwebs and dust, and put everything back in a hopefully more organized manner. My job for the most part was rinsing items off and I got myself pretty wet in the process. It was warm outside and I hope that I got some sun. After, we ate lunch and I got to chat Alex some. A little later, we were off to Macon to watch The Last Airbender. Caleb and I had watched the cartoon series so I was pretty familiar with the story line. I had heard many critiques that those who had watched the cartoon version did not like the movie. After it was over, we went to eat at Margaritas and had some yummy mexican food (I had burritos). The movie was alright. Some scenes were too drawn out but some action scenes were actually exciting. I noticed some differences between the cartoon and this version. I was surprised though because the movie is just the 1st part of three...and I didn't know what that would be the case. The cartoon series was divided into 3 books so I suppose they'll do the same for the movies. I don't know if I'd see it again but it wasn't terrible. Now we're home watching Lie to Me and I'll be doing some homework before bed. :)

Day 185

Happy 4th of July everybody! It sure is great to be an American, isn't it? So today started like most Sunday's do, I woke up showered and after getting completely ready (unfortunately in my non-patriotic outfit), we were off to church. Sunday school was small today and so was the overall church attendance. I wasn't surprised, this is a big travel weekend for people! After church, we came home and I read some just for fun and mom made cookies! They're oatmeal raisin with nuts! They smell so delicious. I had though of what I wanted to do for my picture today...take one of my mini flags and stick it in the ground and then lay down beneath it to take pictures. Well, the ground is VERY dry and hard so I gave up on that idea pretty quickly. I wandered around the yard with my flags and camera and eventually came out with one that I like! My Grandmother is coming over soon and we're going to socialize and enjoy a cook-out this evening. Hope everyone has a lovely Independence Day!! :)

Day 184

Today has a been a good Saturday (July 3rd 2010 by the way :) ). I slept until 10:00 and basically just sat around. I turned on the TV and got online, Alex was online so we chatted for a little while. About noon, mom, dad, and I went to Macon to run some errands. We got lunch, too, and ate at Ron and Cheng's - the chinese food and southern cooking restaurant that I love so much. At Walmart, I picked up the latest Stephanie Meyer's latest book: (officially) The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner:
An Eclipse Novella. I have read books that are probably almost 1000 pages long. This one is quite short...novella is a good description for it. It will take me probably an hour max to read it but I am excited about reading it. I am banned from reading it until vacation though, my mom took it from me. We picked Caleb up from his friend's house next and once we got home, all of us took naps. I slept hard until my dad woke me up...I could've slept for a lot longer but I didn't need to. We watched Shutter Island and man, it sure put me in a weird mind funk for a while. After, we went out to pick mom's cucumbers and tomatoes that have grown. They're so cute...& the subject for my picture today!! Now it's time for supper! :)

Day 183

Today! So I did not wake up to go running this morning, I was tired after staying up later than I wanted last night. So I woke up, showered, and was off to work. Everyone was back in the office today and it was nice to see those who'd been on vacation return. I continued work on my projects and at 2 I was done for the day. Everyday going into work and leaving work, I drive under this bridge. It's old and concrete and covered in graffiti. Every single time I pass it, I want to stop and take pictures of it. Well, I decided today was the day, as long as no one was around to see me do it. So I stopped at the stop sign, took a picture, drove a little further, and snapped another picture in black and white before driving off again. It's not a great neighborhood so I wasn't about to get out of my car to get more pictures. Getting home, I was quite happy with the result of my second picture (as you will see here). I think black and white photography has so much more depth and meaning than color pictures. It's nice not to have pressing homework assignments (though my "weeks" each start on Friday with new assignments) so I just chilled when I got home. I wrote letters to my Mercer friends (though I have yet to put them in the mail box), which I always find fun, and read a little of a pleasure book. Supper was good, and since Caleb is spending the night at a friend's house, we were free to watch the more girly movie that was rented last night. Remember Me, also staring Robert Pattinson, was the movie of the night. I did not really know what to expect, but afterwards, I can say that I really enjoyed it. It is a deep, sad movie but it is really well made and I recommend it to everybody! It's not all that much of a chick flick either so guys give it a shot, too. Then mom, dad, and I walked around the neighborhood and now we're just sitting relaxing in our family room. I figured I'd update my blogs, and now it's time to read! :) I love my family & summer!

Day 182

Thursday was back to work. I woke up and ran again (3 times this week!!) and felt really good after the run so maybe I'll increase my distance next time I run. I took my pictures after I finished running so I could get a different side of things, especially since it was so foggy that morning! It's so nice to be starting the process of getting back in shape. I've been such a bum about exercise but hopefully that trend is turning around. Thursday is the 9 month anniversary of when Alex & I started dating so that was a little exciting tidbit of the day. Work was fine as usual and when I got home, it was time for homework again and I settled down. I was logged into facebook and Alex was online! So we chatted for a good long while on Thursday, which was really nice. At 4 my mom told me (which much hesitation because she knew it would distract me from my homework) that Oprah was on and that she had the stars of the Eclipse movie on her show! So of course I had to go watch it. It's so funny how Robert Pattinson is British yet you can't even hear his accent in the movies! He said that some words were difficult to imitate the American accent, especially water and nachos (I mean to ask Alex to pronounce "nachos" for me next time I see him). So still talking to Alex, I got back to homework. I had done my reading earlier in the week so it was time for the actual assignments. I finished one, I took a long time telling Alex goodbye (he's off to Spain and didn't know if he'd get internet connection easily), we ate supper and I started my homework again. Dad wanted to rent some movies from Ingles so he & mom went to the store and got a few to watch. That night, we watched Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. It was a good movie, a little cheesy at parts, but I enjoyed watching it with the family. After it ended, I had to take a quiz for my edu class and by midnight I was going to bed. Whew...quite a full day! :)

Day 181

Wednesday! So Tuesday night at 10:00 I left my house, with my parents & brother, & we headed into Macon to go to the movie theater. Why so late you might ask? Well at midnight was the ECLIPSE PREMIER!!! AHHH! Ok, so yes, I was quite excited. There were a lot of people there and the line was wrapped around the building even at 10:30. In front of the theater, there was a blood donor vehicle (they were collecting bone marrow) which kind of cracked me up because we were watching a vampire movie haha. They also had cars that were suppose to be the cars that the actors drove in the movies and they had a cardboard cutout of each of the characters by the vehicles. I met my friend Lauren and her mom at the theaters so we were in line together and planned to sit together. There was an early showing of the movie to the TwiMoms (of Macon I guess) so we had to wait for them to get out of the theater. How were they so lucky to get an early showing?? Anyways, we got seated probably between 11:30-11:45 so we sat down to wait for the show to begin! They had issues with seating (the theaters were packed) so the showing didn't start until probably about 12:30 but who cares. The movie got out about 2:30 and I was ready for bed! The movie was AMAZING though, it followed the books so well and hey, what girl would complain about having to watch the movie?! So we got home and I went to bed by 3:30. I took Wednesday off from work (I'd just go in Friday instead) and slept until 11:30. So I woke up and worked on homework. Alex skyped me that night so we got to talk for a little bit. Caleb had gotten a wood burning kit at walmat so he burned a little picture and that is what my photo-of-the-day's subject is. He was quite excited it would be a photo-of-the-day. :)

Day 180

Tuesday is a day I can't remember much from...at least about what I did in the middle part of the day. I woke up early again to go running before work and in my process of getting ready, I discovered the new trailer for the last Harry Potter movies to be made! Ahh it's so good...I can't wait for the movies to come out! The first installment of the last book comes out in November and the final installment comes out next July. As my mom pointed out, I started reading the Harry Potter books when I was in the 4th grade (at that point the first 4 books were out) and once all of the movies have been made and released, I will be in the summer before my junior year of college! That's a long time. Anyways, so work went fine and I got home to work on homework. I was hoping to skype Alex but something happened where he couldn't get online so I didn't get the chance to speak with him. Tuesday night though was a very special night...but the even did not occur until after midnight so technically it happened on Wednesday...to be continued next blog! :)