Hey gurrrrrrl

So whats up homie? haha. Oh some things never change!

So I don't even know if people read this but I have not updated in nearly 10 years. So after my much needed break from blogging , I am back!!! Ok, so right now I am living at home...home meaning with my parents in my childhood house doing the whole highschool thing again. Its great! I loving having everything paid for, ie: food, rent, etc. It actually has not been anything like the nightmare I had anticipated or prepared for. Well, just kidding, that is a bit harsh, but i feared the worst when preparing to move back in with my oh-so-lovely parents. But they have been great! Even fun at times. haha.

Anyways, I am currently working on passing all my HCC classes , working on my t-shirt quilt that has been waiting to see the light for a good 4 years, and trying to become French by mastering the language...one fun hour at a time.

I never ever ever in a million years thought that moving back to Houston would be as much fun as it has turned out to be. I "almost" don't want to leave...but i did say almost therefore I still do want to leave. No worries to anyone who was worried.

I have also had the pleasure of getting to know and be a part of an awesome group of people and church at Houston's First Baptist. I have to get used to saying and typing that because I used to go to First Baptist Dallas and so I always want to say and type First Baptist Houston but its Houston's First Baptist...only to be technical here. haha. I never thought the best advice I'd receive would be from my sister but I'm not going to lie, when she suggested, pretty much insisted that I go to First, I was very hesitant. I'm glad I went and have continued to go. It's been amazing. I've never been in so much fellowship and met so many amazing people and been so plugged in, at least not in a long time! The last year and a half I was living in Dallas I was living by myself and if you really want to understand loneliness just live by yourself when you're miss social like I am. It was hard and through that experience I realized and learned that God did not make us, humans, Christians, anyone to be by themself. He made us to be in community and I was definetly lacking that. Not to say that you can't live by yourself and be in community, but living by myself only magnified how much I was lacking that community in my life. And just how much I desperately needed and longed for it! I still do to this very day and I'm slowly but surely feeding that need, or should I say, the Lord is feeding that need and so amazingly.

Anyways, there's so much going on in my head, in my heart, in my life, privately, publicly...

Ps. my new favorite thing to do is Skype. I know that it has been around for a while now and its nothing new, but I have recently discovered its amazingness and sharing what I've learned with those around me and its so much fun. Can I please just say that I spent an evening but I spent the evening just "hanging out" with Val via skype. How fun that was! It was like we were in the same room together, just doing our own thing but carrying on a conversation. haha. Typical us! Gotta love old friends!

Ps. for Halloween I was definetly a car mechanic. And not even a "sexy" one...haha. The funniest part about the whole outfit was that it kind of looked real meaning it was the complete opposite of anything and everything I am: girly! very girly! haha. It was awesome and I had a great Halloween spending time helping out at church and then hanging out with some cool new friends!

Cheers** to living, loving, and learning...

Adios to School

Not soon enough! SO here's my life plan: (until it changes, which will probably be tomorrow!)

This summer:

Maymester: Marketing Foundations (11 days of 4 hours a days and I came out with a C, not great but i passed!)

Summer I: E-commerce
Summer II: Astronomy w/ lab
Logistics through the Business school at UNT (HARDER than anyone I've ever taken)

Summer 10 week: Internship (6 credit hours which requires me to work a minimum of 30 hours a week)

Fall: Principles of Accounting
>insert science class here< I'm thinking of taking Geology because I'm trying to avoid chemistry and physics and biology and there aren't a whole lot of other science classes that have a lab with them.
Political Science
** maybe a Marketing class if I can just get into one of them (i have 2 left which can both be taken online so i'm hoping that one of them will open for the fall!!!)

Spring: Apparel Evaluation (with a lab) boo for waiting till my last semester sr year to take beginning level courses
Survey of Historic and Contemporary Styles
Merchandising Problems (with a lab)
and 1 marketing class hopefully if i was able to get in one in the fall, if i wasn't able to get into a marketing class in the fall that i needed then I have to take both marketing classes in the spring

Summer:
HONG KONG & CHINA TRIP
Global Textile and Apparel Industries
Consumers In a Global Market

AUGUST 2010: I GRADUATE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS!!!!!!!!

SEPTEMBER 2010: I'm hoping and working towards being able to move to Paris, France and be an Au Pair for a year or 2 and travel Europe and learn to speak French.

**Cheers to having a plan, living day to day, and having faith that I will graduate someday! :-)

Peace love and chicken grease!

So since I have left my "retail" job life I rarely go to the mall....EVER! It actually annoys me to have to go find parking, walk a mile and hope that what I want I can find. Maybe particularly because the mall i go to is gigando! Anyways, I'm desperate need of a new swimsuit as none of my properly fit anymore...growing size and cheap swimsuits will do that to you. 

Anyways, I went to the mall today and was only there a mere 30 minutes and the things I saw there inspired me to write a post. 

I'm serious people.....I wonder if half America is lacking a mirror? And if they aren't, do they have a mirror like in Snow White thats says they look good?!?! 

So in the time it took me to go to the mall and tack on the grocery store today, I was exhausted and needed to go home and have some quality time by myself. I wish I could accurately describe the herendous outfit choices some people decided to make. I don't even want to start because only picture or being there yourself could accuratley do it justice. haha. 

Ok, i'm offically off my "mean" kick! I'm just saying, that being out in public can make your day more entertaining and exhausting all at the same time!!

So for a few random things:

1. After a few calculations I realized that when this summer is over and done with I will have taken 18 hours!!! I have never taken more than 12 hours in a single semester muchless 18 in a super speedy summer semester! Thanks to my Maymester and a few 5 weeks courses I am on the faster track to finally graduating...which, thanks to some more calculations, my exact graduation date is August of 2010. Unless God does some major upside inside-out kind of thing with my life, which i wouldn't put it past him, I will graduate after next summer! :-D <-- The biggest smile ever!!!!

2. I am almost half way through my internship and this makes me so happy! :-) I like my internship, I just don't like working on July 4th and Saturdays and 8 hours without a lunch break and most of all...FOR FREE!!! hehe. 

3. My Grandma who has been in and out of the hospital recently just got moved out of ICU today and so that is happy news! I hate being so far from my family during these times but I know that the family that is down there is taking such good care of her and my Grandpa!!! i love them more than anything !!!!!

4. I want to be an Au Pair in France next year! I decided that! And I hope it works out! I am so in-love with the French people, the French culture, the food, the language, the life...everything! I cannot wait to go back and if i have to wait until next year when hopefully I can move there than I am willing to wait that long! I am hoping to find a wonderful family in Paris needing an Au Pair for Aug/Sep 2010!!! I have actually started teaching myself French via iTunes. Who knew you could learn a language for free on iTunes?! You can!

5. Happy Fourth of July!!!!!!!!! Happy Bithday America!!! I am so proud to be an American (even though i Love France!!!!) and I'm even prouder to be a Texan...haha!!!!!

Peace, Love, and chicken grease, y'all!!!!!!!

i miss

PARIS!!!! So I don't know why its typing like this but I was just looking through my pictures from when I was in Paris this past spring and it reminded me of how much I want to go back!!! These pictures posted in reverse order so the first one is  at the bottom and the last one is right below this. But these are just a few of my favorite memories from my UNFORGETTABLE vacation overseas. (And I will be repeating it VERY SOON i hope!)

This picture was when I met a few people in Paris (Americans) and we went out that night and we walked out of one of the pubs and we didn't real

ly know where we were and right in front of us was Notre Dame. I said to the girl, when does that happen? You walk out of a pub or restaurant and Notre Dame is RIGHT THERE!!! 

I miss the French parking and driving...oh my how crazy those people are! I think i fit in just fine. haha.
These are the people I met in Paris and hung out with. You know, spent an afternoon sipping wine and eating cheese and baguettes on the Champs de Mars I think its called (the lawn infront of the Eiffel Tower). 
Probably the BEST part of my trip and most favorite. A bicycle tour (which i highly highly reccommend for anyone goes to Paris) at NIGHT. Not only was it crazy trying to dodge the French on their bicycles but also trying to avoid getting hit by a mad French driver in a car or BUS. I swear i have a picture of myself on the streets of Paris with a grey-hound size bus about A FOOT (12 inches) behind my back tire. Really??? No patience, i swear! haha.
And my photography skills at their best! Yes, I was the one in charge of this picture. I would have to say i probably would win the award for "best timed pictures". And let me tell you, it isn't easy trying to get the WHOLE Eiffel tower and people in a picture. But i was successful and here is the product. Oh my what a wonderful experience!

So i said I would eventually post pictures from my trip and since this stupid blogger does not do what I want it to do EVER then I will end my blog soon before I break my lovely apple. 

All i have to say is that I can't wait for the day I can go back...i feel like its a long-distance relationship with my long lost lover, PARIS. I really want to move there once i graduate in August and spend a year working there as an Au Pair so I can just enjoy the people, the culture, the language, the EVERYTHING....

so until that time, Au Revoir!

So much to do, So little time!

Can i PLEASE have more hours in the day? Or at least the night? mmm....sleep sounds better than food these days?!

I have so much to update but who cares? And I forget half of it. 

1. Thursday I have my final test for my Maymester which i decided VERY last minute to take and have not regretted yet. I say Thursday can not come soon enough but I'm actually not stressed. My old job was over last week and my new job doesn't start until next week and so when school is out on Thursday I will be FREE of anything and everything for at least a day hopefully if not the entire weekend and I just don't understand that concept yet. I'd go home but I have been home the last 2 weekends so I think I will have to find ways to stay busy this weekend. Not too hard. 

2. I hate the business school at UNT. They are mean and not very accomodating. Basically I have figured out my life schedule (school at least) to where I can graduate next August but basically be done with classes in May. I just will have to take my last 2 classes via a study abroad to Hong Kong and China. How cool?! I mean, study abroads are just about the coolest thing ever invented if you ask me and if I leave school without ever having been on one I think i will be the saddest student ever to graduate, but even cooler than just ANY study abroad is one to HONG KONG and CHINA. Who goes there? Apparently I might. 

3. I MISS MY FRIENDS. So over the last few years I've just gotten used to the lifestyle I have and not having such a close group of friends like I did growing up. I have good friends but they're not all friends and they all live far and blah blah blah. But this past weekend I went home and spent Thursday night and Friday with the bestie and I cannot tell you how much I laughed. I cannot tell you the last time i laughed so much or so hard! I really do miss the good ol days and I'm really glad to be moving back to Houston if for one reason, to possibly relive some of those times over and over again. I love the random sleepovers, the clubbing in cardigan sweaters, the photoshoots with Erics camera, the photoshoots with EVERY camera, being called a "cougar" haha,...anyways, I'm glad I was able to spend those few days with those that I love so dearly.

4. I'm so tired I definetly just typed 3 again, oops! Oh, so I love where i Live and while I can't wait to move to Houston, I will SOOOO dearly miss living here. I mean, the entire world is at my fingertips. I have the coolest little private park 2 streets away from me where I go to study, there are bike and walking trails all over the place, food is like a block away, the trees are so pretty, the houses are massive bo-bassive, and I will just miss it all.

5. OMG, my mom dropped a HUGE bomb on me the other day. Lauren Conrad from the Hills and Laguna Beach is going to be at her bookstore in June. Seriously? And so guess where I am going to be that Friday night in June? At this particular book store getting LC's new book signed personally BY HER. and getting my picture taken with her. I know, I'm such a dork but seriously, I have followed this girls shows for the past 6 years? I nEED to meet her. And the weird thing is that i'm not normally a person who cares about meeting someone "famous", but I about peed my pants when my mom told me! eeek! so excited!

Ok well, thanks for reading! 

Ps-I've decided that I am addicted to being busy. Just a thought.

CHEERS to being young, crazy, and fun! 

Dear Life,

Please clean up your act and start being nice or I'm going to have to put you in timeout!

Love, Kara

PS. a few more hours in the day would be quite lovely! 

AGH!

So this is my life recently:

I have been stressing hardcore about what my summer plans were going to be. It was MAY for goodness' sake and I had no clue what I was going to be doing. I feel a little different from the average college student stressing about their summer because first, this has never happened to me. I have never had a summer to choose my plans! and 2. I didn't want to waste my one and only summer doing nothing...because they would ultimately drive me craaaazy.

So about 2 weeks ago I was looking around the internet as I do to waste time and I came across an email from a place called Make Studio in Dallas that i have been on their email list for nearly three years now and rarely look at their emails. Well, i decided to do so for some odd reason and that lead me to their website and after looking around for a while I was like, hey, that would be a cool place to intern, i'll just email them and see if they're looking for interns. (My thought was, ok, i'll do this too but most likely won't hear back and if i do it'll be a kind rejection letter because its MAY and everyone has already hired their interns for the summer). Well, the lady emailed me back pretty quickly and said they were still looking for an intern and to send her my resume. So, i actually waited three days before i finally decided I would send her my resume. I really had to think about it, I mean, while I have been stressing about something to do, I have had a feeling that God has been wanting me in Dallas and really, I just want to take a break from this place. So I hesitantly send her my resume and within 2 hours of sending it she had called me to set up an appointment to meet with her to interview for this position. Seriously?!?!?!?!?!?! I must've sent out 25-30 resume's at the beginning of the semester to every place under the sun and NOW, in MAY, I am applying for a job and possibly getting it? 

So anyways, the day comes to when my interview is with this place and I actually contemplated not going.... I just really do not want to be in Dallas. When sending out my millions of resumes at the beginning of the semester, I purposely did not send any resumes in the city of Dallas. ha. So i go finally decide, what the heck, maybe this possibly where God might want me and who I am to change the plans God has for my life? The interview goes well, and she offers me the internship on the spot. And it actually seems like a really great internship...I would basically be doing PR and marketing for a fashion show called PinShow that she and her business partner put on every September showcasing Dallas designers (local designers). It's everything that sounds fun but nothing I know anything about and would be awesome to learn. 

So here's the deal: I know God has such an awesome plan for my life that nothing I could think up or wish for would be better than what He has in store for me. I know I can't see the big picture which is why things often don't make sense at the time, but its all God's perfect plan! But, even though I am not a person who has a need to be in control, I find it hard to just give it to Him. I WANT to leave Dallas!!! But God wants me HERE! But i'm still fighting that...even though I KNOW that whatever He has for my life is 10 times better than anything I could ever want or think is what I should be doing instead of His plan. WHY?

So I've been praying, and consulting the wise people in my life, and hoping that all the pieces fall into place. I still have not formally accepted the position of the internship. I need for it to count as my internship for my major otherwise taking an unpaid internship just isn't economically practical as I will most likely have to get another job on the side which means I will never have a day off, AGAIN! ha. But things are slowly falling into place...I'll have a place to live (where I am now), I still need to get everything squared away with school, I still need another part time job. But i'm praying that if this is what God wants for my life, that He will show me the doors that are opened and lead me away from the closed doors. That He will give me the strength to get through this summer with a cheerful heart and that He will teach me what He wants me to learn through everything I do this summer. I pray mostly that He will change my heart that I will want what He wants for me. 

But this doesn't come without many trials and many questions and many times of prayer! 

Oh, and I found out some bad news within my family so if there is anyone who reads this, I would appreciate some prayers for my family! 

So cheers to learning the lessons God wants me to learn, listening, obeying, and loving Him!

PS-I had the best dinner ever! mmmm tilapia (my new specialty), green beans, and plain pasta.

Pretty darn good and not too shabby on the healthy side either. 

G'night!