Am I really this way?

So recently I have been in a super klutzy mood. (Do you spell it klutzy or clutzy?) So I will just relive my amazing moments of being me and let anyone who cares to read this laugh their tiny little heads off. Just kidding.

So last weekend I went ice skating at the outdoor ice skating rink downtown Houston. If you park on the street at night its free so thats what my friends and I did. Well, we had a splendid time! Probably one of my best nights ever, no lie! So we're leaving and I get back to my car and whatdoyouknow but I had LEFT MY WINDOW DOWN in downtown Houston. Klutzy me! Luckily no harm was done to my car but really...

A few weeks ago I was booking plane tickets for my trip to New Mexico for the Christmas break and I was all excited that they weren't too expensive yet and just without thinking booked a roundtrip ticket....FROM ALBUQUERQUE TO HOUSTON AND BACK...instead of booking a ticket from Houston to Albuquerque and back. (so that is number 1 oops for the night) I was like, no big deal, its a non refundable ticket but with Southwest you can cancel a ticket and put that money towards another flight, no problem! So I cancel the ticket, find the times and dates that I need, make sure its starting in the right place and then I BUY another ticket. You may be confused right now but let me explain: Instead of using the funds I had just charged for the first plane ticket I just go ahead and without thinking about it charge another roundtrip ticket to my Mom's credit card. Whoops! Needless to say it was not my finest moment and I left and went to church immedietly following that for fear of being beaten! (not really but I felt really bad and slightly stupid)

Last night I was home by myself after a long beginning of the week taking 4 finals in 3 days and had an already opened up bottle of "Kroger" red wine in the kitchen that I was going to pour myself a nice little glass and enjoy while watching tv while I was by myself. Haha, I could not for the life of me get that darn cork out of the darn bottle. It was a bit commical i'm sure if you had been a fly on the wall but very frustrating for me, the person who wanted the wine. I finally got it open and when I did...spilled it EVERYWHERE. All over my shirt, the kitchen counter, the floor. Luckily not anywhere that it would stain or couldn't be whiped up but nonetheless, it was already opened, shouldn't have been that hard!

To add to the last story, enjoying my glass of wine last night I was sitting on the couch and sat the glass of wine on the floor at my feet and totally forgot about it. I probably drank about 5 sips because I just kept forgetting I had it. I get up to go to bed and totally KNOCK IT OVER, all over my mom's living room rug. Again, LUCKILY its a really dark rug so no one was hurt in the process but still not my brightest moment! oops!

And then today, I was up by the shelf in the living room that houses our 10 DVD's (we have a pretty sad collection, or should I say, my parents do) and I was looking for the Sound of Music to watch it because it's amazing and thats what I wanted to watch. In the process, I knock over another dvd case that falls squarely on my foot...on my big toe, and decides to hit right at the part of your toe where your nail meets the skin. It hurt! And it bled...for like 5 minutes! My mom laughed at me for that!

The funny thing about all these stories is that these are only the ones that either were majorly klutzy or happened within the last 24 hours. The one good thing that comes out of being so retarded sometimes is that it provides some good ol fashioned laughter among myself and those are so blessed to be witnesses to my lack of grace!

*** Here's to not falling over, running into a wall, or driving off a cliff anymore or anytime soon!!!

who said sleep was a necessicity?

oh man, oh man, oh man!

so sometimes, no, ALWAYS i see, encounter, witness, however you wish you put it...the randomness of life! Honestly, one of my favorite things to do is people watch if that is even a real thing to do! Sometimes, i just have to wonder...what are people really thinking??? This is one crazy world we live in!!!

a. If there is a divider in the street...a patch of grass, a median...anything, you do NOT need to stop on the opposite side of the street as the school bus! I'm just saying... learned that one in one of many defensive driving classes!!! <--- and it is quite annoying to us drivers who do know the rules of the road when people do this! I understand you want to be safe but its not required!!!!

b. while I was stopped on the opposite side of the street as the bus becuase the cars in front of me clearly did not know the laws i witnessed what seemed like 100 kids get off ONE school bus at ONE stop. It was insane! I think half the school lived at the same apartment complex. It was the like the never ending kid-unloading bus stop!

c. Is it weird that I tend to remember meeting people even if I've only met them once? I have an insane memory sometimes and then other times it fails me miserably. BUT today I was in the Wal-Mart parking lot walking into the Wal-Mart and I saw this girl walk past me going the opposite direction as I and i swear she was a girl I met while in Paris who worked at this bike tour company that I LOVED. Anyways, crazy! and i swear it was her!!! ...and i did slightly stalk her online for a few minutes and i think it really was her.

d. why are the speed limits on the free 60?

ri-dic-u-lous!!! ugh.

e. I know i've said this a million times before (or at least I've discussed this topic many times before) but this time next year, i could possibly be in PARIS FRANCE!!!!!!!!!!! ????

f. Tonight I went over to my Grandma's at 8pm and she fed me the most delcious homemade soup you've ever had with the most amazing homemade corn bread you've ever had (i challenge anyone who thinks otherwise) and she helped me finish my sewing projects...i didn't leave until 11:30pm. What an amazing woman she is!!!! Now that is ri-dic-u-lous!

g. I am not at all ready to move to Denton! Nor will i ever, probably, but really, I LOVE HOUSTON! seriously? did i just type that? oh yea, i just did! All i can say is that the Lord REALLY does work in WEIRD and mysterious ways!

h. I have a boyfriend. He doesn't know it yet and we're not even really friends but i'm just saying! lolol.

i. I love how I thought I was friends with a certain someone and then come to find out I assumed and made up their entire life...how does that happen? I think i need to start asking more questions and learning more about people before making up their life story! geeez. But it was a pretty comical experience to say the least!

LOVE,

CRAZY-LOUD-SUPER DUPER FUN-AMAZING-TRANSPARANT-BLUNT-and BEYONG COOL person you've ever met in your entire life...and if you can't handle 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6 of those adjectives of myself then turn around walk the other way...!!!

<3

almost forgot!

I forgot a few updates:

1. I signed up for my near to last semester of college and I can't believe it's almost here! Really!??!?! I'm gonna be graduating soon?!?!?! (this time next year I will NOT be in school...)

2. Here's my t shirt quilt partly done... (ok, well, i suck at this blog so its above instead of below..ugh) But its my pride and joy right now! It's what I love doing and am so blessed to have this talent and love for being crafty in some sort of way.

3. My cousins Sarah and Joseph come to visit us in Houston this weekend and I'm sooooooo ridiculously excited because they just had a baby and I haven't met him yet. And i miss them soo much, its been January since I have seen them and I miss them.

4. I'm going to Passion in Atlanta, Georgia this next January. Can't wait! Went my freshman year of college and am going my senior (5th yr senior, but who's counting?) year. Great way to end my college career!!! Love Louie Giglio and all the others who will be in attendance...although not looking forward to the ridiculously long drive there!

5. And in January I also start passionately and dedicatedly looking for an Au Pair job in Paris (or anywhere in France) so that is a bit nerve racking knowng that it could possibly happen!!! eeeek!!!!

6. I move to Denton in January ALSO (everything seems like its going to happen in Jan 2010) which is going to be wild and crazy. Possibly more eventful than the move back to Houston, because it will be my first time to live in a small town since my not so enjoyable first semester of college that was spent in College Station (what'do ya know, coincidentally this will be my last semester) and my first time to live closer than 25 miles to UNT, the college of which I will be getting my degree from. Lots of first in that paragraph....

7. I am changing my name....haha just kidding!!!

8. Ok, I think i've finally run out of things to blog about! Peace out yo!!!

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!

mac ---n cheese

So sometimes I really don't like MAC computers! haha. There are a few things about it that I just haven't figured out yet. (And i bought the "Macbook for dummies" haha) 

I have to do some homework for a class online and i can't seem to do it because my computer is not compatible. Wish i had a PC sometimes.

So, I'm excited about breakfast Friday morning. I'm having breakfast with a friend and I chose a cafe neither of us has been to, i don't think. Where I live, there are all these hole-in-the-wall type restaurants and shops and whatnot and i passed a place called Lucky's Cafe and i looked it up online and it has good reviews so i'm headed there in a few days. Kind of excited. :-)

I got a new watch! LOVES IT! Love it so much that i didn't want to take it off last night... meaning i wore it to bed! i'm a dork. It's a beaut. 

Isn't she lovely? haha. I'm such a proud mama!

And, I MISSSSSSSSSSSSS Paris like so stink' bad! :-( 

I want to go back...NOW! I could live there the rest of my life and die happy! i swear! 

Well, Cheers*** to life! the good, bad, and the ugly!!! haha

a little down, a little up

So these past few weeks have really brought me down ... a LOT!

But the funny thing is...how God works everything for GOOOODD!!!! It's so interesting to look back and be like, haha!!! God, you are so funny! ....I mean it!

These girls that I nanny everyday, they have been such a blessing in my life lately! I have had some tough mornings at school or just by myself and I know the day will pick up once i see their beautiful faces. They really have brought joy to my life and honestly, six months ago, I wanted to quit my job more than anything in the world. 

I also started going to an SMU Bible study this semester and it has been a night I look forward to for the past few months. I have prayed for so long for good Christian friends, and of coarse, it would happen that i meet some wonderful people right when everyone is graduating or moving on to the next stage in their life, and while that makes me sad, I have to sit back and remember to live right now and be grateful that God answered my prayer and that he cares...RIGHT NOW. He cares! About me?!!!

And funnier things might be soon happening and I'm just trying my hardest to do what I do worst and give it to Him. Because obviously, as I have just typed in the last 5 minutes above here...He cares, He takes care of me, He has my best interest at heart...so why not give it to Him? and trust Him with my life?

So to my cheers for the post...is really a challenge, for myself mostly, but to anyone else who reads this: Eat it up! (the Word) To endulge myself like never before because I know He has great things in store for the now, the right now, and all I have to do is trust Him and He will provide. Besides the fact that His word tells me, He has proven that to me TODAY and yesterday and He will show me again tomorrow because I'm sure I will forget and need another friendly reminder. 

...so until then, please pray for me and for my future as I am battling the Lord on what He has planned for my life and that is not a fun place to be! :-/ (I'm praying that He change my heart. That I will want what He wants for me... And i know He can, because its a typical prayer for me. Ha ha. )

GOODNIGHT!

I miss the bachelor!

So this week has been rough! I think God heard me say that I was kind of bored with life being so easy that he turned my world upside down. And by world, I mean my emotional state. I have had a rough couple of days but I know they'll be over and I'll have a few good ones. Thats how the cycle goes, right?

Got ANOTHER stupid speeding ticket today! I could scream, I'm so mad! (And i did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) 

Really, it takes a lot a lot a lot for me to get MAD and i really just wanted to turn around and go tell off the police officer. But I didn't. :-) I don't even want to get started on this subject because its not pretty, thats just all i have to say about that. haha.

In other news, besides getting pulled over today, I spent my day working on a group project. BY MYSELF. haha. I'm not too fond of my classes right now because the teachers either A. aren't prepared B. don't make good assignments or C. cancel class all the time, and without notification. 

So this teacher gave us a group project and I'm a bit frustrated, as is my group, because we realized that this project can't really be split up into parts. There are 2 parts, one person makes the project and the other person writes about it. thats all there is to it. I am making the project, and i'm fine with that, its actually been fun, but the making of the project is only worth 15 out of 100 points of the project. so dumb. 

So to end my negative post on a positive point: I got to meet up with some of my dearest friends, Lesley and Denton, tonight and have a wonderful dinner at Papadeaux. We literally sat and chatted and ate for 3 hours! It was great! And to add to that, we had a great waiter, Justin! He was very interactive and fun to chat with. AND AND AND, they messed up my meal so i got a free meal which is nice for the budget! haha. I didn't even say anything, they just automatically did that and brought me out my meal and that was that. I'll take a free meal any day. haha. 

I don't mean for the post to be so negative, I'll sleep it off and write some wonderful posts this coming week! 

*CHEERS**** to wonderful friendships, free dinner, and a cute waiter (can't hurt!)!!! ....all very much needed and very thankful for after a long and hard week! 

heb-E

I feel the need to blog about THE largest grocery store known to man. Anyone familiar with Wal-Mart? Super wal-mart? Ok, take super wal-mart and times it by 3... that equals H.E.B. on I-10 in memorial. I saw it being built and I see it from the freeway and I even hear about how large it is but I just never really comprehended to the extent of just how large that grocery is. 

First off, i really think they should have valet parking because as if they aren't making enough money, i think they could really make a few more dollars off of it. The parking lot is just as massive as the store itself and yet you have to park in the boonies and then walk 10 minutes just to get inside because its always busy. Not that i mind walking and tonight my father and i were lucky and saw someone backing out, but this parking lot is was so dang full.

So i walked inside, still having no idea of what i was to encounter...HOLY BA-MOLY!

I don't even know how to begin to describe this store, i just wish i could've taken a video, or pictures for that matter. You know how in regular groceries there is an area for seafood, an area for meats. A half isle for greeting cards, a section for flowers. This HEB had an entire SECTION and i mean like a large square footage devoted to these things. We went to the frozen section to get ice cream and there was a lady that was advertising something like a microwavable dinner dish or something and she had a microphone! haha.

Anyways, my dad, not having much experience in the grocery store area asked me if i knew where i was going.... ha ha....Dad, hello? A grocery store? Heck yea i know where i'm going, its shopping (my expertise), its a grocery store (a women's expertise!!!). I told him, duh, i know where i'm going, its woman's intuition to know where everything is in a grocery store. haha. 

Anyways, we paid, nothing exciting, but as we were walking out i noticed that this HEB was not just any ordinary HEB.... there was a full on jeweler there. Not like cheap fake gold that turns your body green or metal that will break if you touch it....no, like in a glass case with a sales lady in a suit and mirrors and bling all over the place. In a grocery store? really? Also there was a nail salon, a gold buyer (since those are pretty popular these days) and i want to say there was an eye place, like to buy prescription glasses. 

Needless to say, i think that this HEB was ridiculously large and had way too much food and you could spend a little too much money on food that you really don't need.

And i thought how fun it would be to play in there! haha. Oh to be in high school again!!!

CHEERRRRRSSSSS to the Lord raising from His grave, an amazing Easter Sunday, and whatever adventures the holiday may bring! 

Happy Easter!

yo mama!

1. The other day I was driving the girls I watch back to their house from running an errand and we definitely passed a house about 2 streets down from where they live that was having a party. not a big deal, but they definitely had VALET parking. I couldn't believe it so I did a double take and drove back past the house only to find a TRUMPET-IST standing near the front door playing music. <---just an everyday occurrence where i live apparently! (or not)

2. So i thought I had more than one story to tell but I'm not remembering anything else cool to say. I still want to post a few pictures from Paris but when i have tried to post pictures in the past this stupid blogger and I do not get along well so i have to wait for a time when i have patience and lots of free minutes. 

3. Oh yes, i do remember, I found this really cool website...its like cafe something a rather and it sells nearly everything, clothes, posters, random things to go around your house... 

Anyways, i found a few cute one-sies or as the website called them "bodysuits" for my cousin who is having a baby boy this summer (so excited!) If she reads this, sorry i ruined the surprise but i'm sure she won't even put the stinking things on because she'll say they are too retarded looking for her baby. But i don't care, i just spend 35 dollars of some cute little bodysuits for her baby Jack. 

4. I have a date tomorrow! JK.

But i am excited because I am hopefully having lunch with my friend Miguel and I always enjoy seeing him since it doesn't happen very often anymore. :-( He just told me he's going to be a daddy to a baby boy tonight so i'm supper pumped for him and his wife! yay! Now if only trying to find cute baby boy material wasn't so hard i could make my new favorite babies cute little diaper bags!

**Cheers** to gratefully being done with school in a matter of weeks, spending time with new and old friends, and to 2 hopefully happy and healthy babies this summmer....can't wait!

uh, random!

So the other day I was going to blog because a few too many "weird" things had occured but I just ran out of time. So, tonight I am going to let it all out:

1. I was at Wal-Mart the other day and I was going to pick up a few things. I look down an isle and see that its the isle I want to be on and i notice there's a mom and her possibly 5 yr old son and their cart about half way down the isle. no biggie, right? So i casually walk down the isle to go scout out what i need and be on my way and i walk in front of the lady and past her (i don't stop in front of her, no worries). Sounds like some boring story, but she FLIPS OUT! She goes, "unbelievable. Are you serious?" or something to that effect and grabs her son and literally storms off like a child would do. 

REALLY?!?!?! If she hadn't left so quickly and i wasn't so taken aback why what just happened or what just didn't happen, i would've been quicker to my toes and said something back. But i'm really glad i didn't because she seemed like she could've kicked my butt. 

Some people sometimes i just don't understand. I've thought about that situation a few times and just been baffled by what happened. like i didn't say "excuse me" before i walked infront of her or something. Is that rude? hmmm

2. So as if my Wal-Mart experience wasn't a little tainted by the weirdness of that lady having a tantrum in the make up isle, i go to check out and yes, i chose the "SLOW" line. 

So you hear the commercials, we'll match anyone else's prices or something to that effect. Most places these days will do that. If you come in with an advertisement that shows that a competitor has a lower price, most places will match it. Although, i don't understand why those people won't just go to THAT store and buy the product, but thats another topic for another day. Well, i guess i just never really gave it much thought seeing as how i really don't watch my money or care if something is 10 cents less at target vs the wal mart. 

Yea, not realizing it, i get in the line behind this older lady (probably about 75) who literally has 5 different competitors advertisements, probably from the Sunday paper. She also has a list of everything she is buying and who and which advertisement has the cheapest price. At least she was organized, but people, we're talking about the price of a 2 pound bag of potatoes being 2.00 vs. 2.50. It was crazy! And then, on top of that, she had coupons, also. Seriously guys, this lady did her homework! no joke. I didn't know people did this, but then again, i'm not a penny pincher so i'm not aware of a lot of ways i could be saving my money. I'm not writing this to make fun of the lady, don't get me wrong, i just had never seen it before. I don't think that way, i could care less about saving $1 here or 50 cents there, but apparently this lady did!!! Kudos to her!

Anyways, so those were my strange experiences. And back in the retail world, whenever things that like that would happen, the lady flipping out for no apparent reason or another lady taking 30 minutes at the cash register with all her lists and advertisements and whatnot, we would say, it was probably a full moon because the crazies were out. Not to be rude, but just because the saying, "the crazies come out only at full moons" and a lot of times, weird people or just out of the norm things would happen. This time, it was just a weird day, no full moon. 

Ok, so that is my post.

Oh, and 

PS- The same day i definitely had a conversation with the 8 yr old that i watch about smoking cigarettes. She asked how do you smoke one, why do people smoke, how does it cause cancer. I can't even remember some of the weird and yet slightly awkward questions she was coming up with about smoking and cigarettes. I felt a little weird having that type of conversation with her, seeing as how she's 8 and I'm not her mom. Should i be teaching her these things? haha. And to be honest, i really don't know much of anything about smoking so i wasn't the best resource for that subject. ...just added to the weirdness of the day!

*CHEERS* to it being the end of the school week (for me) and hopefully not having any more "crazies" run-ins for a while. haha. Have a great weekend for anyone who reads this!

PS-I'm so excited because tomorrow I have a date with a very special 1.5 month old and her mother! wooohooo

25 Random things

I'm a little late on this "copy cat" post type thing but I'm in the mood:

25 Random things about myself

1. My favorite color is plum (specifically that shade of purple) and I currently have a million things, unintentionally, in that color.

2. I have a spending addiction. I'd say i have a shopping addiction, but i feel like the girl from Confessions of a Shopaholic where I can spend money anywhere and on anything. 

3. My new favorite place is Paris. Absolutely loved every last second of my trip. By far one of the best weeks of my entire life.

4. I love reading but I never seem to do it. 

5. I'm kind of addicted to the tv. If nothing else, I will sit and watch hours of tv with no breaks.

6. My favorite food is Tex-Mex (Cazadores) but now i could eat bread and cheese all day.

7. I hate a phobia of bathrooms. I hate showering anywhere but my own place.

8. I live by myself and have for almost a year and half now and I would recommend it to EVERYONE. It's really hard but really rewarding, too.

9. Nearly all my 'close' friends are married but don't worry, i don't feel any rush to tie the knot!

10. One of my favorite hobbies is sewing, although i don't do it as much as i wish i did. 

11. I absolutely hate feet!!! If you stick your feet near me I will get very very mad. It's not even funny!

12. I bite my nails like there's no tomorrow. It's stupid annoying. But luckily its nearly my only bad habit.

13. Dr. Pepper is like air to me. I have to have it! I won't drink any other type of soda unless i'm desperate and even then i'll probably go for water instead. haha. 

14. I'm a majorly bad procrastinator. I always wait until literally the last minute to do everything and stress hardcore for absolutely no reason.

15. One of my all time favorite things to do is give gifts. I love the look on people's faces when they open a gift. 

16. I grew up on the back of a Harley Davidson. Growing up my daddy and I were in a motorcycle club and we rode together all the time.

17. I'm kind of a picture-taker-freak. If you haven't experienced my amazing photography skills you're missing out. jk. But seriously, I will take a jillion photos on trips. no worries about capturing a moment, Kara got it!

18. When i was 16 I was in a car accident. Nothing big. But about a month later, the po-po came to my house to give me a ticket for the car accident saying it was my fault! Really??? <--It didn't work! I fought it. Sucka!

19. So, as outgoing and confident as I may seem in nearly any situation....if you put a boy infront of me I'm like straight out of a movie where i don't know what to say and i make a fool of myself. Never figured this one out. :-/

20. I'm def. not a morning person! I have gotten better, as in a i don't yell at people in the mornings, but not my best time of the day, by far! haha.

21. I had a thing with cheese for a while. There was a period of time where at my apartment I would have shredded cheese, sliced cheese, a block of cheese, string cheese, and cheese sticks (they are different) in my fridge, all at the same time! <--- thats a lot of cheese! 

22. I was really sick for about a year in high school. The doctors never figured out what was wrong with me. I was always throwing up and never really ate. Needless to say, i was kind of skinny! (Glad thats over!!!)

23. I could probably say that my absolute biggest pet peeve is people canceling last minute. I understand there are unforeseen situations that arise, but it still annoys me, regardless!

24. I'm a VERY proud Texan! I have lots of state pride! (And I'm proud that George Bush and W both come from Texas!!!) 

25. Currently I commute 40 MILES (not minutes!) to go to college in another city. Crazy! I know.

Thats all folks!

*Cheers* to blogging and randomness!

i killed my ipod!

Bonjour, again!

So I still haven't gotten caught up on life yet so my posts about my awesome beyond awesome trip to Paris will just have to wait. Jet lag hasn't been too bad yet. I've just been taking 2 hour naps and going to bed at 9pm every night... but that has also helped me wake up for class, haha. 

Anyways, so after i got home from my trip, I was doing laundry since i no longer have a washer or dryer. Anyways, long story short, my mom was so graciously moving all my clothes from the washer to the dryer and found an unlovely surprise....

MY IPOD!

I had accidentally left it in my northface jacket pocket and put the jacket in the washing machine. Needless to say, my ipod is now dead. :-( 

So...today i went and bought a new one. I live off this ipod thing! I take it running and to the computer lab to study and just all over. I went and got the cheapest one seeing as how i had not thought to budget for a new ipod. stupid me! haha. 

Anyways, i got the ipod shuffle today (the old one, not the new one, because i wanted it to be PINK). It's so cute and small! So i'm kind of excited about that, although i wish i had checked my pockets before dumping everything into the washing machine. i sure learned my lesson (for the 15th time, haha).

Oh, and I was so excited today because although the bummer of having to buy a new ipod (just kidding, no bummer, i LOVE spending money), i also went and got Thai tea (aka, bubble tea): the LOVE of my life. haha. So today has been pretty darn good so far! 

*Cheers* to favorite things, oops-ies, and hopefully being a little more careful in the future!!!! PEACE OUT!

paris, oh, paris

Bonjour!

So I am writing the quickest blog ever known to man. It is the end of day 5 of my trip to Paris. I can't even believe that I have been here that long. These have been the longest days of my life and yet the shortest (if that makes any sense). If i blogged about everything i have done everyday, your mind would be spinning, because honestly, mine almost is. 

Today we took a 2 hour train ride out to Bayeux, France today to see the beaches at Normandy (D-Day). It was so overwhelmingly powerful. Long day of taking it all in but it was so crazy to think I am standing on soil that was bloody with American bodies, all fighting for the liberation of a country that they had no ties to. These people gave up their lives for people they didn't know and for countries they had never visited. And to know i was standing where those stupid Germans stood and lived and killed our American soldiers. It was so cool (but in a sad way). 

Anyways, so Paris is my new favorite place. I've traveled a little here and there but I have never fallen in love with some place so quickly (since Dallas). I really want to move here and funny thing is my aunt is kind of adamant about me moving here too. It is the loveliest place ever. I have taken over 600 pictures since we left Houston 6 days ago and I'm sure i'll take a few hundred more before the trip is over. (I'll post those later)

PS-i found this company called fat tire bike tours dot come and it is an american created and run company and they take you on bike tours of the city. most amazing experience of my life. I took a night tour of the city on a "california cruiser" last night and words can't even describe the amazingness i saw. And tomorrow i'm going on a day tour of the city on a bike. wow. 

Thats all for now....

Here's to looooooving Paris, but missing my America! :-) *cheers* (and lots of wine being drunk!) 

Broken Heart

So today was a little bit of a tough one. And not in the sense that I had a bad day.

It's a bit weird. I forget a lot that I am so blessed. Its so easy to get caught up in the every day stuff and forget that I am supposed to be thankful for the good seasons of my life and praise God for those times just as much as I am to go to Him during the rainy seasons. These past few days have just opened my eyes and for the better. 

I have a few close friends going through some hard times. Specifically 2 of my dear friends in Dallas and I have seen them both in the last few hours and heard about what they are going through. These girls are two beautiful Christian ladies with the most wonderful hearts you've ever met and yet their struggles are so deep and heartbreaking. 

Today it was just hard thinking about how they are in their rainy season, while i'm here in the sunshine. Sure, I have a bad day (sometimes a bad week), school sucks, i get lonely, blah blah blah. But what does that compare to when I have my health, I have a wonderful family who loves me, I have a job, etc. Today God blessed me with the remembrance of these things I have. And in doing so, He burdened my heart with the pains of my dear friends. It sucks. I wish I could be in their place and take their pain away. I wish I could be there for them more than I am. I wish there was something I could physically do to take it all away, to make it better. God reminded me today, "just bring it to me, Kara, just bring it to me". 

So in changing the *cheers* to a prayer:

I pray, dear Lord, for these wonderful ladies who you have blessed my life with. I want to lift up their tears and their pain to you. I pray that you would comfort them, and give them peace. I pray that they would seek you in these tough times and be reminded of your love for them. I pray that your will be done in each of these situations. In Jesus name, *AMEN*

Phone camera

So this post is going to be quite random, let me warn you. So i'm like everyone else who takes pictures with my phone when the occasion arises that its necessary to photograph the moment and I just don't have my camera with me. Well, i had forgotten all about these pictures until today and here is what my phone has been carrying around:

So here's one of my fav's. If you look closely, the picture was taken of the sign, not the car. (although i would love to be driving around in that thing) but anyways, I work in Highland Park and now i live here also. But i drive all over the neighborhood all during the week and these signs were all over the place in January. They have started to fade away as this is old news but President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush moved into Preston Hollow (a neighborhood adjacent to Highland Park) and so some creative person decided to make "welcome home" signs. If the people i were living with didn't vote for Obama, I would've found one myself and put it proudly in their yard. If you can't read, the signs say, "Welcome home George and Laura", with a Texas flag. This just made my heart beat a skip. With all the hatred you hear about for George at the end of his presidency and the transition, i was glad to not only be a Texan, the home of the 43rd president, but also proud to live near the president's new residence. I like George, OK?!?!

So this picture kind of baffled me. Please let me if you've seen this before, but I never had and I thought it was picture worthy. It's literally called "orange cauliflower" and "purple cauliflower". Seriously? Is that natural? At the local Kroger? I thought that might 

be something you see at Whole Foods or an 

"all natural" store even though purple and orange cauliflower don't seen

 "all natural". Just kind of a weird grocery trip if i do say so myself.

And lastly, but definitely not least: I saw these shoes at Target and they were just too cute! And by too cute, i mean, so ugly they were cute. Haha. My dear friend, Taylor, just have a baby girl almost 2 weeks ago and so everywhere i go i can't help but look at all the little girl stuff and trust me, as cute (ugly) as they were, if they had a size infant, i would've gotten them in a heartbeat. (although i'm sure Taylor would've never put them on her little Raleigh)  

So going in with the cheers mode: Here's to random moments captured, great friends to share them with, and lots of laughter along the way!!! *cheers*

Testing overload

So I definitely have 4 tests this week. 4 is also the number of classes i am taking. Therefore, i have a test in every single class this week. I'm not gonna lie, i always dread those weeks. It thankfully doesn't happen very often that every single teacher decides to give a test in the same week, but, this is one of those rare occasions. The only thing keeping me sane at this moment is knowing that once i'm done with all my tests, i will be on my way to paris. (and that is enough right now) 

But in the meantime (meantime being about 4 days)... I'm going to enjoy my new habit of running around my new neighborhood, and hope it does the job. Ps-Highland Park in Dallas is probably the most beautiful neighborhood I've ever seen. There are random parks and fountains all over the place and luscious green grass (which you don't see very often right now) and such beautifully landscaped yards. I'll have to take pictures sometime. 

Here's to staying sane long enough to make it to my vacation destination, and to enjoying my new, peaceful runs *cheers*

I'm in love...

Hello! So tonight i'm in a really good mood. Like a REALLY good mood. So good that i almost don't even want to go to bed. I just feel like i accomplished so much this evening. This doesn't happen very often, but i spent 3 straight hours tonight studying. It felt good. If only I could remember that and do it more often. haha. Anyways, so i'm very grateful that some of my stress from school has been lifted off of my shoulders thanks to a little studying....who knew?

Now all i need is to get through next week which includes a few tests and i'm paris bound. 

Oh, and I just feel the need to profess my love:

I am in love with George. 

my George Forman grill, that is! haha. GOTCHA!

but in all seriousness, I don't know where the world would be had the George Foreman grill not been invented. Ever since he was brought into my home, i have been eating like a king. Salmon, chicken, tilapia, even steak wrapped in bacon. All i can say is that the way to my heart was through my stomach and he definitely won my heart. haha. 

Mine looks just like this one pictured, pint size if you will, just large enough to cook one serving, but its just so perfect! If you do not own one, it would be money well spent to go and get one. I'm going to shut up about the george foreman grill now or I'll have to start being their new spokesperson. haha.

So, *to studying instead of cramming and eating well thanks to my george foreman grill, today couldn't have been any better (unless i was in paris, of coarse!) *cheers*

PS- I forgot another reason my day was good. The girls i watch, 2 of them are 11 years old and in 5th grade. They came home from school and told me about how they had the "puberty" talk today at school. Can i please tell you how funny it is to hear 11 year old girls talk about something they have no clue?!?! muchless that topic be puberty. My afternoon was full of lots of laughs to say the least. 

Paris!!! and then the bachelor...

Ok, so last night I was at this Bible Study I started going to recently and we all started talking about spring break. The girls in the Bible Study all go to SMU and apparently their spring break is next week. For a minute I started to freak out (internally)...SPRING BREAK IS NEXT WEEK?!?!?!?!? ...Ok, chill, Kara! But seriously, mine isn't next week but its the following which is still pretty darn close. I have been planning this trip to Paris for 4 or 5 months now and to think that this time in 1 1/2 weeks I am going to be in the most romantic city in the world just blows my mind. I never thought these days would actually come.

So, to make you blogger's jealous of my traveling self, here is where I am going to be staying: 

And then, the Bachelor Finale?!?! This is probably one of my most favorite shows ever (sadly). I think I have missed one season, last season, the entire time it's been on and it wasn't even my fault. I didn't have a tv during that season. But this finale was like none other. Anyone glued to the tv like I was? Ok, I have been glued to my computer screen watching it on the internet all today (ya'll it was like 7 hours long). Last night stunk to find out that I had to wait until TODAY to watch it online, but it has been the longest day of my life because I haven't been able to watch it in one sitting. And dude, there is ANOTHER episode tonight. I think this is the never ending finale. 

I am kind of grateful that it is finally over because it has been consuming my Monday nights, a bit ridiculous. So now I have a full 2 hours open to, ya know, do anything else besides watch Jason on the Bachelor. This was kind of a sucky finale. Jason seriously can't make up his mind, I hope Molly does it for him. This is actually all Deanna's fault if you look at it. If she had chosen the right one in the beginning, none of this would have happened. haha. But I feel bad for Melissa. I think I am going to try and find her here in Dallas and give her a big hug. :-( (and I wasn't even gunning for her). All I have to say is that as horrible as the show is, I can't not watch it, haha, and I can't wait for next season and to see who the next bachelor/bachelorette is. :-)

Oh, and one last thought....I'M GETTING OLD, ya'll!!

...my final day in Paris will be my 22nd birthday. (crazy)

**So here's to traveling abroad, getting old while doing so, and Jason hopefully finding the woman of his dreams (finally) *cheers*

I'm baaaaaaack!!!

Hey ya'll!!!!

I'm back! Just letting bloggers know that for the first time in OVER a year I have internet full time and I cannot tell you how excited that makes me. ahhh. I never realized how amazing internet was until I didn't have it. (its kind of like air, you need it)

Anyways, I'm in Abilene this weekend spending some quality time with my pretty cool friend, Val. We have had a good time...just saying. Be jealous. 

PS- I'm not gonna lie, i'm not Betty Crocker or Paula Dean and thats proven to me every time I attempt to cook or bake. Oh well. Thats why restaurants were invented, or even private chefs (or Valerie). 

So in keeping with tradition...

*Here's to old friends, sweet treats, and lots of laughter!!!!!!!**cheers**