33 & 34

33: Yesterday I "liked" getting back to school and seeing all my friends here. I really wasn't ready to leave home again yet, but Elon feels a lot like home now too. I'll be going back to Ashburn in two weeks anyway.

34: Today I "like" that all my homework is starting to slow down because classes are ending in a week. We're doing a lot of presenting and last minute two page papers, but I'm mostly done with most of my classes. I'm so excited for these next two semesters because I'll be spending most of my time in the arts building. I can't wait! It's been WAY too long since I picked up a paintbrush or touched my colored pencils. I just haven't had time.

32

My "like" today is my puppy (who is actually a 13 year old dog). She's currently sleeping on my bed next to me and snoring loudly. It always makes me giggle when dogs snore. Pinky (she had a pink nose when I got her, and I was five) is getting old and starting to lose her hearing, but she's still the sweetest dog ever. This break I've spent a lot of time with her cuddled up next to me or on my lap and I'll definitely miss that when I go off to school. She's forever my puppy.

My mommy and my princess puppy, Pinky.

31

My "like" today is getting to spend time with a bunch of friends I haven't seen in awhile. Randomly Tricia called me on Wednesday saying that she'd be in town on Friday but only for five hours. She called me right when she got here and we went to the Stone Bridge game and I saw a bunch of friends. It was cool seeing everyone after a couple months. High school football players look so small now that I'm used to the Elon players! hahah. SBHS won. Of course =]. Then Tricia and I headed to the Starbucks we always used to hang out at when we were in middle school and freshman year of high school. It's nice revisiting the old places. We went back to my house and then had dinner with her family which is like my second family. I miss having them live five minutes away but I know they're a family I'll never lose touch with. Tricia left and I met up with Lynnsey, Michaela, and Amy and sat with them while they ate dinner and then just hung out. It was so much fun just getting to see my friends in person instead of talking to them over the internet, phone, or letters. I can't believe tomorrow is already my last full day here. I can't wait until Christmas break!

Thirty -- Thanksgiving Day

Yesterday we went up to Pennsylvania to visit my family for Thanksgiving and this morning I woke up to snow. It was the perfect way to start off the holiday season

Twenty-Nine

Today we drove to Pennsylvania to see my family and we had Thanksgiving dinner with my mom's side of the family. They're the happier, sarcastic, making-fun-of-each-other side of the family and I LOVE spending time with them. It was just great to be together after months of being apart. =]

27 & 28

Tuesday:

My "like" today is the cheerleaders on coed. Not for any particular reason, I was just thinking about how thankful I am to be on this team. We have so much fun and I love how we're all so close. I feel like I can call up any one of them if I needed something. I love having that sort of family. It's definitely my favorite team that I've ever been on. 

Today:

I'm home.

26

Found this is in the grass behind my dorm on my way back from church today:

Twenty-five

Saw this on my way to breakfast yesterday...

23 & 24

23:

I "like" movie night with friends....even if I did fall asleep halfway through

24:

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS

Enough said.

Twenty-two

I "like" the free medical coverage that I get for being a varsity athlete.

Last night at practice I was dropped as we were learning a new pyramid. It wasn't a bad fall, only from about five feet but when I landed I came down on a rolled ankle. It swelled up so I iced it and stuff but when I woke up this morning it just hurt even worse. So I went to go see the trainer and it happened that the head trainer, Eric, was there. This was shocking because the trainers are very rarely in their office, especially Eric. He checked out my ankle and said that I have a first degree sprain and he gave me a brace and told me to keep icing it and stuff. If it keeps bothering me I'm supposed to go back and we'll "seek further treatment". He also told me that the cheerleaders are "killing him" with all the injuries we've been having this year hahah. My ankle already feels a lot better now that I have the brace to stabilize it. Hopefully it'll be alright for the football AND basketball game I have to cheer at on Saturday!

20 & 21

Twenty:
Yesterday I got to spend an hour in a 24/7 prayer room. This was especially cool because a couple months ago I'd read Red Moon Rising which is all about the 24/7 prayer movement. The room was so overwhelming with so many different ways to pray and devote yourself to God. I wish I'd had more time there. It was pretty awesome.

21:
Today I went to my roommate's orchestra concert with some of our friends and it was awesome. Orchestras  always remind me of NYC in the winter time. Probably because that's when my family normally goes to see shows like the Rockettes that have orchestras. It just put me in a really good mood. I'm starting to feel the holiday spirit! (...well once I get these papers written so I can go home for Thanksgivivng break hahah)

Eighteen and Nineteen.

Eighteen --

Elon won our football game against Furman yesterday! It's always so much more fun to cheer at a game in which we win. 

Nineteen --

After I got back from church this morning I went to my friend Sarah's room and bribed her to get out of bed by saying that I'd "swipe" (a meal plan) for her if she came to brunch with me, so finally she got out of bed and we walked over to Colonnades. I had an omelette, french toast, bacon, and melon and it was SOO good. Exactly what I wanted. I love big brunches on weekends, especially Sundays.

17

My like from day seventeen was that Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was on ABC Family.
So last night instead of hanging out with friends until curfew, I lied in bed and watched it. It felt so good to have a night to myself, especially filled with Harry Potter.

Fifteen & Sixteen

15:

After Youthquake (the middle school service I'm helping out with) all the college students went to chick-fil-a and then over to Brad's house to play video games and ended up playing poker. All the guys kept making sexist jokes and then more about me being a cheerleader...and then I OWNED all of them in poker. It was absolutely hilarious. I'm also really OCD about having the lines on the poker chips all lined up and once everyone figured this out they wouldn't stop flinging poker chips into my piles or just knocking my piles over so that I would have to realign all my chips again. As annoying as this was, it was hilarious and it's good to know that we're good enough friends that we can pick on each other. I'm really starting to feel at home here. I'm really glad that I'm starting to make more friends who are Christians, even though none of these kids actually go to Elon. It's just nice to hang out and play poker and not having someone spill a beer all over you. I really enjoyed my night and I hope there's many more like this to come.

(All my chips =] )

16:

Today I was reading a book for my Ethical Practice class that is all about the psychological differences between the ways that women and men think and act. It was talking about the development of children so it was interviewing two eleven year old kids -- Amy and Jake. They were asked "When responsibility to oneself and responsibility to others conflict, how should one choose?" Amy responded by saying that you should weigh the options and Jake said, "You go about 1/4 to the others and 3/4 to yourself." When asked "Why?" Jake responded by saying, 

"Because the most important thing in your decision should be yourself, don't let yourself be guided totally by other people, but you have to take them into consideration. So, if what you want to do is blow yourself up with an atom bomb, you should maybe blow yourself up with a hand grenade because you are thinking about your neighbors who would die also." 

hahahah

14

Late as usual....but my like from yesterday was the warm, sunny weather. It made everything a little nicer.

Thirteen

Since I came into college with 20 credits from APs, I got to pick my classes before most of the freshmen and after seeing a couple of my classes get filled and having to pick new ones I got the most amazing schedule ever. For winter term I'll be taking "The Human Face" which is an art class then in the spring I'm taking Statistics, College Writing, Fundamentals of Design, and Painting I. It works out that I'm taking one academic class and one art class every day, which means I'm only taking two classes a day (and only one on Friday!) while still filling 16 credits that I need. I've never been so excited for a schedule.

On the Twelfth Day of "Like List"...

Grocery shopping with friends, namely Jenny and Christiana. We spent over an hour just walking up and down all the aisles deciding what we needed (and what we wanted). It sounds weird saying grocery shopping was fun and relaxing but it definitely was. Andddd I bought the coolest water bottle ever:

Yes, that's my new "Belle" water bottle. Totally worth five dollars, I'll be using it every day.

Eleventh Day

My "like" from yesterday is being able to get "chair" with both the freshman boys on my team...This probably sounds really foreign if you aren't a coed cheerleader haha so here's a picture of what chair is:

We had a basketball game and last minute one of our girls, Rachel, got sick and couldn't cheer so we had to change all our pyramids and partners around to make things work out, since my base has a broken hand I was just tumbling during everything so I was the one who had to be put into Rachel's place for most things. Being the heaviest flyer on the team, I never work with the new freshman boys, but coach asked me to try chair with both of them and it worked with both boys! It's just one of those things that makes you happy to say that you can do it. 

Ten.

I missed yet another day haha. Sooo my "like" of yesterday was seeing "The Social Network". I haven't seen a movie since before I got to school so it was just fun being in a movie theater. A couple of us went for my friend Ian's birthday and we had gotten Quedoba and Cold Stone and it was just a good night all together. Afterwords we (the girls) headed out to a party and danced FOR HOURS. It was so much fun having a girls night out and just having fun and singing way too loudly and dancing way too stupidly. It was just a fun night all together.

9

My like of the day is new friends. While I was away this past weekend, my core group of friends started hanging out with some of the girls on our hall. When I got back I felt a bit out of place since I wasn't included in all the Halloween pictures and inside jokes. Tonight we all went out to dinner though and it was awesome. It's always good to meet new people and these girls are hilarious. Annddd we ate huge cookie sundaes....they made everything just that much more amazing. hahaha

Ocho.

Tonight was just awesome in general. I went to my first official youthquake service (the middle school service at my church) and met all the kids. They seem awesome and I can't wait to get to know them better and to help this ministry grow. I can tell this is just the start of something that's going to be really awesome. After that the rest of the college kids and I went to Chick-fil-a and just hung out. It was really fun getting to know the people from my church better. It's starting to feel more like home. Then I came back to campus and my three best friends here and I watched "I love you man" and ate chocolate cake and a pomegranate and then played violin. I love my friends hahah =].
Tonight was just awesome.

Day Seven

It's only been a week and I've already gotten terrible at posting on the right days. hahah Oh well...so my "like" of the day yesterday was actually two things.

1. The banana bread my mom made me to bring back to school with me. I've been eating it every morning for breakfast and it's sooo much better than cereal.

2. This youtube clip...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U76nl_icKlA

Day 6

I realize it's technically day five, but I forgot to post yesterday so I'm doing that now! My "like" today was group showers...which isn't as weird as it sounds. There are four shower stalls in our hall bathroom and I have three best friends in my hall. Last night we decided to take a "group shower" and all shower at the same time. I'm not sure why we thought of this earlier because it was possibly the funniest thing ever. I couldn't even tell you what made it funny, it just was.