Delayed - Days 7, 8 & 9

Day 7 – Favorite Movies


Ah, I do have quite a list of these ranging the entire gamut of genres.

Mona Lisa Smile
Beauty and the Beast
Across the Universe
Letters to Juliet
The Aviator
The Sound of Music
Ladder 49
Cinderella Man
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory/Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp are awesome!)
Now and Then
Crash
The Lion King
The Social Network
The Count of Monte Cristo
Remember Me
All 3 Jackass movies (the best when watched with the commentary on DVD)

Day 8 – A Place You’ve Traveled To

A lot of my recent travels have been to Washington D.C. which is a city that I have always loved. My older sister moved there like 2 years ago for a Master’s Program at American University so I have spent a lot of time visiting her. In the last few months, since my sisters engagement in December of 2009, I have been up there even more frequently to help with wedding planning and of course the wedding this past July. I always have a blast when I go there. D.C. is definitely a city that is on my list to go for my Master’s Program some day.

I also will be heading to Boston the first weekend in November! Woo-hoo for traveling!

Day 9 – A Picture of Your Friends

My KKG Key Sister

My Roommates

My KKG Little Sis

My older sister - getting readying for a canoeing adventure!

My younger sister - at Epcot

Fellow KKG Fam69 member and one of my favorites!

Love is a many splendid thing....

...Love lifts us up where we belong.

Day 3-Your first love


I have never been “in love.”

Sure, I love: my parents, my sisters, my family, my faith, my friends. But the experience of being “in love” is definitely foreign to me.

That being said, I also consider myself a classic romantic at heart. Sure my past has been riddled with minor crushes and insignificant boyfriends, but never love, and I’m okay with that. I used to think that love was all I ever wanted, and I still do, but at this point in my life I have no desire to be in a relationship. I have so many things that I would like to experience in my life and for some reason I have this notion n my head that being in a relationship will hold me back from accomplishing all of these things. I know that shouldn’t be the case, that the person who I am meant to fall in love with will be there not to hold me back, but to stand next to me and help me in accomplishing all of my dreams. But right now, I see so many people around me in relationships instantly sucked into the whole realm of marriage and babies and “adulthood” and I don’t want to be there yet, it scares me. When I hear people around me talking about “oh our next car has to be big so we can fit a bunch of babies in it” it truly scares me. I just want to say to them, you’re only 22 years old, what’s the rush?

I know this all may make me sound very cynical, but I swear I’m not. I do honestly believe that there is the perfect soul mate out there for everyone, and yes, some day my prince will come. But right now I am completely content being single and not in love.

MRS. Degree

Sooooo I'm sitting in the dining room of the house that I share with two of my sorority sisters...my dinner is in the microwave (rice, beans, and steak leftover from some Argentinean restaurant we went to last night); my roommate is cooking dinner for herself as well an her fiancé too. She is in there, apron on, recipe book in hand, cooking away while her “significant other” is playing video games. I walk in after getting home from the supermarket with all of my fixings to make homed salsa to go with my dinner and she is in the kitchen whipping around making a plethora of things (to freeze she says). I’m sorry but that doesn’t sound fun to me.

To me it seems too much like June Cleaver. I’m not a fan.

I used to think that was all that I really wanted. To go to college, meet my man, and settle down with a family (the epitome of a MRS). And now I’m totally, for the most part against it. I don’t see how people can do it. It seems super boring. I have so much that I would like to do with the rest of my life, so many places to go and I don’t want to be held back by anything.

The thing that gets me the most is that I know they give me looks of pity because I’m not in a relationship, and nowhere near the “stage” of life that they are. Sometimes I feel like they look down on me when they (both of my roommates and their boyfriend/fiancé) are planning “couples” stuff. I’ll talk about my love of foreign food, languages, and my passion for traveling and they look at me like I’m stupid for having all these things I find interesting.