i'm bored...

wine OR beer

neither

coffee OR tea

coffee, with flavored creamer

night gown OR pajamas

pajamas

bath OR shower

mostly showers

lefty OR righty

righty
cake OR pie

...both...
pumpkin pie OR pecan pie

pecan pie with vanilla ice cream
one story OR two story

two

dog OR cat

dog

early bird OR night owl

night owl

sport utility OR car

i drive a car, i want a small suv...
vanilla OR chocolate

chocolate

scrambled OR over-easyover

scrambled

dress OR pants

pants...

mustard OR ketchup

ketchup

red OR green

i like both....

laptop OR desktop

laptop
coke OR pepsi

coke, pepsi is nasty

flats OR high heels

flats

fiction OR non-fiction

whatever books for school fall under...

pulp OR no pulp

neither

hugs OR kisses

...both...

totally random

so this is totally random and will have to be short, but i was on facebook and someone posted a video that was titled lambuth is... so i watched it, and it was a bunch of students and faculty that were saying lambuth is...something. and it was quite gay. like it was made to be this touching video that reminds me of a an aids or children's rights add or something like that and it just ended up being a bunch of the emi students and some faculty saying things-and might i add some of them def. did not look like they actually felt that positve way about lambuth...anyways, i am going to quite being negavtive right now.

if you have any interest in lambuth, if you are an alum, if you are a family member, if you love lambuth, donate. if you haven't heard lambuth is in desperate need...and any little bit can help.

k, i am done...go lambuth--if you could only hear the sarcasm in my voice.


going to arkansas to look at wedding dresses!
love.

finally i can have a christmas background!!!

finally i can listen to christmas music!!!

finally i can decorate my apartment!!!

finally...

this season is by far my most favorite season of all, don't get me wrong, i love thanksgiving and 4th of july as well as Easter-but Christmas is my absolute favorite. i love the colors, i love the weather, i love the time off, i love the smells, i love the music, but most of all i love the reason for the season i love that this season is meant to mark the birth of the one person that has be able to save the world--but he can only save the world if we let him. God sent his only son to us, to save the world...and the least we can do as citizens of the World, and as Christians is to do his will, accept him, be HIS hands and feet. this season is meant to honor his birth, honor the way he came into our world to save it, honor and remember that without his birth-we could not have the possiblity of a promise.
my hope and prayer for this Christmas season is that all are able to realize and remember this, and remember that yes the presents and hoop-lah of the season are great and fun, but the real reason for the season is to honor and remember Jesus' birth...

enjoy the season, enjoy family and friends, enjoy the time away from school or work, but most of all remember and enjoy the true reason for the season.

all my love
mo

happy thanksgiving

hope everyone has had a wonderful thanksgiving full of family time and good food. personally i have spent the last day and a half in dyersburg with drew and his family and then i am going home tomorrow early afternoon to spend time with my mom and dad. while in dburg drew opened my eyes to the first 3 harry potters and we started the 4th but i fell asleep...so we will have to finish those sometime soon.
oh, found out that my sr sem teacher picked the other person's sr thesis to get read and i am ok with that, just a little frustrated that she didn't email me earlier so that i wouldn't freak out about having to correct it and then present it--but o well...
and i am still debating getting up and going shopping in the morning...i already did the shopping that i wanted to do via online through sears.com but there's some stuff at kohls that i would like to look at-some christmas decor that's on sale, some new sheets, possibly some kitchen stuff...not sure, it may be decided according to if i want to get out of bed in the morning...because i would have to get there early because it will be PACKED!! that's one thing that i don't like about shopping in jackson because people come to jackson from all around because it's closer than memphis but hopefully it won't be that bad, but we will see. there is also a possiblity that i will head over to target when i get done at khols, but yet again, not sure about that...

anyways, i hope that everyone had an amazing thanksgiving and that everyone is truly thankful for each and every blessing that God has given us.

Thanks be to God

love to all!

p.s. tomorrow starts the official Christmas season-atleast in my eyes-so that means christmas decor and music--wahoo!!!!!

mother-daughter

good news...possibly

so as you may remember, my sr. thesis paper was due last friday and the whole point of these is to tie our major-or something in our major-to the thinkers we talked about in jr and sr seminar. the tradition is that each sr sem teacher picks 1 or 2 "excellent" papers and then those go to a group of professors and they pick the ones to be read at the sr thesis convo...well after class dr dennis was like miranda and stephanie will you hold on a min i need to talk to you...well needless to say we were scared to death about what this woman was going to say to us...and basically she wanted to tell us that our papers, plus one more were in contention to be submitted to be read at the convo, but that only 2 not 3 would be...so basically she said that i made and A on my sr. thesis and that there was a chance that i would have the honor of presenting it to a room full of faculty and some studnets that were most likely required to be there...she was going to read them again and then let us know via email which ones she picked...secretly i want it to be mine but then again, i don't because i don't want to get up infront of professors talk about my paper...but i guess we will find out this afternoon!!

ill keep you posted!

monday...

i know i say this just about every monday....but ugh! it's monday. now granted it's a very lazy monday, but it's monday nonetheless...

hope everyone has a great day!

getting there...

So today I am excited…excited about a lot of things…here are just a few.

*in less than a year I will be marrying the love of my life!!!
*I am almost completely done with my undergraduate course work!!!
*I got my student teaching placements for next semester
*I am done with my observation hours and packets
*got some Christmas shopping done this weekend
*I am almost done with my case study
*I get to go wedding dress shopping next Saturday
*I have 5 days of class left with 8 days off
*my birthday is only 11 days away
*formal is only 11 days away
*my last EC meeting today
*got gas for $1.65 yesterday

so finished a final today, got a 50/50 on it, turned in my last 2 observation packets and made 150/150 on each of them, got my student teaching placements for next semester-at Nova and then JCT. i am not happy about JCT, not at all but it all will work out and if anything it will be 8 weeks full of what not to do in my own classroom...i also drove to memphis, went shopping at the outlet mall in lakeland-all 3 stores still left out there. got my mom's christmas present, got some cute clothes-including a black half jacket thing that i have been looking for and a sweater that i absolutly love!!!!
anyways, i am going to go make my bed, so i can sleep in it and then tomorrow we are going to look at the Dixon again and then hopefully shopping for a formal dress, then heading back to jackson to work on the last bit of work for this semester-which consists of a case study and finals...and that's it!!!
good night all!
love

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. ~Herm Albright, quoted in Reader's Digest, June 1995

just waiting for my prof. to get out of a meeting and then turing in my sr. thesis...all 19 pages of it!!!
so freakin excited that it's over with!

so i am soooooo close to being done this semester!
i just have to put the finishing touches on 2 observation packets (hopefully being done today), proofread and make final changes on my sr. thesis (definitly happening this afternoon), finish tutoring and giving post-tests (starting this afternoon, finishing the tuesday after thanksgiving), working on case study to turn in (hopefully being worked on over thanksgiving break) then comes studying for finals...BOO!

anyways, i just woke up about 15 min ago...from sleeping since about 6:00 yesterday...and then for about 3 hours before drew woke me up with dinner. so now that i slept away almost an entire day i am off to class, then homework, then tutoring, then work again, then to reagan's art show reception this afternoon!

hope everyone has a great day!
<3

"Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves."
~Dale Carnegie

family

quote...

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. -- Sir Winston Churchill

done with the reading lesson plan...
done with the d.i. lesson plan...
done with newsletter...
done with classroom management plan...
done with intermediate school methods observation packet...
done with rough draft of sr. thesis...

it's monday...

...and there is no denying that it's monday.

i have so much to do this week and so little energy i am not quite sure how i am going to get through it all. i have a classroom management plan do tomorrow night that i just started on, i have a reading lesson plan due tomorrow morning, i have to tutor this tuesday and thursday-maybe be close to being done...and i also have a d.i. lesson plan due friday, i have a newsletter due thursday, and i have my sr. thesis due friday...i think when saturday gets here i am going to sleep...and sleep forever!
i also have my 3 observation packets due either next monday or tuesday, i have an assessment final next monday and then the whole finals thing, i need to get working.
luckily next week is Thanksgiving so it's only 2 days of classes and then good food, family-although only part of my family, because i think i am just going to go to dyersburg...still not sure, and then shopping on friday!!
i hope to get some good christmas shopping done on friday but we will have to wait and see, if anyone knows some good deals on the digital picture frames please please please let me know, i am looking to buy atleast 3 and i am a poor college kid...

anyways, i really need to conitnue working on this plan...
hope everyone has a great day and here is my quote/verse for the day (something i want to start doing...)

"Sometimes God places people in your life who help and encourage you even if they don't know it. They are the true ministers; those whose lives, words, and actions demonstrate their faith in such a way that God's message is preached even when no sermon is." ~ Bailey C.

so i'm tired...and sore...and bored...and ready for this semester to be over with.

it's almost 8:00 p.m. on a saturday night and what am i doing?
--homework.

i spent the end of the week at camp and it was amazing and very hard at the same time. thursday night truett and i headed up to camp. i wanted to go early to work on some homework and i also didn't want to have get up and leave jackson extremely early on friday morning, so we went early and stayed at gary's house. josh showed up a few hours later and the 3 of us hung out at camp...just the 3 of us. it was really weird, truett and i ate chicken that had been cooked but gone bad in the cooler, we explored the ARC through the windows because it was locked, we walked around waterfront and then went back to the house. both gary and momma were gone, still in memphis at the hospital. so we hang out and then i go crawl in bed...next thing i know it's 7:40 in the morning and we were supposed to be setting up high ropes by like 7:30...so yea, but the 3 of us plus jennie and alyssa got everything set up and then did ropes for an AMAZING HOSA group from somewhere. part of them did high ropes while the other part did low ropes. they were amazing...
anyways i spent the rest of the day working on homework and then drew came up and i helped with check in for the retreat, that was fun. it gave me a purpose for being there. it was also awkward around a certain group and i don't know why, i wish it wasn't and i don't know how to change it...
anyways eventually went down to the office to work on my sr. thesis...

then we went to worship and that's where it got hard to be up there...
josh had planned the worship for that night and asked me to do opening prayer so i agreed to help him and it was a praise worship...sometimes my favorite kinds of worships...but it was so hard to be up there and be a part of that worship knowing that it's probably one of the last times i will get to do that...and it was really tough. i got to sit at the back and watch these youth praise god and give thanks to him and it's just such an amazing thing...i feel like that's where i belong, i feel like that is what i am called to do, but i can't work at camp my whole life and i don't know what to do. i have tried the youth director thing, i have tried the youth intern thing and neither one has full filled my calling-if that makes sense--then josh has the closing prayer and he starts talking while john wallace starts playing a song and i immediately know what song it is and immediately start to cry...he is playing lord of the dance and josh says that this is the closing prayer...and the waterworks just continue...

that place is holy ground, that place is amazing, but that place is nothing without those kids, it's nothing without their smile and their joy and that is what makes that place so special to me.

please keep me in your prayers as i continue to try and figure out my calling and figure out what god wants me to do...

"do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, to all the people you can, as long as you can, that is greatness" -john wesley

"i have it all planned out--plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for." -jeremiah 29:11

p.s. i took my second praxis today...well have to see about the scores.

so there are officially only 12 days left of class...12 days...only 12 days and i am starting to freak out. my to do list has grown, shouldn't it be shrinking? i will list everything soon...not so that you know, but so that i can see what i need to do. things are hectic and i don't know when i will have the time to do all of them on top of being a college senior...projects are huge and they are all due around the same time...although there is a good thing commin, after 3 p.m. tomorrow, i will be done with undergrad observations FOREVER!!!! and on top of all of this i am taking the PLT, praxis on saturday and doing ropes at camp on friday morning...and i am sooo sad that i can't be at camp this weekend-it's a conference youth retreat and josh asked me to be a chaperon for the kids at henderson...i wanted to soo bad but i couldn't...so im thinking i may go surprise them on saturday night, but not sure about that so far...
anyways, i am going to get on with my to do list so that i can go take a little nap-hopefully.

TO DO LIST:
-Senior Thesis-(11/21)
-Reading Lesson Plan- (11/18)
-Differentiated Lesson Plan- (11/21)
-Assessment final (11/24)
-Elementary Mtds Observation packet (11/24)
-Integrated Observation Packet (11/25)
-Intermediate School Mtds Observation Packet- (11/25)
-Classroom Management Plan- (11/17)
-PLT Praxis- (11/15)

...and these are just the big projects, not the tests or chapter summaries or other "little" assignments...

please, please, please keep me in your prayers as i try to finish this, oh and on top of this,my computer decided not to work again, the blue screen thing again...

love you all

so there is this school that i am observing at for one of my classes...(no names will be given) and it's awful. today i spent almost 2 1/2 hours observing and just from that time i have a page full of complaints and notes written. this is the 3rd time i have been in that classroom and it has not gotten any better. today the observing teacher left me alone in the room with the students several different times for a total of about 30 minutes...she also had me take these 6th graders on a bathroom break...i didn't even know where the bathrooms were in this school, much less the bathroom routine or procedures...i also have to teach a lesson for my class so i am planning on teaching on this thursday and she has known this and i asked her when i was there last week...and she just told me that we would talk about it today...so when i brought it up today her response was pointing to the board, reading me part of an objective and giving me a standard...and that's it. they have a test on friday-the day after i teach so her response was, you can "drag on a powerpoint" or something...AHHH i hate teachers like this. i also have to get my lesson plan "apporved" by my professor...and it's supposed to happen 2 days in advanced, so thats yesterday...but hopefully she can help me figure out a test review game to play with 30 something students in a room with round tables...

any idease?

north park...

so this weekend was absolutly amazing....and it's not over yet!

*friday*

-class, and they were actually fun and interesting...

-observing at Nova, which i love doing...

-playing at the park with dani and drew

-walking around cypress grove with dani and drew...

-initiation of 14 amazing women...

-brittany proving that she is my daughter...

-searching for food...

-awkward times at perkins...

-dinner at steak and shake...

*saturday*

-woke up late...

-finally headed to memphis...

-couldn't even hug my mom, stupid mono...

-got my pillow back...

-headed to the Civil Rights Musueum...

-drove around downtown...

-got to see nikki...

-got to have dinner with daniel and chris...

*was in bed and asleep by 10:45...

*sunday*

-got to sleep in...

-getting ready for feast of roses...

and it's only 11:30...

part of my afternoon...

just a few pictures from my beautiful afternoon

*love*

so much for it being a wordless wednesday...

i'm just in a good mood today...

here are some of the reasons why

*got a 96 on my Sr. Sem paper

*got a 300/300 on my projects for elementary methods

*have gotten lots done on my unit plan (due tomorrow)

*wedding plans are going great

*got the photographer i wanted for wedding stuff

*get to observe in the classroom i like this afternoon

*possibly thai cafe for dinner

I am truly blessed by God, and thanks to Becca's sermon yesterday--

PRAISE BE TO GOD for all of these blessings i have because without Him, none of these would be possible.

w.w.

The 44th President of the United States of America

So, I sat at my apartment and watched the first part of the election counting and the electoral college numbers going to each side...I left to goto campus for an AGD thing and left the t.v. with Obama winning by like 30 something votes...then Aimee walks in and just says, "he won"

even though my vote did not goto obama and i am not to thrilled about him being the president elect...i have to respect the fact that this is who america wanted to be president...i sit here and i watched his acceptance speech and now am watching the men with their wives and i can't help but hope and pray for the best for our country...

i hope and pray that these men, and the others they will appoint to lead our country will lead our country with pride, and respect, and tact, and only by the Grace of God...

God Bless America

it's a monday...