Weekend of Fun!

Hello everyone.

This weekend was really great! Busy Busy Busy!!! Mom came up on Friday night and stayed until Saturday night.

Friday night, mom gets here and we go to buffalo wild wings to eat. Then after that, we go to the bar and stay till 2:00am! She seemed to have a lot of fun. We drank and watched the mavs game. David and a couple of his frat brothers joined us. Mom made some friends at another table, it was funny. haha!

Saturday we got up and went to IHOP to eat. Then we went to walmart and spent a couple hours buying ALL KINDS OF STUFF for my apartment! About $400 worth! haha! I got everything I need for my kitchen and for my bathroom! The only things left to buy are cleaning supplies and my bed, entertainment center, couch, and dining table. After wal-mart, we went to target and shopped some. Mom bough clothes, and she bought me a new purse and wallet!! Then we went to applebees to eat, and David met up with us there and ate with us. After all that she had to head home because she and I both had to work the next day. It was TONS of fun. I do love hanging out with her. And I am soo lucky to have such a great mom to hang out with and also help me get the things I want/need for my apartment. She will be coming back up this Saturday to help me move into the apartment and hopefully buy a bed!!

Sunday I worked 3-4:30. LONG day. And kinda sucked. But Its ok. I don't work again till Sunday of this week, which is cool and bad at the same time. I get more time for school, but I get less cash. I hate how that works!!

Only 4 more days until I can pickup my keys for the apartment. Time is going very fast, and I am thankful for it.

Every now and then I get kind of scared about moving into the apartment. I am going to be alone a lot. Since at the dorm there is ALWAYS someone around. And David is moving farther than he is now so that will be harder. But at least I will have Jethro to keep me company and help me feel safe.

Here are some pictures of the bedding I bought for my bed and my bathroom stuff.

My Handtowels!

My bathroom setup! I love the curtains!

My soap dish and toothbrush holder!

Shower curtain hooks!

My beeeddd!!

I love that my bedroom and bathroom will kinda match! Blue and Brown are soo pretty together!

The Weekend is here!

Its the weekend! I love Fridays. Not just cause its Friday, but because I don't have work or class today.

David bought me roses yesterday!!! No occassion. Just wanted to. Which was SO sweet!!

Yesterday, I went to the Phi Mu Alpha American Music recital here at school and saw David sing. He was sooo handsome in his tie and hat.

I didn't get many pictures...I should have!! haha.

He made dinner again last night. Chicken fajitas. They were soooo good!! lol

Mmk. So, on Wednesday, dad called me telling me that Mom called him and told him that something was going on with the cruise ship she was on. The ship suddenly started tilting and people fell over and were freaking out. They didn't know what was going on. Dad called the coast guard who called the captain and found out that the captain had to make a sharp turn due to a Buoy. 60 people were hurt, but mom was okay and she is home now. I was sooo scared for here. I am so thankful she is ok. Here is the link for the news article. http://cbs4.com/local/Carnival.cruise.ship.2.1650013.html

Here are some pictures from the walk with Jethro!

I love this last picture. It's all...photographic...or somethin...haha!

Well, mom is coming up to Denton today to hang out with me. Yay! Today is BEAUTIFUL too!

Only ONE week till I get to move into my apartment! =D I can't wait!!!

Day in the life of Whitney

Today was actually pretty good. Got to ASL class and all we had to do was take the 10 question true/false test and leave. So I was able to get lunch a LOT earlier than I would have normally, before my second class. My education class is getting REALLY boring, and I am tired of it. Mostly cause I don't even need it for my degree since I changed concentrations.

Ganzy and I went to see Jethro again. Each of us walked a dog, and it was a lot of fun. Lou had Alfred (Lou's Great Pyrenees) Ganzy had Koda (senior dog, Husky/German Shepard mix, and I had my lovely Jethro who still amazes me how great he walks. He never barks at barking dogs, or pulls to get to them. It is SO nice. But it was fun. I love walking dogs. It gives me more motivation to get exercise, because I am TOO bored when I am by myself. So it will be great when he lives with me and gets me out walking too.

Ganzy, Sarah and I went to eat a crooked crust on fry street after that. Which is soo yummy. I have been there about 4 times. It is really cheap, and tastes yummy!

Thats all that happened today. I have a TON of homework that I should be working on instead this...but I gotta update my blog of course! XD I shall do some homework and spend the rest of the evening with my Love, David.

So...until next time!

Pictures of Jethro!

Hii everyone!

So, I figured out how to get my internal memory pictures to the memory card (which ended up not being that difficult) sooo here are the pictures of grooming Jethro.

Car Ride to Dog park

Sleepy head..lol

Me learning to groom a Great Pyrenees!

He soo big!

Hi everyone!

CUTE RIGHT?! I should be going to visit him again tomorrow. Perhaps I will get to take him on a walk again.

So today was interesting. My Short Story class professor is Seriously Ill and will no longer be our teacher anymore. So we will have subs the rest of the semester...UHG. I don't like it but there isn't anything I can do about it.

Work was uneventful really. Except that a lady came in with a Great Pyrenees puppy! And she adopted her from the Texas Great Pyrenees Rescue too! PUPPY SOOO CUTE!

Well..thats about it...

I shall be back tomorrow!

Fur balls!

So, went to visit Jethro for the third time I believe. Today was a rainy icky day. So we didn't go for a walk or play in the backyard. We did go to the dog park for a bit, but we didn't stay too long because of the weather. But Jethro had plenty of time to sniff around.

When we got back to Lou's house, we (Ganzy, Lou and I) just sat with Jethro and talked and all. Lou showed me all the brushes that she uses for him, so I will know how to groom a Great Pyrenees. They won't be took expensive all together at PetSmart (along with my awesome 15% discount! haha!) I learned how to groom him, and completely brushed him head to toe! It was actually a lot of fun and relaxing. He loves to be brushed which will make the shedding easier to deal with. We brushed out a small dogs worth of hair...hahaha!

After brushing, she went a cut up a hot dog in some pieces and I practicing teaching Jethro to lay Down. He has sit VERY well, and he connected laying down with treat and praise RIGHT away! He is VERY smart! I am excited to be able to teach him. Since I work at PetSmart, I get a free 6 wk training course, and I have already made the date for training. So, that will help him bond with me and learn.

It was a lot of fun today. I DID take pictures, however I didn't have my memory card in my camera, and I can't figure out for the life of me how to put the pictures from internal memory onto my computer...more messing around with it and I may figure it out. I will get the pictures up ASAP.

I have made a budget for Jethro and it will cost me about $700 in all to adopt him...haha. It is a lot, but it will be worth it. $200 is for his adoption fee..about $200 for all his beginning essentials (food and water bowls, dog bed, grooming supplies, food, food container, leash, collar, name tag, treats, and...other stuff lol). And $300 non refundable pet deposit at the apartment. Good news about the $300 is I can pay it off in monthly increments. So I don't have to pay it all upfront. And I believe my mom will pay for it. So Just about $400 at the beginning of May is what I will need. I should be just fine, and If I need something mom has my student loans and she will help me out.

Wow..this is long. I bet no one would read it...haha!

Um...David made me dinner tonight. I bought everything needed for pepperjack cheese burgers and tator tots at kroger (only $7.60 for the both of us to eat!) And he made AweSOME burgers! I am sooo full still! =] I LOVE THIS BOY LIKE CRAZY!

Classes start up again tomorrow...I am wondering if my class that has been canceled the last THREE times will be canceled again tomorrow. I am soo tired of showing up for class only to see it canceled...and it being my only class...goodness..

Well..I off for now. I shall update with any later news. Peace! God Bless!

The Future

I was just browsing the blogs, going to different peoples blogs, and it is awesome to see all the families on here. People just blogging their lives and I thought how great it is to do this, and to be able to go back after a few years and see and remember things that went on, and how they happened. Being able to blog about the experiences of school, graduating, getting married, moving into houses, having children. It is a great thing to see life this way. I look forward to everything that will be happening in my future and even though I can't wait for these things to happen, I know I shouldn't "wish my life away" because time will go faster than it seems and eventually everything nice that will happen, will happen.

Hangin with Jethro, and feelings.

Havn't updated in a while. Thought I would talk about how Jethro's adoption is going. I have visited him at his foster moms house twice now. Once with David on 4/13 and again yesterday on 4/15. It was a lot of fun both times! David loves him (soo glad) and Jethro loves David! I took some pictures and will add them. =] Yesterday Lou and I took Jethro on a loooong walk around her naighborhood. It was fantastic! Jethro is soo amazing on the leash. I have never walked a dog that is as good as he is on a leash. He walked right next to me, and he loved to stop every now and then and sniff. I will SO enjoy bringing him on walks.

Oh, and we found out by Lou bringing him to another vet that he is NOT 18 months old! He is at least FOUR years old. Yeah, BIG difference, but that does NOT make me change my mind. I have no problem at all adopting an older dog. (PLUS he is SO well trained and mellow!) So that is new, haha.

pictures!

I am just now realizing some things thats going to happen. I now that I will be graduating in May 2011. I know that is still a year away, but it is starting to make me a little scared. I know that the closer that time gets, the scarier it is going to be. This will be the time to look for my career job, and move to where ever I can get this good job. But I am scared to death that the only job I will be able to find will end up being far from my loved ones. I want to stay in Denton horribly, or at least around this area. I have too many friends that I love. (Especially my signifigant other that I could NOT live without being near him) I know things will work out the way God has planned. God has done some amazing things in my life and has answered every prayer I give him. I could not ask for better than what I have right now in my life. I know God will take control and show me what I need to do, but I will always be afraid of what that is. It is hard not to be scared. But that is life.

Thank you God for

-My amazing family that will give anything to help me in life. From the furniture that my grandparents are giving me, to the money and time my parents give me for me to have my chance at living in an apartment of my own. My aunt who, even though is going through extremely hard times still thinks of me and is soo caring and always wants to know what is going on in my life.

-To my fantastic boyfriend whom words cannot express how much I love him and he means to me. My biggest prayers came true with him being in my life. I KNOW God wanted us together, the prayers in high school, and the ones before we met up again in Oct 2009. I prayed that God would bring me to the man I should be with, and he did and I am so grateful and will always praise God for him. He treats me amazingly and I have never known such love and patience and devotion. His love is EXACTLY like this verse, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7. He is amazing.

-My friends. Emiko is my best friend, and is the only person in the world that can completely understand me, and knows exactly when to agree with me and disagree with me. She also has amazing patience with me (goodness knows she needs it!) She will NEVER give up on me, and I will never give up on her. All of my other friends are amazing to me, and I love each and every one of them. Davids fraternity brothers are very special to me, everyone of them are so special and have great personalities and I just love so much to be apart of their lives as well. Everyone I have met at UNT are wonderful and are making my college experience unforgetable.

-My health. My health has still been having a lot of issues lately, but I praise God for keeping me healthy enough to still get through life and have fun. I have not had a Lupus attack in about a couple years, and although I am scared everyday of the possibility of being sick again, I know that God will watch over me no matter what.

-Graduation planned. I have been so afriad since I started college about what I should really be doing, when I would graduate and what I really want to do with my life. I want more than anything to start a family once I graduate, but I cannot count on that, so I will have a Bachelors degree in Linguistics and will hopfully get me ready to find a good job and be ready to buy a house and start a family. I prayed so much to understand what I need to do, and I am so happy I changed from Language Arts (teacher) to linguistics. Thank you Lord.

-My own place. I am extremely excited to live compeltely on my own. I will not lie though, I am soo afraid. Mostly just afraid about my safety. I know I have nothing to worry about (most likely), but I am a female, and I will always be afraid of things like that. But I get the chance to make my own choices with this place, no one to tell me what to do, when to do it, how to decorate. It is all MINE. It is an amazing feeling, and everyone should experience it once in their life before getting married. I won't lie, I am sad not being able to move in with David (I have faith that we COULD make it work), but it is still early in our relationship and I will do whatever it takes to make our relationship work. Which isn't much, we work soo well together as a couple.

-The chance to adopt a great dog. People may think I am crazy for wanting a dog SO bad that it means this much to me. But people don't understand how much animals mean to me. They are just like family and have feelings and need love. God mentions animals so much in the bible and they will be in the new Jerusalem. I have been on the search for the perfect dog for my lifestyle, so that I will not be alone when I am home, and someone that makes me feel safe. I first saw Jethro at PetSmart meet and greet with the Texas Great Pyrenees Rescue, read up on the breed, and realized this is the dog for me. And since then I have been going through the adoption process, and will be taking him home on May 1st. I am so blessed and feel so connected, he is the dog for me and I will give him lots of love.

-I am thankful for is my very stable job at PetSmart, I will have it until I find my career. It makes me feel secure with money.

I just felt like sharing these feelings. It is soo important to show they ways God is working in your life and I am so happy to do just that.

Life is great!

Well, as of now, everything is going very well in my life. Hopefully it will stay like this...haha.

The reasons for things going so well is because I recently decided to change my concentration. I was English major with a concentration in Language Arts (with teaching degree), however, I have been having trouble getting my GPA to the required number, so that I can get into the college of Ed. Plus, I have been having second thoughts on wanting to be a teacher. So, I decided to change to English with a concentration in Linguistics. Which I am very excited about! If for some random reason you want to know more about Linguistics, here is a website that is good. http://www.lsadc.org/info/ling-faqs-whymajor.cfm . But anyways, because I changed, I don't need a specific GPA, and I get to graduate in 1 year instead of 2 years! So 4 classes this summer, 4 classes in Fall, and 4 classes in Spring, and I will be graduating Spring 2011!! I am sooo excited!! =)

Only 3 more weeks until moving into my apartment! May 1st! I am very excited and I want to get furniture shopping...lol

My boyfriend is amazing. I just gotta say. I LOOOVE HIM!

So, the adoption process for Jethro is making its way. I talked with Lou, his foster mom, and she is extremely excited for me to adopt him. She thinks I have the perfect lifestyle for him, and she is really hopeing I get to adopt him. So, after the "phone interview" she had me fill out the application, and she has already called one reference (Emiko), so I can tell she is excited for me. And I am majorly stoked. I REALLY want to see him soon! She says that we can meet up at the dog park anytime and get to see him again before I take him home. So that will be exciting. But here is a picture of him!

Happy Easter!

Today was pretty exciting. I met a lot of David's family. They were really nice and a lot of fun. I was happy to be able to meet them!

After that I just messed around online and took a nap. I did a little bit of homework. I'm behind on work, and it is hard getting motivation to do work. I am ready for school to be over. (for good)

I am excited that mom is coming up to Denton on Tuesday. We are going to eat out, and shop and I'm going to show her the apartment I will be leasing in May. Yay!

I can't wait till May 3rd. That is when I'm moving into my apartment. Time can't go fast enough!