tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78755077716372225712024-03-13T04:51:43.434-07:00Ash's WorldThe Confessions of an Educated Ditzy GirlAshleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12450892046664420057noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875507771637222571.post-17576617863362673742011-01-06T07:52:00.000-08:002011-01-06T09:52:39.516-08:00BRING IT ON 2011!!<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">One of the things I hate about the ending of one year and the beginning of the next is all of the reflecting that undoubtedly takes place. Personally I prefer not to reflect; this is because it forces me to accept reality, which takes me away from the dream world we all know I like to live in<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span>. But nonetheless I have found myself in the past couple of weeks reflecting back.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Needless to say 2010 has been one heck of a year filled with significant ups and downs that has brought along with it a lot of self-discovery. I have learned many things this year and I just wanted to take a second to share what I have learned about myself, life and other random stuff in 2010:</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><ol style="margin-top: 0in;" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;">I am STRONGER, BRAVER and SMARTER than I think</div></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;">Sometimes the real world BLOWS!!</div></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;">I like to RUN and WORKOUT (I know! Crazy right!)</div></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;">Making RANDOM DANCE FLOORS with FRIENDS can make for a pretty INCREDIBLE NIGHT</div></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;">Dancing at weddings is MARVELOUS </div></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;">That it is OK to not know exactly WHO YOU ARE or WHAT YOU WANT as long as you are CONTINUALLY searching</div></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;">Playing cards at STARBUCKS…is SPLENDID</div></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;">That I was kinda a SNOB in high school and MISSED out knowing some pretty <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>UNBELIEVEABLE people! Fortunately I got a SECOND chance!</div></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;">FINDING friends who NOT ONLY ACCEPT you for who you are, but LOVE you BECAUSE of it is the most EXTRAORDINARY thing the WORLD has to OFFER.</div></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;">I NEED to have BETTER taste in MEN</div></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">THE BOW MUST GO!!</span></div></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;">I am AMAZING</div></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;">When all else FAILS, call up MOMMA</div></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;">PELANCHOS and CHAMPANGE CUPCAKES…ROCK MY WORLD</div></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;">That I am FUNNY</div></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;">Boys are WAY CONFUSING</div></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;">I NEED to THANK GOD FOR UNANSWERED PRAYERS</div></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;">That you can buy makeup that makes you look like you just had an orgasm! (Oh wait I just found this out, still blows my mind though)</div></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;">That when you LEARN to take the GOOD with the BAD…LIFE CAN BE BEAUTIFUL</div></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;">Sometimes REJECTION is a GOOD thing</div></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;">Putting YOURSELF out there can reap GREAT things…or it can SUCK</div></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;">Traveling to Kentucky for a Carrie Underwood concert with your Best Friends is AMAZING!</div></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;">Wine is DELICIOUS and Confidence is SEXY</div></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;">People aren’t always what they seem…which can be good or bad</div></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;">Sometimes it is OK to REGRET decisions you have made</div></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;">That I am a MEDICAL MIRACLE!!!</div></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;">My BEAUTIFUL sister is becoming just like me…world BRACE YOURSELF </div></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;">Sometimes you have to ADAPT your FAIRYTALE ending</div></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;">When someone says the word HOE…DO NOT ask “Did you say my name?”</div></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;">I have a serious STARBUCKS ADDICTION…help me!!</div></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;">That I have the BEST friends a girl could ask for and I’m not just saying that...it’s TRUE, BE JEALOUS </div></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;">Playing SURVIVOR with your friends can be a BLAST</div></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;">Cute boys live in Mexico <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span> </div></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;">Mono SUCKS</div></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;">My roomies are AWESOME</div></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;">UT is STUPID</div></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;">That being the bigger person is great and all, but getting revenge is sometimes very SWEET</div></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;">I officially hate SNOW</div></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;">Being SINGLE can be FUN</div></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><div style="text-align: center;">That I have A LOT to OFFER and ONE DAY someone will REALIZE that and I WILL ROCK THEIR WORLD!!</div></li>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">There is so much more I learned in 2010 but this is all I can think of right now, but as other things come to me I will update and if you want to add to this list feel free.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">Even though 2010 started off a little bumpy it has had a REMARKABLE ending.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;">BRING IT ON 2011!!!</span></div>Ashleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12450892046664420057noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875507771637222571.post-21885676446640052502010-12-12T13:03:00.000-08:002011-01-07T12:40:21.808-08:00Broken Glass Slipper...When you stop believing in fairy tales, accept reality and start making your own happily ever after<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">**Disclaimer: I promise I'm not a cynic**</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Have you ever thought to yourself; what if Cinderella's glass slipper broke or Snow Whites prince showed up five minutes later or the last rose petal fell to the ground before Belle kissed the Beast? Do you think they would have had their happily ever after anyway?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Lately I keep thinking to myself what if my glass slipper is broken and my Prince has no way of finding me and I will never have my happily ever after? That's when it hits me..there is something wrong with that statement!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As little girls we grow up watching fairy tales, believing our Prince Charming is going to come riding up on his white horse and whisk us away to this magical place filled with love, laughter and happiness.... but why do we need a Prince to take us there?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This is a somewhat funny statement for me to make because I am the girl who believes whole heartedly in fairy tales and Prince Charming and happy endings, but I am starting to think that isn't such a good thing...maybe I am relying on that a little too much?? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">What if my happily ever after isn't what I thought it would be?? What if the castle isn't really a castle? And what if my Prince Charming isn't a prince or charming but instead a good guy who has been overlooked?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Why do I cling to my expectations of what love should be? What if the unexpected is whats going to change my life?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As I ask myself these questions I realize there are no true answers to any of them. Instead I resign myself to stop believing in fairy tales and to start believing in myself and how wonderful I am, accepting the reality I am in and remembering that I am blessed and have people who love me and start creating my own happily ever after. </span>Ashleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12450892046664420057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875507771637222571.post-74138521298321789052010-10-05T11:08:00.000-07:002010-10-05T11:08:37.066-07:00Fall is in the air!!<div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I woke up this morning I decided to bake some yummy gf/df pumpkin chocolate chip muffins. (the recipe is on my Polka Dot Therapy page up at the top) After they had finished I set outside with my muffins, coffee and Holy Word, aka the Bible.</span></div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sitting there breathing in the crisp Fall air I began to think about what is just so magical about this season. So I began to think of what comes to my mind when I think about Fall...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">But what is Fall?</span></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">By definition it is the transition period from summer to winter, when the leaves change and fall from their trees. I feel like the words we need to get out of that definition is <em>transition </em>and <em>change. </em>Over the past few weeks, days to be more specific, I have had to make changes, ones that were expected and ones that were not. As a senior in college, I am about to experience a major transition and change in my life. At least for me, I am having to go from a life that I am comfortable in to one of uncertianity. And as I thought of the transition and change that lies ahead of me I began to think of Ecclesiates 3:1-8, </span></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">1 For everything there is a season, </span></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> a time for every activity under heaven.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">2 A time to be born and a time to die. </span></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> A time to plant and a time to harvest </span></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">3 A time to kill and a time to heal. </span></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> A time to tear down and a time to build up.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">4 A time to cry and a time to laugh. </span></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> A time to grieve and time to dance.</span></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> 5 A time to scatter stones and a time to gather stones.</span></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> A time to embrace and a time to turn away.</span></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> 6 A time to search and a time to quit searching.</span></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> A time to keep and a time to throw away</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> 7 A time to tear and a time to mend. </span></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> A time to be quite and a time to speak.</span></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> 8 A time to love and a time to hate. </span></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> A time for war and a time for peace.</span></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">"Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannont see the whole scope of God's work from beginning to end."</span></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The season of fall is meant to be one of transition. Moving from one season to another. Preparing the Earth and the people on it to go from the crazy hot summers to the blistering cold winters. It is the time to prepare for what is to come. So I make that my prayer that God will take this "fall" in my life and use it to prepare me for what He has planned next. Every action, decision, thought, person and place has, I believe, been placed in your life to help shape you. And even though that season in your life has changed, a new one is just around the corner. But in entering that new season we have to remember to look back on the previous one and see the beauty in it and take from it the things that will help us grow and then move on. </span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DuCcELi9r6k/TH5hbmpBMCI/AAAAAAAAADE/sm2-yUlkZjs/s1600/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="132" ox="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DuCcELi9r6k/TH5hbmpBMCI/AAAAAAAAADE/sm2-yUlkZjs/s200/images.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Don't you ever wish that you could be standing on Fifth Avenue at 5am in seamless black dress, holding your coffee and staring into the window of Tiffany's & Co.....No, well I certainly do. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">For those of you who don't me, Breakfast at Tiffany's is one of my all time FAVORITE movies and I absolutely ADORE Audrey Hepburn. To me she is the epitome of Style, Grace and Class; the three qualities I believe all women should possess.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">There is a famous saying from Audrey that says;</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"For Attractive lips, speak words of kindness, For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people, For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry, For Beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day, For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others."</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I just love this!!! To me this is why the woman was the embodiment of class. She lets the whole world know that what's on the outside isn't what makes you beautiful, it's how you view the world and the people in it. If you can look past others flaws to find what makes them special and unique and beautiful, If you are able to encourage someone with your words of kindness that is what makes a person beautiful, not what they look like. This is what I want to strive for...</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">My 2nd favorite quote from Audrey is this; (and if you know me you will understand why)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles."</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I really don't feel like I need to explain why I like this one, just know that when life gets tough stay strong and know that God is in control, "Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today's trouble is enough for today" (Matt 6:34) and that even though everything is going wrong, "The sun will come out tomorrow" and that is because the God who created the universe told it to. Stop fretting and take time to think about what you have already in you life and realize that God has provided thus far and he will continue, even if you believe it is impossible...because last time I checked He is still in the miracle business. So have FAITH and smile and laugh and know that God is in Control.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Well that's all I know about that...</span></div>Ashleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12450892046664420057noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875507771637222571.post-8912928016624382172010-08-31T17:44:00.000-07:002010-09-01T05:05:43.554-07:00Somebody call the little men in white coats...<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I just might have gone a little blog crazy!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I do realize that this is my third post today but the circumstances have been a little unusual. I some how contracted a stupid virus that has left me stuck in bed today, so I have had time on my hands since I finished up my homework at like 12 today, so I promise this will not become the norm. I mean hello I do actually have a life!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Well back to the point of this post...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">In creating my posts for today I began to think about the year I am about to face. It will be one of excitement, fear, growing up, happiness, uncertainty, stress, love, fun, madness and change. I realized that this year is kind of like life "limbo". I'm not fully an adult yet but I'm no longer a kid. I have one foot in the real world and one foot not, so therefore I'm in limbo. So while I am there I am going to make the absolute best of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I have decide to create a list of "goals" "to-do" "wishes", whatever you want to call it, for this year. This list is complied of stuff that I have always wanted to do, and I figure why not now. Why not make my year in "limbo" one to remember. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">So below is my list, in no particular order might I say, of the things I want to accomplish this year. As I complete something off the list I will blog about it and let you know. I have 50 things on my list and roughly 285 days until I graduate...so let the fun begin and wish me luck!!</span><br />
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<div align="center"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><u>My Goals for this Year</u></span></b></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">1 Make straight A’s</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">2 Go horseback riding </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">3 Go barefoot for a day </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">4 Eat at 7 new restaurants </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">5 Kiss in the rain</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">6 Surprise someone I love </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">7 Make a difference</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">8 Go sailing </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">9 Take a ballroom dance class</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">10 Get a massage </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">11 Learn to sew </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">12 Carve my name on a tree </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">13 Tie a note to a balloon and let it go </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">14 Spend a day without TV</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">15 Eat 5 new foods </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">16 Complete a marathon </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">17 Start a holiday tradition </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">18 Go a whole month without purchasing panties</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">19 Have dinner by candlelight </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">20 Take a random road trip </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">21 Learn to play tennis </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">22 Wear a sexy Halloween costume </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">23 Complete a 500+ piece jigsaw puzzle </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">24 Learn something new </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">25 Make a scrapbook </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">26 Cook a live lobster </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">27 Make an apron all on my own </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">28 Go to a shooting range</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">29 Graduate</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">30 Do something kind for a stranger </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">31 Go to a winery </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">32 Put away $5 for every goal I complete </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">33 Go to or have a girls slumber party </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">34 Have a board game night </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">35 Take a "Girls" vacation </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">36 Go to a pumpkin patch </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">37 Make a pumpkin pie with the pumpkin from the patch </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">38 Pay it Forward</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">39 Go zip lining </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">40 Learn to drive a manual </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">41 Be in 2 states at once </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">42 Create a cookbook of my favorite recipes </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">43 Go to a murder mystery dinner</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">44 Visit 5 places I have never seen </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">45 Conquer a fear</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">46 Get in shape</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">47 Clean out closet and donate clothes </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">48 Spend a whole day volunteering</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">49 Take/do a photo-shoot in the rain </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">50 Go snowboarding </span></div>Ashleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12450892046664420057noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875507771637222571.post-59227384616079602702010-08-31T16:00:00.000-07:002010-08-31T16:00:31.512-07:00Let's Catch Up, Shall We?!?!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm back......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So my life has been <span style="color: lime;">CRAZY </span><span style="color: black;">over the last couple of weeks/months, I'm not even sure where to begin...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Well lets start with the <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><strong>MAJOR</strong></span> thing... I moved out!!!! Yes,I flew the coupe, left the nest, grew up and am now on my own... well not completely on my own, I do live with 2 other fabulous girls, but I am no longer living with the parentals. For those of you who know me, this is a huge deal because I love my family <span style="color: magenta;">MUCHO</span> and am very close to them, so this is going to be a challenge, but one I feel I am up for : /, I guess we shall see. Well we shall come back to the apartment later.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The other <span style="color: yellow;">HUGE</span> thing going on is I started my senior year of college!! Heck yea I am almost finished..do happy dance now...!!! Even though I can taste the finish line and can see myself running the victory lap, it is scary!! I mean hello, now I actually have to enter the <span style="color: purple;">REAL WORLD</span>, which from what I hear is kinda a scary place. To top that off I'm not really sure what I am going to do once I graduate. Growing up they lead you to believe that if you graduate high school and go to college and get a degree once you graduate your dream job is just dropped out of thin air into you lap by the little dream fairies....<span style="color: red;">LIARS!!!</span> But oh well, thats a problem for another day, right now I am going to focus on actually getting the diploma and walking across the stage and then we shall go from there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">So back to the apartment..my mother dearest has been asking me to post pictures of my apartment so all can see....well you ready mother....drum roll please.....TA-DAH!! (Psss you must scroll down to actually see the pictures)</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So there you have it, my beautiful apartment, well my room at least ;).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Ashleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12450892046664420057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875507771637222571.post-50028317227660596622010-08-31T10:24:00.000-07:002010-08-31T10:24:03.501-07:00And so it begins...<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hello all!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Yes I, Ashlee Marie, have joined the growing world of bloggers. Why you ask? Well I am taking a technology class this semester and we are required to keep a blog tracking our growth in the class....BORING! So I figured as long as I am having to create one blog I might as well create another that has a much more exciting topic...MY LIFE!! Yes that's right, I am allowing you to enter in to my crazy, exciting, fun, strange, beautiful, blessed life. Well, I believe that is enough of introduction for now. I shall return soon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">And so begins my adventures in blogging....</span>Ashleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12450892046664420057noreply@blogger.com0