As I mentioned in my introduction (Can be seen here), I am a television junkie! Of all the shows I watch the only one to truly end this season was The Office.
I was never a must watch every week, overly obsessed Office fan. Instead I was a watch occasionally but still love the show, Office fan. I was one of those fans that thought the show would crash and burn after Steve Carell left the show but instead I was wrong and it lasted 2 more seasons.
I didn't know what to expected from The Office series finale but I can honestly say that I was extremely pleased with the finale. They flashed forward a year which is one of my favorite technique when it comes to series finales, it gives you a good idea of where all you favorite characters are going to be in their lives.
I also found that episode was a powerful episode. Why do I say that? Because I am not a very emotional person it takes a lot for me to cry but this episode had me on the edge of tears multiple times. And when I wasn't on the verge of tears I had goosebumps.
I suggest that anyone who ever watched even a few episodes of The Office, and enjoyed it even remotely watch the series finale because the writers did finale justice.
Happy Mother's Day to all the Mothers out there! Today I celebrated Mother's Day with Mama J!
We started the day with me giving her, the gifts I got/made her. This year I got her a bumper sticker from my college, a card with a dancing monkey and made her some cupcakes.
You can see her card in the background.
A close up of her cupcakes, the cupcakes say: Happy Mother Day Mommy! (Yes, I forgot the 's' in Mothers).
I absolutely love making cupcakes and I think these are some of the best cupcakes I've ever made. Normally when I try to write words you can't really make-out the letters but I these ones you can so I'm happy. And she loved them!
In the afternoon we went to a beach about an hour away from our house. It was the one place where Mama J wanted to go for Mother's Day.
The tide was so high today!
Looking down the beach you can see there were quite a few people there today, if you were to look the other way you would have seen even more.
Mama J and I.
I accidently took this picture while I was trying to take a picture of the beach because I forgot to change the way the lens faced. What can I say, I'm a merp!
Mama J went for a walk on the beach, I ended up going to sit in the car. I had to go sit in the car because I have cold urticaria, which basically means that when I get to cold I break out in hives. In simpleton terms, I'm allergic to the cold. My original thoughts was to sit on the beach while she walked and read my book but I started to break out so I went to the car. Mama J was very happy with her walk along the beach though and that is all that matters because its Mother's Day.
After our trip to the beach we went to seafood restaurant down the road where we met up with my aunt, uncle and cousins.
All-in-all I think Mama J had a fantastic Mother's Day!
Before I say good-bye I just wanted to share the paragraph that I wrote about Mama J on my instagram: "Happy mother's day to the most important person in my world. She is my inspiration, my role model, my biggest supporter, and my hero. But most importantly she is my best. I love you Mama J." I think this describes my relationship with Mama J.
I think its time to do a final wrap up on my freshmen year. I spent sometime this morning think about my top ten experiences of my freshmen year. I want to share them with you now and then I'll share a video I create with all the pictures and video from my freshmen year!
10: Halloween 2012: I'm really not that much of a Halloween person, I hadn't dressed up or trick or treated since probably 5th grade. But their was a campus sponsored party so me and my roommate dressed up has dogs for Halloween.
Me on the left and Hannah on the right.
9: Meeting the Mascot-One day after math class my friend Tessa and I were walking around and me saw the mascot out taking pictures. We asked if we could take a picture and they let us.
From Left to right: Me, Otis the owl and Tessa
8: Rooftop Party- During the Welcome Weekend our campus had a roof top party on the parking garage. I went with some people who I had meet during that weekend. Although the people I went with and I drift apart it was still an awesome experience.
From Left to Right: Me, Lisa, Michelle
7:Color Combat- This event was an awesome because it made me feel like an elementary school student event all over again. Plus it helped that my team won.
My Team's t-shirt
6: Getting Bubbles-Hannah and I got fish, Bubble, and we bonded with it pretty quickly. Unfortunately it was short lived because when Hannah brought Bubbles home for Spring Break, Hannah's niece tried to take Bubbles for a walk, outside the bowl.
5: Pet Therapy- I love playing with dogs so when they came to visit campus I was so excited and totally in my element.
My favorite Dog, Honey and me.
4: Sophie visits College - My mom's best friend Sara has a daughter name Sophie who is 4 years old. I love this girl to death, I call her my spirit animal because I love who she is. She came to visit me at college in October and it was so much fun!
Left to right: me, Sophie
3: Meeting Chris D'Elia- I've never seen Chris D'Elia's Show Whitney but hey he's a celebrity and I can officially say I met someone famous.
From Left to right: Me, Chris D'Elia, Mandi & Hannah.
2: My Expanding Family- This year my family was lucky enough 2 new babies enter our family. One of my aunt's adopted a baby in August and I got to meet him in October. My other Aunt had a baby in February. I haven't met her yet but I can't wait until I get to meet her.
Joshua (this a recent picture of him) he was born in August!
Anna who was born in February.
1: Becoming Secretary of my Future Teacher Club- I love this club more then anything that I've ever been involved in my life. I can't wait to be more involved and help run all the events I loved this year!
From left to right: Me, Cyndi (VP), Deanna (President), & Christina (Public Relations). Missing is Megan who will be our treasurer.
This is the slide show I created of my college experiences.
Enjoy!
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XOXO,
Em.
P.S. One of my really good friends Cayla just started a blog so check her's out. Sorry I Have Rehearsal
Well, I'm officially home with Mama J and on summer vacation, but getting here was not an easy task!
Let's start uber early this morning like 12 AM, I don't know if many people know this but Disney Channel does Disney Channel throwback Thursday when they play Disney Channel Shows from years ago. I couldn't sleep so I decided I would watch because I couldn't sleep. I watched both Phil of the Future and the Suite Life on Deck.
I use to LOVE this show. I also had a HUGE crush on the guy who played Phil...I still think he's a pretty attractive guy.
This was one of my favorite shows though. I thought it was so funny and it made me want to do a a semester at sea. Its actually a program that I am looking into for one summer.
I finally fell asleep after my flashback to childhood. And 7:30 AM came all to quick and it was time to start getting ready for my math final. Luckily I think I did pretty well on my final, I'm thinking about B.
After my final I started packing all my stuff, at about noon I was half way through packing and I had a lot more stuff then I thought I would.
I had that plus a huge suitcase and a hammer packed so far but I decide I needed a quick break, I went to the Dinning Hall with Mandi. It was our last real hang out a session. I can't believe how close the two of us have become this semester and I know I'm going to miss her next year!
On my way back to my room I ran into my friend Lauren from my future teachers club, we caught up real quick and said good-bye for the summer.
I went back to my room, finished packing, Hannah and I cleaned our room, and soon it was time for her to leave too. :(
(This picture was actually taken a couple of weeks ago when she was bring stuff home but still she left today)
I had a couple of hours to kill before Mama J would be at school to pick me up, I watched a couple of episodes of Grey's Anatomy and made sure that everything was packed. Unfortunately Mama J was a little late so we were rushing to get before my check out. And here comes the story from the title...
At our school we have 2 types of cart to help people move in and out. One is a laundry bin style bucket and the other is luggage carts that you'd use in are airport. The parking lot is across the street from my building so I had to do a little jog across the street to get the cart over the lip between the street and the sidewalk. While I was doing this I felt like I was in the Harry Potter movies when they had to run onto Platform 9 3/4. Here's a video for those of you who don't know what I'm talking about.
Well during my last load of bring stuff out to the car I was transporting my rug and I went to try and "jump" the lip to get into the parking lot and the carpet bent under the cart and I got stuck. I said some choice words because I was stuck in the street. I finally was able to get the cart over the lip and get the stuff to my car. During this whole ordeal an attractive guy who lived in building saw it. I was a little embarrassed but I'm a merp so its okay. (If you want to know what a merp is check out my post about it here)
After my merp moment I check out of my room and said good-bye to my room until next fall and said hello to summer!
(The top picture is all my stuff in my dorm and the bottom is it all somehow put into Mama J's van)
Its weird to say good-bye to people who I've grown so close to over the past few months. I see Mandi, Hannah and Heidi everyday and now I don't know when I'll see them again. I will miss them dearly and can't wait to see them at some point this summer.
Over the past few weeks I've been working a video with pictures and videos from my freshmen year of college, I will be sharing it at some point during the next few days and then it'll be time to start telling stories of summer.
I see the light...the light of the shinning sun and beautiful summer days to come!
At this time tomorrow I will be homebound, I will have completed my freshmen year! That is scary thought to me. But I am beyond excited for summer and the classes I am taking next summer. Along with my role as secretary in the future teachers club. I know I will miss my amazing friends that I have made this year but I'm taking with me plenty of memories and they are all just a text, tweet, facebook message, skype, call away. And I know that I will see them during the summer.
But let's talk finals:
-Finals SUCK! Although I know a lot of people already know that fact
-When it comes to finals I would prefer to write a paper rather then take a test. Mainly because I am a horrible test taker. Luckily for me 2.5 out my five finals were papers! Why do I say 2.5 because one of my finals were both paper and a test.
-If I passed my French final and the class with a C- I will be done with French forever which is would be a dream come true because after 7 years of taking it I'm still horrible at.
Although I have no concrete plans for the summer I hope to see my little cousins when they visit my grandmother. I hope to get some time to hang out with my friends back home. I also hope to work, read, and relax because next semester is going to be CRAZY!!!!
As I mentioned earlier I am so excited about my classes for next semester. What are the classes? Well I'll tell you in declining order of what my excited about.
-Geography 100 - This a core class that I have to take. I'm not sure what exactly I will be learning about but I do know that I was pretty good at geography when I was in high school.
-Economics 101- I'm interested in economics because I have no cool how they work and I want to try and understand so that when I become an independent adult I'll understand the economy.
-Math 106- Its the second part of the math class that I'm in this semester. Its a review of all the things that you learn in elementary math classes. I need to know all of this so that I can teach it one day!
-Special Education 225 & Education 200: These two classes are tied for first because they are my first education classes I've been waiting for those classes since I started college.
Before I leave you guys I want to share with you a study tip from my roommate, Hannah.
Sometimes napping is more important then studying. LOL
There is a word that is important in my world that all my
readers should know, Merp. It is somewhat of a made up word that me and my
friends use. It actually has many meanings.
1. A Noun; A merp is a person, my friends, Hannah, Mandi and
I are merps. We are willing to be ourselves no matter where we are. Even if
that means Gangam Styling while we walk across campus. Yes, I've done
this.
2. A Facial Expression; merps have many facial expressions,
but the most important one is the merp face itself. Here's an example of the
merp face...
Or
3. A Verb: You also can merp. Merping is when you let your
inner merp out. My friends and I love being merps. Today while Mandi and I were
studying we took a little Merp break.
I love finding friends who are willing to be merps with me.
The most important part of being a merp is loving who you are.
Today was one of my favorite on campus activities of the
semester! What was the event you ask?
Pet Therapy!
Right before finals my college puts on an event where they
bring dogs to campus that are certified therapy dogs. They are trained
to distress and calm people. They are brought to visit people in the
hospital, with people who have mental disabilities,nursing home
and college students before college.
I went down to visit the dogs with my friends Hannah, Mandi
and Heidi. The dogs were adorable and it was so fun to pet them. Plus they were
absolutely adorable.
One of the dogs did a really cool trick:
I absolutely love when they bring dogs to campus. I wish I
could bring one back to my dorm and cuddle with one all night.
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