And the Oscar Goes to.... (part 1)

I love getting awards, who doesn't?! It really brightens my day to know that people not only read my blog, but like it. That's crazy to me! I mean I think I'm a decent writer, and some of the stuff I have to say is interesting, but still, maybe it's not so interesting to everyone else. Anyway, thank you to Dee, Laural Out Loud, Island Girl. They have each awarded me with a shiny (sometimes even sparkly!) new award! I'm so excited! Anyway, as much as I love awards, I am a very bad award receiver! It always takes me forever to re-award them! So, I'm sorry for being a bad award receiver, but thank you for my awards, I love them! Ok so, 1st off Laural Out Loud gave me this award: That is so sweet, isn't it cute??! Thank you, again! The rules for this award is to give it to 10 blogs I love!! That should be easy! I'm going to try and give this to people who don't have this award, but no promises! These are the people who have and will type paragraphs of advice when I most need it, just because they care! Who else would be more deserving of such an award!?!

• Mrs. Newlywed @ Misadventures of A Newlywed
• Krystyn @ Really, Are You Serious
• Jen E @ Mommablogsalot
• Chelle @ Creative Momma
• Leslie @ Got Kids, Need Valium
• Tyne @ The White House
• Dana @ Supernanny Where Are You
• Megan @ Wandering DC
• Joy @ When Does Daddy Come Home
• Dawn @ Dawn's Daily Life

Next, I have this lovely award from Dee! Isn't it pretty?!?The rules to this award are Post the badge on your site and link back to Maternal Spark. Tag 5 of your bloggy friends who have sparked creativity, conversation, controversy and friendships! That's it, it's easy to spread the sparky love so go on...do it! These 5 blog friends are amazing and deserve some bloggy love so go check them out!

• Heidi @ Mommy Doesn't Live Here Anymore
• The Mom @ Cheaper Than Therapy
• Mojito Maven @ Make Mine a Mojito
• Cheryl @ The Daily Blonde
• McMommy @ The McMommy Chronicles

So, that's that now go check them out and tell them I sent you! lol Moving on... Island Girl @ Not Perfect But Worth It passed on this lovely book award to me!Here are the rules: Pass it on to five other bloggers, and tell them to open the nearest book to page 56. Write out the fifth sentence on that page, and also the next two to five sentences...The CLOSEST BOOK, NOT YOUR FAVORITE, OR MOST INTELLECTUAL! Ok, I'm warning you this is gonna be boring.. the only books I have near me are Text books so here is a short excerpt from my Mass Communications text book. "In three months, Common Sense sold 125,000 copies- some historians say it was closer to 250,000- 1 for every 10 colonists. Paine was no mere armchair commentator. In 1776 he joined George Washington's army." I'm gonna spare you from boredom and stop there.. for the record they were talking about Thomas Paine and the subject was Books in National Development. Yeah... bored yet? So, hopefully these people will have something more interesting to say, sorry for boring you!

• Jen @ Daily Mish Mash
• Danielle @ Life With the Hewitt Family
• Jen E @ Momma Blogs A lot (I know 2 awards in 1 post, but I know how you are about books!)
• Tabbie @ Love's Story

I know that's only 4 but I give up! Ok... so are you sick of all these award posts, yet? Well because I'm a procrastinator so popular, I still have 3 more to give out!! I'm so humbled by all this love, when I started this blog I never imagined that anyone would actually read it, much less send me awards telling me they love my blog!! Thank you everyone! Because I love you all so much.. I'm going to spare you! I'm going to do the 2nd half of these awards later in the week, so this doesn't turn into a novel or anything! Please go check out the award recipients, if you haven't already! They all have amazing blogs, and we all know how much we love bloggy love, so show them some please :) Part 2 coming soon...

Me vs. You

Why is it that we can't just be happy with what we have, and we always have to compare it to everyone else? There will always be something that's not good enough if we constantly compare ourselves to other people: Someone will always be skinnier than me... that's just the way it is. But then there are the few that aren't. Someone will always have more money than I do... Someone will always be happier than I am... Someone will always be something that I am not or just more so than I am. Why is it that we do this to ourselves? Why can't I be grateful for what I am and for what I do have without comparing it to other people? There is usually nothing good that comes from this... it usually only leads to feeling inadequate.. at least in my case. I may not ever measure up to other people... but I am me, and I should be happy with that. Easier said than done, obviously, but it's really starting to make me crazy! I am setting myself up for disappointment by comparing myself to everyone else. The truth is my friends boyfriend might say sweet things that mine doesn't.. but that doesn't mean that my boyfriend and I aren't happy! The truth is half my friends will probably always be skinnier than me, and it sucks, but I am who I am! It's such a waste of time to compare ourselves to everyone else... we are all our own person and that's the way it should be. So why can't we just love ourselves and what we have without worrying about other people!?

How do you really feel?

So I love facebook for many reasons, but tonight, after the results of the election were announced, I came to love facebook even more. Why, you ask? Let me tell you, friends... if you wanna know what people are really thinking, just log on to facebook, and read some of your friends status's. Or, better read some of mine. Some are happy, some are claiming they are leaving the country, and some are just freaking hilarious! Allow me to demonstrate: Here are some of my favorite negative one's:

• Stocking up because we're screwed
• scared for everyone's future...
• Bye, Bye America
• Way to go America for electing a damn terrorist
• Congrats America.. you've elected a damn idiot for president!
• can only sit aside and sob as I watch the country fall apart and see people celebrating...
• omg what has America done? the next 4 years we are f***ed.
• well yall wanted change and yall are about to see it, and it wont be good. F*** Obama.
• excited to quit her job and go on welfare. Yay president hussein!! Oops. I meant Obama. My bad.
• can't believe so many people are so easily fooled.
• now that the dems are in control of the house, the senate, and the presidency, who are they going to blame now?
• We should all make sure we look pretty cuz this country is about to get f****ed.
• I can't believe America voted for a baby killer.

Countless people seem to think the solution is to move out of the country, to everywhere from Canada to Israel to Australia, and even Texas "if it secedes". One is going to Mexico: "I plan on going to Mexico to sit on the beach and drink for the next four years" Some just claim they are moving out period, apparently they haven't come up with a good location yet! Some are just shocking: "i can see the headlines now... "President Turned Terrorist Bombs His Own Country." " "in mourning and can't wait for increased taxes! no longer the white housee..........it is now the black house!" "wow america.. f***in n****" " its ok someone will probly assassinate him so dont wry bout it." Here are some of my favorite positive ones:

• I must be a fortune teller cause I predicted this to happen, sorry McCain you tried now go cry.
• Do you republicans need help packing? Because the rest of us are ready for change!
• so glad America made the right decision!!! Suck it Republicans!!! OBAMA 08!!!
• WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OBAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA NO MORE BUSH NO MORE BUSH NO MORE BUSH NO MORE BUSH!
• if obama get shot its goin to be war and you dont want that trust...and if you need help moving please let me know i got tons of boxes to help.

I can't even count the number of people whose status's were simply OBAMA! or OBAMA 08 or something of that nature. Some have suggestions as to who should run in 2012 already, including themselves:

• just wants to party my life away, no more election crap! neither should of been elected. we all should have voted for MEEEEEEEE :)
• announcing his intent to run for President in 2028.
• f*** em! f*** em! LIL WAYNE FOR PRESIDENT!
• is running in 2012 cause anyone apparently can make it.
• 4 more years...lil wayne for president!
• mccain can't make it rain and obama can f*** a llama. ME FOR PREZZZIDENT.

And my all-time favorite:

• WHYYY MCCAIN!! WHY DID YOU LOSE? YOU WILL ALWAYS BE A WINNER IN MY HEART BIG OLDIE.

And what, do you ask, is my status?? Patrice is choosing to have no comment on the election.. unlike every1 else I'll keep my opinion to myself, thanks :)

Yay for Birthday's!!

IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!!! :) I'm so excited!! It's my 1st birthday away from home, so its bittersweet... but mostly sweet! I'm 19 today! And you know I'm gonna celebrate all weekend (starting tonight!) So, for my birthday, feel free to send me packages! I love mail! But I love the virtual kind of mail, too! So I'm stealing borrowing an idea from Sam, who for her birthday asked for enough comments to break her record, which was 35. When I finally clicked over to her, I believe she was at 65! Way to go Sam! So my comment record is only 20 comments on this post, which is awesome! But that shouldn't be too hard to break, right?! So if you could give me a shout out for my birthday, I would love to break my record, and set a new one! That's all I ask of you for my birthday :) Thank you in advance, and in return, I promise to return with reports of all the fun I'll be having this weekend!

My Poor Blog!

My Poor blog... it has been so neglected lately! It doesn't deserve this! I used to be so good to it, writing daily, always checking in with all my bloggy friends, and (hopefully) being interesting! Lately.. well I've been neglected my blog, your blog, and I feel pretty boring! I've been full of memes, and blog fests, whatever you wanna call them. Bottom line is it's pretty unoriginal! I have attempted to write some good stuff... but they remain drafts in my folder. I meant to check in with Looking Fine by '09 on Monday, but never got around to it. Then I meant to do Top 5 Tuesday, but again, never got around to it. And last week, I totally spaced out about It's Real Life! I was so excited to do my video, too, then Friday came and went and I forgot all about it! This whole school thing is really getting me down.. I just wanna give up sometimes. I know it's my fault, because I procrastinate, and I don't study as much as I should, blah blah blah... but it still sucks. I hate doing homework, I hate studying. There's so much better things to do! I just really need a break, but no such luck! On the bright side.. my birthday is tomorrow!! :) I'm super excited! My mom's been sending me a package a day all week with presents, it's so much fun! I've gotten some great stuff so far! I love birthday's! I'll be spending my birthday tomorrow night with my new boyfriend, who things are going really well with, at his fraternities Halloween party! We're going as people from the 50's, so I'll be wearing a poodle skirt & he's wearing jeans and a leather jacket! I'll post pictures if we take any, which might not be likely! But hopefully someone will have a camera! Last week was a busy week, too, because it was initiation week for my sorority. Basically what that means for those of you not familiar with sororities is that we had ceremonies every night and those of us who just joined the sorority this year are now official members. Probably doesn't make much sense if you're not familiar with sororities and stuff, but I felt like telling you anyway! :) Also, Dee made my day today by giving me a wonderful new bloggy award! I'm so excited, thanks Dee! So look out for that, I'll try to give it out to you guys soon! Also, I almost forgot that Mamasphere loves me!! hehe She sent me the I heart you award last week, so I'll post that, too! :) I don't wanna promise that I'll be around more because I know I'm gonna be busy coming up this weekend with my birthday and Halloween and everything, but I'll try! I'm permanently behind on reading your blogs, so I'm slowly trying to catch up on that, too! Story of my life! haha

Fake conversation with a Real Person

So occasionally I stay up kinda late, you know, just hanging out, dying each other's hair, talking about sex boys. Well, the other day I was doing all that when I happened to get a text message. I thought this was really weird since 1. It was 1 AM and 2. I was already with most of my friends, and my boyfriend had already said goodnight. Anyway.. I didn't recognize the number, but I was curious so I read the text message, and this is what it said: "Hey Kathy* it's me Britney*! I miss you! Hope your doing good! Give a call sometime so we can catch up!" So at 1st I was all like "ugh who is this Britney and why does she think I'm Kathy? WTF? I am so not texting her back" Then I was like *light bulb* Wait... This could be bloggy gold!! After all, McMommy pulled off the whole e-mail that wasn't for her thing... So what did I do? I texted her back, of course! All in the name of blogging of course! Me: "HEY!!! What's up?!?" (I am super enthusiastic when it comes to creepy 1 AM strangers!) Britney: "Notta lot love (wait, I'm confused we're supposed to be lovers now? hmm..) How are you? I miss you! Me: I miss you too (as much as you can miss someone you don't know)!! I'm really good. How have you been? What have u been up 2 lately?? Britney: I've been good... things are kinda crazy (yes! Now we're getting to the good stuff...) I broke up with Cody* like a month ago. Now I'm trying to go back to school and stuff (yes! the dirt!) What's going on in your life?! (good question, I don't know what's going on in Kathy's life... hmm) Me: Aww! Why did you guys break up!? (This better be juicy!) I'm sorry! Where are you trying to go to school (read: how old are you are you looking at high schools or colleges?) I've just been partying (true) and I have a new boyfriend (true!!!) He's amazing (definitely true!) Britney: I broke up with him cause I wasn't in love anymore (What?! Who breaks up for that!!) ... He was about to propose I found out soon after (you should've waited for the ring!) I'm trying to get into USC or OSU (ok, so this chick is like smart? didn't see that coming!) New boyfriend!? No way! (yes, I know I'm shocked too!) How long have you been dating him?! Me: Wow! Those are really good schools! (true) Good Luck! (That sounds like something a friend would say, right?!) What are you trying to study? We've been together a few months (ok well a week sounds lame, so I had to fudge just a little!) Britney: I'm studying to be a dental hygienist (so she really is smart! Wow.).. I went for dental assisting already :) (ok what's with the random creepy smiley face? And was I supposed to know that I assumed it's been awhile since "we" talked...) aww what's his name? (why? Why you wanna know, huh? So you can look him up on facebook, no thanks b!%^$) Me: Wow! That's awesome..! Good luck with everything :) ( I felt the need to reciprocate the creepy smiley face even though I still think it's creepy.) His name is Ethan* he's super sweet (true!) Hopefully you will find some men at your new school ;) (ok, what's my problem with the smiley faces!?) And that's where the conversation ended. Britney never texted me back after that. Maybe she figured out I wasn't the real Karen? Maybe it was the creepy smiley faces.. did I go overboard with the winky face? Hopefully I didn't sabotage Britney and Karen's relationship forever! Maybe one day I'll text her again... for the blog of course not for my own personal amusement or anything. Oh, and get this... as I was explaining the situation to my friends I was with and how I was only texting her back so I could blog about this, one of my friends goes "What if it's one of your blog friends trying to contact you and you don't know it?" Um... my blog friends know my name!

I've been tagged.. not once, not even twice.. but how many times?!?

Wow that's a long tittle! I have to apologize for all the semi-mindless posting lately, I'm just having a bit of writers block, or bloggers block (get it?! ha!) Anyway, I've been tagged all over the place lately, so I thought I would just do an all-in-one kinda thing! 1st Jen @ mommablogsalot tagged me in this pieces of eight meme! So here goes:

8 favorite TV shows

(in no specific order)

1. Grey’s Anatomy
2. One Tree Hill
3. Gossip Girl
4. Desperate Housewives
5. Brothers and Sisters
6. Privileged
7. Private Practice
8. Starter Wife

8 Favorite Restaurants

1. Bek's- It's this restaurant in town, and it's so good! They have amazing sweet potato fries & artichoke dip! yum.
2. Pastazio's- Back home it was one of my favorite places to eat, they have really good pizza and really good salad!
3. Subway- I could seriously eat there everyday if I could afford it.
4. Any Sushi place- I love sushi!!
5. Campizi's- Another great pizza place in Dallas.
6. MiCocina- Love me some tex-mex!
7. Olive Garden- I don't eat here that often, but it's really good! There's one in Columbia which is 30 mins from where I go to school, so sometimes we drive down there for special occasions!
8. Wendy's- I know it's fast food, but it's so good!!

8 things that happened yesterday

1. I went to my 1 class for the day
2. I slept in until 12, since my class wasn't until 2.
3. I had a long text messaging conversation with my boyfriend :)
4. I participated in my 2nd sorority initiation ceremony!
5. I went to wal-mart... twice (almost 3 times)
6. I called my mom
7. I begged my mom to send me some money! (it worked!!)
8. I read blogs.. a lot!

8 things to look forward to

1. Seeing my boyfriend for the 1st time all week on Saturday!
2. My birthday in 1 week!!
3. Halloween
4. Going home for the 1st time for thanksgiving break
5. Christmas
6. Barn Dance- it's a party our sorority is having coming up!
7. Being officially initiated into my sorority on Saturday.
8. Birthday presents!
9. Did I mention seeing my boyfriend?!?

8 things I love about fall

1. The temperature- even though lately it's been extra cold!
2. pretty trees
3. Halloween decorations
4. my birthday
5. Getting bundled up!
6. Hot chocolate & hot apple cider!
7. the weather is just so nice
8. yeah everything I said already

8 things on my wish list

1. Victoria's Secret sweatpants- I have 1 pair and I wear them like everyday, so I need another!
2. Birkenstock (pretty sure I spelled that totally wrong, but you know what I mean right?)
3. A million dollars! lol good luck right?
4. Ugg moccasins!
5. Some new clothes
6. A car at school
7. Did i mention money?
8. that's all I got for now..

8 people I am tagging

see bottom of the post for the tags! Moving on... I was also tagged by Honey Mommy & Dee to do this fun little meme:

Ok so here's 7 random things about me:

1. I have a lot of nervous habits- I play with my hands all the time, like popping my knuckles or just messing with them. I play with my necklace a lot, moving it back and forth and stuff. I also do this weird thing with my mouth where I like click the top of my mouth I don't know why, I just started doing it one day and couldn't stop!
2. I love pelligrino water! Love it! I used to go through like 2 huge bottles a day when I was at home; it was like my wine, I would drink it out of wine glasses and it's the 1st thing I would do is pour some pelligrino water when I got home.
3. I have to sleep with the a/c on.. like it has to make noise or I can't sleep! It blocks out so much noise which is nice for living in the sorority house, but even when there isn't noise to block out, I have to have it on!
4. I have a baby blanket that I still sleep with. My aunt made it for me when I was born, and I've been attached ever since! It used to have a silk border around it and it had teddy bears, but not anymore! I still love it, though!
5. I'm a facebook stalker! I love seeing what people have been doing on facebook, it's so much fun to stalk them! haha
6. I am really bad with money.. when I have it, I like have to spend it! It's bad.
7. I am in love with my iPhone.. what did I do before I had an iPhone?

Tags are at the bottom of the post.. Leslie @ Got Kids, Need Valium tagged me as well! She tagged me in the What's in your purse meme? Well, the thing is I kind of stopped carrying a purse once I got to school. I don't really know why, it just became a pain to carry around, and there's really nothing I need, so I just don't carry one. Which means I can't really play this! SAD! If I had done this before, it would've been so much fun. Oh well I might re-visit this if I ever start carrying a purse again! Next, I was tagged by Mrs. Forever to tell you even more about myself! Aren't you so excited you're learning so much about me in one post!? Top four wishes:

1. Make better grades the rest of the semester
2. My boyfriend and I will stay together a long time.
3. I could just accept myself for who I am without focusing on my flaws.
4. Lose weight (I know it kinda contradicts the last statement, but give me a break!)

Four places I want to travel to:

1. Last year we went skiing for spring break- while I hate skiing, it was really fun otherwise, so I'd love to go back.
2. I want to go on a road trip across Texas and visit all my friends at college!
3. I want to go Italy someday. My dad's side of the family is originally from there, and I've always wondered what it's like! Plus I love Italian food!
4. L.A.- I just really want to shopping on Rodeo Drive!

Four careers I want to be involved in:

1. I want to be a mom someday, but not for a long time!
2. I would love to start my own magazine, and be the editor of it. I'm not really sure what kind of magazine or anything yet, but it's a dream I've had for awhile.
3. I would love to work for my dad's company as the P.R. person
4. I would love to be the editor of something- some kind of magazine, newspaper, something.

Four things I would like God to say to me at the gates of Heaven:

1. You deserve to be here
2. Your parents, grandparents, etc. are waiting for you
3. You lived a great life
4. I'm glad you're here

Four people I tag: Ok, I'm cheating and I'm not tagging anyone... it just takes too long, and I can't keep up with whose already done this! So if you want to play, leave me a comment and I'll link to you :) Sorry for cheating!