Getting to Know You!

Happy Sunday! Time for some Getting to Know You with Keely!

1. What's your favorite Easter candy?
I don't think they're technically Easter candy, but Starburst jelly beans! They sell them all year, but Easter's just about the only time I eat them for some reason. I had my first bag since about this time last year this week. A close second is Reese's eggs...mmm
2. Who do you think is cleaner..men or women?
Women for sure...but some of the things I experienced when I lived in the dorm my freshman year of college made me wonder for a little while...girls can definitely be gross sometimes too!
3. Which do you prefer..wordy blog posts or ones with pictures?
I don't discriminate...I love them both!
4. Were you popular in highschool?
I mean...I don't think I was unpopular
5. What's your bra size?
C
6. How many states have you lived in?
Alabama and Tennessee (only for a year)...if I ever leave Alabama again it'll have to be for the beach
7. What's one blog you read every day?
She doesn't post every day, but I love Amanda's blog...when she does post I'm all over it! I just think she's awesome
8. Peanut butter or Nutella?
I've never actually tried Nutella...we had it for a little while because Lee liked it, but I never tasted it

I hope everybody has a good week! I've got a short work week coming up...I'm pretty excited!

In Ten Years...

Kendra tagged me to play the 10 year game!

Here are the rules:
Post where you want to be in 10 years
Pass along to ten of your bloggy friends

So here goes...

In ten years...

I will be 35...yeah...moving on now...

I hope to have a master's degree (more on that another day)

I hope to be in a job I love (more on that later, too!)

I hope to have made at least one person's life better just by being in it

I hope to have no debt...except probably a house payment

I hope to have a child or two

I hope I'm healthy and happy, and I hope my family and friends (including all of you!!) are too

Since I'm such a rule-breaker, I'm not going to tag 10 people! Because I'm still getting to know all my new blog friends, I want everybody who hasn't played yet to play along! Please leave a comment and let me know if you played!

Getting to Know You!

Getting to Know You time with Keely!! :)

1. Are you more of a talker or a listener?
I like to think I'm a pretty good listener...I can be a talker sometimes though, especially when you get me around all my best friends...and if I'm drinking!

2. Bra. Underwire or wireless?
Definitely underwire

3. I wish I was.....?
Sunny took my answer! Haha! I WOULD like to be a little bit taller though, seriously!

4. The Academy Awards are on tonight..will you watch?
I'll turn it on...I don't know how much I'll actually watch though.

5. Do you put your deodorant on before or after you get dressed?
After...I've tried it both ways, and it seems like I'm better at not getting it on my clothes if I do it after.

6. Would you rather do the dishes or clean toilets?
Dishes. See my post from yesterday...I DETEST cleaning bathrooms! (And apparently I'm pretty bad at it, too, because it doesn't even look like my shower's been cleaned at all...sad)

7. How much did you weigh at birth?
Like 5 and a half pounds, I think? Something like that. A pretty good size for a twin!

8. If you could only buy one thing for the Spring/Summer season..what would it be?
A comfortable cotton dress! I just love them so much! I've seen some really cute ones at Target this season, but so far I've only bought this one from Maurices:
I haven't had a chance to wear it yet, though, because it's been so cold! But yeah, those kinds of dresses are my FAVORITE!

I'm off to the gym now (I've talked myself in and out of going about seven times now, so I'm going to go before I change my mind again!) Then, we had a change of plans last night and went to eat at Joe's Crab Shack instead (where we had the most awkward waiter who thought it was appropriate to tell us how much money he makes a year???), so we're grilling tonight! Mmm!

Spring Fever!

This weather is giving me some serious Spring Fever! The thermometer on my back porch says it it 70 degrees right now! It's warm and the sun is shining and that makes me happy!

In honor of the nice weather, today I did a *little* Spring Cleaning! This morning I went to the gym, tanned and did some laundy (holla Jersey Shore...gym tan and laundry!)...still doing the laundry...it never ends :( Then I cleaned the living room and finally tackled the bathroom. I HATE cleaning the bathroom. We've done a pretty good job keeping the living room clean here lately so really all I needed to do was dust and vacuum (and Lee vacuumed for me b/c he's sweet), but the bathroom is a whole other monster. I just CANNOT keep the shower clean no matter how hard I try. I know I should really just clean it more often so it doesn't get that bad, but it's really hard to make myself do that! BUT I'm pretty much finished now, and it looks pretty good. I may organize the linen closet in there tomorrow and then it will be REALLY clean...until about a week from now and it's all messy again!

In a little while we're going to take the dogs for a walk around the neighborhood, then we're grilling some hamburgers tonight. It's perfect grilling weather!

Geeze I hope it doesn't get cold again!!

Getting to Know You!

How do Sunday afternoons get here so fast?? I'm watching the Olympics gold medal hockey game--USA just scored and tied it up!--and thought I'd play the Getting to Know You with Keely for this week!

1. Would you rather bungee jump or sky dive?
Neither! Those both sound really really scary to me! But if I HAD to choose I'd probably pick bungee jumping...you don't have to remember to open a parachute or anything like that when you bungee jump, do you?
2. When using a public restroom to you squat over the seat or sit?
Definitely squat
3. Favorite flower?
Daisies! I've always loved them and Lee got them for me the night he proposed :) I really like orchids, too
4. Pedicure or manicure?
Pedicure I guess...I don't get either done professionally very often though
5. How many siblings do you have?
I won't count in-laws because I have kind-of a lot now. But I have a twin sister, a brother and another sister
6. Do you pee in the shower? (gasp!)
No.
7. Bikini, tankini, or one piece?
Bikini, probably shouldn't, but I do
8. Where do you hate to shop at, but go there anyway?
Wal-Mart. I hate Wal-Mart for so many reasons, but sometimes there's just no way around it. I pretty much have quit going, though. I really don't even remember the last time I went.

That's it for today! I hope everybody had a good weekend!

Rest in Peace, Rajaan

If you know much about me, you know that I love Alabama football. But when it comes down to it, I am really a fan of the SEC and *most* of the time I want all SEC teams to do well. (There are a few exceptions but that’s not the point of this post). I read the SEC blog on ESPN.com everyday, and I found an article today that literally made me cry at my desk at work.

Rajaan Bennett was an 18-year-old from Powder Springs, Georgia, who was shot and killed in an apparent murder-suicide on February 18. He had just accepted a full scholarship to Vanderbilt University.

From what I’ve read about him, he was quite a guy. His father was killed in a car accident when he was 10, and after that he became the man of the house and helped his mom take care of his special needs brother. You can read the article on the SEC blog here or CNN’s article here. I won’t get into it too much because I think you should read the articles, but even if you don’t read the articles, please at least read the essay he wrote the week before he was killed (taken from the SEC blog on ESPN.com):

"Strength"
by Rajaan Bennett
Somebody once told me that, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me" (Philippians 4:13). Life hasn't been a walk in the park for me, but I'm thankful for the obstacles, hardships, and accomplishments that GOD has provided for me. If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be the Rajaan Bennett that you know today. I wouldn't have things any other way.

Strength is the ability to do or bear things in the state of being strong.

In the year of 2000, I moved from the streets of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, to the suburbs of Powder Springs, Georgia. A year later, my dad died in a horrible car wreck, and as a ten year-old, I knew he wasn't coming back. This tragedy rattled me to the core. I felt as if there was no need for me to live. I wanted to be as happy as the kids with dads and moms.

Some days I would wonder - why me? But eventually, I realized that it was my turn to become a man. As I became older, I came to notice that in life you use strength as a blanket to protect you from this cold world.

I am the oldest of 3 and I have a brother with special needs who I have to take care of. I have to balance school, sports, friends, and family - and it gets so hard, but I push myself. I push myself like a sprinter who is neck and neck with an opponent with 10 meters left. With the strength that I posses, I feel like I'm Hercules.

I matured faster than all of my friends - and there will never be a time that I will give up. I may complain, I may refuse, and I may even cry about it, but I know I have to do what I have to do.

I work hard at whatever I do - just for that man upstairs to smile down on me with the rays of the sun ...and they feel so warm. My drive cannot be stopped or even slowed down, because every obstacle has a way around it. Every day I become stronger from the weights physically, the books mentally, and life emotionally.

There is no limit to my strength and at the end of the day, I want to be known as the strongest.

Why I didn't work out last night...

Lee and I got new phones last night and we haven't been able to put them down! I'm blogging from the phone right now :) I think it's killing him because he's driving right now so he can't play with his phone!

Lee got a Droid and I got a Droid Eris. I would put pictures but I don't know how to do that from the phone just yet. Really I don't know how to do much on this phone just yet--I tried to send a text earlier today and had to send Lee a test one first to make sure I did it right. I'll get there though!

I won't be posting much from the phone I don't think, I just wanted to play with my new phone while I was bored on our trip :) I hope everybody has a great weekend!