Exciting Things!

I have spotted a few nifty items that make me want to spend my invisible college-student dollars. One of them being a Water Bobble. It's a reusable bottle, and the filter only needs to be changed every 2 months or 40 gallons (150 liters.) According to their calculations, that means one bobble filter is worth about 300 bottles of water! It's really interesting because it actually filters the water WHILE you drink it. They're also aesthetically pleasing--which is always a plus!

The other thing I'm super excited about it the return of the Polaroid! I recently received a Polaroid camera from my Aunt & Uncle at Christmas time and will now be able to more easily acquire film!

"The Polaroid Color 600 Instant Film will work with both classic and new Polaroid cameras and will be offered in packs of 10 pictures. The new classic PIC 1000 camera and instant color film will be available at national retailers in 2010."

I am extremely excited, because I want to make a Polaroid wall ASAP! They just make me happy!

or maybe even a Polaroid line! :D

All-Academic Honors

Copied from the UCM bowling site.

Seven named NTCA All-Academic

Seven members of the Jennies 08-09 squad have recieved All-Academic honors from the National Tenpin Coaches Association.

Alyssa Surges leads the way by being named to the second-team, and Natalie Cortese was selected to the third-team.

Named honorable mention were Amanda Cortese, Jamie Mitchell, Robin Noland, Rachel Rothermel, and Allison Scully.

Pendleton Protests

The students at Pendleton Heights High School are protesting the fact that they will not be showing President Obama's speech during school. They were given a letter Friday giving them reasons they would not be allowed to watch the speech when it aired, and now some students are taking action.

Their Facebook group "Obama's Speech Protest" currently has 42 confirmed protesters. The information in their group discription is:

"Obama's education speech is for us but our school didn’t let us have any say in whether we watched it or not. We were allowed to watch the inauguration but we can’t watch his speech (which they even explained as a historical event in the newsletter). Even if you don’t like President Obama or don’t really care about hearing the speech it’s the fact that we had no say in something that was planed for us. Not only that but they passed out papers at the end of the day on Friday when the speech is planed for the next school day. Obviously they did that on purpose so we wouldn’t have time to do anything about it.

If you want to help support after third period on Tuesday we are meeting in the main hallway and sitting on the floor. We are going to sit there until they let us watch the speech."

Watch the INDY TV News report on said protest.

It's that time again...

Hello world!!! Greetings from Missouri. :)

This year is off to a good start. Sorority recruitment is over and we did our best recruitment that we have in THREE YEARS! Exciting! I have a new daughter, too. Her name is Makayla and she's adorable!! She's actually roommates in Houts/Hosey with one of the new freshman on the bowling team. Small world huh?

I had a birthday. In fact it was yesterday!! I'm old as dirt, now. 21. How ridiculous! It was a pretty laid back day since I was (am) sick and so is everyone else in my sorority [and on campus]. The health center is completely booked for the rest of the week. Lame. No worries. I'll live, I'm sure. :)

I thought I would end with a fitting video from freshman year. One of the guys on my floor played me happy birthday; it's pretty nice. lol. Enjoy! and happy day after my birthday!!!

<3bin.

The Nealis Wedding <3

Congrats you guys! You had a beautiful wedding, and I love you both! <3

You want some MOH?

Since I've arrived back to Indiana, I have jumped into wedding mode! I hadn't been in town 24 hours when I went ribbon shopping and made bridesmaid gifts with Bridey and the lovely Matron of Honor. :)

So far it's been pretty carefree being back. I've enjoyed some time off school as well as work. Hopefully I will have a job this summer that is at least a little worth while. I hope to find something other than working at the theater this year, but it wasn't that bad of a job {just didn't reallly pay me anything}, but who doesn't love free movies for you and all your friends? If all else fails I hopefully will get a job at Guitar Center since Ron's got the big time corporate job now! {woot}

I've seen many important people since I've been home I saw Sophie for a bit and watched a movie, saw Nick when I got my Mac fixed {fo' free}, and hung out watching Sex and the City with B'randon. I've hung out with the fam. Of course. They're the best! :) I ended up seeing my friend Jessica in Hobby Lobby today, as well.

The party plannig has hit full swing these past couple days. The bachelorette party will be in downtown Indy, but of course the day will start off with mani's and pedi's at the Salon Academy off Scatterfield Rd. We're going to eat din at Weber Grill which I've never been to, but April's work friends say it's great. From then on there will a bar crawl... which I sadly am 4 months too young to participate in. :( Sad day. Hopefully Xtine will have a wonderful bachelorette party! :)

2 weeks, one day until the wedding! :O

Who's a junior?

Today concludes my stay here at UCM for my sophomore year. Houts/Hosey has been good to me, but I will be living in the Panhellenic housing next year.

Due to so many graphic/printing projects that we put off, I have NOTHING packed. I'm going to have about 12 hours to pack up my life ... starting at like 5AM. The parentals arrived in the Burg around 11:45PM with pizza I ordered! To scrounge on the dollars they are lodging in my room. Since I have another ex-roommate this year, I have a spare bed and a full-sized air mattress. When planning this, I must have forgotten about dad's snoring. :O

Tomorrow is a big day. I leave the people I love to go see the people I love... it's win/win, lose/lose. Rough. As far as I know Michael will be joining me again this summer around the 4th of July season. I don't think he'll make it to the wedding. sad.

Anyway, for those of you in Andersonland, I will be home soon. Less than 24 hours. Get excited.