Blog Awards- Addictions!

Desiree Knepp tagged me in her post a few days ago. I'm just a little behind, like usual, at getting mine posted! =] We don't really know each other extremely well, except for the fact that she's good friends with my cousing Abby and she worked for my mom right after passing her RN boards! =] We also discovered we both liked hunting.

Here's the rules!
1. You have to pass it on to 5 other fabulous bloggers in a post.
2. You have to list 5 of your fabulous addictions in the post.
3. You must copy and paste the rules and the instructions below in the post.Instructions: On your post of receiving this award, make sure you include the person that gave you the award and link it back to them.

First I will pass it on to:
Chelsea Miller
Brittany Miller
Ashley Rawley
My sister, Kirsten
&&& Lauren Beasley

My addictions!
1. I love to be involved in sports! I never took an extreme amount of interest in the "normal" sports at Barr-Reeve, like basketball and volleyball. I loved them when I was younger and I really wish I would've stuck with them in high school. I probably could've been pretty decent at them! I wish anyway! I love cheerleading and dancing. It was 1. a way to get all my energy out & 2. show my tumbling background without competing. I also liked Tennis & cross country, only because running kept me in awesome shape! ha. It's really not that fun!

2. I am addicted to gymnastics. I'm not as good as I used to be, but it's still a blast. I coached gymnastics at Lafayette and loved teaching the little girls and seeing them grow in their abilities. I remember telling Derrick one time that I was sooo stressed, so I was going to the gym to tumble. He's like what? I don't see anything wrong with that! He likes to go play softball every thursday during the summer, it's a break from work I guess!

3. I'm addicted to M&M's. Yum! I'm sitting here eating Green & Red christmas M&M's and loving it! Well actually it's any kind of chocolate in general. Amazing!

4. I love my family and boyfriend. They're awesome, mom's not so great when she's hounding me about school BUT besides that!!! =] Kirsten and Kalen are the funnest kids ever sometimes. They're mean but actually have a good heart..... somewhere in there, deep, deep in there. Derrick is the greatest. He's changed so much since we started dating a year & a half ago and it's unreal. From the somewhat crazy guy he used to be, to the guy that now loves to be with me and makes sure his friends know that I'm part of him now too. He still has his guy nights, but for the most part I am always right next to him.

5. I'm addicted to the falling price of gas!!!!! It's awesome. Very silly, but so awesome. I drive so much and I love paying less than 20 bucks again! The other day I didn't think about it and went into the gas station and said I just need 20 in gas. I started pumping and thought "Oh shoot!!! That's probably too much. AAhhh Don't Overflow!!!" =] I calculated it out and it was only 20 cents over, so I just topped it off! =]

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope it's great and you have an awesome time with your family.

Purdue vs Duke

I know, I know, they killed us. BUT i still had so much fun! I didn't even have a ticket & hadn't planned on getting one. I just happened to mention something about the game being that night to my friend that's in my Physics class, and he said I was just talking to a girl who wants to sell her ticket! She only wanted $30! Is she crazy? People were selling these tickets online for over $100. I could've bought it and made AT LEAST a $50 profit, BUT I love Purdue basketball. I had a test at 8 & the game started at 9. I had my friend save me a seat. Well, of course she gets one in the section that is full and you have to have a wristband to get into. The people sitting there had been camping out since noon the day before the game. Remind you, it snowed that day and then the wind is unreal up here, & it gets super cold during the day, let alone at night! Well I was bad & I slid under the railing when no annoying gate watchers were looking! haha. DON'T TELL SANTA! Here's a few pictures from the disappointing but fun night!

Me & Gabby...

Purdue vs Duke! =]

Bootiesss!

I haven't wrote on here in forever! I'm such a slacker! I get caught up in running around and taking pictures but never posting them on here. This week has been so nice, just being able to leave things back in Lafayette and come home with no worries. Thanksgiving was great and friday was awesome. shop shop shopping!! i love it! i got FOUR new pairs of shoes for christmas. I don't feel spoiled though, because I haven't asked for anything this year! I just don't know what I want, nothing has just popped out and caught my attention I guess. Mom just let me get new clothes. I always seem to have plenty of summer stuff but no nice winter clothes. Explains why I still wear short sleeves and dressy tops when it's 35 degrees outside. haha. So shopping was really fun and I got a new pair of black boots. I just HAD to wear them last night! Mom was soo mad at me! She couldn't believe I was really going to wear my new shoes out. "just remember that's part of your christmas!!!!" I thought a party at stogie and regina's would be fitting to break out the new boots. I arrived and everyone had on boots! Perfect picture opportunity. =]Britt and I had the same boots on! =] Had to pose and show them off for this pic!Cuteness

Love these girls! haha.. Wow, dani, i think we could pass for sisters! lol

Opening Day..

I got my first deer ever on Saturday! I have been talking about it constantly ever since I dopped that thing! haha Derrick made me promise I would go forever ago, and I was actually really excited about it. I wanted a bow so bad so I could practice and go during bow season, but I didn't get that done. (I think i'm actually getting a pink camo bow for christmas from derrick!) maybe?! Anyways, we went to Deer Camp at Kirkman farm on friday night. I played with Avery all night. (Paul & Denise (Graber) Morris' daughter) I taught her how to use vice grips! hahaha.. We left there about 8:30 and headed hom e to go to bed so we could get up super early. Waking up to NASTY rain & wind was not fun! I got soaking wet, even when I had rain gear on, but I only complained once. That was when I got to the point that I couldn't feel my hands because my gloves were drinched! We saw some deer but they were too far away for me to shoot. We went back to Derrick's & took a nap then headed back out around 3. I wasn't even in the stand & Derrick was getting everything situated before I climbed up & he said "ALYSSA! DEER!" H really freaks out like a kid in a candy store! Well it was a good ways away and kept walking. I was bummed I didn't get to see it. Around 4:30 I said, "I'm getting mad, cuz you got to see that deer and i'm def not gonna get one today!" His reply was "Well, why don't you shoot that one right over there!" WHAT! haha Perfect Timing! I let it get a little closer and I dropped that poor thing! My first words after shooting were "AWW, i'm sooo sorry I just did that to you!" haha.. Derrick was like Get A Life! =]

Yay! my deer. It weighed close to a 100 lb before derrick had to take all the yucky stuff out! ha

One of the many reasons why I love this boy. He drags my deer out of the woods! I know that's kind of nasty looking!

what a terrible day.

I was woke up in the middle of the night by hysterical crying on the phone informing our family of Jim passing away. I at first thought I heard them say that they had wrecked. (Jason doesn't know how to answer our phone, and he pushed the speakerphone button instead.) So the whole house was filled with the awful noise. So finally after getting ahold of Derrick & my best friends I went back to bed... Mom, Kirsten, and I went to their house around 7 and I stayed the majority of the day.
EXCEPT for when I went to the doctor. I have been having really bad headaches for about a month. Mom thought it could very easily be my eyes. Welp, she was right. I'm obviously on my computer all the time for social and school reasons. I drove home at night & all that stuff, plus i'm texting about every other second of the day! A combination of all these has caused me to be a little bit farsighted, and it's hard for me to focus when I look at things up close. The only good part of my day was picking out my glasses. WELL not so much picking them out because I was trying to do this while my eyes were dilating. UGH that sucks! I started out liking a bunch of the glasses and by the time I got done I was asking the optician if they were cute because I couldn't even really see them!! haha. I had to hold them like a mile away to see what they looked like! So the good part was I got some pretty cute Coach glasses. I was so excited b/c my insurance paid all but $29! Thank goodness for my mom's good insurane! =]
I finally decided I should probably go home and take a shower at about 5 something. All of us girls were still in pajamas and clothes we had worn yesterday evening but we knew Britt sure didn't care. I went out to eat with Janell. I missed her sooo much! She invited me to eat at Knepp's with her mommy. =] Even though it's restaurant amish food, i still love eating it. I don't get amish food ever at purdue! haha. Anyways, i'm rambling, exhausted, and feeling like my head is going to explode from this headache! yuck. So i'm going to bed! Night, good morning, or whichever applies to when you read this! =]

Long weekend..

I haven't put a post up in close to two weeks & I got in trouble this weekend for it. Three people randomly said "Hey, I read your blog all the time!" Friday Derrick & I went out to eat with my dad and grandma. It wasn't as bad as I expected. I guess my dad told Derrick that he REALLY likes him haha & that he better take care of me. Cute, I guess... Saturday was volleyball sectional! Yay, go Barr-Reeve. I'm soo proud of those girls. We hadn't won a sectional since I was a freshman in high school. My sophomore through senior year, loogootee had taylor wittmer. There wasn't much we could do, they were just a better team! Then last year, well lets just not talk about that craziness! BUT they finally got the job done and i'm so proud of Megan and the way she handled the whole situation. She was so happy and she knew Patrick was sitting right on her shoulder cheering her on! =]Team huddle right after they won and before the kids stormed the court. =]

I left right after the first game and went up to northern DC for the annual Shack Party at the Beasley's. We rode on the rhino all day. I went back for the night game then rushed back up north for the night ride.

Regina & I.... =]
It was a bit windy.. haha.. Derrick and I at the lookout.
Cole and I climbed up on the top railing of the Iron bridge. Derrick was freaking out! I don't know how many times he was like "alyssa! you get off there!!" ok dad!

I stayed at Derrick's & we got up super early to go hunting this morning. =] It was the first time i've went. We hadn't been there very long and Derrick starts hitting me on the leg and was like Deer, deer, ddddeer! lol i was like OK calm down. It was behind us so I thought geez it must be a few or something really big if he's so excited! I turned around and was like omg are you kidding me?!?! It was a buck but the thing was little and looked like it had weenie roasting sticks coming out of it's head. Two spikes with two little bitty prongs at the top. So we obviously didn't want to shoot at it and we got the deer call out to start messin with it. Pretty descent morning for my first time. So i'm going to go study and take a second nap for the day! haha Then tonight will be time to watch the Tampa Bay Rays! =]

I'm def the favorite now.. =]

I discovered something today! Don't ever let a 10 yr old pick out any picture they want to make for a jack-o-lantern. I wanted to carve pumpkins ALL weekend, but derrick didn't think that was such a good idea. Yea well, now I remember why. It had been forever and I really thought Kalen would love it. I bought two cute pumpkins. A medium one & a really big one, and he was beyond excited. So of course he wants to carve out Ozzy Osbourne. I was like uhh no, get real! Why in the world would he want ozzy?!? So we settled on Mario & I told him I would give it my best shot! So while he played football, by himself?!?!, in the front yard, I slaved away at carving the pumpkin. This is the final product! Don't laugh either, I think it's kinda cute for a not very artistic person who had no real carving tools!

awe.. i think it's pretty cute! =]

haha.. kalen loves it. he doesn't want it to sit outside!

So now that i've spoiled my brother all weekend long, it's time for me to head back to school. yuckkk!

Oh yea, I got spoiled a little this weekend too. Derrick took me to go shootin & to French Lick one night.

Gettin ready.. I guess... love that lil hunting fool!

I was aiming for right above the first R & mine's the one in the red. So not to bad for the first time to shoot that 20 gauge. & I think he was just aimin for the top of the R's, but of course he hits it practically right on the dot. I don't think I really looked I just wanted somewhere close to his! lol oh yea, & we stole Tye's sign for a target.. haha ooops!

anyways.. i'm gonna head to bed. back to purdue i go, in the morning. =[

Finallyyyy. =]

Mom CALLED me last night! I went with Derrick & his grandma to French Lick b/c they're big gamblers. (Just what I need, NOT!) After we ate and went upstairs I looked at my phone & had two voicemails. I thought surely something bad had happened. The first one was mom saying everything is going great and the generator at the school still isn't working. It has been done for some time now & they think they may get it working this week so they can email us, but everything in haiti just happens whenever it happens. You cant put a time schedule on anything there, because you'll always be late! One of the couples that went down with them had bought international service for just this week. She said in the voicemail it was costing her 1.70 a min. I didn't know that she called from an area number until I returned Jason's call and he said who's 812 number was she calling from?! I looked in my call log & just had to call her back! =] oopps Costs money, but it doesn't matter when you haven't heard from them yet. I talked for about a minute and got off. So pray they get the generator working! Emails would be great to hear how the week is going.

email me already....

Most of you know now, my mom & sister left for Haiti on Friday. Last thing I heard was they were getting ready to board the plane in Miami and I've yet to receive an email saying that they arrived. Starting to get a little worried. We usually had freetime Saturday evening when we got there and Sunday after church.

Anyways, hopefully the emails come soon. So i'm goin to update on the weekend & for whenever mom gets on here to read whats happening at home. Kalen had basketball practice yesterday morning. I was laying in bed & heard him say Dad, I'm watching tv for 30 minutes and then i'm getting ready for practice because I don't want to be late! It was 7:30 in the morning and his practice didn't start until 10!!! I thought are you kidding me Kalen? Go back to bed! So he went to practice and stayed the night with his friend Mitchell. He has a bad habit of telling me, Jason (my stepdad), or whoever takes him to practice that mom said, "I can stay the night with whoever or I can go play with whoever after practice." Then he goes to practice saying, "hey can I come to your house after practice because I don't have anything to do today!!!" Little brat. He thinks he's sneaky, but we've caught on. He said that yesterday, but I guess mom really did say he could go. =] I left and went to a family reunion with Derrick. It wasn't as bad as he acted like it would be! Then we went back home and shot the 20 gauge shotgun. I'm think I'm a natural! lol. He said yea, we'll see once we get in a treestand and you're shakin like a leaf & won't pull the trigger! OOOHH, Just wait. I'll show him what's up! =]

So that's pretty much it for the weekend, and the Colts are KICKING BUTT today! I know mom would be happy to hear that. =]

Write more later... =]

lots of new info.... =]

so i haven't wrote anything alllll week! I'll start off with a little bit from last weekend. I spent pretty much my whole time at home building a new dog pen. It's Huck's pen, derrick's dog. Practically my dog, I play with it sooo much more than he does! =]

School went extremely fast for me this week. I didn't get back until Monday night. I have tons of classes on tuesdays, only two on Wednesday, and a few on Thursday. I work Wednesday & Thursday nights after class. During the time in between I do homework & try to eat & study! I don't always get all three done! I got off work at 8:15 Thur. then drove home afterwards. Didn't get home until 11 after having to stop to eat supper & get gas. I would've stayed longer, but my mom & little sister were leaving for Haiti Friday morning. So after getting home at 11:20 and finally getting to bed, I got up at 5:45 to take mom & kirsten to the church. It was so sad. I wanted to go so bad. It was even worse thinking that I'm off school 2 days next week and my teachers for Wednesday would've been very willing to let me do my work ahead of time. The only day I would miss any material would've been Thursday. Only TWO classes, because my other one got cancelled. =[ No class on Fridays. Oh well, too late now!

The team that's going to Haiti. haha Obviously you can pick out my proud mom in that Purdue sweatshirt! =]

So now I'm mom for the next week & the only girl in my house. I took Kalen to the ND football game last night. He liked it, I guess. I thought he would be sooo excited to go. So I said, "Kalen, do you want to go with me and Derrick to the football game tonight?!?" He said, "Well Alyssa, I don't know, I need some time to think about it!" I was like are you kidding me? Really what else would he do besides sit at home and watch disney channel. I finally talked him into it and we went to eat at Essen Haus in Odon. He was pretty excited. Once he started getting his food he said, "Wow, this has like everything I want. I want to come back here in 3 days!" "Umm, why 3 days??" " Alyssa, duh, I don't want to eat the same thing everyday until then!" Geez, what was I thinking?

Kalen & I being silly on the way to the game! Anyways, I got to go get ready for a family reunion with Derrick. I'll write more later... Love & miss you mom & Kirsten.

Jess, you lil rat! she tagged me. =]

oh gosh... ok..
Here are 6 things i guess.
1. I was super smart in high school... ha BUT then i got to college & became the dumbest! haha no.. not quite.. but somehow, college just isn't working out so great. it's rough! I have learned that I just don't know how to study.. I guess that's the first thing that's on my mind right now, because I don't know how I'm ever going to survive my anatomy test next week!

2. Ok, I'm totally a trader! I go to Purdue now & I'm transferring to IU. That's sooo wrong. Here's a little story about that. I was waiting in line at the Bursars office & saw a friend from last year. She asked how my year was going & I said, well it's alright. Not the greatest, i guess, because I'm in the middle of figuring out my transferring situation. She was like wow really? Where to? Oh, I'm just going to IU. Before she could even reply, a guy in the back of the line (in the bursars office remind you!) YELLS out.. literally YELLS. F*** IU... i was like really? do you wanna start a riot, right here & now.. cuz i'm totally game!!!!! =]
He shutup!

3. I've discovered my new favorite thing is hunting! I'm super excited for this gun season. I'm actually looking for a new Bow for christmas on the internet right now. =] I think i found the perfect pink camo one. =] yay!

4. I feel like I know or am associated with more people than what is humanly possible. I was always hanging out with a different person in high school practically every night. My close friends are always like yea this one girl that you probably dont know was talkin to me. & i'm always quick to say who? of course i end up knowing them!
Another funny story, my friend Megan Knepp is from Sarasota & of course the good ole facebook tells you who your mutual friends are! So one day I said Megan! Oh my goodness, you know Todd Garrett tooooo?!! He lives in Alabama! He goes to school in Tennessee, but went to Hoover High School, famous for the football show Two-a-days! He was actually on the first season. I met him in Florida & she met him because a friend of hers goes to college with him. How random!

5. I love Physics! I really don't know why... welllll i loved physics, then i got my test score back yesterday! haha. it was cuttteeee. not. No, honestly, I really do like Physics. I guess it's because it's just real. Its the reason and the way thing work.

6. oh oh oh... i know my last one. Not many people know this, but I tried out for Colts cheerleading. Even though I obviously didn't make it, it was soooo much fun! I'm considering trying again only because I met a bunch of really fun girls. I definitely don't expect to make it, but it's fun to be able to say that I did it!

hmm... i don't even have that many people that I know on here!
I tag Abbie, of course, & Lauren B.

What a weeekkk!

Wow, it's only tuesday & i've been soo busy!
Tuesday is my long day, but I had all of my classes plus I had a test tonight. I have one tomorrow too. && I dono if it's just me, but I feel like our lives ALL suck right now! haha. seriously if you think about it, the economy is practically killing us! This morning I was in such a bad mood, and I called my mom like every other morning. All I could think of to say was "I feel like my life is gonna be terrible!" I'm so scared we're going to go into a great depression or something crazy like that. The next ten years of my life will be the most important too. (graduating, finding a job, getting married, building a house, having children, starting to raise them, just becoming an independent person in general) That's scary in itself, but when you think that you're going to be poor all because some people wanted to sign a bailout bill & it caused a 700+ drop in points! Mom just says i'm a pessimistic person, but that's DEPRESSING! haha. anyways, bad days just get you thinking about everything bad! & that has definitely been on my mind.
& oh my goodness, tomorrow is opening day. The day I surrender my relationship to a WOODS. Don't worry, I know i'm gonna have to get used to it like every other girl who comes from Southern Indiana! Actually, I've decided to join in.. I've been taking some personal shooting lessons from that boy of mine! lol. I think i'm doin quite alright too! Well, I'm going to get back to studyin, like usual.. see ya! =]

FINALLY... =]

This weekend has been interesting to say the least.. Friday wasn't such a great day once I found out Derrick wasn't coming up & he chose to go to the ND football game instead.. Believe me, I called & said a few choice words.. yes, yes, i apologized later! BUT all my feelings just came rushing out later that night. How much time i put into driving home practically every weekend & how i never get the same from him. Plus so so so much more that has been on my heart here recently. I knew it needed to be talked about. so i just got on my computer & just started typing away, a letter that would probably never be read. (or so i thought) He insisted i read it to him once i brought up that i had wrote it. i think it actually has made a world of difference. i knew if he knew what was best & if he meant want he said Friday night then he would be here Saturday. He realizes how much it affects me when i feel like he doesn't want to have a part in my life at Purdue. I mean i know he's an IU fan, but it's really not that bad! To my surprise, at 2:30 saturday afternoon I get a phone call saying, "I'm here, hurry up!" WHAT?! so his gma that spoils the crap outta him rode up with him & she stayed with her sister in Delphi, which is only 20 minutes from here. I was in shock, I couldn't believe he was really sitting on my couch in Lafayette, but I got over that pretty quick! =] He took me out to eat at Logan's Roadhouse and I took him on campus to show him around. He asked questions & seemed interested, so I felt a lot better. We came back & watched football, football, & more football. I think I know every upset from Saturday night football! This morning he was like ummm is there a Gander Mountain around here? haha OF COURSE! We went to Sportsmans Warehouse & then he cooked me lunch. How sweet.. ha So he just left & I am beyond thankful. This weekend started off terrible & ended up being just what I asked for. As far as I know, he hasn't died yet from actually visiting Purdue either. Well now I need to go studyyy :( yuck! i'll write more later!

super happy, excited, ramblingsss =]

Well i'm so excited about things right now. Most of you probably don't know this but I'm planning to transfer to IU... I finished my application today, just need to send transcripts. I'm so beyond excited. I love it here at Purdue, school sense of things, but not the distance. It's TERRIBLE. I go home practically every weekend, kinda sad I know. BUT i'm staying here this weekend & i'm actually excited about it. I never realized, until today, what it's like to just chill out in my own apartment. I didn't have classes today, so i've been cleaning & putting clothes away, yes for the first time since I moved in here 5 weeks ago!! I figured out I have wayyy too much stuff. Need to get some studying done, I have two tests next week. Yuck! They shouldn't be too extremely bad, Medical Terminology & Physics (which I love). I know you probably think I'm crazy. =] I have a lab report to do, pre-labs, & a project for my easy as can be Vocabulary class. Ok now, don't make fun, I just needed a 1-credit hour class!





AND I don't know for sure, but I think Derrick may be on his way here right now or sometime soon. He had made plans, but most of you know how he is. STUBBORN! & he tries to get out of it like he has for the past year & a half.. BRAT! & a good friend from last year, who decided to just commute from Carmel, IN two days a week, is coming up to visit everyone this weekend! Sam (my roomie) & I can't wait for him to get here! Well just thought I would update on the latest stuff... gotta get back to cleaning & studying...

Here's a pic of me & Sam.. =] thought it was cute & should add it since I mentioned her! <3

Tattoo...

sooo some of you know i got a tattoo, but a lot of people haven't figured it out yet..


don't feel bad if you didn't know, i didn't really publicize it that much, derrick wasn't so hot on the decision. anyways.. i got it on Tuesday Sept 9th. That was exactly one year since my uncle passed away from muscular dystrophy. He meant soo much to me & my family, and I had to see him suffer through a lot of pain throughout the last six months of his life. so the initials are obviously for his name Brian Douglas Edwards and the puppy prints are because of his love for his service dog, Gina. Gina was EVERYTHING to him and I don't know what he would've done without her. It could've even come to him not living as long as he did. She is now just a pet to us & we don't make her work, but we always think of him when we see her!

The final product.. =]

Yes, it hurt... Talking to my mom on the phone while getting it done. I think I stressed her out!

It's a new thing.. =]

So... i'm super new to this thing. I had no idea Southern Indiana had been taken over by blogger until almost two weeks ago. I'm finding it quite informative and fun though, actually. I guess a more sophisticated alternative to facebook! Anyways I just wanted to write something short & start this up. I figured this would be a great way for me to keep some of my closest friends at home updated on my whole college experience and future dreams, for the moment. They seem to change quite often here recently, but hopefully it's all going to work out for the best. More about that later.....