30. September 2008 by Sarah.

The East Coast cannot make Mexican food to save its life. There is only place that I enjoy eating Mexican at and that is Don Tequilas in Lexington. This past weekend was spent hanging out with Monica in Lexington. Saturday we went to said restaurant and filled up on beans and rice (I could totally live in Mexico). We of course had to have Margaritas. I normally only like strawberry flavored Margaritas, but the lady who took our order apparently didn’t know what I was talking about (downside of being at a Mexican place, the people can’t talk English). So I went with the regular, which was fantastic by the way.

After there we went to the Palms, had a ginger ale and a few sips of the drinks that Monica ordered. I have come to realize that your closest friends are the ones you go to the bathroom with when it is a one person stall. Good times, good times.

Thinking we were done, we went to Applebees and joined some friends of Monica and Kevin’s there. Again, I had a sip of beer and thought that was going to make me sick (I tell you I am a classy drinker) and then had a dessert shooter, chocolate moose.

Sunday came the bridal show. Once we got up and ready we headed to W&L campus to go to the show and be inspired. Let tell y’all, the best thing about it was the free food. Not only did you get to try little snacks, but you got pieces of wedding cake. An entire piece of wedding cake! In fact I had two! Seriously I would go just for the food. Then there was a fashion show of wedding dresses. I have come to realize that once you have seen 10 dresses, they all start to look the same, however there are exceptions. Monica won the grand prize, a $700 pearl necklace along with a limo rental, a free night at the Hummingbird Inn, and 20% off tux rental.

Now it is Tuesday, with a chance of showers in my forecast, but I don’t have classes tomorrow which is exciting. For all of you who don’t know, it is Apple Day. Yes I realize that irony that my school has Apple Day, but what can I say it is just another reason why MBC is the place for me!

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27. September 2008 by Sarah.

Have you ever been to a drive in before? Well last night I went to the drive in to watch The House Bunny. The movie was okay, it was the experience that I liked even more. It wasn’t really hot and it was raining just slightly. We folded down the back seats and hand blanket and pillows. The speaker sat right on the window, just like in the movies!

It was so much fun and I would HIGHLY recommend that if you even get the chance to go to a drive in, take it, because they really are going out of style!

All blogs this weekend, if there are anymore, are coming from the great house of Monica who lives in Lexington, who is getting married on June 6th. I am the Maid of Honor and it is going be so wonderful!

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25. September 2008 by Sarah.

While I was doing my hair yesterday I had this song stuck in my head. It was a song that I use to sing in Sunday School as a kid and then when I was a teacher I had to sing it and teach it to others. The song was called Father Abraham. This is one of those songs that if you sing one line, it will be stuck in your head for the rest of the day. At lunch Sterling told me about a song she had stuck in her head all day, Somebody’s Baby by Jackson Browne. So last night after we got in from our College Republican meeting, we found the lyrics on the Internet to that song and found it on YouTube.We were both sitting at our desks looking at the lyrics and singing. We would have recorded it, but it was late and it would have just come back to haunt us someday. Maybe we will make a recoding of it someday and let you all hear how great we sound. Until then you can settle for the lyrics, which can be found here. 

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20. September 2008 by Sarah.

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20. September 2008 by Sarah.

My cousin Ty, who my sister and I consider to be more like a brother, has just recently become engaged to Tiana.

Ty and Tiana I wish you the best of luck with everything!

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20. September 2008 by Sarah.

Last night I finally had a free moment to check my e-mail and I got an e-mail from Old Navy advertising a HUGH sale. So I thought, what the heck I can look right?

As I was scrolling through all the stuff that was below $10 and trying to calculate how much “fun” money I had left for this month, the jacket selection of the sale came up. Two coats, $9.99 each. One was a tan with turquoise accents and the other was this beautiful salmon/pink color. If I bought both of those coats, the total, plus the shipping and handling would have been less then half of the full price for one of the coats. (I totally love shopping math!).

I thought it would be best to go and take a bath to let this thought of getting both the coats sink in. I was thinking about what I already own that would go perfectly with both coats, especially the pink one. While in the bath I had decided I was going to get both coats.

Then when I went to purchase the coats, the pink one was gone! Gone! As in I can’t even find it to post a picture for you all to see just how cute this coat was! It is GONE! Needless to say, I got the other coat and a pair of pants that were on sale for the same price as the coat.

Lesson: If you see a deal, take it before it is gone!

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18. September 2008 by Sarah.

The other day in my Media Law class (which is really hard!), my professor made a statement that for some reason I wrote down on the top of my paper and made a note to blog about it. Now, I don’t exactly remember the entire context that this statement came out of, but I think that it had something to do with the different gun laws in different counties and something with the 1st Amendment. This is the statement that I apparently thought was so funny and should blog about: “You can get your amo next to your fried chicken.” The other funny that I have for you is how my golf coach describe my stance while golfing. He said that I looked like John Wayne getting off a horse. Now you have to understand that I am a ballet dancer. Our feet are always turned out, we never turn our feet parallel. But for golf your feet need to be facing forward and your knees need to be slightly bent. So I was basically doing a ballet move while trying to swing. Thank fully he understood that it is rather hard for my feet to do anything turned in, but I am slowly getting to the point where my feet face the golf ball, instead of facing away.To any golfer who reads this, if you ever take me golfing with you, I promise I will entertain!  

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17. September 2008 by Sarah.

I have been busy, busy, busy. This list here will give some detail about what I have been busy with. A more exciting blog is sure to come soon!

1. Media Law Reading

2. Research Methods reading & Paper (Got an A!)

3. STARs

4. EC stuff

5. Sleeping

6. Eating

7. Online Shopping (Bad habit)

8. Going out for drinks

9. Teaching a class

10. Ballet class

11. Getting a head start on projects/papers

12. Planning a mini vacation to Annapolis

13. Planning a visit to DC to see Congressman

14. Trying to figure out what time zone my father is in

15. Supporting Hannah 3000 miles away as she moves to Davis

16. Trying to get Skype to work

17. Running

18. Submitting my application for graduation (eeek!!!)

See busy, and it is only the 3rd week of school! Happy Constitution Day!

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14. September 2008 by Sarah.

As most of you probably know this summer my Daddy accepted a new job in Alaska, very exciting, but at the same time a little un-nerving. While he is up there, Mom is at home in Lancaster, Hannah (in a few days) will be up in Davis, and I am here on the East Coast.

The past week Dad has been on the island, Adak. Which is about a 4 hour plane ride from Anchorage.He will be there for another 2 weeks getting the communication system for cell service back up and running. He has a house to stay in while he is there and plenty of food.

This morning when I checked  my e-mail he had sent an update, so I thought that I would share that with you, in case you were at all curous about his new adventure!

Well I just updated flickr with some more pix so I thought I would explain what I have seen. This is an old naval base that was used from WW2 through the 90’s  and was abandoned and pretty much left to rot and be looted by the locals. There are huge buildings all over just falling apart; the odd part is a lot of this stuff was just put in before it was abandoned!

There are streams with salmon all over the place but they are done spawing so they are just dying and getting eaten by the birds. The most common bird here is the eagle both bald and a japanese brown that is bigger by alomost half!

All over the island is remnents from the cold war as they stored nukes here and so there are bomb shelters all over the place.There are teams of people that come here looking for unexploded bombs as a full time job as they have been using this place for target practice as well as storing bombs here and then dumping them anywhere.

I am staying here at Larrys house, as he has one that he stays up with juice from a generator so we don’t freeze and can cook. The islanders are freindly but a bit rough around the edges as might be expected. I cooked pasta for my team the first night and then tacos last night and the tacos where a hit; as to be expected!

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12. September 2008 by Sarah.

On this day 7 years ago, all of our lives changed forever. Last year my school had a moment of silence for all of the souls lost on 9/11. This year nothing. I think that it is safe to say that 9/11 will soon be thought of the same way Pearl Harbor is thought of. Only the people of that generation remember the fateful day on December 7, 1941, and now my generation, the ones whose lives were changed on 9/11, now seem to put that event on the book self. Sure there will be remembrances on the 10th anniversary, 20th, and so on. That is wrong, just like on 12/7 we should remember our entrance into WWII, on 9/11 we should remember the first lives to perish in “The War on Terror”.

It is my hope that ALL of you thought for a moment about the events that have impacted our lives, and have had a moment of silence for all of those who have lost theirs.

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