Sisters are a Lifetime

Hey Yo!!!

So I have a lot to catch you 8 people that read this up on!!! Since the last post I have been officially initiated as an alpha member of Alpha Delta Pi, Gone through a full week of school, gone home and seen my bestie, experienced the most epic weekend ever, found out who my Big is, and went to this AWESOME thing called Momentum!!! But since you don't know what any of these things are I shall tell you!!

So maybe I was initiated by the time I typed the last one, but I want to explain this cause it's so cool to me!! So I'm in Alpha Delta Pi and there are 3 different... types of ADPi I guess you could say. When you first come in your an Alpha. Like the beginning, Alpha and Omega. Getting it?? Ok. Then Once you're officially initiated you become a Delta... can't really remember that meaning. Because it's in the middle of our greek letters I guess.. And then Once you become Alum you're a Pi. Like the number for Pi goes on forever and ever. Once ADPi always ADPi!!

That probably sounded crazy!!

Anyways, school is pretty good! Not to many complaints. My Psychology class is ruining my life. No biggie. The work hasn't gotten to hard yet. Just a lot of studying. Lame!!

I went home last Wednesday to celebrate my Mom's birthday!! I miss her and my brother a lot!! And I got to see that AMAZING person known as Windsey Bawin!!! I miss her really bad too!!! We hung out Wednesday and Thursday night! I got to see Trent, my boyfriend, Thursday! Yea, that's right! I said it! WOOT!!! Then I had to come back to Troy Friday for class and for possibly the most Epic weekend ever!! It's right up there with the Bayou Fest!! It is known as the SISTERHOOD RETREAT!!!!!

So That Friday we all met at the house and found out who our Big is!!! AHH!!!!! It was so cute we were all in the TV room at wickle(our president) and Ashley(my lion pal ha) came in to give us pajama bottoms. Well they told us we had to go and find our Big with the same pants on. So we all ran for the chapter room, little did we know they were OUTSIDE!!!! So then we had to wait for everyone to get to the chapter room and they finally let us out and drum roll please!!!!!!!!! My big was.................... AVERY!!!!! Oh my GOSH I was so excited!!!! Def the coolest thing ever!!! Because she is the coolest person ever!!! I love her to death!!!

Then that Saturday we did these session things, ehh. But that night, that night was when the fun truly began!! We were all going to go to a Biscuits game in Montgomery! Well me and avery rode with Kellie and Dakota! Kellie was driving. That should give you enough insight as to how this was gonna go. So the directions they gave us were bogus apparently and we ended up getting lost in the GHETTO!!! Like for real! Scared for my life!!! And we passed this one dog on the road and made some comment about him then when we turned around Kellie decided she was gonna go a DIFFERENT way but make a loop, again I say it's Kellie we're talking about, and we get back on the road with the dog and she says "There's the dog! We're on the right road!!!" Funniest moment EVER... so far. HA! So we get back on the highway and take some other exit and Kellie decides she needs to go to the bathroom!! So we pull up on the curb, don't think she meant to, and her and Avery run to the bushes while me and Dakota laugh our bottoms off!!! Of course I had to take pictures!!! And then we finally got Kellie's GPS figured out and we're driving through a not so Ghetto part of the ghetto and had to stop and take pictures at the train track!! Cutest pictures EVER!! And then we turn around to see the baseball stadium right behind us!! What are the odds?!?!

So we park 50 years away and trek to the stadium. Find our sisters in our bright NEON shirts!! Then we leave during the 8th inning I do believe, well Kellie decides she wants to complement this random guy on his shorts. So not only do we have to walk 50 years to the car we have this nice possy of guys following us. And then we finally lose them and these cars start driving by honking and this LITTLE boy leans out of one truck and yells at us. Avery yells, "YOU'RE FIVE! Keep Driving!" Funniest thing ever... AGAIN!!!! We finally made it back! lol

Then Sunday we went to Momentum(you'll read about that in a minute) and then to Camp Butter and Egg!! We did a lot of team building stuff like what we did at SLA so it was a lot of fun to me!! Then we had "informal" chapter and sleep, finally!!!

MOST EPIC WEEKEND EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So Momentum!! Let me tell you about it!! It's a student led worship service on Sunday mornings on Campus and HOLY COW it's so great!! I describe it as a church camp service every Sunday morning!! I was so AMAZED by it!! And then I went to 8:29 Wednesday and it's basically a college youth group!! Pretty Awesome as well!!! Love it!! And I'm possibly gonna get to go on a mission trip to Trinidad this December!! WHAT?!?!?! So stoked!! Love Jesus!!

If you understood that blog you get major cool points because it was SUPER scattered!!

Everything is finally seeming some what right!! Nothing has been fixed, but God has really blessed me with some Amazing people!!

Peace and Blessings!!

--Lil

Drinking... And I'm not talking about Water

Hello Again!!! I hadn't planned on blogging for awhile but I can't sleep and have a lot on my mind. So Here it goes...

SO I went to my first college Frat party last night. It was just a big back-to-school bash held between all the fraternity's. All in All it was the first weekend of many hangovers to come(not for me, for the other idiots in the world). Like it was fun, but the fact that I wasn't drinking or smoking, and don't cuss made it boring. And I didn't know anyone so it was kind of like me following Kellie around... which apparently she thought she was my baby-sitter. ha! I love her to death, and am SO thankful she's chosen to be help me out like she's been doing. It just cracked me up the WHOLE night. "Where's Jenna? Where'd she go?" ha! Poor Katy Kitto. I'm glad she was there last night! She was one of those people that wasn't drinking, well she limited herself to one cup since she was driving, so we had fun together. And this chick named Lindsey, she was pretty cool to!

It just cracks me up though how some people are. Like sober they try to watch what they say. Like they say references to cuss words or the first letter to them, but then they get drunk and its all over. And then they look at me and say you didn't hear that or tonight didn't happen. It's so stupid. I'm just saying, if you get drunk in front of me, I will pick, aggravate, and annoy you just as bad as you are annoying me. That fact did somewhat make my night more fun last night.

But like the main thing that has been on my mind, why I went to sleep at 4 and am up already at 8. Grr... is that what does a person like me do in a situation like this? I talked to one of my amazing mentors back home who so lovingly text me back at 3 in the morning about this, but as a Christian and a sober person do you offer to be the designated driver? Or is that encouraging your friends to drink? Or do you tell them that your not gonna drive their sorry butts home so deal with it i hopes that they wouldn't go to crazy? It's basically a lose lose situation. My friend said to be their driver. It's better that they get home safe because their gonna drink anyways, which is so true... lucky me.

And then last night made me realize why one of the guys in my class started drinking prom night.... because it was SOOOOOO BORING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Like several times last night I thought about just getting one drink to entertain myself but if I got one then it'd be all over with. Why? because I know myself. And I thought back to that night and figured that's probably how he felt, and then I wish I would have taken that guitar away sooner!! (that is a whole different story so don't worry about it)

AND THEN all this led to me thinking about why I don't drink. One I like life, Two I'm under age, Three I guess the most serious one is I've watched someone suffer for a year. Slowly dying and it stunk. It was hard on me, and my family because my Papa was the strongest person to us. And no, he didn't get sick because of drinking or smoking, but people who party get sick just like that, they develop cancer, liver problems, issues that will slowly kill them when they get older if not while they're in their twenties. I don't want my family to have to suffer and watch me die. And I also want to be that person kids can look up to who hasn't fallen into this temptation.

Which sparks my next things. I have a person in my life who has never smoke, drank, nothing. And She is such an inspiration to me. Like I want to be that to someone. I want my youth group back home to see me as not the 4 out of 5(or whatever that statistic is) who go to college and never enter church again. I want to be there one that they are like "She did it. She didn't conform. She was her on person."

And I guess I'm really scared to death of one thing when I looked out over the people last night. I'm scared that some of my friends back home will start to do this stuff. Like, hope this doesn't offend anyone, but some of my best friends are sophomores in high school. And yea, most of their class has already gotten into that stuff and they haven't, but it still freaks me out to think they're right there. I mean the toughest years have yet to come. Right now I'm not that worried, but once they start driving I'll probably never sleep again. And I think that's just my protective side taking over.

Ok. I don't think I have anything else to say. Maybe I'll be able to get some sleep now.

--The Sober One

College is AMAZING!!!!!!

WHATS UP!!!!!

SO I have been up at Troy for a week now!! Who knew so much could happen in a week!!! Rush last week was AMAZING!! I am now officially an Alpha member of Alpha Delta Pi!!!! I stinkin LOVE it!!!!! I now have 73 new sisters and it is the best feeling ever!!!

Classes finally started today!! I just had one english class. It's gonna stink!! I already have a ton of homework!! BLAH!! But I'm still excited about it!! This whole week I've been running around getting everything in order. Me and Nicole hung out most of Monday and went to survivor at the BCM!! It was CRAZY!!!

I feel like I should tell so much but I don't think there is much more to tell. I'm missing home just a tiny tiny bit. Really only missing like 2 or 3 people. But I get to see them next Wednesday!!!

That is all for now!! LA Ink premire tonight in 5 minutes!! WOOT WOOT!!!!!!

Peace Out Home Dogs!!

--The Alpha of ADPi

Bitter Sweet Days

Wow, I can't believe I basically leave for school Tuesday... that's so wild to me!! This whole past week has been weird to me. I started saying good-bye, saw a lot of people for probably the last time for awhile, and have thought constantly about how hard it's going to be to say good-bye to my closest friends and family. Which I say all this and it looks like I'm moving across the country, not an hour away but it's still one of those things.

This past weekend has hit me the hardest. Lindsey, Peyton, and me hung out Friday and Saturday and then Patrick joined us to "camp out" Saturday night. I had a great time, but my thoughts we're constantly "there won't be many days like this anymore." Yea, I'll come home, I'll see them at football games and church, but We won't get to do stuff like that... I tear up as I think about it so I'll stop.

Church was stinking AMAZING today!! Oh My BACK!!! For real talk! Like the songs we sang during worship were Fabulous! Then Bro Cecil's sermon was Awesome!! Totally a slap in the though, He talked about why we beat on closed doors when there is an open door begging us to come inside... boom!! ha. Then I moved up to the college sunday school class, it was AWESOME too!!! Actual discussion instead of crickets!! Then took possibly the best nap ever, that is after hanging with my wonderful Mom and Brother! Jay went into the Youth Group today for the 1st time, I haven't seen him this excited about something in a long time!! I pray he stays like this!! Then tonight we had the Deacons Ordination thing... basically we swore some guy into being a deacon and watched men pray over him for an hour and a half... woo. But the guy being "sworn in"'s name is Luke and he said one thing that stuck out to me. "I am not qualified, but I am willing." Slap in the face!!

Why you ask? Because it was so hard not to go to the youth room today for sunday school. I wanted to go and make sure the 6th graders felt welcome and talk to everyone, get things going. But I'm not qualified for that anymore. That's not my job. God really gave me a peace about that today. I can't do it anymore, someone else has got to step up and I have no doubt they will, I'm just a control freak. So I like to do things. Now is my time to go and dig into the College Ministry, no I'm not qualified(I don't have a degree or even Senority) but I am willing and I pray God use me to grow the ministry and even in Troy.

And then tonight also brought up this saying I heard at SLA. We got these REAP journals to use during our quite time and I did some of mine tonight during the 50 prayers. Well the preacher guy from week 2 of SLA said this. "Whenever I interview someone for a church position this is one of my questions, 'When was the last time you cried because of what your Saviour did for you?'" I thought of this because as Luke talked he cried. It is so inspiring to me to watch a grown man cry because of what his God has done for him!! He is broken under the wing of Jesus and allowing himself to remain broken which is so cool to me!!

Well My summer is slowly closing. I go up for Rush Tuesday, so my life from Tuesday-Saturday will be non-stop. Then I move in and start college... WOAH!!! Here is my schedule as promised:

Monday:

1:00-1:50 Comp and Modern English

4:00-4:50 University Orientation

6:00-8:30 Pre-Cal with Algrebra

Tuesday:

8:30-9:45 Intro to Leadership

10:00-11:15 Honors Western Civ

5:30-8:00 General Psychology

Wednesday:

1:00-1:50 Comp and Modern English

Thursday:

8:30-9:45 Intro to Leadership

10:00-11:15 Honors Western Civ

Friday:

1:00-1:50 Comp and Modern English

Well that's all for now. My next post will be from my apartment when I'm all moved in!! WOOT!!!!

Much Love!!

--The RUSHing girl!!!