I voted yesterday. Almost made a mistake and voted for Obama. No thanks.

I got a flu shot in my right arm and a tetanus, diptheria, pertussis shot in my left. Today I feel like I got hit by an 18 wheeler. I don't lie. Maybe exaggerate, but not lie. :)

Tomorrow Sarah and I are taking a random adventure to Atlanta to stay with my crazy aunt and go to Six Flags. I'm so pumped. You don't even know. I like going away with friends. It's exciting, even if my dad thinks it's dangerous. How else will I discover the world? Really?

And this my friends is what my hair looked like yesterday morning when I woke up. I felt the need to document, since it is absolutley crazy and a half. My hair has a life of it's own.

Today is an emotional day in the Herbert house. I came home from my interview to find my family very sad. Maggie, our fun loving, dancing, friendly, big-hearted dog had passed away. So unexpected. So shocking. She was herself last night and this morning and then boom, things changed. My parents did all they could to try to save her.

Automatically I think of me not being able to say goodbye, but I do have those true Maggie memories. She was Maggie last night and that's how I get to remember her.

She always greeted me when I got home from work. Dancing at my feet til I acknowledged her. She ate anything and she loved to sleep right up next to my chest in the mornings. She was my favorite. She was my dog. But I do believe that she is up in heaven. A dog like Maggie would go nowhere else.

So I was rummaging through my closet a while back and found this object that I made my senior year in high school. A prom apron. YES! That is what it is. I think I had the brilliant idea to make these because of my uncanny knack for spilling food on myself. And who wants to spill food on their nice dress at prom. No normal girl does, that's who!

That's right. I said "Oh snap" even in high school. And my nickname was Hoover (long explanation that basically boils down to my last name being Herbert. Then there's the president... Herbert Hoover. Thus came the name Hoover). Honestly, I love this. Who wouldn't? How can you pass up pink ribbon, paint and dinosaurs? [maybe I can get a picture of my prom dress too :)]

All this to say that I've changed so much since high school. Two and a half years will do that to you I guess. I used to be so entirely awkward, not that I still don't have my moments. I had braces (no more of that, praise the Lord.) I wanted to be a doctor. I still have the shirt to prove it. Now I feel a little more grown up, but still young at times. I still have a LOT of growing up to do. I was naive back in high school about a lot of things. I'm still that way. Believe me. I lead a sheltered life and sometimes it's not a bad thing. There are somethings I would rather not know about. But I think more than anything, I've learned to embrace who I am. Going through high school it's easy to compare yourself to the popular people, but God made me this way. He knows who I am and loves me despite of it all.

So there. That's my thought for today. High school. Sometimes I miss ya, but most of the time I don't. :)

Fall is upon us friends. It's here. I can feel it in the air and see it in the changing colors on the trees. Oh man. My arms can't wait to be in long sleeves and sweaters.

Yesterday was a true Sunday in every sense of the word. I went to church with Jessica and Betsy. Then our afternoon was filled with outdoors things and pictures. We talked a lot about the future. What our lives will be like, our kids, our men (which was a main topic.) This is really the prime time in our lives, when we're not bound by jobs, families and real life obligations. This is the time.

I enjoy their company immensely. It was a true sunday with true friends.

On another note, we listened to the new Kings of Leon cd. It is so good. It's on repeat on my iPod now. So good. Get it.

Yay for lazy days. These are welcomed. Days where I can sleep in and wake up fully rested. Days where I can leisurely do my homework and relax the rest of the day. Days where I can fully enjoy a shower. MHHHMMM. This was today.

My mind has been elsewhere lately. Like a cloud of haze covering my eyes. I'm distracted.

I've come to embrace the change that I have been emmersed in. It's here and there's no going back now, only forward. Can't change the past, can only deal with the future.

What can you do?

I've been saying that a lot lately... What can you do?

This weekend I went to Chicago. What an amazing time!

Sarah and I ventured out to the windy city on Friday and met up with her friends, Hailey and Chrissie on Saturday. We shopped like girls do and walked in the intense rain. I had my first experience in a taxi cab. I am on of those people who likes to be in control in certain situations and in this one... I was not in control. The man drove like a maniac. Needless to say, I had a ball. Sarah's friends (who she actually knows through Paige) are amazing. I like them. I will definitely be going back to Chicago again.

Yesterday, Sarah and I left Chicago at a decent time (10:30) and didn't make it even an hour away when we got stuck in massive traffic. We're talking moving a half a mile in 1 hour. So we sat in traffic for 3.5 hours. Our trip was suppossed to only be 8 hours, but it turned into a 13 hour extravaganza. Even though we spent so much time in the car, we didn't fight. We laughed. We sang. We talked. No fighting. No drama. It's good to have friends like that. I appreciate our friendship.

Of course, there are more details, but I have to read a children's book for my Children's Lit class.

School has started. I think this semester will be a good one. I'm finally getting into the teaching classes. Finally something more than just learning about the No Child Left Behind Act, although it's very important. Something new and refreshing, not just the same ole things you learn in every education class. I have one class about the school health system, which I know sounds lame, that I think will be very helpful. I've only been to the class two days and it does by so fast. The teacher gives us real life, tough situations that college or class really doesn't prepare you for. It's great. It's going to be one those classes and teachers that I remember from years to come when I have my own classroom. Very good.

Lately I have been in this weird mood. Weird is really the only word to describe it. I'm not a depressed kind of person, but that's really the only word I can use to describe it. I don't know why... I mean I do, but I don't. I'm weird. I just feel like there is so much that I want to do, but I'm here. I'm at home, working at the Gap and going to school. I want so much more than this.
I want to travel.
I want to build relationships.
I want to be independent.
I want to be me.
I guess I'm just restless. I have a restless heart. And through all my weird moodness, I think I've realized that through all this I need to rely on God. When the time comes, I will do all of these things. I am at home for a reason. I am back at a job that I hate for a reason. He knows the plan. He freakin' made the plan. Now I just have to have faith.