Landon James Nuss

Another young life taken too early. Why does this keep happening? Have fun up there Nussy with Diff, you two will never be forgotten. Mad Love, you two beautiful souls.

I Got It!

After thinking long and hard if I want to take on another responsibility..i caved. I thought to myself, "Don't go through life taking the easy way out." Also..great resume booster. So, without telling anyone, I sent in my resume to the staff of the Templar Yearbook. I got an email saying they were looking for a Director of Social Media. Umm...is that not exactly what I did at my internship this summer? It was perfect. After I sent in my resume, answered pre-interview questions, and had a meeting with someone on the staff, they picked me for the job. I am super excited to be doing what I love without feeling like I am wasting away the day.

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Getting closer :D

Fingers Crossed

It's like that feeling when I applied to colleges, but on a lesser level. Still, here's to hoping!

A Little Re-Doing

A little re-doing never killed anybody, now did it? For my first ever big girl apartment (despite the fact that i have 3 roommates and am still in college), i decided to take the anthropolgie-esque route for my bedroom. As a very scholarly, straight-A type student (duh), a desk was one of the first things I bought. Getting it at an auction thanks to my cousin Jess made it easy to redo considering it was simple looking. Antique-y, yet simple. I used Annie Sloan chalk paint and let me tell you it is the paint of heaven. Goes on perfectly with no sanding beforehand. Here are some before and after pictures of what I have done:

One Direction I Love You Long Time

About a year and a half ago, I remember laying on an air mattress in New York in my Nan's bedroom scrolling viciously through the ticket master website on the tiny screen on my phone. As I was getting pictures sent to me and calls from my friends back home who were at a party...I...well.. I was ordering One Direction tickets almost 2 years prior to the concert in Hershey. Being obsessed with Harry Styles for the past two years (which i will deny till the day I die if I ever meet him...you know, you cant come off as a crazed fan, DUH!) has not only made me insane, but has also made me anticipate the concert of my lifetime more and more each day. So this friday, Taylor Stork and I took a mini road trip to Hershey, PA to hear the hottest Brits serenade us that we don't know we're beautiful. Even though we do know that, I mean we are well aware.. but that's besides the point. Anywho..the concert was all I expected it to be. Bright lights, screaming girls, and not being able to understand Liam, Harry, Zayn, Louis, or Niall when they spoke. We even bought tickets the next day to see them again in Hershey since they were playing both friday and saturday. Savannah Watkins and Libby Kramer went to the concert saturday as well which was awesome to get to go with them too. Zack Artz actually got to meet Harry Friday night (and you bet your bottom dollar that we insisted to touch his hand that gave Harry a high five), so we were hoping mayyyyyyybbeeee just maybe we would get to meet him Saturday since Zack was working again. Well, Zack, we all still hate you, because that didn't happen. Why One Direction didn't want to meet a couple of crazy stalking fans is beyond me. Okay now this is becoming a novel and at this point in my life I don't know why I'm not writing one about all of my celebrity obsessions, probably because my mom is the only one who would buy it. So, in the words of One Direction, you got that one thing, boys. AND ILL ALWAYS LOVE U BYE.

Beautiful Linda

Waking up Sunday morning at 7AM after going to sleep at 4AM was tough, let me tell you. Not only were my eyes so tired that they were actually hurting, I was dreading what was yet I thought would come. Red, puffy eyes, a runny nose, and an aching heart is what I was expecting.
Instead, I experienced a wonderful, joyful remembrance of my beautiful third cousin, Linda. Her unexpected death shocked our whole family when the tragedy took place a little over a year ago. To admire the person Linda was, her father and step mother set up a Butterfly Release to celebrate Linda graduating into the next afterlife. I have never experienced such a unique way to acknowledge the life Linda lived. "A butterfly release expresses by sight what the soul feels, and these unutterable emotions ride on the beating wings of an equally speechless butterfly. These soul sounds are carried through the air by the butterflies, and all who observe their flight are connected by a special understanding of the event that has taken place."(http://www.butterflyreleases.com) What made this event even more special is when a butterfly landed on her fathers chest, and just stayed there for a little. It was like Linda was hanging out with us. She knew we were all there for her and could feel how much we love her. The releasing of the butterflies show that this doesn't mean she is gone, it shows the celebration of "a most exquisite life to come", if that is even possible. We love you Linda.