My awesome nephew

Spending time with my nephew is one of the most enjoyable thing I look forward to, especially when I'm at college. I get to get away and see family, and most of the time he is the first one i go to see.  He brightens my day everytime I see him. Everyone else is all about him too, but i feel like I have a closer connection with him because I am his godmother. Out of all his relatives on my side I'm the closets  to his age (not counting his little sister). My brother did wait a while to have kids and I was an oops baby from my rents so that's the only reason haha.

Well my nephews name is Nolan and he will be 3 in a few months. He is at that age where he is getting really fun, funny, and easy to talk to. Just the other day I pulled up to my brothers house and had just gotten into an argument with my boyfriend so I was pretty sad and upset. Well right when i got out of the car, here comes Nolan running out of the garage with a pair of sunglasses, t-shirt, diaper( no pants) and a pair of boot on. He says" hey Wachel!!!" It made my burst into laughter. He made me feel so much better. I forgot for about 5 seconds that I had been upset. I know everyone is probably biased towards their niece or nephew and think that whatever they do is so funny. But this little guy is so precious and the things he says are awesome!!

Looking forward to a weekend

Finals are coming up in a few weeks!!! I’m not stressing about them exactly yet, but two of my classes are having a test now or a project that’s due instead. In my one class we have to do a presentation and a final paper which is due in the next week, and my senior seminar class I have a huge proposal paper that I need to be finishing up here pretty soon. This is the part of spring that I dislike; the stress of bringing everything to a rap. I am so stressed out. There is so much work to be done. I’m stressing because this weekend is the big party weekend where our whole school is like one big party. Everyone stays in town instead of going home. Basically there are a lot of cookouts, corn hole, solo cups and when available; sun rays. It’s the weekend when almost no students are stuck in their dorm rooms doing homework. That’s why I’m trying to get it all done before the weekend.

            This weekend is called poolza. Fraternities and sororities have beach volleyball tournaments, cookouts, and lots of fun activities for the student body to enjoy. The school also puts a fun little park on up in the center quad. There are usually blowup playgrounds and crafts to do. They have lots of fair foods and music playing. It’s a great time to just get free games and food, and when you’re a college student it’s the perfect weekend.  

Getting a Bug

Oh how I love getting the flu bug. This past weekend I got sick Saturday night. I was so sick that I was in bed all Sunday. Let’s just say I didn’t get out of bed and done sleeping till 7:30 pm.  I know, I’m such a baby when it comes to getting the flu or having a bad hangover. My boyfriend always makes fun of me. Telling me I’m a sissy and etc. But you know what? The flu can bring down a big 6’5”, 250 lb man to his weakest point, so I can most definitely act like a baby when it hits me.

I also love it when people try to give me all these home remedies. “Never put water on an empty upset stomach, do drink a lot of water. Eat lots of bland foods, put milk on your upset stomach, don’t eat milky foods. Sip on sprite and 7up (light non-caffeine soda), drink dark sodas. Well you know what? I think the only remedy that works is the one you grew up with and the one your mother gave you. So people are always going to tell you their way, but I feel it’s more of the comfort knowing it helped and felt better when you were younger. So some might physically really help, but a lot is mental. Least that what I believe.

Home

I've noticed since I've been at school and away from home, how much better I get along with my parents. My freshman year at college was different. I couldn't wait to get away from them and barely ever got a hold of them. It was nice only talking to them or keeping in touch once a week or even two weeks. I even remember sitting at my computer and getting my first text from my mom. I was so shocked and proud of her because she doesn't have texting. It said "Hello! Well since you never call or get in touch I got texting." This made me laugh. But I do believe the texting helped so we stay in touch more. We probably even text at least once a day.

Now that I'm a junior, I've noticed I call home more. Not just because I need something, but because I just want to talk and see how they are doing. I also have driven home more to visit. Sometimes instead of staying at my house with my friends, or boyfriend, I'd rather go home and hang with my parents. We get along better and barely ever fight or bicker. I think this might be because my maturity level.  I believe now I can relate and understand them better and vice versa. But now it's nice to go home and I look forward to it instead of dreading it. :)