College Days @ Troy University
Troy University
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
My Childhood in a Nut Shell
You’re a 90’s kid if:
You can finish this [ice ice _ _ _ _ ]
You remember watching:
-Doug
-Ren & Stimpy
-Pinky and the Brain
-AAAAAAAH Real Monsters!
-Rockos modern Life.
You’ve ever ended a sentence with the word “PSYCHE!”
You just cant resist finishing this … “Iiiiiiin west philidelphia born and raised …”
You remember:
-TGIF
-Step by Step
-Family Matters
-Dinosaurs
-Boy Meets World
-Sabrina The Teenage Witch
You remember when it was actually worth getting up early
on a Saturday to watch cartoons.
You got super excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school.
You remember reading “Goosebumps”
You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school.
You still get the urge to say “NOT” after (almost) every sentence … not
when everything was settled by:
-rock paper scissors or
-bubble gum bubble gum in a dish or
-inky pinky ponky daddy had a donkey
- ennie meanie miney moe.
when cops and robbers was a daily activity.
when we played Hide and go seek until our legs grew numb.
when we used to obey our parents
You used to listen to the radio all day long just to record your FAVORITE song of ALL time.
“Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?” was both a game and a TV game show.
Captain Planet. He’s a Hero.
You knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the green ranger, were meant to be together. ♥
You remember when Super Nintendos and Sega Genisis became popular.
You always wanted to send in a tape to America’s Funniest Home Videos … but never taped anything funny.
You remember watching Home Alone 1, 2 , and 3 … and tried to pull the pranks on “intruders”
You remember watching:
-The Magic School Bus
-Wishbone
-Reading Rainbow on PBS.
You remember when Yo-Yos were cool.
You remember those Where’s Waldo books.
You remember eating Warheads.
You remember watching:
-the 1st Batman
-Aladdin
-Ninja Turtles
-3 Ninjas movies.
You remember Ring Pops.
You remember drinking Surge, and Tang.
If you remember when every thing was “da BOMB!”
When they made the new lunchables so that you could make pizza AND tacos.
You remember boom boxes vs. cd players.
Making those little paper fortune cookie things, and then predicting your life with them.
You played and/or collected “Pogs” :)
You had at least one Tamagotchi, GigaPet, or Nano and brought it everywhere.
… Furbies.
You haven’t always had a computer, and it was cool to have the internet.
And Windows 95 was the best.
You watched the original cartoons of Rugrats, Power Rangers, and Ninja Turtles.
Michael Jordan was a king.
YIKES pencils and erasers were the stuff!
All your school supplies were “Lisa Frank” brand.
You remember when the new Beanie Babies and Talking Elmo were always sold out
You collected those Beanie Babies.
Carebears
Gak was the coolest stuff invented.
Lambchop’s song never ended.
The old dollar bills.
Silver dollars, which were cool to have.
You remember a time before the WB.
You collected all the Troll dolls
If you even know what an original walkman is.
You remember wanting to sit on the orange Nickelodeon couch.
You’ve gotten creeped out by “Are You Afraid of the Dark?”
You know the Macarena by heart.
“Talk to the hand” … enough said
You always said, “Then why don’t you marry it!”
You went to McDonald’s to play in the playplace.
You remember playing on merry go rounds at the playground.
Before the MySpace frenzy …
Before the Internet & text messaging …
Before Sidekicks & iPods …
Before MIKE JONES …
Before PlayStation2 or X-BOX …
Before Spongebob …
Back when you put off the 5 hours of homework you had every night.
When light up sneakers were cool.
When you rented VHS tapes, not DVDs.
When gas was $0.95 a gallon & Caller ID was a new thing.
When we recorded
stuff on VCRs.
When we called the radio station to request songs to hear off of our walkman.
When checking out drawing books and that one book about the rainbow fish from the library was THE cool thing to do.
You had slap bracelets!
Way back.
Before we realized all this would eventually disappear.
Who would have thought you’d miss the 90’s so much!!!!!
Friday, September 9, 2011
College Life at its Finest
Alrighty. I am sorry for the random MIA time. I have been crazy busy with school and everything else going on. But I am going to try to get back and be good about this. :)
Sooo...tonight is going to be fun it is the last rush function for Phi Boota roota tonight before interviews on Monday. PBr is a coed-percussion fraternity. But I am really excited and I am slightly nervous about interviews but I think they will go well and hopefully I'll come out of it with a bid!!!!
I am also being adventurous and trying to start an A Capella group on campus with some friends in my chorus class. This will be an interesting endeavor seeing as I have never been in an a capella group but it looks like so much fun!! And I have a lot of people I've talked to that seem pretty interested in it and its people who have been in groups like this before so YAY!
Crazy things on campus today...well we are in the middle of "Mini Human vs Zombie War on campus right now and its very intense! As in last night after band practice (You can't play during classes and band is a class so they had to wait till after practice) the zombies surrounded the field to try to get all the humans in the band. Some of the humans got away but now before having to jump over a fence, being chased by a car, and getting to a safe haven of Taco Bell. I am pumped to join in on the war next week when we do it again. This time it will be three days and involve missions and stuff. :) I know I'm a dork but its okay ;)
Well I am going to do some reading and listen to music so I'll be back soon.
(&hearts&)
P.S. here is a video about Humans Vs. Zombies :) Its gets this intense!
Monday, August 8, 2011
Oh The Places You'll Go
Well I've been to several cool places but the coolest place I've been was the trip my church took to Colorado. We drove from Loganville, Georgia to Grand Junction, Colorado in 3 days and it was a very interesting bus ride. Here are some pictures from that trip. :)
This is what makes the trip even more interesting...about a day into the trip, the air conditioner went out completely! SOoo this is how we fixed this problem...
Saturday, August 6, 2011
I won't say I'm in Love
Hmmm..being the girly girl I am I have actually thought this one through :) So...
1. Guy would show up and pick me up, from where ever I am at, school, home ect
2. We would go to maybe dinner or somewhere and eat (if he can cook, even better)
3. Just chill together for a while and talk about the random things we think of
4. Finally go to a place with some sort of water and watch the sunset together :)
Yes, I know I am uber cheesy but I think things like that that are simply but fun are the best. And if a guy can make me laugh then I know I will be okay.
Anyway, so today was my "going away party" with my family and a few close friends and I must say I am going to miss everyone so much! But I can't wait to get to Troy to start everything there and meet people. And I am super excited to get to go to the beach sometime! People, you have no idea how exciting this is for me. I haven't been to the beach in over 7 years!!! So being only TWO hours away from the beach makes this so much more exciting! To show how much I have changed from the last time I went to the beach here's a picture of me then.
and a much more recent picture of my family :)
Friday, August 5, 2011
We Go Together Like Rama Lama Lama
These are my two best friends! Aaron Lapniewski and Karissa Martin! They are the best people ever. No matter whats going on we can tell each other everything. I have known each of them since elementary school and they are the two people who are going to be my friends for life.
KARI!! haha This is my unbiological sister! We have been best friends since middle school and even when she moved to Tennessee for a year we still stayed close. We are so similar but still so different that we have awesome adventures together, including frozen yogurt and stake 'n' shake trips. Its fun to scare our other friends (mainly Aaron) with our obnoxious singing to musicals and being strange.
AND....Karissa and I have started a small business called "Pearl's Friendship Bracelets" to try to raise money for Breast Cancer Research. There are all sorts of patterns (all made by Karissa) for sale and all the profit goes to help raise awareness and do our part. We are also on Facebook so go find us. Here I made it easy! Facebook for Pearl's Friendship Bracelet. So please go look at it and spread the word!
Thursday, August 4, 2011
What is in a Name?
Well that is an easy one! This blog is designed to keep track of my days in college. The good, the bad and the fun! And I'm going to Troy University so it's not like I would name it "College Days @ UGA or GT or something like that"
But it is sorta strange to think about the fact that Troy is literally only a couple days away from being my new home. I actually move out on Monday, so I have about 3 days left at home. And in that time I have so much left to do. I have to clean my room, that's always a daunting task, finish packing, I will need a bigger closet, and buy a few more things. Hopefully I will get it all done before I leave for band camp! This summer has completely flown by and it is hard to believe that it is practically over. But I couldn't be more excited to get started on the great adventure called college. So many people to meet and things to do, it will be one exciting ride!
(&hearts&)