the one with my favorite.

so. i have this love. love for my most prized possession. its a strange, quite obsessive kind of love.

my mammaw [mom's mom] gave it to me when i was 3 years old.

mom said "it was funny. it was a lot bigger than you."

its a insanely cold, body pillow... named cold pillie.

it has the most strange and unique design:

the funny thing about cold pillie: you can ask any family member... cold pillie is always, always the first thing to be packed and unpacked. it goes EVERYWHERE. we have such a history. the pillow case is so paper thin and see through... with a few tiny holes. so the night before my parents moved me into college, mom emotionally gave me the secondary pillow case to give me a new start. plus she didn't think the original case could handle much more. so i just put the new case on top of the original. :)

so even though ive been in raleigh for almost 2 months... i still have bad nights. i don't go to bed early.. at all. usually my bed time is between 1am and 2am. same for my roomie, sac. anyways. when i finally get into my bed it takes me a little while to fall asleep. at that moment i immediately think of my parents. mom takes at least 30 minutes to go to sleep and then dad. takes one stroke of a back scratch and he is out like a light. thinking of them makes me miss them soooooo much. although i absolutely love raleigh, i still get sudden burst of homesickness late at night.

thats where my lovely pillow comes in. whenever i am need to see, feel, smell home... i immediately grab it.

i absolutely love it:

the one with the restless date night.

so all day friday sam and i texted about what we should do that night. sam and i decided that just a night at the dining hall and watching a movie and hanging out in his dorm room sounded like a good, solid date.

7:00pm rolled around we hit up the nearest dinning hall. he had parsley potatoes and spaghetti while i had a turkey cheese on wheat and parsley potatoes. :)

happy, right? right!!

so we then put in training day. [i mean who cannot love some denzel?] well first off, not a fantastic movie. second, terrible language. so we got about half through it when we decided it was a bust. then sam put in iron man. i wasnt a huge fan of it. but sam wanted to watch it. so he put it in his dvd player. but as soon as he inserted the disc... we decided we just did feel like watching that one either. comedy. cures every movie lover's desire. sam had dumb and dumber. we started watching that. got about 30 minutes into and got restless.

sam: "wanna go to redbox and rent a movie we haven't seen."

me: "sounds perfect."

we get to harris teeter when sam decides he is in desperate need to grocery shop. we spend the next hour to hour and a half finding vic card deals. he was soooo excited about 2 for the price of 1 sunny d!! :) he's so cute. so anyway after shopping for sunny d, milk, pistachios, ranch, baby carrots and a container to put the ranch in... sam got a vic card because he was so impressed by the deals harristet had to offer him. haha. finally we hit up the redbox as we were leaving and got the movie obsessed.

headed home, right? wrong.

we then hit up some cookout. and then sam wanted to show me where he goes fishing all the time. it was too dark to go out on the pier and deck. so then we just got in his escape and kept trucking. the weather was absolutely perfect. warm with a hint of wind. windows rolled down even at 10pm, smiling because you have a orea milkshake in one hand and the most amazing guy on the other hand kind of weather. ya know, that kind of weather. :)

so we saw a development. i HAD to go in there. i was also trying to convince sam that living in a city for the first two years is a GOOD idea. :) dream big, eh?

we we found a house in this development...

today we went and took a picture of it. [hence the sunlight.]

we loved it. it now is an academic goal of ours. so anyways. we decided that we needed to get back and watch our newly rented movie before it got tooooo late.

obsessed. good, insanely suspenseful.

then sam and i split our ways... realizing that we are the most restless people ever.

we had fun, that is all that matters.

the one with the best parents everr.

so i got a care package. from my parents. [and cutiee].

i know my mom probably fixed everything, but im sure dad and cutie put in their 2 cents. :)

so let me show you all my goodies.

it started out with a note that said:

"hey you!

box time! hope you enjoy!! you'll get a spooky box after fall break - boo!

study hard, find time to let your hair down and enjoy a nap here and there.

love you to pieces!

mom and dad

and [cutie] too!"

oh course. snack foods. which consisted of...

-100 calorie chocolate cakes.

-rainbow chip icing. [guilty pleasureee.]

-toasted wheat thins.

-nut clusters. [side note. try these. so good and perfect snack for in between classes.

-organic "duck" crackers. [mom knows im a huge fan of organic stuff. so this is like the organic version of gold fish!]

-snack pack pudding.

-and "church candy"

school supplies.

-company pens. [they write the best. so great].

-index cards.

-germ defense. [insanely important].

hygiene.

-make up remover wipes. [garnier nutritioniste nutri-pure detoxifying wet cleansing towelettes... the best. period].

-some facial masks.

-wisps. [perfect to-go toothbrushes. obsessed... i must say.]

-floss picks.

-manicure kit.
extra goodies.

-scrunching gel. [mom and i are always trying to test and find the best scrunching gel for our crazyyyy head of hair].

-chap stick.

-a spoon from home. [i love love love them. so cute too].

-nivea.

-nail polish.

-bobbi pins.

-and a portable back scratcherrr. [honestly, how neat. just imagine sitting in the third row of chemistry and popping out a back scratcher and going to town. wow.]

and one my faves...

italian food. :)

not from the dining hall.