In a rut

I've been in a slump lately (all winter, really)... and I apologize for not having anything to blog about. Maybe life will start to pick up a little bit with Spring on its way. I'm sick of being so blah!

I got tagged

(I know, I know... I was tagged a long time ago, but finally I decided to see if I could do this)

4 jobs I've had in my life:
Lifeguard
Waitress
Cashier at Abner's
Medical Technologist

4 movies I could watch over and over:
Anchorman (The Legend of Ron Burgundy)
Office Space
Dirty Dancing
A Christmas Story

4 TV shows I love to watch:
Friends and Seinfeld (reruns)
Sex and the City (reruns)
The Office
Will and Grace

4 places where I have lived:
Jackson, MS
Atlanta, GA
Bogue Chitto, MS
Madison, MS

4 places I've been to on vacation:
North Carolina/Tennessee mountains
Texas (Austin/San Antonio/Houston/Dallas)
Gulf Shores, AL
St. Simon's Island, GA

4 places I'd rather be:
the mountains
the beach
in bed
anywhere but here

4 of my favorite foods:
Papa John's pizza (ham, pineapple, and mushrooms)
Jumbo Chinese
Ben & Jerry's ice cream
Abner's chicken tenders (grilled OR fried)

4 websites I visit daily:
BabyMakes3
Belle of Madison
University of MS Medical Center
MSN

I'm trying, but Blogger is not cooperating

Okay, so I'm trying to keep my mind off of other things, and I realized that I never finished posting all the pics from my trip to North Carolina a few weeks ago. These pics were actually taken by my dad the day after I left, but they are good, and I felt like they were worth sharing. Well, so much for sharing them tonight... apparently Blogger has a problem with them and it's being fussy... Maybe because they are .bmp images and not .jpg?? According to blogger help, bmp images should be supported, so maybe it's just being a pain in the toosh tonight because it wants to be. So anyway, there goes my post to pot. Sorry guys. Maybe next time.

In Memory

Goodbye, Bert. You were an awesome kitty. I will miss you so much. I love you.

nevermind

bert's not going to be okay.. the vet called this morning, and he passed away last night.

Bert's gonna be ok

well, there is good news about bert (i guess you can call it good... it's not as bad as i was afraid of ). turns out he has a fatty liver. it's not good, but there is hope that he will be ok again. tomorrow i will bring him home with a feeding tube to feed him his medication and some good nutrients until we can get him to start eating on his own again.

No hope for the weekend

this weekend sucks in a huge way. forget about men. i don't even care anymore about being bored and lonely. my bert is sick in a really bad way and i don't know yet what's going to happen with him. i guess this is the really hard part of having pets that you love so much. i think i'm just gonna go take some valium and lay on the couch and wait for the vet to call.

Men Suck!

(But I'm not giving up... one way or another, there may still be hope for the weekend yet!)

Memories of Mountains

I recently went on a mini-vacation (?) to my parents new cabin, aka Evensong, up in western North Carolina near Bryson City and the Nantahala river. Since I've now been back home for a week, I figured maybe it was time to post some pictures. We didn't really do a whole lot... mainly move in and clean and shop for stuff for the house. (You just don't realize how dirty a new house is! Every surface.. walls, floors, countertops, windows, etc... is covered in this construction dust. Yuck!) So much for R & R! I didn't get much of that! So the main highlight of the trip was getting to see some snow. Here in Mississippi, we don't get to see it very often so we get excited about it! This was how things looked last Sunday morning when I got ready to leave. It had snowed all Saturday afternoon and night, but until late Saturday afternoon, the temp was not below freezing, so that's why there was not more accumulation. So anyway, this is our house. Welcome to "Evensong," 322 Mason Road, Bryson City, NC. You know how houses at the beach have names? Well houses in the mountains do, too. It is such an awesome feeling to know that I have a place to escape to up there at just about any time I please! I even have my own key. :D I've only been back home for a week, but I am ready to go back! My vacation wasn't long enough! :(
Here is my Pathfinder all covered with snow... Sorry, I just had to throw this picture in here because I love my 'Finder! And it looks so pretty with its light blanket of snow. :) Anyway, my parents and I arrived late Wednesday night and my brother got there late Thursday night. I had to leave on Sunday (thanks to my classes that meet on Monday and Tuesday, that was all the time I could take), but my parents stayed till Tuesday. Even though we spent a lot of time cleaning and moving in, we did still do a little bit of playing. On Friday, we did a little bit of shopping, and I had an awesome time in Sylva, NC at Blackrock Outfitters. All winter things (basically the whole store) was 40% off, so I racked up on an awesome The North Face coat along with a new hat, scarf, purse, and some sweet Vasque Gore-tex hiking boots! That shopping trip made my week! :) On Saturday, it was flurrying a little bit so we decided to drive to find some snow. We tried to get on the Blue Ridge Parkway and do some driving up high, but it turned out it was closed (as they do in the winter due to frequent inclimate weather and bad driving conditions at the higher altitudes). So we kept on going and made our way to the Smoky Mountain National Park, and we definitely found snow! There is only one road that drives straight through the middle of the park from Cherokee, NC to Gatlinburg, TN. We drove to the halfway point at Newfound Gap (which sits on the TN-NC line) before we decided to turn around and go back to Bryson City to eat supper at Anthony's. So that was a fun day even though all we did was drive. This last picture here is me with my 2 girls, Mattie and Aubrey (left to right), in the snow the day that I left. They weren't very sure what to think about the whole picture-taking event. I'll be back later with more pictures.

Another birthday!

Tomorrow another one of my best friends is going to be a mommy. That's the second within two weeks! Tomorrow will be Ali Jane's birthday... Wow, I can't believe that Lindsey is really going to be a mom. It's just really weird for me to think about because it seems like just yesterday we were in high school together... But I guess we're all grown up now. It's so exciting, though! I hope everything goes really well for Lindsey, Wes, and Ali tomorrow. Happy birthday Ali! :)

I'm really super happy for both Lindsey and Bridget, but honestly I'm starting to feel a little bit left out of this whole baby thing. . . .

Peace Out!

Well, as the name of my blog implies, I'm a mountain girl... and today, that's where I'm headed. I'm going to North Carolina to visit Evensong... my family's brand new house near Bryson City and the Nantahala River. If only I didn't have to drive 10 hours to get there! But I'm really excited about having a few days of some good R and R. The only thing is that we don't have the phone line working yet, so that means no internet (no TV either). So if you're looking for new posts on my blog before Sunday, that's why there won't be any. But I'll take lots of pictures, and I'll be back Sunday night! (unless I'm snowed in.. ha! yeah right... but there is a chance of "precipitation" predicted for Saturday night with temps in the 20's and only the 30's on Sunday for the high.)