Savoring the last bits of shopping with the parents!

Well I had a good last day at home, went out with the parents for a nice late lunch Seasons 52, then down to Atlantic Station for some shopping.  I actually wanted to go to H&M there, but apparently it doesn't open until spring, so no luck there!  But I did find two other stores there that I really like: K la, which has nice, cute clothes, a lot of brands I've never seen before and good prices (dresses $60-$150), and then Knitch which carries some nicer, designer brands like T-Bags, Alice & Olivia, Michael Stars, etc. but they were having a 70% off sale (AMAZING!!!) and I ended up getting THREE T-bags dresses, a cute MS top, and a t-bags top for a gift for $296!!!  The sales guy said I saved over $600, which is how I justified the purchase to my dad, but of course I would never have spent the whole $900 sans amazing clearance, but he doesn't have to know that!

Oh and PS, I chose PARIS!!! May 15 - June 25 = me in the City of Lights!!

sober fun

Oh last night with the girls was SO great!! I SO regret not calling Liz on New Years, it looks like they all had a great time together! Oh well.  But I'm so glad I got together with Em and Liz, I do love them so much, sometimes you just forget when you're apart for that long (there are, however, the old friends that I don't care to spend too much time with, and thankfully they were not invited to our little rendez-vous).

We ended up talking for 3 hours at the restaurant, the lights coming up, music turning off and chairs going onto the tables clued us in to the fact that we were the last people in there at 10:30, and since we wanted to talk more, we went back to Liz's house and ended up there until 1:30, so that's 6 straight hours of completely sober conversation and reminiscing with friends.  It makes me feel very old to get together with friends and look through old pictures and reminisce about old times.  And in reference to the last post's concerns about the alcohol-free evening, it made me so happy to know that we could have such a great time completely sans booze.  Even Emily said on the phone to her boyfriend on the way to Liz's, "No, we don't need to drink to have fun."  For some reason it's just great to know after living in an alcohol-infused college town bubble for 2 1/2 years that sober fun does still exist!  (Don't get me wrong, I don't think I'll ever kick my partying habits, but sometimes it's nice to actually remember the memories you make with friends).

Well, just 2 more days at home til the wondrous return to Athens!

Old friends . . . no liquor . . .

Alright, well I did it, I called the old girlfriends to meet up for dinner!  Yay for me and taking initiative to keep up with old friends (even though they've kept in touch over break and it's really just me who's out of the loop).  Anyway, we're just meeting for dinner somewhere tonight, but of course both of them said they didn't care where we go, just come up with something and call them back with the details, so now I have to come up with where to go, and I don't know . . . don't want to do just boring O'Charleys, there's not much nearby, I guess it just comes down to Paradise Grill or that Mexican place next to it, or El Jinete I guess.  Well, I'll give myself another 30 min or an hour or so and call back . . . damn I with we were in Athens, or the City, or somewhere slightly interesting where we can drink at restaurants w/o being worried about our ID's or being recognized by neighbors, friends of parents, teachers, etc. anyway we'll see, I'm sort of in the mood for Mexican for some reason (and the off chance that someone other than me will want a margarita . . . ??)

finally, the Resolutions

That's right, the capital R-e-s-o-l-u-t-i-o-n-s.  Just for documentation purposes, here they are, plain and simple:

1. the diet -- lose 15 lbs by Spring Break (not that I really weigh myself, but I want to have an acceptable SB body) by sticking to South Beach, and taking Yoga 2 days/week
2. the LSAT -- study 4 days a week, do at least 1 full, timed practice test a week
3. audition for Rockettes if at all possible
4. stay current on the election/current events
5. keep up with this blog

why do I create these decisions for myself!?

Alright . . . so in my final year and a half of school, do I pursue more involvement in school activities like I (for some unknown reason) want to do, like apply to be an "official ambassador" for the school, or don't I?

The more law blogs I read, which for some reason I've gotten into make me more likely say no, don't become more involved, you have enough on your plate, focus on your grades and the LSAT, that's all that matters in the end.  But then some other part of me says to stop and think of other parts of life and if I want to be involved in things like this for networking at-large, and what if I don't want to be a lawyer in the end, what if it just doesn't work out, should I just go around closing doors of opportunity?

But then there's this lingering thought in the back of my head that says that I could be the dance team captain next year as well, and even though it would be daunting, the idea of being in charge of the sorority and the dance team -- everything important in my life -- is extremely exhilarating!!

Or do neither and just focus on my grades, LSAT, and enjoying my last year and a half?  Oh what to do?!  You know what, that's a no on the ambassador thing, it seems a little pretentious and I probably wouldn't get in anyway.  With the whole Tanzania thing and the quickly vanishing Ambassador thought it's like I'm trying to be someone I'm not, trying to prove myself to someone, trying to show that I'm more than I appear, to really show it, because few people will ever see my transcript, or know my LSAT score, but I guess when I get in to that top notch school people will realize that I did do something other than attend socials and read magazines while in school.

But then again, when I think of people I know who've been Ambassadors, it's people I really admire, and I'm not committed to dance team yet for next year, but I really do love to dance, and I know that I have to dance --  that's one thing I've figured out in my college career -- well I guess I've got a few weeks to think on it and get some other opinions, apps aren't due til the 28th.  hmm ..... ???

A fav little quote to share

watching Sex and the City and heard one of my favorite quotable Carrie quotes (which I have posted on my desk), but I'd never heard the lines leading up to it, which are hilarious and make it even better!!  So I had to share, and add some parenthetical commentary to make it more fitting to my personal situation . . . 

"If you're a thirty-something woman (20-something sorority girl), living in Manhattan (Athens), and you refuse to settle, and you're sexually active (sometimes), it's inevitable that you'll rack up a certain number of partners (shacks), but how many men (frat-stars) is too many men (frat-stars)? [and now for the great part... ] Are we simply romantically challenged, or are we sluts?"