Only Travis...Part 2

 

Last night, my friend Marie texted me that her mom had sent her a care package that was waiting at the MSC for her between 10-3 tomorrow. Since Travis and I are on campus at the same time we decided on going after class so we could look at the new MSC and pick up her stuff. Well, Travis did not want to go to his math class (who would? Numbers?..blegh) so he begged to be able to walk to the MSC and get Marie's care package instead of class/waiting for me. I mean, twist my arm, I said "go ahead!" 

When I was out of class, I didn't see Travis waiting outside my classroom and I felt a little confused.A moment later, I saw him walk down the hallway with a big smile on his face. 

"So, I went to the room where the care packages were and there was like, a whole room full of moms handing out snacks and stuff. And I went through the line to pick up Marie's stuff and saw that after you get your care package you go down this line of like, ten moms who just give you a hug and wish you luck on your finals. So i was like, 'oh, I am just picking this up for a friend' and the lady said, 'ok, well you can do whatever you want!' so I just went down the line of moms and hugged them all, they were so nice!"

All I can picture is Travis laughing, smiling and chatting with each mom as they gave him a hug. Just as the title says...only Travis!! 

-erin-

My Weekend Plans

This weekend, every person I know of that I would have the possibility of hanging out with will be out of town. An older Pi Phi is getting married this weekend so half of the house is gone for that, my friend Shannon is going home, my little (Brooke) is busy this weekend with her Dad coming to town and Travis is going to nocturnal (a music festival thingy). 

So, I will be having a whole lot of Erin time in this giant house of Pi Phi. However, I have a paper, three study questions, extra credit and online Spanish that I need to work on over the weekend so I am kind of ok with this lack of plans. I am going to try to keep myself busy and get work done, it will be good but it is just a weird feeling that no one is here right now. 

I plan to eat a lot (my mom just sent me a finals care package so I am all set with snackies), catch up on TV during study breaks, catch up on some much needed sleep and maybe even workout. 

Jealous? (it is very much ok if you aren't)

-erin-

A couple of things

-First off, right here, right now, I vow to use my camera more often, I need to document things more and also, I have a fancy shmancy camera to do that with, ugh!- 

-Last week, at the good ol' mall here in College Station, I walked by Claire's and saw a girl getting her ears pierced by a lady who looked equally terrified, both had their faces all scrunched up and I am pretty sure the lady doing the piercing had her eyes closed- 

-I turn 21 next week, holy guacamole!!!!!- 

Where I talk about dorky health things...

I didn't want to blog about this at the beginning of the month because usually, "30-day" type challenges don't stick but now that its closer to May, I'll budge. 

So, for the month of April I decided to give up sodas and try my hardest to give up sweets unless it was a special occasion. Also, Travis gave up sodas and fast food (boy can eat his fair share of fast food...no offense). This wasn't any type of weight loss thing it was more that on the weekends I have a habit to kinda...overdo it when it comes to stuff I really shouldn't be eating. Yet, I am really interested in nutrition and all that stuff. I don't really know why this happens but, oh well. 

Anyways, so far, so good! I don't even crave sodas at the moment, I have become more mindful of when I am hungry and I am starting to realize when I should actually indulge in something sweet. I have a huge sweet-tooth so this is big. And Travis? He hasn't really craved a soda either and he says he feels a whole lot better now that he isn't eating fast food (we said chik-fil-a was still ok because I kinda think its the lesser evil). 

I cannot claim to be the healthiest eater though, I mean living in a sorority house...we eat like kings(er, queens?) every day. For example, todays lunch? King Ranch Chicken Mac 'n cheese. Yummmm, I had two helpin's!

I just got tired of feeling gross after eating really sugary things. I hope I can keep this up, I really do feel better and I apologize if this post was super boring to read...if anyone out there even reads this thang. 

-erin-

lil' letters

Dear Alyssa (my HOSTS kid this semester), 

Today was our last day of HOSTS and, I'm sorry to say this, but I am quite happy. You were not a fan of me and to be quite honest, today I just gave up and asked you about why you love Justin Beiber so much instead of making you read. At least we got a cute picture together! 

Dear College Station weather today, 

Make up your mind, if you are gonna paint ominous clouds across the sky that are awesome shades of navy and purple, at least DO something with it, ya dig? Feelin' a little cheated in the storm department. 

Dear Sarah, 

I just needed to document somewhere that we spent a good bit of time trying to figure out how our beds would sound if they could speak. Twas awesome. 

Dear Grub, 

Your burgers, fries and shakes are deelish. I really, really like you. 

Dear Dining Room in the Pi Phi House, 

You are like soooooooooooooo cold. Seriously. I wear winter clothes everyday and then get weird looks when I step outside the house and realize its spring and I am wearing socks, a sweatshirt and jeans. 

I have had quite the week!

This week has been such a whirlwind. 

When I came back from easter, I was in a funk, I have been searching for some sort of internship for the summer since...January. Things were falling through and I was sort of at a breaking point until a call on Tuesday that turned it all around. 

Long story short, I went to Dallas for less than 24 hours, interviewed with a company, got the position within an hour and a half of interviewing, came back to school, took an exam, finished up another section of online spanish and...now I am here. What the heck? This has been a week I will be grateful for, everything sort of adjusted itself perfectly into place so that I could go back home and it was just...nice. Boring word but, lots of excitement behind it, promise! 

to leave on a more exciting note, I took this photo of myself after trying on red lipstick. I just...can't take a serious picture of myself, it feels weird I guess, so...this was the product. Maybe that should be a goal for myself, "try to learn how to pose normally when taking a picture of yourself"...? I could probably add that skill to my resume...or something. 

-erin-

Pinkberry

On Friday night, I was having a bummer of an evening. So, after dinner (and after a good rant), I told my Mom I was craving fro-yo and we decided on Pinkberry. We sat outside and just chatted. The weather was beautiful and it wasn't crowded. We didn't really talk about anything monumental, and this post isn't really supposed to be monumental. I guess I just want to blog about how my Mom took me to Pinkberry and it was just plain fun. I love that lady more than life itself my friends, I just want to remember all the random and fun things we do and/or have done. 

-erin-

Austin.

On Friday, Travis and I went to go see Eisley play in Austin. It was so much freakin' fun. 

  

 We ate at hopdoddy (2 cheeseburgers & an order of fries por favor!) and it was deelish. I highly recommend eating there, I only wish we had enough room in our tummies to try their milkshakes, I'm getting hungry just thinking about them.

 

As usual, Eisley was fabulous, Merriment was dreamy and Tallhart was awesome. Seriously, those guys had so much energy and just genuinely looked like they were having a great time playing music together, so refreshing to see. 

The best part was that the venue was so small that we got to rub shoulders with all the cool band peeps, they were all gracious and sweet. 

Hope everyone had a great weekend and caught up on some Zzz's (I know I did)! 

-erin-