Down to the Wire

It's that time again. Finals. College students are pulling all-nighters right and left. I'm lucky, my finals shouldn't be to hard, but it's all the other stuff I have to get done that's stressing me out.
Love the Christmas tree!

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Sorry I'm so late for today's. I was up in my school's computer lab till midnight editing stuff. Which is my least favorite (well, maybe audio is worse for me) part about broadcasting work. I'll be a PA till two in the morning. I'll get into a rowboat and deliver lines. All band season I carried around a heavy camera bag, and I would do it again if I didn't have to edit the footage I'm shooting. My brain just isn't wired this way. 

*No make-up Sunday! Wooo!!! And I brought Kayla to my church, it was awesome. I really, really, really love this church that I'm going to. I got all dressed up for the first service I went to, but the worship leader was wearing an old gray hoodie with holy jeans. He is such a hippy. And the pastor was wearing an argyle sweater. I've been going in whatever I felt like since. Because it simply does not matter what you look like there. They are going to love you. 

Just a weird day.

Two pictures for today. I got to take a nap and put off doing any serious work till tomorrow, but I have been in such a weird mood lately and something is just driving me crazy! And the annoying part is I can't pin-point why. My mom has some theories, but none of them are good to talk about on here. Anyhoo... Two pics!

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And I went out for brunch with some of the most amazing girls! No cattiness in this group, nope, all of them are so sweet that you could end up with cavities. ;P

*Pardon the terrible joke. I'm so tired, and I've been saying really random stuff ALL day. The good thing is most people laughed at my jokes. This makes me feel like I'm funny. :)

Christmas Coffeehouse!!! Elf Style.

Sooo.... I kind of missed "yesterday's picture." I ended up being out and about all day and just never set anything up, figuring I'd have time later. Well I went to my school's Christmas talent show, which started at 11:30 pm and didn't get out till 2 am. Here are a few random fun ones, and then I'm crashing!
*Note; NO EDITING! What you see is what you get. Night all!

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I found Santa!!! And why does he look so familiar??? Cause it's Kyle!!!

And just for good measure here the bottom part of my outfit, with my cute shoes from Egypt and Kayla's feet. Love it! I only wish that I had grabbed a picture with my friend Olivia and her boyfriend Austin. They are the only reason I got to go, b/c I had put off buying a ticket and then it was sold out. But Austin found one for me and it worked out perfectly! Mad props to awesome friends who never leave others behind. :) & <3

Exhausted! But worth it.

I definitely burned the candle at both ends last night. I'm heading to bed as soon as this is posted. On the bright side, my friend Kayla is in town visiting! I had to be at the train station by 6 am this morning to pick her up but we had a great day. And I completed a rough cut of the footage I have for my project, but unfortunately a good portion is missing so I'm really praying that somehow a copy got saved and I will have it for tomorrow. If not, I'm going to have to scramble to do some last minute filming.

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As you can see, I got to take a short nap in the middle of a hallway, in the middle of the day. And judging by the way I'm holding my tri-pod, I'm probably dreaming of all the photoshoot possibilities. 

Big project coming your way!

I spent a good portion of my day editing, well, more like trying to edit. It took forever just to get the footage to a place where I could edit them. But I did and I'm pretty happy with what I've got so far. It's a huge video, so it's going to take most of my day tomorrow as well. And then I've also got to worry about adding audio, color correction... oh boy. I'm feeling burned out. So this is what happens when my overwhelmed self decides to relax.

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Yup, I was relaxed all right...

*Note, to LU people, this was Sparkling Cider, haha.

Secret Santa time!

Earlier this week one of my good friends contacted me about getting a surprise together for his wife. I absolutely adore this couple (their wedding was the first one I ever shot!), and really wanted to do it. It was hard getting all the stuff that he wanted, so I ended up improvising a lot. But I think she was happy.

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My roommate has a fondue pot and the husband wanted me to make Chocolate Covered Strawberries, so I did but then had some chocolate left over and dipped bananas in since my roommate (Lauren) absolutely loves Bananas. 

Yay for friends! I'm really going to miss this girl when she moves to Ohio. She's leaving this Friday. :(

Woo for no make-up days! And mad props to her for being pregnant and working hard to get all of her finals done by Friday. No kids for me for at LEAST four years. But when I do start adopting and whatnot, I hope our kids will be friends. That'd be so awesome. 

Band Banquet '10!

 Tonight went so well. I got to dress up, got my "hair did" by Gracie, and went to the banquet with a complete gentleman (Scott!). So I've got three pictures to share. :)

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Forgive the face, I am TIRED. But I love this dress. It blows my mind that I actually bought this dress my freshman year of high school. Yeah, you read that right, HIGH SCHOOL. But then I ended up buying a different dress for homecoming my freshman year, wore something else my sophomore year, could fit into this my junior year, and didn't even try my senior year. So it's been hanging in my closet for alllllllll these years, and over break I go home and try it on, and it fit so well! Anyway, I'm done my little ramble. 

The group!

Brittney and I are both fans of The Ravens, so we and our dates rocked out the Purple and Black! Sadly, our team lost last night in the last quarter, but... we are pressing on. We all had a great time and Scott won a "Fruit of the Spirit" award! He totally deserved it. :)

We didn't want the party to end...

We all went back to my apartment where my roommates were very gracious and let us talk and watch a movie. I highly recommend Meet the Robinsons. Such a funny and encouraging movie. 

Now I'm going to go change, wash the goop off of my face, and sleep hard. I've got my first final tomorrow! :(