Ahh, the life of a college girl...

So my classes at Radford University have entirely consumed my soul. Well, not entirely...there's still the big piece that God has and theres the other parts that Nate has. But I digress. I'm amazingly being able to keep my head above the ocean of papers, projects, and quizzes/tests that I've been enduring over the past month and a half. I love college. I'm entirely ready to be done with it, but I am loving it while I'm here. I almost ALMOST wish I'd gotten a dorm on campus...again, I must reiterate ALMOST. Still glad I didnt.
So yesterday was me and Nate's 4 year annniversary. Yeah. We began dating October 10th, 2006. Insane, I know. If we weren't so young, yesterday would have been our wedding day because it was 10/10/10 and that would have been just perfectly awesome. But oh well...one day...
In other news, fall has arrived in Virginia. If you've ever been in Virginia this time of year, especially if you haven't, you must come/return!! There is nowhere else I'd rather be at this time of year (except maybe Vermont...I hear they have excellent falls...) than Southwest Virginia. The trees are changing and the mountains are going from their typical blue look to amazing variations of orange, yellow, red, and brown. It is indeed a sight to see. Especially, I hear, from the Blue Ridge Parkway. Hopefully this year Nate and I will get up there to see for ourselves...
Halloween is right around the corner already!! If you didn't know, it's definitely my favorite holiday. I don't know why. Maybe it's the colors, maybe its the spookiness, or maybe it's my recently new love for horror movies [I like seein people get cut up...*shrugs*] but alas, I love it all. I've already bought and received my costume...I'm going to be a 1920's Flapper and I'm still in the process of talking Nate into being a gangster with me. hehe...we'll see.
I've been given the opportunity this semester to work in a daycare center in Blacksburg and it has reassured me that I'm in the right department for a career because I love what I'm doing there. I'm actually hoping to get a position there shortly and QUIT SUBWAY!!! Yeah. I hate that place sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much. So much.

Here We Go, Folks....

I will be sitting in classes beginning Monday. I'm so excited to be going back to class and I feel like such a nerd...even though I know after about...oh...2 weeks I'll be totally sick of it and begging for winter break. Haha. Maybe not. Radford University is going to be a totally new beginning for me so maybe I'll really be looking forward to classes a month from now...time will tell.
In the mean time, let's take a moment to stop and enjoy the last weeks/days/hours/minutes of summer. It's that time of year where you look back to late May and wonder where the summer really went. Yet, at the same time, that distinct fall air is slowly creeping into the wind. A few trees in town have already started changing their leaves...kind of crazy if you ask me.

On a totally unrelated (kind of) note, Nate found a kitten in the parking lot of Chick-Fil-A 2 days ago. His parents won't let him keep it. I can't either because my parentals don't want a cat either. I'm pretty much in love with her and wish like crazy I had my own place so I could just adopt her. Her name, for now anyway, is Sassaphrass...Nate came up with it...I don't know. She's been determined by a vet to be about 14 weeks old and in great shape. She was apparently hand-fed (her owners fed her a bottle) so she's a very people-y person. If you put her down she'll meow and cry until you love on her some more. She's staying with my friends right now and I'm doing everything I can to get her a great home with lots of love. I wish more than anything I could take her in, however. Every time I'm around her, even when she's climbing on my shoulders and headrest as I drive, I feel this pull, like I'm supposed to have her in my life...somehow...I'll keep updates as they are warranted....

For now, Peace Love and Blessings
~Miss Leah

Another Year Has Come to Pass....

So summer has continued to go by. Montreat was a blast but flew by just like the rest of July and here I sit about an hour from turning the "big" 2-0. haha. I'm ready to be done with my teenage years and really grow into my own as a real adult. Maybe. About 3 weeks from Monday I will begin classes at Radford University. Only 3 years to go until no more school and my teaching career begins. It is absolutely crazy how fast everything seems to be going. I have barely had time to get used to 19 and here I am at 20. Sheash.
My mom's birthday present to me, other than my flippin AWESOME b-day cake [pics to be put in another post  later on....] and the flowers for the sanctuary at church, was to pay for me to get 2nd holes put in my ears. Now the piercing itself wasn't that bad but for some horrible reason, my body decided to make me FAINT. Yeah, my mom got a big kick out of it. I did not. First time in my 20 years that I've ever actually fainted. Go figure.
As for tomorrow's festivities, I'll be attending church [because without God (and my momma) I wouldn't be here] and then off to do something until 2pm when my scumptious cake will be ready for pickup. Whoo hoo!! Then I'm having a few friends over for burgers and hotdogs around 4pm. I'll most likely spend my free time between 10am and 2 pm with the ever amazing Mr. Nate. I <3 him so and there's no one else I'd rather be with on my special day.
So here's to 1/2 way to 40, and 1/5 of the way to the HUGE 1-0-0. hehe....
Hope everyone enjoys their Sunday. It's mah' birthday and I want everyone to be as happy as I plan to be. Of course "it's my birthday and I'll cry if I want to, cry if i want to, cry if i want to...."
Peace, Love, and Blessings

~Leah

What a 4th of July!!

So another 4th of July has come and gone and this year things felt odd. It felt like any other day...I blame the fact that stupid Christiansburg had their fireworks SATURDAY night cause the old people of the town council needed their sleep Sunday night.
My intetions were to go to Radford to watch the fireworks or maybe just chill at the house all night. My mother went to a friend/my kindergarten teacher's house. She forgot the adorkable 4th of July crown I'd let her wear so I put it on and went over to said friend/teacher's house to give it to her. This was at 6 pm. I arrived home a little before 1am...yeah.
Story to follow. It was an amazing/epic/hilarious night.
I arrive at the house and try to hand the crown over to my mother. She refuses and I begin joining in on the overall insanity that occurs any time my mom and her friends get together. I decided to just hang there until I had to go pick up Nate from work (another story to follow about that...sigh.) and I had a blast, even though I was told I have a great chest by a 70ish year old man and I was the only one the entire night who didn't drink alcohol. Hah. Anyway, it gets dark and we're beginning the fireworks when Nate calls for me to come pick him up. I do so and we both return to the party no more than 5 minutes later. We watched my silly kindergarten teacher's husband set them off like an idiot. He was never more than 3 feet from the launching pad and he royally messed up THREE rockets. The first went into the side of their garage and just fizzled. No damage. The 2nd one went into the roof of their guest house. Again, fizzling and no damage done. I bet you know where this is going....the 3rd one went straight into a paper bag and set it majorly aflame. We all freaked out and his children used ice and a water hose to put it out, in the process somehow having a ice/water fight...
The rest of the night we all spent laughing and telling stories on the front of their neighbor/mother/mother-in-law's house. This lady is 85 years old and she is a spit fire. I love her dearly. She told me this entire story about her other neighbor who is 86 and how she worries because the lady is alone too and after all these sympathizing remarks, she says "I hate that bitch." AMAZING. I pray I'll be that awesome at 85.
And finally [because this post is getting ridiculously ramble-like I think...] there's the story of why I've been driving my boyfriend to work for the past week....
About a week and a half ago, Nate and I were hanging out when he received a call from his best friend who moved far away about 2 years ago. He was, to say the least, excited. We rushed him home to hang out with his friend. I return home and about 2 hours later Nate and his friend are at my front door with his license plate in Nate's hands. Apparently they had been goofing off in Nate's car near the mall [it had rained earlier that day] Nate lost control of his car and they ended up on top of a bush...the car is still driveable but beaten up. He completely shredded a tire in the process and so he has a spare on it at the moment. We're waiting for the new tire to come in before he drives it alot so I've been his work driver for over a week now. I don't mind. It's a good excuse to see him everyday.
I hope everyone had a safe and happy 4th of July!!
Peace, Love, and Blessings
~Leah