Love Languages

Have you ever heard of the book The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman?  Or what about his website?  If not you seriously need to go check them out right now!

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For some reason love languages have really been on my heart lately...particularly mine.  If you do decide to check out the website you can take a quiz to see what your top love language is.  A love language is the way you best communicate with others and feel love from them.
There are 5 Love Languages: Words of Affirmation (7) Quality Time (11) Receiving Gifts (5) Acts of Service (4) Physical Touch (3)
Now you may be wondering what those little numbers to the side mean.  Those were my scores on the quiz.  The highest score you can get is an 12.  And the language with the highest score is the one you predominantly use.
As you can see above my main Love Language is quality time.  This could not be more true.  I truly feel loved by someone when they spend time with me.  The fact that you would want to spend a little time with just me?  Blows my mind and makes me feel more special than anything.
Now there is a downside to this being my Love Language.  If I don't spend anytime with you, I do not feel loved at all.  This is mostly with my closest of friends and family.  This lately has been difficult for me to deal with.
Hear me out: a simple phone call counts to me as quality time.  You took time out of your schedule to talk to me and see how I am doing.  So it doesn't have to be in person.  
So the difficult part?  I am growing up and so are my friends.  Our lives are getting busier and busier which means less time to have the quality time that I so desperately need.  Logically I understand why this time has to be decreased, but that doesn't stop my heart from being sad.
I am sad I don't get to be around some of my favorite people as much as I would love to.  Yes I know expectations play into this, but sometimes I just need some quality time.  I could care less what we do, where we are, or what we talk about.  I just want to be around those who are special to me.
This has definitely been something I have been battling the last couple of months.  How do I compromise how I feel loved and still feel loved? Does that even make sense? I guess what I want to know is how else can I feel loved by others without quality time?
I do not have an answer to this question.  
Sometimes I just wish everyone would know this and give me that quality time I need.  Maybe I need to come up with a better way of conveying to those I love that I need this time.  Maybe they should just read this and know.
So there is what has been on my heart as of late.  If you do decide to take the quiz or have let me know! I would love to know what your Love Language is!!

Randomness

So my weekend consisted of studying and homework.  I know be jealous I live the good life! So instead of a good post all about my weekend I just have some random photos from Terrific Tuesday I didn't share and some exciting news!

Also I have been a bad blogger.  To say I have a lot going on is seriously an understatement.  It's that time of the semester where everything is due all at one time.  I have tests, I am trying to finish my practicum and I have all those random assignments due.  I'm stressed.  

Oh and I as I write this I remember I forgot to do an assignment...great!

Any ways I think it is time for some good news.... I SIGNED UP FOR MY FIRST 5K!!!  Yup I'm pretty stoked about that one!  Lauren and I decided that we wanted to run a race.  This is totally a random one that we found on one of our running trails.

I feel like after I do this run I will officially be a runner.  Not that I'm not now...but I feel like this makes it officially official!

Well my friends it is time to get back to studying for my Abnormal Psychology test and do that assignment I forgot all about!  

TERRIFIC TUESDAY!

I can prove in two words that my college is better than your college: Wonderful Wednesday (or Terrific Tuesday this year).  All classes get canceled for the day and we sleep in, have brunch, play intramurals, have inflatables, a huge water slide, and milk chugging contests.
Here are my recaps from last year and the year before.
Milligan is seriously legit.  This tradition has been going on since long before even my mom went here. We get a day of pure relaxation and fun.  And let me tell you college students have fun better than the rest of them.

The theme this year was "Coney Island".  The caf was decorated with waves, balloons, posters, and lollipops.  We even had a fun ferris wheel chair to take pictures with.  I spent the day with Ashlee and Eliza, and I could not have had more fun!

 Oh and seeing all these lovely ladies wasn't too bad either.  Kelly (bottom left) is my roomie, bestie, and the master mind behind Terrific Tuesday.  And she did pretty dang awesome this year.

Being able to walk around and see all your friends having so much fun is better than anything!

The Milligan water slide...aka the most dangerous thing on the face of the planet.  Last year I tried it out.  This year I opted to play photographer.  There were so many people going down at once that the tarp split in two....oops?

The last event of the day was the milk chugging contest.  Somehow we convinced Ash that since it was Senior year she should do it...she did really well and then well....puked.  Why we find it so fun to watch people chug milk and puke I will never know.
My final Wonderful Wednesday could not have been any better.  I was so relaxed, got some sun/burn, spent time with the besties, and had pure fun.  I loved the day and would not have done anything different!
Thanks Milligan for having such great traditions!

My Weight Loss Story...All of It!

All of my life my weight has been a problem.  I was never the skinny girl in school and I could always use to lose a few pounds.  But as we all know that is much easier said then done...especially for a 14 year old girl.

My freshmen year of high school I weighed in at around 160 pounds.  My parents offered to get me a trainer to help me and I took them up on that.  Well a 14 year should NEVER have a personal trainer, especially a male trainer.

I was an emotional young girl and did not take criticism and hard work very well.   After a very rough time of not getting along with my trainer I quit.  And I do not regret that one bit.

Off and on over my high school years I would go and work out at the gym in the mornings with my Mom.  I loved it but never stuck to it.  Honestly I really did not see how much I needed to lose weight.  I had skinny goggles on and I was not about to take those off.

Senior year of high school

By the time I started college I weighed 180 pounds.  We have all heard the saying "freshmen 15".  Well how about the freshmen 25? That is definitely they route I took.  All of my friends could eat what they wanted without worrying, and I thought I could too.  WRONG.

Finally at the end of my junior year I took those skinny goggles off and saw what I really looked like...at 206 pounds.  I could not believe what I had done to myself.  How did I get this way?!  When I saw pictures from my best friend's Wedding shower I knew I had to make a change.

So for my 21st birthday I asked my parents for a trainer.  I wanted this to be my decision this time, and I knew it was the right one.  I needed someone to teacher me how to eat properly and exercise right.  And I could not have found the more perfect person.

Sherry changed my life.  Since June of 2012 I have lost 20 pounds.  Yes I know I have a ways to go, but I could not be more proud of myself!  I have changed my way of thinking and know that with a lot more hard work I will be the healthy skinny girl!

206//186

206//186

Happy Early Birthday to Me!

Notice something new around here? Maybe a whole new design?! Oh yes it is finally here and I could not be anymore excited about it!

My bestie Lauren has recently gotten into blog design.  I asked if she would be willing to do something new for me and of course being the wonderful lady she is she said YES!

Friends she is amazing at what she does.  I do not think she could have come up with a design more ME!  She did this for my birthday (18 days!!!) and it is the best birthday gift!

Go check out her blog here and her designs here.  She has good prices and as you can see is amazing at what she does!

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Never Have I Ever

Have you ever played this game with your friends? Maybe while drinking a little drink? I may not have played many times, but boy do I remember the times I have.  You learn so much about people when you play this little game!
I am linking-up today with Nadine from Back East Blonde and sharing some things I have never done!

Never Have I Ever... gotten in a car accident or gotten a ticket (knock on wood).  Of all the kids in my family I am the one everyone would have thought would be the first to do both.  But almost 6 years later I have yet to do either!
Never Have I Ever...died my hairs.  Nope not a one.  My first reason was my Mom never let me.  Then as I got older and could make those decisions on my own I never wanted too.  I love my color and have no clue what I would do to change it.  Plus I hate the upkeep of died hairs.

Me circa 2006.  Same hair color then as now!

Never Have I Ever...watched the Lord of the Rings.  But I kinda really want to.  When they first came out that was so not my thing.  But I think I might try them out again.
Never Have I Ever... broken a bone.  I seriously sprained my ankle at camp two summer ago but that is the worst of it.  And as clumsy as I am I am surprised I have yet to do this.

Never Have I Ever... been to a club.  Dancing and drunks are just not my scene.  I have been invited but just never go.  I'm a stay home and watch a movie type.
Never Have I Ever... been to prom.  Remember above when I said dancing and drunks are not my thing? Yup.  I was going to go my senior year, but my plans fell through.  I had a dress and everything too.

I wore the dress to my Cotillion Ball

So did you learn some more about me? Hope so!  Are there some things you have never ever done?