New Favorite

Last moth when Jeb and I met his parents and brother in Denver for the Stock Show (Jeb's Birthday) his momma introduced me to my new favorite snack.

Its become an addiction.

Really.

I'm not just meaning a snack that you like to keep around.

We buy two bags at a time, and one never makes it back to the dorm.

and this is usually what happens to the 2nd bag.

 My room-mate Sydney is just as addicted as I am!

But , it has zero trans fat, glutent free, 100% natural,and 130 calories per serving! I think this might be my new favorite for a while!

Thanks Gail!

"Oh Happy Day"

Recently we watched Secretariat on $2.00 movie night at the Fox Five. I loved it, and everyone else did too. The movie theater was filled with familiar faces, from herbie residents, class-mates from my ag classes, and members of the rodeo team. Horses are a pretty popular topic around these parts!

The movie told the story of a Colorado house wife, Mrs. Penny Chenery, and a horse named Secretariat or lovingly named "Big Red". I don't want to go into detail about the movie, in case you already saw it, or plan on watching it soon. (I highly recommend it!)

There are a few bible verses reference in the movie, that I love. Which really sum up most of the movie.

Job 39:19-24

"(19) Do you give the horse his strenght? Do you clothe his neck with a flowing mane? (20) Do you make him leap like a locust, striking terror with his proud snorting? (21) He paws fiercely, rejoicing in his strength, and charges into the fray. (22) He laughs at fear, afraid of nothing; he does not shy away form the sword. (23) The quiver rattles against his side, along with the flashing spear and lance. (24) In frenzied excitement he eats up the ground; he cannot stand still when the trumpet sounds."

2 Timothy 4:7

"I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith."

Hair-doos

I miss doing hair. I didn't ever think that I would miss it this much, but I do. I get to cut the occasional herbie resident here and there, and my friends and family whenever I go home, but I want to be in a salon.

But, this is not another down in the dumps blog.

Last Thursday I went to Ft. Morgan to visit one of my friends from "cosmo school" and get my hair done!

 

She did a great job! One of my other "cosmo" friends went with me, we all had such a great time chatting, laughing and catching up. Shalee is doing so well in her salon, it makes me very excited to get into my own salon someday!

When Cowboys Get Sick

My cowboy is sick. and miserable.
he...
-lost his voice
-sneezes constantly
-polishes off a new Kleenex box about every 24 hours
-can't sleep
-has a chill 24/7
-is groggy
--grumpy
--sleepy
--and oh so adorable (I can't help it)

On any normal day, he gets up at 6:30 to feed his horses, and then feeds his class horse and clean stalls for his work study job. He then makes some coffee in his room (which really isn't allowed here in our dorms so don't tell! :)) and watches the news until his classes start for the day.
On a lucky day, I get a morning visit from him which means,
   a. waking me up
   b. watchin' me put on the last bit of my makeup and hurry off to class
   c. sitting on the edge of my bed and try to make conversation with me, while I drift in and out of sleep.
And on REALLY LUCKY DAYS, he brings me breakfast!
        

     (back to the main topic of this blog)

For the last week, he has been pretty miserable but still takes care of his horses and goes to all of his classes.

He even managed to take me on our weekly date last night! We went to a cute little back east diner style place, which I'm sad to report did not get rave reviews, but I'm very excited to try something different there, probably next week. :).

Anyways, after dinner he finally agreed to get some night-time medicine so he could maybe get a good quality shut eye. (He went to bed at 8:00 I might add). 

Today right before lunch, he informed me that he still was not feeling a lick better, and earlier that morning (while I was enjoying the fact that I don't have a single class on Thursday, from the most wonderful coziest spot in my dorm room, {MY BED!}) he rode his class horses today and felt the walls spinning. NOT GOOD! He also whispered to me, "I really want to take you to the movies tonight {$2.00 movie night at the Fox Five and Country Strong is FINALLY HERE!!!} so I am going to go sleep the rest of the afternoon."

He is so cute! he has dark circles under his eyes, he can't breathe out of his nose, and his voice is just about gone, and he still is thinking about me, and the movies.

sheesh... I wish he would let me microwave him some chicken noodle soup and hot tea.  I'd walk up to his room with it all on my TV tray, (It doubles as my laptop table) and rub his shoulders for him. He doesn't want anything but sleep and good food (I think he means his mamma's).  So I'll just blog about him :)

I just love him

Depression

Today I didn't have a single class, so I slept in, tanned {shhh!}, had a nice quiet McDonalds lunch with a certain cowboy and had great ambitions to shower before I had to work at 3, but it DID NOT happen, not even close. You wanna know why? BLOGGING!  I got sucked into people's blogs I don't even know!
I knew that members of my family are very talented, in many different genres, but these bloggers are insane!!!
I was clicking the next blog on the top of the blog page and stumbled across this bolg that had a way cute layout and header, banner... thingy. (so jealous)
I decided that I to was going to "makeover my blog" and have a cute blog (not that I don't like the layout that I have, hers was just soooo cute)
NO SUCH LUCK!
not only did it take me for-ev-er to find what I was actually looking for, you know the scrapbook looking ones, with the cute cut out buttons and flowers, and I was hoping to find one with a "western" feel. I didn't want to change my whole page or anything, I just wanted to change the top so that my "header thing" was different than my wood floor "layout" that I got off the "create your blog" page here on blogger.com, but the semi what I wanted ones were for a small fee. I was more than bummed.  So I decided to try to make my own. 
I found free digital scrap-booking items, downloaded them, and realized that I needed a program. HA! yeah right.
So then I found the amazing Kevin and Amanda website, which was a beautiful blog in itself. (more on that later) she had a way to change the standard fonts into cool ones, I followed her instructions up until I found out I didn't have the right files and had no clue how to find them.  I'm sure in time I could have figured it out, but at this point I was so frustrated that I just gave up. So I spent some time looking at her blog. {BIG MISTAKE!}
-Her blog is beautiful
-She is so creative
-She's organized
-She has her own scrapbooking ROOM! (that is organized i might add)
-She has a wonderful camera
-She went on a trip to New York with her friends and spent a whole day looking and eating cupcakes!!!

Needless to say I'm having a BIG FAT pity party for myself.  (Arbys is on the way)

I have these wonderful ambitions and goals for my life, that I feel like I am so far from accomplishing.
-my camera is held together with duct-tape
-i can't keep my dorm room clean let alone organized
-I have yet to pass my cosmetology test so I can start the great trek to having my own salon.
-all my scrapbooking supplies sit in my closet at home, well because I already have enough junk here at school, and I promised myself that I would finish the quilt I started for Jeb (this summer) before I brought all of that up here.

Blahh! I'm just gunna quit :)

On a better note, my dorm neighbor just bought Secretariat so we are going to have a movie night here in herbie :) sweatshirts, socks, pillows, and blankets included because the lobby is still freezing!

I promise to never mention anything about this post ever again.

Negative Degrees Adventure

On Monday I woke to my room-mate whining in disgust, because it in fact, was snowing. "Mary, its snowing." She said as I sat up from my deep oh so wonderful slumber.  Which made me groan and want to pull my covers back over my head. 



 

No only did it snow here, but it was freezing! We all were layering clothes on clothes, socks on socks and blankets on blankets, and snuggling together on our futon when, we were told we were being kicked out.  Good ol' Herbie ran out of hot water and there wasn't any heat.  Crazy right?!? Jeb had a brilliant plan to book a hotel room and cram all of our friends in so that we didn't have to spend a night on someone from another dorms floor, plus what a great adventure! We had lots of fun playing Wii Party, Just Dance and watching movies.  I am however, happy to "post" that the boiler was fixed Tuesday afternoon, and we spent Tuesday afternoon layering, snuggling, and watching movies.  By dinner time Herbie was pretty warm again! I did wait until Wednesday morning to shower, so I didn't have a chill the rest of the night.