Foxfield!!

Why hello first horse race I've ever attended!! I did see horses there right? Oh yes...yes I did. hahah ohhhhh Foxfield...what a great time with fabulous friends here in Charlottesville!!  We all got dressed up nice and pretty for this all day event.  Woke up around 7 am for this thinggggggg wow!  Got to Ashley's around 8:15, espresso shot already downed.  Then the mimosas were started, and the rest is history!  We had a ton of food set up at our tailgate, soooo yummy!  Laura made these amazing meatballs that I could NOT stop eating all day! 

Not only were my high school friends there but also friends from college were there too!  :)  We took a CNU picture of all of us.  My old college roommate from freshmen and sophomore years was there and it was soooo great to see her again and catch up.  It's so nice when you talk with a friend who you were so close with but haven't chatted with in a long time...things just seem to fall back into place with these kind of friendships.  I love the feeling of knowing how fortunate I am with all of the friends I have encountered in my life and those who are yet to come!!!

Another bug bonus...MY SISTER and Ross were there too!!  And their tailgate was not that far away from mine...just a small walk :)  I got to meet some of her medical school friends and classmates.  It was great to get to hang out with them.  My brother is graduating next weekend and Jeanette and Ross will be coming to the beach house for the weekend too!  I can NOT wait it is going to be one amazing time...

Hello Shopping Problem!!!

I HAVE NO MONEY....SO WHY AM I SPENDING IT LIKE IT'S MY JOB!?!?!??! haha This is what goes through my head at night after the high and excitement from buy new clothes or food hits me...

I really feel that I don't have a "problem" yet, I am definitely much better then I used to be with money! I actually have a little, and I repeat LITTLE, bit saved this year haha. (Does $5 count?) There are just so many cute clothes! I know that when I'm older I am going to wish that I saved more, but I also feel that while I'm young I should make the best of what I have because I can't be selfish my whole life, just now while I don't have a family to think of. At least this is what I tell myself to make me feel better about spending. I actually don't even have that many clothes, I lose them all the time I feel! Like it stresses me out when I see a picture of myself and think HEY where is that shirt!!?? I hate it when that happens. What I need to do is throw out more clothes that I don't wear anymore. That is a huge struggle for me as well. Kristyn, think about it, YOU ARE NEVER GOING TO BE THAT SIZE AGAIN...so give away the high school clothes!! Stop with the...but one day this might come in handy at a costume party? EXCUSES! haha I can't wait to havea full time teaching job....I will be making twice as much!! Hello more savings (slash a few more clothes!) ;)

In the laughter of it all, I have excellent credit! Yes I spend a lot, but I always pay my bills on time!! My only problem is I need to save more. I went shopping with my friend Laura and her new man in DC the other day to shop for a dress for Foxfield...I came back with 4!! 2 potentials, and 2 others I just liked haha. I was in a good mood I guess, usually it's hard for me to find dresses I like the way I did that day! (Let's remember 3 were from Forever 21, a store we do not have in C'ville) I have made the great decision to take back one, the most expensive, and get my money back. It was 70 dollars with is a lot but I thought I could wear it to my brother's graduation! (Don't know what I was thinking, I am on party set up duty while the graduation is going on so you know I will just be drinking at the HUGE beach house instead!) In my defense the other 3 dresses were super cheap! That is one thing I am good at. I don't normally spend full price, I am a bargain shopper by heart!

All in all, I think I should take a step back and think about what I am doing before I spend money. Moving out of my parents house has helped me get a grasp on the world of paying bills on my own. I look back and wonder how I spent so much money when I lived at home to have nothing saved, while now I pay rent and other bills and have the same income. hmmmm Ahh the little things in life...omg on a side note of ADD, my hands look wrinkly...gross do hands wrinkle with age? haha wow.

Florida!

Gah I should be grading papers right now but nooooo…

Wow so got introduced to this new game called settlers while I was in Florida and it is super addicting!  I used to watch Lisa play and look at her computer and be like whattt that game makes no sense!  To be honest, I guess I still don’t know what I’m doing when I play.  I get the point of the game I guess I just always end up losing haha.  Side note-> I did win my first game ever against the “pros”!!  Ah my moment of glory all but lasted an hour or so…anywho, I play way to much now I’m sure it will get old the more I lose haha…or not.  I’m too competitive to quit right now.  I have beaten the bots b4 but that’s not glorifying enough as to beat Lisa or Charlie. 

Speaking of Florida!!!  What a FUN trip!!  I totally needed a trip like that!  Everything was so awesome!  The car ride was hilarious, from driving 45 minutes or so out of our way because I missed the turn, to Lisa standing up outside the sunroof to check out an accident like my car was a limo!  By the way I so missed my turn because I was having this awesome conversation with my brother for like 30 minutes which I thought was so awesome because I never get the time to chat with him that much…and the next day he called me and was like did I talk to you last night??!!  WHAT!!!  Dangit!  He doesn’t even remember hahahahahah blast.  No wonder he was asking me so many questions I was thinking to myself wow he really misses me!  Haha.  Florida was awesome!  We stopped at Daytona Beach where I proceeded to put suntan lotion everywhere except my stomach!!!  So inevitably my stomach was so burned only after a few hours!  Gah I always burn something the first time I put on a bathing suit for the year.  (which was very scary! Bahaha)  After that we headed to my uncles house by Orlando and they took us out to an amazing dinner at the Contemporary Resort at Disney!  Our drinks had light up ice cubes that made them glow different colors…it was very cool!  The next day was our Disney day!  Basically it was like my first time going (because the other time I went I was like 5 years old) and it was amazing!  We hit 3 parks in 1 day!  The others days in Florida we stayed with an amazing family.  We even had a basket of little necessities on our bed like waters, travel shampoo/conditioner, magazines…so nice!  And wow the food was delicious…we were treated very well there!  Charlie took us out on his boat to wake board, and tube!  Oh and one day TJ taught us how to wake skate and I did it!!!!  [haha Lisa couldn’t get it up but it was really fun to watch each try! ;)]  It was so cool I wish I lived on a lake here so all my friends and I could go out and wakeboard all the time!  Maybe my dad will start letting me bring some friends out to our boat (45 min away) without him!  Haha  probably not.  Charlie’s mom was so nice and hilarious.  They are building a house down the road and she was really struggling with the countertop choice.  It reminded me of my mom when we were building a house and how stressed out she was.  Our last night in Florida Charlie and TJ had friends come over to play settlers with us!  So cool, it was my first real game! Again I won that first one!  Haha my first and only win so far…wah wah.  On the way home we stopped at Tech and I got to meet more of Lisa’s friends from the summer!  Also got to see Brad (ex) and his new house with Dillie!   Overall it was very fun and I wish I knew how to put pictures up so I could post some haha.  

OMG how could I forget!  I also thought I learned to speak Spanish because of TJ's "that was easy" in Spanish button.  I could not stop saying esto es facil!!  Or however you spell it...hilarioussssssss I think I talked with an accent the whole way home (sorry Lisa)  but it made for some great ab workouts from laughing!  :) 

Let the Sun Shine Down !

Wow it is absolutely beautiful out today! (At least staring out my window from my classroom it is!) Just checked up on the weather and of course it is going to be so nice and warm this weekend and next week when I'm gone. At least it is suppose to be nice in Florida too I just saw! It was suppose to rain one day but that has changed now horrayyyy :) I am so stoked for Florida! We leave Friday as soon as we can...still no plans yet on what where we are exactly going first but it will all work out. Speaking of...CDs are a necessity to make this week before take off! Lisa started packing last night...haha...I really hope we can keep our packing to the necessities. Somehow I always seem to over pack anyways though. So here's the plan: (there are still many kinks to work out this week however) IF we don't have lax practice Friday (yes we coach too) then we are going to hopefully take off asap all the way to Orlando so that we have the whole day Saturday in the sun there! If not, we will take off after practice and most likely head to Charlotte to stay with relatives of Lisa's for the night, and then finish the drive to Orlando Saturday. Wasting that nice sun shining day in the car!! (sigh) We can't decide what day to go to Disney World, Universal, and wake boarding. Tough life we lead for reallllll. Lisa has a friend, Charlie, who lives on a lake by Orlando with a boat!! We just need to decide what to do first! Either way we hope to get killer tans while in Florida! Looks like everyone back in C'ville will have the opportunity as well. On the way back to Va we are stopping by Va Tech to go to the UVA/Tech women's lacrosse game!! So pumped for that...and visiting some friends while we're at it! What a great break! We return home to pick up on our house sitting jobs! Epic vacation here we come!

Giving In...

Here I am, giving in to the urge to write down my every thoughts. Well, not every thought (haha) but a few!! In fact, I'm the last person that should write down and publish my thoughts. There are just some people who speak (or in this case probably write) before they THINK!! I'm super guilty of this...in fact, I'm almost positive more times then not I sit back and think...man did that just come out of my mouth...come on kristynnnnnnnnnnnnn!! Sometimes I am grateful for this trait, however it can also get me into some big trouble slash embarrassment. Hmm at least this way I can go back and read what I write to make sure I want to publish it, I guess it's kind of a "spellcheck," metaphorically of course, for those who need to be careful what they say, or in this case make permanent! (Who am I kidding like I am actually going to go back and read everything I write!?!?! haha absolutely not...I cannot even finish a book!!) I want to apologize in advance for whoever reads my blog out there for I sometimes do not make any sense (one of the flaws of not thinking first). Also god bless spell check I believe I have already used that puppy A LOT so far haha. For those of you who know me I promise not to say lol, at least a lot. I guess I tend to overuse that esxpecially in texts haha! So now I'm bringing back the "haha" which honestly is just starting to get annoying...but what other word can I use? Come onnnnn.

Wow see I can get off typing about who knows what and before I know it I have written wayyy too much about NOthing. Let's talk about SOMEthing!! Like how awesome my life is right now living with 2 of my best friends! Lisa recently moved to Charlottesville to live with me and Abby and I couldn't be happier!! It's so amazing to be out of my parents house [ love you guys ;) ] I had it so easy there but it's just way better to have my own place again like in college. The rent check is the downfall...but so far so good!! It is starting to get nice outside and I am sooooo happy!!! Bring on the shorts and tanks!! Bathing suits...you can wait a little bit longer to come out please, my stomach says not yet...gah this summer is going to be utterly AMAZING!! Slash this Spring is great as well! Wow what would I do without exclamation points?? I feel like I'm slightly overusing them...I just feel like periods don't do justice for me! Ok ADD get back on track...spring...yes...ROAD TRIPS holy moly Lisa and I are on a roll baby!! All we need is for the house sitting jobs to keep rolling in haha. It's great to work in such a beneficial social network!! My school's parents are awesome!

Well here it is...my first attempt...perhaps I will read it...(perhaps not).

One thing's for sure...Go Bills 2010 baby!!! ;)