Memory Monday

Freshman year I was picked to be my chapters Miss Greek representative for the annual Miss Greek pageant. Now before you double over in laughter, or write me off as a pageant queen let me tell you...it was HARD work! We had a fundraising goal of $7,000 and when you are a full time student you hardly have time to find $7,000. My chapter also had some strange rules about contacting alum and what not, but my chapter got behind me %100 and somehow from all the random fundraising events we did, we had one of our best years for the pageant!

My pledge class helped organized a date auction. The living room of my house was packed! Guys sitting EVERYWHERE! The girls got really into their costumes and we had everything from Barbie to a sexy scientist. We all got to pick a song and had a witty introduction read about us, and then the bidding began! Needless to say we raised A LOT of money that night! I really hope I thanked my pledge class enough for supporting me and putting themselves through this!

In the end we didn't win any of the awards that year for Miss Greek, but we raised a lot of money, I had a ton of fun being our representative and teaming up with Carly to show off my fiddling skills (yes, that is right...I play the fiddle. I am from Idaho. I am pretty cool. I know.)

Martha Martha Martha

I feel like I had a fairly productive weekend (granted NOTHING got checked off of my personal to do list. sigh.) running errands, taking care of puck, cleaning, etc..

Reader's Digest Version:

Friday night I enjoyed some comfort food.

Saturday I met up with a friend for lunch, battled target, B&N, Pier 1, and pretty much any other suburbanite store you can think of. Then enjoyed a cup of chai at Buzz (which I miss! One sad thing about leaving my apartment in VA).Saturday night I had coworker/friend(s) come over to partake in some wine and watching wedding crashers.

This morning I was up earlier than I usually am on weekends, which actually was very nice (despite the fact that my eye lids are heavy right now) but I took care of Puck and the ran some more errands (i.e. grocery store, paper source, macys, and also got to watch the Caps practice for a bit while I was in Ballston). I also had a ADPi Board Meeting tonight and then came home, drank some wine and baked some cookies. I also managed to watch Julie and Julia today which I have wanted to see for quite some time.

To touch on something that has changed my life:

Photo Courtesy of Macys.com

I bought three of these, one small, medium and one large for my flour, sugar and brown sugar. Naturally Martha would have such a great product! Airtight, easy grip side for pouring, the measuring cups are awesome (never wash a measuring cup for flour again!) and I love the teal/turquoise! They aren't as visually appealing as the jars I used from IKEA but I think much more practical and were a good investment for a long time to come.

I certainly did not have enough weekend! I could use 3-4 days to just relax and work on that personal to do list! Especially when the weather is so spectacular!

Do What Makes You Happy

Never mind the fact that this is the first time in my young adult life that I can kind-of-sort-of-pretend-to-support-myself but I am half (ok almost all the way) thinking that giving that up to be Jamie Meares intern. If I could move to NC overnight I would beg this woman to let me be her minon. Honestly...she is a design genius. I am planning a pilgrimage to her store that recently opened and sports some of the most amazing furniture, accessories and design items I have ever laid eyes on. Mrs. Meares...consider this my application:

I think you are awesome. You also own the Giraffe measuring spoons from anthro. which when I saw in one of your pictures I knew I was going to blog crush. I think I am pretty awesome too. I think being your intern would be a turning point to finally do something I love.

So if you are thinking a remote intern could benefit you in anyway, shape or form. I say "Pick me. Choose me. Please. Please." Legitimately...I would love being your intern.

Well if you want to try to beat me out of my dream internship...head over to isuannee right now and steal Jamie away from. I will forgive you. Maybe. Someday. Not.

Driving me crazy!

My skin feels like this:

Image from here

Scary I know!

And it doesn't matter how much of this:

http://www.thebodyshop.com

The "nut" fragrances are my favorites!

I put on, my skin just sucks it up like a dry sponge!

Maybe this will help?

image courtesy of Deal Finding Chick

International Badge Day- Memory Monday

So today was International Badge Day so naturally I had to rock my ADPi pin to work. So I put on my cute new dress, curled my hair and rocked the pin like my presidency days. So in combination of International Badge Day AND Memory Monday (yes I know, a bit late today) I am going to write about my bid day experience.

Recruitment was awful! No one tells you (well at least no one told me!) that finding a sorority is usually not the most enjoyable experience.

I started out optimistic, thinking that I was bound to end up in my sister or my mom's houses...and quickly discovered that it just wasn't going to be a "mutually beneficial" fit. I called my mom more times than I care to remember crying that I had made the wrong decision to go to school at UW and really made the wrong decision to join a house. Bless my mom and her judgement, but the next thing I know my mom tells me that my sister was driving over from school in Idaho where she was in graduate school at the time to be with through the rest of recruitment.

I remember waking up the morning of bid day and my sister and I went to a Starbucks in UVille and I was so nervous I could hardly eat. Out of my three houses I had left, I knew which one I wanted to be in, and deep down I knew that I wouldn't say yes to the other two. Nicole was so sweet and counselled me through the whole morning.

Standing on the stairs that going down into the big beautiful quad on UW's campus I remember getting handed my bid card. Frantically I ripped open the white envelope when they said "go" and frantically started reading my bid card. There were screams all around me and girl running to their respective houses banners that were set up on the lawn. I read, re-read, and re-re-read my bid card thinking "what the heck! What house am I in?". Unfortunately ADPi didn't have the most straightforward bid cards! My bid card said "Alpha Theta Chapter" which is the chapter of ADPi "invites you...blah blah blah"...well thank goodness I finally figured it out!

My wonderful sister caught the whole experience on camera as I ran to my house and put on my matching t-shirt and joined the girls that I had no idea would end up being some of the best friends I would ever know.

After the run, yes a literal run to the house and all the millions of photos that get taken, my sister helped me go back to the dorm and load up all of my stuff to take back to my sorority. Once I got moved in my sister had to head back to Idaho in time for classes and studying and I said a teary goodbye. (I am the most homesick/sentimental person!).

Later after starting to put away my worldly belongings I found a card tucked inside my purse.

I have kept the card to this day, and now it is in my office to remind me that I am "simply fabulous". But inside the card my sister included the letter she had sent to her sorority recommending me as a sister. To be honest, I am not sure I have ever read that letter to this day and not gotten completely choked up with tears.

After all that drama it is so amazing to see that I ended up joining an amazing chapter, made amazing friends, had a wonderful 4 years living in the chapter house, became president, and still love calling myself an ADPi! And while I love my sisters, I have to say that my real sister made all the difference and I owe it to her that I did end up having such a great sorority experience!

My pin that I rocked today to represent! Like It, Love it Alpha Alpha Delta Pi!