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Today is Galentine's Day. If you do not know what that is then you need to educate yourself. Take a day (or a weekend) and watch Parks and Rec.

I have two Galentines this year. They are my Al(l)ison's, my PIC, the Thelma to my Louise, the Ann to my Leslie, the chocolate to my peanut butter.

The first gal is Allison. The one with two L's. Number 2 in our 127. She will be the one that will join me in adopting all the golden retrievers in the world. She shares my love of sandwiches. She is beyond sassy and that is one of the many reasons why I love her. I know I can talk to her about anything going on in my life. I can share Sims logic with her and understand completely. She is not afraid to be who she is and from that she inspires me to be who I am. She's not the loudest person in the room, but she definitely is one of the smartest and one of the wittiest.

This girl is my Alison. She is the number 1 in our 127. She has heard many of my vents and frustrations. She is my Grandma Alison. She has opened my mind to many things. She has helped me grow both professionally and personally. I wouldn't be in marketing position that I am if it wasn't for her. I know she is going to go places in her life and I can't wait to cheer her on on the way.

I hope the best for both of these girls. I love them so much! Happy Galentine's Day, my ladies.

The saying goes that some things have to get worse before they get better. I believe that I experienced that last September when I lost some friends that I thought were going to be with me for life. After being in the dump for quite sometime I began to realize that the people I had around me were there to bring me out of said dump.
In comes Brittani, they girl who showed me that there are people out there who love me and will always love me. We became really close while working on the biggest project of our college career or we so thought at the time.
During that same period I got to know Therese, who has become one of my closest friend. She has impacted my life in ways unimaginable. Along with Therese came Mary, who has the greatest sense of humor out of all of us. She goes with the flow and her wit is incredible.
Allison and Alison have always been there but the past three semester we have become really close. Growing closer each and every day. I don't know what I would do without these fine ladies. I am blessed beyond belief that they are part of my life and I am a part of theirs. Laughs, class, and heartfelt times are what have brought us together. I have learned more about myself and well, marketing, from these ladies than I have with anyone else. I thank God that we crossed paths and now continue to walk a path together.

Tonight while being around some of these ladies, a "we're growing up" feeling hit me. In a month a few of them will be graduating and others will be starting at an internship. We are growing up and starting our lives. I wish so very much that we stay friends. I realize that growing apart may happen but I pray that will always be there for each other. I love these girls even if sometimes I don't show it.

I was told by multiple people that the friends you make in high school don't last long after high school. Over the years your friends will fade. On the other hand those you make in college will be with you for a lifetime. I sure hope that isn't 100 percent true. I love my friends in college, but I also love my friends from high school. I do not want to lose my friends from high school. Shoot, all of them helped me to shape who I am today. They all helped me become the lady I am turning out to be. They taught me to love, laugh and live. I cannot picture myself without having the friends I did in high school.

My friends in college have pushed me to better myself as a human being. I learn to be truthful and honest with myself and others even if it means that others are going to be hurt in the process. It sucks and maybe I shouldn't be that way, but wouldn't you rather know that someone was completely honest with you rather than lying to you? I would take the truth. They have taught me that I am my own way to happiness. I should rely on no one else to be happy. If sitting in my room for days on end (it does not happen) make me happy then I should do it. I should not be sorry for anything that I do that makes me happy. If I want to be the only one laughing at a joke then so be it. I will do so.

Ultimately, in the end, my friends taught me to be me.

What is your meaning of a friendship?

What does being a friend mean?

What does friend mean?

May Blog Challenge Day 5: Publicly profess your love and devotion for one of your blogger friends. What makes them great? Why do you love them? If you don't have blogger friends, talk about a real-life friend or even a family member

Well If I had to choose one of the blogger friends that I met when I first started blogging I would have to choose Bree from The Thing About Joy. She helped me with my blog layout (before I made changes). Bree is super nice and extremely helpful.

I think her blog is so adorable and so is she! The thing I love about her to most is that she is easy going and down to earth. She is someone I look up to in the blogging world. Her blog post have made me laugh and some of them have even brought a tear to my eyes.

I envy that she is so motivated to be fit. I want to be that motivated. It's amazing what this girl does!

Here is a picture of her from her blog that I stole (Sorry!)

She is very pretty!

I know this isn't much of a post, but I am truly speechless on how to define Bree. She is just amazing in all ways!

I have been down in the dumps lately. So deep that I though that it was the END! [I want to add a quick note I am not the one to ask for sympathy or look for it, I just needed to get this out] Obviously it wasn't, but at that time I didn't know. All I wanted to do was cut off every link I had to every bit of the world. I just wanted to stay in my room [weirdly is where I am now] and not come out. This was all happening on the week of the 4th. So yes, I really didn't enjoy the 4th as much as I tried to. Anyways, I spent the nights crying until I fell asleep, waking up to puffy eyes and droopy faces. I had to pull myself together and go to work. That didn't work all the time, 4/6 times I work that week I cried at one time or another. My customers were very amazing telling me that if I needed a minutes they didn't mind me stepping out and just getting myself together.

One very very sweet lady gave me a hug and said, "I don't know who you are or what you are going through, but you are strong for doing what your doing. Not many people can cry in front of others". Then her daughter (or what I believe was her daughter) said to me, "It's okay to cry, don't be ashamed, it means you care". I was absolutely stunned at what these two strangers told me. There are people out there who do care about others they don't even know.

I remember one night my mom came into my room and asked me if I had any friends that wanted to be bartenders. I looked at her and said, "mom I have no friends". She looked at me right in the eyes "Yes you do". Well I wont continue on that conversation, but I still don't know about this topic. I will say I know once I do back to school that I will have friends. Heck, most of them that I meet last year are living in the same hall as me so I will see them EVERY day! :) This summer... where are they? WHERE ARE YOU!?!

I've gotten to think well is this what happens when you grow up? You lose your friends? All you have is yourself and your dog? [I say dog because Ellie never leaves me alone] I don't know. I feel lost confused and unknowing of that topic. What am I to do?

You may be asking yourself why does she feel as if she has no friends? Well here it goes. I haven't seen a single one of my friends all summer! I saw them at graduation [in MAY, might I add] and that's all. Granted we all have jobs in the summer and I understand that they are busy, but when I see them posting things on the wonderful, but horrible Facebook about doing thing together it hurts that I wasn't even thought of to be invited. I understand I live about 30 miles away from the closest one, but I AM WILLING TO MAKE THE DRIVE!

EVERYONE NEEDS A FRIEND!!

I have a friend, her name is Sammie. I love her so so much! She also lives 584.3 [10 hours 18 minutes(DRIVING TIME)] miles away from me. :( [SAD FACE] We became so close at school and now that it's summer I miss seeing her every day, but even though the days since I last saw her is get bigger I only have 40 more days until I can see her beautiful face again! :D This girl is going to be an RA at school but her hall is only across the Quad which isn't that far at all!

Sammie is the best of friends that I could ever ask for! When ever I am having a bad day she is the one I go to, even if it's just going through pictures or talking to her on Facebook, looking through conversations on Twitter. :) I love this girl!

This is Sammie and I at Karaoke night in my Hall.

Everyone needs to have a friend like Sammie. When I realized I can't live the rest of my summer like this I needed to talk to Sammie. I called her and even just a 10 minute talk to her was everything I needed to cheer up.

UPDATE

Okay so I am done with my "poor me" talk. This was an amazing weekend! Well I posted on Thursday about my brother's 21st birthday. It was... memory making. I had two of my Aunts up from back HOME. Also my sister Jen and my cousin Sammy [different Sammy] came up here.

Work was CRAZY! Or at least today. I was running my butt of all day, but in the end it was worth it. We have found out that Dunja and I work so well together. We got some many compliments. [Sorry I just had to say that]. I love working with her.

Only 40 more days until I go back to school and I am super excited!! Also sadden by the fact because I do like being home with my parents, but a girl has to move on soon or later.

I am also thinking on making some changes to my Blog. We'll have to see if I can do it. Sorry about making so many changes, but when I learn more and more about what I can do, I change things here and there.

It's graduation season! I can't believe that it has been 1 year already since I've graduated. I've started putting all of my graduation things in a shoe box and labeling it Graduation (obviously). I am trying to organize my life. I want to add here to say that my graduation things were put away they weren't just laying around everywhere I just wanted to put everything into one box. As I was looking around my house for something to help me organize I noticed that we had a bunch of shoe boxes. I used those and you can fit so much in there! I have one for everything I received my first year in college and then freshmen - senior year of high school. Its a great idea and the boxes are such perfect size.

Anyways I am extremely close to a lot of people graduating this year and I just want to say to all of them congratulations. I wish you all the best of luck in your first year of college and beyond. I hope you all never forget the friends you made in high school also all of the memories that you made throughout the years.

This picture here is at my graduation I was just making funny faces as my family was taking turns getting pictures with me. That will be a day I will never forget. My Grandma, Grandpa, Aunt Colleen, Uncle Mel, Eric, Sammy, Brother and Sister, Mom, Dad and Aunt Debbie were all there.

There is a picture that I hope to post of my Grandma and Grandpa and I and my Grandpa was laughing and I love that picture. :)

Hope you all are having a great week! :)

For those of you who are reading My Dear Cami and don't know what happen let me tell you. This is all I know and I do apologize in advance if I have gotten some of the information wrong, but being 9 hours away from it all information doesn't always get to me.

Yesterday morning some where between midnight and 5 am, Cami took her life. It's be said that she was bullied. I don't understand this. What are the rewards of bullying someone? That's right there isn't any. Now I do not know how she took her life, but that is not the point, the point is that she did take her life.

I knew her only for a short time. Every time I saw her she was always smiling and she had a laughter that would make everyone else laugh because of the happiness in her laughter.

I am very blessed to see the community come together because of this. I am also sadden because it takes something like this to happen for the community to come together.

To you Cami, I will miss you greatly and please save a seat for me in heaven and I'll see you some day in the future. Love you!

In memory of my friend Cami.

I want everyone that reads this that there is help out there. There are people who love you and would do anything for you. Even though you may think that no one understands or no one gets it. Or maybe you don't think that it would help. There are people. There are people that you don't even know who would sit and listen to anything that you need to say. Someone to hold your hand, give you a hug, or just the company of someone, some other being that will just sit there in the silence with you.

I am putting this out there for anyone who knows me, if you need anything, like I said above, someone to hold your hand, give you a hug, someone to sit down and not say a word. I'm here.

In the song Why by Rascal Flatts

"Who told you life wasn't worth the fight? They were wrong, they lied and now you're gone and we cried."

It's worth the fight.
"No Child Should Die In The Dawn Of Life"

No one for that matter.

Lately I have been trying to be nicer to people. It take a whole lot out of you to be nice to people who are nice back.

Let me clarify things.
I just lost a very good friend of mine. Not to death or anything, but we just aren't friends anymore. I know why, but at the same time I don't know why. I know the series of events that lead up to the split but I don't understand why things went to the extreme that they did. When I lost this friend I lost a huge chunk of me. It's been a week and two days. Yes, I'm counting. I don't think this person realizes how much they actually meant to me. Let's be honest I'm blogging about them they obviously still mean a lot to me. I made a list of what I like about this person.
Here it is:

The way you make others laugh
You aren't afraid to be yourself
you make me smile
you listen to my stupid stories
you can always calm me down
the way you smile
you accept me for being me
you let me tell you anything
your taste in music
how you include everyone
for always trying your BEST!
for making me laugh even thought I don't want to
for listening to me when I need to rant
because you trust me
the nerdy side of you
your sense of humor
they way you wink at me
how you can tell when i'm having a bad day and hug me to make it better
how your favorite color is purple

I could go one but I think you probably get the jist

Anyways, its got me thinking, almost every night I should add, about how I and most everyone on the planet (no offence) should be nicer to people. So maybe, just maybe if I keep trying to be nicer this person will see that since the "incident" I am trying to change myself.

Looking Through The Lens

To My Galentines

Friends are Friends Forever

You Are The Best Thing In My Life

Being a friend

May Blog Challenge Day 5

Everyone Needs A Friend

Graduation!

Cami, I love you.

My Dear Cami.

I miss my friend

Hi There!

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I am here.