Pottermore... or Potterless?

As of Sunday, I started feeling a pretty crappy cold coming on, and boy is it crappy or what!!? On Sunday night I went to bed around 8:30pm to try to get some extra sleep before my day of dance starting at 9am.. I got in bed with my computer to listen to my white noise (I'm obsessed with listening to the thunderstorm reel), a box of tissues, a water bottle, and Herman, my frog pillow pet. I was all snuggled up and about to fall asleep but then the sneezing and coughing and running nose came along... It was 1:30am by the time I fell asleep and I was not a happy camper.

Yesterday I got my 'welcome email' from J.K. Rowling's website, Pottermore. As you can probably guess, I was beyond excited! I was texting in all caps, ending each sentence with one or more explanation points, and Pottermore was literally all I could talk about. I went to sign in and it said the site was busy, I assumed that would happen because everyone I knew had received their email the same day I did, imagine how many other people got theres? Of course it would be busy. But it's been over 24 hours and I've probably only been on it for an hour tops because of the busy server... It's a total buzz-kill when you type in the website and wait for it to load, then it gets there and you can't do anything but look at the purple screen and appreciate the fact that they use 'whilst' instead of 'while'. I can't wait to get in and finish my questionnaire to find out what wand chooses me!

Tomorrow I get a semi-easy day. I don't have to dance in my ensemble class, so I'm looking forward to sitting on Pottermore after I finish some math homework.

A message to J.K.?

- I love Pottermore, as much annoying as it is having the server stops randomly, I

love it. Thank you for what you are doing. You are amaaaaaaaazing :)

"Love actually is all around.."

I started off my weekend with a 3 hour pointe rehearsal.. But thanks to my amazingboyfriend I ended the rehearsal with a text from him saying he was waiting in the parking lot to take me out on a date for our one year anniversary. We rushed back to my room so I could change. We got on the bus... but I got us on the wrong bus. So, we rode around campus for a half hour then finally the bus turned into the bus we should've gotten on. On the way there we started searching where to eat, instead of sitting in a dark, loud sports bar- we found a TGIF and ate. Ty paid for dinner and we had dessert!! :) We spent the night laughing at the people around us, laughing at each other, and talking about how weird we were a couple years back. Ty and I have been friends since I was 14 and he's been my 'best guy-friend' ever since. He deals with my dorky-ness, especially when I put us on the wrong bus... I've done it twice now. The fact that he just laughs it off, means something. (eros...)

Today my mom, aunt, and J-Man came up to visit me. When they arrived at my place J-Man gave what he was carrying to AunT and ran into my arms. Cutest thing ever, right? We got up to my room and he was so excited to see my fort bed! To his surprise I had two birthday presents for him, a blue triceratops pillow-pet and literally the coolest StarWars poster I've ever seen. When he opened it looked like Christmas morning on his face. He's been eyeing my frog pillow-pet all summer. A few times I even had to stop him from bringing it home with him! Ending with the StarWars poster was probably one of the best ideas I've had with J because as soon as I told him to open his eyes he started naming off all of the characters in the poster and almost didn't want to leave for dinner. I took them to the best food place on campus so J-Man could get a feel for what his Nanny McMaddie does for meals every day! He loved eating with us, but had a lot of energy so we decided to show him around campus. When we got back to my dorm it was time for goodbyes... Definitely not a favorite time of mine. I said goodbye to my mom and my AunT and had Ty pack everything my mom brought for me in his arms so I could leave my arms free for hugs. Right as they were settling back into the car and as I was walking back to my dorm, I hear my name being yelled by a little voice and as I turn around my little man running over for one last hug. Am I making your heart melt yet? I said I would see him in 2 weeks, for Keegy's birthday and he looked at my with his runny nose, smiled, and ran back to his side of the car. (phileo...)

Tonight was a night for a movie-night. My Ty-Bear left a little after my family left, all of my roommates were gone for the weekend and I was feeling a little lonely. Thankfully, my girl Kit-Kat got back just a little after posting a tweet about missing my Cope-Fam. I walked with her, Gordo, and Kye across campus that way they could use up their meals for the week before it hit midnight. As I'm sitting there talking to them about all of the creepiest things that have ever have happened to us, I find myself thinking again about how lucky I am to have found such good friends already, we've all clicked and how much fun we all have together. We're perfect fits! (storge...)

I got to pick the movie tonight for movie-might with the Cope-Fam so naturally, I picked 'Love Actually'. It is my all-time favorite movie and I decided that they needed to see it. So watching the movie I can't help but think of the different types of love I have in my life. I love my boyfriend, I love my family, and I love my college-family. Life is good!

Dancing Through Life...

I've been dancing since I can remember... but more specifically, 16 going on 17 years. Thankfully, there hasn't been a time in my life when I thought to myself, 'I hate this, why am I doing this?'. Which I think is pretty amazing because, also since I can remember, I've been scheduling my life around dance classes, rehearsals, recitals, competitions and so on... Whenever I am invited somewhere and can't go, the response is always, "I can't, I have dance." I have missed out on things like family dinners with my best friends, open houses, girls nights, school functions.... But when I think back on it, as much as I wanted to be there and still wish I could've been there for some of them, they don't seem like major things that I missed out on, the biggest ones were probably 3 of my best friends' open houses this spring. But they understand, they always have.

I can't imagine my life without dance. When I'm tired and don't want to go, as soon as I get there everything changes. My day does a complete 360. I know it's a cliche and as a dancer I hate using this saying, but it's so true! When I'm dancing, I dance my emotions. If I'm in a bad mood, I dance my feelings. There it is. That's it. I dance my feelings. When I'm in a good mood I swear my dancing is better, when I'm having a terrible day, I dance better because I'm getting out the frustration of the day.

When I dance I can see it happening my whole life, in a company, as a teacher, but more than all of that, at Disney. My most recent dream, as of 3 or 4 years, is to dance at Disney World in FL. I want to be a performer. Every time I perform, I'm living! There is nothing better than performing. When you're standing on that dark stage waiting for the hot lights to hit your face the anxious feeling you get right as it's supposed to start is the best. Then, the lights hit you, you vaguely see the faces in the audience starring back at you, the music begins and you start dancing.

I love dancing, I'll do it for as long as I live. That's a promise.

Labor Day Weekend.

I came home for the weekend and being home made me realize something. I realized what I miss. What I miss from home, from school, from the past, from my room... I didn't think I was missing anything, but man, was I wrong.

Now, I'm definitely not homesick. I love being away from home and beginning a life of my own. But, when I came home this weekend (remember, I've only been away for about two weeks, but bear with me) all of the sudden random things popped up and I couldn't believe how much I missed them. Here is my list- No specific order.. At all.

1. Family: Mom, Dad, Sister, Aunts,

Uncles, cousins, Momma, & Eric.

2. Recorded television shows.

3. Pictures. (I forgot to bring all of

my pictures to school..)

4. My bed at my dad's house.

5. Listening to music through

speakers, not headphones.

6. My dog, Tarzan.

7. Driving.

8. Friends: Boyfriend, Best Friends,

Close Friends, all types of friends!

9. Culligan Water.

10. Hugs from my mom & dad.

11. Hot shower with no line & water pressure.

12. My friends at GV.

13. My new home at GV.

Wow, that sounds like I'm missing so much, but it's not that bad. Missing these things are good because when I get back to them, it's that much better! There's that famous quote- 'absence makes the heart grow stronger', which is true! I've missed my bed so much these last two weeks and when I saw it today, I dove right into it! :)

Other than a long list of things that I tend to miss while away from them, how about the things I've done since I've been home??

1. Ate Chinese with my mom, sister, aunt, uncle and cousin.

2. Drove a lot.

3. Saw one of my best friends.

4. Saw some family.

5. Did arts & crafts.

6. Went grocery shopping with my dad & Kathy.

7. Played my guitar.

8. Watched recored tv.

9. Ate White's Chicken Little.

10. DID MY MATH HOMEWORK!!!

11. Watched 300....

12. Went clothes shopping with dad, Kathy & sister.

13. Sorted laundry for my mom.

14. Slept past noon.

15. Stayed up past 3:30am.

16. Stretched my tendinitis ankle..

I still have all of Monday & some of Tuesday to add to the list of things done this weekend. I can't wait to head back to GV, but I'm so glad that I'm close enough to home to come home pretty much whenever. I won't be missing things that often!

The arts & crafts I did this weekend! They will soon be attached to headbands :)

Serendipity?

Serendipity (noun)-

an aptitude for making desirable discoveries

by accident; good fortune; luck.

Tonight my friends and I had our first movie night. We started our soon-to-be tradition on a good note by watching non other than 'Serendipity'. A story about finding your soul mate by chance and searching for them after being separated.

As I was watching the movie tonight I realized how serendipitous my friendship is with my new friends. How could we all be so alike? How could 7 complete strangers get along so well and have so much in common? Or, how could it feel like I've known them all for years? True, we have spent every minute of every day together for the past 10 days so you do get to know a person when spending so much time together!

It was the simultaneous meeting of each other. Steak and Gordo walked into my dorm one night when my roommate, KT and I were hanging out and we found out we all knew people from our hometowns- we clicked. Shay and I met one night because I was discussing how I spent 14 hours waiting in line for Harry Potter & the Deathly Hollows pt.2 and she overheard so she decided to join the conversation because of her HP obsession. Linda came along with Shay and Yan came along with Steak and Gordo!

Thinking about college I never imagined making friends that I know will be around for years within the first week. This weekend we're all leaving to go "home" for Labor Day weekend and not seeing them for nearly a week sounds insane right now! We're like a little family! We plan lunch and dinner dates, we all meet in Gordo, Steak, and Yan's room every night to watch whatever is on TV that night, and every time I laugh I laugh until I cry, until my sides are sore, until I'm snorting so loud that I'm trying to STOP laughing! This is what I hoped for in college, I love it and I love my friends.

Here's to a year 'full of activities'! :)