About Me

As you can see this is also one of my personal blogs so feel free to enjoy my previous posts!



Now here's a brief biography for you:



I was born in Houston in 1982 and my family soon moved to Conroe the following year. Conroe was a small little southern town when we moved there and through most of my time spent there. In the last few years, since I've moved to Denton, it has boomed quite a bit. I wouldn't call it your stereotypical type of small Texas town. I always went to school with people from various "walks of life" if you will. I was raised a conservative Southern Baptist but have broadened my view of things as I've grown up. I've always been close to my family and they've always been loving and supportive of everything I do. I have one older sister who still lives back at home that I don't get to see as often as I'd like. A lot of who I am has come from my family. They taught me the difference between what's right and wrong. They taught me to care for others and help others when needed. They taught me how to go after what I want. They also taught me that it's okay to question things and try to find things out for myself. They helped give me a basis of a belief system by raising me in the Baptist church but never forced me to believe in things I might not think are true (if that makes any sense).

Going away to school was something that both my parents never thought I would do because I was such a homebody. I didn't even enjoy going to camp in the summer. That's how much I hated being away from home. It's now been nine years since I've been living on my own and I can't imagine my life any other way. It was hard for my mom to grasp at first, especially since my older sister didn't move out first. But it's no longer an issue and hasn't been for some time now.

I came to UNT to study film because my dream was to one day be a film director or cinematographer. That dream has since passed because during my undergrad days I realized everything I loved about film was more at the hobby level. I would see people in the program who were really cut-throat about it and I realized that my passion was more for the enjoyment of it. But while I was working on my undergrad I became a resident assistant and just loved working for housing. It gave me the opportunity to in a sense be part of a family, since I couldn't actually be with mine. I've been in housing in some capacity now for nine years and have loved every second of it. I love working with students and hope that in some way I can impact there lives and help them grow as they try to find what they want to do in life.

Great Weekends are the Greatest

Last weekend I traveled out to Boone again so that I could help Sarah celebrate her 27th Birthday. We had such a great time. She decided that she wanted another marshmallow roasting bonfire and her friend Matt was nice enought to open up his home to us, fire pit and all. I had the opportunity to meet all of her new Boone friends...and they are all amazing...and ridiculously good-looking. Seriously, I think Boone is an untapped resource for super models. And as always it was great to see Sarah and just hang out.

And this weekend is my most favorite of all the holidays. I don't know why but I just love Thanksgiving. I'm so excited to be going home. I haven't been home all semester. I can't wait.

Happy Turkey Day everyone!!!!

My New Favorite TV Show

I love The Office. I never miss an episode. It's been my favorite tv show since I discovered its wonder. And I'm here to say that The Office will always be a favorite of mine. But today I'm pronouncing my love for a new show. Well the show isn't new (although it is in its sophomore season) but it's new to me.

The show of which I speak is the creation of one of the greatest female comedy writers of today...Tina Fey. And the show of which I speak is of course...30 Rock. (Thanks to Eugene for lending me season 1)

So...watch it...love it...embrace it...and buy season 1 on dvd. And if you don't find it funny my apologies. But I love it.

And let's all hope that this writer's strike ends soon so that all the shows we hold dear to our hearts will continue. Cause it seems that most shows have only taped about two more episodes which means if there's not a resolve soon we'll be in rerun city for some time.

Across the Universe = AMAZING!!!!!

I love movies...so much so that I went to college and got a degree in film. My favorite film class was my Film Criticism class I took my senior year. For the class we had to go a different movie every week and write a review over it. For the first time since I wish I was back in that class so that I could write about the wonderfully beautiful, amazingly brilliant movie that I saw today.

Across the Universe is one of the greatest films I have seen in some time. Lately my love for movies has started to waiver. I find myself getting bored with a lot of movies before they're over. But today as I traveled to my local Cinemark to view Julie Taymor's latest I had the chance to witness one of the most captivating movies I've seen in years. If you haven't seen this movie you need to. Below I have included a link to the movie's website that will hopefully entice you to go to the theater nearest you and check it out. Just a warning...it's a little trippy, but if you so much as like the Beatles you will LOVE this movie.

http://www.acrosstheuniverse.com/

Airline Ticket Searching = STRESSFUL!!!

Why is it that searching for airfare can be so stressful? I mean is it just me or can it become one of the most taxing tasks ever?

I was recently searching for an airline ticket and it started to drive me nuts. One day it's like $450 and the next day it's like $200. It's almost as if someone is on another computer monitoring the fact that you're looking for a ticket at a particular price and has decided to play a game of "Let's see how long before they crack!"

So anyway, I'm searching for tickets the last couple of days and the prices are comepletely within my range (YEA!!). The only problem is that I can't purchase the ticket until payday (BOO!). So I get out of class last night and think to myself..."I'm gonna check the prices one more time." So I get online and look up the tickets I've had my eye on and I get the message that everyone hates to see that more than likely isn't true...you know which phrase I mean..."THIS IS THE LAST TICKET AT THIS PRICE!!!!"

AAAAHHHHHHH!!! What do I do? Do I buy the ticket now and run the risk of draining my bank account?!? do I wait and cross my fingers?!?...I mean really it's all too much. So I broke and gave into the gimmicks of the stupid ticket websites and bought my ticket. (p.s. I love aa.com, the fares were cheaper directly from them than they were on any of the cheap fare finder websites.)

As if the searching process wasn't stressful enough I then chose to torture myself even more by looking at the fares once I bought my ticket. Luckily the prices hadn't dropped any lower. So tomorow I will quit the ticket game and be happy that I found a great fare on a ticket to visit one of my favorite people and to visit the beautiful place pictured below.

Hello blogspot

So many years ago I joined the online community of Live Journal which is now a thing of the past. I then jumped onto Xanga which I rarely log into. I then joined the Facebook/Myspace bandwagon and figured why not join blogspot and actually write blogs. So we'll see how it goes. Although I can probably guess that this will end up like the rest and I'll only update it every few months.

Another reason for starting the spot of the blog is to hone my blogging skills. To become one of the many who writes funny, clever, and amazingly witty blogs. This is my life dream and here's hoping that it becomes a reality.