Vance or Shiny P?

So I thought I had decided on a name for my car, but now I am not so sure. The color of my car is Midnight Black Pearl, so I was thinking Shiny P might be a fun name. I also liked the name Vance since it's kinda random, and well, we all know I am kinda random.

Please leave your thoughts or any other great car names for my new purchase.

Updates on life!

So much seems to be going on in my life right now!

Here are some updates on my life in case you have been wondering (I don't think anybody really reads my blog sooooo it's probably just more updates for me to have- ha ha!):

• I got a new car. I named it Vance and I love it! It is a 2007 Black Element that is shiny and neat.

• I am moving! I have decided to live by myself . It is something I have been wanting to do for a while and decided better now than never! I move sometime between August 31st and September 13th. If you would like to help me move, HOLLER! I will make you cookies or something as well.
  
• I start taking classes tonight... ahhhh!
• Panther football starts tonight. I can't wait. This is my favorite time of year. Football. Glorious!
• Appstate plays ECU in 19 days. If ASU wins, Jennifer has to wear a different App shirt to work everyday that week as well as a face tattoo. Please note: ASU will win!

• I had strepthroat last week for the first time in my life. It was not fun and I still feel kind of sick.
• I spoke at church yesterday. I have never done that before. It was a great experience for me and challenged me a lot.
• I recently went to Iceland. Apparently not a lot of people have ever been to Iceland. I think all people should visit Iceland. It was different and fun.

I think that is all the major updates in my life for now. Happy Monday!

Another 101 blog update!!

Even though there are a few things I can mark off, I still have so many things left to do on my list:
2. Finish the 5 books sitting by my bed that I have started and not finished.

• Holy Discontent- very good, you should read it!
• Through Painted Desserts
  

3. Pay off the rest of my debt.
4. Take 5 vacations.

• Myrtle Beach (July 3rd-July 10th, 2008)
• New Orleans (February 12-February 15, 2009)
• West Jefferson (July 3- July 5, 2009)
  
• Iceland (July 31st-August 4th, 2009)
  

5. Write a letter to every family member letting them know how thankful I am for them.
6. Go to a vineyard and see all the grapes and taste the wine.
7. Meet at least 1 new person a week.
8. Learn how to change the oil in my car.
10. Learn how to wakeboard.
15. Give up soft drinks for 2 weeks.
DONE! 15 Days (July 24, 2009)
17. Learn to drive a stick shift.
18. Lose 15 pounds or at least get into shape.
19. Run a 5K
23. Get kissed in the rain.
25. Update my happy book for the last 2 years.
26. Make a list of all the people in my life I am thankful for and tell them.
28. Learn how to sew buttons back on clothes and fix torn seams.
29. Go camping for at least 2 consecutive nights.
30. Learn how to whistle.
32. Go to at least 3 outdoor concerts.

• JOURNEY!!! 8/10/2008
• Floggin Molly!!! 3/14/2009
  

35. Go to Red Wood Forest and hug a tree
36. Crash a wedding.
37. Laugh until I pee my pants.
40. Drive across the country.
41. Learn how to ski.
42. Live within walking distance of my best friend.
43. Go to Italy, Germany and Spain.
44. Go on a hot air balloon ride.
45. Make curtains for my bedroom windows.
46. Travel to Australia and New Zealand.
TRUMPED with ICELAND! (July 31-Aug 5, 2009)
47. Buy bedroom furniture.
48. Take a road trip across the California Vineyards.
50. Have a garden and actually eat the vegetables from it.
52. Walk on the Great Wall of China.
53. Go to the Holy Land.
54. Go to 6 states I have never been to and see the touristy things in each state.
58. See the Grand Canyon.
60. Learn how to be good at frisbee throwing.
61. Buy my boss something for boss appreciation day.
62. Celebrate Chinese New Year.
63. Go to the beach at night and sit in a lawn chair and drink Blue Moon.
65. Play wine pong.
67. Commit a random act of kindness.
68. Pour into someone and impact them profoundly.
69. Have a 'oompa' party.
70. Go to the drive-in movies.
71. Buy a lottery ticket in NC.
73. Ask my Grandma all the questions I can think of about my mom.
74. Eat at El Rodeo every night for dinner for 1 week and order something different every night.
75. Give up fast food for 2 consecutive weeks.
DONE! 19 days (July 28, 2009)
76. Give up TV for a week.
77. Dread my hair.
79. Take a dance class.
80. Learn how to play poker.
81. Go to a Panthers game.
82. Create and use a prayer journal.
84. Try a new recipe once a month.
85. Keep a Christmas tree alive until July and have a Christmas in July party.
86. Make cookies for random friends.
87. Make a sand castle at the beach.
88. Paint a room bright pink!
89. Go visit the Alden's in Massachusetts.
90. Make a family tree for both sides of my family.
91. Learn the proper way to iron pants and button-down shirts.
93. Read a book about a different religion.
94. Attend a church of a different religion.
96. Read through the entire Bible.
97. Write a letter to my mom telling her all the things I would like her to know.
98. Buy an outfit from a thrift shop.
100. Make a video documentary of all the houses I have lived in, schools I have gone to, churches I attended, or other important places in Charlotte, Boone and Raleigh that have impacted my life.
101. Save up $100 and go buy something. Anything I have wanted for a while and just never bought. DONE! (July 23, 2009) I bought Vance
102. Go on the perfect date.
103. Plan a last minute trip using Travelocity last minute trip planner.
104. Wash my car in the rain.

the land of ice!

cant' wait to see this place!

Honda Elements

There has been some discussion lately of whether Honda Elements are hideously ugly or actually great cars. People love them or hate them. For those of you that have never seen an Element, I have added a picture.

I personally think they are great. Not only does it have 5 cup holders (highly important to have as many cup holders as possible) but you can hose the daggum thing out. Now with 5 cup holders, you are at some point going to have to hose the thing out. It also has incredible seats in the back. It's been said you can arrange the seats in some 40 different ways. They can be hooked to the inside of the car so that there is room for at least two kayaks and a bike OR you can just take them out completely OR you can lay them down flat and sleep in your car. I don't plan on sleeping in a car, but I would like to have that option. The Element also gets decent gas mileage for it's type.

Now looking at this newer car compared to my current 1996, there are small things that are great about this car too. Don't get me wrong, love my car but this Element has a sunglasses holder by the rear view mirror, you can control the radio on the steering wheel, it has a CD player, the display lights work so you can know what radio station you are listening to, the engine is so quiet you can't tell if the car is on or not, the spedometer and odometer work- just to name a few differences between my Accord and this guy.

So feel free to post about your love for Honda Elements, if you don't love 'em then shut it :)

Road trip to Mt. Pleasant

Wrecked

I am reading this book and one of the chapters is titled Wrecked. The chapter talks about how Jesus Wrecked his life. I am beginning to think that this is what happened to me in Nicaragua. I have been back in my life in Raleigh for almost 2 weeks now and my heart is not here. It's been great to see my friends and catch up with people f, but something is different in me. I learned that there is way more to me than what I know and love about my life in Raleigh. More to come on this but that is where my heart is right now.

Update on 101 things to do list

Not a very big update...

11. Take a Yoga class.

DONE!

13. Run the Muddy Buddy Race.

DONE! So muddy

32. Go to at least 3 outdoor concerts.

DONE! and it was raining

How does one get this job?

I was running some errands earlier and got stopped at a traffic light for a few minutes. I saw a backhoe that was busy working on the sidewalk so I started watching it. It was moving all this dirt around and there were a few men (4 to be exact) standing there watching the guy in the backhoe move all this dirt. Once the dirt had been moved enough... the other guys started 'working.' All I am asking is... how do I get THIS GUYS JOB? Right here...
I guess each one is the personal supervisor of one of the workers? IDK... either I want the money from my taxes that pay their salaries back or I want his job! That's all.

This made my day...