august: cleveland county

Christmas was as delightful as expected. Just look at our Christmas tree!! On Christmas Eve we went over to Grandma & Granddad's before church. Granddad's still rocking the World War I look. Christmas was really nice too - Mom made a right feast for us to eat. We also ended up with enough junk food to feed a small country. We went to...

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Devoted blog followers, December has been simultaneously busy and laid back. It's definitely the best kind of month - much better than when I was a kid and there was a school play, the Christmas parade, holiday parties at all my activities, the Christmas pageant at church, and school until the Friday before Christmas to deal with! (Don't get me wrong, I loved...

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Y'all, this Thanksgiving break was one for the fiction section. I think I could write a very successful novel about this break in the tradition of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever or A Christmas Story. To start off the extravaganza, Mom & I met Cassandra and Patsy (our cousins) in Shawnee for lunch on Tuesday. We had a great time, and then went shopping...

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Here's a pile of books I'm currently reading or have recently read!! From back to front: Rambunctious Garden by Emma Marris Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me by Mindy Kaling The Evolution of Faith by Philip Gulley Inside the Kingdom by Robert Lacey City of Bones by Cassandra Clare Atlantia by Ally Condie I'm reading Rambunctious Garden for a class. It's okay so far - not really...

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Hello all! Today was a snow day here at the University of Oklahoma. I was surprised to find out that President Boren records the message that goes out to students when the university closes; at Arkansas they always had a robot do it and it was very creepy. Since I have 2 of my 3 classes on Monday, it was like I missed...

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Ahhh....November! The weather has finally remembered what autumn is, which is nice because I was sick of wearing skirts to work every day. (I hate wearing pants when it's hot out and shorts are a tiny bit inappropriate since I work in the building where I have my classes.) This week seemed to fly by! I went to a few of the events...

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Hello everyone! For some reason I decided it might be interesting to blog exactly what I did on Tuesday...mostly so when I have a job someday I can look back on how easy I used to have it. I got up at 9:00. I usually get up around 8:15, but I couldn't sleep last night so I let myself sleep in a bit....

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It seems like so much has happened to me since the last time I posted! I went home and to a band contest and had a maybe dead mouse in my house and saw the infant Jesus of Prague and subbed for a prof and applied to intern at the State Department twice and wrote a paper and lead a class discussion and...

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Like a responsible new citizen of the greater Oklahoma City area, I spent most of yesterday driving around and getting lost as my way of getting to know the area. At one point, I ended up near the state capitol, so I figured it was worth seeing if it was open for visitors on a Saturday morning.  It was! The guard said I...

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Merry October. Callooh! Callay!  (That is from the book Attachments by Rainbow Rowell, which is probably in my top 100 favorite books. (That's a lie. I love more than 100 books on the same level.)) Anyhow, yesterday we were finally blessed with autumnal weather! I was so happy that I opened the window (I chose to ignore that opening the window is like death...

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I went home last weekend to see my lovely parents and sister, and we went to the Tulsa State Fair! It was pretty okay, except there were too many people there. Next time, I'd like to request a private tour of the fair. :) On Sunday we had birthday cookie for Dad & Emily. It was quite tasty! Butter sculpture! It wasn't finished...

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