Knotty Monkey Giveaway Winner

A few weeks ago I re posted a giveaway from Carly at the www.collegeprepster.com and I WON. I never win anything!! I won a fantastic pair of earrings from the Knotty Monkey! I will do an update post soon I promise!
peace and blessings,
kjo

Marley Lilly Giveaway

Marley Lilly GIVEAWAY

Marley Lilly is a fabulous online store that offers literally everything. 

And it's pretty much all monogram-able (did I just make up a word?) & a girl's dream!!

I for one have my eye on this cell phone case for Christmas...Mom you reading this?

So, they are amazing and giving away one scarf to one of my readers!!

You can pick from any of them! & customize the colors/monogram/etc.

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The Things They Don't Teach You in Teacher Ed. pt. 1

Hello Blogland,
As I sit observing my second to last freshman world history class I have been thinking about what the past several months have meant to me, what I have learned, and what I want the world to know. 

In August, I was thrown into  a school enviroment that is essentially an intercity school that is unaware it is innercity.  The once thriving 80% white neighborhood school is now approximately 20 % white and the rest is a widely entertaining ethnic blend of African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Hispanic-Americans and just about every other nationality you can imagine.  It is a wonderfully diverse enviroment that allows a person to see children of all races and nationalities coming from literally every walk of life.  The extremely wealthy, the middle class, the working class, and the poorest of the poor there is in the world.  It is literally a microcosm of the world right here under one roof.  Its truly fasicnating to watch in action.  While this kind of diversity was at first very uncomfortable for me I am now incredibly proud to say that I have very little comfort zone and I think that is how we need to live . Not only have I met terrible and mean spirited children I have met wonderful and loving children as well. Many of whom come from the most terrible circumstances imaginable.

These children have taught me that there is more to life than material possessions (not that I didn't already know that), they have taught me that the happiest moments sometimes in life is to get an A on a test you thought you failed or finally grasping a concept that has just been presented to the student.  Those moments are in fact truly wonderful and awe inspiring.

I often complain at the end of the long day about spending the day at "the zoo" but I really and truly do appreciate and cherish almost every moment I spend with my kids.

I think that is all for now folks, Ill probably way in tomorrow once its all over, and I'll be an emotional wreck but I think I can hang in there until then.

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I love my navy pair so much.  They are too perfect.

Want to win a pair of Knotty Monkeys earrings from The College Collection???

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Required first entry:  Follow College Prep and go to Knotty Monkeys and tell me what your college colors are in the comment!

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Giveaway ends Friday December 2 at noontime!

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Have You Lost Your Mind? Why No I Haven't.

Hello Blogland,
Today I am jumping on my soap box per usual but it should hopefully be a little entertaining. Last night I was at a gathering of members of my pledge class when one of the girls parents dropped by for a little visit.  Upon determining The Redhead's brother was playing football against the school I am student teaching at Red's momasked me if I had lost my mind.  I replied as politely as possible with "Ma'm what do you mean have I lost my mind?"  She replied "well education is a terrible field to be in and my goodness that school is quite terrifying" First off, no I have not lost my mind I am absolutely obsessed and in love with teaching.  Now do not mistake that I love all of my students, in fact that is the oppossite several of them are about to drive me over the edge but for the most part I love each of them dearly.  So no I have not lost my mind by jumping into the wide world of education. And let's get serious the school Im at is legit like not that bad. Iactually love it. and with that being said. We all need to have more faith in education... after all its bringing us the accomplishments of tomorrow.

Woah oh We're Halfway There Woah Oh

Well Bloggers,
I can't believe it I'm a little over half way down with my student teaching.  Where has the time gone? It seems like just yesterday I was panicking over the start of this adventure and my first meeting with Coach. Shortly after my first encounters of the student teaching kind my fears were rested aside I continued to dive head first into the cut throat world of public education.  Now that I am well over half down, I spend my days with my head frantically spinning when I think of what lies ahead in my life journey.  With applications and requirements for Grad school, registration for next semester, and no idea where my life is going, I'm more than a little stressed out. And since I become incredibly depressed when I think about leaving my students at the beginning of December, I have decided to place a lot of faith into God's hands and sit back, relax, and enjoy the last half of student teaching.  I have learned so many lessons that I never dreamed of learning. I have seen poverty and desperation on a level that I never even realized existed in the US, I have seen children overcome hurdles and obstacles that no one let alone a teenager should face.  I have seen children make leaps and bounds of progress solely because for the first time someone  has been paying attention to them. I have also learned about homecomings, and bad first dates, celebrated college acceptances and 16th Birthdays.  I have watched the kids eyes light up when I tell them the whole class passed hte exam.  The Good most certainly outweighs the bad and I honestly wouldn't trade it for anything. So while I am not sure where my life is heading or where I will be in the future, for now I know that I am happy and excited to be an educator.
I pose this questions to you my blog reading friends, are you genuinely, deep down excited about what you will be doing each day with your major?
Peace and Blessings,
Kjo

On my Soap Box

Hello Blogland,
If I were an actual avid blogger instead just trying to kee my friends updated on my life I would be linking up for Truthful Tuesday, which is kind of what this because it is one of my favorite parts of blogland.  However, today I will be jumping on top of my soap box and not getting down for many many paragraphs.

Today's SoapBox is about acting like the 21-22 year old adults my age demographic is.  I'm not making a blast at badgerland in fact I'm completely in reference to my So. Ill companions.  I had a large extended group of girls that I would have considered my group, crew, posse, whatever you want to call it throughout most of high school.  I'm not saying that we were all best friends or sister or that we all really even liked each other that much but we were considred a group of girls. You know what I'm talking about we were all in massive parties before dances and powder puff and large group photos before dances that were later captiond besties for life and friends til the end. And I'm not gonna lie some of these girls are insanely pretty. But we were different than every other group of "those girls" we had one thing that made us different than all of those who came before and probably those who would come after us.  What is that you might ask? WE WERE and still ARE NICE.  We are nice girls.  We were never rude to someones face, never openly thought we were better than someone, never disrespectful or bitchy. In fact we were friendly and open about hanging out with people, talking to people, and in general pretty much were walking rays of sunshine about 80% of the time. However, we were always made to be the bad guys. Whatever the past is in the past right? Wrong.
Fast forward to 2011. When any of my friends or myself run into people from high school they normally ignore us as if we arent there. It would be one thing if we had personally victimized them however we did. In fact they personally vicitimize us on a daily basis in high school and now.
So if you happen to stumble upon this blog and think it might be about you... well it probably is. So fyi grow up and say hello to the people you have known practically your whole life. We don't bite and we never have so get over yourself.

"I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will." — Tupac Shakur

Hello Bloggers!
First off go to the follow website total awesomeness. Okay not that you have read this article, some of you might be a little confused. Well, neverfear here is the explanation. I am directly responsible for those beautiful children making it to secondary school.  How is it possible that me, a silly girl, living in the Heart of So. Ill or currently in Badgerland responsible for those precious children going to secondary school? Well the answer is kind of complicated.  In 2006, my home Key Club raised a bunch of money for an organization called Building Tomorrow and so did the rest of #keyclubnation. (sidenote: there are a handful of Key Clubs that totally dominate at life examples would be: Murphysboro High School, R.J. Reynolds High School, E.D. White Catholic High School, Brother Martin Catholic High School, a specific club in Arizona I am drawing a mind blank on, Mount-St.Chantal something that closed down in VA, and a baller club in Minnestoa that I am also drawing a blank on). Fast forward to a year or so later each of these clubs was charged with finding a represenative to go to Uganda to lay the foundation of the school.  After quite some debate and stressing, I was chosen to represent my club.  I was sort of what you might have called Key Club obsessed. So today as I was checking my email at Student Teaching I recieved this email and immediately my eyes filled with tears of joy and excitement.  Everything we worked so hard for both monetarily and physically is paying off. My instinctive nature to help people and my love of education and educating others are working hand-in-hand to change the world.  Literally. change. the. world. IT IS MIND BOGGLING that I was a part of something so awesome.  All of this could only be the work of the AMAZING God that I love so deeply.  He has given me the most blessed life and the most wonderfully opportunities that have changed my life. I have been given so many opportunties to go exciting places and do exciting things but that is not what I consider to be my reward. My reward is reading articles like this, knowing that something I did with my own hands is bettering someone elses life. It is a feeling I cannot even describe.
Peace and Blessings,
Kjo

ps sorry I got a little preachy but I believe that my religious calling in life is to do everything in my power to help someone else change their life.

ANNIVERSARY OF 21

Happy Wednesday Y'all!
ITs BIBER FEVER's 22 birthday!!! woop woop getting old and adult like wooop woooop.
Today since I am soooo very far away from the birthday celebration I thought I'd let y'all know how much and why I love Bieber Fever.

Biebs and I have not always been friends in fact we were sort of sworn enemies for quite sometime although we began sharing a best friend in common, the lovely Gum Drop and occasionally the wonderful Sugar Muffin. So summer going into Junior Year of College Biebs starting spending a lot of time with Gum Drop Karli Cakes and I. Well I thought she was hilarious and I really enjoyed hanging out with her. So now lets fastforward to this immediate past summer. Biebs and I formed a coalition of singlehood and a love of $ Night and Sunset.  Essentially we discovered that our mission objectives were the same and therefore became instabestfriends.  perfect right? Then she went to Germany and my social life halted the entire time.  Well now we are seperate and it sucks but I know our ldr will survive!!! so here is a list of wonderful things that I love about Biebs and that I hope she enjoys on her bday.
1. Great Dancer in fact someone dip her and buy her a drank.
2. Hilarious... same sense of humor... perfection.
3. White Chocolate Carmel Cookie Chiller
4. Loves Mexican food.
5. Is equally obsessed with her teasing comb as I am.
6. An Only child.
7. The Bottom Row.
8.party party alll day errrrry day.
9. fashionista
10. we are always on the same page. ALWAYS

soo HAPPY BIRTHDAY BIEBER FEVER..... enjoy celebrating the first anniversary of your 21st birthday!
LOOOOOOVE
Peace and Blessings,
Kjo

and here is a picture

FALL... FALL...FALL... I want Fall

Well blogland,
I am not positive if I mentioned it but the location of Badgerland is on the Gulfcoast.  So this weekend I did not get to enjoy a fun festive beachy weekend like my little heart had desired... I instead weathered (hope everyone found that funny) Tropical Storm Lee... Now as you can imagine I don't much like Tropical Storms but Lee was a huge pain in my butt because his rain was the perfect sleeping rain and messed up my whole schedule and productivity chart. However, when I left at the crack of dawn this morning aka 6:45am It was like 60 degrees outside and screamed FALL FALL FALL to me.  However, being that this is the Gulfcoast I know that next week it will probably be back in the 100s.  It is so unfortunate because fall is one of my favorite seasons.  Here is a list of why I love fall so much:
1) Hoodies
2)bonfires
3)smores
4)Pumpkin Spice Lattes
5)hayrides
6) HALLOWEEN
7) apple cider
8)Fall decorations
9) football
10)awesomeness
11)leaves changing
12) carving pumpkins
Essentially fall is my fall is my favorite season and I am totally devastated that I missing fall. Oh well its soon to be the last fall I miss... *get the ******* excited Bieber Fever bahahahah wear purple and skinny jeans- Jenna Marbles... that is HOW EXCITED I AM

An Apple A Day is the Perfect Gift for Me

Hello Blogland,
I know, I know that you shouldn't beat a dead horse but I just want to SHOUT FROM THE ROOFTOPS I LOVE MY JOB...(if you know what movie that is from well you are really cool) I love teaching and even though I'm a student teacher I'm obsessed.  Now there are several things that are sucky about student teaching
a) never being on campus makes me feel like an outcast
b) I am literally making negative dollars between gas and lunch costs
c) I don't get to exactly do things my way
but other than that I love it.
I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE LOVE LOVE my department and get to work with hilariously awesome people everyday. That is all.
everyone have a wonderfullllllllll labor day weekend.
Peace and Blessings,
Kjo
PS don't forget to get good use of your whites this weekend they have to go back in the closet til Easter unless its intiation or new member pinning time :)

Stories from The Classroom

Hello Blog World its Kjo,
I apologize that I have been hiding in the dark and scary world known as my mind these past few weeks... okay maybe months.  But I promise that I didn't loose my funny in fact I probably got funnier.  So let's see I have moved into the apt (fabulous life), my best friend is back in the apt, and well our roommates are absolutely HYSTERICAL and I love them.  They shall from now on be called Suzy Homemaker and World Traveler(but I'll introduce them some more as the semester continues) Right now I would like to focus on what my daily life as a student teacher consists of. 

A Typical Day in the life of Miss Kjo

5:30am alarm goes off
5:45am get up shower
6:00am probably just now actually getting out of bed
6:01am turn coffee on proceed to drink entire pot before I leave
6:02am shower probably almost fall over due to exhaustion
6:15am dress,make-up,hair.... (secret attempt to not look a hot mess)
6:30am finish packing my lunch --  make more coffee for the road
6:45am leave for school
7:00am arrive to school while being greeted by such musical gems like Gangsters Paradise or Black and Gold(they obviously appreciate all eras of rap)
my first period is off so I listen to the hilarity of the teachers lounge and pray to God that one day I will have as hilarious an outlook on life as some of the people I have met.
8:45 head to second period this is where I begin to realize that only hilarious things can come from the day when asked such questions as "Miss Kjo where upstairs at" well dear you had  to walk down the stairs to get to our level sooooooooooo you tell me.
10:20 pyschology block filled with hilarious explanations regarding Koko the gorilla and Gorillas in the Mist
11:10 Academic class get asked question that makes sense but will probably be interupted by shennigans going on in the hallway. like one of the many fights or what we call chronic tumbleweave
lunch.... great hilarious catch up time with my Nicagruan partner in crime
1:15 freshman. enough said. its equvialent to the animal attack scene in Mean Girls
2:45 schools out. I will now spend the next 6 hours obsessing over how awesome my day was to anyone who will listen including my bedroom walls... kind of pathetic but I really love it that much.

more stories  to come but now you know my daily routine

Peace and Blessings,
Kjo
ps don't let the dog eat your homework

Video Blog: PDA at the Beach

I apologize for the poor quality of this video however it is hilarious.

College Prepster Jack Rogers Give away!

I live in Jack Rogers during the summer.  They are the perfect sandal.  Whether I'm chasing 2 year olds or grocery shopping or at a restaurant or on the beach, you will see me donning a pair of Jack Rogers.  I've even been known to wear them with running shorts.

A few tweets led to a few emails which led to a phone call which led to this amazing giveaway...

A pair of NAVAJOS!

Are you excited?  Because I am excited!

By the way, have you met the Jack Rogers Girl?  She's super charming, and I love her bike!

How to Enter:

(open to College Prep followers only!)

Required first entry:  Go to JackRogersUSA.com and tell me what your favorite shoe is in a comment on this post!

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Please include all entries you completed in ONE comment!!!

There is a maximum total number of six entries.

Good Luck!!!

xoxo

True Life:I'm a terribly messy person.

Sophomore year my roommate and I (Bride-to-Be) were obsessed with watching MTV's Truelife.  Now I'm sure all of you out there have seen an episode or two of Truelife.  Some of them get pretty intense such as Truelife: I'm a FanBoy,  I do Drugs, I'm Homeless, and Bride-to-Be and I's absolute favorite I Lead a Different Internet Life.  Needless to say Bride-To-Be and I spent a looot of our life watching Truelife. It was a really hilarious time in our lives.  I was once even briefly on an episode of Truelife: I play the Sims... when a boy I went to high school with was featured (stellar I know). Anyway, I should be featured on Truelife: I'm a terribly messy person. I try so hard to stay organized but it always fails.  I am currently decluttering what is left of my childhood inside of my room at my parent's house.  Hopefully that begins to help the situation. Honestly, I feel like I would be a perfect candidate for a Truelife: I'm a terribly messy person.  Does anyone out there have any tips on how to stay organized.  I'm tooo embarrassed to show y'all before pictures but I know I'll be proud to show you the after photos.
Peace and Blessings,
kjo

It's a smile, it's a kiss It's a sip of wine, it's summertime

Well I'm going to point out the obvious to everyone... its summertime. Now while we have been out of school for quite some time in my own personal opinion summer TRULY begins today around 7pm. Which was the first SUNSET CONCERT of the season.  But due to an unexpected visitor, whom we'll call Chicago Buddy and her mom coming into to town for Medical School Orientation I missed the concert.  But regardless it was a great time to nom nom nom on some New Kahla and to catch up with Chicago Buddy and Chicago Mom.  They were hilarious as always.  Then I went  bowling with Gum Drop and Beiber Fever as well as some of our other friends. Team Beibler (aka us) kicked butt......like FO REAL. We're going to get hardcore and make neon sweatbands... I know be jealous. Then Friday was our friend Hilarious Girl(she is hilarious... like best description of her ever) 21st birthday! So we had a good ole fashion reunion party.. literally I hadn't seen some of these crazy kids since high school. And boy it was a hoot. Maybe there are some pictures out there too follow.. I'll look.  Anywho I'm sorry that my post was sparatic and ridiculous but I haven't had internet for like a week! But tomorrow is SUNSET again... so I will definitely update y'all!
Peace and Blessings,
kjo

Searching for Mr. Right... not just Mr. Right Now..

I mean seriously ladies I feel that all of us wonderful, signle 20 something young women are looking for Mr. Right and certainly not Mr. Right now... I found this amazing article when I was reading through Sweet, Sassy,Southern, and Classy the other day and I think that it is the perfect path for all of us to follow! Enjoy It's from the book "The Power of a Praying Woman." 

-On His Plan For Your Life-

Everyone longs to give themselves completely to someone--to have a deep soul relationship with another, to be loved thoroughly and exclusively. But God, to a Christian says, "No, not until you are satisfied, fulfilled and content with being loved by Me alone. I love you my child. And until you discover that only in Me is your satisfaction to be found, You will not be united with another until you are united with Me... exclusive of anyone or anything else, exclusive of any other desires or longings. I want you to stop planning, stop wishing, and allow Me to give you the mostthrilling plan existing... one you can't imagine. I want you to have the best! Please allow me to bring it to you. You just keep watching Me, expecting the greatest things. Keep experiencing that satisfaction knowing that I Am. Keep listening and learning the things I tell you. YOU JUST WAIT! That's all. Don't be anxious, don't worry. Don't look around at the things other's have gotten or that I have given them. Don't look at the things you think you want. You just keep looking off and away up to Me, or you'll miss what I want to show you. And then, when you're ready, I'll surprise you with a love far more wonderful than any you would ever dream. You see, until you are ready and until the one I have for you is ready (for I am working even at this very minute to have both of you ready at the same time), until you both are satisfied exclusively with Me and the life I prepared for you, you won't be able to experience the love that exemplifies your relationship with Me... and thus, the perfect love. And dear one, I want you to have this most wonderful love. I want you to see in the flesh a picture of your relationship with Me and to enjoy materially and concretely the everlasting union of beauty and perfection and the love that I offer you with Myself. Know that I love you utterly. I am God Almighty. Believe it and be satisfied.

Peace and Blessings.
kjo

TSM kind of day.

As you all have read I am a Tri Delta and I love just about every second of it. I would describe myself as a pretty typical Greek Girl... and therefore I find myself spending a large portion of my mindless internet browsing reading things like TSM and following hilarious Panhellenic sisters on Twitter.With that being said I should mention that I don't ever take them seriously and find some of them ridiculously offensive.  The founder's of our respective organizations founded women's fraternities to empower women to be strong, independent women who can not only care for others but ultimately care for themselves on their own if necessary.  Sometimes TSM makes it appear that all sorority women are capable of is making sandwiches and being bitches.  That my dear readers is not true.  However, today I must admit I had the most stereotypical TSM day I possibly could have had. It all started when I woke up early to seize the day.
I dressed in leggings, a white vneck tee, and my Tri Delta Flip flops.  I threw my hair up in a bun and added a pearl head band and obviously added my mandatory pearl earrings (I really find no other earrings necessary). If that was not bad enough I then baked several patches of brownies to mail to my friends at sleeep away camp. I then did quite a bit of cleaning followed up by a fabulous crafternoon. A crafternoon is the 2nd best way to spend an afternoon besides laying out if you want my opinion. I'm not quite finished but when I am I will do a post because they are super cute! My mom is coming down with a cold so I volunteered to cook dinner to complete my total TSM day.  Oh and I went on an excellent jungle hike with Karli Cakes today.  Overall, I would definitely say I perfected my inner TSM for the day.

I was WAITING FOR WAITING FOR THE WEEKEND

I've been waiting for, waiting for the WEEKEND... For the badgers out there in reading land you'll know exactly what I am referencing anywho.... My weekend took a bit of a different twist than originally sort of anticipated and I ended up spending the weekend at klu's residence. We had a great weekend galavanting around STL and shopping.  It was a great weekend. We had a hilarious time love klu. More posting to come.

DIET COKE

Hey y'all,
just a quick update today.... I'm posting a link to one of my favorite blogs www.collegecandy.com and reposting an article one of their girls wrote about diet coke.... because its the bomb.com!!!! so check it out http://collegecandy.com/2011/06/10/friday-faves-diet-coke-my-one-true-love/.
Peace and Blessings,
Kjo

Little Sister and the High School Gang

Although there are about 657890 people who really influence my life I will introduce the rest of them as they make their appearances but it would be tragic for me not to finish introducing a few key people: my little and my high school gang.

Let's start with my little sister, we became Big/Lil in October 2010 and it was potentially the best day of my life.  While our relationship started off slow we eventually began spending more and more time together and quickly realizing we are so similar its scary... we are also verrrry different on a lot different things but that is one of the things I love about us.  While I am very Midwestern in my back ground Lil Sis is 10000% southern belle and she cracks me up. She is hilarious and I love her. There however are currently no appropriate photographs of us to put online.

The high school gang.  Well there is about a million things I could say about the high school gang ... and its massive so I will keep it down to the core group of girls that I still talk to the most. There is Sugar Muffin, Gum Drop, Karli Cakes, Dance Pants, Meagasaurus, Beiber Fever, and Dr. Awesome.

There are MANNNNY hilarious pictures of all the aforementioned ladies but I will refrain from displaying them as of now. but without further ado here are my introductions.

Sugar Muffin came into my life in our freshman math class and without her I really would not have met the other girls in my gang and for that I am eternally grateful. We were the best of friends throughout high school and while we did grow apart for a while I am happy to announce that we talk daily now! Love you SOOO much Sugar Muffin.

Karli Cakes: I have know this gem of a friend since Freshman year but we didn't become super close til like umm end of junior year maybe? eek I don't even know but now we spend time together like errrrry day going on epic urban jungle hikes through the neighborhood. We always have a fantastic time and we both share an obsessive love of the color pink.

Gum Drop: The story is essentially the same as Karli Cakes as they have been besties since they were 11.  They are both hilarious and I have the grandest time with them.  Gum Drop is always there for me at the drop of a hat and always makes me laugh when I'm upset.

Dance Pants- is one of my oldest friends who is a year older than me. She guided me through a lot of things in my life just like the big sister I never had... Dance Pants is hilarious and intelligent and views the world through a completely different light than me. Dance Pants is a one of a kind fire cracker whom I love dearly and although is busy and leads a very entertaining life would do anything for me at the drop of a hat.

Meagsaurus: IS the little sister I never had. She is Sugar Muffins neighbor and lets just say when Meags got to high school we quickly forgot she was 14 when we were 17ish.  But she loved every minute of it and we love her dearly.  She is GORGEOUS and AWESOME and I LOVE hanging out with Meagasaurus. We have a lot in common and she is a hoot. Oh and her mother is hilarious and just happens to be my sorority sister love that family fo sho. 

Aghhhh yes Beiber Fever is a sort of new addition to my core group.  While Beiber Fever has been best friend with Gum Drop for more years than they probably can remember we have just recently become close in the past 2 years.  She is hilarious and as blunt as I am which makes us quite the pair when we hit the local bar scene.  She also loves the Beibs and honestly I can't blame her after she made me watch the movie.

Last but not least is Dr. Awesome. has been my friend since Kindergarten. We drew each others names out of the friendship box and its been history ever since. She is going to change the world, and that ladies and maybe  a few gentlemen is the honest to God's truth.

So there is a look into my friendship history.

Peace and Blessings,

kjo

Cash Money Millionaire

As I have done yesterday with the introduction of MOH, I feel it is only appropriate to introduce my best friend from school Cash Money Millionaire (oh there IS a story don't worry) but she would rather go by K.Lu so I will be honoring her wishes and not calling her Cash Money Millionaire (even though that is her name in my phone and when she calls Turn Your Swag On plays) I guess I should mention she isn't thug or gangster but in fact just as preppy and pink loving as I am. K Lu and I met freshman year under bizarre circumstances but have been the best of friends ever since.  She is a wonderful and hilarious individual and I couldn't imagine my college life without her.  With that being said I can't wait for our senior year to begin and to be hilarious. So here is a pictorial collection of cash money and I.

Camp Counselors Dream

I have spent quite a few summers living in the woods being a baller... aka a camp counselor and well they were some of the times of my life. SO I got a little bored and decided to look up some of the essentials of being a camp counselor in case any of you were considering the greatest profession in the world out there.First lets start off with your outfit. A perfect tshirt to wear EVERYDAY is a Hanes White V-Neck tee much like this:

 they can be purchased at places like Wal-Mart and Target in a multi-packNow lets talk about the perfect sports bra... this is crucial  because its hot and gross outside all day

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perfection. Now let's talk about your bottom. Shorts are essentially and these Nike Tempo Shorts are the best:

they even have built in underwear!

It is also completely appropriate to wear a Greek tshirt if you run out of v-necks because lets get serious what other kind of tees do you own... right MOH?

 so many choices its hard to choose.

Camp appropriate footwear is hard to come by if you are not wearing Chacos on your feet and this pair is just SOOOO darn cute, I tots wish these had been out when I bought my Chacos.

Staying hydrated is an absolute must during the hot, summer, sun so a cute water bottle like this Nalgene is essential:

It is also essential to have something durable to tote your stuff around in all day but isn't too cumbersome. I have been using North Face's Roo for years but the Roo II is also worth checking out!!!!

Protecting yourself from the sun is a must so awesome shades are must!!! Big, bold, and ridiculous sunglasses always worked well for me. I was a particular fan of this style but some of my coworkers opted for the Aviator style of sunglasses because they felt more bad ass that way. Your pick.

As a counselor you will have to always be on time, which is why you will need a bad ass water proof watch. Preferably digital because you WILL become soooo exhausted that it is impossible to tell time any other way. A cute one like this would be perfect! 

I hope y'all are catching the drift that I LOVE LOVE LOVE the color pink no matter what I am doing.

And no matter how dorky it may seem a good headlamp is essential if you want to see where you are going in the dark.  And trust me you will want some light on those long night hikes to your cabin or you will have nasty scars like I do from falling over stumps and rocks.

Last but not least you will need a smile but that should be no problem to produce because you WILL be having the time of your life if camp counseloring is your thing:

I wish everyone the BEST of summer, whether you are a camp counselor past or present.... or have ever been curious!

Peace and Blessings,

kjo

Cast of Characters

I figured I should start to introduce some of the major characters in my daily life.  First I should start with MOH or Maid of Honor. She is a fantastic friend who has been around in my life for SEVEN years. We worked at summer camp together when we were younger... and now we're just the best of friends. Anyway MOH you know who you are and even though we are drastically different in just about every way... you are a huge influence on my life.
Peace and Blessings
kjo
PS here is a photo pictorial of MOH and I over the years.....

 us and all of our camp besties

show how lovin

major difference in our life

MOH and I at age 16.

weird skype picture obsession freshman year of college.

with our bestie care bear.

best photo she's ever taken.

love you MOH.

A Broad Abroad!: The best weekend of my life

A Broad Abroad!: The best weekend of my life: my edu bff ellen goes to Italy.... and I miss her and her adventures with our friends are hilarious.

I solemnly swear that I am up to no good...

Well this is sort of a re-introduction of myself to the blogging world.
But I promise I really will keep this blog up to date... how could I not I mean the background is too adorbs. to not keep up with the blog.
So I guess I  will give y'all some facts about myself :)
Age-21
Major-Secondary Education - General Social Studies
favorite color- pink and glitter
Music- All but especially country
I want to save the world... I have some pretty big dreams and we'll see if I can accomplish them all.
Oh and I have a strange sense of humor please humor me :)
oh and I plan on giving all of my friends and family fun nicknames
So here is to a new life of blogging!
Peace and Blessings,
kjo