Revenge of the Babysat

Like Calvin and Hobbes? Well, I am definately not like Rosalyn, but tonight I felt like the kids were out to pay me back for putting them to bed early- I was just following orders! Last week I gave the girls makeovers, and this time I painted their toes- it was actually fun to do that! =) I fed them all, and I put Jack to bed-went off without a hitch. Then I put the girls to bed early because Jennie said they need to rest for their full day tomorrow. That is when the fun began. And when I say fun, I mean it is funny now, but at the time I just wanted to have a moment's peace. haha. Ok so, I hear yelling upstairs and go up to find Mary Caroline hiding from me in Anne Marie's bathroom, behind the door. She is clutching a toy that belongs to Annie and saying it's hers and she needs it. So I took it and told her she didn't need it because she was supposed to be asleep, then sent her back to bed. I told Anne Marie that she would get it back tomorrow, but that for now I was keeping it in the kitchen so that MC couldn't take it again. Then I went to MC's room and she was on the floor playing with her toys, so I had to force her to leave them and get back in bed (threatened by saying "If you aren't in bed by the time I count to three, ...1, 2,3. That did the trick). Then I went back downstairs. A few minutes later she is downstairs because she thought she heard her mom, but it was just me. So then she went back up and wanted me to sing her lullabies, so I sang her two songs and she pretended to go to sleep. (Later, Jennie and I were laughing about it and she said "And the oscar goes to Mary Caroline!" haha!) Ok, so then I am back downstairs and hear Jack crying, so I go towards his room, and before I get there, I hear talking in AM's room. So I turn in there instead, and she is sitting in bed talking to her toys. I had to put them up and told her to go to not get out of bed again. Then I go get Jack calm and sleeping and as I leave his room, I hear a door close in AM's room. So I went back to her room and she was in the toy closet playing. When I went in there, she tried to make me feel sorry for her (fake tears- she is quite the actress. Of course the tears didn't actually appear until I told her she couldn't play with the toys.) Anyway, so long story short, she gets back in bed with the threat of not sleeping with Pink Teddy (who she loves more than the air she breathes) if she gets out of bed again. Closing her door wakes up Jack, so I had to go back downstairs, warm up some formula and feed him that till he fell asleep. (which took a while.) Back downstairs, about 15 min later, I hear my name being called. So I go to AM's room and she had dropped Pink Teddy on the floor and wanted me to get him. I almost asked why she called me all the way up to get the bear from right beside her bed, but then remembered my previous threat of punishment for leaving the bed and was pretty pleased she had chosen to be so obedient finally. After that, there were no complications, but that was a little humor that I would like to remember. =) I always say that babysitting, even for children I adore like the Armstrongs, is the best form of birth control.

So today at the biology study group, as a study intermission, Holly did her Wesley hip-hop group dances, and it was great. She is pretty talented! I definately wanna sign up for hip-hop aerobics summer and/or fall semester. It's only $40 a semester at Ramsey if you are a student, so that is super cheap, and if it costs money, I am sure I will follow through on it.

Tomorrow is my biology test-eww. I am still studying for it, and will most likely pass out in my bed pouring over the practice test. (we don't have hw in biology bc there are 300 of us and no TAs, so we don't have anything to gauge our knowledge if she doesn't post a practice test online. Unfortunately, I wasn't aware of these till the end of the semester. Gaah-flippin' idiot!) I also have my Spanish Oral Exam tomorrow-I am meeting up with Ashley Amatriain tomorrow to practice, because we are gonna be partners for it. OOOoh and I have to ask her about the Sum41 concert on Wednesday! She is seriously so cool and fun and one of the biggest concert-junkies I have EVER met. I mean she goes to concerts like some people watch movies. It's like she has a concert calendar in her head- name a band and month, and if it is in Atl or nearby, she knows it.

Anyway, so allergies- hopefully they won't keep me from having a flippin' sweet time tomorrow night at the Braves game and at broomball. {*grin* I love quoting Nappy-D! =) }Plus it would stink to keep someone up if I snore bc I am so stuffy. And hopefully I won't talk in my sleep or yell or sleepwalk or anything else that I sometimes do. And I hope I don't have WEIRD dreams anymore. Seriously, this medicine affects me, I know it! I just wanna have a good dream or else not remember. That would be great! *smile* =)

Do you know how late it is? Or early? Whatever- it's bedtime, and I have to study some more, so I am out.
Sweet dreams!
Luv,
Megs

Almost the weekend!

I can hardly wait for the weekend to arrive. I just got done doing the nebulizer and am really just wanting to crawl back in bed. I have so much snot it's disgusting, and I am sick of it. I am so tired and need a nap. BUT I need to study for Biology in a few minutes at Lauren Fortner's Apartment.

I had a quiz in Art as well as an in-class assignment, but I am never going to have that class again besides to take the final! Thank the Lord! yay! It wasn't really a bad class, but I am just ready for summer, ya know?

Ok so last night I had ANOTHER odd dream, but I will keep it fairly short. First I was at Noah's Ark- the place I am going to volunteer this summer- and I was working. I got to play with this female lion, and she loved me. She had a basketball to bat around so we played with it and stuff, then these weird sloth like things (they were cuter than sloths though) wanted my attention and kept trying to climb all over me, and it tickled a lot. Somehow I was then at the mall shopping with Mom and Tom (he has been in all my strange dreams), and I found an abandoned baby in the dressing room. It was tiny!!! And it was in a baby carrier/carseat, and it had a note saying "Please take care of my baby, Jack. I am sorry but I just can't take care of him on my own." It was so sad, and I just couldn't believe someone would leave that darling baby to be found by some random person or die. So, get this- I adopted it! That's right- sophomore, 19-year-old, jobless, degree-less, unmarried me with a SON! When I woke up I had to think for a minute because I was like "oh gosh. Tom and my mom just encouraged me to adopt a baby and I did it!" But then I realized that I didn't so that was a relief. Odd huh?

So today, I am wearing a new outfit. It's a pink shirt that I ordered online a while back that has a deep v-cut and a lot of pretty beading with a ribbon tie in the back. (with a white cami under it bc it's so low cut). Also i have on a white skirt that hits midcalf, and it has embroidered (in white) flowers on it and some clear beading which catch the light. And of course I have on white flip-flops. (Flip-flops are my guilty pleasure. I own WAY too many.) But anyway, I just wanna be able to look back and remember that one day I had a good outfit, complete make-up, and obedient hair in all the same day. That is so exciting!*grin*=)

Anyway, I need to be at Lauren's in about 5 minutes so I am out. Later!

Love,
Meghan

A lot Like Love

Today I had a computer science lab final...it wasn't terrible. The actual CS lecture final is gonna stink it up though. I'm not looking forward to hours spent staring at that test. Tomorrow (or later today, really) I have a quiz in Art as well as an in-class project. Then I will meet up with my Biology group-Lauren, Holly, and Tom....(aka Shrek, Poly/Dr. Sacchride, and Todd). *wink* ;)>
After studying for my biology test, I will babysit the Armstrongs. And then study some more....Friday I have a biology test and a Spanish Oral Exam. Yuck. But then I have a Braves Date Night, and Tom and I are going to Tech to play broomball with Davey and his fraternity brothers and friends. I am so pumped about Friday night- fun times with my sisters and the Braves who I haven't seen in forever and then kicking some Jacket butt! lol...right- I expect to spend more time ON my butt than kicking anyone elses...lemme break down "broomball": basically you go to an ice rink in regular clothes and tennis shoes and with a broom and a kickball and play hockey! FUN!

Ok so in other news, Alejandra said on her blog today that she had a good time with me and Jessica and the guys this weekend, and she made me feel so good because she was so sweet about us. She described me and Jessica as "so cheerful" and said we "glow." *grin* I know that sounds silly to any guys reading this, but that made me feel so happy-what a great compliment! I mean, how often are you told that you "glow"? Maybe you get that a lot, but I don't so I liked it! =)

Today, after my lab final, I treated myself to a movie with Melissa. We saw Alot Like Love, and it was alright. I thought it was gonna be about a guy and girl that were best friends that fell in love. It wasn't. I won't ruin it for you, but it was a little less uplifting than I expected. It definately had its funny and sweet parts though. *smile*

Conan O'Brien is on TV and made a joke about Oreos. He said the company for Oreos came up with a way to make them less fattening- to put a sign on the package that said "HEY FATTY: DON'T EAT THE WHOLE BAG!!!" hehehehe! This made me giggle bc I thought, "I need to put that on ALL of my Cheetos bags!"....I say all bc I currently have not one, but TWO huge bags of cheetos in my room....and I have my room to myself. Wow. I need a support group.

Ok, I have to go watch Conan! He rocks my face off! Yay!

Sweet Dreams (and hopefully mine will be normal, if not sweet....)
XOXO
~Megs

Another day...

...Another STRANGE dream. I think the medicine I am taking for my allergies must be doing this to me. Anyway...So I had this dream that I was with Tom in my old neighborhood at a party with his family for some friends of theirs. And then he wanted to show me this "really cool glass house" (which they all called that bc it had so many windows and so many delicate glass items inside). And I remembered it from a dream I had had months ago, which is sort of wierd. I was like "I have seen it before but didn't spend a lot of time inside, so ok." And we went down there with the lady who owned the house. (This house doesn't exist in my old neighborhood in reality.) Ok, so we went in and were looking at all the little glass things in there, which in reality Tom would never want to spend time looking at-it was vases and stuff...and a lot of ppl showed up from the party to join us in looking around. Soon, Tom and I were talking to this guy (the other owner of the glass house) about some rare artifacts he had, and these girls showed up- and they were the girls who had been connected to the house when I had had a dream about it months ago. (I'm telling you this dream is wierd.) Anyway so they see me and keep avoiding me because I remembered them and knew that they had lied about being related to the people to get into the house in my earlier dream so I was going to warn the lady who owned it to kick them out. ...then Fast-forward a few years...Tom and I look exactly the same, but now we are older and married and have kids, and ....this dream gets creepy. Think What Lies Beneath where you really like Harrison Ford and get all freaked out when you see him as a bad guy....that was a lot like this considering Tom wanted to MURDER ME. AUGH. that was AWFUL. ....Ok so here is what I am thinking....I was watching One Tree Hill last night and the dad is pretty much scum and has a lot of money and is hiding it from his family and wouldn't stop at murder or something to screw up their lives probably. I also talked to Tom right before I passed out on my bed because I was so tired. And I was on medicine and feeling a little strange when we talked and I was jumping from topic to topic like nobody's business. One of the topics was names for kids one day...which Tom humored me by listening for about 5 minutes before begging to change the subject again-haha. OK so maybe that would explain the "kids" who, Ironically, I didn't call by their names even once. And I was like...totally loaded- I mean, I lived in a MANSION. And I was SO freaked out bc I was paranoid that someone might be coming to kill me bc of Tom. Apparently he wanted the money I had come into more than me and attempted to take my life. And I didn't die. So he (and our kids, I guess bc I was alone) was moved out and I had security cameras/alarms/etc all over my house- sort of like in Enough, when JLo has to prepare for her husband coming to attack her, just in case. Also, my dream kept alternating between it feeling like I was right there and me feeling like I was watching myself as a movie almost-like out of body stuff. So Tom and the kids were coming to visit me...he was driving a truck, and my house looked sort of like it was in Mansfield near the Park's house, yet in Oxford bc it was also near Step-Away-Stables where I used to take riding lessons. (In particular it just looked like it was next to my riding instructor, Leslie's house.) Ok, so they came and I was so sad because I still loved Tom and I just could NOT understand why he would do this ever at all. It was like I wasn't even mad, just hurt and confused. So he wanted to talk to me and to tell me he was so sorry and that he loved me and wanted me back. And I was like...."yeah so you can try to kill me again! It's not like we had a fight- you tried to KILL ME. Do you get that? I can't TRUST YOU now! Are you nuts? I don't even want to be alone with you right now!" (Now, I have no idea why he wasn't in jail, or why I let him back in my house for that matter. I must have been STUPID...I'm tellin' ya it's the medicine.) But the worst part is that I was like "yeah I just want him back, but I can't because he might kill me"...I actually almost took him up on the offer. Murderers shouldn't get second chances with their victims...it's like..."oh choking me to death didn't work? Well move back in and this time try smothering me in my sleep." RIGHT. ok so then Tom and the kids and I had to walk to see the "grandparents" at a family gathering and we had to go through this mountainous and ravine type area that had crocodiles....where that is in Covington, I don't know. Anyway so I was FREAKING OUT and Tom was smiling and I was like- he wants me to fall in and die. oh my gosh. So we made it, and at the party I start bawling to a friend because I was like..."he always was such a perfect boyfriend and then one day he just tries to kill me?! I mean what is that?! I still love him and he wants to KILL me! it isn't fair! why would he do that?" and then he wanted to talk to me so we went out to his truck and sat in it talked and I can't remember all that was said, but it was really sad. And I don't remember much more so I guess that is when I woke up. Anyway....these meds are messin' with my head.

Moving right along, UGA's Honors Day is today and all classes after 2 are cancelled, and my Biology teacher (11:15 am) decided to go on and cancel the lecture today also, which is awesome. Not so awesome is that around 12:20 I have to be in the CS Lab to take the lab final which stinks because it makes my "only class of the day" a 2+ hour final. whoop-dee-do. But after that I am coming back to the apartment to get Melissa, and we are going to go see a matinee of Alot Like Love. It looks so cute! =) I love having girls to go see chick flicks with.

Also, MXPX is going to have a new cd out called Panic on June 7th. I could pee my pants I am so excited. I absolutely L-O-V-E them. And you can listen to a couple of their songs from that album if you go to this website: http://www.myspace.com/mxpx. I like them both, but honestly, I didn't want to listen to the second one, Invitation to Understand, again because it made me so sad. It made me feel like I did a lot last year...I don't know- freshman year was just hard...really hard. But I don't wanna think about it bc things are so much better now and I don't wanna be brought down.

Oh, and in addition to the wonderful news about MXPX, we (me, Tom, Will, Ben-finally!, and maybe Travis) are all going to see Good Charlotte in concert in Atl on May 27th, and we are gonna be right in front of the stage again. I am SO PUMPED. I have only missed one of their Atl concerts, and hopefully they will play a lot of stuff this time that they played at the one I missed- it was the last one. Oh Gosh. I am so excited. (+10,000 pts to Tom for getting us the floor tix!)

My voice is almost back to normal today, which is pretty exciting. I used one of Mary Caroline's nebulizers yesterday, and it helped alot with my breathing. (Mary Caroline is the oldest daughter of the Armstrongs- the people I babysit for. I love them so much!) I think I might use it again before I go to take my cs lab final. It's sort of like an inhaler, but it fogs up and has this facemask thing that helps you get more of the medicine in your system. I like it better than an inhaler. And it doesn't taste nasty like and inhaler either which is a plus.

Ok I need to get ready for the day- it's sunny! Yay! It was raining yesterday and now it's pretty! I hope that holds up.
Later dudes,
Megs

Quick post

Ok this won't take long....

I had the WIERDEST dream last night! I woke up and was like...wow. I should write that down. Basically my dream was sort of like McGuyver and Tom was the McGuyver type-character (it looked nothing like Tom, but it was him...my dreams are like that sometimes). He had the bad fluffy hair and everything. Anyway, so this "gang" was gonna hurt us and had hurt some girl we were friends with so we had to get away because we were out numbered (and McGuyver never has a gun). So he puts the girl in a convertable and takes off, and there is no room for me so I jump on my moped and drive away. Suddenly my dream was taking place in Athens, and I was going down church street (towards Brumby Hall) and there was a red light so Tom had to stop with the guys chasing us. So I jump his car with my moped, somehow the girl ends up on the moped with me, and we land on the other side of the street (we jumped the intersection), and when we landed, the whole moped bounced about 10 ft in the air then landed and we took off. No longer were we on Church, or even in Athens, but now in Covington headed towards Quickspot. I look down and the moped is low on gas, so I pulled into Bubba's gas station and the girl disappears (somehow I just knew she was in Tom's car safe and sound. I don't know how I knew but that is how my dreams work sometimes). Anyway, so I pull in for gas and realize once I park that I am totally topless. I was so mortified. I didn't know what to do, so I ran in to look for a shirt to buy and only found old towels like the ones we have in the basement at my house. So then I see a girl with some cute clothes and ask where she got them. (after wrapping up in a towel). And she says at Sams across the street. So I ran across the street and there was a Sam's and I got some cute clothes from Express....why they were in there, I do not know. The whole time I was ignoring this mom and daughter who were hoping the stores had security videos so they could send in "a topless girl in public" to some show on tv to embarass me. It ticked me off. Then I looked up, and mom was in the store. She didn't like my choice of shirt because it was a halter (it was actually a really cute/dressy halter that I would wear if it had been made in real life), but she said "well you are old enough to dress yourself, so wear what you want. But you know how I feel." (At this point I should have KNOWN I was dreaming bc Mom and Dad will control what I wear until I am out of college and paying for myself. I'm not kidding.) Anyway, so then mom and I went across the street to fill up my moped, and I woke up. That was the whole dream.

I told you it was wierd. No wonder I talk in my sleep- I have crazy adventures!

Ok late for an Art Quiz!
Adios!
~Megs

p.s. I got an email today from my hs cheerleading coach, Judy Nelson. It had a link in it that I liked. It's www.theinterviewwithgod.com.

In the beginning....

there was my first entry! ;)> actually Tom just got me the link to blogspot and after a LONG talk on the type of stuff to or not to post, I decided to go ahead and create a blog of my own. I guess this would be the appropriate time to say that there a few certain reasons I want a blog...
1. I think it would be cool to look back or, for one day, my kids to look back, and see the type of stuff I think about or go through or whatever I think is worth talking about. (Hi kids! Love you lots!)
2. It'd be nice for my friends who are not with me at school during the school year or in Covington in the summer to be able to keep up with me and what's going on and for me not to repeat it about a million times each.
3. Sometimes it is nice to just put into words what is going on in your life or inside your head and heart.


Ok...that being said, I guess I should update. umm...ok. currently a sophomore at UGA- dating a soon-to-be GT Yellow Jacket (current Emory Eagle)....and Tom and I have been together for almost 5 yrs now (May19thwhat?! =) ANYWAY....these posts are likely to be random because, as everyone who knows me knows, my thoughts jump ALL over the place and don't always make a lot of sense to anyone but me!

Ok...so...I am in a sorority called Gamma Phi Beta and I love it; in the sorority I am in a singing group. Last week we were in the Beta Choral Cup and took 3rd baby!! and we got the spirit award! Yeehaw! It was even better because I was supported by Mom, Dad, and Tom who all came up (on a Tuesday night!) just to see it! I was so happy.

Also last weekend my lil sis in GPhiB, Jessica, came home with me to Covington so that we could see DC318, a band that Tom is in that does a lot of Chrisitan worship. They rock my face off- they are so great. It was so much fun! I couldn't be happier that she came with me! On Saturday night, we picked up Alejandra- a friggin awesome girl at OC (Oxford College) that I am friends with thanks to Tom- and we all drove to Tom's house. We hung out with Tom, Davey, and Henry and watched Elf. That movie is SO funny. Mandy and Jim (and Reese, of course!) were visiting, so I saw them some, but for the most part all conversation they had with me was aimed at making fun of UGA...*sigh* these yellow jackets...too many days cooped up with a computer made them loopey I think. *wink* =)>

The whole weekend my allergies were driving me NUTZ ...and now I have less sinus pressure but am feeling an earache (hopefully not a fullblown ear infection cuz Dad will kill me...and it will hurt) coming on. I have been coughing nonstop and have no voice right now. I feel like I am yelling just to talk normally. This is not to make anyone feel bad for me- it's just so I can look back and say, "I remember that! I am SO glad God gave man drugs to use...even if I did get drowsy and feel light-headed from them!" hehe *wink* ;)

Ok, Tom is calling!!...So I am out!

XOXO
~Megs