People, I was stunned. Instinctively, I said, "Oh my God!" (a little louder than I intended) and the 3rd grade teacher parked on the other side of me kindly popped her head around the front of the car and asked me if I was alright. 
1. Every girl needs a gorgeous ballet flat. I picked a floral print from J.Crew that could easily go from day to night with its adorable gold interior and its brightly colored exterior. These J. Crew babies are $298. So if you're really wanting a high quality splurge, go for it! However, Target is selling a strikingly similar flat for $12.99 (that's a little more my style!)
to share this list with you! The come in a huge array of colors so if the pink princess computer isn't exactly your style there are many more from which you may choose! These little computer lolliepops start around $599.
but you should find the team nearest you! It's worth a few dollars a game for some quality time with your Summer Beau or Bestie!
The weekend of September 25th was a crazy one. I had the opportunity to act as the "day of coordinator" for one of my best friends weddings. Ashley Welch and I met my sophomore year in college. We were both little sisters to Sig Ep and our boyfriends shared a house together off campus for a couple of years. Originally, Ashley (whose nickname is Juicy) and I were not friends. With similar personalities, Juicy and I really butted heads. After some time together and good behavior, we learned that we could actually be friends and that being alike was actually highly benificial for our friendship! Anyway, back to the wedd
ing. Juicy married Michael Kunz, her childhood sweetheart. They have been living in Louisville for almost a year now and until a few months ago they were so worried about the renovation of their home that the wedding was on the back burner. Michael and Ashley purchased a foreclosure home near Crestwood. Michael has a degree in Architectural Sciences and Ashely in
Interior design, so you would think, if anyone could handle it, it would be them....and while the house is beautiful now, you would not believe the work it required. I'm glad they didn't kill each other before they got down the aisle! This is a shot of the guest bathroom upstairs...it looks beautiful now, I wish I had an after shot but as you can tell, this was a daunting task. Saturday's wedding was gorgeous. I had the opportunity to spend the whole day with Juicy. And by 4:30 it was wedding time :-) Here are just a few pictures of their beautiful day!
and there was a home game so Friday night began the insanity. I got to B's game at 6:45 and watch the game until about 10pm. I stayed and congratulated B on his win and then headed back to his house to wait. It was about 10 degrees Friday night (not literally) so I took his house key home and waited for him to pac
k up the field house and get back. At 11pm we left for Louisville. Crashed at his parents house, and got up at 7am this next morning to meet Jennifer and Andy( Ben's brother and sister in law) and then head off to Lexington for the UK/Bama game. We tailgated, watched the game and then jumped in the car 7 hours later to head back to Louisville for the St.X/Trinity game...but 9pm I was beat. I'm sure I was horrible to sit with! I was freezing, hungry and exhausted. B
en is a saint for putting up with me. Sunday morning we went to church at Harvey Brown, which is where I went to church when we lived in Louisville. Then we stopped by a family birthday party and hit the road. Brief as my description has been, it was a great weekend. I loved seeing Alabama win and enjoyed another great weekend in the possibility city!
ext Sunday I was really ok. I determined that I was going to have to crash in Bowling Green on Thursday nights because the drive was too much. And really, it helped me get my work done before my long weekends. I would have Friday's to work IN Bowling Green if I needed it and re-charge my "friend" battery by meeting up with a couple of people every week. Diane is the first friend I ever made in college, we lived on the same floor of our dorm and then 6 weeks later we both initiated into Kappa Delta. She has been there for me with every dumb decision, bad boyfriend and moment of triumph. And she is there for me again this semester, by allowing me her spare key on Thursday nights and my own little camp on her living room pull out. She is saving my life is so many ways. I am very grateful for her friendship. 
rother, Chris Aaron, the talent manager at State Street in Bowling Green (where I had played in the summer of 2008) had sent him my tape, told him I was in Nashville now and asked him to call me and give me a shot if they ever had an opening. I was thrilled! I had a two hours of time and an open set list, he said they would play anything I wanted to sing. As soon as I hung up, I burst into tears, probably because I was exhausted but also because I was overjoyed. I was going to sing in Nashville on a stage where Toby Keith and Kenny Chesney had both played, just a matter of months before! I mean, Roger Miller wrote "Dang Me" in Tootsie's and Willie Nelson was hired as a song writer in this bar....It was unreal. 
Nashville you take home all the tips. But from then on, it's evenly split. When they asked me what I was going to do with my first Musician's paycheck...all $75 dollars of it... I laughed and told them that the drive costs were really catching up with me and that I had to use my money for groceries because I was out of milk...and lunch meat....and cereal and well, everything! To which Jett replied that that meant I had made my first mark, he said that you're only a true struggling artist if you spend your first paycheck on a guitar or groceries. I felt fulfilled :-) 
