Brittany's Senior 365

Despite all the cold coming through, the weather finally came through for us students! Due to the potential oncoming storm that is threatening making the roads too icy, the superintendent finally allowed us to get off school early! Instead of leaving at the end of seventh period, we all got to leave at the end of sixth! Which means... that I only had to go to four periods today! We didn't get off the entire day, but I was not complaining! Erica, Jamie, and I thought that we should take advantage of the early day off and do something spontaneous, but decided that a good night in would be just as fun. We surfed the web for some good photographers for senior pictures, baked some cookies and pizza, and even watched the new Jersey Shore episode. Once we kept getting texts telling us that it was snowing, we finally decided to go out and see for ourselves. Unfortunately, there was no snow... but at least we had a good adventure searching for it!

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I always tell people that I don't hate the cold, I just hate BEING cold. If it's cold outside, but I'm warm... I am a-okay with the weather. But if I am cold and can't get warm, I am one unhappy camper! Lately, since my family has noticed how cold it has become, we've gotten into doing some important things to get us warmed up and happy! Today when I got home from school, the fire was on and there was a mound of blankets in front of it. I could tell that my dad had probably made it during the day for the dogs... but who couldn't take advantage of that? I curled up with the puppies and decided to take a little nap, which turned into a three hour nap! I guess that the cold weather just gets me in the mood to snuggle and get warm with the family!

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After a couple of days living with some finally normal weather, Houston decided to change it up on us again and get freezing. It dropped down to 22 degrees to be exact! Just yesterday I was thinking about wearing shorts to school, but today I wore three layers. I even considered wearing my snow jacket, it was too cold for a warm-blooded girl like me! While driving to school, I realized what the weather did to the air, I felt like I was driving into a cloud! Fog surrounded me, I couldn't see a thing! To top it off, it was super windy, I thought I might just fly off the road! Fog, cold, wind... I'm not meant for this type of thing. Good thing I was born in the south!

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Tonight I thankfully earned one of my necessary NHS hours. Usually getting NHS hours is so difficult, boring, time-consuming, and every other negative adjective you could think of. I don't really like volunteering unless it's actually helping out, rather than working a booth at a carnival or sweeping the floor of the Pennywise store. When I know and can see that I'm doing something good for others, that's when I think volunteering is the best. Today after our NHS meeting, all the seniors worked on one of our senior hours making cards for hospital patients. Valentine's day is coming up, so for part of our senior project, we're lifting their spirits for the holiday! We made a bunch of little cards with jokes, inspirational quotes, and pictures on them. My favorite card by far was one where I wrote, "Roses are red, violets are blue, the world is blessed to have someone like you!" It may not seem like a big deal, but I hope that all some of our minor efforts help to brighten children's days! :)

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Today Erin, Jamie, Erica, and I went to Harwin! Erica has never been before, so it definitely had to be a fun trip. Our plan was to go for some cheap heels... perfect to get on Harwin :) Unfortunately, Erica and I were unsuccessful in our finds :( Jamie found some shoes for our ProGrad costume, and Erin found some cute blue suede heels, that were SO cute! I almost found some that were perfect, but darn my tiny feet because none of the shoes would fit. :( I guess it just wasn't my day to be Cinderella! We even stopped at the Mad Potter so that Jamie and I could finally pick up our artwork! Unfortunately, they don't keep artwork for longer than a month. Good thing is though - they donate it! Even if I can't drink out of my cup, someone else gets too, and that's great. :) After all our shopping excursions were done, we were all pretty beat so we had to head home. We hung out for a little at Victoria's and then we decided we wanted to go out for the night. We headed to Gino's to hang out with some of the country boys... so much fun! Getting crazy with the senior class is all I want to do for the rest of the semester, so I cherish every minute I have with these crazy kids! I may not have found the right shoes today, but I definitely have the right friends <3

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Tonight was the biggest night in blog history... It was the day of Kaitlyn's Blog Party! A bunch of kids and adults who have ever been involved with knowing about, being in, or ever reading the blog were there to celebrate it's end. Well, technically the blog ended December 31, 2010... but tonight Kaitlyn had a big party for everyone to see and read the book she made it into! People would literally sit at the table for an hour and read all the pages, it was crazy! Everybody got to sign one of them, it was like a yearbook for all of us to contribute to :) My favorite part was the food though - and there was tons of it! The cookie brownies were definitely the biggest hit though, thanks to Jake! Also, we played some of Katy's Just Dance game... always a party starter! Everyone (even the boys) got up and shook their groove thing! After a while, we were all pretty much danced out. It was time to leave, so we all said our goodbyes and were on our way. The night was not over though, it was time for some more getting crazy before the night ended! A couple of us got together at Evan's for a Bieber dance party, but not for long for it was off to Jamie's to spend the night :)

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