You Caught Me

I'm updating the blog and redoing my layout because I don't want to clean my room. It's not really my room anymore, anyway. Milkshake's in there more than I am. She showed up outside about 2 weeks ago, and since I'm such a softie for animals, I went outside to pet her for a minute, then decided she needed food and milk. I went to get a refill for her, and mom had let her inside. When dad came home we decided to let him discover Milkshake for himself; but she was nowhere to be found. We headed out to the cabin for Christmas and she stayed here, most likely under my bed. She stayed around for a bit, and the Sunday after New Year's when I was in Louisville with Brian, Momma and Daddy let her out and she didn't come back.
Until last Tuesday. It's now 24 degrees outside and I'm not letting her back outside; so she's under my bed. I spent 10 bucks on her yesterday at Dollar Tree. Stinkin' kitty. But now she has a collar so I can take her outside without her running off and new toys and frisky's salmon something food. At about 4:30 this morning I realized I should have bought the toys WITHOUT jingle bells inside. *ahem*
I've still got 16 days until school starts back, and I'm as close to bored as I'll get. I helped with inventory at the library this week, and the hours I'm getting at Rue 21 are next to nothing. I've begun my search for a job in Bowling Green though, so maybe that'll work out. I'm only taking 15 hours next semester so that'll hopefully fill in some empty time and pry me out of the lab.
I can't think of anything else to postpone the room cleaning, so I guess I'll post a few pictures and be done for the day.

Well, it seems I have misplaced the cable that connects my camera to my computer, so I'm taking a raincheck on those pictures and going to go look for in while I clean my room =/

I FOUND IT!!


Dad's Big Red shirt

Claire and John and J's Charlie Brown tree

Papaw opening their new digital camera. "Where do ya put the film?"

Bubba

Claire in our sleeping quarters. Tight squueze.

out of order, but this is Milkshake

New Years at Brian's...so many people

The hat I got for Brian's dad (a die hard UK fan)

me decorating a Christmas cookie, as the Campbell Christmas tradiation calls for

Dad and Mom looking at the frame I got her

I named her Milkshake because of her milk moustache =)

Greetings from Bama!

As I sit here in ye olde twin bed in the office of Clark's lovely home in Athens, I decided to update my blog because Claire is sitting right next to me. Here it is, the update.
And here it is, bedtime.
Santa's on his way.
G'night.

2 down, 2 to go

I'm halfway done with my first semester of finals! Sweet action!
I'm currently sitting in Mass (Media Technology Hall, also called Mammoth) waiting on B to get done with his Media Writing final. I've been flipping through and sorting pictures for about an hour and a half. Four days of shooting lead to a grand total of around 4000 pictures, thanks to my beautiful 8 GB card that I ordered for the wedding.
Ah, the wedding! It was very hectic and last minute, but I dare say Brian and I did a decent job. There were essentially NO portraits, other than a few group shots at the end that the bride just wanted to rush through. That depressed me because I was really looking forward to shooting some of those =( I got a superb shot of the dress, though, I have that to post here in a few. Brian and I did our Christmas when we got back from Louisville Sunday night, so there are pictures of that also.
I really wish he'd be done with his final so we could go get food. THERE HE IS! Crazy timing.
Food then meeting with my pj teacher. Gotta go.

oh yeah, pictures!

This video is 2 minutes long, I'm surprised it takes that long to tour my dorm room...
Anyway, 6 days of school left and 5 days of finals. I think I only have one real final, 2 regular tests, one potluck, one interview, my photo project for that week. Hopefully it won't be too bad. Heading home Saturday for some Rue 21-ing and quality food time. Brian will be coming with me, I'm sure. He won't say no to going home with me, or being away for that long haha =)
We're shooting a wedding next weekend in Louisville, which I'm rather pumped about. After watching Claire's wedding be butchered and shooting around at EJ's I feel like I've got a good idea of what I'm doing. I guess I'm practically a professional...hah.
Alas, the video hath uploaded, so I shall cease the ramblage.

Hi.

My blog is old.
I will be giving it a face lift soon.
And by soon, I really mean before I graduate.

Does that suffice for an update, Momma?

Samples of what I've been doing in class:

Dear Amber,
I'm sorry I don't update my blogspot enough to keep you thoroughly amused. I promise my life is interesting, I'm just too busy being studious to update this sucker every other day. I promise to try harder.
Love,
Caitlin

PS Does anyone know what time the rehearsal starts? If I'm the stand in bride, I feel like I should be there to learn how to boogie down the aisle with Uncle Phil...

Dear Everyone else,
After a very eventful weekend in Murray, I have returned to the Green. I went and saw Sorority Row on Friday night, which was a waste of my life, went to my cousin's wedding shower, then proceeded to back cakes and go to work at Rue 21 on Saturday. I was happy to find that exactly NOTHING has changed about the store, so all is well.
Sunday I woke up, went to church, was Elizabeth the puppet and again, then went to work. Somewhere in there I managed to pack up my car, which was not fun in the rain. Luckily, it was only sprinkling when I got back to the dorm, and my friend Jamie helped me unload =)

Additions to the room:
Lamp [I love lamp.] It's in the corner next to my closet, and it makes the room so much brighter its ridiculous.
Shoe shelf has been inserted into my closet. I now have a happy home for my [goes to count] 24 pairs of shoes. I was going insane without them...is that sad? Yes.
7 pair of sweatpants. Ok, those aren't really for the room, but they were $1 a piece and I have an addiction. I bought some for my friends, so I'm not keeping them all. But it's safe to say I can wear a different pair every day of the week...
RUG! It's Claire's old on...but it makes the room much homier. We like it.
Cake. I got to keep all the tops of the cakes from Saturday...sweet action. [Hello freshman 15]

I took a 2 hour power nap today, as my allergies still drain my body of energy, in preparation for the flag football game that got rained out. Sad day.

I'll try to get some pictures up here, I need to get them to my external hard drive first. Hip hip, hooray.

I miss Girl Scout songs.

Ohmylanta.
Homework.
Papers.
Revisions.
Photos out the wazoo!
Map test?
Eat food.
Sleep. Lots and lots.
Home for the weekend!
Where's my math book?
Church tonight.
Free food =)
Ashley exposed to H1N1 via sorority.
Joy.

Out.

So we had our first home football game yesterday, and we lost...but after last week it was still a good game. Tailgating was an...experience. Lots of drunk and loud people all over the place, corn hole and the occasional outlawed dog. Surprisingly, I don't have many pictures of tailgating, and really only a few of the game. The past week has absolutely flown by, and I feel like maybe that's how it's going to be from here on out. School during the day, homework when I get done, then hanging out and random wal*mart trips with friends. Go to sleep, wake up and all it all over again. Oh, and football on the weekends =)
I have a 2 page paper due in the morning, and a 3 page on Tuesday, so I'm gonna get on that before I go play with my friends.

Campus is relatively empty for the long weekend, which is AWESOME because now I have a fantastic parking spot =)
My classes have been ok so far, nothing too crazy as of yet. My English professor has an incredibly dry sense of humor, so we get along well. I'm going to love that class. I've got 2 or 3 things to do over the break, but nothing too bad. One of those things is laundry, my oh my.
Our first football game is today, at UT. It's a shame I have friends there, because now I"ll never hear the end of it. Great.
Around 7 last night, the small group of us that are left on campus decided it was time for a small scale road trip. The first thought was Lexington, which we decided against because it was too far away for 7 at night. So, we ended up in Nashville.
In small, easy to read steps, this is how the night went:
1.) Go to Hardee's and get food because Kelsey and Caitlin are STARVING. Boys get out of backseat and go pee together...from the drive through.
2.) Wait 10 minutes on fries while singing karaoke in the car.
3.) Get gas and eat food in the car. More karaoke.
4.) My first adventure in the parking garage to get Mitchell's Tom Tom, named Jane. She's a jerk.
5.) Go down the scary spiral thing to get out of the parking garage =(
6.) Go to Nashville with very loud karaoke the WHOLE TIME. Lots of complaints from the backseat about music choice. Stupid boys.
7.) Eat at Chili's on Broadway/West End. White chocolate molten cake = amazing.
8.) Travel down the road, pass Centennial Park, decide to take a quick detour to Greece.
9.) Play on the lawn of the Parthenon, take pictures, spin and circles and fall in the grass.
10.) Adventure downtown and fight traffic.
11.) Find a parking spot!
12.) Find a different parking spot that doesn't cost $15.
13.) Walk around downtown and play in various fountains and watch a Michael Jackson dancer. Ask if Hooter's is hiring.
14.) They are.
15.) Go find Cafe Coco, a 24/7 coffee shop that our friend Dakota told us about.
16.) Text Dakota to rub it in her face/thank her for the recommendation.
17.) Wait for Dakota to arrive at Cafe Coco.
18.) Watch Chris fall asleep and decide it's time to head home.
19.) Drive back to BG, actually doing the speed limit. But still singing karaoke. Thank you, caffeine.
20.) Tell the boys goodnight and make sure they all arrive safely before falling asleep in Kelsey's room since her roomie is gone, too.










Those are all pictures from the night, from Mitchell Ice's phone. He's from Ohio and says stuff weird.

Ok, fail. I had a video that I thought I posted last week that never showed up.
The long and short of it is that I'm surviving. I absolutely love this campus, and my classes aren't too bad. I didn't realize how expensive all these dang books are, but it's not really my money anyway =)
We've started a nice little Monday Night Movie ritual, along with Wacky Pajama Wednesdays =) I really do have friends! I only have one new class tomorrow, and it's my intro to photojournalism class, so I couldn't be more excited. My professor is supposed to be REALLY cool, according to one of the guys in my media writing class. I knocked down one of my magnetic picture frames today and it cut my shin. NOT cool.
I need to do laundry. Yuck. They're doing room inspections today. I left my breakfast in the room today, which was very very sad, but we're about to go eat a early supper =)
I'M READY FOR MY POSTERS TO BE HERE! I ordered an obnoxious monetary amount of posters from wal*mart. They're all pictures of Hawaii, so of course I'm twice as excited.
I'm ready for tomorrow night, too. Right after church I have a meeting with the pj lab guy, well, all the pj majors do. I get to meet all the other kids like me!

♥