We're in the teens, people!

In 19 days, I will be married to the most incredible person in my life. In 19 days, my life will change forever, for the better. In 19 days, I will be Mrs. Jeremy Campbell :)

I can't believe it! I mean its really almost here. I have waited my life for this moment and I am so ecstatic that it's so close. I'm smiling just thinking about it. Some say we're too young. Let's face it, we're babies getting married. But who cares, right? Ya, there will be tough times and we are going to get frustrated with eachother. That's just married life. But we will work it all out. We will be just fine. Sounds cliche, but our love will get us through it. Well, really our love and laughter. I love how we make the best out of every situation. We always seem to suck it up, laugh about it, and move on. Jeremy always finds the humor in everything. I love that about him. I love how when we open the fridge and all that is in there is lunch meat and water, he laughs and says "I love being poor with you." These are the days we are going to look back in 25 years on and say, "that's when I learned _____" or "It was hard, we had to live simple, but we made it". We will tell our children, "When we first got married all we had in our pantry was rice, mac and cheese and water." I love that. We've already learned some pretty valuable lessons. We've made mistakes and the Lord has whispered in our ears, "Your irresponsibility is not me not providing"......uh, whoa. SO true. He will be our provision and our security, but we have to be good stewards with what he has already given us. We have to do our part if we expect him to do his. Learned a good lesson today, and I can't wait to learn more with my future husband.

Can I just boast about Jeremy for a minute? He is THE hardest working person I have ever met in my life. He does whatever he can to make me feel secure and provided for. Get this- he mowed 5 lawns today, and worked on a renovating a house to make extra money for us. 7am to 4pm on a SATURDAY. It's one of my favorite things about him actually. That, and his peaceful nature. He is steadfast, secure, and chalked full of wisdom. Definately a man after the Lord's heart.

xoxo

Girls..Girls.. Girls..

It's 4:15 am and yes I am still awake.... I am having one of those nights where I just toss and turn thinking about every little thing in my life: 1) When to take the HESI A2 test so I can apply to TCU, UTA, TWU... the application dates... 2) why I am so hungry when I JUST ate... 3) why it is so flipping hot in my room 4) where I would be if my old church hadn't split (I do know I'd be without Jeremy, which is no bueno)... I just miss my old friends. A LOT. 5) why girls are so competitive with eachother... its silly honestly.............Well you get the picture. I could go on and on but I'll spare you :)


Ok but seriously.. why are we(girls) so competitive with eachother? I feel like my life is a constant competition sometimes and its draining! Don't get me wrong, I'm completely guilty of it too! Brooke (one of my most favorite blogs to read) put it perfectly a couple of weeks ago. Tonight I was reminded of what she said.. I'll just go ahead and paste it in here (:

"You're so talented. I'm glad we're friends."

"So, I'm usually a pretty positive person. I like to look on the bright side most times.

But, may I have a moment to just observe something that I think is lamentable - to vent, if you will?

Okay, I have been noticing for quite some time that women seem to withhold compliments from one another when, I think, a compliment is well deserved. I have seen women tell me some great piece of news about a fellow gal, then completely dismiss it when said gal is there. Presenting no compliment or mention of the success whatsoever. What the heck?

I think this weirdo behavior stems from a spirit of competition. I think women are always comparing themselves, and therefore, are not willing to admit another's success in fear that it might take the focus off of themselves and highlight another's good fortune or some well-deserved payoff of another's hard work or talent.

I think that is so stinkin' silly. I think if we would stop comparing ourselves, we could finally experience a level of true friendship and camaraderie in one another. I think if we encouraged one another, the other females around us might just achieve more, believe in themselves more, or at least know that they had some solid women cheering them on!

What the heck, ladies? Let's not be so worried that some other woman's strengths, talents, great skin, needed ability, skinnier thighs, or deserved or undeserved blessings might harm us in some way.

We are all blessed in some way, talented in some area, successful at different times in different areas. Let's celebrate one another when things are good, and mourn with each other when they aren't. Either way, let's encourage one another!!

Okay, venting session over."

SUCH a great reminder! k, off to bed!!!

Fah-ree... FREE! and GNO wknd

I am now the proud owner of two lovely matching chairs off the side of the road as of today... complete with their son, a side table. (I'm not even going to ask how two chairs fell in love and made a side table, but I can't say that I mind!). I saw the posting in the 'free' section of Craiglist earlier this afternoon.. lucky for me, it was 2 minutes from Jeremy's apartment!

Excuse the quality of the pic... it's from Jer's phone.. I wish I had a picture of the chairs. :(

This weekend, I am going down to A&M with my girlies to visit Kayla! I'm so excited!! FAME, Midnight Yell, sleeping in, laughing till I pee (or Natalie pees..sorry!), my last weekend with anything other than water to drink, FOOD, long talks, pillow fights... wait. that last one wont happen. ha.. 

I CAN'T WAIT!

K for Kimber

I had the day off today so I headed to Hobby Lobby for no reason whatsoever. I love to just get lost in that store.. I'll stand in the isles holding a couple of my favorite clearance items in my hands trying to figure out they could possibly fit together into one piece of art. Today, the paper mache letters weren't on sale, but they were cheaper than some I've seen at Joann's. I grabbed a 'K' and wandered around the store for another 20 min. thinking of ways I could make it cute when I ran across some scrapbooking paper in the clearance section... most of it was ugly grandma paper that really should never come back in style.. but then..... I saw this paper! It matched the colors of my room exactly and was so cute! I grabbed 3 sheets at $.35 and made my way to the front.. I looked down at my phone and realized I had been in there for an hour...ah oops! (Today I am supposed to be studying for my Microbiology lab test.)

I put my finds together and here is what I came up with for around $4:)

I saw one like this at Anthropologie not too long ago and loved it but I didnt feel like paying $50 for it.

I also found this frame for $.50 at a garage sale this weekend and put it on my wall with some old notes Jeremy wrote me about 2 years ago :) I bought the letters for 'LOVE' at Hobby Lobby not to long ago and painted them this weekend an orangy-pink color to match my bedding. The wall is a work in progress.. I plan on getting more frames and other cute wall art pretty soon :)

LOVE this.

so simple and so true sometimes...

JenniPenni

A PCT, FINALLY!

I took my PCT State exam today.... and...I... PASSED! Woooo! That takes a load off my shoulders. :) I had to perform 5 skills for the examiner today, and 2 of them I had never done in "real life".. I had just seen it done in the lab. I guess I remembered okay, because I passed!!! This means I can work at the hospital as a Nursing Assistant (my titles are CNA-certified nursing assistant, PCT- patient care tech, etc.). Hopefully this fall I'll be able to work with my mom and sister-in-law downtown at Baylor. OH- and, I managed to pull off a 95 on my chem test that I thought I failed. What in the world?!? Even though today ended up being great, I am SO glad it's almost over :)

Now off to straighten the curly beast on top of my head!

Numero Uno. :)

This is my very first post :) It's quite exciting. This is something that I have wanted to do for a while but really never felt like what I had to say was worth reading. But- I have changed my view on the whole thing.. so here I am-- I think that I will get really addicted :)

First 0ff- I just have to say that I was a big girl today and took care of a HUGE mess with this fraudulant company with my bank-- WITHOUT my dad's help. Sounds silly, but it was a big step for me. I'm one of those people that will completely avoid an unknown number on my phone and just let them leave a voicemail because..well.. I don't know what I'm afraid of (it just makes me nervous)... so for me to go into the bank to talk to a teller was a big..humung deal. So what looked like what was going to be the worst afternoon of my life turned out to be pretty grand. Needless to say, I will not be purchasing anything online anymore with the words "Risk-Free Trial" plastered across the top... it's a joke/lie. and it's not funny at all.

I'm upstairs now listening to the new Hillsong cd ('Faith+Hope+Love').... it's amazing. I was ready for new worship music. Not that old worship music is bad or mundane in any way, its just that new music is fresh-- new lyrics, new beats, new ways the Lord shows Himself to me. I'm listening on the website, so if anyone feels the need to just buy it for me, I will not push you away :)

I leave you with this: