Club Can't Even Handle Me Right Now...

 

This is me and my AMAZING friends up at Big Sky. You can't see Julia. She's hiding.

 We sure know how to party. Especially Gowster. Look @ her grabbing that special region.

 What a night. These are my fav people, and our shadows, can you see our beer? <3

The Club Can't Even Handle Me Right Now...even when eating full cloves of garlic and drinking pickle juice. <3

I was looking through pictures, and I picked out these to share with you. The first two are from probably the most amazing night of my life. Which I will tell you about in a later post. <3 The third is my crazy girl friends in the wonderful town of Bozeman, and the final...is a wonderful night spent with my favorite people. Thankful for REAL TRUE FRIENDS.

Anyway, today was pretty amazing. I woke up all by myself. Which is shocking. I was early to school, which really started off my day great. The kids were amazing and hilarious as ever. Tomorrow I am 'subbing', aka, I am all by myself. Let me tell you. It will be a great day. I got home...ate an amazing dinner of this delish flank steak w/ a parsley sauce...potatoes, veggie salad, and a wonderful glass of red wine. I now...am going to start some lesson planning and paper writing. 

<3Erin<3 

The Bestest of Friends.

I have this wonderful friend. Her name is Julia Noel. First, I want to tell you a little about how we met. It was a dreary day, and here I waltz my butt into the most annoying class ever, 'GEOGRAPHY'. (I say 'dreary day' because I believe it was probably snowing.) Ok, now back to class...not just annoying, but incredibly boring. The professor was a jackass or foreign or something and I had no idea the first thing about 'GEOGRAPHY'. I sit down and all of a sudden this girl and I start talking next to me. I was in her seat. Ahahaha. We are both Elementary Education majors. I am a year ahead, but still...click click boom. There it happened. We started hanging out, doing homework together, venting about life, and we became...the bestest of friends. The year went on and we ended up becoming roommates. We had some of the most incredible times together. We'd go out, we'd have fun, we'd laugh, we'd cry, we'd eat, we'd run, we'd hike, we'd watch movies, and our most favorite thing to do was reminisce about the old times. Here are a few of my favvvvorite stories.

1.) The picture above. That was her 21st birthday. We started drinking before I had to go back to class, I went back to class slightly intoxicated, and then we continued it after. We went to dinner...all I can say is...she took probably over 30 shots through the day. She is a champ. I threw up. Surprise. We had the bartender cut out the plastic on our wallets, and I was found lying under barstools at one of the busiest bars in town, not that night! I left her the bestest voicemail ever. <3 I still listen to it to this day.

2.) Walking home at 3AM. Worst decision ever. We didn't want to sleep on a couch. Even though we knew the guys. So. We walked. 5.1 FREAKING miles all the way to our house. We got home when the sun came up. Can you say ridiculous? RIDICULOUS. Most fun I have EVER had on a walk. I peed anywhere and everywhere and froze my little butt off, while she had a sweatshirt on.

3.) Hiking with our neighbor/friends dog while drinking wine. IN THE SNOW.

4.) Old Chicago night. All I am going to say.

5.) Football games.<3 <3 <3 See you soon lover!

These stories can't go on...because this blog post would become 346346436.3 miles long. I will just tell you that you are missing out on one amazing girl.

Julia is the type of person who isn't going to talk shit behind your back. Ok, well maybe she will say it to your face, but never behind your back. :) If she is mad...you'll know. She is someone who is always willing to talk and always has a hilarious story to put a smile on your face. I look back on when I lived in Bozeman and I regret moving back here. I so wish I was there sharing moments with her and all of my other friends...they were friends who actually cared, friends who if you needed them most were there. They weren't the two faced people, who I feel like I deal with on a consistent basis now. 

I miss her and love her and I AM SO excited to see her in 2 weeks.

Regrets.

REGRET: To feel sorry, disappointed, or distressed about.

I have so many regrets in life. They deal with relationships, friendships, school, and just plain ol' life in general. I love the fact that I got out of town for college. I hate the fact that I came back for just one year. Worst decision of my life. Currently, I am having this breakdown of being here yet again. I love the friends and people that I have here. It is awesome to be here for my brother's last year of school, to be with my friends (even though I don't get to see them all that often), my family, and my boyfriend. On the other hand, let me tell you...Bozeman, MT was THE BEST PLACE FOR ME. If I could change everything, I would move back in a heartbeat, and maybe take the people I love with me. I would stay there and learn patience with roommates. I would stay there and live the college life. Everyone says, don't come back to where you grew up, you'll regret it.

I am looking at this as a chapter. The chapter in my life, where I have to come back to get where I need to be. I have to finish my student teaching, and then I am free to do what I want. If I need to move back to Bozeman, I can. If I want to stay here, I can.

The people who I had in Bozeman are still there. They will remember me as that fun, bouncy, crazy girl...who was always ready to party, and yet was able to be completely and totally engulfed in school...ready to start that 'to change the world' career.

I am in week 5 of student teaching. 9 left. :)

Student Teaching.

Student teaching has been absolutely wild, and most def the most exciting experience of my life thus far. Today was my first observed lesson. I had a little mishap. We were working on written form of large numbers. One little girl tells me how to start 614,323...so here I go along writing what she says six hundred thousand...on the board, with my adviser in the room...that is wrong, it took me a second to catch it and then I was like, 'Hold on...3rd Graders, what is wrong here?' Ok. I know my face went red, I was mortified that I messed up my entire lesson. He told me you can't always trust what the kids say and I bounced back amazing. Pretty excited! :-) I would love my own classroom NOW.

Tonight, I was looking at pictures from when I was younger and my next current goal is to go through all of the albums in my house and look at all of the pictures. Some are hilarious and it will be good to remember all those great times as a child.

Early morning, yet again.

Gooooodnight.