Thirteen Things about LINDSEY

This week Denise has challenged us:

I would like to challenge all Thirteeners to come up with 13 things they like about themselves.

I feel like we, as women, spend so much time scrutinizing ourselves that we sometimes forget the good stuff.

1. I have a GREAT relationship with my family. My parents and I get along extremely well, and my brother and I almost never fight. And it’s been this way my entire life. I love my family very dearly, and I feel so blessed to have them in my life!

2. I feel as though I have a good perspective for what’s important in life. I don’t get caught up on money or popularity, or any of those things that can consume your life. Having had a mother with breast cancer and a father with prostate cancer and autoimmune hepatitis, I have faced the scary thought that my parents could have died, my mother before my high school graduation, and my father before my college graduation - twice. The important things in life are about being with people you love and respecting them and yourself!

3. I have an intense passion for life. When I find something that I enjoy, I take it and run with it. While sometimes this can make me become a little obsessed with projects, I’d prefer that to being apathetic any day!

4. I have a very loving nature. I love to give and receive hugs, small children delight me, and don’t get me started on pets, LOL! I’m a loving friend, and I’m always there when someone needs to talk.

5. In that same vein, I am a giver. I love to help my friends, I’m always there to cook a meal or run an errand. My friends tell me that my love language is Acts of Service, and they’re probably right.

6. I have an understanding for the importance of art. A lot of people get so bogged down in the day-to-day that they don’t take the time to stop and realize that life is beautiful, and it enhances our lives. Without art (in any form!) we lose perspective, and the monotony would cause us to go crazy!

7. I love theatre. I don’t know why I like this about myself, but I feel like theatre is just such a great way to communicate with people and convey different emotions and perspectives. You can express any idea through theatre, and it’s a great learning tool.

8. I want to be a mom. I feel like children are such a blessing, and my entire life I’ve had the desire to be a mother and wife. I’m glad I have that desire. I’m not so sure I’m cut out for a life without a family, LOL!

9. I love Christmas, and all that goes with it. So many people have become disillusioned with Christmas, both the religious and cultural elements, but it really can be a wonderful and joyful time of the year, a time to remember what came before and what we have now. And I’m glad I can see that!

10. I like my sense of drive. When I get a task or a goal that I am dedicated to, I will see it through to the end. I will commit to it and ensure that all bases are covered.

11. I’m very organized. Close friends who have seen my room will probably disagree, but I am. Everything has an organized system to it, and if you ask me where someone is, I will tell you in a heartbeat! My computer is also super organized, and it makes me way more productive.

12. I love my job. Working for MagicMouth is just so incredibly fulfilling and exciting, and while it’s scary to start something from scratch and be unsure of how you will do financially, I’m happy that I can be forward-thinking enough to be thrilled instead of terrified.

13. I love blogging, and that’s silly to be something that you love about yourself, but its true. I’ve always loved writing, but once I got into high school, I quit writing for pleasure because I had so much writing for school, and I never picked it back up. But now that I’m blogging, I’m slowly regaining my desire to write, and I hope to rewrite my novel sometime in the new future!

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Man it’s been busy!

On Thursday, Matt arrived right after lunch, so I now have both of my roommates - YAY! Then, around 7, my parents, brother, and the puppies arrived. Bo spent the night at my apartment that night, and Mama and Daddy went on to thier hotel.

On Friday, Bo left eaaaaarly to go to Elon and move in. He was super excited, though he would NEVER have showed it, LOL! They were busy moving him in all day, and I stayed at home and helped Matt get settled. And that night was a theatre party.

On Saturday, I drove to Elon to see Bo’s room and go to the family picnic. It was so crowded - parking was a nightmare. But he seems to have all of his stuff ready to go, and he’s gettng along fine with his roommate and suitemates. After that, all the parents were supposed to leave, so Mama and Daddy headed back to Winston-Salem to my apartment. Mama got to hang out with the puppies while Daddy and I had an accounting lesson (good thing about a father who is a CPA - he can help you with your homework for business school). After they left, we had a bunch of people over for the NASCAR race, we went to a concert, then we came back to watch Alien (which I had never seen). Phew.

On Sunday, Mama and Daddy came to pick up the puppies (:-() and then they left to go back to Florida. In the apartment, we cleaned some, and then we had a business meeting for something called IBO (more on that in another post). Next - homework. Boo. Then I fixed supper for everyone, which was delicious because we had zipper peas that Mama brought me :-)!!! And after that, we had a much-needed business meeting for MagicMouth, and we have so many cool things in the works for this year! It’s just super exciting!!!

So now I’m exhausted, and it’s Monday, LOL!!! Oh well . . .

Well, today is the Blog Tour of Homes! And, as promised, here is a tour of my home . . . or rather, my apartment ;-)!

1) Here is my front door. It’s crazy boring, because it’s an apartment complex. But, here it is anyway:

2) Next, my desk, where I usually blog. Though I do have a laptop, so I sometimes blog from my bed :-):

3) Here is my living room. It’s still missing a chair (there are 2 green chairs, but one is at my parents’ house in Florida). Can you see the desk with the PC in the back on the left? That’s the home office of MagicMouth Productions - we’re still a work in progress ;-):

4) Here is my kitchen. And yes, those are my dishes in the sink. What, you thought I was gonna clean for you?!

5) Though you already saw part of my bedroom when you saw my desk, here’s another angle:

And here are allll my books - well, all the ones in North Carolina. I have this many at home in FL too, LOL!

So that’s my baby little apartment, LOL! There are 2 other bedrooms for Matt and Ben, but neither of them have moved in yet, so they’re just kind of storage for me right now. Thanks for looking around my home ;-)!

Thirteen Things about LINDSEY

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1. I had an amazing T13 of quizzes all ready to go on my computer for last week . . . until the crash. So last week’s T13 didn’t happen. Apologies. Please love me anyways.

2. Oh the crash. Here’s the deal. For that graduate program that I started last week (seems like last year), we get new computers. As you know, I went to undergrad at Wake Forest, and all the students receive laptops. Well, Wake Forest graduate students get the same deal, though the computers are very different (more on that in a minute). I was excited to get a new computer, blah blah, the first thing I did when I got home was start working on transferring.

3. Get the computer home, install all the programs on it, transfer my email and Firefox settings. All that’s left is my actual files - Word documents, pictures, all the files from MagicMouth, the things I’ve been working on for my website, etc. A total of many many GBs. Big transfer.

4. I decide that life will be easier if instead of saving to DVDs or my external hard drive that I just take the hard drive out of my old computer and with a USB connect it to the new computer and just directly transfer the files. I’ve done this before, so I’m not too worried.

5. I hook it up to the new computer, and it doesn’t recognize the drive. At this point, I’m mildly annoyed. I’m gonna have to do this the hard way. I put the hard drive back into the old computer.

6. OPERATING SYSTEM NOT FOUND

7. I panic. I try absolutely everything I can think of to get the stupid thing to work. I take it in to the IT dept at school, and they try everything that they can think of. The drive is corrupt, completely unrestorable, crashing other computers . . . it’s dead.

8. So they say they’ll get me a new drive, but that doesn’t restore any of my data. My data is gone.

9. Luckily, I have a backup from May back when the thing crashed before (they think the problems were related), so I have a partial backup. Lost some files for the company and for my websites, so that super sucks, but other than that, I can manage.

10. So that’s what I’ve been up to. Trying to rebuild. And get acclimated into this program - it’s the hardest school I’ve had in my life. You’ll hear more this weekend.

11. Don’t forget to stop by on Friday for the Blog Tour of Homes, and this weekend please sponsor me for Blogathon 2006 - I’m blogging for breast cancer!!!

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13. This is too good to pass up. I’ve been playing The Game for about 2 years now, and I come to find that it’s on Wikipedia. Priceless. Also check out www.losethegame.com. Add yourself to the family tree - just remember: your birthday is when you found out about the game, not your actual birthday. Enjoy ;-)!

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The purpose of the meme is to get to know everyone who participates a little bit better every Thursday. Visiting fellow Thirteeners is encouraged! If you participate, leave the link to your Thirteen in others comments. It’s easy, and fun! Be sure to update your Thirteen with links that are left for you, as well! I will link to everyone who participates and leaves a link to their 13 things. Trackbacks, pings, comment links accepted!
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