Hannah Marie

i found this survey on facebook and thought it was funny to think about. i really haven’t been out of high school that long but it feels like FOREVER when i think about these questions.
1. Did you date someone from your school? no

2. Did you marry someone from your high school? no, and i definitely won’t be.

3. Did you car pool to school? i did. i drove myself and my cousin AJ to school and took him and my friend Briana home from school.

4. What kind of car did you have? honda accord

5. What kind of car do you have now? same honda accord

6. Its Friday night…where are you now? at home doing homework probably, haha!

7. It is Friday night…where were you then?hmm. i was probably with church friends at someone’s house hanging out.
8. What kind of job did you have in high school? my senior year i worked at chick-fil-a. ohhh the days of CFA.

9. What kind of job do you do now? full-time college student/babysitter/secretary at  a hearing center

10. Were you a party animal? not the typical parties at my HS but i was always at some kind of get together with a bunch of my friends.

11. Were you considered a flirt? funny story…i actually got second-in-line for biggest flirt my senior year for the yearbook. yuck.

12. Were you in band, orchestra or choir? not my senior year…but i was in piano.

13. Were you a nerd? definitely not. i don’t know how i graduated with HOPE.

14. Did you get suspended or expelled? no. i got detention a lot for being late to school though.

15. Can you sing the fight song? absolutely not. i don’t think i ever heard it…maybe at graduation…but at that point i obviously didn’t care.

16. Who was/were your favorite teacher(s)? my yearbook teacher mr. zimmer, and my government teacher mr. mccoury.

17. Where did you sit during lunch? outside in the senior courtyard or in the yearbook room.

18. When did you graduate? May 2006

20. What was your school mascot? wildcat

21. If you could go back and do it again, would you? definitely not.

22. Did you have fun at Prom? i didn’t go my senior year. a group of us rebelled and did something else that night, only to have one of our best friends win prom queen…oops.

23. Do you still talk to the person you went to Prom with? didn’t go that year, remember?

24. Are you planning on going to your next reunion? my 5 year will be the first one in like 2 years…i don’t know if i’ll go. i honestly don’t think i will.

25. Do you still talk to people from school? every now and then i talk to a handful. but my group of friends has changed  a whole lot.

while studying my life away i decided i should update this little sucker since its been almost 2 months. ohhh me.

here’s what the next few weeks/months look like for me:

• lovely tests, papers, assignments, project, blah blah blah and everything else that goes along with school. and trying not to get as stressed as i usually do and pull my hair out.
• job hunting, resumes, applications. mmm.
• weddings. weddings, weddings!! i’m in 3 in the next 3 months and going to quite a few more. gotta love wedding season!
• trying to spend time with nathan a little during the week while he’s off gallivanting with the chris orr band all over the country on weekends :]

i’m sure there’s more but i’ve gotta read up on intercultural communication for my midterm tomorrow. blahh!

when i was little, i was very afraid of storms–to the point that it would make me sick. there was a little saying that i would repeat to myself to figure out if i was safe or not. “red sky at night sailors delight, red sky in morning sailors take warning.” it meant that if the sky was red at night, there would be good weather the next day. but if the sky was red in the morning, bad weather was coming.

i’m not scared of those kinds of storms anymore. now its a different kind…the kind of storm that shakes your life. God reminded me through a song that He has always taken care of me–even when i’ve been so scared that it makes me sick. its a song that brandon heath sings and i had never heard it until yesterday when it came on my ipod.

cover me with the red sky tonight
the promise of a better day to come
sing over me an angelic symphony
tell me everything will be alright
with the red sky tonight

it was such a sweet thing and i was so appreciative of the encouragement that He knew i’d been needing. i have such a short memory of the ways that He has taken care of me in the past and He knew that i needed a reminder of that.

thanksgiving at the beach was awesome. it definitely didn’t last long enough though. but we all had such a good time just spending time together and making some great memories. there was lots of bike riding, movies, playing poker, volleyball, feeding seagulls, eating, and taking pictures. my cousin brielle acutally got engaged on the beach while we were there to her boyfriend matt who just happens to be one of my best friends. he’s been practically a part of the family for a long time so its exciting that its almost official. mom had a great time and it was such a relief that she felt so good. i couldn’t be happier that she was able to enjoy the beach and time with everyone.

i finish the semester next tuesday, thank God. finals staryt on thursday and they are going to kicj my butt. but i have some things to look forward to this month so i’m sure it will be fine. i’ve got a few christmas parties to go to, a christmas ladies’ dinner at my old church, christmas with my family and nathan’s family, and new years in pigeon forge with nathan’s family in one big cabin. so i’m pretty excited about all of that. i’m hoping that i can spend some time with my old roommate sarah over the break too. i haven’t gotten to see her much this semester because of our schedules and i miss her so i’m hoping it works out.

nothing too exciting going on, just wanted to update before i crash!

i am so looking forward to thanksgiving this year. my family is going to jekyll island to spend the week of thanksgiving at a house on the beach. most of them are leaving tomorrow morning and the rest of us are going later in the week. this thanksgiving i think all of our hearts are especially thankful for each other and for the love we have as a family…i’m so excited to get to spend a week at the beach with 15 of my favorite people. and nathan is coming so i couldn’t be happier : ] this will be a much needed break from real life for all of us.

last night a bunch of us went to see COPELAND at the masquerade and it was amazing, like always. i loved getting to spend time with my friends. i didn’t get in bed until 2 and i am thoroughly exhausted. i’m going to spend the day cleaning, packing, and watching movies. mmm.

that’s all!

took her heart like a robber, and the feelings that scare her
become her relief.

ah, i love copeland. not a lot to say, but since i’ve been neglecting my blog i thought i’d write a little.

there have been a lot of changes going on with me lately. a few realizations that i have come to about my life and especially about myself. growing up this much at 21 is hard. but thankfully i have some great friends and family that i love and that love me so i know it is going to be ok.

i registered for spring semester classes last week. i’m trying tuesday/thursday classes only this time so that i can work the other days of the week & not drive to kennesaw as much. if all goes as planned, i have 3 semesters left and i could not be any happier about that…unless it was less than 3. : ]

nathan is going out of town this weekend with the cc band so i’ll be hanging out at home getting homework done and spending some girl time with meredith and laura. i also bought a new book a few weeks ago that i’m hoping to get more time to read.

well, that’s all! goodnight : ]

i have a political science test in an hour and 20 minutes that i definitely haven’t studied much for. bravo for me!

but i wanted to share this…i found a piece of paper on laura’s desk yesterday that is supposed to be a note for me from God. one of the sections of it was especially encouraging to me. hereeeeeeee’s how it goes: : ]

“My plan for your future has always been filled with hope. I sing over you and will never stop doing good to you because I want to see you do great things. not only that, but I want to show you great things, give you the desires of your heart, and be your greatest encouragement and comfort along the way. I’m here for you. I’m not going anywhere and I’ll never stop loving you.”

so i officially voted via absentee ballot. and i’m not gonna lie, i left quite a few blank. i refused to make an uneducated decision, sue me : ) also i filled out a job application that i just have to turn in when i’m not running around crazy and have a second to get it back to the place.

i finished reading the shack today…i have some mixed opinions about it but it was pretty good. definitely opened my eyes to a few things i’d never thought of before and that’s always welcomed by me so i guess it served its purpose. one thing i appreciated about it was the way it portrayed God’s true nature and the misconceptions that most of us have about him.

to end, i just want to say a few things about my mom. to those of you who don’t know (which may not be many) she and her doctors decided that she isn’t going to have treatments anymore since the ones she’s had haven’t worked. my sister tiffany keeps up a website with updates about mom and for the first time, my mom wrote something on it. i’ll post a link at the end if you’re interested and haven’t seen it. it never fails that my mom can take a crappy situation and turn it around with nothing but encouragement, hope, and faith. she really does amaze me. i’ve always known that my mom is special and has an awesome relationship with Jesus and this season of her life just seems to magnify that somehow. so reading what she wrote to her friends and people who don’t even know her proved to me yet again how amazing she is…as a mother, a daughter, a friend, a wife, a sister, a Christ-follower and just as a person. people always say that i look just like my mom and i hope that i can be like her in this way as well…always pointing to Him and encouraging those around me even in the midst of incredible hardship and uncertainty. i am so blessed by her…i always have been and i always will be.

link to mom’s letter

i guess a little update won’t hurt anything : ] but my hands are a little shaky from downing an energy drink, haha!

i started reading “the shack” last week and i’m a little more than halfway through it. it’s a little weird, but it seems to be pretty good. ask me how i feel when i’m done with it, ha. its been nice to not be overloaded with homework right now and actually have few free minutes to get to read. i can kiss that goodbye soon…

i’m having coffee tonight with a precious friend of mine named heather o’dell. she lost her husband chris to cancer a little over a year ago. i have known their family for years and babysat their kids in high school, but it wasn’t until my mom got sick that she and i began talking pretty regularly. its so crazy because i actually don’t even know her that deeply, but there is an unspoken bond between us because of our experiences. we got some not so good news about my mom last week and immediately i wanted to talk to heather. so tonight when i get done watching the little boy i keep every week she and i are going to spend some time together. i am so excited to get to sit down with her and be able to share what’s on my heart and in my mind as well as hearing from her. like i said, there is just a bond that i can’t explain and that isn’t really there with anyone else i know. so i feel very blessed to have her in my life. love her.

anyway, i just felt like writing a little. : ]