So, it's been a while! I have been kinda M.I.A. but here's an update of my life the past couple of weeks!
Last week was Rush week for the Greek organizations on campus. So, I was beyond busy between Open House, Informal, Formal, and helping my sisters pick who was a good fit to join us! We gained 6 new sisters!! and then had Open Rush and got 3 more! It was SOO exciting to get to experience Rush from the standpoint of being an Active instead of a Pledge this year and I am looking forward to this year with the girls!!
Yesterday, I went to Clarksville, Tennessee, for Miss Tennessee USA 2012 seminar! It was such a great experience to meet everyone and it made me feel a lot better. I haven't really started getting nervous yet...but I know the week before I will have a break down and be a nervous wreck! But I'm spending the majority of my time preparing for that...
Today is the 10 year anniversary of the day that Americans will never forget. 10 years ago, America was under attack and I remember sitting in my classroom on September 11, 2001, watching the news thinking....how is this happening...?? It was terrifying news for me at the age I was, and I'm sitting here now...10 years later, 10 years older...and it's still just as hard for me to wrap my mind around. All I know is that I will never forget that day that so many American lives were taken...
Tomorrow is Miss Universe so I am praying for Miss USA to pull a big win so we can send Miss Tennessee off to New York to be the new Miss USA!!! Can't wait.
xx - Ashley
So to catch you up on my past few weeks...Well, Miss Universe came and went. My personal opinion, of course, is that Alyssa Campanella was the most beautiful woman on the stage. However, Miss Angola took the crown! And okay...let's be honest...she is ABSOLUTELY STUNNING. There just isn't any way around it. I was disappointed for Miss USA but we still have a wonderful Miss Universe. So...congratulations Leila Lopes!
Then last weekend, when I was supposed to be going to Nashville (which if you didn't know..is my favorite place in the WORLD) to meet with a pageant coach... I'm pretty sure that anything and everything went wrong... I come home from school and get hair and makeup ready and start to pack up my stuff to wait for Ben to get out of practice. He wanted to go home and see his family so we were just going to go together. Well...his baseball practice started late and he called me to tell me to go on without him...which was a problem because the tires on my car needed to be changed! and in the midst of all of this...I couldn't even find my Johnathan Kayne heels!!! Talk about a trainwreck! So I had to cancel my appointment and stay home..which I hate doing...but I took my car to get it fixed the next day and the mechanic told me that I would have had a blowout on the way to Nashville no doubt. So maybe it was God trying to give me a heads up!! and I'm SO glad he did!
Then Saturday was the UT vs. Florida game. and don't ask me why...but every single stinkin year I go into that game just KNOWING that we have it in the bag... talk about being a true fan. Well...we didn't have it in the bag. Not even close. I'm going to blame it on the fact that we lost our best player [Justin Hunter] in the very first quarter of the game. Sooo sad...and now he's out for the season. So I'm depressed to say the least.
