an incomplete tv

(You'll get to this part in a minute)


if someone went threw my list if draft posts they would be appalled. I have so many unfinished, untitled half thought out posts just sitting in my draft box. I seriously don't know whats wrong with me and my inability to complete a well written, in depth and more in topic and serious post. Just to show you what I mean, here are a few of the titles:

-initiation vs. initiating

-a graduate with a lot on the mind

-Not that kind of girl

- Women in the workplace

- moral codes

I have so many ideas but I just have trouble getting them into written word. So when I can't get out my ideas for posts like the ones above them I go to my posts like this:

Every summer I find a show that is labeled by both friends and family as "Tarver's summer obsession".

- after 5th grade"The Adventures of Lois and Clark"

- after 6th"7th Heaven"

-after 7th"Gilmore Girls"

-after 8th"Smallville"

-after 9th"Friends"

-after 10th"Bones"

-after 11th"LOST"

and (drum roll please).....

What's my obsessions this Summer?

What I'm currently watching, and have for the near future:

-Everwood

(I adore Bright and Hannah, especially Bright)

-Felicity(2nd,3rd 4th season)

(The perfect college aged 90s drama)

- My So-Called Life(just finished)

(I'd heard about it on "I love the 90s 1000 times and I finally got to see it, and it was as perfect as they described it)

-Boy Meets World(2 eps. a day on the DVR!)

(this was the first show that gave me unrealistic expectations for high school and college, but I don't mind one bit)

As much as I talk, write about and watch TV you'd think I'd want to go into a career in television or production. 

Its always an option.

Do you ever have any summer obsessions, or a show you're loving right now?

The Edge 2010

The Edge was even more amazing, I cannot possibly describe how amazing it was to be surrounded by so much of Gods beauty in an environment where everyone is there for hopefully, the same reason, to glorify and worship their heavenly father. And there was definitely a ton of that going on.

The amazing worship was led by a band fronted by the talented Wayne Kerr. The Wayne Kerr band has been leading worship at the camp for the past 3 years and the their own personal love and glory for the Lord just enhances the camps ability to glorify in everything that they do.

The speakers, skits and leaders were all so inspiring and definitely helped in the camps amazing, and main goal of leading 

115 youth to christ!

115!

how amazing is that? and this camp definitely brought me closer more than I've ever been. Its made me realize that I have people put in my life that are my mission, and I'm more than ever, inspired to become a youth intern at my church. 

(I've grown up with Frank!)

(all the lovely lady leaders!)

            

(our volleyball team)

(this was after I had been a mudfight, I was not showered at the time)

(commitment night)

(look at how intense I am)

(My LITTLE brother and I!)

(Thrift store formal)

(glowsticks)

(the entire group at the lookout)

It was definitely one of the best weeks of my life, and I plan on going back as much as possible to see God working in so many peoples lives was just amazing.

For the next week

(the beautiful from the campus I'll be at)

For the next 5 days I will be surrounded by 12-14 year olds at The Edge, a Presbyterian middle school youth camp that is held at Covenant College in Lookout Mtn. Tennessee. I went to the camp as a 7th and 8th grader and I still remember it as one of the best times of my life. It was so much fun, and it was also one of the times I've felt the closest to God and to really feeling as if I was on the right path to a daily relationship with my heavenly father.

Middle school is a rough and life-changing time in a students life and The Edge provides a week long, fun filled experience with God for these youth and I am so excited and blessed to be able to be a part of this wonderful ministry. 

With activities such as giant games of hide and seek, girls and boys devotionals, fun filled game shows, an amazing band(The Wayne Kerr Band), a commitment night for the youth, a thrift store tacky dance and a trip to White water all happen in this one AMAZING week.

I would love to have all of my readers prayers in that the Lord will bless me and the students who are in my care this week and this week will be a life-changing week for them, as it was for me at age 13. 

I'll see you all on Friday!

I love

and miss my multicolored hair

making cupcakes

eating loads of fresh avocados

this little man

My So-called Life

(What could be better than Jared Leto and the 90s teen angst.)

Rooney

I need to see them!

The Edge

The youth conference I'm going to next week, as a counselor.

What are you loving this weekend?

I'm always a day late on this:

(definitely join in on the fun, even if it is a day late)

1. If you could have one of Superman's, powers which one would you want? Superhuman strength..Flight..Superhuman speed..X-Ray vision..etc
It would probably be flight, because even though something like mind-reading would be really cool for a little while, it would be awful to find out horrible secrets and things like that.
2. The best thing I ever won is....? I really don't win things, so I definitely don't have a particular favorite. I've won a few drama things, but thats about it. 

3. Have you ever skyped with a bloggy friend? No, I haven't. I've made a few friends on the blogsphere, but unfortunately at this time I don't feel like any of them are close enough for us to skype. I'd love to have great blog friends though, and I'm definitely working on making some, because they really are great.

4. What is your favorite Summer month? June, because you get that rush of summer, and in Georgia is the coolest month of the summer, although thats not saying much as its still 106 degrees here. 

5. Pool, Lake, or Ocean? ALL THREE! I love them all so much for different reason, right now though, I really want to go to the lake. I'm so in the mood to do some tubing and jet skiing. 

6. One of my favorite Summer memories is.....? Getting peaches, from anywhere at anytime. They always have the most amazing peach ice cream.

7. What's your favorite secret bargain? Cheap television season from Moviestop at some random shopping center in my town. They have this giant table that they set up and they lay out masses of tv series that they sell for $10. 

8. Do you plan on or have you been watching the World Cup? I haven't really been, but I do plan on watching it some. Especially since some of my friends are all watching it together for a few games, plus some of the guys, especially the Italians, are really, really hot.

(sister/brother photo session)


oh, and its decided, I'm going to host my first giveaway, as soon as I hit 21 followers. 21 is my favorite number!

"A man is known by the books he reads" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've always been a big reader, I admit, its mostly of different levels of chick lit and a few classics, but I've always really love to read. I recently finished a book called "The Perks of being a Wallflower" and it was absolutely fantastic. It follows Charlie, a semi-nieve and and thoughtful young boy through his freshman year of high school. The story and plot are told through letters that Charlie sends to an annoymous reader, where he delves into his inner thoughts and paints pictures of great music and good books. In the book Charlie is encouraged to read and write papers by his english teacher, who assigns him books such as The Fountainhead, The Catcher in the Rye and The Stranger(which I read this year). The book was so good and his love of reading have both influenced me to take up my habit of nonstop reading this summer. My first step will be to read and finish all the unread books that I have on my bookshelves, which is a lot.

(yup, thats the stack. Read any? let me know!)

Anyways, I plan on keeping up with the large list of books I want to read this summer, and I'll be doing that through a list on this blog. If anyone out there has a list of unread books like mine I'd love to have company on this list of mine, so definitely let me know and join in on the fun!

Do you have stacks of books that have gone unread?

Getting to Know You on a Sunday

(I've been in a real big kitten mood recently.)

To join in of the Getting to know you fun, check out the "Getting to know YOU" button on my sidebar. 


1. If a person has a booger in their nose. and you can see it, do you tell them?
 IS it weird that this question hits close to home? Because it does, anyways, I've got some moles along the side of my left nostril that came up a few months ago, but people keep thinking that they're boogers, so I keep getting the "knowing swipes" from random people and the "lean and whispers" from friends. Its getting ridiculous. But thankfully I'm hitting up that dermatologists office next week!
2. What are you passionate about?
I'm not sure if I've found something I'm really passionate about yet, I love lots of things, like my friends and the idea of things like love and writing, but since I'm not really doing much right now, I think I'm passionate about summer.
3. How long have you been blogging?
Technically, I've had this blog since last May, but I only wrote 3 posts, then I came back on Wordpress in September and now I've been blog obsessed on Blogger since November. So really only 9 months.
4. What is your favorite "summer" drink?
Well, I know I'm only 18 but I love a mimosa, especially with pulpy orange juice. But since the Champagne isn't really rolling out all the time, but during the summer sweet tea and strawberry smoothies by the pool are amazing.
5. What is your favorite type of music?
I hate to use the word "indie", I really do. It's actually become one of my least favorite words in the last few months, but when it comes to music sometimes I listen to a lot of Alternative-rockish-popish-indiesh music.
6. Something I do before I go to bed is......?
Watch about 1/3 of one of the episodes of my TV series, right now I'm watching the second season of Everwood.
7. My Summer vacation plans are...?
Nothing, absolutely nothingness.
8. My favorite must have, can't live without, beauty product is?
Mascara!

Fill in the Blank Friday, on a Saturday

1.  My dream vacation would be   well if we're going with dreams, then I'd like to go to New York with my friends for a week and see shows and walk around. And then I'd leave from JFK to go on a six week tour of Europe where we'd stay in hostels with with complete stranger, and a hot guy. We'd go to all the local bars and pubs and do things only the people who have lived there for years would know to do. The trip would end in a Greece on a beautiful beach, with the hot guy.

2.  The best trip I've ever taken was     to either New York with my mom, or to Tybee with my best friends. With my mom we just walked around the different neighborhoods of New York eating in little cafes and looking through local record shops and clothing stores. It was such a great trip, plus I met Ace Young from American Idol, and damn, was he fine. With Tybee it was the first little bit of vacation I've really ever had with my friends. It was so great to just ride around the island on bikes and look at the beautiful little houses. We even saw the house that they used in The Last Song with Miley Cyrus and my favorite eye candy, Liam Hemsworth.                                           

3.  The most important items to take on a road trip are    my special motion sickness concoction(Advil, benydryl and diet coke), some great music(dance tunes, especially Ke$ha) and snacks(sour patch kids, toasted almonds and sunchips are my faves!).  

4.  The next trip I'm looking forward to is    hopefully one taken with my friends. We've talked about going on a one night road trip to Savannah and Tybee, just to be on the beach and walk around downtown. Just one night to get away on my own with my friends before we all go off to different school. Although if that doesn't actually happen then the only thing I have to look forward to is a trip to Ikea in ATL, Milledgville for orientation, Lookout Mountain for the youth camp that I'm a counselor at, and the most recent trip I'm going to have to make in a trip to one town over, Gray, to pay off my speeding ticket.

5.  If I had to pick one CD to listen to for a long road trip it would be    a giant mix CD full of the best Glee hits, Ke$ha, Gaga, and some old school Britney, Backstreet and NSYNC.

6.  The biggest disaster I've ever encountered while traveling  was    just some minor bumps, really. On a trip to Virginia we ended up staying in some sketch motel with sand in the sheets and hair in the sink. We took a ridiculously long back road once to DC. We got a parking ticket in LA, we also had to turn around on the way to San Diego to go back to my cousins house to get my blanket. We went on a D-day cruise of Europe and other than the 4 other kids on the boat other than me and my brother, my mom was the youngest person. and she was 40. 

7.  My favorite traveling memory is    hopefully yet to come. I mean I know I've been to more places than a lot of people my age, like California, New York 3 times, and Europe. But I really want to go on more road trips with people other than my family. I also want to go back to California and drive all up and down the state, I want to go to like Alabama, Texas, Louisiana and definitely Tennessee and Nashville. And you'd think coming from the south I would've been to Charleston, but nope, I've never been. But I will eventually take an amazing road trip around the south. and then I'll take one around the north and new England. and maybe one of those, or both will involve a smokin boy. 

To join in on the fill in the blank fun check out The Little Thing we do....

One last thing:


Question: How would you, my readers, feel about a little giveaway?

I am the girl...

- whose mood changes in an instant.

- who on some nights would rather sit at home and watch a good chick-flick. (I recommend, Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, its adorable...and British.)

- who also enjoys the occasional night out, and the party at a friends house. With or without the beer pong, although the last game was quite a success.

- with 3 drawers of t-shirts, even though I only wear like 12 of them.

- with a massive chick-lit novel collection, TV series stash and a devotion to all things 90's.

- who would much rather wear a good pair of gym shorts and a t-shirt than put on a dress, most nights.

- that wears the same pair of shoes, every day.

- that changes her mind, a lot.

- thinks she knows what, and who she wants.

- who realized that the last statement couldn't be any creepier.

- who wants to fall in love, but knows that everything will come in it's own time.

- that wants a hug, really bad, right now.

- is ready and not ready to move out and start college.

- wants a guy who loves cats, I mean I love dogs, but a guy who loves cats, would be the perfect guy.

I'm kind of liking this whole list thing, so I'll probably be adding to it over the weekend. So come back and check it out. 

and today, was a really good day

Because Thursday's tend to be my busiest days of the week, so as I did last week I will just write a few:


Today I:


- woke up before 10, thats ridiculously early for summer.


- went to an abandoned Montesary in the middle of no where and it was beautiful.


- went geocaching with 2 of my best friends for the 2nd time, it is so much fun.


- ichatted for the first time, a friend of mine controlled my desktop and it was crazy.


- finished Vampire Diaries, I was seriously on edge the entire 45 minutes, it is such a great show.


-rolled around on my kitchen floor with my dog Daisy.


-ran 1.74 miles, and loved it.


- ate really healthy, other than the oreo's, but I'm working on it!


- drove like an old lady, I am never getting a ticket again.


- commented on a thousand different blogs, I'm back in the game! 


-put off writing my 40 Thank you notes, it'll happen, eventually.

(the view from the overlook)

(M and C in the grotto)