Wow! What a week and a half!

Sometimes I forget to update or follow up on what I wrote before. It seems that now is the time to do that. My car is fixed and it only cost one arm thankfully. I'm still not in the green as far as money goes, but I am taking on a "second" job and helping Matt with his paper route early Friday morning.
I went to two receptions, one wedding, and an "awkward party" in the past week and a half. The weddings were two guys from Matt's fraternity (BYX) and one of the brides was a girl I have known/lived with/been in a sorority with for some time now. The wedding was beautiful, the one reception was a sit down dinner with a lot of cookies, and the second reception had some dancing and chocolate covered strawberries. The party was last night and quite enjoyable though it was expected to be awkward. There was some kareoke fun, a little dancing, hanging out with good friends, and cheesecake. Lately food is ruling my weekends!
Spring break happened too in this period of time and it was a break from school that was neccesary for my survival. They say student teaching is a hard experience, but I believe it is equal to the last semester before student teaching as we have to work in a preschool, tutor a child, complete projects, and much much more as we prepare for our training in future school districts. My blog gets neglected because sometimes it is just enough for me to make it from one place to the next with everything prepared.
Today is me and Matt's third year together (or anniversary as we celebrate it). It's wild to think that it has been three years, though I have enjoyed it immensely. We can't celebrate till Tuesday due to Matt's job, but it is nice to stop and look back at our three years together and smile when we think of the future. Next weekend is the Texas Motor Speedway races, and I will try to take note of all funny occurences for the next blog. The week after that is the Relient K concert/Six flags day with Matt and Easter! It should be a fun time and hopefully make up for the craziness of next weekend! So wish me luck, love, and say a prayer for there to be peace amidst the chaos and I will try to be updating/commenting as much as I can.

Until next time....
~Ashleigh

Rain, Rain, Go Away!

Here I was thinking of the best ways to pack up all the "winter" stuff to make way for spring and in comes the cold, rainy weather. BRR! I say this as I sit in my office wearing socks under my desk, warming my feet, in hopes that no one notices that I am not wearing my shoes....

In recent news, I am mostly over being sick! I have my voice pretty much all back, and am only dealing with congestion still for some reason. Inductions for our new Sigma Alpha members happened last Friday, so it sorta feels like I have gotten my life back a little. School is hectic, but spring break might just alleviate that. My boyfriend, Matt, has been apparently fighting "dragons" as he deals with the Hut (his other woman ;) ) and trying to look for a better situation in work. Also, my umbrella broke in the worst way yesterday afternoon and did the comical movie break where it completely flipped itself with the wind.
Just imagine me like this...


The worst news I have had this week is that everything I need to do costs so much more money than I had anticipated. Sam (my Ford Focus car), is needing a new timing belt and maybe extras which for some reason costs an arm with a leg. The dentist will cost my other arm to re-fill a cavity, and the optometrist will take out the other leg to up my prescription so that I won't get headaches anymore and can read small signs in the distance again. So now that I am out of appendages, I get into my car this morning and discover that it is leaking pretty bad during the rain. So I guess as the saying goes, when it rains, it pours! I am taking Sam into a new mechanic tomorrow for a free estimate, so please join me in praying that this only costs 1 arm instead of both arm and a leg. Oh and pray that I can afford everything else in the near future without extra stress and that another rain storm does not come in! Thanks!

Fun and a bit of mystery..

Last night, Matt took me to Dallas for a surprise birthday event. It turned out to be a murder mystery dinner party at Fair Park's Old Mill Inn! At first it was a bit daunting to walk in and be asked to mingle with other guests while asking questions such as "Have you ever killed anyone?", "Do you have a lot of money?" or "what kind of underwear are you wearing?". Some of it was awkward.... but then we went upstairs where the real who-done-it got started.

While upstairs, we hunted for clues (I found one!), interrogated suspects (amongst who was yours truly), ate dinner, and suspected all. By the way, I was a suspect because I owed a loan shark for the Jonas Brothers: How Not to Party book ($24 dollars). I felt I was a little in my element because of the many reruns of CSI and Law and Order that I have watched and the many, many books of Sherlock Holmes and Nancy Drew (not together!) that I have read. I felt confident that I might be able to solve this puzzle. At the end of the evening, we were given a sheet to guess who did it any why. I got two of the murderers and one motive correct, but missed one murderer and two motives (though mine were closely related). Back to the books/tv for better crime solving skills.

I was very proud of what I got right. They also gave us a number code which I got 2 out of 3 of the parts right. So maybe I'll have to consider a new career- Ashleigh Gaston, Private Investigator. Now if only I could figure out who took my voice and why.....