AGAIN.
So I'm a college graduate now and living in a new city. I moved 7 months ago for a job that I love. I don't love the hours, but I love what I get to do for people. If you know me well enough, you already know what this awesome "big girl" job is. Its awesome and you should be jealous you don't work there. This job has allowed me to meet SO many awesome people/families/parents/kids. And it teaches me every day that I need to be more thankful for what I've already been given. We all should be. Even if you don't have much, it can all be taken away in a second.
In the past 4 months, I've met two of the strongest 5 year olds. Seriously, I thought I was a strong person(don't get me wrong, I still am). But what I've been through is nothing compared to the hurdles placed in front of these 2 kids. Yet they both bear them with smiles. Every Day. One's been in a wheelchair since he was 2. C is currently undergoing physical therapy to hopefully get him walking again. P has an inoperable brain tumor. The doctors said by this point in her chemo/radiation, she'd be tired all the time, lethargic, not wanting to run or play. But P's the exact opposite. P still chooses to take stairs over the elevator and can outrun the parents like nobody's business. P would probably also win the hide and seek gold medal, if it existed. These two kids inspire me every day. I want to be like P and C when I grow up.
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Friday, November 25, 2011
love my life & thankful for the people in it.
Given that I haven't blogged in like 6 months, I'm gonna give this another shot...
Thanksgiving was the first real holiday that the Mattinglys have had to celebrate without Granny and Papa. They both passed away this summer. 15 days apart. I thought about it alot Wednesday night, and I've realized that this year, I'm most thankful for Granny and Papa's example of true love. They showed us all what it was. They gave us the meaning for it. I think if you were to look in the dictionary under "true love" my Granny and Papa Mattingly's picture would be there. Do you get it? They were 100% in love. My granny was papa's whole world. So much that when she passed away on June 5th, he felt that he didn't have a reason to be here anymore. He was miserable without her, truly brokenhearted. He got pneumonia the next week, spent a few days in the hospital, & came home to spend his last father's day with his kids, grandkids, & great grandkids. Spending the night camped out in my aunt's living room with my family, all of us surrounding Papa's hospital bed. That's a memory I'll never forget. He passed away 2 days later, June 20th.
This post is getting sad & that's not what I meant for it to be. So I'm wrapping it up now. I just wanted to say to my Granny and Papa Mattingly, who are in Heaven now looking down on all of us, I love you. I'm thankful for my 21 years with you. I'm thankful that you two were SO in love. Because of you guys, I want your kind of true love. I want a spouse that my love is so strong for that I can't imagine living without him. Because of my Granny and Papa. Love you.
Thanksgiving was the first real holiday that the Mattinglys have had to celebrate without Granny and Papa. They both passed away this summer. 15 days apart. I thought about it alot Wednesday night, and I've realized that this year, I'm most thankful for Granny and Papa's example of true love. They showed us all what it was. They gave us the meaning for it. I think if you were to look in the dictionary under "true love" my Granny and Papa Mattingly's picture would be there. Do you get it? They were 100% in love. My granny was papa's whole world. So much that when she passed away on June 5th, he felt that he didn't have a reason to be here anymore. He was miserable without her, truly brokenhearted. He got pneumonia the next week, spent a few days in the hospital, & came home to spend his last father's day with his kids, grandkids, & great grandkids. Spending the night camped out in my aunt's living room with my family, all of us surrounding Papa's hospital bed. That's a memory I'll never forget. He passed away 2 days later, June 20th.
This post is getting sad & that's not what I meant for it to be. So I'm wrapping it up now. I just wanted to say to my Granny and Papa Mattingly, who are in Heaven now looking down on all of us, I love you. I'm thankful for my 21 years with you. I'm thankful that you two were SO in love. Because of you guys, I want your kind of true love. I want a spouse that my love is so strong for that I can't imagine living without him. Because of my Granny and Papa. Love you.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Update.
Since March 3rd,
- I saw Jason Aldean in concert.
- I've gone to San Francisco with my best friend.
- FCCLA State Meeting.
- UK made it to the Final Four, and I road-tripped to Houston, TX to watch them play with a couple friends.
- I decided I either want to do an out of the state internship or study abroad next Spring.
- I spent several late nights in the library, thanks to projects and papers I had to write.
- I finished my junior year at UK. I'm officially a SENIOR now!
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Girls vs. Guys
**Disclaimer: This is only my opinion of guys/girls. You are welcome to disagree with me!
Guys and girls are so completely different. Especially when it comes to relationships. Girls are programmed differently than guys. We're programmed to become attached much sooner and to love a guy forever once you've given him your heart. Guys (typically) do not fall as fast. And, in my opinion, its easier for a guy to detach from a relationship once its over. Atleast that's been my experience.
I had a conversation tonight with one of my guy friends about his potential love interest. I'm not going to go into details because I don't think my friend would appreciate that. But talking to him makes me actually realize how different guys/girls truly are. On some topics, we had completely opposite opinions and viewpoints. Whenever he asks my advice, I try to tell him exactly how it is. Tonight, I tried to explain that girls and guys completely different. Most of my advice either began or ended with "...because she's a girl..." I think he's starting to understand. He's asking for my advice/opinion alot more now...lol
In other news, today was crazy. After my only class of the day, I headed to Frankfort to work at the KDE. I'm the FCCLA State Adviser's Intern. Basically, I do anything and everything to prepare for the state meeting at the end of this month. Its starting to get to the "I want to pull my hair out" point because our deadline is approaching. We worked until 7:30 tonight and still didn't finish everything. I probably killed 10 trees today with all the paper copies I had to make. On the bright side, Carver bought me dinner since we stayed so late!
HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY TO MY BFF SHANNON!!!!(technically yesterday)
Guys and girls are so completely different. Especially when it comes to relationships. Girls are programmed differently than guys. We're programmed to become attached much sooner and to love a guy forever once you've given him your heart. Guys (typically) do not fall as fast. And, in my opinion, its easier for a guy to detach from a relationship once its over. Atleast that's been my experience.
I had a conversation tonight with one of my guy friends about his potential love interest. I'm not going to go into details because I don't think my friend would appreciate that. But talking to him makes me actually realize how different guys/girls truly are. On some topics, we had completely opposite opinions and viewpoints. Whenever he asks my advice, I try to tell him exactly how it is. Tonight, I tried to explain that girls and guys completely different. Most of my advice either began or ended with "...because she's a girl..." I think he's starting to understand. He's asking for my advice/opinion alot more now...lol
In other news, today was crazy. After my only class of the day, I headed to Frankfort to work at the KDE. I'm the FCCLA State Adviser's Intern. Basically, I do anything and everything to prepare for the state meeting at the end of this month. Its starting to get to the "I want to pull my hair out" point because our deadline is approaching. We worked until 7:30 tonight and still didn't finish everything. I probably killed 10 trees today with all the paper copies I had to make. On the bright side, Carver bought me dinner since we stayed so late!
HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY TO MY BFF SHANNON!!!!(technically yesterday)
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
My name is Stacey and I'm a procrastinator.
I'm seriously the world's worst at procrastinating. I'm working on a paper right now that I've known about for a month. And I 'technically' never even did the assignment for the paper. The paper is due tomorrow morning. The assignment was to publicly violate a social norm and observe people's reactions. But I could never decide on which norm to violate. So here I am at 2am completely bs-ing this paper. I think this is the first paper/assignment I've completely made up in my three years of college, which I believe is an accomplishment.
I've had an amazing 2011 so far. Lots of great things have happened, but I'm too tired/scatter-brained to try and tell you about them all right now. Weekend in Tennessee, Quail's banquet, my mom's 4th year anniversary as a breast cancer survivor, UK basketball games, volunteering, and having fun with friends. Those are a few.
I'm going to try to blog everyday this month, so hopefully I'll get in the habit of regularly doing it. I really want to, I just don't think my life is that interesting...lol
I'm going on the most awesome spring break trip ever in 2 weeks!
(I think is the first time I've ever just completely rambled on here, so sorry if it makes no sense. Its 2am and I'm in the middle of writing a paper. Give me a break!) :)
I've had an amazing 2011 so far. Lots of great things have happened, but I'm too tired/scatter-brained to try and tell you about them all right now. Weekend in Tennessee, Quail's banquet, my mom's 4th year anniversary as a breast cancer survivor, UK basketball games, volunteering, and having fun with friends. Those are a few.
I'm going to try to blog everyday this month, so hopefully I'll get in the habit of regularly doing it. I really want to, I just don't think my life is that interesting...lol
I'm going on the most awesome spring break trip ever in 2 weeks!
(I think is the first time I've ever just completely rambled on here, so sorry if it makes no sense. Its 2am and I'm in the middle of writing a paper. Give me a break!) :)
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| at my mom's survivor party |
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