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.
Friday, November 25, 2011
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 |
Monday, January 24, 2011
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
Sorry, I keep forgetting about this blogging thing. (Truthfully, I don't forget, I am just lazy and would rather facebook than write about my life).
I just started another semester at UK. Right after the semester started, life became really real. The fact that I was going to be graduating next spring hit me really hard. And I started thinking "Is this what I want to do with the rest of my life?" (I already knew the answer because I've always asked that question). The answer is No. My passion is for FCCLA, not FCS. First, I started thinking that after I graduated with an FCS Ed degree, I would go to grad school and get a master's in something different-like Child Development and Family Studies. I researched grad schools for a few hours that night.
Later that week at CSF, they talked about "restarting and pushing reset." Its easier to push reset since its the beginning of a new semester. And, after thinking about it all weekend, that's exactly what I did. Halfway through my junior year, I decided to push reset. I emailed all of the necessary people, and met with my new adviser about changing my major to Family Science. Actually changing it was much easier than I expected it to be. However, people's reactions were exactly what I thought they would be, for the most part. My FCS girls were SO supportive. I love those girls and will miss having practically every class with them. But I'm so happy with my decision.With this degree, I would love to work with military families/military kids. OR I'd love to work with families dealing with cancer/some sort of disease(ex. My mom had breast cancer, so families going through something similar to my family's experience with that). I'm finally doing what I want to do with my life! And, if I take summer classes, I can graduate in DECEMBER! That's a semester earlier than planned!! :)
Now, I'm going to ask whoever is reading this to say a couple extra prayers for a boy from my hometown. John is my brother's age and has gone to school with him since second grade. They've played every sport together. Our families spent alot of time together and we became pretty good friends. In a way, John was like another little brother to me; We picked on each other just like normal siblings do. After 8th grade, Travis and John went to different high schools. A month or so ago John's knee was hurt during a basketball game. He tore his ACL and MCL, I think. He was supposed to have surgery last Thursday to repair the damage. But before his surgery even began, something awful happened. Someone made a mistake. The anesthesia was put into the wrong artery/vain and went straight to John's brain(which told his heart to stop). He was rushed to Kosair, where he is starting to improve. But its been a scary time for his family and friends. I can't imagine being in their position. So please pray for John's continued improvement and that he'll be home soon.
I just started another semester at UK. Right after the semester started, life became really real. The fact that I was going to be graduating next spring hit me really hard. And I started thinking "Is this what I want to do with the rest of my life?" (I already knew the answer because I've always asked that question). The answer is No. My passion is for FCCLA, not FCS. First, I started thinking that after I graduated with an FCS Ed degree, I would go to grad school and get a master's in something different-like Child Development and Family Studies. I researched grad schools for a few hours that night.
Later that week at CSF, they talked about "restarting and pushing reset." Its easier to push reset since its the beginning of a new semester. And, after thinking about it all weekend, that's exactly what I did. Halfway through my junior year, I decided to push reset. I emailed all of the necessary people, and met with my new adviser about changing my major to Family Science. Actually changing it was much easier than I expected it to be. However, people's reactions were exactly what I thought they would be, for the most part. My FCS girls were SO supportive. I love those girls and will miss having practically every class with them. But I'm so happy with my decision.With this degree, I would love to work with military families/military kids. OR I'd love to work with families dealing with cancer/some sort of disease(ex. My mom had breast cancer, so families going through something similar to my family's experience with that). I'm finally doing what I want to do with my life! And, if I take summer classes, I can graduate in DECEMBER! That's a semester earlier than planned!! :)
Now, I'm going to ask whoever is reading this to say a couple extra prayers for a boy from my hometown. John is my brother's age and has gone to school with him since second grade. They've played every sport together. Our families spent alot of time together and we became pretty good friends. In a way, John was like another little brother to me; We picked on each other just like normal siblings do. After 8th grade, Travis and John went to different high schools. A month or so ago John's knee was hurt during a basketball game. He tore his ACL and MCL, I think. He was supposed to have surgery last Thursday to repair the damage. But before his surgery even began, something awful happened. Someone made a mistake. The anesthesia was put into the wrong artery/vain and went straight to John's brain(which told his heart to stop). He was rushed to Kosair, where he is starting to improve. But its been a scary time for his family and friends. I can't imagine being in their position. So please pray for John's continued improvement and that he'll be home soon.
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