Your Love is my Drug

I wouldn't say I want to make a career out of being a bridesmaid, but I definetly do not hate it. Erica's wedding this weekend was my 1st bridesmaid experience and boy do we know how to party. We've decided to replace the month of "June" with "Erica" on the calendar. We took her to the beach, to the movies, to get our nails did, to nice dinners, to fancy lunches, and to several dance parties all because she snatched up the right man. The bride sure is lucky but so am I to be able to spend the last several weekends with my best best friends. It was cool to see us all come together from down the road, from California, from DC to support Erica in green dresses and calm her nerves with some innapropriate conversations. I'm glad she's married. I'm glad it's to Stephen. I'm glad for the kind of friends I have who love and support and pray for each other over years and years of time.
Thanks Erica, for having such an awesomely beautiful throw down and being the best pal a girl could have. And also for my awesome tote bag.

quote of the day

A night on the town and Toy Story 3 was AMAZING! and so are my friends.

Kesler: "Erica you need a napkin. I'm gonna give you a napkin."

Erin (before the chair at amelie's broke with her in it): "I feel like this chair is gonna break."

Erin: "One time I thought a fire hydrant was a midget."

The Cool Kids

I'm glad I don't go to the hip church. Not that there's anything wrong with the hip church. I actually became a Christian within the hippest and biggest youth group in town (for gaffney that is). And there are some big, popular, loud churches out there that are saving people. If I ever move from Rock Hill or even if I don't, I may end up at the hip church in town one day. This summer Manchester has a small group that meets on Wednesday nights, a.k.a "book club." We are reading and discussing the book "What is a Healthy Church Member?" Since college I've gotten into reading a lot more and quite enjoy reading, but when I saw this book I almost fell asleep just thinking about what might be inside. But really, thanks to much discussion I'm learning more and more about the church and what it means to serve and be a part of the body because well, that is our job as believers. We don't sit around and discuss why some churches work and some don't, or the pros and cons of our own church. It has gotten me thinking about how I fit into the local church and what role God desires to see us take. When you're in college you have all these cool campus ministries, the bible study possibilities are endless and there is conference after conference to get you hyped. But then you graduate and it's a terrible, terrible time of trying to figure out your life. For me, that's where Manchester came to the rescue. I didn't have someone feeding me Jesus every time I turned around, all I had was a church family who reminded me how blessed I was and a group of youth who (still does) keep me from acting my age. I don't worship my church. I don't worship Pastor Ken. But getting into a local church and using your gifts to bless someone else is a good good thing. It takes the focus off yourself and you stop looking for the church to entertain you. Stay tuned for more of my opinion this summer as we've only covered Chapter 1....

quote of the day when asked about our thoughts on Expositional Listening:

"We don't have enough terms really, we need to create more."
-Jon Moore

quote of the day

Stephen: "Aunt Katie, will you help us with our sportistic children?"

quote of the day

Pricing yard sale items.

Erica: "How much for this rug?"
Me: "You're selling that? Dude it's gross."
Erica: "Um, did a spider web JUST form on it?"

Maggie: "Tetanus for $1.oo!"

Free Your Glee

I gotta go with Brooke on this one...I love reality television. Well, there are some limits to that, I mean I do have morals. But there is just something so freeing about watching the Hills and the City and thanking God that I'm not like the people on those shows. I like to watch the Bachelorette and have full on text message convos with all my friends about why we love certain guys and how mad we are at Ali for not picking them. Last night Gleeks drove from miles away so we could watch the season finale of Glee together while dressing up as our favorite characters and crying during the Journey medley. Side note: Uncle Jesse is joining the cast of Glee so if you didn't watch it before, there is your reasonable excuse (maybe some Beach Boys and Elvis covers are in our future!) ABC Family keeps coming up with the most absolutely rediculous shows, it's newest being about high schoolers who murder people and lie about it...or something like that. No doubt I'll give that one a shot as well. I just want to say thanks America, for giving us such mindless entertainment that I'm almost sure to never get tired of. As long as the Cabin is together, there will always be room on our couch for a nice break from actual reality if you ever need it. Because let's face it, if you are a breathing human being, chances are, stupidity fascinates you.

Quote of the day from the Glee party...

Laura: "You should've worn pearls!"
Me: "The ones I have are bigger though, so it would have looked weird."
Amanda: "Hello, I have pearls in like...my purse."

To and From Raleigh

I LOVE the Duke Bluedevils. I LOVE Brooke Currie. This weekend I experienced both of those in all their glory. It was Lil Brooke's 24th birthday so Britt and I decided to surprise her and go up to Raleigh to give her a big birthday hug. We hit up this awesome burger place, a 2 dolla flick, went to her awesome church, and ate icecream cake. I just hardcore miss all the nance girls I spent my days at Winthrop with. I know that's a really obvious statement, but it's true. Raleigh is most def on my list of places I could totally live if Rock Hill doesn't secure my future after grad school. Just sayin. On the road home, we decided to stop by Duke and just check the scene out. I'm really big into seeing famous sports places and on my list of things to do before I die is definetly go inside Cameron Indoor Stadium, which is where the 2010 NCAA Champion Duke basektball team plays. We walk up to the arena and I automatically spot Kyle Singler, the star forward on Duke's team who will probably go to the NBA and who is conveniently my favorite player, outside taking down tents. I got his autograph and had a little chat, and we walk up to the door and some guy tells us we could come in! Obviously the doors were locked, but I got to go on the floor and take some pictures. I seriously thought I was going to lose my mind. I mean, most of my sports dreams came true in one spot. You don't have to be happy for me since I know most of you don't care. But I had to share with you, my dear readers. I would say it was the luckiest day ever to stop by Duke's campus.