Day 133

CHAMPS SPORTS BOWL!!  NC STATE vs WVU!!  Wahoo!!

WIN!  GO STATE!!

Day 123

Graduation.  No other words are needed.

Where the winds of Dixie softly blow

o'er the fields of Caroline,

There stands ever cherished NC STATE, as thy honored shrine.

So lift your voices!  Loudly sing from hill to ocean side!

Our hearts ever hold you NC STATE, in the folds of our love and pride.

GO STATE!!

Day 122

Today is the day before graduation!!  I can't believe this is happening.  And a semester early.  It doesn't seem real.  However, I love to decorate things, especially in celebration and when lots of people will see it.  So I spent some time today decorating my cap.  A sure fire way to get on the JumboTron at the RBC Center.

Complete with battery operated Christmas lights and silver beads.  Awesome.

Day 102

Today is a big day.  It's NC State's football team's last game of the regular season.  We're playing Maryland.  The tuuurtles.  If we won the game today then we would get to play Virginia Tech in the ACC Championship in Charlotte, NC.  If we lose the game, then Florida State, whom we beat, will get to play against Virginia Tech.  But wait, there's more ifs.  If we beat Clemson and beat VT, then we'll get to play in a BCS bowl game: The Orange Bowl!!

However, we didn't win.  It just didn't happen for us today.  But on a happy note, I drank my wine out of a very festive glass.

GO PACK!

Day 95

Today was the NC State vs. UNC football game.  This is a big enormous game, especially in my family.  Both my mom and dad went to Carolina, and my dad was on offensive lineman for the team.  He even played with LT.  Needless to say both Chelsea and I were raised to be Carolina girls.  And boy were we ever.  Until it came to time for us to go to college.  Neither of us even applied to go to Carolina.  Granted they don't have the degree program that either of us went into, but it still amazes my parents how this happened.  We say it's survival of the fittest.

NC State has won the last 3 games against Carolina.  So I hadn't experienced a loss to UNC (in football....obviously State lost to them in basketball) since I became a Wolfpack fan.  Here's a few pictures from the game.

 

Oh hey.  WE WON!!

Day 91

With graduation right around the corner (December 18th, y'all!!), Mom and I were on the hunt today for a nice custom diploma frame.  I'm thinking some kind of a black frame and triple matting.  Black, red, and white obviously!   Here's my favorite option right now (with my sister's diploma acting as the stand-in).

Day 88

It's game day in Raleigh, NC and the Wolfpack is playing in their homecoming football game against the Wake Forest Demon Deacons!!!  And I was there!!  It was my first and last home football game of my senior year.  But man it was wonderful.  I got there plenty early and tailgated with some friends and then went into the stadium in plenty of time to get great seats.

Oh yea.  We won!!

Day 49

Today was miserable.  It was cold and misting and increadibly windy.  All day.  Non-stop.
However, that did not stop my marine professor from making us walk to the harbor and spend over an hour in the nasty weather looking at clams and algae and seaweed. 

Thank goodness I have a down-insulated waterproof jacket!  Thank you Macy's!!

Day 30

Today in my "marine" science class we ventured down to the mud flats by the harbor.  They were muddy!  But it wasn't just normal mud, not like that which I'm used to back home in NC.  This was stinky, gross, thick, and deep.  The kind of mud that you have to walk in a certain way or face the consequence of sinking 4 inches down and possibly face-planting. 
I really don't like mud.  Not in my shoes.  Or between my toes, unless I don't have shoes on and it isn't dirty, smelly mud.  Therefore, I stood on a piece of shale and was the scribe for my group, thus avoiding the uncomfortable situation that would follow if I stepped foot in the mud. 

In situations like this I always think of one of our family's very dear friends, Becky.  When my sister and I were growing up we would show horses (she still does).  One fateful July (I think), Becky and her parents came to see us at a horse show in Raleigh.  Becky always was, for lack of a better way to describe this and I mean nothing bad by it because I am so much the same, Miss Priss.  She didn't do dirt.  She showed up to a horse stable in sandals.  And of course there was horse manure everywhere.  So whenever I feel like a duck out of water, I think of Becky, and I always grin and laugh a little.