A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S

I want to start off my blog by thanking my family and friends who have helped shape me into the person I have become. I never imagined I would have accomplished all of the things I have or be where I am today, but these people encouraged me to reach for the stars. Here’s to chasing my dreams and making them come true so I can make you guys proud. 

My favorite song. My favorite band. My favorite genre. When I was a little girl, I remember sitting around campfires listening to my daddy play his guitar. Although I was too young to remember much from those nights, I vividly remember him playing this song. “Have you ever seen a she-gator protect her young?” The lyrics are too unique to forget. This is a time in my life I wish I could go back to. A precious time when I only saw the good in the world. A precious time when I didn’t know what pain was. You can’t experience the things that I’ve been through, and I surly can’t try and tell you; “All I can do is write about it.”

The epitome of innocence. 

I don’t know who showed us this song or how we knew all the words because we were far too young to know what any of them meant. I remember it like it was yesterday. All piled up in Abby’s step-moms car on the way to the ice skating rink in Augusta for her birthday. This song came on the radio and every 10 year old in that car went crazy. We knew every word. “I brush my teeth with a bottle of Jack, ‘cause when I leave for the night I ain’t com-ing back...” I didn’t even know what a bottle of Jack was when I was 10. I don’t think we understood that this song was talking about partying all night, we just liked the beat.

1 of these girls passed away in May 2017, 1 is married with a child and I live with 1 but we don’t get along very well. I couldn’t tell you about the other 5. People just grow apart.

8th grade = the worst. Middle school sucks, especially when you’re the new girl. I moved to Metter in the 8th grade. I didn’t move far or anything, just from a small, dinky private school 5 miles down the road. Since I grew up in the same general area, I already knew most of the people I was going to be going to school with. I knew this one girl, Hagan, the best. As soon as I started school, we became instant bff’s. We were together every day after school and on the weekends. We were inseparable. One day we decided to make a music video of the new hit song “I Knew You Were Trouble.” We filmed in a variety of places, with a variety of different guest stars like my dog. This was the cutest video ever of 2 bff’s that loved each other so much. If only she were a nice girl, maybe we would still be friends today. We filmed the video on her iPad, so my hopes for ever seeing that thing again are’t existent. 

Bff’s 8th grade year. She broke my elbow 9th grade year. Not friends anymore.

When I hear this song I can’t help but to think of the best cheerleading routine in Metter High School history. My junior year, the chorus of this song was in our music for our competitive cheerleading routine. In the previous years, we weren’t so successful in cheerleading. It was a shock if we had gotten anything higher than last place at a competition. Well this year, things changed. We placed 1st at all 7 of our competitions and won the 3AA region championship title for the first time in 8 years AND placed 3rd at the state championship. We were on fire. We weren’t bad my senior year, we won the region championship for the second year in a row, but we weren’t as good as we were the year before. Honestly, I don’t even remember one of the songs from last years routine. 

I shouldn’t have taken all of those burpees for granted. I’ll never be in that good of shape again. 

THIS. IS. MY. ANTHEM. This is my riding around, windows down, radio blaring anthem. I started driving my brother and I to school in September of my junior year. One morning I had my phone hooked up to the aux with my music on shuffle. This song played and it changed the whole mood of the dreary car ride to school. My innocent 12 year old brother and I knew every single word. We made a pact to listen to it every single day on the way to school. That only lasted about a month though. One day as we were crossing the bridge over I-16, a quarter of a mile from the school, our song was playing. I turned the radio down a few notches and looked at my brother and said, “I want this song to be played at my funeral”, and he promised me that it would. 

My little brother & my little bestie. <3

Justin Bieber is my main man. I would marry him if I could. Well, if only he knew I existed. Justin Bieber did a remix to this song and made it huge. I had never heard of this song until he released his rendition. This song became super popular right before this past summer. For my senior trip, a group of my closest classmate friends and I went to the Dominican Republic. Now everyone knows the hispanic culture is known for their dancing. Honestly I didn’t even think we would hear this song while on this trip since we were in a different country. Well, I was wrong. Every single day as we spent a lot of our time at the pools at our resort, this song was played on repeat; and EVERYONE knew it. When this song was played, all of the different cultures came together as one as if we were all the same. This one song created so many memories during one week that I’ll remember for the rest of my life. 

If I could pick 1 week to re-live for the rest of my life, this would undoubtedly be the week I picked. 

Almost 2 years ago I went to a Justin Bieber concert in ATL. This guy opened. I wasn’t very familiar with his music except for the song “White Iverson”. Honestly had no idea is was his song until he started singing it and the crowd went crazy. All I could think to myself was “WTF THIS IS HIS SONG?! THIS DUDE IS WHITE?!” Since that night, I’ve been hooked on Post Malone. When I got into my dream school I immediately texted my best friend Mason and told her. She replied with the lyrics from this newly released song “And now they all say CONGRATULATIONS!” Every time I hear this song, I can’t help but think about that moment because it was one of the happiest moments of my life. 

I posted the left picture onto my Instagram story the second I found out I got in. Still screaming “Hotty Toddy” all the way from Statesboro to Oxford!

Mason: one of my lifelong friends & the one person this song ALWAYS reminds me of.

This song is soooooo relatable at this point in my life. C O L L E G E!!! Now don’t get me wrong, I am t-totally loving the college life, but I also love spending my monthly allowance in an entire week. :’) I’m a freshman, so I’m young. I’m a freshman, so I’m dumb too....... & I may have a slight obsession with clothes. & food. & candles. & basically anything that has a price tag. 

“What's fun about commitment? When we have our life to live Yeah, we're just young dumb and broke But we still got love to give.”