TSM and AOII

Thank goodness the summer is over! I never thought I would say that but guess what I am. This summer as well as every summer since I graduated high school I have been working for HCA which is the Hospital Corporation that does a bunch of who knows what. First summer sucked, second summer also sucked, this summer sucked a little less only because I had two interns that got stuck in an office with me so we were kind of forced to like each other but ended up having a lot in common. No we didn't always get along but seriously what do you expect when you stick three girls in a room together for 8 weeks definitely not all smiles and giggles. Turns out one of the girls was a sorority girl like me! Finally someone I can relate to in the hell hole called corporate America. We spent several hours discussing rush, rival sororities, and other good TSM stuff. The other intern sadly hasn't started college yet so I had to forgive her for being a GDI. Let's just say she better join or else. HA! Just kidding, but seriously. Along with probably everyone else this summer we spent our time on twitter, blogging, and other fun pass times like boys :). For the first time since I've been in college the boys didn't come flocking over to my group of friends (highly upsetting) I've decided that they are also probably GDIs and possibly not worth my time. WRONG one of them totally gorgeous, rich, and yes a fraternity boy but before you jump to conclusions...he has a girlfriend. Unacceptable but I'm not one to break them up. The other day at lunch I heard a girl say if I ever drunkenly got a tattoo I would get a panda because it's my sorority's symbol...OMG SHE IS ONE OF US! A) sorority girls never DRUNKENLY get tattoos if they even get one at all B) if you do ever do that you don't brag about it to your geed co-workers at lunch at your not-too-awesome internship. I figure she is from a small school (fingers crossed). Last but not least I am having some major withdrawals from my sisters and we move into our new AOII crazy apartment in approx. 29 days thank the founders!! I need some hardcore sorority action in my life again. Twitter, facebook, and TSM just aren't cutting it for me. Until next time!

Peace, Love, & Rubies

Kelsey

All of Our Yummies, and I'm Not Talking About Desserts

So during our almost over internship we have re-discovered/discovered some very attractive celebs that we had never noticed or just now found out about. So here is a list of the men and what we LOVE about them.

Tom Felton:

Who doesn't love the whole bad boy thing. Admit it ladies we all thought at one point Draco could possibly be a sweetheart underneath and guess what HE IS! Tom is absolutely adorable and sexy in every way. He plays guitar, sings silly songs, is a total teddy bear, and has washboard abs you could do laundry on. His dirty blonde hair and hypnotizing blue eyes make this bad boy/good boy number one on our hott list. Not to mention Hailey's weird dream about him driving a terrible Range Rover and taking her dancing, he should be in every girls dreams.

Darren Criss:

He sings, he dances, he plays musical instruments, and he is just downright sexy. Darren may play a gay boy in love with Kurt on the hit show Glee but in real life this (so he says) straight man is all about some sex appeal. He is just adorably goofy and really knows how to make those piercing brown eyes tear through a girls heart, not to mention his amazing and sultry voice. A little voice inside of us all are saying Darren get with Chris Colfer!!! Whether he is gay in real life or not we will always have a place in our hearts for Klain :)

Drew van Acker:

If you have been watching PLL recently you have noticed that Allison's nasty brother seemed to get plastic surgery and turn well hott! Drew definitely made us melt in the tight t-shirt with sweat glistening off of his tan and toned biceps in on of the episodes and who doesn't secretly want Aria and Jason to have a little fling in the show. At first Drew looks like an okay looking guy but after researching him a bit more he is drop dead gorgeous. Everyone raise their hands for him to get a haircut on PLL... (everyone raises hands). Yeah thought so.

Chris Colfer:

Although he plays a gay guy on Glee and is actually gay in real life he is still an adorable guy. His voice could shatter a glass and does shatter hearts for all the Gleeks. Don't forget about the love between his character Kurt and Blaine which everyone loves! Turns out he is also into producing! His new movie coming out soon Struck By Lighting he plays...wait for it...A STRAIGHT GUY and HE IS HOTT! Pictures have surfaced of Chris looking a bit rugged for this role and every girl will be swooning. Too bad he plays for the other team.

Matthew Lewis:

Another Harry Potter boy recently discovered Matthew blew Harry Potter fans (and random girls) out of the water by showing up at the New York premiere looking dead sexy! His tall lean figure, perfect teeth, and wind blown hair made girls everywhere give Neville a second glance, too bad he showed up to the premiere with his equally gorgeous girlfriend. Turns out for the character he wore fake teeth and a fat suit. HE WAS HOTT ALL ALONG LADIES!! Neville, we will never underestimate you again.

Keegan Allen:

Toby, toby, toby. We all thought he was a bad boy at first in PLL but turns out he was framed. Not to mention he has amazing abs that should NEVER be covered up. After hooking up with Spencer in the show Keegan's status climbed and he became a hunk on the show. Now he is part of the cutest couple on the show (according to us PLIs). Keegan along with his washboard abs has gorgeous blue eyes and a jawline that could make you faint. His sculpted features make him practically a god in our eyes and that is all we could ask for. Hannah's obsession with Keegan may be a little unhealthy but who can blame her. Not me.

Ian Harding:

As much as we love the Ezria relationship on PLL we love Ian even more. His adorable style and killer smile would make any high school girl (and college) swoon. Even though lately in the show Ezra is being a complete pansy we can't help but just want to look at him like all the time. He is so pretty why not take advantage and stare while we get the chance, because we feel that he may be missing in a couple of episodes especially is Jason (Drew) steps up his game and sweeps Aria off her feet. But keep watch PLL lovers because you never know when he may reappear (hopefully without a shirt).


Peace, Love, & Rubies

Kelsey

We're Not Creepy We Promise

During our extremely boring internship at HCAwkward after about 2 weeks of mind numbing boring-ness we quickly needed to find some entertainment to get us through the next 6 weeks. Then like a flash of lighting our opportunity came. One day at lunch Hannah was standing at the microwave waiting patiently in line for the over 40s to finish cooking their disgusting diet frozen dinners, Hailey and I just happened to glance over and see a gorgeous head of dirty blonde hair standing behind her. He turned slightly so that we could see his profile which was equally gorgeous. When she came back to sit down we asked if she had seen the perfect angel standing behind her, she hadn't what a disappointment but we quickly filled her in, pointed him out and our new obsession began. Several days later we again saw "microwave boy" sitting with an almost equally attractive but taller friend our obsession quickly grew and after lunch we decided to search for him using our community day lists. After searching the entire list we had found his hott friend, Andrew but not him. Luckily there was one more guy on the list and TAH DAH it was "microwave boy" aka Eric, turns out Hannah had worked with his brother the year before and her sister worked on his floor SUCCESS! After stalki...I mean creeping on them for quite some time we had another encounter with yet another very attractive boy. We were coming up from the lower level of our building munching on some yummy fruit when a very hott boy enters the elevator. Hailey and I have our mouths full of fruit as Hannah stands there awkwardly with the tray. I continue eating while the other two stand there in silence. The elevator gets to our floor and before the doors could close behind us we immediately burst into laughter at ourselves. That afternoon we decided to investigate and we go up to his floor and pass him not once but twice making it quite obvious that we are looking for him. I mean hello!!! we just saw him on the elevator and now we pass by his cube twice in 5 mins how more obvious could we have been? Anyways as the next week continues we run into this guy several more times including at our community day when all three of our boys are at the same one as us. We luckily got to work closely (intentionally) with Eric but sadly the other two went into a different room with our sudden enemy "Sloan". She is the girl that insists on getting attention from boys any way she can. Anyways she is not the discussion here...we quite enjoy getting to see them in a more casual setting even though SHE was in our way. Well several days pass into the next week, we find out who the mysterious elevator boy is and we nickname him WilLogan because we aren't quite sure of his name. We start seeing him everywhere, eating lunch by himself in the cafeteria, to walking into the building, down the hall, and up the elevator with him and his dad and then another hallway run in which I couldn't hold my shock in seeing him (yes I am awkward get over it). We rarely see Andrew and Eric anymore but when we do we make sure to take advantage and stare at them in case we don't see them again for a couple of days. We now see WilLogan enough that we are shocked when we don't see him at least once in a day. As for Sloan, lets just say we have many plans for her....disappearing. No we do not stalk, it's social studies.

Peace, Love, & Rubies

Kelsey

Harry Potter Characters and such

So as you may have noticed Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 came out this past weekend. If you hadn't noticed then you are either mentally ill or live under a rock somewhere in Kansas. Anyways during work last week me and my fellow interns had absolutely nothing to do so we decided to research the life stories of our favorite Harry Potter characters. The things we found out were: poor Daniel Radcliffe is tiny (no exaggeration) the giant star stands a total of 5'5" shorter than his female co-stars Emma Watson and Bonnie Wright. Numero Dos, Emma Watson looked much better at the London premiere than the main one in the US honey you have gorgeous hair but the pixi cut isn't really working for you. Rupert Grint is adorable as ever and isn't as attractive with his shirt off as expected. Tom Felton is the new love of my life, he is apparently one of the nicest guys on the set even though he plays the bad boy in the films. He also plays guitar and sings silly songs in his very thick british accent aka SEXY. He was also the youngest child in the 90s movie The Borrowers which also stars the Weasley dad who plays Felton's dad in the movie. (SMALL WORLD) The twins who play Fred and George are actually brunette but they have their hair colored for their characters. CRAZY! Evanna Lynch (Luna) and I have the same birthday! How awesome is that, well I thought it was cool. Last but not least Matthew Lewis (Neville) is hott and I'm not exaggerating puberty treated him well and he got his teeth fixed which was a large pet peeve of mine. Watch out ladies Neville will break your heart! So that is my randomness about Harry Potter, which is funny cause I still haven't even seen the movie. GO RONMIONE! :D

Peace, Love, & Rubies

Kelsey

no way to put this lightly, suicide.

Not many of my friends know about this but three years ago my cousin, Andy, killed himself from depression. He was 31 years old, had a beautiful wife, and an adorable 4 year old son who was exactly like him. I found out that he was gone just two days before my junior prom. I very much considered skipping prom so that I could attend his funeral even my date said he would understand, but my parents insisted that I go to prom because that was a very important milestone in my life. After fighting with them for about an hour on the subject we decided that me and my dad would attend his visitation and come home so that I could go to prom. After school the next day I rushed home changed into my proper funeral attire and we headed to West Tennessee. The whole way my dad and I listened to the Beatles and discussed the hidden meanings in their songs. It didn't hit me that I was about to see my cousin for the last time until we pulled up to the funeral home and had a heck of a time finding a parking spot. The funeral home was smack in the middle of a small town it was an old, gorgeous house. Probably about 100 years old. The front door had a line of people snaking out onto the sidewalk, since we were family we took a seperate door on the front porch. My aunt before I could hardly get into the door said, "It's an open casket you don't have to go see him if you don't want to." My heart jumped, (I hadn't been told how he died) I told her I would be fine and my dad grabbed my shoulder and led me into the packed room. I saw my uncle standing by the casket and my family members sitting on a two pews stuck in the corner. I slowly walked up to the casket took one look inside and couldn't control myself. I burst into tears my dad twirled me around away from it and took me over to the pew with my family one of my cousins immediately grabbed me and held me as we both sobbed. My sister came and squeezed in beside me she grabbed my hand as I started to calm down from where we were sitting we could see everyone piling into the small room and paying their respects. I started looking for Andy's wife I saw her sitting in the second row face red surrounded by her mom, dad, and sister. My cousin Jenny saw me looking in her direction and told me she hadn't spoken to anyone in our family since she had arrived. She hugged Andy's dad but that was it. I couldn't understand why she wouldn't talk to us. He was our cousin her husband we were related the least she could was come say something to us. One of my other aunts came out to us and asked if any of us were hungry the funeral home had provided sandwich making stuff for the family. So all of us cousins that were there piled into a small break room and quietly ate our sandwiches. After "dinner" me and my sister headed out to the front porch to get some fresh air, I had remembered seeing two white rocking chairs which would give us somewhere to sit. By now the sun was starting to set and the line had grown a considerable amount, I couldn't see the end of it because it wrapped around the corner of the street. It made me realize how much Andy was loved and how many people he impacted. My sister all of a sudden started laughing snapping me out of my daze. There on the street was a race going on, it was a local 5K and we saw the people at the front coming down the road. We sat there for 2 hours watching the people in the race come through. There was even a young man in a wheel chair being pushed by what looked like his wife. That made me smile. By time the last few people came through from the race, the line going into the funeral home had died down a considerable amount. My dad came out and told me I needed to come in and say goodbye to everyone and tell my uncle that I wouldn't be able to make it to the funeral. I walked in and my uncle my was still standing in the same spot next to the casket. I walked up to him and he just grabbed me in a hug. Unfortunately now I was stuck in my uncles grip staring straight at my cousin. So I closed my eyes as he held me. My dad soon realized why I looked so uncomfortable and told me that we needed to go. My uncle let me go said, "Love you Kelsey." I smiled and said back, "I love you too Uncle Bobby", forcing back tears. I made my round of telling my cousins, aunts and uncles goodbye and left with my dad. As we were walking out to the car I saw Andy's wife sitting on the sidewalk by herself. I walked up to her, sat down next, and said "Everything is going to be okay Ashley, he isn't hurting anymore." She looked up at me and hugged me. I got up and walked to my dad's car. Immediately getting into the car a wave of exhaustion passed over me and before we could get out of the tiny little town, I was fast asleep.

To end this blog I want to say this. Andy was an amazing man. He was a loving husband and father, and an incredible cousin and son. If you ever know of someone who is depressed and might even for a second consider suicide HELP THEM. They aren't usually thinking rationally and just a little bit of help and effort could in the end save their life. Andy didn't tell anyone he was hurting maybe if he had he would still be with us. Usually people who are that desperate to do something like that are feeling very alone and unwanted and the smallest "hey are you okay?" "do you want to talk about it?" could help a considerable amount. Suicide is a very selfish act, the person is only doing it for their benefit they may think they are helping out everyone in their life but really they are just setting them up for heartache. So please if you or someone you know is feeling depressed get help don't put your loved ones in that position.
Thanks for reading.

Peace, Love, & Rubies

Kelsey

Fun Times and AOII

So the other day while at work in a very boring meeting (we were basically just in there to fill space so we didn't actually have to pay attention so I didn't) and I was thinking my sorority at school (AOII for those of you who don't know even if you don't care :) ) we have some cheers but not really fun ones. So I started messing around and made up this cheer it's kinda stupid but my mind works in mysterious ways...

Red, white, and black
We're back on the attack
We are Alpha Omicron
and we'll tell you to bring it on!
Rubies, pearls, and pandas
we know that you can't handle us
Alpha Omicron Pi, we will blow your mind!

haha extremely cheesy and corny but what else am I suppose to do during a 2 hour meeting?

Peace, Love, & Rubies

Kelsey

Casey Anthony, Adoption vs Abortion, etc.

For those who have not heard about the Casey Anthony trial and don't mind a little bit of reading I will be posting a link at the bottom giving a nice detailed account on what the whole story is about.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/17/48hours/main5393142.shtml

(WARNING: the story is pretty graphic and it's five pages long so have fun!)

Anyways lately I've been hearing the name Casey Anthony all over the news but my being a 19 year old college student I didn't put much interest towards it. Well this morning while driving to work (more like sitting in traffic going to work) a local Nashville radio station had a man from HLN who has been covering the story come on and talk about the case. I recognized the name so I wanted to hear what all of the hype was about. I heard the first part of the story then my sister called me mid story so I had to listen to her instead of the rest of the story. When I got to work first thing I did was googled the story and found the link above. OMG! How in the world could a mother do that to her child (yes I realize they aren't certain she did it but from what I read she probably did but is such a liar she will continue lying until they can prove her guilty which she will probably continue lying after that!) sorry for the rambling...ANYWHO. I cannot even process what would go through someones mind to not report their child missing until a month later when her mother tells her to do it! After my dog missing for like an hour I was freaking out and this is her two year old daughter!!!! Only a very very very sick person could just look past it and be like eh oh well so my daughter is gone probably dead I'm going to go out and party and get tattoos and write in my journal how much better my life is. OH MY GOODNESS!! Some people in this world are so messed up in the heads I cannot even fathom how they make it day to day. Any mother who was worth being a mother would have reported her child missing IMMEDIATELY. If she didn't want her daughter in the first place there is this little thing called adoption. That's another thing, there are millions of people out there that cannot have children so they turn to adoption so that they can have families and these kids, yes kids are having kids left and right and not giving a second thought about how much better their children will be brought up if they took that option instead. There is no reason for your child to suffer because their mother was stupid and got pregnant at sixteen and there is no reason for someone to abort their child. Think about it this way, that child that was aborted could have been the person that found the cure for cancer how do you feel now?? I personally have not had a child nor do I intend to for at least 6+ more years I've heard how hard it can be for a mother to give birth to their child then have it taken away and given to another couple or family but really think about what you are doing for that family and that child. You are giving the family a chance to be a family and you are giving your child the opportunity to be a great person someday. Don't take that away from them for your own selfish benefit. Now realize this is all my opinion and I'm not trying to start any arguments I just wanted to get my opinion out there. To wrap this up, I'm not saying Casey Anthony did or did not kill her daughter. I'm just saying by the way it is looking she isn't probably telling the whole truth, but one day Caylee (her daughter)'s justice I hope will be served and I as well as millions of others hope that day will be soon for the sake of Caylee and her family.

Until another day...

Peace, Love, & Rubies