For the Love of Bachelorette Parties...

Well.....so somethings have changed  from my last post! In all of the best ways possible :))


I ended up getting a 2011 black Dodge Nitro named  Nelly (yes, like the rapper) that I am in love with :)))


I move into my new apartment the week after the wedding, and I start my amazing new job on April 18th!!! This is exciting and all but its also going to be  extremely hard to leave so many  people (and one little extra that I never saw coming) that I care about. I am positively terrified. BUT its the good kind. You know,the kind that makes you exceed every single expectation you set for yourself? As well as those expectations outlined by your new employer. 


Now.....on to the most amazingly stressful weekend of  my liiiiiiiiiiiiiife. I mean this in the best way imaginable. Brittany's Bachelorrette Bash (also known as B^3)

Britt and  Jana B. 

If you fast forward past the Hilton Anatole COMPLETELY screwing up our rooms, AND the fact that our "day of relaxation" was the polar opposite of that in every sense of the phrase, AND the fact that the dance convention for 10 year olds let out around the time the flavored condoms blew off the highly decorated gift Audrey made for Brittany (where the little minions mistook them for "pop rocks" candy), AND the fact that we were mysteriously charged for bottle service that we never used, AND the fact that Brittany was 200% convinced that her debit card was lost on a dance floor somewhere in Uptown (it was in her wallet in the hotel room)... it was hands down the BEST TIME I have possibly ever had. Hummer limo: Check; amazingly beautiful bride, who was EXTREMELY "accessorized": Check; 14 of the coolest girls I know: Check. Hanging out with the New Orleans Saints Kicker?: Check, Check, Check, and one giant CHECK for all his friends as well  ;) 
 As awesome/memorable/funny/insane  as it was, I NEVERRRRRRRRR want to be in charge for  that length of time ever again, ORR be held responsible for that many peoples' happiness and drivers' licenses :)


Thanks and Gig 'Em <3

IT'S OFFICIAL!!!!

I start my new job in Justin, Tx on April 18th!!!!! I had a long phone call with Anne (the President) this evening and all systems are go! You are reading the blog of the newest Junior Account Executive at Cultivate Agency. 

Feelings I am experiencing: FEAR, excitement, nervous, happy, pride, sense of accomplishment, fear, anxiety, fear...do you see a pattern?!

I think I am going to absolutely love my job. I feel like this is where I am supposed to be. It feels as if someone hit the fast forward button on life. This is what I have been waiting on and it is finally here. With great opportunity comes great responsibility, and this is a sink or swim option ladies and gents!

I think I am going to look back on this spring as one of the fondest periods in my life. Its been challenging in many ways I never could have foreseen, but the positives tipped the scale. Running on spring evenings with my sister, my porch swing, mom bringing me coffee upstairs when I am running late for work, long drives to my part time job to clear my head and get focused for the day, the way wild wisteria smells during the two weeks it blooms in the woods behind our house, and meeting someone that quite possibly might change my life forever. Growing up is happening all at one time and as scared as I am...I'm ready. I say that with the confidence that comes from practicing it in the mirror every day for the last three months. If you tell yourself something long enough, you believe it and it materializes right into your life; just how you always dreamed it would. 

New favorite book: The Paris Wife....AMAZING book. Obsession is a bit of an understatement for the way I feel about this novel written through the eyes of Hadley (Hemingway's first of four wives). I am TOTALLY nerdy and underline my favorite lines in books. Most literary works do well to have a few sentences underlined in my cherished blue felt tipped pen, BUT this book has notes, lines and lines highlighted, and entire sections copied into my journal. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE read it. It lets you escape into a world that our generation knows nothing of; 1920's Prohibition. Wikipedia Ernest Hemingway before you begin the book, and you'll disappear even further into the mind of one of America's moat eclectic and brilliant novelists.

Song of the Moment: All This Time - OneRepublic

***I have a n extremely important blog (to me) coming up due to recent events. However I am still processing said events,  and will put them into text as soon as I feel ready. It is amazing to have the opportunity to solidify changes He has made in us, in very tangible ways. I am not sure I will even begin to articulate it accurately. So keep an eye out :) ***

Always,

Ms. Amanda Grace

Facts of Life

I find out my start date for MY new job in two days!

I officially have an apartment in Roanoke, TX :)

I went new car shopping yesterday! And the winner is......A JEEP CHEROKEE!! (it just has to pass the Poppa test...)

I just found out the comforter I want from Anthroplogie went on sale recently. This has made me a VERY happy girl.

I bought my first coffee cups for MY new apartment and am buying MY first set of dishes for MY apartment tomorrow.(haha, see what I did there?)

I have a move in date for MY new apartment. Why yes, it actually does have wood floors, granite counter tops, and stainless steel appliances!

It is T-Minus 11 days until my sister's Bachelorette Party Extravaganza! 

Baker's Shoes has, hands down, the best sandals for spring this year.

I am, in fact, running low on my book selection and am therefore welcoming suggestions. Right now I am reading "Don't Sing at the Table," by Adrianna Trigiani. I didn't really have a grandmother growing up, and this is a book chocked full of lessons from my favorite author's two wonderful grannies. 

I have the best family and friends I could ever ask for. God has blessed me so much more than I ever could have imagined. 

God continues to reveal himself to me in new ways daily. I learn something new about Him everyday...

I have learned to love my coffee black.

I feel a new painting coming on.....or maybe redoing one I wasn't ready to finish...

Bridals, Showers, and Bronchitis

HUGE HUGE HUGE weekend last weekend by wedding planning standards. Bridal portraits: check. First  bridal shower: check. Stunningly beautiful bride with bronchitis: You guessed it: ding, ding, ding. The biggest weekend of her life, and Britt has bronchitis. She was deathly ill and was still stunningly beautiful. (I would post pictures but the Wrath of the Glazner Bride would prove fatal for me, the maid of honor).


The shower was beautiful and went off without a hitch. I am about to shoot a guy with a tranquilizer gun and make him marry me just so I can get all the ISH that Britt and Randy have gotten! I mean for the love of icing, she got a mini cupcake maker?!?!? 

ALSO.......

Quite possibly the largest day of my young adult life happened today......I GOT MY FIRST BIG GIRL JOB!!!!!
It is with Cultivate Agency and I will be handling all of the PR for all of our clients as well as be one of two Account Executives. It is SO weird to think about!!!! So get excited readers, A Year of Unforeseeable  Events will soon have a new location!!!! Ft. Worth Texas, baby!!!!!!!


However....
I found the PERFECT building in Nac today for my boutique. There is an apartment upstairs. The whole building has old wooden floors and exposed brick walls....it is perfect. It won't be available for long considering it is downtown and SUPERRRRR affordable. So I am torn. Not to mention the recent development in my life that makes East Texas seem all that more appealing, deciding has not been easy. 


What is the right decision? Following my heart is one thing, but is this the time in my life to listen to my head and not my heart? I still have so much life to live, so do I REALLY want to stay in Nac for another 5 years before I can expand?Not really. BUT do I lose one opportunity for another? 

My jogging trail.....

Needless to say I went for about 3.5 mile run today. How is something I have wanted for so long so scary/exciting/surreal?! Life is happening all at once when it has been in slow motion since I graduated. Monumental changes people.... monumental.

Song: Crazy Girl-Eli Young Band
Book: Captivating

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions.

Act Three:
Scene: The offices of Lilly &Co.


Two employees of Lilly &Co. and I are all in the board room. Posters of print media for different Republican candidates line the walls. Governor Rick Perry is staring me in the face, adn these people talk to him monthly. Not the least bit intimidating. All in all, it goes very well and they inform me that they will be in touch first of next week.


Fast forward an hour: Susan LILLY calls and asks if I am still and town....she wants to meet me. She proceeds to scare the CRAP out of me with the workload, the narcissistic cliental, and the lack of a life in general. She also tells me they will be in touch on Monday/Tuesday.




I find out about Cultivate tomorrow....


Scenario 3...I open my own boutique. The business plan is finished, and the logo is designed. All that's left is financing and I have a backer in place. The timing seems to be right; not to mention I have certain things that pull me towards staying in East Texas.


Biggest few days of my life thus far. And A LOT to consider. I've replayed every scenario over in my mind a hundred times. there are pros and cons to each. Whichever option I choose, takes me down a a completely different path....


Life is about the choices you make...and every opportunity has a shelf life.

The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;        5
 
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,        10
 
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.        15
 
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.        20