well for starters, I am a horrible blogger.. sorry mom and dad. i will try to make it one of my new year resolutions to improve on this! however, recently i have just started back up at school and i am freaking out! freaking out for many of reasons. one of those reasons being that im half way done with my junior year! wait what?!?!?! where does the time go? ohhh.. yeahh... it goes into all those late night study sessions at noble library... or the hours put in at work..... or the mornings i force my butt to go to the gym.....wish i had more time to do things like SHOPPP and EXXPLORE! another reason i am freaking out is that at the end of april i will be a senior! yep, thats right a senior? again, WHAT?! all my real tough classes will be out of the way and i will have room for fun classes like A.M. yoga and pilates with elizabeth and vertebrate zoology lab! so nerdy.. and lastly, i am freaking out, and i mean REALLY freaking out because in six months, only six months, i will be walking... quite possibly crawling.. into the biggest, most important, life determining exam of my life! i am not being dramatic what-so-ever when i say this. I will be taking the DAT. for those who are unaware what that is, it is precisely the dental admissions test. eeeeeeek! doing well on this exam will make my year. more accurately, my life. i dont think i have ever wanted something so bad! 

enough of that. i have continued taking my weekly kickboxing class (which i look forward to every week) and have now added cycling to my weekly classes. if you're not drenched in sweat when you leave the gym you haven't nearly worked hard enough. mtside fitness holds really good boot-camps so im looking forward to the next one starting up so i can join in! another resolution of mine has been to give up energy drinks. this may be a very difficult task for me because flavored redbulls were the best thing to happen to me since coming to college. what would hitting the books be at two a.m. without my strawberry redbull? im not really sure but i will let you know since i am trying to give it up. not making any promises though. as a subsitute for these energy drinks, i brew iced green tea every morning and bring a bottle of lemon water to school with me. green tea has natural caffeine in it which will help wake you up. squeezing half a lemon into your water will stimulate your body and make you feel more energized. so far, i have been pleased with my results from both drinks! if you like green tea and wanna make some yourself at home i bought a iced tea maker at walmart for like 19.99! cheap huh? and it works great! thanks to my momma! 

i think this post is long enough............. xoxo