KJB Had A House Guest

Sangria and Cupcakes won out over Mt. Pleasant

Friends are important in the circle of life. They're a reflection of the characteristics that are important to you. I can say that at 23, I've been blessed with having some really great friends in my life. And on the flip side, some not so great friends in retrospect. Shows like Seinfeld and friends became popular because everyone can relate to a time in their life when your friends are your family.

"There's a Korean word, it's called jung. It's the connection between two people that can't be severed, even when love turns to hate. You still have those old feelings for them; you can't ever completely shake them loose for you; you will always have tenderness in your heart for them." - Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You 

I have always had a multitude of friends, very distinct groups of those friends and no relationship ever the same. While I may not still be friends with the same people I once was- each friend has taught me something. It is upsetting when a friendship ends. Friendships can either evolve, or they end when you grow up. I remember the friendships that ended fondly. I've been lucky that the majority of the friendships I've had haven't ended in some sort of explosion but rather just petered out naturally. You can't really get upset when you grow apart. I'm thankful that there's no animosity between us. We just so happen to not be friends anymore.

"People come in and out of your life. For a time they are your world; they are everything. And then one day they're not. There's no telling how long you will have them near. It's the goodbyes that are hard." - Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You 

However, there are a few friendships that come to mind that leave a sour taste in my mouth but I came to accept that I would never get answers to some things or never get to explain myself but in the words of Bethenny Frankel, "holding onto anger is like drinking poison and hoping the other person dies."

Some friends come into your life and leave when they serve their purpose. Some friends can go without talking and then the moment you see them again you get to pick up right where you left off.

"You're not going to remain best friends with every single person from every chapter of your life. Some fade in, some fade out. Just be thankful for who you have in the moment... Because some people don't even have that." Sex and The City 

Even when I stop being friends with someone, I still remember their little quirks and a mundane event can remind you of a certain time and suddenly you're transported back to that time. It's the ultimate time travel machine.

"Growing up is weird. Losing tough with friends who you thought would be at your wedding is weirder."

Making new friends as an adult is nearly impossible. High school friends move away. You move away from your college friends. I guess there are co-workers, if you have a job. But how do you even make friends as an adult?

"Some people bring out the worst in you, other bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything. They make you feel so alive that you'd follow them straight into hell, just to keep getting a fix." - Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

That's why it's the best when people come to visit. I'm extremely lucky that my friends come to visit. Because the majority of my friends moved away and now I have to have friends delivered. LOL. If I could there would be a revolving door on 723 with changing house guests, a girl can dream right?

xxoo,

KJB

"If you gotta force it, just leave it alone. Relationships, friendships, ponytails... Just leave it."- Reyna Biddy

Graduation Day!

“It’s the oldest story in the world. One day, you’re 17 and planning for someday, and then quietly and without you really noticing, someday is today, and then someday is yesterday, and this is your life. We spend so much time wanting, pursuing, wishing. But ambition is good, chasing things with integrity is good, dreaming. If you had a friend you knew you’d never see again, what would you say? If you could do one last thing for someone you love, what would it be? Say it. Do it. Don’t wait. Nothing lasts forever. Make a wish and place it in your heart. Anything you want, everything you want. Do you have it? Good. Now believe it can come true. You never know where the next miracle’s going to come from, the next memory, the next smile, the next wish come true. But if you believe that it’s right around the corner, you open your heart and mind to the possibility of it, to the certainty of it, you just might get the thing you’re wishing for. The world is full of magic. You just have to believe in it. So make your wish. Do you have it? Good. Now believe in it with all your heart.” -One Tree Hill

Yesterday, my little sister graduated from high school.  I woke up thinking, "It's Graduation Day!" as if Jade was Elsa and it was her "Coronation Day!" To say, "I can't even" is an understatement. I remember when I was an only child. I remember when she was born, I remember cheering her on at her various sporting events, I remember yelling her for a multitude of reasons. She's my little sister and in a lot of ways, I think of her as my first child. Mom does refer to me as her "other mother" after all. I  woke her up for school, helped her with her homework, I drove her to and from school. Somehow she went from being my baby sister that wouldn't play Barbies with me to being a 19 year old high school graduate. I'm so immensely proud, I can't even imagine how my mother feels. All 3 of us, Mom, Jade and myself are now Lancaster Alumna. Time and life are a weird thing, they move with lightning speed and you don't realize how important something is until it's over and you're looking back just like, "WOW".

"When we were five, they asked us what we wanted to be when we grew up. Our answers were things like astronaut, president, or in my case… princess.

When we were ten, they asked again and we answered - rock star, cowboy, or in my case, gold medalist. But now that we've grown up, they want a serious answer. Well, how 'bout this: who the hell knows?!

This isn't the time to make hard and fast decisions, its time to make mistakes. Take the wrong train and get stuck somewhere chill. Fall in love - a lot. Major in philosophy 'cause there's no way to make a career out of that. Change your mind. Then change it again, because nothing is permanent.So make as many mistakes as you can. That way, someday, when they ask again what we want to be… we won't have to guess. We'll know." - Jessica, Breaking Dawn

So the goon child is off to college and then the world! I've loved, mostly, watching her grow up and I can't wait to see what's next! But one thing's for sure, she'll always be my precious baby sister!

xxoo

KJB

Happy Founder's Day, Alpha Gamma Delta!!

Home Sweet Home

Fall '11 Bid Day

Fall '11 Red, Buff, and Green

PC '11 @ Red, Buff and Green

Fall '12 Bid Day

Roommates, Fall '12

PC '11, Fall '12 Bid Day

Roommates @ Fall '13 Bid Day

Nugget and I @ Bid Day '13

Day 1 Bae 1s @ Fall '13 Bid Day

Feels Like Home to Me

Big, Little Love

Reunited and it Feels so Good!

PC '11 @ Fall '14 Bid Day

Seniors, We Made IT!

Nothing Sweeter than Family

Omega Chapter of Alpha Gamma Delta

Three Best Friends that Anyone Could Have

Annie

MY Fam Do Stuff Your Fam Wish It Could

The Elusive Power Point

My Sweet Little Family

The New Fam

Roommates, Fall '14

Taylor

To gain understanding that wisdom may be vouchsafed to me.

To develop and prize health and vigor of body. 

To cultivate acquaintance with many whom I meet. 

To cherish friendships with but a chosen few and to study the perfecting of those friendships. 

To welcome the opportunity of contributing to the world's work in the community where I am placed because of the joy of service thereby bestowed and the talent of leadership multiplied. 

To honor my home, my country, my religious faith. 

To hold truth inviolable, sincerity essential, kindness invaluable. 

To covet beauty in environment, manner, word and thought. 

To possess high ideals and to attain somewhat unto them. 

This shall be my purpose that those who know me may esteem Alpha Gamma Delta for her attainments, revere her for her purposes and love her for her Womanhood.

My Littlest Little One

Live with Purpose

Formal '14

Red, Buff and Green, Fall '14

Mckay

Inspire the Woman, Impact the World

Big Little Lovin'

ROD and I at Senior Bar Crawl

Big Little Lovin'

12/13/14, Graduation with my Big and Little 

KJB, The Recruitment Guide

I can honestly say that Alpha Gamma Delta is a major component in the person that I am. I know that it's the reason I miss Akron everyday, and that's saying something! Joining this organization sophomore year changed everything in my life for the better. Going away to school was difficult to say the least but joining Alpha Gamma Delta was as easy as coming home.

Alpha Gamma Delta was founded May 30, 1904; so today is our Founder's Day. 111 years. I am a proud Alpha Gam every day, but especially today! There are barely words to scratch the surface on my feelings for Alpha Gam, the organization, the sisterhood, our purpose. Just scroll through my previous posts, I'm like a proud mom doling out constant praise. Alpha Gamma Delta was my home away from home for 3 years, I met some of the best people I've ever met within the organization and because of the organization. I have gotten to experience incredible things because of my sisters and with my sisters, and we have done incredible things.

Founder's Day is a lot like Mother's Day and Father's Day or specific to the sorority world, Initiation and Recruitment, it's a day that reminds you of all the things that you already know but were taking for granted. The founders of Alpha Gamma Delta saw that they there was a need for something very specific and they decided to do something about it, and it's been around, changing and molding lives for 111 years, and for that I'm forever grateful. Alpha Gamma Delta didn't make me special, but it helped me realize what was in me all along.

I wasn't born an Alpha Gamma Delta but I got here as soon as I could.
Happy Founder's Day!
xoxo

A proud Alpha Gamma Delta, KJB