Enjoying the "Little" Things

Video of the Week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9zfCMp99-A

Life Update: Yee-haw! It's the last week of classes for the semester! Now that it's finally junior year, I can finally say that I've finally found my niche here at UGA. I'm involved with organizations I love, in a major I love, and have some pretty awesomely great friends!

I shall begin my weekly update with last Wednesday. I had class, did some homework and stuff, and then went to our Italian Club event, "Cinema Sotto Le Stelle" (which actually ended up being inside since it was freezing) where we watched La Vita e Bella. The movie is in Italian, but if you haven't seen it, I HIGHLY recommend it. Turn on subtitles, yo. Oh, and while we're talking Italian, one of my coworkers asked me today in the middle of our conversation if I was Italian...RaNdOm. Ohhhh and I payed for the rest of my Impact trip. So for Spring Break, I'm officially going to the everglades! Huzzah!

I kind of took Thursday as a lazy day since my lab period was cancelled. I made sure everything was together for my plant book and then met my friend that night to watch Pitch Perfect. 

Friday, however was a bit more busy. I had my classes (turned in the plant book!) and work until 4:30 like every other Friday. But after that, I headed out to the sheep farm for an hour before my best friend got in from Tech! We went out to eat Friday night at Mirko and I took her to 2 Story where we caught up, hung out, and chilled for a while. I love being with her cause is never like we missed a beat, even if we haven't seen eachother for a couple of months. Of course we stayed up late...

Saturday morning she got to come out to the farm with me and meet the sheep :) Afterwards, I went to watch her v-ball tournament that went on from noon until around 6pm. I got home and happened to catch the end of the Auburn game. And catch the ball is exactly what Auburn did. And they ran it. And won. I literately heard the entire neighborhood scream when that happened. 

Grace and Me

Sunday was quite the long day, but I loved every minute of it. I went out to the livestock arena at 7am after taking MJ out for a nice sunrise walk. I showed my sheep after the dairy cows and ended up with 4th. The show ended around 2; I stayed with my friend to help clean up and load the dairy heifers into the trailer. After the show, my mom and I went to Panera and Target for some quality hang out time. I had a triple professor sighting at Target - old chemistry, old bio, and current speech. Later on, my roomies and I went to Sonic for dinner (where I faked an Aussie accent to order). I then headed to Warnell to meet my group to work on our project due this Thursday. Here's pics of me with Button for your enjoyment -

Showing Sheep

Me with Button

Yesterday, otherwise known as Monday, I had class, worked on a paper, went to DT, and went to the last pre-vet club meeting of the semester. I actually brought my dog, MJ, along to the meeting with me, so she got to get some fine UGA education. 

And that brings me to today. Class. Work. But after work, I went to this pretty cool Young Farmers dinner meeting. If there's one thing I love about the College of Ag, it's the people. Before, I had met my friend at Kroger so that we could carpool to Four Towers, so we went back to Kroger. We proceeded to chill in the car for over an hour in the Kroger parking lot. (What were we talking about you might ask? Well, here are a few things...my everglades accent, the moon, being long along gone long-ly, country music, brownies, people who are too happy when they get out of their cars, guys who drive Beetles, and other random things. Then, I came home, and here I am. The end. And they all lived happily ever after. 

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Sometimes life can slap us in the face and seem to tell us that we're not good enough. We'll never make it big. In order to make our lives meaningful, we have to have that bigger house, a better car, bigger dreams, the list goes on and on.

Well, I want to offer you a challenge. Just for a little bit of time each day - stop thinking about the big things of life and focus on the little. Sure, the big things are important, but not as important as you might think.

I've been spending a lot of time over these past couple of weeks outside and on the farm. Something as, and I say small, as a sunset or sunrise is absolutely beautiful and should be given more attention. I mean, come on, how "little" of a deal is a sunrise? But yet, we tend to take it for granted.

These day-to-day smaller events or occurrences can be so easily overlooked either because we're too focused on the big picture or because we have our face buried in our phone.

My challenge for you is to find at least one or two of the "smaller things in life" per day that you are grateful for. They could be a sunrise, an hour spent in the car laughing with a friend, a song on the radio, a smile offered by a stranger, or a leaf that happens to fall in your path just so you can step on it to hear that crunch.


Appreciate the "little" things!
Megan

Fun Fact: The world's lowest street-legal car was 19 inches tall. It was adequately nicknamed the "Flatmobile."