Celebrating with the Birthday Boy

Making Mistakes

Go ahead and read the title of my blog. Read it again. Notice anything wrong? Surprise! "Unperfect" is actually not even a word. Yikes... I think I was going for "Imperfect" BUT here's where I have struck gold: my blog title is Perfectly Unperfect, and while yes, I messed up by using a nonexistent word... it just further proves my point in that - I'm NOT perfect. I make mistakes. We all do. Mistakes are what make us who we are, and some mistakes turn out to be amazing in their own ways. For example, here are 5 awesome accidental discoveries:

1. Penicillin
2. Microwaves (WHAT WOULD LIFE BE WITHOUT THEM!?)
3. Velcro 
4. Coca-cola 
5. aaaaand last but not least - Viagra? haha

So point is, forgive yourself when you make mistakes because we all do it, it's inevitable, and it's what makes you, youuuuuuuuuuuuu.

Ah crap, that just got cheesy but.... cheesy is my middle name. OK no it's LouAnn, but you get the point.

Holidays

Christmas is right around the corner, and I am super stoked! However, it turns out that the holidays aren't exactly the same when you go to college for some people. A lot of parents pull the "you're an adult now you don't get any more presents this year" which is a valid point, HOWEVER, us college students are broke, stressed, and sometimes want to feel like kids again, so I see no harm in still giving college kids gifts at Christmas. Maybe just one or two meaningful things that we could really use! After college, well then, yes I assume you've officially entered adult hood, but then you can participate in gift exchanges and other fun ways to celebrate the season. However, presents or no presents it's important to remember the real occasion worth celebrating: Jesus' birthday. During Advent, we are called to really take the time to strengthen our relationship with God and iron out any kinks, but I think this time is more difficult than any other time to do that because of the millions of added distractions. Finals, Christmas parties, catching up with friends, working extra holiday hours, etc. really take up a lot of time, and it seems nearly impossible to maintain our relationship with God, let alone build upon it. However, it is not impossible if you look for God in everything surrounding you. Christmas is the season for hustle and bustle, but it is also the season of giving. If you keep an eye out, you will see Christ working just as hard as you are in making this a great holiday season. So, celebrate with family and friends, but don't forget to celebrate with the birthday boy! After all, he is your very best friend! 

Learning to Be Happily Single

Some of you might completely disregard this because well, you're not single, so this section of this week's blog post is dedicated to my fellow single readers! Speaking of the holiday season, now more than ever, it's annoying to be single. There are so many fun "couple" things to do this time of year: ice skating, Festival of Lights, Christmas tree decorating, and shopping, etc., so it's hard to truly feel happy being single right now when it feels like couples may be taking over the earth (I swear they're EVERYWHERE). But I think that being single is really such a great treasure that everyone, including myself, takes for granite sometimes. Being single, you have no one else to define you. You are left to define yourself, and it is in the single life when you can really discover who you are. Too many people who are in relationships find themselves "stuck" more or less without room to grow as an individual. (not saying all relationships are like this but quite a few). Another great thing about being single is you don't have to spend the extra money buying your significant other a gift. Use the money you would be spending, and buy yourself a little something nice because hello, you're awesome, and you deserve it. If you can learn to be completely happy single, you will become the best version of yourself - not reliant on anyone else to be happy, more in control of your emotions, and doing things for yourself, no one else. Again, there are too many couples out there who place almost their entire happiness in a single person, so unfortunately when that source is taken away, they feel like they have nothing. Be proud to be single, and focus on making yourself happy because when you are your happiest single self, you will find the right guy or girl who you won't NEED to rely on. Being independent is so attractive because you have your own life together and clearly are doing just fine. At that point, a relationship can be a healthy bonus to your life as opposed to every source of happiness. WERK IT SINGLES WERK IT. 

Here's a fun picture sent from my favorite single friend, Elizabeth :)

That's all I have for this post, but I wish all of my readers a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! I'll be in Florida all next week (don't be too jealous :) ), so I won't be posting for a little while. Until next time....

Stay Classy,
Megan LouAnn

FINAL-ly I'm Back

 Long Time No Blog

Hello readers! It's been way too long since I've been able to make a post. Life has been crazy lately, but that's life! I believe it's been two or three weeks due to such events like Thanksgiving Break, snow storms, and the worst of all, FINALS. So quick litle updates on that: Thanksgiving was wonderfully spent with my wonderful family, and my grandma brought out my mother's yearbook from the 7th grade - honestly funniest thing I've ever seen. My mom kept quoting, "I'm so confused. This book looks ancient!" WELL, mother dearest, hate to break the new to you but...... :) Mamaw also found my mom's old Girl Scout sash and code book. Too funny. And then came the real fun: Black Friday shopping! We always love to get in the hustle and bustle of all the crazy shoppers even if we aren't shopping for anything in particular ourselves. All in all, Thanksgiving was wonderfully spent with amazing family, and I truly am so SO blessed and thankful to have them in my life.

Hard Work Pays Off

With my very first semester of college under my belt as of TODAY - yay!, I have every reason to celebrate! I have had so much success in all of my classes, and the academic transition from high school to college was as smooth as it could get, and I have a few people to thank for that. Most importantly, I need to thank my absolutely amazing high school teachers for beyond preparing me for succes. I appreciated them in high school, but certainly not to the extent that I appreciate them now. They pushed me to be the best student I can be, and it's because of them that I was able to stay on top of everything in college. I would not be NEAR the quality student I am today if it weren't for them, and I almost want to write each and every one of them a thank you letter! BUT I think a simple visit back to say thanks would be just as effective, so I plan to do that tomorrow actually! To my readers who are still in high school: when you find yourself moaning and groaning about teachers assigning too much homework or multiple tests in one day, trust me you'll thank them later because news flash: professors in college aren't going to reschedule their exam because you have your big speech that day! All in all, I am so so thankful for the education I have been offered, and maybe someday, I will be the teacher pushing my own students to be their best, so they too, can succeed in college.

Boys are the most annoying creatures on the face of the earth.

Today after my last final exam, I had lunch with two good friends of mine, Caitlyn and Connor. To give a little background, Caitlyn, like me, has been single for a little while now, and Connor has been in a relationship for over a year - go him! However, Cait and I were discussing our many MANY boy problems because - hello - there are always boy problems... Here's a list of my favorite quotes from the discussion:

1. "You all are falling for all the boys. Men can start real relationships." -Connor
2. "I'm never getting married. Not kidding. I'm not gonna EVER get married." -Megan "You're so full of shit." -Connor "Haha well yeah..." -Megan
3. "I don't even want a pefect guy. Like I want him to be mean to me every once in awhile, just not screw me over." -Caitlyn "Yeah! Like call me a bitch or something. Keep it interesting!" -Megan
4. "I saw something the other day that said girls fall for the douchebags when they have perfectly good guys willing to date them, but they will forever be 'just friends'." -Connor "Yeah that's me. It's annoying. I can't even stop myself from doing it..." -Megan "My life." -Cait
5. "I've come to the conlusion that guys are born assholes, you've just got to pick one and put up with him forever." -Megan
6. "Oh my gosh that baby is toooo cute! Ugh. I'm never gonna get a baby because I'm never getting married. What is life." -Megan
7. "Okay, it is illegal to tell a girl you like her, make out with her, and then act like NOTHING happened. Freaking illegal." -Megan

And that about sums up our lunch conversation. It was mostly Cait and I complaining and Connor trying to stick up for his own breed, but let's face it: boys are annoying. Period. And just to add a little bit of my thoughts on the whole friend zone situation...

Dear guys would felt that they have been friend zoned,

You are probably a really REALLY nice guy. And this girl you've been friend zoned by recognizes that. She loves you for that, and yes, you can say that you would treat her nice and give her the world and never hurt her BUT she still might not want to go there with you. This has nothing to do with how attractive you are or not. You can be an attractive, smart, loving, caring, gentlemen and STILL get friend zoned. If a girl doesn't see you as a potential boyfriend because you are too good of friends, then you are too good of friends. The end. They can't help it, and maybe someday they'll have a change of heart, but if she saw you as a boyfriend, she would probably pursue it because you're probably a really good guy. Trust me, us girls will find ourselves thinking: "Why do I fall for guys who aren't treating me half as good as (insert you name here) would treat a girl?" Here's the answer: we don't know, and I hope it's something you grow out of someday because I'm tired of it, you're tired of it, everyone's tired of it, but it's not like we do it on purpose. We are genetically wired that way, and that's about all I have on that.

This is the conclusion for this post, and I promise I will try my hardest to not abandon you all for a random 2 weeks again with fair warning. To all of my friends who are finished with finals - congrats we made it! And to all of my friends who are still finishing finals - you are SO close, keep pushing through! And to all the guys out there who think it's fun to play with a girl's heart - newsflash: it's illegal. I just decided.

Stay classy,
Megan LouAnn