A few points I would like to add:

1. I just reread my post and found numerous grammatical errors that honestly make my want to cry. Forgive me and please correct them as you read.
2. GET READY PEOPLE! CHRISTMAS IS 55 DAYS AWAY!!! Which also means that...
3. Thanksgiving is 25 days away. Which also means that...
4. We Auburn students have 3 school weeks until Thanksgiving break--insert a week of Thanksgiving break and the (stay humble, but WAR EAGLE) Iron Bowl and then...-- 2 school weeks until Christmas break...
For all you slow folk out there, this math adds up to 6 total weeks until I have completed my first semester of college.

Where has the time gone?
I have no idea, but it is currently beckoning me to do my laundry.



MERRY CHRISTMAS!
GirlR

sorry about that

Alright, shen we originally made this blog, we had these really great intentions of posting everday and just blogging it right on up... GirlK has done an excellent job of this. I, GirlR, have been, as you may say, missing in action, but GirlK is right when she says that I have not been on facebook... I have not been on facebook a once.
What have I been doing, you ask? Well, don't you worry, I am here to tell you.
For one thing, I have been spending much less time on the internet... which is not only grand, but also the reason that I have not been blogging.
Let's seeee.... I last posted October 13th. Since then I have been home... twice... which was silly, but very nice. On my first visit, I did up some fancy hair and makeup for my fifteen-year-old sister's homecoming dance-- she looked gorrrgg (I would post a picture, but my only access to them is through facebook, so I am currently incapable.)-- and a mere 3 days later, I returned for the Thursday opening night showing of 12 Angry Jurors at my high school alma mater (as of the past 5 months). I was super involved in the theatre deptartment there when I was in high school, and all the returnees say it super strange to be back for a show your not in, but I didn't think it was that strange. It felt somehow just the way it was supposed to; however, it did make me miss performing A-LOTTT... but like I said, things are as they should be.
Moving on, the next weekend brought corndogs o' joy to the rolling plains of dixie, and our precious tigers (the orange and navy blue ones) took spot as #1 in official college football rankings (that I pay a ridiculous amount of attention and understanding too). The week following brought nothing exciting except for a lack of sleep and poor time management on my behalf... oh, and it also brought a gift-wrapped package of William Jetpack Mason (as he calls himself on his voicemail answering machine??) on Thursday evening. We roughed it on the abandoned plains while everyone else enjoyed their Mama's home cookin'. We had a nice weekend leading up to this very point of my blog where I bid you goodbye and apologize for the senseless rambling that is a consequence of my blogging neglect and that you have endured if you have made it thus far into this post.
Keep reading. We've got 10 more days. I make you the faux promise to post on everyone of them, and I guarantee a post on November 11th because there will be nothing, but joy and jubilation from Keller Rm. 106 on my roommate's birthday.

I enjoy the way GirlK has ended posts with the following:
Peace and Blessings,
GirlR

i'm feelin so fly like a G6

oh hey,

before I begin my adventures of this weekend and the past weekend, while not on facebook, sorry I have been super busy!! but I want to give a shout out to Allison Shaw, and her BEAUTIFUL baby, Elizabeth Gray.

so adorable.

anyways, so this past weekend while not on facebook, I hung out with my dear friend girlR, sorry she hasn't posted so long. still don't know where she is. and we went to dinner at pita pit (our usual) and then walked into this incredible event at the student center, with laser tag, salsa dancing classes, inflatables, a mechanical bull, and a wedding chapel. the next day we went to the football game, WAR EAGLE. after the game, I went to this haunted farm. there was a haunted hay ride, a haunted barn, and a haunted forest. basically it was all just really hilarious. these guys ran around in masks and just grunted at you the whole time. but my dear friend kate patrick was hilarious. at one point she literally jumped into my arms because she was so scared of the men with the "chainsaws" or as I like to call, the jacked up toasters. the rest of the weekend was average. the next week, average. on tuesday, we had our halloween social, so me and kathleen and sarah katherine dressed up as the jonas brothers but we get there and we couldn't get in, because we were only 18. so we decided to go to mcdonalds, and guess what, it closes at 11. so basically we got all dressed up, and couldn't get into our social OR mcdonalds. so we did what any normal person that loves mcdonald's ice cream would do and we jumped into a random car and went through the drive thru. I went home on thursday to watch my volleyball babies play in the state championship and I am SO proud of them. after spending a lovely weekend at home, I am happy to be back in auburn.

only a few days left, my goal is to post a fun youtube video every day until the deadline. starting today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epUk3T2Kfno

much love.

girlk,

extra

this is a special post, dedicated to my dear friend molly.

this morning, I walked into her room, not expecting to see her in there because I seem to find myself in there a lot while she or kathleen aren't there, but anyways, I walked in and in stead of seeing molly, I saw this on the counter.

that is absolutely disgusting.

girlK

last name ever first name greatest

oh hey,

it has officially been 10 days without Facebook, and I am still going strong. today has been very eventful to say the least, I would probably consider it one of the greatest days yet. first of all, to catch you up, I finished my gradation project, but I had to sacrifice sleep to do it. I began working on my project at 11 in the studio, and besides taking a 2 hour break to go to ruf and chill, I was in the studio until 8 the next morning. It was a long night. I did have some fun before though, I went to chill with girlR and claire warlick and brittany moates and then me and brittany went to mcdonalds and I won something else off of the mcdonalds' monopoly cups and I accidently stole someone else's food and got WAY more than I payed for, and then I jumped out of a moving car and successfully didn't break my leg. after that I was in the studio all night. the next day, I was very delirous, and after eating lunch my friend david, I hung out with my friend mark, and we built this grass mound and convinced all these girls that it was for a project. it was hilarious. after that, I went to my dorm and slept til 9, woke up, ate dinner, and went back to be at 10. the next day, while not on Facebook, I did absolutely nothing exciting.

which brings us to today. today, while not on Facebook, I had way too much. fun. I got out of class early and melanie called me so I went and ate lunch with her and mark, my family. we had a good time, I taught them this game where you push people's hands and try to make them fall down and we got way to into it so we stopped. we then climbed some trees outside of owen, which resulted in the 2 adorable pictures below.

this is my big, Melanie. I love her wayyy too much.

after climbing trees like a boss, I spent the rest of the day with my best guh clur. I went to her apartment and saw this fun fellow on the way (dear men everywhere: please NEVER EVER wear spandex. EVER) and I did some laundry and we decided that we really want a little tea cup pig to name hamilton. the only thing is that they cost around 800 dollars, so if anybody out there knows someone who breeds teacup pigs just let me know. after catching up with clur, I went to an ruf bible study, and let me tell you it was legit. we are reading through stories in this storybook bible, like a bible for children, and at first I thought that was kinda shallow I guess for a college bible study, but it really taught me the beauty of simplicity. even the simplest thing, like a child's storybook bible can teach you about God. it is incredible how he works in the most mysterious ways.

finally the end to a perfect day, dancing with my girls in the parking lot of the student act. doesn't get much better than that. did I mention that EJ and clur crump like it's their job??

oh by the way, if you are wondering about what has happened to girlR, well honestly I have no idea where she is, but I know where she is not, and that is on facebook.

peace and blessings

girlK

simply having a wonderful christmas time

so I feel like I should catch you all up on what all I did this weekend while not on facebook. there was formal, football, waffle house, gradation project (graphic design major), initiation, and a lot more on that gradation project.

first of all, formal=super fun. secondly, great game on saturday. below is a picture of me with what I like to call my lucky shaker because as you can tell, it is completely orange. well I did not buy it like that. during the third quarter as Auburn was doing just average I began to pick out every blue piece in the shaker. it took me a very long, but it was toatally worth it because the exact minute that I pulled out the very last blue piece, we recovered a fumble, which led to a touchdown, and then we intercepted a pass for a touchdown, and THEN we intercepted ANOTHER pass and scored ANOTHER touchdown. so yeah, I would pretty much say that that makes it the luckiest shaker in the whole world, and it will also be accompanying me to like every game for the rest of the year. scratch that, MY LIFE.

war eagle. after that I hung out with some good friends, and went to waffle house with some good friends. I would say it was a successful night.

thirdly, it is time that I tell you about the thing that has completely taken over my life these past few days.... gradation project.this is a 40 hour project for one of my design classes and trust me it is ridiculous. once I am finished I will have some legit pictures for you, but below is just a rough idea of what it will look like. I basically have to ink in all those 400 squares, and that's what I've been working on all day. as I sit here not inking in squares which is what I should be doing, I am listening to christmas music on my pandora radio. I know, I know, it's october, but I just really love christmas. It truly makes me the happiest person in the world and I just can't wait til it begins to look a lot like christmas, and it's too cold outside, and we are walking in a winter wonderland.

finally, I had initiation and banquet, and both of those things were pretty cool. I hate to brag, but at our banquet, I actually won an AOII award... I was voted best little sister.... but I think that's only because I have the best big sister! (disclaimer, this is all sorority talk, I do not actually have a big sister). except for the fact that my big wasn't there to see me accept my award. but it's ok, I wasn't hurt at all.

so that pretty much wraps up the weekend. if I'm still alive after gradation I'll blog again soon!! remember facebook=garbage!

GirlK

I'm lame.

oh hey,

today while not on Facebook I dyed my hair. yeah it sounds a little outrageous, but I needed to, to match my formal dress better. ok that sounds so much lamer, than I thought it would, but seriously, I've been meaning to dye it for awhile now, just darker, nothing crazy, and so tonight I did. let me also mention that this is not the first time, I also dyed it this summer, so it's the second time. I have to give all the credit to my friend, Kate, because she is the one who actually did it, I just sat there and watched High School Musical 3. another thing I did while not on Facebook, fantasized about dating zac efron. wow ok, this blog post is making me out to be an extremely lame person, but I don't care because no matter what anyone says, zac efron is fiinneee.

now, I have a confession. this whole no Facebook for a month thing is really really hard. I find myself all the time, jumping on my computer typing in the Facebook homepage and then remembering that I don't know my password. I guess it just makes me realize how much I depend on stupid things like social networks to occupy my time. it actually makes me really sad that our society is like this, sometimes I wish that I lived in a different time period where they just played outside or knitted or something. actually, I used to know this girl who thought she had a super awesome skill of telling people what time period they belonged in, and she looked at me and said that I was like colonial or something, so of course I got really offended. I mean out of all the time periods she picks colonial for me. there is nothing cool about colonial times.

one last thing that I have been doing while not being on Facebook is listening to a lot of hymns. and let me say, I am obsessed. right now, my favorite is Jesus I Come- Indelible Grace. they are so awesome, they take all these hymns and redo them to sound more contemporary, and like I previously said, I'm obsessed.

well that's all for now. I'm going to go not be on facebook.

girlK

QUALITY

Realization of the evening: The term "social network" actually is the epitome of LAMMEEEE. I feel like a complete loser for enjoying something called a "social network" as much as I have. I have alot more comparisons I could make to the kind of personality steryotypes that my mind places with the verb "social networking," but I feel like I can't go on this tangent anymore without being rude, so I'm done.
I'll start the synopsis of my day by saying: I will never be as funny as GirlK (my sinceret apologies). Anywho, today I had alot of class (5 classes too many, to be exact). For lunch, I enjoyed a burrito with the roommate on the front stairs of Samford Lawn-- Auburn's campus is beautiful, by the way, and I hope this anti-facebook quest only leads me outside to enjoy its outdoors and architecture more and more.-- Nothing exciting happened after lunch. I went to my first chapter meeting tonight, and then one of my dearest ole' pals came to visit Keller. Not only did Keller overwhelm dear T.Harris with an estrogen-powered, squeelly-giggle rage, but T.Harris overwhelmed me with the Lord's work in his life. It was such an encouraging time of fellowship; God really used it to remind me of the order he demands of my priorities... To think that, normally, I would have been on facebook during the hours of our visit.

But, yeah... I didn't do anything quite as hilarious or witty as GirlK did today, but (as she points out) how am I supposed to compete with someone named Kit?

(Insert unimportant personal analysis of my own name: Rosie reminds me of the giggley side of me that talks alot and is super goofy. Rosemary reminds me of the side of me that's everything the Rosie side isn't. Neither comes close to the extremes-- and belly-aching laughter-- included with the name Kit.)

Thoughts of my day: Even without spontenaity, knowing that I haven't wasted two hours of my day social-networking, just makes my brain and body feel... just good. Life has so much more quality.
:)


But don't stop reading!

Before I go, the lovely lady who lives on the bunk above me just shared a little linksy with me that I also want to share with you!
You've heard the verse, "When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me." (I Corinthians 13:11) Bassically, this little girl pulls a switcheroo and makes ME the child this verse is talking about. She's a woman, and one after God's own heart.
precious, convicting, and encouraging... all in 4 minutes



Thank God (I mean that literally) that I don't have to be a slave to facebook,
GirlR

I am 5 years old.

oh hey,

Sometimes in life, you come to the point where you just have to be a child. It's like an impulse that just hits you, and you just have to do something immature. there really is no explanation for it, I give credit to my long hair, because I am convinced that short hair means mature grown adult and I'm not going to cut my hair until I'm ready to be one. It could also come with the name, 'kit'. don't get me wrong, I love my name, but it doesn't exactly say maturity, not like my real name, mary katherine, does. anyways, so today instead of being on facebook, I decided to act on my childish impulse and I made a rope out of belts in my friend's, molly and kathleen, dorm on the third floor and I took the rope and tied it around molly's pillow pet monkey, chris brown, and hung him out the window. let's just say molly was less than thrilled when she walked out of einstein's bagel to see her precious chris brown hanging out of her window, but I did get some good laughs from other people walking around, so I would consider the whole joke a success.

girlK

I am a winner.

oh hey,

today while not on Facebook, I got a WHOLE lot accomplished. first of all, I got to hang out with people in real life, not just electronically, and have real conversations with them. Secondly, I got ahead on schoolwork!!! oh yeah, BIG pat on the back for me on that one. I went to the Ralph Brown Draughon Library, and hit up the media resource center, and used all my expert photoshop skills that Jon Carter taught me to do work on this monster project I have due on tuesday. don't worry, I will put up pictures when I'm done. Thirdly, I went to mcdonalds and got a coke because I was in desperate need of caffeine. well, mcdonalds is doing that thing again with the monopoly pieces, so I got a medium so that I could get peel them off, not really expecting to win anything, but much to my excitement, I WON A FREE MEDIUM FRY!!!!!!!!!! now I don't really know when I'll ever use that, I don't exactly go to mcdonalds all the time, but the point is that I won. One day without facebook and God is already blessing me with winnings.

to close this blogpost, I also had a self realization today of how pathetic I was....

I. created. a. Facebook. page. for. my. pet. fish. (punctuation to add dramatic emphasis)

for real though, you can add him. ross fish, ross named after ross on friends of course.

so, to end with a bit of hope, if I, even I, the girl who impersonates an amphibian on a social network can get rid of her facebook, so can you.

too legit to quit,

GirlK

Unexpectedly,

I ended up completely rearranging my room today while not on facebook. My roommate and I bunked our beds, and we now believe our dorm has enough open space to host a campus wide party... but not really.

PS GirlK is really witty.

social networking rehab

oh hey,

I just want to reiterate what my dear friend, girlR, has already previously stated about this blog, especially for those out there who seem confused....

we started this blog because we are seeking help from our addiction to facebook. these past few months have been hard, and I will admit that I have been in denial about this addiction, so I have decided to reach out for help. I guess this blog is kinda like our social networking rehab. we decided instead of spending all those countless hours wasting our life on facebook, we would spend countless hours living life to the fullest, and then blogging about what we did instead of being on facebook.

now, some people have already begun to question our motives, and I am here to say STOP THAT TRASH. we posted this link on facebook so that people could follow it, and be encouraged by our not being on facebook so that they could do the same. who knows, maybe one day there will be a show on mtv, where people talk about and share their struggles with the facebook addiction, and some of their stories of what they did while not on facebook. i mean, with all the tv shows about midgets and tree people and about being pregnant but not

knowing.... it could happen.

I also just want to say sorry, to anyone who enjoys stalking my life, you'll have to actually call me to know what I'm doing or how I'm feeling or how I feel about how I'm feeling. or you could just follow this blog.

so yeah, I hope you enjoy this blog. I know I will.

stay classy bloggerworld,

girlK

today instead of getting on facebook:

I am going to
-run
-take a nap
-study
-spend time with God
-go to the bank
-go to bed early(ish)

(the above are in no order)

Ready go.

-GirlR

background

The clock rolls around to one in the morning, marking two hours of library time wasted-- not an unusual sight in the RBDragon. I'm sitting with Girl on the first floor roaming around Mark Zuckerburg's multi-billion dollar masterpiece, refreshing my home page every so often, stumbling through mustache pledge pictures, hiding those annoying people from high school from my newsfeed, and doing anything else that one considers useless on the good ole social network. At eleven o'clock, I left my dorm with every intention to get ahead on my studies-- I didn't even bring my computer... and now, I've been using girls for at least and hour. I've had coffee, and I'm wishing I was tired. I know that I've now permeated my mind with social networking, and I won't be able to do any work for the rest of the night. Another night, another few hours, another chunk of my brain: wasted, burned in the facebook furnace.

"Ok. It's time. I'm deactivating it, and I'm going to bed," I throw in the heavy wet towel. Girl thinks for a minute, "... Let's hold each other accountable."

With that our quest to discover the worth of the life began.
soli de gloria


Here's a few things you should know:
1. When we were fifteen, Girl and I stoppped calling each other by our given names and started addressing each other as Girl and Girl. The actual reason that this happened is slightly embarrassing, but the embarrassing beginning has faded away and the heart of the matter is all that lasts, and that is that we are Girl and Girl. My name is Rosemary; Girl's name is Kit. For your ease of understanding, and our cheesy gratification, we will sign our posts as GirlR and GirlK.
2. We did not end up completely deactivating our facebooks. We both changed each others passwords because here on the plains, too many people choose facebook as their official way of communication. We will recieve an email if someone has sent us an important message or event invitation; however, we will not log on the site until November 11th (my roommate's birthday).
3. We ask for your accountability... help us out. We're pretty sure that life IS worth alot more than an addicting social network, and we genuinely want to learn to experience it...
Some wise words Girl spoke to me in high school, something to knaw on:
Think of everday that you spend an hour total on facebook-- not so bad if you just spend one hour everyday-- that's alot less than average Auburn student. Now, let 24 days pass with that limit. An hour a day, for 24 days, and a whole day of your life is gone. You'll never get it back, and what did you do with that day? Spend it all on facebook.
Not only is life worth more than that,

God deserves more than that.



-GirlR

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