Seeing Herman

So if any of you know me, you'd know that growing up, I was crazy obsessed with the Herman's Hermits.  Like, why was an 8 year old listening to the Herman's Hermits anyways?

I'll tell you why. 

Because good music is so universal that has no language, age, race or time barriers.  Hence why I loved the Herman's Hermits at age 8.  Hence why the world is STILL celebrating the Beatles music.

But I digress.

 About a year ago at Abbey Road on the River, I FINALLY got to see Peter Noone and the Herman's Hermits perform.  AND we got to meet Peter Noone himself!

Another life goal: See a Herman's Hermit concert- Check ✓

Read about it here!

Sidenote: Peter Noone is probably the funnest guys I've ever met.  He puts on a great, hysterically funny show every time he performs.  And bonus, he's a fabulous singer.  I swear his voice hasn't aged a day since the 60's.

I just love him.

But I digress again.

So, obviously, when my mom and I heard he was coming to Kansas City for a free concert, we had no choice but to go.

After waiting for two hours, he came on stage and yet again had a fabulous show.  He played all my favorites.

No Milk Today

This Door Swings Both Ways

There's a Kind of Hush All Over The World

Listen People

I'm Henry the VIII, I Am

Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter

The list goes on.

It just blows me away every time I see an artist perform that was in the heart of the British Invasion.  It makes it more real for me, like it's not just a part of history that happened 50 years ago.  It was a real-live thing that people lived through and I get to see a little glimpse of that every time I see them perform.  Make me happy :)

Anyways, we didn't wait in line to meet Mr. Noone after the show, but I got a few good pics of his performance!

 

It's Herman!

Shameless selfies

Herman being Herman

That night, I added two pictures on Instagram, and 10 munites later he liked and commented on the pictures! 

He even called me 'h'. 

Awwww. I love him even more!

So me and Peter are best friends now, right?

And to end this post with one of my favorite quotes from the lyrics of Peter Noone:

Make the most of living if you're not prepared to die.

#LetsMoveToLondon2014

xx

Senior Spring

I've been back in America for over 7 months now, and the next 5 are gonna be the hardest to survive yet.  Today marks the one year anniversary of the day I landed in London Town.  And what's worse is Nicole is over in London right now experiencing everything I did.  The sights, the culture, the thrill of the city, the excitement of living in a new country.  And I'm not gonna lie, I'm INSANELY JEALOUS.

I downloaded an app called Timehop, and it shows me what I've put on social media that day a year ago..  So Caity and I call it our "drug" app because it's so addictive to see what we were doing in Europe exactly a year ago, but it depresses us so much.  Still, it's fun to see!  So here's what I put on social media exactly a year ago today.  I'm still blown away that it's already been a year.

Nicole, if you're reading this I'm sorry for texting you everyday and blowing up your newsfeed when you add more pictures.  I'd like to say that it will die down eventually, but it wont.  Sooo just be ready to have 76 notifications everytime a new album is added to your facebook and a text from me every morning when you wake up. Again, sorry ;)

The only thing getting me through my last semester of college is knowing that I'll be in London visiting Nicole right after graduation.  I think about it everyday and it's the only that that keeps me sane in America.  I CAN'T WAIT.

So besides my depressing novel of blog posts about not living in Europe anymore, I actually do have a somewhat exciting life!  This weekend I'm taking a few friends up to Kansas City's Power & Light District for a free private party I won a few weeks ago!  My dad's paying for a hotel downtown for all of us on Friday then we're all staying at my house on Saturday night and he's gonna take us out and buy dinner for everyone!  It'll be fun to be in Kansas City with all of my Oklahoma girls!  I don't think any of us were ready to start school back up this week, so here's to the last hoorah of our last winter break!

Just a few of us that are about to hit up P&L this weekend!

Besides that, I had a pretty fun break as well!  I was a bridesmaid in my cousins wedding and I also got to see all of my friend's babies!!  Since everyone was in KC for the break, I got to see all their babies! :) Yay, I love babies!!

The beautiful bride, Caylee!!

Me and my cousin Carleigh! :)

JAYDEN :)

Little Brayden!

My cutie cousin Ryleigh at the wedding!

My little Addy :)

Olivia getting baptised!

Happy Olivia!!! :)

Those precious little children made my break absolutely perfect; I wish I could see all of them everyday!  In addition to that, I also worked full time at the day care while I was home.  I'm saving up for a plane ticket to LONDON after graduation, so working was more enjoyable then normal because I actually have an exciting goal to make money rather than just to pay off my Bursar. 

Anyways, today was the first day of the last semester of my undergrad!  I'm super excited and I CANNOT wait to graduate and leave Stilly!  I know there's so much more out there for me than just living in Stillwater and I can't wait to find out what it is.  Life after graduation is gonna be amazing and I'm %100 ready for it!

I hope everyone had (or is still having) a wonderful winter break!

xoxo