Tour de Funeral Home

Thought you might like to see a little bit of the funeral home. Holwell graciously agreed to give us a tour of the funeral home and tell us a little bit about the tools he uses.

Beginning of the End

Today was the last day of the semester before my last semester of college. Obviously, I am feeling very excited and anxious to be so close to graduating. If you don't know, I graduated high school in 2006 and after going to college for 2 years, took 2 years off after I got married. During those 2 years off I went to cosmetology school, worked and did my best to support my husband as he got his degree in mortuary science.

When we moved back to Columbia in August of last year, I knew it was time to get back to the grindstone and finish my own degree. On December 15, 2012 I will graduate with a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration with a Major in Marketing. I am so thrilled. This has been a long time coming for me and I'm ready to grow up and start being and adult now!

There is a downside to the last day of the semester before my last semester of college though. For a lot of my friends at school, it was the last day of their last semester. That means when they graduate in a week and half, there is a very good chance that I will not see most of them again. Of course, we'll stay Facebook friends and years from now we'll be sharing pictures of our children and grandchildren...but we will always look back on these times with fondness and remember how much fun we had.

A lot of those memories will involve recalling the stress of finals, the marketing plan that ended in what we thought was an epic failure, or maybe the time we plotted against our advisors. But with the bad, there is also the good. Being forced to join the dark side and creating a Twitter account by a specific unnamed professor, and eventually becoming addicted to posting about mundane daily occurrences. We will look back on sitting in the back of the classroom talking bad about our other classmates (yea yea, we're cruel). But the thing I will remember most is making new friendships that I hope will last a lifetime.

You can call me sappy, but this last year has been a lot of fun. And though it has been intensely stressful, I'll miss those that I've come to know and cherish.

...don't even think about unfriending me beotches.

As part of a school assignment, I had to do a podcast. In order to do that on Blogger, I had to attach an image(s). So since my podcast had to relate my blog, I asked Holwell to allow me to interview him about the funeral business. So I've put together a small slideshow containing images of my sexy husband with the interview. Check it out: 

I hope you learned something new about the funeral business. And enjoyed the slideshow :) Thanks Holwell for taking time out of your oh so busy day waiting for someone to die, to give us some insight into his career. 

Spring Break 2012

My spring break did not consist of sandy beaches or ocean breezes, but it was a lot of fun because I got to spend it with some awesome people. I've made it clear in previous posts that there are some people in my life that I hold in very high regard. The first of those is obviously my Husband, Holwell. He is numero uno in my life, second only to my Father God. Next are my precious siblings. They give me so much joy. It was awesome getting to hang out with all of them this week. Now that we are getting older, the conversations and problems we share become more mature and less childlike...but I always remember the old days.

Don't ask me to explain what's happening in this picture. I can tell you that we had a ton of fun. And we still do. We went to the movies, ate delicious korean cuisine, got coffee and ice cream. Last week was one of my favorite this year and I can't wait to do more!