Fresh Start Challenge Day 30: Who I Was, Am and Will Be

Minus the resume and cover letter and how to vote.

Dear Crazy wild and stubborn,

You did decent. You probably shouldn't have stole that car but hey you didn't get caught. Good job on turning down the drugs. Don't worry about the beating the heart took it was just a few punches trust me in a few years it's going to be stomped on. 

That hairdo though... yeahhhhh you looked like a dude at times. Not cool. From now on lets keep it long and soft. The rest of it we did good. Okay and be really glad we ignored mom. She wasn't worth a damn anyhow.

Dear even more wild and crazy but less stubborn,

I don't hate you. Yeah you screw up but that's life. You can't have everything your way and thank you for finally realizing that. It makes us a lot happier. Thank you for finally settling down with a good guy with a good job that you KNOW will treat you right.

You look awesome in those jeans stop flipping out at the size of your butt. Get up and do more stair exercise and it may not jiggle as much then and atleast be more firm. 

Dear hopefully less wild and crazy but more stubborn,

You did it! You had kids with that Edwin dude! You look gorgeous, early wrinkles and all. You look hot mama. You handle everything well. You make getting old look good. Just stay naked!!!

Fresh Start Challenge Day 29: Cookie Crumbs

Mrs. Winthrop was peeking out of her window again hearing that weird growling again.

She knew the noise had to becoming from her neighbors. They were newlyweds so of course she was expecting sex noises.

The growling was accompanied by sex noises but the growling was an odd sort of growling. Surely they didn't take in bestiality the woman mused to herself.

Getting out her binoculars she peered finally into their window only to realize something shocking...

She zoomed in with her digital binoculars and was amazed.

The bride had cookies in her vagina and the man was happily munching the cookies out of her while rubbing her love button and squeezing her breasts.

Mrs. Winthrop put her house up for sale the next day.

Fresh Start Challenge Day 28: You Would Think I Would

After living through the turmoil of April 27th, you'd think I would be more aware of what to do during a storm but I am not. I am just not that organized. I do know that when I was living in an apartment with my exboyfriend I did request a ground floor apartment. 

Right now I live in Hunter's house, so there for I live in a house that it well prepared for any kind of disaster from fire, tornado, and snow. Trust me she got this. But you will find out about all of it when you read her blog in a few hours! 

But as far as me, no I don't have any plans. I may once we get our house built. 

Fresh Start Challenge Day 27: ROLL TIDE

Tailgating...

I have been doing this since I was before I born. My last couple of meals inside my mom was tailgating food. So there you go!

I love the games, the music, the food, the atmosphere, and of course the alcohol.

I love the area on the Quad.

The Quad is a large 22 acre green space at the heart of the University of Alabama’s campus. It is anchored by the President’s Mansion on the south. Most of the campus burned during the Civil War. The President’s Mansion was spared due to the efforts of the president’s wife, making it one of the oldest buildings on campus.

Seriously it might just be a square piece of land to some but to most of us wearing crimson and white and screaming about a rolling tide it means a  great deal of history to us.

Soooo during the fall on most Saturdays you can find me chowing down on the quad. 

Fresh Start Day 26: Deal Me

Gambit... Ahhh the Cajun that's ragin'. I love me a good southern boy with a dark side but still good. This is him. Total heartthrob.

And Channing Tatum is fixing to play him in the live action movie, um hello, yay!

I love how he is usually a hard ass but when it comes to who he loves his vulnerability shows and it's endearing.

Fresh Start Challenge Day 25: XOXO

Dear Hunter,

You've been my twin for forever! We might be born a month apart but we are joined as twins. From us using each other as a stepping stool to get out of places our parents put us. To us determined we looked good with crazy line hair. To running like morons through the sunflowers. To hiding in the woods. To hunting. To trying to knock each other off the porch. To getting arrested together. To getting each other home when we are drunk off our ass. Thank you for the impact of love and support.


Dear Daddy,

To the man who gave me life. Who put a gun in my hands at three. Who put a shot glass in my hand at 13. To the man who took me to my first Alabama football game at two years old. You taught me to stand up for myself. And you also spoiled me rotten. You helped me realize that I am important and to go after what I want. Not just expect it to be dropped in my lap. I do wish you had pushed the whole cleaning thing but that's okay. Edwin is good at cleaning. I love you and treasure you as my father.


Dear Grandma,

The only one who agreed with me and Hunter when we said our mothers sucked! You are still so freaking dang awesome. The only to completely bash the mothers with us. Spoil us rotten and yet make us grateful for the things we have. You have always cheer me up and help me through things.


Dear Lillian,

We have hung out on and off all of our lives. We spent countless summers stuck in a tent at festivals together. We weren't always that close but we did laugh a lot. I am glad that finally changed. You have become such a close friend to me as well as cousin. I can't imagine what my life would be without you. You have given many different chances to grow and learn more and more. Thank you so much for becoming closer to me.


Dear Edwin,

Yup I saved you for last. It's hard to write something to someone when you want to spend forever writing it. I just can't believe what an amazing man you have become. You were always amazing as a friend and accomplice but you stand on your own feet now even if you no reason for standing up. You are so courageous and yet such a wuss at the same time. I love you to death and we have forever!

Fresh Start Challenge Day 24: When You're The Best of Friends

You have your whole life mapped out on how you want something. You party all the time. You have a job. The world is revolving around you because you have a boyfriend. And, even though you are low on money a lot you still think life is pretty great.

First, cancer strikes your boyfriend. You have to change the map course a little. Your job starts to suffer because you have hangovers a lot. When cancer strikes and your job suffers the money goes even lower. Now you are begging to party but you have no money.

Then your boyfriend decided to dump you and you beg for him not leave. He stays longer until the worst hits. You find him lying big time to you about where he was. Instead of being at work he is hanging out with his friend you hate a lot. Instead not taking a lunch, he was really chatting up that girl that he never told he was taken. You think you can't live without him.

You leave to go see family except your favorite cousin who is clear across the country. You return to find your whole apartment trashed and empty. You finally realize you don't need that garbage in your life even if you feel guilty for him having cancer.

You just pray about where to go next. Your aunt calls telling you she sent a ticket to Seattle for you because your best friend/cousin is depressed from being sick and also needs help moving back to Alabama.

People can say what they want to about but why keep someone in your life that lies about where they are and doesn't have the respect and dignity for you to tell people they are with you. That's just keeping the person unhappy and you as well no matter "how badly" you think you love them or you make things work.

I am so grateful God put my path to intertwine with Hunter's. It hasn't been a perfect path. My heart has been broken again and it took a while to get a solid job. But I don't drink all the time now. My boyfriend now is a wonderful childhood friend who I know won't go off the deep end. I have grown closer to my family. I have new friends that really support me and make me laugh and give me new opportunities that take me to places I never dreamed about going.

But most importantly I have grow closer to God because he showed me that I needed to realize His relationship with me was more important than a relationship on Earth.

Fresh Start Challenge Day 23: That Girl

1. I spritz all cards and letters I send in the mail with perfume or body spray. 
2. I actually send notes to everyone. Trust me I have McDonald's free food all the time when I get a wrong order. 
3. You can mess with me all you want but you mess with my friends and family and I will secretly destroy your life without you realizing it. 
4. I am a firm believer that if you start something you finish it! I don't take excuses well.
5. I worked at the Pig once upon a time.

Fresh Start Challenge Day 22: Burn

I still have nightmares about it.

I can feel the anguish when I wake up in a night sweat.

What if that morning it hadn't been my daddy calling me rather the police telling "Are you Carolina Collins? I'm sorry Miss but your family was in terrible house fire last night."

That cripples my heart each time. Yes we lost a lot that night but I still have all of my siblings, even the ones that drive me crazy.

I still even have Georgia that drives me crazy and is totally letting a man rob her from the cradle but I love them both to death.

I am always grateful when I see the twins trying to get in my purse for gum. Or Tex screaming that I treat my cars like my boyfriends.

I don't take my family for granted anymore.

Fresh Start Challenge Day 21: Seriously Fattening

"Dude I am not going to Wendy's over McDonald's for fries are you freaking nuts?"

"Wendy's has better fries. They are better for you."

"I like fattening fries."

"They use sea salt which is better for you."

"Please it's fried and salt. It's going to be fattening no matter what. And I would rather have it taste good."

Fresh Start Challenge Day 20: Photos Say A Million Words

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