Move-in day: Evangel Bound!

I moved into college today!!! 

SO many emotions! SO many people! SO many things to do!

Here's a quick pictures of my room! It's pretty much done, and I LOVE it :) 

PS: my roommate is awesome! and she's adorable!! :) 

I've gotta run! orientation, activities, and meeting my professors are on today's agenda!!


oxox,

Emily 

Change.College.Crying.

Change is something I usually don't welcome with open arms.

It usually means that something has to give, positive or negative. It may be a selfish this for me to say, but I hate change.

I like routines. I like order. I like plans. I like knowing what will happen at all times. I'm a planner and an organizer. 

As I'm getting ready for college, I realized today, how fast and furious that change is coming.

I've been doing a lot of thinking and reminiscing. This time, it's about growing up. It's about the memories I've made, good and bad. It's about the friends that I've laughed with, cried with, and shared life with. It's about making mistakes and learning from them. It's about the stupid inside jokes and laughs that I've shared with people I adore. 

For some reason, heading off to college, I seem extra sappy lately. Maybe it's because my closest friends in high school are going to colleges, thousands of miles away. Or maybe it's because most of my other friends are all headed to a college nearby and I've going to college an hour away. I know it's only an hour, but I'm still leaving.

I've shed my fair share of tears the last few days too.  

I look back through pictures, journals, and old blog posts and think time flew. And yes, I know I blogged multiple times about wanting time to fly. I was ready for graduation and I was ready for a fresh start. 

But now that that fresh start and change is coming, I second guess myself. Will I survive? Will I make new friends? Will my roommate and I get along? Will my friends in Branson remember me? Will I get the grades my parents are wanting me to get? Will I succeed?

I question myself so much, because I want to make sure that everything is going to be ok.

The what-ifs constantly plague my head and I over think every situation. But honestly, which girl doesn't over think and play things out in her head? Let's be real.


With college just a few days away and a to-do list a mile long, here's to hoping that this change is exactly what I needed. That this fresh start will be what I've needed; to get me out of this funk.

Because I know if I've never stretched and bent a little, I'll never grow. Sometimes change is necessary.  

Homeschooling: the inside scoop and I need your help.

As I mentioned yesterday, I was homeschooled. You may be surprised. You may not be. 

I have purposely chosen not to talk about this very much because it was a very bitter experience for me.


I was homeschooled my entire life. K-12. All 13 years. 


People homeschool for different reasons. Religion, their child's needs, etc. My parents have a long story on how they came to homeschool us (I have 3 sibs)...pretty much from the beginning, they chose to homeschool us. Lucky me.


I have an older brother and he was homeschooled the entire way as well. I graduated in May and I wrote a little bit about it here. Both of my younger siblings will be going to school starting this fall. I love how my parents put them in school the summer after I graduated. I'm not bitter at all.......


I enjoyed it when I was younger. All of the fun groups and fieldtrips during the middle of the day. I mean who wouldn't love that! Then as I begin to enter high school, I began to realize how the world viewed homeschooled kids. And most of the kids that I took classes with in high school, were those kids. and quite honestly, I wanted nothing to do with the stereotypes. 


Maybe that was my problem. I care too much about what people think of me. Then again, when people hear that you are homeschooled they automatically think about the most extreme stereotypes. They also ask: 
"Oh do you have as many siblings as the Duggars?" 
"Do you do school in your PJ's?"
"I bet you don't have to take tests!" 


(I can't wait to talk about all of this, this week) 


Homeschooling has its positives and negatives. But it is also not for everyone. If you do homeschool, you have to have a mom that pushes you and makes you work hard. Thankfully, mine did. I took tests. I worked hard. I took my ACT (4 times). I went to games at the local high school. I tried to be as normal as possible. I did my best and made the best out of this situation.




This week, I'll be talking about all the nitty gritty details. I would love to get some feedback from you on what you would like to know. I'll be touching on my experience, graduation, homeschool humor (or lack of), academics, and socializing to name a few. 


If there are any questions that you want me to answer, or something you want to know, leave me a comment or feel free to shoot me an email: eduncan93@gmail.com!! I'd love to answer your questions. 




Keeping it real,


EDunk   

Bridesmaids: The Movie

*The first of many Emily is *finally* growing up blog posts. Don't hate.

Y'all I feel like I finally grew up. I watched my first R rated movie. You can laugh, but besides Passion of the Christ, I hadn't seen any big girl movies! For that matter, I've only ever seen 10 PG-13 movies. 

One of my besties, Molly decided that needed to change. Girl's night was on!

We went to her house and were binge eating food like bacon, cheez-its, thin-mints, and salad. Totes random but oh so fun. 

I watched...drumroll....

Bridesmaids.

I died laughing. I peed my pants. I loved it. So funny. So quotable. In fact, the next day at work was pretty awful. Molly decided we needed to text quotable lines back and forth to each other. so we did for a good long time :)

My favorite lines:

"I apologize but I'm not even confident what end that came out of"

"At first I did not know it was your diary. I thought it was a very sad hand written book

"I'm glad he's single, cause I am going to climb him like a tree"

"I got a tattoo of a mexican drinking worm. It's like a native american symbol meaning wasted"

"I could break the towel in half, break it in half I tell you! Do you see where I'm going with this?"

"Get your $h** together Carol"

Happy Saturday Y'all!

oxox,

Emily 

Graduation Day! 5-5-12

I graduated. Finally. I'm done with high school forever!! 


It has been a whirlwind ever since. I work 30+ hours a week, and have a to-do list a mile long. I'm working on writing thank-you notes, trying to get back into running (bikini body), and wrapping up loose ends before summer is in full swing!


I guess most of you know I'm homeschooled. This wasn't my choice, but I made the best of it. I'm in the middle of writing a big post about it right now. All that to say, my graduation class had 3 people in it. Go ahead and laugh. 


We had a pastor friend of ours do the commencement address. The parents/graduates could speak and then we got our diplomas. I chose not to speak for a number of reasons! 


I'll leave you with some pictures! I want to get this blog post written so I have a memory of it! :)

All photos above are photo credit:

Maria Zobel

Bad case of graduation cap hair!

I'm so thankful for my all my family and friends that could come! May 6th was my party and I'll be blogging that soon! It was a whirlwind weekend, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

Happy Tuesday!

Emily 

graduation=1 week

1 week is all that remains.


7 days




holy crap. pardon me but seriously?? where did the time go?
since I got back from israel, time flew by!


This week:
*I have to order 10 dozen cupcakes
*Finish decor/prep for my grad party
*Get my nails/toes manied and pedied
*Hopefully *crosses fingers* get a tan of some sort
*Finish my grad slideshow and dealing with my beebee pictures

*Finish sending out my announcements. Call me a procrastinator 
*Receive my silver glitter TOMS in the mail (for the 2nd time)
*Get the house ready for TONS of friends and family
*Try to keep it all together and not have a meltdown


Blogging with be V-E-R-Y- spacey. I do have someone writing a guest post and I'm super pumped about that! :)


I'm off to do a million things!


Love to all y'all!


Emily almost graduated Duncan

It's OK Thursday

It's OK that:

*I'm still not packed for Israel. working on it as i write 

*I'm crying because I got my rejection letter from CofO today.

*I sent out texts to my closet friends letting them know. gosh dang i wanted to go to school there SO bad!

*I'm obsessed with this website!

*I'm nervous about flying 20+ hours tomorrow

*I won't be blogging for 2 weeks!

*I didn't set up any guest bloggers. oopsies!

*I'm not excited about going to Evangel for college.

*I really don't know what I'm going to do for my future

*I've emotionally drained 

My Twins

This post might be filed under things you don't need to know about Emily's life or this is TMI for a blog post! Read on at your own risk. Consider yourself warned. 


In the words on my 15 year old brother, "Wanna hear a joke?" Emily's Boobs. It is no secret, my cups do not overflow. The Lord has blessed me in many ways but give me boobs wasn't on the list. I have never been extremely bothered by this, until a fateful day at Victoria's Secret at a location I will not say. 


Wanna know a secret? I've never been fitted. I mean I just guessed and tried on until something fit right. I mean seriously I could figure out I was an A, sometimes a B on a v-e-r-y- good day. I usually wear sports bras but when I'm not, I have some 36A (or sometimes B) bras. I was with a friend at Victoria's Secret who swears by their bras and she suggested I get fitted. There are 3 fitting rooms. I was in the last one. I took in some different bras to try on. I'm rather self conscious, so it never occurred to me that the sweet little DD ladies at VS would come knocking on my door. (note: they aren't exactly the quietest people either)

First door: VS lady "How is 34 DD doing" 
34DD: wonderful


Second door: VS lady "How is 36C doing"
36C: they fit amazing! thank-you


Third door: my fateful door. VS lady "How is 32A doing" or was it 34A?
me: after hearing laughter from the other doors and choking o my spit" I'm FINE thank-you! 


I have never been so embarrassed in.my.life. I threw my little bra back on with my t-shirt SO fast. After turning bright red of course. I walk out and she gives me my little "perfect sizing" chart and I practically run outta that store. I don't think I'll be headed back in to VS anytime too soon! 


Don't get me wrong, I do know there are so benefits to having small "twins"
1-You can have some help, a push-up bra when you are an A or a B. 
2-They don't get in the way when I run. You know because of ALL that running I do :)
3-You don't sag after you have children. 
4-Less back problems so they say.


In the words of Dolly Parton, "God did not invent Plastic Surgeons so they could starve."


Are there any other sisters out there in the IBT club? I'd love to meet you. For real. 


Happy Monday! 

Friday: Headed to STL

2012

       This morning I'm heading to St. Louis with the Jr. High kids from youthgroup! I'm SO excited and ready to hang with all of them!! We are going up for Believe 2012, a conference meant specifically for Jr. High age kids! I can't wait to see what God is going to do with these kids and their hearts for Him! 

       I'm looking forward to spending time with them. I can't believe that I'm a senior in high school and i once was this age. umm really? was i ever really this excited? crazy? loud? never! ha! who am I kidding? I LOVE these kids! I'm ready for late nights, loud music, a 4 hour roadtrip and some incredible memories with crazy kids!


Happy Friday! We've made it to the weekend!! 

Sometimes and Always: Round Dos

Linking up with Megan again for Sometimes and Always Round Dos!

Sometimes: I want to have pretty nails every single day

Always: My nailpolish is chipped on one hand.

Sometimes: I try to make my bed neatly

Always: It is left in a heap of blankets and pillows

Sometimes: I try to wash my face every single night

Always: I miss a couple nights every week

Sometimes: I try to be a funny when I blog

Always: I am not

Sometimes: I try to rotate my music I listen to

Always: When I like a song, I listen to the same song, on repeat

Sometimes: I try to not overcommit myself and say no

Always: I end up always putting more on my plate than I can handle

Sometimes: I wonder if I'll miss highschool

Always: I count down the days till graduation (101 by the way)

Sometimes and Always: #1

I LOVE finding new blogs to link up with! I did my very first Target Tuesday post last week with Tara! (see her post here) I thought about linking up again, but I decided to try Sometimes and Always with Mackey Madness! But I will be linking up with her more! I love target :) I started following her blog this week and I LOVE it! I'm going to try this...here we go!

Sometimes: I try to get up when I first hear my alarm

Always: I hit snooze at least twice

Sometimes: I try to limit social media

Always: I fall asleep scrolling through facebook and twitter

Sometimes: I try to clean my room

Always: There is something on the floor

Sometimes: I try to blog every single day

Always: I miss one day a week

Sometimes: I dream of being a big name blogger

Always: I remind myself that I only have 44 followers and that won't happen

Sometimes: I try enjoy the moment(s)

Always: I want time to fly by, especially in highschool. Graduation come soon!

What about you? Link up with Megan and share your Sometimes and Always moments!

2012: I've been waiting

2012

2012: I can't believe it's here. This year has SO much going on. I'm excited, nervous, and scared. I was making a list of what big events will happen for me in 2012. Time is flying.

I go to Israel in March

68 Days!!

I graduate. May 5th 2012

I start college in August

This is the hardest thing for me to grasp.

I will vote in November.

These are just some of the bigger highlights for me in 2012. I'm sure there will be more. There will be good times, friends, and memories. I'm sure there will also be hard times. It's a new adventure for me, a new journey. I'm excited! I can't wait!!

Much love,

Emily