Act like a 12 year old sometimes...it's only healthy!

As I approach my 20th year in existence I've been examining my life more and more.  I am half way done with college. Two more years until I am shoved into the real world and the one constant that has helped me to get through anything and everything, volleyball, will be over....for good! While those thoughts are enough to make me have a mental breakdown, buy out the whole chocolate section in Walmart, and Red Box the most sappy chick flick available, it's a reality that I will have to deal with so very soon!

But, I prefer to focus my time on lighter subjects in life, like what happened on the Real World: Las Vegas last night, or how gorgeous the Royal Wedding will be tomorrow. Anyone that has spend at least five minutes in my presence has more than likely realized that I love to crack jokes. Good ones, bad ones, horrible ones...doesn't matter! I will do ANYTHING to make someone laugh. Laughing is my favorite thing to do! And what makes laughing even better is laughing with someone else! (let's get real, people give some serious dirty looks when there is only one person in a group laughing. that's just fact!) During one of the great conversations that my friends and I had at the Caf during lunch we talked about acting like a silly and carefree 12 year old. While we would not reccomend this as an all day, everyday lifestyle, we all agreed that acting like a kid who doesn't care about what others think, messes around and cracks jokes, isn't thinking about how much homework they have to finish or how stressful their life is, and just has some genuine, carefree fun is the BEST THING EVER! Talk about a stress releiver. Even if it is just for a few moments, those moments will be the memories you will never forget. Around campus I saw a sign that read "You can always retake a class, but you can never relive a party." While I don't fully agree with having so much fun that you're forced to retake classes (that's a LOT of wasted money!), I do agree with scheduling out your time in order to leave some space for goofing-off and acting like a kid. You're never too old to let loose and dig into your inner child.

I know that someday I will have to grow up and become more responsible, but I hope I never loose my inner child. I plan on being 98 years old, living in a nursing home, and still cracking jokes to all the toothless old people around me! YOUNG AT HEART <3


*Special thanks to Sydney Dunavin: my #1 blog supporter. And for being a part of the Caf conversation I explained above (along with Kay and Rem).  And another special thanks to Trey Ennis who said that after reading the first line of my previous post he was not impressed and decided not to read the rest...I hope I jazzed this one up a bit for you!

Just some funny pictures of me and my friends. They make me laugh...if they make you laugh, that's great too!! :)







Currently Living in the Best Years of My Life

This past week my suite at school had the joy of hosting Mrs. Jubb (my roommate's mom).  Because Angela had surgery on her torn labrum Mrs. Jubb came to stay with us to help nurse sweet Angela back to health. Besides having a loving mother figure in the suite for a few days, something we aren't normally used to in a college dorm, Mrs.Jubb is a great talker and a great listener! We can always count on her to keep the conversation going with some great words of wisdom. It is a true skill!

A normal night for suite107 consists of some late night girl-talk. Almost nightly when we are all finished with our homework, relaxed for a little while, and right before we get ready for bed us girls get together, chat about our day, complain about the male gender, our classes, and think about the great things that tomorrow will bring! There is always a guarantee of laughing until our stomach hurts, giving each other the best advice about life, and occasionally we even give each other manicures if we had a realllll bad day. (some real girly stuff, of course!) One time this past week when we were having our nightly chat Mrs. Jubb peeked her head in the door, said "You know, you girls are in the best years of your life!", and then walked out into the other room. While it was only a few words of great wisdom, it got me thinking...

We really ARE in the best years of our lives! When will we ever get the chance to live with our best friends, have all day to attend 3-one hour classes, and get to act as irresponsible as we want and just be referred to as acting like a "college student"?! While our number one priority is getting an education (don't worry mom!) our number two priority is making memories that will last forever! As I am finishing up my second year as a college student I have already made a million memories and am more than excited for the next two years of "the best years of my life" to make a million more!

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever" 

--Gandhi

"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens."

--Kahlil Gibran







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Well, I have to admit that I kind of forgot I had a blog. It feels like forever since I have blogged! So here's a little recap of what has gone on in the fabulous life of Julianne Pisano in the past month....

Spring volleyball is in full force! We have had three play dates with a bunch of different schools. Working hard to get rid of all the cobwebs that we've acquired over the winter. So far so good! Besides batteling some injuries, the team is looking better than ever! We have one final tournament this weekend here at the Abbey and then we'll be preparing all summer for the fall.

As for the injuries...my best friend and roommate, Angela, has a torn labrum (something in her arm) and is getting surgery to fix it on Tuesday :( It will be a little bit of a recovery time, but we are all praying that she will recover quick and be back for the fall. As for the next few weeks...I will be her personal assistant! :) It's going to be hard living life with one arm for a few weeks; I'm her go to girl!

I apologize that my life only consists of volleyball events, but this will be the last one! I promise! Our volleyball team has been busy planning and fundraising for a mission trip to Nicagaura for this summer. We will be there for 7 days and will have the opportunity to work with special children and play the Nicagaura national volleyball team. It is going to be such a great experience! If you want to support us on this trip donations are accepted!! Email me and I will let you know of all the info. Of course keeping us in your prayers is a great donation as well!

Besides volleyball, I go to school. Only 12 more days of classes and 3 finals stand in the way of me and SUMMER! It is going by extremely fast and it's a hard task to stay on top of my school work when I would much rather sit outside in the beautiful weather watching a baseball game. Or just soaking up some sun! But I will be very happy when it is finally summer and the livin' is easy!

While a day in the life of Julianne Pisano is nothing to brag about, I have the best time of my life because of all of my great friends! Having the ability to make a normal sunday night into the funniest and most entertaining night ever is a true gift. God has truely blessed me with the best friends I could ever ask for.

Greenville, NC Welcomes the Pisano Family!

Once again, my family has moved!  One of my friends at school asked me if I was an "Army Brat" because of how much my family moves.  I politely said no and explained to them my parents are now empty nesters and are just trying to find the right tree to keep their nest at! So, next stop....Greenville, NC. The home of Eastern Carolina University (ECU) the #4 party school in the nation. They have a pretty good reputation!

My parents have been here since the end of January and because of school and volleyball and such my first time visiting was this past week. While my drive up here was anything but enjoyable (traffic jams to the maxxxx!) I was pleasently surprised with our house and our cute little neighborhood! Much different than the retirement community we used to live in Anderson when the average age was at least 55, our new neighborhood is very nice and there's actually kids who play outside! It reminds me a lot of Lawrence Park (the best neighborhood on the planet!). Below are a few pictures of our house. Bear with us...we're still furnishing!

From the Outside...

Living Room/Dining Room

T.V. Room/Office Area

My Bedroom!





Winter Blues

I am going to begin this blog by saying how very bad I feel for my fellow Erie-ites. I see the weather forcast there daily and I must say I'm not missing the snow! My best advice i can give, MOVE SOUTH! :)

We all know the months of Janurary and February are the longest months ever! The final months of winter and the long stretch during school with no breaks.  It's torture. I have been especially feeling these tortuous times the past few weeks with school. Being that my teachers are oh so nice, they of course are on the same testing schedule...wonderful!  Besides living in the library and having study sessions with multiple different people trying to combine our knowledge and squeak out a decent grade, my volleyball team has finally started practice for our spring season! YAYYYY!! Something to keep my mind off studying! Let me tell you, those two short hours on the court are a little slice of heaven; nothing else matters except for the 30x30 and the 16 girls surrounding me. It's perfection!

While school has been anything but enjoyable I must give a shout-out to the North Carolina weather. YOU ROCK!  Last week we were experiencing 75-80 degree weather, this week we have 60-70 degree weather. And the sun, something i'm not used to seeing being from Erie, is fabulous. How can you stress when it's so beautiful outside, right?

I am experiencing a little feeling of releif being that I have taken my three tests this week and I only have one homework assignment left to complete until it is officially spring break!  The week I have been looking forward to since, ummmm...christmas break?  Almost halfway through college! Scary, but so very exciting. Sometimes it's hard for me to remember that I am almost 20 years old and an adult?? whatttttttt? not possible! I'm sure my perfect mother is thinking the same thing! Her little baby is growing up :)

Spring is almost here! Hang in there everyone! :)
Here's some cheesy inspiration to get you through the week.

Perfectly Inspired

While it may be hard for the outside world to understand, a LOT goes on in a single week in Suite 107 at Belmont Abbey. In particular a lot has gone on this past week between me and my best friends, who also happen to be my roommates.  We have had moments of pure joy and craziness (if you have ever hung out with us for more than five minutes you have probably been a witness to our crazy acts) and we have also had moments of pure dissappointment and upset.  We have laughed, screamed, cried, and sarcastically told eachother the perfect and awful happenings of our week in real time.  During a certain midnight discussion one night us girls realized that we were not being treated by those humans of the opposite sex in the way that we deserve.  Through us ranting and screaming and crying and being depressed we realized that we clearly have the wisdom to treat a women in the way in which they not only desire, but deserve. We also realized that we were being selfish for not sharing this wisdom with the entire world! We figured the only way to do so was to start a blog. While our origional plan was to create a joint blog between the four most smart girls I know (Kayleigh, Jaime Lee, Angela, and myself) with an agenda including spelling out to the male population the proper way to treat us girls, we thought this would be a bit drastic and that maybe we should split off and each make our own blog to not only teach men how to treat women, but to also praise and be thankful for the many many gifts in our lives....no to mention, being a Business/Marketing major a good writing background doesn't hurt! Thus, here is my blog....  

Perfect, as far as you can tell....

I pride myself in being a happy-go-lucky 19 year old who attends a beautiful Catholic college in the sunny and warm south and has the opportunity to play the sport she loves everyday with the 17 best teammates a girl could ask for, while being surrounded by the most wholesome best friends and powerful supportive family of anyone I know. As everyone else, my life is not as perfect as it seems on the outside, but I try to my hardest for you not to realize anything different than a perfect life.

While I created and named this blog four days ago I haven't had the opportunity or inspiration to start blogging until I went to church this morning. As my favorite priest was on the alter speaking the words of the gospel, the final sentence stated, "So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect" Matthew 6:48.  Well, if this wasn't a sign to start blogging I am not sure what would be! In my opinion living perfect doesn't mean that you never make mistakes, it simply means that you strive to be perfect and to be thankful for each and every gift God has blessed you with.  It is unrealistic for us to be imperfect. Being perfect is about enjoying life, loving family, and making the best of every moment you have with your friends.  

Being perfect is having your chair in the cafeteria fall out from underneith you right after you brag about how you were too smart to go to preschool and you and your friends pee your pants from laughter and embarassment....ahhemmm, not that this happened to me tonight in the Caf in front of a bunch of people or anything... well, maybe it did. :) A perfect example of how my life is NOT perfect. But you'll never be able to say I don't make the best of it!