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!