Job Interview tomorrow!

I feel like Ive been here been here before, the night before a big job interview. Last time it didnt go so well and I had all my eggs in one basket. This time I am hopfull and confident, but Im not quite so dependent on this job. Its in atlanta, so I would either have to commute an hour each way a day, move home to my parents house or move to the atlanta area. I am prepared to do any of the three, but I havnt made any plans.

The interview is for a customer service position which is something I really enjoy. What I need help with from my readers is my outfit. I did a polyvore and I will also take a photo later tonight. Please tell me what you think

Nov 1 Job interview by Bridget19 featuring foxcroft blouses

Tagged!

Hey y'all

so one of my favorite bloggers - Pearls Curls and a Southern Girl got tagged with 8 questions and she tagged all her readers, so Im gonna answer her questions :)  

1. Why did you start blogging?
I started blogged in high school, with live journal and xanga because it was the it thing to do any everyone else was doing it (terrible reason I know, but I was young). Then I got introduced to twitter in the summer of 2007 I think, when twitter was still very new. I noticed some people were blogging so I figured Id try it. I didnt stick with it though. My last semester in college I came up with the ATL Yankee Belle twitter name and thus my blog was born. :)

2.  What would your dream career be?

F  Do I have to pick just one? Well I cant so heres my list, which grows every day

•      wedding planner
•      disney cast member
•      GO at clubmed
•      professional blogger/tweeter
•      restaurant owner / chef / pastry chef
•      mom
•      CEO overseas
•      teacher

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3.    

     What is your biggest fear?

      That I'll never figure out what Im suppost to be doing. I wont find my husband, I wont have kids, I wont find my calling from God

 

4.   What is something that you hope to accomplish before the end of this year?

      I want to have a full-time job that I really enjoy and I want to have some friends in my new town

 

5.   If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you pick?

      Right now, Id move back to statesboro like tomorrow to be closer to my friends. But in the future I want to love to Australia

 

6.    Who is someone you’re closest to?

      This may be a little weird, but I feel really close to my readers. I tell y'all things I dont feel comfortable telling my friends or family. Is that weird? Maybe, but its true. 

 

7.   What is your biggest pet peeve?

      People who say mean things or do mean things and dont think about how their words or actions will affect other people. 

 

 

What is your favorite childhood memory?
Traveling in europe with my family.  


So instead of tagging people, I am going to tag all of my readers :)


and here are the 8 questions you get to answer:


1. What was the best halloween costume you saw this year? pic is a bonus
2. Do you tell the 100% truth on your blog, or do you sort of beef up your life to make it a little more exciting?
3. If you could be a fly on any wall, which would you choose?

4. Do you budget your Christmas shopping or just get it done without budgeting?

5. What is the craziest fad diet you have ever done? 

6. Is there a TV show that you have seen every episode/season of? 

7. What one song always pulls at your heart?

8. Tell us about your first love

and go!

AND DONT FORGET TO ENTER MY 1ST GIVEAWAY!

Halloween Costume Ideas

sooooo tomorrow well today is the day to get dressed up for halloween. Because JAB is so dull, and isnt into halloween, I have totally given up trying to make a cute couples costumes. So as tomorrow is, well tomorrow, and I am hoping we will go to some sort of holiday event, I have come up with costumes for JAB and I.

so you may or may not know that JAB is GBI 120%. In fact, you can go as far as to say he is anti greek. I on the other hand, am greek and proud of it. I dress preppy, Sperrys and pearls and lilly and Vera. He wears all UGA tshirts, sneakers and work out shorts. He hates bow ties and doesnt dress up unless I make him.

So I decided we would go as each other. He will be going at TMF and I will be GDI.

 
So what are you going as for halloween?

GIVEAWAY!

I am so excited right now y'all. After 4 month of blogging, I am hosting my very 1st GIVEAWAY! How exciting is that?

I just hosted a Halloween Swap and Miss Cap was my partner. I confess I didn't know about her blog until the swap, but it is just so crafty and wonderful. And she owns her own jewelry company, which is where the giveaway comes in. She is offering $30 at Cap Creations to one lucky winner.

Heres how to enter (please leave separate comment for each):

manditory entry
1. Follow my blog
2. Follow Cap Creations Blog & add her button to your blog

Extra entries:
1. Blog about this giveaway (must include the pic at the bottom of the post)
2. Grab the button for your side bar, and link it to this post
3. Tweet about this giveaway (@atlyankeebelle)

That's 5 possibly entries

Here is the picture, sorry its not a button, I dont know how to make those yet

Good Luck Y'all!

Blogger Award!

I have wanted to make my own blogger award for a while and I did :) so here it is

Look out to be tagged with this award!

GIVEAWAY!

Hello Ladies

The wonderful Daphne over at Flip Flops and Pearls is hosting a super exciting giveaway for a blog makeover! I dont know about you, but I really need some professional help with my blog. So hop on over to her blog and enter the giveaway!

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 Everyone loves CSN store because they sell everything, and now Houghton Happening's is hosting a giveaway! $35 at CSN - so go check out her cute blog!

Halloween

Hey Y'all

sorry Ive been a really bad blogger here lately. I have been busy trying to find a job. Yesterday I did have a babysitting gig with a wonderful family! Although I had to wake up at 4.30AM yes I must be crazy it wasnt as bad as I thought it would be. The kids were amazing and I cant wait to sit for them again :)

So everyone knows that sunday is halloween and I have no plans :( but I have the most amazing idea for a halloween costume! I wish I had some fun party to go to, but I dont :( but I want to share my idea for a halloween costume anyway!

I love coffee and starbucks even though they support abortion, dont believe me? click here
well I want to make a starbucks costume

Have you seen this add? I think its pretty funny :)

Part 2 of the Burn Story

 The truth is I havnt read this not in almost 4 years. Its been on facebook, public, for anyone to see for almost 4 years. I really never needed to read the note, I knew what happened, I was there. I can replay all the events in my mind, the entire weekend. 


That friday was the fall formal at comverse and I was so excited. My roomies Christina and Kelly and I had all found the perfect dresses and we were so excited to go to the dace. 


here are some pictures of the dance:

I remember being so happy

me and chase

smiles all around

Christina & I

We were so happy

and this is the last photo of me before the burn, there is no scare on my ankle:

I remember it was a wonderful night. We danced and we looked great and had a wonderful time. I felt so skinny and beautiful, and it was just a wonderful magical night. Little did I know it was the last night I would be truly happy for another year. 


That was saturday night, and sunday afternoon I was burned. 


I think the hardest part of all of this is the fact that I lied. I lied in the note, I lied in the story I told people, I lied to my friends and my parents. I shouldnt have, but I did. I lied to protect chase, I lied because I was scared to tell the truth.

Paragraph by paragraph Im going to finally tell the world the truth:

As some, but not all of you know, I got burned very badly by gas on sunday evening. I just wanted to put the entire story on here so people would know what happened.

Chase and his uncle Earnest were woking in the yard on Chases truck. I was inside studying and I decided to go and get some help on my lines. I walked outside and stood a few feet away from a partialy full gas can. I watched as Earnest pured gas into the carborator to get the truck to run. The all of a sudden the truck backfired, causing a flame to jump out of the truck. It lit the excess gas on fire and also caught the small trail of gas from the truck to the gas can on fire. I was standing a few feet from the gas can when it caught fire and exploded, sending a splash of flaming gas onto my sneaker. My sneaker- being rubber and fabric, caugght right away and the flame rose under my jean leg and proceded to burn about 4 inches up my leg above my ancle. 

Chase and his uncle were working on his truck and I did go outside to get some help learning my lines (in a play I had to drop out of because of the burn). I was out in the driveway, a large, empty space. I watched as Chase poured gas into the carborator of the truck. I turned away, and didnt see the collom of fire that came right out the top of the engine, and I didnt see the cup of gas in Chases had catch fire. What I did see was a look of pleasure on his face and my foot felt very warm. I looked down and I saw that my sneaker was on fire. I want to make sure you know he had the entire blacktop to throw the gas into, I was the only thing out there, but he threw it on me.
 
It took me a second to realise what was going on and when I did I freaked out. I began to run around as Earnest tried to pull my burning sneaker off my foot. By this time my skin had caught fire and I tried to stop drop and roll, but it didnt work becuase the gas and my skin we're feeding the fire too much.
The fire continued to burn my sneaker and up my jeans. Im still not sure why the jeans didnt catch fire, but the next flamable thing was my skin. The flames engulfed my ankle and I did exactly what I had always been taught. STOP DROP ROLL. On a side note, please please please teach your children this - it saved my life and it might save theirs. I dropped the the ground and began rolling around, trying in vain to put the fire out (it was somehow caught under my pants) and Chase and his uncle earnist just watched. I dont know how long it took to put out but it seemed like forever. Finally Earnest came over and helped me put it out. He was in shock, as much as I was and we finally got the fire out. I remember laying there, in more pain then you can imagine, sobbing loudly. I looked up to see Chase, the guy who had just burned me and he simply told me to be quiet as I was disturbing the neighbors. This was my boyfriend, who I had been with for a year, the man I loved. He told me to be quiet.

Chase and Earnest both burned their hands trying to put my leg out, and thankfuly they succeded. I was then driven to Earnest's house where his wife Laura was waiting for me. She is a nurse. I thought she was going to put something cool on it and I would be fine, but as soon as she saw it, she said we needed to go to the ER. So I was rushed to the ER, sobbing in pain the entire way.


Can I just say this is a lot harder to blog about then I thought it was going to be.... Im sitting here crying... I think Im going to take a little break and come back to this later...


I was in more pain then I have ever been in, and the smell. I dont ever recomend smelling your own flesh cooking, it is not pleasant. I was hurting so bad, but I quieted down. I wanted the pain to go away. Chase and Earnest helped me to my car and Chase drove me to Earnist's place. His wife Laura is a nurse and they figured she would be able to fix it. At this point I had not seen my ankle, but the pain was getting worse and worse. Chase told me he didnt want to take me to the hospital because they would probibly call the cops - I mean, wouldnt you? Well of course Laura said I had to go, it was a 3rd degree burn. I promised I would lie to the doctor and tell him the story I put on facebook. I lied to protect the man that hurt me, the one, who I believe, meant to hurt me.  



When I got there, they didnt even have me fill out a form, they rushed me into the hospital, took my vitals and put me in a hospital bed. I waited in that bed for a good 30 min in pain before a nurse came in and gave me some IB profin for the swelling and some very storng pain killers. Then the Dr came in, diagnosed it and left. I spent a grand total of 3 and a half hours in the ER, only being treated for maybe 30 min. The Kings Mountain Hospital is either under staffed or just far too slow.
I was really scared at the hospital. I was worried I would say the wrong thing or that the nurse or doctor would suspect something. I cried a lot. I remember they were going to give me a shot to stop the pain, but I have a horrible phobia of needles and I wouldn't let them, so they gave me horse pills for the pain. I begged Chase to call my parents and he said he would. He called his family (mom, dad and sis) and they came. I was very close to his family so it was nice to have them there. 

But when his mom came back to the room I was in, I could only have one visiter at a time, she noticed I had peed my pants. Remember - I had been set on fire and was scared out of my mind, this is not unusual the nurse told me. But when his mom saw, she laughed at me. I was 300 miles from home, in a hosital I didnt know, in a world of pain, with out my family, and she laughed at me. Later when I was alone in the room the nurse asked me who I wanted to come sit with me and I said Laura, because she had been so kind to me. 

Later that night, I had to apologize to Chase's mother because I hadn't asked her to sit back there with me. 

Chase did call my parents. He used my phone and called my dad's cell one time. Didnt leave a message. Sunday night is when my parents went to mass and dinner with my siblings, so they saw the missed call but didnt call back till much later. When they did call, I couldnt even tell them what happened bc I was too hopped up on pain killers. Chase told them something, but I dont rememeber what. 

Needless to say, when I was able to call and talk to them, they rushed up to school to be with me. 

So the end of the story is Im all right. Im in a lot of pain, but have plenty of pain pills. If you see me limping across campus, say hey. It will make my day

I just got back from the nurse, who has now put me on crutches, major bed rest and heavier pain pills- lucky me

I spent the next 4 months on crutches, and another 3 months using one crutch to simply walk. I'll tell more of the recovery story in another blog post. 

I do want to say I'm sorry, to my friends and my family, for lying. I should have been strong enough to tell the truth but I wasnt.  

Part 1 of the Burn Story

ok, so if your read this blog loyaly every day you of course follow me on titter, and I guess its ok if you dont. But if you are into twitter and dont follow me, you should because Im super funny and amazing of course so look me up, ATLYankeeBelle on there and make sure you @ me and I will follow you :)

so on tiwtter I have metnioned my burn a few times and many many people have asked be about it, and its kind of a hard story to tell in 140 characters. So I decided to take a few posts on here and tell the whole story. I did this once, on facebook, but I didnt tell the whole truth, which I regret emensly. I will warn you right now, this story is not for the light of heart. I will keep the gore and blood etc to a minimum and I dont have any nasty pictures, so dont worry about that. I also want you to know this is going to be hard for me. Its been 4 years and I havent ever really gone back and thought about what happened. I sort of just forget about it. But the truth is I should, at least once, take some time and really talk about the whole situation

So I am going to begin this story with the first time I ever wrote about it. This is the note I posted on facebook (I was getting a lot of questions at school being on crutches etc so this was the easiest way to tell people the story without having to repeat myself constantly). Heres the note:

As some, but not all of you know, I got burned very badly by gas on sunday evening. I just wanted to put the entire story on here so people would know what happened.

Chase and his uncle Earnest were woking in the yard on Chases truck. I was inside studying and I decided to go and get some help on my lines. I walked outside and stood a few feet away from a partialy full gas can. I watched as Earnest pured gas into the carborator to get the truck to run. The all of a sudden the truck backfired, causing a flame to jump out of the truck. It lit the excess gas on fire and also caught the small trail of gas from the truck to the gas can on fire. I was standing a few feet from the gas can when it caught fire and exploded, sending a splash of flaming gas onto my sneaker. My sneaker- being rubber and fabric, caugght right away and the flame rose under my jean leg and proceded to burn about 4 inches up my leg above my ancle.

It took me a second to realise what was going on and when I did I freaked out. I began to run around as Earnest tried to pull my burning sneaker off my foot. By this time my skin had caught fire and I tried to stop drop and roll, but it didnt work becuase the gas and my skin we're feeding the fire too much.

Chase and Earnest both burned their hands trying to put my leg out, and thankfuly they succeded. I was then driven to Earnest's house where his wife Laura was waiting for me. She is a nurse. I thought she was going to put something cool on it and I would be fine, but as soon as she saw it, she said we needed to go to the ER. So I was rushed to the ER, sobbing in pain the entire way.

When I got there, they didnt even have me fill out a form, they rushed me into the hospital, took my vitals and put me in a hospital bed. I waited in that bed for a good 30 min in pain before a nurse came in and gave me some IB profin for the swelling and some very storng pain killers. Then the Dr came in, diagnosed it and left. I spent a grand total of 3 and a half hours in the ER, only being treated for maybe 30 min. The Kings Mountain Hospital is either under staffed or just far too slow.

So the end of the story is Im all right. Im in a lot of pain, but have plenty of pain pills. If you see me limping across campus, say hey. It will make my day

I just got back from the nurse, who has now put me on crutches, major bed rest and heavier pain pills- lucky me

So that was it, a lot of spelling mistakes. I will say this much, there are a few lies in this story, but I wanted y'all to know the full story and this is the story I told people for a solid year. 

Yes It Works!

Blogger is finally working on my laptop again! I am over the moon! I missed blogging so much even thought I was only gone for a few days yes Im lame.

so I have some ideas for some upcoming posts :) keep reading

I'm still alive!

Hello to all my wonderful readers, I want to blog but for some reason
my computer/Internet won't let me :( I'm gonna get someone to took at
it later so hopefully it will work. I'm having a hard time reading
blogs too, which sucks. I promise as soon as it gets to working, I
will be back to blogging!

Sent from my iPhone

Food Processor & Giveaway!

Hey y'all

I have some super exciting news to share with you! I have been chosen to review a product! How cool is that? A rep from CSN contacted me and asked me if I would like to review a product, how could I say no? Never heard of CSN? Shame on you, CSN Stores has over 200 online stores where you can find anything you need whether it be a stylish handbag, a chic bar stool or even cute cookware! 

I am super excited to be reviewing this little beauty:

I wanted a pink one, but no one seems to make one. But I'm super excited, Ive never had a real food processor before and now I'm getting one! I promise to use it at least once a week!


On another note, Miss Falling of a high heeled life is hosting ANOTHER giveaway! How exciting is that? This is what shes giving away:

So hope on over to her blog and enter yourself in the giveaway!

Wedding Wensday

Love this photo, the big skirt is just what I want

I want a photo like this, on the stairs

This would be a cute idea

Bling!

Disney wedding dress

Not sure about the skirt... but I like the idea

Love the skirt

I want a super long train

Love love love this!

Photos on stairs make me happy

Horse and carriage is a must

adore this photo

riding off into the sunset

Not sure about getting married on stairs...

I die!

Love the lights on the bushes

Love love love this photo!

love the top

long train is a must

dramatic

more drama

beautiful!

Love fun wedding jewlry

big catholic ceremony is a must

fun colors

look at this train!

perfect!

love this