i'm graduating

so i graduate tomorrow. weird! i'm really looking forward to it though. i'm happy to be done with school and moving on to the next area of my life. i told my family and friends that they have to be the loudest and craziest ones there when they call my name. also, natalie told me that instead of having the people announce "chanel paulk" i should have them announce "tobias funke". haha! we'll see. life has been so good lately. minus my dog not doing so well, i've been having really good days. hopefully i'll be posting on here more to help document my days :) and to give myself a break from studying. my first test is so soon!! anyways, yay for tomorrow! hopefully it's not 90 degrees because then i'll just want to kill myself.

last final. ever. happened yesterday.

as of yesterday, i am officially done with college. i took my last final, went to target with nat to buy cheez-its, came home, asked nat to take a few pictures of me, and hopped in the planter... tried not to fall over but did and then celebrated the day by not studying for the cpa exam! it's nice to take a day off from studying (for that exam because believe me i was studying all morning for my final). the night also consisted of me making shrimp and chicken tacos, going on a jog, reading requiem, and a taking a long nap. pretty good day in my book. 

last day of school. ever.

today is my last day of school. ever. (besides my one final next week). it's so strange to think that after so many years, this part of my life is coming to an end and pretty soon i'll be a full-time, business professional (hopefully have my CPA!) adult. i couldn't find any school pictures of me from when i was little, but those would have only been from pre-k because i was homeschooled from kindergarten through sixth grade. i'm really proud of myself and i'm happy that i stuck through school and completed my degree. i took my time in college (i went to school for 6 years), but i honestly had a hard time picking what i wanted to major in. it's such a hard decision and i envy those people who just know what they want a degree in or what they're good at and just go for it. but that wasn't me. i was okay at a lot more things than being amazing in one particular subject. i did always like math though, so after majoring in stats for a while i stuck with accounting instead. 

anyways, i'm really excited with where i'm at in life. i'm so thankful that i had the opportunity to go to school and now have the opportunity to work for a wonderful firm starting in july. i'm not sure what God will do with my degree in accounting, but i know that i just need to continue to be open to whatever it is that He has for me and for my life (professionally and personally). i'm so glad i did it! yay for college degrees!

i got a job

so back in october i started the job search, because in accounting at least they start looking for candidates really early on. so i went to my schools meet the firms event (it was actually kind of fun!) and i met and talked to a few recruiters then. then i started applying for positions (well, i had only applied for one so far. i was going to do the others later). and then i got selected for an on-campus interview. SCORE! and then they called me (while i was in the shower i might add) and they invited me for an in-house interview (cue me running around naked and pretending i wasn't just in the shower when they called. bahahaha good thing no one was home but me!). in-house interview went really well. everyone was really friendly and really nice. then about a week later.... they called me while i was taking an exam. and they asked me to call them back. and i was like IS THIS A GOOD THING OR A BAD THING I DONT KNOW!!! because it's an official grown-up job, so i didn't know if they would hire me over the phone or just tell me no over the phone. anyways, we played phone tag. then they got a hold of me finally. and i was in the library at school so i had to run out in order to talk at a decent level. and they were like blah blah blah..... you got the job! eeeeeee! then i peed my pants and everyone stared at me on the floor. okay that part didn't happen but still. i was close to peeing. so starting in july i'll be a full time "associate" aka auditor! i'm really happy and very excited. i'm also extremely nervous because like i said, it's a grown-up job. but i know i'm a hard worker and that i'll be able to pick up on everything i need to know. the company is Mayer Hoffman McCann. it's a firm in irvine. so now i just need to buy business clothes! this is crazy!

Am I there yet?

I cannot wait until I'm done with school. I know I should enjoy the time I have left, having not a lot of responsibilities and what not. But I seriously cannot wait to not have to take accounting exams and to be able to potentially move out and be on my own. I know I have the CPA exam first before anything else haha so I'll want to die from that, but I know it's worth it. Just like going through school for six years and sticking with it is worth it. But for now, I'm looking forward to being done with school and moving on to the next phase in my life. One thing I've learned over the past few years is that you never know what's going to come your way or what God has in store for you. So with that said, i'm excited, I'm nervous, but I'm looking forward to what's going to happen over the next few months. I'm hoping it will at least consist of: lots of tea lattes. Lots of iced tea. Anything tea related. parks and rec and dr who marathons. Sushi. And more time with God in my mornings and my everyday. You know, the essentials.

i have a final in 12 hours

accounting is going to kill me. it seriously drains the life out of me. but i love it at the same time! i'm crazy?

and finals are making me feel like this... okay, maybe that's an exaggeration, but whatever haha

in happier news... the hunger games come out in 8 days. holy moly!!! nat and i have loved these books for 4 years now. so i'm super stoked to see it as a movie! and i am just warning you that i will give everything away if you are in my theater. and i might yell at you if you are team gale (is that a joke? seriously). and don't be alarmed when natalie and i cry and scream like little babies (we do tend to do that when it comes to books that we love). i'm excited!!

i'll leave you with a picture you can admire until the movie comes out:

oh peeta hutcherson! you are too much!! bahaha

and ps. i'm freaking out about romania. 7 weeks? that's long!!

trying to study

this is what i am doing right now. trying to study with whitnee and coni. not much is getting done though. especially since this thong man keeps walking by us. it's a guy who literally is in bright blue spandex and a pink thong that keeps walking through panera. i think he enjoyed our company too because he kept choosing to sit right next to us. it was probs cuz coni kept giggling. she is so cute! oh coni! you're so silly! but anyways, thong man was completely inaprope. what's also inaprope is coni tagging trevor as the thong man. but that's mostly just funny. hahaha. anyways, i guess i will go back to studying. i am meeting with tricia and mary tonight! i'm so exci! i love them and miss them!

whitneee studying

me studying?

someone is laughing about the guy

way to go coni!

coni died laughing. true story.

 we're so serious?

 :)