I'm sure if yall had a dollar for every time you heard a girl say, "I'm not your typical girl" you'd be rich! Well, let me help ya out and give you a dollar cause you're gonna hear it again, I ain't your typical girl! I'm a mix 'breed' if you will. I'm country girl but I'm also a sorority girl! I like to call my 'breed'
Red High Heels & Brown Cowboy Boots! I can let my hair down, put on my pearls, get all dolled up and put on those
red high heels. But, most of the time you'll catch me in jeans, a shirts, a camo baseball cap and a favorite pair of brown boots, whether they're work boots or
cowboy boots. Like I said, I ain't the typical girl cause I ain't the typical sorority girl you often imagine and well I guess you could say I ain't your typical country/backwoods girl cause I'm sorority girl.
Red High Heels
As you can see I associate my sorority life to Red High Heels because when you're in a sorority its all about being presentable and looking your best, which means you better have on your momma's pearls she gave you the day you left home and went to college. And don't forget those 3 and 1/2" heels you have on that daddy doesn't really see the point or purpose behind and just shakes his head every time he sees you in 'em. The reason why they are red because one of the main colors of my sorority is red.
I love my sorority and I love the heck out of my sisters. Joining my collegiate chapter might have been one of the best decisions I've made in college! Becoming a member of Alpha Sigma Alpha has opened so many doors that I once never dreamed of or even knew they existed. Cause of this organization I've met extraordinary women ranging in all different ages, from all of the country with stories so rich and full of history, laughter, tears, unbelieve moments, moments you should've been there for, and those who are getting ready to write a new part of history and make their unbelieve moments. And I get to be the gap between the old and new and witness it all first hand. It sure is something to tell later on down the road.
I love my sorority and my sisters so much that landed me a job working for my national sorority. I've spent the last 6 months traveling all of the country visiting different collegiate chapters to help them become the best they can be. It's been quiet the experience, I must say. It's been rewarding, but it's also been challenging. It's brought more than enough laughter and great times, but it's brought a few tears and heartaches. But hey, that's the job I signed up for.
I'm always frequently asked how I like my job and 99 precent of the time I want to just answer the question with "Do you always like your job?" Like stated before, this job has given me experiences that I will cherish for the rest of my life and experiences I would have never dealt with in a million years. It's been rewarding to watch my chapters excel and go beyond their exceptions cause they didn't know their potential. And just like with everything else in life and like gravity, what goes up must come back down at some point. I've been challenged in more than a million ways and seen the ugly of this job. I've had to shut down a colony/expansion project at a college just cause the campus wasn't quiet ready for Greek Life and sorority life and girls just couldn't get the job done. The worst heartache and tears was watching a Greek Life community lose a Greek member due to alcohol poisoning. After being at the university and watching that Greek community lose a young life that could have been prevented, I now have a personal mission with that Greek community to bring a safer environment for it's students who are Greek. I can't wait until roughly 3 to 4 weeks to present my ideas and different programs to them.
To answer everyone's question, "Do you like your job?"
No, I don't like my job! I actually love my job. But I am human and I'm like everyone else; there are some days that I just don't love it. There are days that I just want to pack up my bags and get on the next plane that's going home and bring me back to the simple things in life and letting me put on those cowboy boots or lacing up the ol' works boots.
Brown Cowboy Boots
No glitz, no glamour, and most definitely no 3 and half inch high heels that have daddy shaking his head every time you put 'em on cause he just hasn't found a purpose behind 'em yet cause you can't work out on the farm in 'em, you can't go tracking through mud, open fields, and the woods in 'em, and you surely can't wear 'em on the boat cause you'll leave marks on the deck!
I love sliding into a pair of cowboy boots or lacing up the ol' work boots and just going out and doing my thing whether that be down on the farm shooting a good ol' shotgun, wondering my way through the woods, working on the boat or putting on those ol' Sperry's or flip flops and going fishing. I guess I should tell yall a few things about me that might help explain my last statement. I'm an only child, I'm daddy's little girl and daddy's baby girl, daddy and I are two peas in a pod, he's my best friend, and well I'm often the son he never had!
Now with that all said, let me tell you I ain't your typical girl! I love fishing and I spend every weekend out on the boat fishing. I bait my own hooks and I even bait momma's and daddy's hooks too, I put out all the lines, I liter in all the fish that are caught, I unhook 'em, and when we get back to the dock I am the one who cleans and filets 'em! I've been cleaning fish since daddy still had hair growing on his head and I could reach and see over the fish cleaning table, so I say since I was 10 years old or so. I love fishing, I love being out on the water and I love being down on the shore. I love working on the boat with daddy, I've helped him completely rebuild two engines. I know everything about those engines and how they operate.
Not only am I a bad a** fish cleaner, so I've been told, I am also a girl who can load her own shotgun and clean it after a good day of shootin'. I love shooting a 12 gauge shotgun and I love going down to the farm shooting skeet/clay pigeons.
Like I said I ain't your typical girl. You could ask me to go find any tool in the toolbox and I'll come with it. I learned at an early age what everything was inside that box. When I was 4 and helping daddy, he asked me to go get a test light. His friend told him I wouldn't know what I was looking for. Three minutes later I was back with the test light and brought the test leads too. Never underestimate a girl and never underestimate this girl!
Now I'd like to take back that dollar cause I believe I've made my point with I ain't your typical girl and never will I be cause I'm your mix breed of Red High Heels & Brown Cowboy Boots!
