so, so, so. life is pretty good, all things considered. I mean seriously, I ought to be going crazy and I'm not. I was pretty stressed this morning, and it still comes on in spurts, but overall I'm doing ok.
school is just insane. this is probably the busiest I have ever been in my whole entire life, for a prolonged period of time. I still love my teachers, but going to class these last weeks of the quarter is just stressful. every teacher keeps reminding us of all these things that are due, and telling us we just have to give 110% for the next week and then everything will be great. which is true, but that doesn't make it any less insane.
so yeah. I'm headed to the library in a few minutes to try and finish up research for my research paper in English (which compares the forest in a Midsummer Night's Dream with Athens, and mirrors some of the characters.....interesting stuff). then I've got a history final presentation thingy to work on a little, and a massive final exam to study for. plus annotated bibliographies, proposals, and rough drafts for just about everything you can think of. I've just been writing assignments and due dates down all day so I don't forget.
my piano recital is a week from Saturday. I'm not particularly ready, but it's still getting better every day and the way it is right now most people wouldn't notice the mistakes. my teacher and I had a long talk today about just enjoying the experience, having fun and not being stressed or nervous about the experience. I might be able to do that, just a little bit. We'll see, I guess.
my mom is doing well. she's actually running some errands right now, all by herself! except for lifting anything over 10 pounds, there's very little she can't do. which is good for all of us. :)
having Mitchell here all the time is really nice. I'm actually not sick of him at all, which is cool because I suspected that might happen. he's at work all afternoon Monday through Wednesday, so that helps. my mom mentioned, and I agree, that he is just the easiest person ever to live with. he's pretty clean and organized, quiet, and fits in so well with our family. and he puts up with me even now when I'm so busy and have moments of insanity or meltdowns. so that's pretty cool too.
my BIG NEWS is that I got a job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yes. I am very very very very very very excited! It's the job at Bath and Body Works that I wrote about several weeks ago. I had pretty much given up on it because it was three weeks since the interview and I hadn't heard anything, but on Friday they called and offered me the job! So, soon I'll have my orientation (still trying to set a date for that, since I couldn't do it on Sunday morning when they usually have it) and then hopefully I'll be starting around finals week - after all this craziness. I couldn't have asked for a better time either. I mean, there's no possible way that I could be working right now and keeping school and piano stuff together. it's such a blessing from God that I got this job at this time.
I guess that's about it. we're going camping this weekend and I'll probably post about that later. Mitchell and I are learning how to do airial flips and stuff to jazz up our swing dancing, and my mom wants to teach me how to do a backflip. (jumps and such are surprisingly easy for the girl, and not at all scary with someone like Mitchell holding you.)
oh yes the only other thing is that, if I'm not on blogs much, it's because my computer internet capability has died (that and I am insanely busy through next week). so yeah, my computer won't get online anywhere anyhow and nobody can figure out why..........hopefully we can fix it soon but so far, I'm just on my mom's computer for all internet stuff. and since she's kind of on her computer a lot, I don't get as much time with it. it's kind of good though, because it keeps me from getting distracted when I'm trying to do homework. :)
May 25, 2010
May 20, 2010
this is long but you should read to the end...there is kind of something important in it
I know, I know - it's been two billion years since I posted. you wouldn't believe how busy I've been. let's just say there are like two weeks left of school, 2 big papers, a final presentation and a choir concert, two major piano recitals, a weekend of worship, and a grad party yet to go. oh, and a camping trip (talk about LAME TIMING). but there is actually a lot of stuff going on you should probably know about. and if I can get it to work, I'll put up some of my senior pics too. :D
so I'm on worship this weekend. we had band practice last night and it was SO MUCH FUN!!!! we totally changed the set Roger had put together (it was just way too slow and....old). he wanted to do I Sing the Mighty Power of God so painfully slow, so we decided to do it at double time and have electric guitar and keyboard play the melody through together. It's going to be AMAZING. :P lots of piano stuff this weekend which is kind of cool but kind of frightening too, as I haven't really practiced at all. but last night went really well and I'm getting pretty good at coming up with stuff on the fly, so that's nice.
I'm practicing piano about two hours a day currently....I'm close to ready for the recital (although I should have been completely ready a week ago). half of my music is done and ready. then there are like two songs that are really close. the thing freaking me out is that Rhapsody isn't ready yet. it's close, but not nearly as close as I'd like it to be. but *sigh* two hours a day is making a dent. I'm trying to stay both calm and optimistic.....and get lots done at the same time.
school goes on. my group is just about ready for our history project. I have a draft due next week for my 10-page English research paper - we have no instructions on this yet, but at least I have a slightly broad topic picked and a teensy bit of research done. it's just....so much writing. :/
alright. the biggest most explosive news (and you're probably all going to freak out on me here - please don't) is that my friend Mitchell is moving in with us and renting our guest room.
*pauses while everyone freaks out*
Ok. Yes, he is a boy; no we are not and never have even had the slightest intentions of dating, or had any feelings for each other besides friendship. And he is good at communication and we talk about our relationship quite a lot - we are on the same page. Yes, we have only known him for about three months, but, well.....God works in interesting ways. No, we are not crazy.
The basic situation is this: he's been renting a room from his mom and stepdad for the last year or so, so that he can be more independent (his mom is kind of controlling). The home situation isn't bad per se, but it's not really good either - he's had kind of a rough family life growing up and has never really had close relationships the way my family does.
Most of you know, we met at school last quarter and pretty much were instantly friends. We emailed quite a bit and then started hanging out fairly often as well. He and my parents hit it off right away as well, and my mom basically decided she was unofficially adopting him - so she's kind of become his surrogate mom, and he and I are much more like brother/sister than anything else. (Plus my dad is cool with the whole situation, and any of you who know my dad should be put at ease by that.) Anyway with my mom's surgery and everything surrounding it, he's become even closer to all of us, and we consider him to be part of the family now. He and my mom started hanging out a lot during the day (which has been great, since my mom would have been alone a lot during her recovery otherwise) and he practically lives at my house nowadays.
And we all came to realize that we really liked him practically living here. There are lots of other details and factors that go into it (and he has been thinking about moving out of his parent's house for a long time now), but the other day my mom was like "hey, what if Mitchell rented a room from us and moved in here?" and we had several family discussions, and decided that it was a really good idea. And so he also thought about it for awhile, and today we decided that he should move it.
So tomorrow he is moving in. :)
And.....that's basically it. But I thought I should explain it all and let you guys know what's going on. I guess most people will kind of figure it out eventually, but I didn't want it to just come up during conversation sometime and then have everybody mad that I didn't tell them. :P If you have any questions or concerns or would like to tell me how crazy my family is, we can talk.
I think the only other thing is my mom's surgery, which was incredibly successful!!! Mom is doing great; she gets tired easily but other than that is recovering swimmingly. Tammy (her recipient) has been doing fantastically since they put the kidney in. All the doctors and nurses have been just floored by how amazing of a match this is. Tammy's husband said last week that it seems obvious that God made this kidney 40 years ago just for Tammy. So praise God for all this wonderful news!
Alrighty. it's getting late-ish and I have a bunch of homework to get to. Goodnight peoples!
so I'm on worship this weekend. we had band practice last night and it was SO MUCH FUN!!!! we totally changed the set Roger had put together (it was just way too slow and....old). he wanted to do I Sing the Mighty Power of God so painfully slow, so we decided to do it at double time and have electric guitar and keyboard play the melody through together. It's going to be AMAZING. :P lots of piano stuff this weekend which is kind of cool but kind of frightening too, as I haven't really practiced at all. but last night went really well and I'm getting pretty good at coming up with stuff on the fly, so that's nice.
I'm practicing piano about two hours a day currently....I'm close to ready for the recital (although I should have been completely ready a week ago). half of my music is done and ready. then there are like two songs that are really close. the thing freaking me out is that Rhapsody isn't ready yet. it's close, but not nearly as close as I'd like it to be. but *sigh* two hours a day is making a dent. I'm trying to stay both calm and optimistic.....and get lots done at the same time.
school goes on. my group is just about ready for our history project. I have a draft due next week for my 10-page English research paper - we have no instructions on this yet, but at least I have a slightly broad topic picked and a teensy bit of research done. it's just....so much writing. :/
alright. the biggest most explosive news (and you're probably all going to freak out on me here - please don't) is that my friend Mitchell is moving in with us and renting our guest room.
*pauses while everyone freaks out*
Ok. Yes, he is a boy; no we are not and never have even had the slightest intentions of dating, or had any feelings for each other besides friendship. And he is good at communication and we talk about our relationship quite a lot - we are on the same page. Yes, we have only known him for about three months, but, well.....God works in interesting ways. No, we are not crazy.
The basic situation is this: he's been renting a room from his mom and stepdad for the last year or so, so that he can be more independent (his mom is kind of controlling). The home situation isn't bad per se, but it's not really good either - he's had kind of a rough family life growing up and has never really had close relationships the way my family does.
Most of you know, we met at school last quarter and pretty much were instantly friends. We emailed quite a bit and then started hanging out fairly often as well. He and my parents hit it off right away as well, and my mom basically decided she was unofficially adopting him - so she's kind of become his surrogate mom, and he and I are much more like brother/sister than anything else. (Plus my dad is cool with the whole situation, and any of you who know my dad should be put at ease by that.) Anyway with my mom's surgery and everything surrounding it, he's become even closer to all of us, and we consider him to be part of the family now. He and my mom started hanging out a lot during the day (which has been great, since my mom would have been alone a lot during her recovery otherwise) and he practically lives at my house nowadays.
And we all came to realize that we really liked him practically living here. There are lots of other details and factors that go into it (and he has been thinking about moving out of his parent's house for a long time now), but the other day my mom was like "hey, what if Mitchell rented a room from us and moved in here?" and we had several family discussions, and decided that it was a really good idea. And so he also thought about it for awhile, and today we decided that he should move it.
So tomorrow he is moving in. :)
And.....that's basically it. But I thought I should explain it all and let you guys know what's going on. I guess most people will kind of figure it out eventually, but I didn't want it to just come up during conversation sometime and then have everybody mad that I didn't tell them. :P If you have any questions or concerns or would like to tell me how crazy my family is, we can talk.
I think the only other thing is my mom's surgery, which was incredibly successful!!! Mom is doing great; she gets tired easily but other than that is recovering swimmingly. Tammy (her recipient) has been doing fantastically since they put the kidney in. All the doctors and nurses have been just floored by how amazing of a match this is. Tammy's husband said last week that it seems obvious that God made this kidney 40 years ago just for Tammy. So praise God for all this wonderful news!
Alrighty. it's getting late-ish and I have a bunch of homework to get to. Goodnight peoples!
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