Currently

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Currently:

listening: Daniel humming and telling me about his game that he's playing on his iPad mini.

eating: We ate some pizza from Dominos (gross) not too long ago.

drinking: I have some water and some Coke Zero.

wearing: Black jazz pants, my mom's basketball tee from when she was in college, and my WKU sweatshirt Bev got me. And I'm rockin' the messy pony ;)

feeling: Kind of aggravated, and sad, but also a little happy, and very excited to see Marilyn Manson!

weather: It's pretty cold- 45 and some clouds.

wanting: Peace.

needing: Some tampons.. no really

thinking: Trying not to do too much of that right now :x

enjoying: Watching Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone with Daniel.

So um

Will and I broke up but it's good and we're okay and it's not really different and yeah well that's all on that subject.

In other news, Tales from Earthsea is a super fantastically good movie. :)

And Les Miserables was amazing!

Yesterday-- I went to Walmart with Mom for a while, and got some money on returns (I got duplicate books), yay! Then I went over to Phyllis's to take care of her dog, Chester. Phyllis is really sick in the hospital right now, with heart failure and pneumonia :/ She's not talking, but she is aware and responding non-verbally. I really, really hope she can get better. Prayers her way, yes? Then I picked up Lincoln and went home. We ate fish sticks and played Harry Potter UNO- good times. Then Lincoln and I went to the movies; we wanted to see The Collection, but it wasn't playing anymore, so Lincoln decided we should see The Guilt Trip, with Barbara Streisand. It was "meh," as Lincoln put it. It was okay, with some cute parts, but over all, it was your standard comedy with gushy elements and an extremely predictable plot. But it was entertaining to watch, and had a cute love story. 

Today, Maddy is going to come over :)

The Wizard of the Caribbean

Christmas at Nanna's was a good night :) Kari taught me how to do a double stitch with crochet. She also freaked when I told her I wasn't keeping count of my stitches.... But I'm just beginning  and I don't really want to count all those stitches. On my next scarf, though, I'll try out the double stitch AND counting. Nanna made a big dinner, and then we all exchanged gifts. 

The Christmas party Mom hosted last night for the anesthesia department was pretty wild. Crazy dancing and karaoke, lotsssss of food. It lasted soooo long, though- from 7pm-3am. Ughhh, 8 hours of partying?! That is too much. I was the designated valet parker/driver, and I was super tired today. I slept in pretty late and then kinda felt tired all day long.

I did manage to get gifts for Dad's side wrapped, though. That was my productive part of the day. Other than that, I watched Pirates of the Caribbean and The Wizard of Oz. And that's pretty much it. Oh and we had to clean the completely trashed house today, too. I ate some leftover food from the party (yum) and took a shower. It was a pretty lazy day, but I don't really mind. 

Abby went out with Daniel a few hours ago to go to Magic Mart, and she's still gone. I'm trying to keep in the living room until she comes back because she never remembers to lock the door and turn off the lights. But I really want to go to my room... I'll send her a text and hopefully that will work. Who takes hours to go to Magic Mart?!

I'm having a really hard time with myself right now.

Dear Future Self

Dear Future Self,

Hello, me. Right now, you're older than me, and I'm younger than you, but really we're both the same age because we're both the same person. This message is just trapped within your 18-yr-old mind. And you might wonder what kind of crack you were smoking when you wrote this. You might even be embarrassed. I know when I read some of my past letters to myself, it's kind of embarrassing. I can't help but think, "Did I really talk like that?"

I'm not really sure what the purpose of this letter is, other than I just think they're fun to read later. It's like getting a letter from a friend, except less exciting because you are expecting it. But it can still be fun to look back on what could have been going on then. 

I hope that having a major in international affairs is working for you. I really hope it will. I've not started the coursework yet, so you'll have to tell me how that goes ;) lol that's not even funny. Anyway. I hope that you've found a place where you belong and that you're still staying in touch with your artistic side. Hopefully you've got an apartment right now, too.

A piece of advice: be nice to people. For real. Just do it. But not so nice that they mistake you for a fool. Find a good balance. I know it's hard for you. Also, don't let yourself or anyone else hold you down. You need to do what is best for you. Maybe I should take some of my own advice now. Hopefully you have.

Answer some questions for me.
- What is your major?
- How old are you?
- Where do you go to school?
- Are you happy?
- What do you wish I had known today that you know now?

Now I need to refrain from reading this for a few years.

See you in a while.

Love,

You

Caroling and all that

After cleaning out Mom's car, we went to Lowe's to get a new toilet, yay. The toilet in our front bathroom is pretty bad- it uses so much water and then takes nearly half an hour to fill up.. which isn't practical. And Mom is throwing a hugeee party Friday, so having the "public" bathroom backed up won't do. We needed a new one anyway. This just gave us a good reason to get it. We thought that by fixing that issue, it would deter traffic from the hallway that has my room and Abby's room and bathroom. The last time we had a large party here, Abby's bathroom became quite the spot... And she was in her room, less than a foot away. Gross. God help the person who tries any funny business in my room >:(

After Lowe's, we met my mom's friend Gina for lunch at Penn Station. It was the first time I had been in it-- it was really good. Gina is from Miami- just like my neighbor at PFT named Gina who is from Miami. My Gina, however.. Savannah (my roommate) and I really can't stand her. She plays ukelele at ungodly hours and in ungodly ways, she is always seeking out attention, hangs out in the boys' bathroom, etc.. Savannah started calling her Gina (pronounced g-eye-nuh), and that was a great one when Gina heard her. Anyway, Mom's Gina was really funny and sweet. She talked a lot- I liked it. I love to be around talkative people. Just not chatty people. There is a difference, dude.

Then I cleaned out Mom's other car, went to Goodwill, and to Food City with Will. Yeah. Uhm.

Caroling was fun. We went to the assisted living home, to Meyer's Towers (an elderly-preference apartment building), and to four homes of church members who can't really get out of the house. We went to Thelmer's, and he's my favorite. He's always been my buddy, ever since I was a baby. He said "She's my favorite soprano, right there." He is such a kind man. I really wish he can get better soon; he has throat cancer. After caroling, we went back to Chuck and Bonita's for food. It was a pretty good day.

Goodnight, dead blog

Fall 2012

Well.. I've managed to not blog *once* this whole semester. I am not proud of myself.

However, winter break is upon me, and I want to recommit myself to my blog! So many years of my life are here and then bam I stop. Shame on me.

This semester has been pretty wild. There's no way I can include a whole semester here.. I really should have blogged while I went. Thankfully, I recorded each day of MASTER Plan in a paper journal. MASTER Plan was a program at WKU I attended the week before classes began. I was able to move in early, which was a pretty valuable advantage. The program was designed to help incoming freshman learn their way around campus before being let loose and wandering about like lost puppies. However.. I don't really think it succeeded. MASTER Plan was chuck full of classes that weren't really very helpful. The only one I managed to gain any information on was the session on underage drinking and how to safely do it without getting caught ;). Most of it, though, was not only trivial but downright lowering. "You're in college now, kiddos, no more crying to mommy." Yeah? Who said I ever cried to mommy in the first place? And this one woman just went on and on with an awful smirk and smart-ass pointed statements. Also, MASTER Plan had an extremely strict schedule. If you didn't go to an event and swipe your card, they knew and would send you home until classes began.. It was pretty much like summer camp lockdown.

When classes started, however, things began to look up for me at WKU. My schedule looked like this:

Music Appreciation  MWF 9:10-10:05

University Experience: Performing Arts  MW 10:20-11:15

Ballet I  MW 11:30-12:25

Voice & Movement  MWF 12:40-1:35

Rehearsal Production I  F 10:20-11:15

Music Theory  TR 11:10-12:30

At the beginning of the semester, I also had Sociology at 8am, but I ended up dropping the class because I was already taking seven and my workload was getting pretty large. So why not just drop my earliest class? ;)

Yesterday, I found out my final grades! I MADE ALL As!!!! 4.0! YAY! Which means I probably made the President's List. I really hope I did. If not, I definitely made the Dean's List. I also found out that I'm going to be graduating two semesters early- a whole academic year. Only two and a half more years, only five more semesters to go.. Wow. That is, if I choose to do that. I might just graduate one semester early instead. But that still might not work out.... Grr I just don't know. 

Music appreciation- easy. lots of note-taking. listening assignments. four tests, including final.

UE- not even a class really. learn about the theatre and dance dept. talk to friends. ask questions about how to do life.

Ballet- really hard. all performance based. three papers.

V&M- easy only if you follow instructions and apply yourself, which also makes it challenging. favorite class hands down.

Prod- super easy. introduction to backstage work.

Music theory- easy, but only because dr herman was such a wonderful teacher. he was always willing to delve deeper if he thought it could benefit a student.

I auditioned for everything this semester. I was cast in nothing. Go figure. I've had a hard time with it.

Oh yeah! I changed my major from music theatre to international affairs. I'm really excited.

My schedule for next semester: comparative politics, fundamentals of theatre, jazz, astronomy, and macroeconomics. It's going to be a hard semester, but a good one, I'm sure. I'm really interested in the subjects in the international affairs major and I truly feel I am meant to do some kind of international work. Right now an organization I'm super interested in is the Open Government Partnership. The OGP takes positive traits from various governments and aims to put them together for different governments to adopt as their own. It's fairly new, as well, meaning job opportunities. There seem to be very few, but there is still a chance. And I mean how amazing would it be to work for something like the UN or the Foreign Service? Or the CIA?!?! I think this change of course was a good decision on my part.

I got home from school on Thursday (today is Tuesday, Dec 18). I don't start class for the spring semester until Jan 22. Yesterday, I went to a Christmas party with Mom at Chuck and Bonita's house for Chuck's Sunday school class. I'm not in the class, but ya know. Today, I went with Phyllis to run some errands. I took her to the nail salon, to McDonald's, and to her appointment with a doctor. Tomorrow, I think I'm babysitting some for Kelli and then I'm going caroling with church around to some shut-ins and nursing homes. I'm excited for that. I've really missed singing in a public setting. It's so hard to find places to do it in a new town. I'm afraid to join a church choir in BG - I don't want to make a commitment I can't keep. Thursday, we're having Christmas at Nanna's! With me, Mom, Abby, Will, Nanna, Archie, Kari, Tony, Rachel, and Keegan. Nanna's making Christmas dinner and everything. It's going to be wonderful. Sunday, I'm going to see Gammie! Monday is Christmas Eve! Abby and I always go to Dad's on Christmas Eve to open presents. Christmas morning we'll be with Mom, and then to the church to help give Christmas dinner to people, then to Gammie's for Christmas dinner, then back to Mom. It's a busy few days coming up, but they're going to be very good days.

That's all for now. I'm gonna eat some olives.