Saturday, April 24, 2004

Well, two weeks down, two weeks to go. Today I'm supposed to write an 8 page term paper. Shouldn't be too hard. I don't care too much about how it comes out so that makes things a bit easier. I think it's like 25% of my grade or something ridiculous like that. Oh well.

This is my second to last weekend here; that's quite weird to think about. It's been tough trying to be focused. They give us spring break a month before school gets out, then they expect us to come back and do decent work. Yeah right. By this point we all want to be at home doing nothing. But I'm just going to suck it up and plow through the next two weeks. And besides, this is my last two weeks to spend with the people here for quite a long time. Many of them I won't be seeing until January.

So that's it, I guess I'll stop procrastinating on my paper now.

Sunday, April 18, 2004

So I thought maybe I should update, seeming how it's April 18th. I've been back at school for the past week and I'm sitting here wondering how I'm going to get everything done that's due the last week. I have procrastination bad right now. Well mostly just the past few days. I'm hoping to move past it today and finally start on a term paper I've been putting of for, well, all term.

Two more normal weeks of school then finals then I'm out of here. It's hard to believe, I feel like I just moved in. Well, I don't feel like I just moved in, but it definitely doesn't seem like a whole school year has gone by. Last year felt twice this long. Last night (actually this morning) I had a dream that I was with Mel and Al and I think we were in the Sydney area. We went to go see Leah's softball game. I think that was the most unrealistic part of the whole thing - Leah playing compeptitive softball. There was this snafoo in the last inning and for whatever reason Leah didn't get to bat like she thought she would and she was really pissed off. It was kinda funny, but not until I woke up. Then somehow we were on my college campus and I don't remember what we did after that. I think I woke up. Wow and the really funny thing that I just realized is that Leah probably doesn't even know how to play baseball except maybe vaguely from watching it in the states.

And now I'm sitting here listening to awful music from the swap meet next door. I really hate Sunday's here for this reason. It's almost reason enough to make me go to church on Sunday morning rather than at night, but I just can't stay alert for the service in the morning. So I guess it's crappy music for me for the next five hours.

Sunday, April 04, 2004

Just a little blog to say I'm at home and it's absolutely beautiful here. LA is so ugly it's ridiculous. I spent a couple minutes in the car on the way home wondering why I could see everything on the hillside, then I remembered that's normal. More later perhaps.

Monday, March 29, 2004

Another service announcement. I found out yesterday that I'm accepted to my program in Australia!!! YAY!!!!

Saturday, March 27, 2004

Just a service announcement before I do some homework. If you don't have it already, you need to run to the store and buy sara groves' new cd "the other side of something." soooooooore good. i got it last week, but i'm finally at the point where i've listened to it enough that i'm listening to the words and the music as a whole and it's just amazing. i'm sure you thought sara groves couldn't get any more honest but she has. a-maz-ing. making me want to write.
It's been a crazy week, and it totally flew by which I'm so thankful for because it puts me another week closer to spring break! My trip to San Diego was ok...not as restful as I wish it could have been. I had a lot on my mind, so I didn't really sleep while I was there. On top of that, I woke up Sunday morning feeling absolutely horrible. I made the two hour drive home anyway because I had a mandatory concert I had to go to at 2. That lasted from 2 to 9. Yes friends, seven hours. It was totally miserable, and I didn't even sing half the time because I felt so bad.

Once that was over, I had a massive test to tackle on Monday. I think it went pretty well, we'll see on Monday when I get it back with a grade on it. But since Monday it's been pretty smooth sailing and things have gone fast. The highlight of the week was definitely last night. We took my roommate out for her birthday and had a really good time. The best part was seeing her so excited over her present. This will take a little explaining. My roommate and her family don't really have a lot of money right now, so for the past year+ my roommate has been taking tons of pictures but hasn't had the money to develop them. One roll isn't so bad, but when you have ten sitting around you can't just go get them all developed because it's going to be way expensive. So a few days ago we stole all her film out of her room and took it to Costco to get it developed. She was so happy she started to cry. It was great.

After dinner (Cheesecake factory, yum!) we went to see opening night of Jersey Girl. It was pretty cute. Basically we all agreed that there was one scene that we really didn't like, but the rest of it was good. It wasn't really what I expected, which was actually really nice. Not very much of it was about romance at all, it was more about the father-daughter relationship. So, if you don't feel like spending the money to go see it I'd say don't, but it could be a good one to rent if you're not going to mind one ridiculous scene where they talk about sex and hearing the word "shit" a bunch of times. The little girl is adorable and definitely the best part and Ben Affleck does a good job as well. Definitely had some tears going on during some father-daughter moments.

Time for the most obnoxious part of the week. These kids at the movie theater last night were seriously out of control. They would like run out of the theater. Run! Then there was another group of kids in the back that just talked the. whole. time. Finally about 2/3 of the way through someone finally went to the theator admin. and brought someone in to have them stop, but my gosh it was so bad. I seriously felt like I was trying to watch a movie at a party.

One final note, my friend Margo and I made a whipped cream pact that we're going to go to Europe after we graduate. It's official, we have the pictures to prove it.

Friday, March 19, 2004

Well it's Friday and I'm about to leave for San Diego for the weekend. I'm super stoked. I have some studying to do down there, but that's about it. I just want to relax and get away. So until Monday I'm pretty much out.

Wednesday, March 17, 2004

It's not Tuesday, it's Wednesday and currently I am ditching my philosophy class. I figure I've never ditched it before, I'm tired and I have a sinus headache. So I didn't go, and I'm fine with that. It's interesting though how I've only been back for half an hour and already I'm itching for something to do. Something in me keeps saying "Do homework, do some homework" and I have to keep telling myself it's alright to relax, the chaos is over and I just need a break. I'm not sure I remember what a break is. Maybe watching a movie will help.

My roommate had to wash a whole chicken today. It was really funny to watch. Whole chickens are gross. I'm glad it was her and not me.

I still haven't got through the first chapter of that book. Well I've read it, but I haven't let myself move on because I haven't done the whole study. I did memorize a suggested verse though, and it's been a stronghold over the last two days.

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
Matt. 11:28-30

That's all for now. I'm going to go try to relax.

Sunday, March 14, 2004

So it's Sunday night and the weekend's almost over but for the first time in a long time I'm actually glad. I really just want to get this week over and done with. Not this whole week, moreso the next couple of days. There is going to be great rejoicing Tuesday afternoon, let me tell you. Friday I'm going to head down to San Diego to see some friends who are going to school down there and then go to my aunt and uncle's place. I cannot wait to just RELAX and not do school work. I will have to study a bit while I'm down there since I have a midterm that Monday, but that's going to be inconsequential in comparison to how much work I've been doing recently.

I got this great book at Family Christian the other day, along with tree 63's new cd and delirious king of fools. the book is called Having a Mary Heart in a Martha world. I'm stoked to read it. I read the first chapter last night, but didn't have time to do the study that goes with it (isn't that ironic) so i'm going to read it again when i can do the study. It's weird though, I want to read this book but at the same time it becomes another "thing to do" which just contributes to my whole Martha mentality. I'm hoping that admist the "doing" of the reading that i'll learn to slow down and focus on what's important - namely anything and everything but school. Ok, that was a slight exaggeration.

Lately i've been writing chord progressions with ease. It's freaking me out a bit. And I've been a bit inspired (though I don't know from what) to take a stab at writing some words. So perhaps once school has calmed down (later this week) there could be some songs. Who knows. I've felt really encouraged in my music by other people lately. I think that's really helped. That's all for now. The next entry will probably be great rejoicing on tuesday.

Thursday, March 11, 2004

Please keep this girl in your prayers. Though I don't know her, I've been reading her journal for over a year now and we've exchanged a couple guestbook entries. Her father passed away suddenly last night. I can't even imagine.

Tuesday, March 09, 2004

I think I'm approaching the top of the hill. The pinnacle is in sight. This is a good thing and a bad thing. It's bad because I still have the last push to the top that's the steepest. But it's great because I'm almost over the top and on the downward slope. One week until freedom. Well, not freedom but freedom in comparison to the last 2+ weeks. I have two major assignments down, two midterms and one group presentation to go. The following week I have another midterm but I'm just not going to count that because I want "this" bundle of stress to be over.

Now that I've sufficiently talked about school. This Saturday a freshman girl from my school got killed in a car accident. Another car was driving the wrong way on the freeway I believe (or on an inerchange or something) and hit her head on. She was killed instantly, and the two passengers in her car suffered a lot of external (but no internal) injuries. Today they had a service for her on campus. Yesterday in chapel our campus pastor urged us to go even if we didn't know her to show her family support. As he talked a bit about this girl I knew I should go. I had this huge lump in my throat and I was welling with tears, and I never even met this girl. Funny how someone you've never met can teach you so much. In an hour and fifteen minutes today I got a glimpse of who this girl was, and she sounded amazing. Her passion was definitely to serve other people. There was story after story about how she cared for people. And she didn't just do it generally, she was a detail type of person. She would find out what someone liked or what their needs were and would do something especially for them. She always put others first. At the beginning of the service our campus pastor talked a bit, and he mentioned the passage about the woman who annointed Jesus with perfume. He was saying how a lot of people might say, "this is such a waste" but they said the same thing about the woman. Just like she poured out the expensive perfume, this girl poured out her life to other people. And what she did will not be forgotten.

Wednesday, March 03, 2004

Last night I had a dream that an airplane crashed into my house. I watched it from our living room and thought, "that airplane is a bit closer than it should be" seconds before it made contact. I exchanged a look with either my mom or my dad as to say "oh shoot" and "goodbye" at the same time. Surprisingly (or not suprisingly since it was a dream), we managed to come out unharmed. Not even a bruise. How's that for realistic? The whole house should have really blown up. So for the rest of my dream, we had half an airplane sticking into one side of our house. How's that for random. And it was a Southwest plane, just in case you were wondering.

I'm super confused about what day it is. My school keeps giving us these random days off, which I really don't mind but it really messes me up in terms of keeping track of the week. We had last Tuesday off for a "School specific activity day." The School of Music did nothing, neither did the School of Theology or the School of Education and Behavioral Sciences (the schools of my roommates and myself). I'd like to think it was School specific sleeping day. And today is Common Day of Learning, better known as "common day of sleeping," "common day of going to the beach" or my personal favorite "common day of loafing" (notice it's still CDL). So I'm sitting around doing homework today. Such has been my life lately, and it will be for the next two weeks still. After March 16th I'll be pretty much free for a few weeks, or things will have settled down at least. Right now the level of homework has reached an all-time high. While I'm on top of things, the pile still looks daunting.

Let me ask you a question. What kind of professor makes 2/3 of your 8-10 page paper worth 20 points? Is that much work really worth it for a measly 20? I don't think I'm going to stress over this assignment. It's not worth it. (Note: chances are I probably will anyway).

So currently I'm sitting here typing this because I'm really tired of doing homework, namely an assignment for my conduction class which I've already put 20+ hours into this semester. I'm seriously going to cry with joy when it's over. Dear Jesus, let that day be soon. Or come back between now and then.

Thursday, February 26, 2004

So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Thought we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
2 Corinthians 5:16-21

Maybe it sounds silly, but I don't think I ever got that before. I've heard the "new creation" verse a million times. It's a great one. But I never looked at it in context before. Well, I probably tried to but I just read over the surrounding verses really fast. How many times is a form of the word reconciliation used in this short passage? A ton! This passage is about how we treat other people! We're to treat them as new creatures in Christ, because that's what they are. We're not supposed to treat each other as we deserve, but we're supposed to be reconciled to each other just as Christ's death reconciled us to God. Amazing.

Wednesday, February 25, 2004

Well folks it's already Wednesday night and there's only two more days to go until the weekend. I had a lovely day off yesterday and was able to get a few things done. I had to go to Cal Poly Pomona to watch their Chamber Choir rehearsal. It's great when doing things like that actually constitutes getting work done. Later that night I went to a classical guitar concert here on campus. Amazing, and extremely relaxing. Unfortunately I was extremely tired yesterday, so all I wanted to do was fall asleep in my chair.

Speaking of falling asleep in my chair, that's all I wanted to do today too, though I'm feeling a bit more energetic right now. Let's hope it lasts through my science lab tonight. Today I kept seeing people with stuff on their forehead, and it took me ages to remember that today was Ash Wednesday. I really wish I'd realized that earlier and gone to a service. I haven't been to one for three years at least.

Phrase of the day, "My yoke is easy and my burden is light." Today our chapel speaker was long and drawn out, but she said that and it hit hard with me. I'm so stressed out lately. I need to take the yoke of Christ, not the yoke of slavery to school (ha!).

And one more time: IT'S RAINING AGAIN AND I'M SO EXCITED!

Sunday, February 22, 2004

I figured I should put a service announcement up here. But first a small proclaimation.

IT'S RAINING OUTSIDE AND IT'S SUPPOSED TO KEEP RAINING ALL WEEK!

This makes me very excited in case you couldn't tell. Now on to the service announcement. If you visited my guestbook the day before yesterday and the top entry was some html code which either showed up as a picture or a locked entry, you may have received a virus. Two days ago I was checking my guestbook, and all of a sudden a message popped up from my virus scan software that I had received two viruses. After countless hours of looking, scanning, and deleting temporary internet files, the only conclusion I have is that my software killed them when they tried to get in. But, if you don't have virus scan software on your computer and you visited either my or Mel's guestbook a couple days ago, you may have a couple trojans on your computer. Sorry if that affects anyone. And just so you know it's deleted off of our guestbooks, but I think I'm going to be cautious about viewing it straight away for a while!

Friday, February 20, 2004

As you can see I got the bold fixed. I thought I'd actually failed again because my browser went psycho as I tried to publish, but it ended up working to my surprise.

Look at what happens when I actually don't have a lot of stuff going on. All of a sudden updates happen more than twice a month. Amazing how that works. I'm enjoying the lower stress level, but in the back of my mind all the things (mainly assignments) that the future holds looks overwhelming. I'm trying to plan and keep track of things. And when that doesn't do any good, I try to not think about it for a while. Sometimes the second method is more successful.

Today we had "creative arts" chapel. No one really knows what that means. I think it ends up being a bit different every year. So this morning I went into it with few expectations. The general attitude was "this is probably going to be lame." And I've got to say it wasn't the best chapel I've ever been to, but God did speak to me through it, and that's all I asked. This morning I asked God if there would just be one thing that I would learn this morning, one thing I could take away and mull over. It didn't matter if it was a certain aspect of his character or something in my life or something I need to work on. I just wanted there to be something. It took a while, but at the end there finally was. Once again God reminded me of war. That sounds nice doesn't it. I was reminded to take up my sword and shield and put on the armor he has commanded me to clothe myself with.

I am so concerned with this world. Completely sucked up into it. Who cares? Is my homework really that important? Is my school life really that important? I mean, who really gives a damn in light of eternity what my grade in physical science was. That doesn't mean I'm not going to try, but the things of God sure as heck better be a higher priority than that. They're so entirely not. I think right now at best the things of God are about fifth on my list. I need God at the top of that. To have his perspective on life, reality, what's important. God doesn't need to be at the top of that list, He needs to consume that list. Everything on that list needs to be of him and for him and by him. Why? Because it's important in light ot eternity. The way I live now affects eternity. I forget that all the time. The way I wage (or don't wage) war has a real affect on reality. The way I pray (or don't pray) for others has an affect on the present and the future. Jesus help me prioritize. I need you.

Wednesday, February 18, 2004

So The bold didn't show up. I tried to insert it (spent a lot of time editing in fact), then my internet decided to not work. See #49. I'll fix it later.
Well, the tests are over and both of them went fine. So now that I have those things off my shoulders, I need to do a little "nothing." Which means I deemed in necessary to fill out the huge survey everyone's been doing lately. So here it is via Mel, via Kara, via Tara.

Instructions:

1. Copy this whole list into your journal.

2. Bold the things that you have in common with me.

3. Whatever you don't bold, replace with things about you. Take note, ALL 100 are about me, the bold ones I have in common with Mel. You bold what you have in common with me then make up new things about YOU for the rest.

Please add a comment if you do it so that I can come read it!

01. I?m not a big fan of Starbucks in general because I?m not a huge fan of espresso. Chai lattes are good.

02. I think the best sound in the world is people worshipping Jesus.

03. I like to read but it?s difficult to find time during school. Come quickly summer.

04. I?ve done a lot to change my life for the better...but Jesus has done more.

05. I love green beans if they?re not cooked. Once you cook them it?s disgusting.

06. I don?t have a job right now (and would be insane if I did), but I have the best job at home.

07. I have some regrets, but there's nothing I would change.

08. I?ve never had glasses. But I think my eyesight is slowly deteriorating. Last time I went in for a physical I had to guess on the last few letters on the chart. Good thing I guessed right.

09. I love to cook, and now that I'm at school, I do quite often.

10. I really don't like dogs... that smell. The rest of them are cute.

11. My favorite article of clothing currently is my Jennifer Knapp sweatshirt . . . or my GAP sweater

12. I have never been married.

13. I've never been to Bermuda.

14. I haven?t had a favorite color for many years. There are colors I like more than others, but none is my favorite.

15. I can?t believe I?m almost halfway through college. Praise God.

16. I enjoy a variety of musical styles.

17. I like to spend a lot of time by myself.

18. I like to just sit around and watch movies or tv on the weekends, but if I do it too much I start to feel depressed because I?m not doing anything productive.

19. I want to travel (all of) the world.

20. I am not a morning person.

21. I am a horrible dancer but I have no problem "dancing" and making a fool of myself if I?m only with Jesus.

22. There are not too many foods I refuse to eat, but oddly enough there are a few common things I don?t? really like such as sour cream, guacamole, and cream cheese.

23. I love the smell of coffee.

24. My hair looks damn hot in Texas. Of course, last time I was in Texas I had super short hair and it was platinum blonde. I don?t know how hot it would be there now.

25. My biggest vice is lack of discipline (in certain areas).

26. I consider myself very intuitive, but I think I?m often too afraid of being wrong to follow through on it, creating the image that I?m not intuitive. Or maybe I?m always wrong and I?m not intuitive at all. If I don?t try we?ll never know will we.

27. I can be creative at times.

28. I do not see much of my extended family.

29. I definitely have my times when I'm a bit too anal about things.

30. I love fruit.

31. I have a twin size bed that has a slight dip in the mattress, but it?s not as bad as last year.

32. I love baby animals. Like who?s going to say, ?Damn, kittens suck!???? This is only bold cause it's really funny.

33. I?ve had the same bedding at school the past two years and I don?t really care about it. I?ve had the same in my room at home for years and years, and again, I don?t even notice.

34. I admire my friends who have stepped out in faith and took the risk even when it didn?t make sense to most people around them.

35. I am tolerant of different points of view, but I don?t have to agree.

36. I?m pretty content with my finances, but then again I?m not. Let?s put it this way, I should be, but that doesn?t mean I always am.

37. I hate Halloween. I do however like the day before it.

38. I don't like to be the center of attention except on rare occasions like being on stage.

39. I absolutely hate to dress up unless it?s once or twice a year.

40. I have a sister that is almost 3 years older than me. She just turned 23. That weirds me out.

41. I really enjoy thoughtful gifts, even if they cost nothing.

42. I live to make people laugh and smile.

43. I?ve lived in California my whole life.

44. I don?t know what my fingernails would look like long because I?ve always bitten them. They?re longer now than they used to be, but they have to stay short for guitar.

45. I have limited patience when people are flaking for no reason.

46. Over the past couple of years I have really grown to love water.

47. I don?t tan. I used to when I was a kid, and now I don?t. Instead, now when we go to Hawaii I have to stay out of the sun because it will give me a heat rash. Lame.

48. I have seen all the Indiana Jones movies, though I don?t know if I?ve ever watched one straight through.

49. I obsess when my computer isn't working right, which is quite often at school.

50. I love road trips if I?m with the right people. With the family . . . probably not.

51. I like silence at times.

52. I am a Christian and totally committed to it and God, although I am NOT perfect. I still mess up.

53. I?m not sure I?ve ever drank a whole diet coke. Only if I was desperate.

54. I rarely procrastinate.

55. I don?t wear makeup unless I have a massive breakout going on ? i.e. a couple. I?m blessed with good skin.

56. I don't care about name brands for most things like food and medicine but I do for shampoo. I don?t buy it from the store. I?ve heard there are conspiracies. You also can?t buy generic mac and cheese.

57. I will never have curly hair, it?s too thick to hold anything.

58. I generally keep a cool head. I?m definitely the most even tempered out of all my roommates. I usually only freak out about stupid things, not things I should actually be concerned over.

59. I am not a member of the mile high club. Honestly I?m not even sure what the mile high club is.

60. I always know the location of my keys and purse except when I forget to put my keys back on the hook and keep them in my purse or backpack. That throws me off.

61. I love the rain. It?s raining right now! In southern California! YAY!

62. I always strive to do what's right, but it doesn't always happen that way. I would like to say that but it?s such a lie. I don?t always strive for what?s right, but the majority of the time I do.

63. I overreact about things sometimes.

64. I try to surround myself with really great people.

65. I have not tried a martini.

66. I like to people watch but after a while I?m over it. I can?t do it for hours like some people.

67. I like easy going people.

68. I?m not comfortable in really warm climates. I am miserable in the heat which is why northern California is the perfect place for me. Blasted 75 degree weather in Feb here.

69. I love peanut butter M&M's.

70. I like fun socks.

71. I hardly wear make-up.

72. I love the smell of clean clothes in the dryer.

73. I love my online friends . . . but I hate calling them that.

74. I have learned to say no.

75. I am SO thankful that God controls my future and he is faithfully leading me into it.

76. I definitely prefer pencils over pens. But they have to be mechanical. If it?s between a pen and a normal pencil, give me a pen.

77. I always have to have chapstick somewhere accessible to me. I freak out if my lips don't feel nice and lubricated.

78. My bra and panties are never a matched set. Who's going to see them!

79. My maternal instincts have somewhat kicked in. Sometimes I want kids, other times is scares me to death, other times I think they?d annoy the crap out of me.

80. I love my family. They're crazy sometimes, but I love them.

81. I own my own car.

82. My boobs are natural. I don?t want to insert comments because I already feel embarrassed enough about that statement as it is.

83. I love the smell of freshly showered guys, or at least I think I would. Haven?t been around too many.

84. I am not allergic to anything minus some minor seasonal allergies.

85. I don?t mind flying.

86. I daydream sometimes.

87. I was depressed last week but I think I?m fine now. I think having a couple tests off my shoulders helps.

88. I'm a really big fan of chick flicks, but not in excess. I can be over them fast.

89. I do NOT like spiders in Australia or anywhere. Except when they?re all over the bathroom ceiling in Australia, then it?s ok.

90. I think I'm a pretty laid back person most of the time, except when I?m really focused and need to get things done.

91. I am easily amused. I often think of funny moments during the day and have to keep myself from laughing out loud at them.

92. I'm ready for this list thing to be over.

93. I think it is ridiculous that all these celebrities nowadays have more money than they know what to do with, yet there are people everywhere who are poor and suffering and don't even have enough spare change to get some food . . . AMEN!

94. I have many acquaintances, but only a few I consider real friends.

95. I don't have many secrets from my friends.

96. I always appreciate honesty, even if the truth sometimes hurts.

97. I love to help people.

98. I miss Sydney.

99. I like to buy things for people just because...but I don't always.

100. I'm glad this is done!

Monday, February 16, 2004

Ten days. That's way better than my previous lapse. Obviously, things have become a bit hectic. I had a great last two weekends. Hanging out with the whole family was incredible, albeit exhausting. We had this last Friday off (instead of today) and I had a great weekend hanging with my roommies and our good friends down the road. We pretty much spent the weekend doing homework and hanging out with them. Nothing else.

So this week is sort of the week from hell. Well, it's the week from hell until the 2nd week of March rolls around. That one is going to be a thriller as well. I've got a physical science test tomorrow, and a philosophy test on Wednesday. I'm not really worried about tomorrow because so much of physical science is obvious. I just have this small fear that it's going to end up really hard and I'm going to fail the test in what should be my easiest subject. I don't think that's going to happen though, hense my typing here rather than continuing to review my study guide. I hate that class.

Friday, February 06, 2004

It's been ages, I know. As is the norm when this happens (and it happens often) let's do a quick recap of the last two weeks.
- Lots of school in general. Took three weeks but we finally had our first five day week of classes.
- Went to San Diego for my cousins birthday and had a great time with the fam down there.
- More school.
- After a two hour+ ordeal of a trip to LAX my roommate and I finally picked up Mel last Thursday.
- Kara drove out last Friday to hang out and to take Mel back to AZ the next day.
- Went to citywalk with Mel and Kara and a bunch of friends from school. Good times had by all. One of my friends read the hit book Once Upon a Potty to us over dinner. Don't ask. Well you can, but the answer probably won't be enlightening.
- Superbowl Sunday. Didn't watch the half time show. I'm still thanking God.
- More school

And that brings us to today! My parents and gma are flying down today and the whole family (like 20 people) are going to Disneyland for my gma's 80th birthday. I can't believe she's 80. She seriously looks 65. I'm counting on having her around for a good long time since she's in such great shape. I can't wait to see my family and my gma, it's going to be a great weekend. Currently I'm listening to Huey Lewis and the News. Yes, Huey Lewis from the 80s. He was my absolute favorite when I was in preschool. Can you imagine a 4 year old singing hip to be square? That must have been a funny sight for my mom. Beside that I'm just counting down the hours until I leave to pick everyone up from the airport and make the drive to Anaheim. Only 10 hours to go. Oi vey.