week in a flash (week 26)

1. Guess what?  I get to leave for Colorado tomorrow for Thanksgiving break!!!  Yaaaa!!!  Four whole days and one half-day in the great state of CO!!!!!  I get to see my parentals, my Uncle and his fam, my cat and the new Harry Potter movie!!  So excited!!!!!!!  Yaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2. This is from my PR book in the chapter about  writing ~ “Writing is easy,” said U.S. journalist and playwright Gene Fowler. “All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”  (and a little later)  Nobel Prize-winning novelist Ernest Hemingway declared, “Writing is easy.  Just open a vein and bleed on paper.”  ~ I laughed at both of those quotations  :D

3. I thought my mom would enjoy this one – this is from my Twitter feed there was this little movement the other day where people would tweet something that they would have told their 16-yr-old self and this one came from someone who posts as Lord Voldemort from Harry Potter ~ Lord_Voldemort7 #tweetyour16yearoldself Choose Neville Longbottom! Choose Neville Longbottom!

4. I’ve been watching waaaaaay too many Westerns, the other night I dreamt that I was part of a cattle drive (the cattle were owned by my dad) and that I trained my own horse (she was beautiful though, I liked that part of it).  Wow.

5. I looked out my peephole the other morning and it took me a few minutes to realize that what I was seeing wasn’t the sun shining brightly but was in fact bright, white snow on the ground…damn snow (and winter) has arrived in SoDak.  That wasn’t so bad though because it was a light snowfall and was mostly gone by nightfall.  I’m hoping that any blizzard-type weather waits until I’m not living in the state anymore…

6. You know I might have been able to handle living away from the mountains of CO and farther away from family if it weren’t for the damn wind in this state, it’s unbelievable!

7. Days to graduation = 17

w/ weekends and holidays = 25

w/o holidays = 21, by the next week-in-a-flash this one won’t be necessary because the number will be the same as w/ weekends and holidays…hmmm…

8. Bored, excited, stressed, tired…I am so eager to just be done already.

9. I wonder if, sometimes, my strong reactions to things and my passions come off as bitchiness…*sigh* why is it so hard to talk to people about hot button issues without it dissolving into an argument?  I just don’t understand, I mean I understand being passionate about an issue and wanting to convey to people the reason for that passion but that doesn’t mean you have to dismiss someonelse’s viewpoint, does it?  That’s what I don’t understand, I don’t understand being so locked into an opinion that anytime someone raises an opposing view you are unable to proceed in the discussion and remain polite…I try, I really try to remain open-minded while still retaining my views and beliefs and I try to give other people’s views and opinions a fair shake but I also like, adore engaging in discussion and debate. I like it when people disagree with me, I like it when someone has a different point of view but dammit I don’t like it when people are so set in their ways and so locked in the status quo that they dismiss me out of hand.  I just wish that I could find a way to engage in discussion and debate with others that doesn’t end in an argument…that’s all.

10. The song and the video brought me to tears, so beautiful!

11. This was too awesome not to share, read and enjoy! http://thenoreaster.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/sunbeams-12/

12. I have a professor who can’t remember my name in class but when I pass this professor in the hallways they call me by name and say hi..wierd, maybe there’s some sort of memory vortex in the classroom…

13. Yesterday I looked outside and it was…well, I guess it depends on how much you like snow, it was either a winter wonderland or an arctic tundra.  I prefer arctic tundra.  (btw #5 happened either Wednesday or Thursday of last week, completely unrelated).

School time, yaa for one-a-half-years left!!

School has Officially started.  Woohoo?  Yeah I’m excited and scared all at once, on the one hand I’m looking forward to the chance to redeem myself as far as school/grades go on the other hand I’m totally scared that I’m going to repeat the habits of the past few years and crap out again.  Eesh.  This summer was so much fun though, probably (and this is weird) one of the best summers I’ve ever had, if not The best summer I’ve ever had.  Other than the parentals moving away to CO which depressed me for a few reasons, but surprisingly I got over it quickly.  Which I don’t really take credit for, I think the only reason I haven’t struggled with it more is because I know I’m where I’m supposed to be, God’s really taken care of me this summer.   Yes, it’s true, I don’t like SoDak at all but I’m here and, come hell or high water (or snow, heehee) I will graduate.  I briefly considered taking a semester off but after lots of thought and a crap ton of prayer and a mean stubborn streak I decided to stay in school, yipeee.  It had a lot to do with the fact that I’ve felt like a quitter before.  At various times in my life I could’ve really done something but I haven’t pushed myself, I’ve let myself give up, let myself make excuses or chicken out and I thought, you know what I don’t really want to look back on life and see a line of things I was fully capable of doing but didn’t because it was a little hard.  So yeah, school won’t be easy, it’s not really supposed to be but I will graduate.  God willing.  Anyway back on the subject of the summer, I worked a fair amount, not as much as last summer granted but a fair amount.  I’m better at saving money, finally!  And I went out several times this summer with my SoDak friends and we had so much fun!  Plus I got to see one of my favorite bands for free at a Christian music festival, thanks mom!  GO SKILLET!!!!!  Yeah they rock.  And their new album is so fantastically awesome!  I’ll see if I can get the links to a few of their songs so you all can hear them.  Oh and I’m actually getting myself organized!  Trust me on this it’s a bonafide miracle.  I bought a planner and I’m using it!  I bought one of those dry-erase calendars and it’s actually working for me, plus…I cleaned my house!!  Another bonafide miracle.  Two in one month, isn’t that rocking?  It really feels like once I made the decision to stay in SoDak to finish school, once I made that commitment it brought a real peace to my heart and I feel capable of getting organized and keeping my house clean and I really hope I won’t be eating any of these words in a few months.  I don’t like eating words, they are too spiky and get stuck in your throat and can be really, really bitter.  I like this feeling though.  I realized after work the other day that the year and a half I have left for my bachelor’s will go by so fast it’ll be unbelievable and even if by some strange circumstance it doesn’t it’ll be okay because as previously stated I’m right where I’m supposed to be.  I still say that the reasons for my move to SoDak were terrible ones and maybe I made a mistake but it doesn’t really matter because it’s all part of His plan and I don’t think there’s anything I could do to screw it up not really anyway.  And things have happened here, things I’ve learned valuable lessons from, lessons I’ll not soon forget and it might not have happened that way if I’d stayed in CO so it all balances out in the end.  So yeah…summer was full of activities and work and theater outings and one rocking Skillet concert for free and I haven’t been on the internet for more than a few hours a month.  Whew!  Where has the time gone?