Graduation = cleaning, running, lots and lots of coffee

Summer began for me a couple of weeks ago. Maybe two or three weeks ago? I celebrated my 20th birthday. My mom celebrated her *cough cough 34th birthday. Memorial Day weekend was a blast. We went down to my cousins' beach house, ate, did some boating, laughed a ton. Great time to be had.

Austin, my younger brother, is graduating high school tomorrow. Can you believe it?! I swear it was yesterday he had that bowl cut and smiled so huge with those bean teeth. He was the most adorable kid out of the four of us, I'll admit it. Yes, my fond readers, he even beat me out. In all honesty, I was an ugly duckling. I'm a beautiful swan now though so it's all good.

With a graduation comes a party. With a party comes food that has to be ordered, a house that needs to be cleaned, and timeless organization that just never gets done. Thankfully, mom and I can get the former two underway. The house is almost all cleaned and we do our running for the orders probably in the early afternoon.

I've been losing weight. I weigh myself tomorrow so fingers crossed. I'm wearing the same dress I wore to my H.S graduation tomorrow night. I'm so happy because the dress is a little loose in the back. Woohoo! Shedding the pounds has to be the biggest ego-boost EVER! Best thing I've ever done.

My goal is 20 lbs by August.

Let's make it happen.

'Tis an update more or less...

Hello, glorious bloggers. I shall update you in bullet-form my life as we know it.

• I didn't get a part in Fall Follies. Yea, I know. Bonkers. Whatevs. AMTC here I come!
• 3rd year writing and cornerstone will have to be saved until next semester. Belmont's registration for classes is so dumb. There are only a few classes for 3rd year. Some go through their junior year still needing writing, so as seniors, they take it their senior year. It's quite pathetic. Then, with cornerstone, there are only a few that are really beneficial for the general student.
• Having said that, I am now taking a history class I don't need. Eh, it'll count as an elective. My schedule is as follows:

Elementary Spanish 1
Journalism Workshop
Journalism as Literature
The Roman World

• I don't have to take any more than 16 hours a semester now. Praise God!
• I finished all my projects and papers except a policy paper that is 5-7 pages. I'm shooting for 6.
• I only have 3 finals but am going home on the 12th. I can wait.
• My Ireland meeting is tomorrow. This trip is becoming more of a reality with each passing day.
• With finals looming, I'm missing my parents and brothers a whole heck of a lot.
• My friend Kimi got an internship in NYC!!!! Much fun will be had this summer

I think that's it for now. I'm still looking for a job but am going to do some writing over the summer for Examiner.com which will be fun. I'm going to be a theater critic so watch out for articles and such.


Adios!

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Hey guys!

Well, a busy week is upon me but I wanted to keep you all up to date on what's going on or what will be going on in the near future.

Today I had my audition for Fall Follies '10. I think it went well. haha I performed one of my original monologues, told them how much I absolutely LOVE performing and theater and spoke in a New Yorker accent. Great time! We'll see if my name is the one of the fortunates to be put on the list. *Crosses fingers!*

After my last class, I needed to hustle to my advisory meeting. That only took about five minutes because I had all my stuff in order:

Elementary Spanish 1
Journalism Workshop
Third-Year Writing (waste of time!)
Journalism as Literature
Jesus/Gospel & Film

Should be a great semester next year. I can wait, though.

Now I'm off to my group meeting because from here on out, in business of news, we're doing hour-long presentations. None of us know when we're going so we have to be prepared for whenever! It's kind of intimidating...

After that, I guess I'll come back to the dorm and try to nap. I'm way tired and just so sick of projects and papers. I'll have to get up at 4:30 though for SGA (last one under old management. I really don't know how I feel about that. There are pros and cons...more cons than pros).

I think after that meeting, my day will be done.

I think.

A lesson in the sky

I woke up today to an empty room. Ash had an interview at 10am so she had to leave quite early. I heard the door close but it didn't really faze me.

At around 11am I decided to roll out of bed and start getting ready so I could meet Martha for lunch at 12:30. My suitemate jumped into the bathroom and I wasn't able to get in until about 12:15. Thankfully, I take my showers at night so I just had to refresh myself. While I waited, I decided to start on my research paper. (It seems as though every Belmont student has a research paper or some paper. I have three...plus finals!) I began typing and got to about half a page when I decided to put on some Christian music. I tuned my computer to Star 99.1 fm, the NYC christian music channel. I love how they stream the music online. A girl in Nashville could feel she's at home by listening to her home radio station.

I stared out the window at the bright day. By this time, the trees were swaying in the breeze but the sky was a bit cloudy. After being a little disappointed the day was going to be a little cloudy, I turned back to my computer. After a few sentences, I turned to look out the window again and the clouds were still there. This time, though, my eyes traveled upward. Way beyond the cloudy grey, was this magnificent, beautiful blue sky with just one little puffy cloud. God began to speak to me in that moment...

How often do we concern ourselves with just what's ahead of us? It's like we put blinders on and just focus on what's ahead, not what's to the left or the right or upward. Sometimes if we just concern ourselves with what's in front of us, we miss the point that the Lord is above. The Bible encourages us that when things seem dire, to keep looking up because that's where our salvation lies. Today's weather was just a lesson to not keep yourself down by what you see in front of you. When there seems to be a grey cloud coming to meet you, look up and remember you have Jesus on your side.

Just a thought...Have a good Saturday!