Heath Ledger

Heath Ledger died today at 28...
wow.
That's horrible!!!!!

My life in recent days

Hello again!
I seem to go through phases with this blogging thing. I apologize that it's been such a long time!

Things have been interesting lately.
This stage of life is very transitional...and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I kind of feel like I'm floating in some sort of limbo *not that I think limbo actually exists, just for the record*. I was asked the entire month of break how it felt to be a graduate. My response, obviously, was, "well...ask me when my friends go back to class and I go to work full time because right now it just feels like break." Now that my friends HAVE gone back to class and I've gone to work...it's just weird. I don't hate being at Bob Evans 4 days a week as much as I thought I would. People are much more relaxed during the slow weekday morning shifts than they EVER are on the weekend, so it's easier to work with them. It's just weird to slow down. A good weird!! But weird just the same. For the past 4 1/2 years I've done nothing but run run run run run because of my insane music major/theatre minor schedule. I actually feel extremely lazy these days. I go to work, come home, sit around, depending on the day I might hang out with someone, but not often, call the boyfriend, go to sleep and it starts all over the next morning. My room is kind of a mess, I need to do laundry, I need to do a bunch of things, but I'm not making the time to do them.
Quiet time? What's that? I've been not busy for a long time, and yet I still don't take time to spend with God. If ANY time is easiest to do it...it should be now in my life.
I also have the spiritual autobiography to write for admittance to SBTS (which is on the board for today and tomorrow) but I've been dreading it...and thus have put it off until now.
I think somewhere in my head, I feel guilty for not spending time with God...and I feel like I can't write about my spiritual life because it feels like lying? or something ridiculous like that.
I DO know, however, that it's not going to write itself...so I need to get breakfast and then get started.

Sorry if this wasn't the wonderful, exciting update you've been waiting for.

Update!!!!!

Hello all!
I realize it's been about three weeks since my last post of any kind, so I figured an update is due.
(this will be short and to the point because I have stuff to do)

I GRADUATED!
I had a great time at home with my friends for a day after finals.
I have been working, but not a lot.
I have been sick *again*.
I have 3 hours left of 24 season 6 and I'm DYING to know what happens!
I saw Bryan for my graduation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My family came up for it as well!
I leave Saturday for my Christmas vacation which includes:
*singing at my home church Sunday
*leaving with my family Sunday afternoon for Cincinnati
*games at my cousin Brett's Sunday night
*hanging out with the Bartlow clan Christmas eve and shopping with lil' brudder
*CHRISTMAS with the rest of the gang
*home for my house Christmas
*skiing with my brother and daddy (Bryan!?)
*visiting B for his birthday
*heading back here on the 4th for work the next morning

That's pretty much the plan.
I have been having a nice, relaxing time hanging out with the roommate and Lou as well as becoming addicted to The Office and season 6 of 24!

:D


A more substantial post will come at SOME point!

Discipline?

Three Years in the Gospel of John


I suggest that everyone read the above article.
Bryan sent it to me because I am the CHIEF of making excuses for not being disciplined to consistently read scripture. I am a busy girl (which is an entirely different can of worms) but I let the business of my schedule get in the way of my time in the Word. In this article, he talks about his 3 year trek through the Gospel of John...instead of his one year, as originally planned. He gives a list of things he did that caused him to take such a long time, and encourages us not to do the same. Ha! It was really refreshing to read that because most of the people in my life are disciplined in this area *coughBryanandLoucough* and it was nice to read suggestions on how to overcome it from someone who has!


:D
enjoy!

Graduation

I GRADUATE A WEEK FROM TODAY!!!!!!!!!

Caffeine high

So I'm not supposed to have caffeine. It's all good, I don't usually have much of it anyway. Since I've been doing a FAIRLY good job at sticking to the diet...I haven't had much caffeine. I had a few cokes this week *it was a holiday...don't judge me* haha
My roommate Sommer and I LOVE sweet tea and she makes the BEST sweet tea ever! However, I forget that when I'm gone...she doesn't make the decaf kind of sweet tea...but she makes regular. She forgot that I was coming home today...so naturally she didn't leave a note stating "this tea is not decaf". I got home around 2 this afternoon, and I've been drinking the "decaf" tea since I got here...at LEAST 3 glasses...if not more than that. She informed me around 1030 tonight, when she got home, that the tea was not decaf like I originally thought.
...I had been bouncing off the walls for a few hours and couldn't figure out why...
I now know.
You should all pray for Bryan because we just got off a phone date...and I talked and talked and talked and talked...and he sat there and had to listen to me exhaust him. It was pretty terrible. Sorry B.

I never realized that caffeine would affect me this much because it never has in the past...but I suppose that's what you get when you don't have it for awhile! HMMMMM


k, time to read!
NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!

BREAK!!!!!

This Thanksgiving break, I did exactly what I do every Thanksgiving break...
make a plan for all the work I have to do...
and do none of it!
SO,
on this Thursday of the break (HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!) I still have NOTHING done that I needed to get done...
However, I think that the ability to sit around for HOURS and watch "The Office" with my dad and lil' brudder will be just what I need to sit down and pound out the work for the rest of the semester....because if I think about it logically...I DO have enough time to get everything done if I just DO it.

I just need to get over my 'I graduate in 3 weeks' syndrome and all will be right with the world!
*good luck there right!*



Break has been amazing thus far!
I got to spend time with Bryan!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was amazing to see him, FINALLY!!!!!!!!! :D
The last time I saw him was October 2...NOT COOL!
BUT that's the longest gap we'll have to go, so we're past the long one!!!!! YAY!!!

I also got to see some really great old friends...some I hadn't seen in 7 years!

My lil' brudder is pretty much the coolest kid I know, and I was reminded of that this week!




I also figured out that my last Sunday in Morganland will be March 16...and I'll move back home after my birthday!
CRAZY!!!!!!!!
I was at Walmart and I realized that in a few months...I'll be there on a semi-regular basis...running into EVERYONE I HAVE EVER KNOWN!
weird!!!
I saw my bride-to-be and her fiancee!!! WONDERFUL!



I love thanksgiving!!!
I love my family!!!
I love my boyfriend!!!
I love my friends!!!