Saturday, November 26, 2011

Thankful


So, things in my life have been completely awesome lately. Everything is just going really well, and I’ve never been happier in my whole life. It’s a great feeling. School, work, friends, and family… it’s all-fantastic. Since the other day was thanksgiving, I thought I would say why things are so awesome and how thankful I am that they are.
First, I am so happy that I got to see my parents this week. I haven’t seen my mom since the first week of August and my dad since September. It was so great to see them. I picked them up from the airport on Saturday night, and then we went out to eat and went up to Surprise for the night. Sunday we went shopping and saw In Time and then I had my GRL banquet. Tuesday and Wednesday we were out of town. We stopped in Sedona on the way to Monument Valley. It was fun. I forgot my camera, which I was really mad about. I am just really glad they came and I cant wait to see them again in December. J I wish that they didn’t have to leave.
Wednesday, Britton arrived in AZ. So exciting!! I am very happy he’s here and I can’t wait for Elizabeth to come also!
I am officially a sister of Gamma Rho Lambda. I love it so much! I have so much fun and I love all of my brothers and sisters. I am so excited that I actually did it and I can’t wait to really get going with stuff.
It’s hard to organize my thoughts, but really and truly, I am so happy. I am so grateful that I got the chance to come back out here and get my life back on track. And all the bullshit at the beginning of this move was totally worth it because now things could not be better.
AND in LESS THAN A MONTH I get to go home for Christmas. I cannot wait. I’m going to work at Morrissey a little bit and I can’t wait to see all of them J, and I am so excited to be able to just be home and relax. I can’t believe I haven’t been home since August. Yaaay!!

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Busy Doesn't Even Begin to Cover it...

         The past month of my life has been absolutely crazy. It's hard to describe the amount of work that has gone in to my days. I feel like it's all I do, and now, of course, as soon as I finally have time to write about what's been going on with me, I can't remember it all. But basically, my "pledge" process is over!! and the last little bit of it was the WORST. But I've been getting to spend a lot of time with my sisters and brothers and have been loving that part of the whole thing. <3 BITCHES AND RHOS. These past two weeks have been racked with bullshit and me, as well as most of the others, wanting to quit. But, through all of the stress I was experiencing, I did really well and I feel a lot better about the whole thing now. I got all (well, most of) my stuff done and I was actually proud of the thing we had to turn in. But that was over last night, and then it's for REAL over on Saturday when I'm a real sister. Crazy how fast this semester has flown by.

In other way, way, way exciting news. ELIZABETH AND BRITTON ARE MOVING HERE!!! Britton applied for a job here in Tempe and he got it!! Congrats to him on the job but mostly I'm excited for him and Elizabeth to be moving here. He actually comes in a couple weeks right before Thanksgiving, and Elizabeth comes in the beginning of January. I can't wait to have roommates. Carl will really appreciate them, and I won't have to be so stressed out about how busy I am. We're all growing up so fast. Now, if a couple more people would move here, including all the people from Morrissey, I won't have anything in Illinois.

Umm... what else? I sprained my ankle on Monday walking down some stairs at my friends apartment. I don't really know what happened, except that me falling was so loud that people came out of their apartments to see what the hell was going on. I didn't really think it would be that big of a deal. That night my big came over and helped me take care of Carl and take him outside, but I figured it would be better overnight. WRONG. When I woke up on Tuesday morning, my ankle was in so much pain that I crawled to the bathroom and out to the living room. Carol came and took me to the doctor. He gave me crutches (which are incredibly painful. It's hard to decide which is worse sometimes-- walking or crutching). It's getting better and better, but I had to call off work today because it's just not plausible for me to stand and walk around for eight hours. First time I've called off since I started working at Starbucks. Anyways...

School has been going okay. I just had a rough couple weeks with like a million things being due. But one a positive note, I read my screenplay pages in class and everyone said that they were really good. :). It's been harder and harder to find the motivation to go to class. I missed class on Tuesday because of my ankle and most of them on Monday because I had to finish a paper. And one yesterday because of my ankle and getting things done for my sorority stuff. Boo. I'm going to really buckle down these last couple weeks of the semester. I really need to get Geology to count so I don't have to take a science again. I signed up for classes yesterday... I didn't get all the ones I wanted, but I'm taking a class on documentaries and an ethics class and also a multimedia writing class. Should be fun, I hope.

I have just been going going going. I took today to just do nothing, but that also just stresses me out because my apartment is a mess because the dumpster is too far away to walk to on my ankle. And also I feel like every time I take a break, school just comes crashing on me. But things should calm down now since the "pledge" process is over. Yayy. And my parents come in a week from saturday. Super excited for that.

Also, I saw In Time since the last time I wrote. GO. SEE. IT.