Spring Break 2012

Hello to all my wonderful, beautiful followers out there!

I'm on spring break!

I'm so cold though. Michigan and its snow are making me shiver.

Mom and I drove up from Ohio in a snow storm Friday and I got to go to a small show in Clare, featuring The Delightfuls and their new album. It was awesome.

But before that,

Last week I got in 28 miles and lost another 5 pounds.

I only ran three days because I was busy with midterm exams but when I did go I was pushing myself to go as far and as fast as I could. It helps me keep my mind off of all the things that I could have to worry about.  Anyway, here was this week's count

Monday: 9.5 miles

Thursday: 9 miles

Friday: 9.5 miles

Saturday, I sat around like a lump, enjoying my down time and yesterday (Sunday) Sara came over to spend some time with the family and me. I think we had a good time even though it wasn't much. We made cookies, gave Jenny a bath, went into town on a random whim, and watched a movie.

Today, I got up and made an ommelette with lots of stuff in it. Let's see, there was one potato, chopped and fried, there was bits of ham and a meatball leftover from dinner last night, part of an onion, diced, and two chopped mushrooms apart from the three eggs and the two slices of cheese that I regretted putting on afterward.

I did some stuff around the house this morning and then by noon, I had to get out and move so I took Jenny for a two mile walk in the snow. Now, I'm trying to get warm, under a blanket, waiting on the rest of the family to get home, with a puppy dog curled in a ball on the chair next to me.

I think I'll make myself some chai. That should warm me up.

Until next time,

Blessed Be!

Can this apply to my brain today?

I saw this, this morning and I wondered if I could get away with telling my professors that my brain was the item under that trash bag and that the sign clearly stated not to use it. Unfortunately, I didn't experiment with this idea and went about my day as if nothing were out of the ordinary at all.

C'est la vie

Hello to all of you out there who may or may not actually be reading this blog!

I've decided to make this just a tad more interesting and starting today I'm going to have a Photo Diary sort of thing going on.

Today's Photo is:

I made this mask at La Fete de Mardi Gras at La Maison Francaise, or for those of you without a French inclination, I made it at the Mardi Gras party at the French House. I had a good time with my friends, talking over some amazing jumbalia and jazz music. It made me really happy to let go a little and be silly with friends.

In other news, I have this week's mile count of how far I went excercising and I must say that the total is significantly larger than last week.

Monday: 8 miles
Tuesday: 10 miles
Wednesday: 4 miles
Thursday: 11.5 miles
Friday: 3 miles

For a grand total of:

36.5 miles

Yeah I know that's like a ton and a half but it has paid off. It's been two weeks and I've lost about ten pounds, which I'm pretty proud to announce.

Continuing the good news for this week, I got a phone call Thursday from a summer job prospect and I was given a position!!

So starting in June and heading on into August, I'll be in Portland, Maine at Camp Pinecliff. It's a sort of upscale camp for girls from 3rd grade up through high school. They stay there the whole summer and so will I with a day or two off every week depending. My position is called a Cliff Counseler and I'll be in charge of the first year girls in 3rd and 4th grades. Basically, I get to hang out and have fun with a bunch of girls all summer and get paid to do it! On top of that I'll be in a place I've never been before and I get to do some more exploring and have more awesome adventures!

Let's see, what else can I add?

Spring Break is at the end of this next week and I'm headed home for a week. March 3rd through the 11th I'll be hanging out in Farwell, getting some completely exciting fillings done and probably taking some classes through the Red Cross for First Aid and CPR for the summer camp. Mom and I are probably going to go shopping one of those days and I'm hoping to drag Rubes with us because I haven't seen that girl since Christmas break. I haven't seen Cassi either but she's headed to Tennesse on a mission trip that week. I'm sure that she'll have a good time and we'll get together when we can.

I can't think of anything else at the moment.

Questions, comments, and motivation are welcome in the comment tab below.

I'd love to hear from you!

and 

as always,

Blessed Be

I'll make a runner out of me yet....

Hey guys!

Just thought it was about time to update again. Things have been.....well, they've really just been...

I've been running, on a tredmill but at least I'm doing something. I just thought I should share my total with you even though it's Thursday. Tomorrow instead of running I'm going to a Zumba thing that last 3 hours.....it should be interesting.

So here it goes,

Monday: 3.5 miles running (I did a lot more walking than I thought I would)

Tuesday: 7.5 miles running and biking

Wednesday: 7 miles running and on the cross-trainer (I was so sore that I didn't want to move)

Thursday: 10 miles running and biking

Tomorrow I do this Zumba based thing that runs from 4-7 and should make me nearly die but I'm sure it will be worth it because I'm doing it with a friend.

Saturday, there's a Salsa band playing up town at a club named Clazel and entrance is free so I'm planning to go to that too just to keep moving.

I completely plan to keep this pattern too, so I don't want to hear any "you better keep this up" stuff. To be completely blunt. What I need right now to keep this up is some support. Tell me that you're proud but don't knock me off this high I'm feeling because none of us will like how far I fall.

Sorry if that sounded mean but I'm not sure I can handle too much right now. I'm actually going to the gym to let go of some of the stress of my life and the bottling of it. To be completly honest with all of you who are reading this, I really haven't been the greatest for a while lately. I've been really down and lonely, with little problems that have been nearly pushing me to the point of insanity. I'm handling it the best way I know how to though and I'll make it through this low patch to a high sooner or later.

So yeah, support is appreciated.

On a good note, Spring Break is in two weeks!
I'll be headed north to home for the week to hang out with family and friends. I really want to get to a Delightfuls concert for the release of their new cd on Friday March 2nd but I don't know if I can make it yet because possibly have class until 4:30 that day.

I can't believe I've come to the middle of the semester. It seems like I've just begun and now everything is rolling faster and faster. It's a little scary.

I'm signed up for  three online summer classes that last for 6 weeks and I have a lead on a summer job but I'll elaborate on that when things are more concrete. I still plan to umpire for as long as I can and if worse comes to worse I stay with the supermarket where I'm currently employeed.

Well, I guess that's about all I have this time.
Feel free to leave me a comment below. I appreciate all the support I can get.
Negative Nancys can disregard the above statement because I won't deal with any of it.

Hasta Pronto!
Blessed Be

Crepe Success

Hey guys I'm back again!

I just thought I'd give a rundown of what happened this week because I did some pretty cool stuff and I'm a little bored today after doing all my homework in a matter of hours....Yeah, I'm on top of it.

Anyway, this was my first week without a roommate and having a room to myself....man is it nice. I actually get stuff done and I can sleet at night without having someone trying to get me to party with her all night. I can get up in the mornings which is an unfortunate consequence of classes at 8 am but I'm not really complaining because it means that I get done with classes earlier so it's cool.

So Monday I dropped my french class on paper. I'm still sitting in on it but I won't be getting credit for it. The reason for this change is because Bowling Green wanted to charge me $600 for  the last added class. Apparently you are charged $200 for every credit over 18....The prof was cool about having me sit in. In fact, he asked me to do so before I could ask him about it. So that was cool and made me pretty happy.

On Thursday, I went to a workshop about building a resume that focused on language and experience abroad skills. It was really awesome and I think that I'll have a really awesome resume after I'm done editing it.

Also, I went to a party at the French House that celebrated Chandeleur, a night of making crepes and eating said crepes. It was awesome and oh so yummy. On top of that awesomeness, I FLIPPED A CREPE WITHOUT A SPATULA IN ONE TRY!!
I was super proud of myself.

Friday I did a whole lot of nothing and I was really productive today (Saturday) by getting all of my homework done within a matter of hours and now I'm just watching some television, writing a little and eating cheese and Triscuits.

Tuesday (7th) is the full moon and you know what they say about that so, who knows, maybe I'll have some fun stories to tell next weekend....

So until then,

Blessed Be!

January Full of Activities

Well, Hello again,

I know I'm not being very good about this whole posting thing. I've had a pretty crazy schedule this month. I did actually get the other class but now there's been a change of plans and I have to drop back to 18 credit hours. So, needless to say I'll be looking for a job to keep me on my toes instead. I should have probably started filling out applications this weekend...

Okay, so here's a run down of what has been going on.

I just boiled over some cheese pasta in my microwave and had to clean it up. Irrelivant information.

Okay so you know my class schedule, so I'll talk about that. My classes aren't too terribly demanding. Lots of reading and annotating but I've only had to write one paper so far and it was a first draft that we were supposed to build on the rest of the week so it wasn't terribly hard either. Geography and Economics aren't too bad either. I was expecting a lot more work from those two but maybe we're still in the introductory period. Who knows?

Umm. Things got a little complicated this past week when my advisor basically told me that going abroad again and continuing French weren't in my best interest. He was a jerk about it and I wasn't too happy afterward but I've moved on from there. I'm trying to work out at least another semester of adventure before I have to buckle down and finish up. Again, who knows what will happen with that?

My roommate moved out yesterday, so I have a room to myself. It's a nice change of scenery for me and I'm hoping that I get to keep it like this for the rest of the semester. I have to wait and see because of a rumor that they are going to start charging those of us that have a single room regardless of whether or not we chose that option or not. At this point it's just a rumor so until I get official communication as to that I'm going ot enjoy having my own room and the priveledges that come with that....

January's been pretty dry as far as snow fall here. We just got a little today but mostly it's been raining. Weather is silly, especially in Bowling Green.

My migranes have returned. I get them and they are sometimes terrible, sometimes tollerable. I seriously thing that they have to do with stress but I mean I'm no doctor so I can't say for sure. Things in my life right now just cause stress and that's all there is to it. I can't change that so much but dealing with my stress, I should find time to relax more.

An example of destressing....
Last night I had the room to myself for the first time so I celebrated a little. I rearranged the furniture, cleaned and then curled up on my bed with a box of Triscuits and some garlic and herb cheese, watching Sherlock Holmes (the version with Robert Downey Jr. that they just made a sequel to). It was nice to just have time to myself for once but I can see this getting a little lonely so I'll have to do something about that....

I found a new book series that I've been reading when I feel like taking some down time to myself. The first was called Matched and the second is Crossed (reading now) by Ally Condie. It's a really good series and sometimes it reminds me of the Hunger Games which has become a recent....let's not call it an obsession, it's more like a small passion/hobby....something like that. I just like it enough that I've considered getting a small tattoo of a mocking jay (symbol of rebelion from the book) behind my ear. That's probably just a pipe dream though....

I don't know what else to say.

I'd love to get some snail mail sometimes if you people out there are willing. I love getting it and I love sending it. Cassi and I currently have this sort of penpal thing going on but I have to admit that it's kinda lame because we can just pick up the phone and call eachother, which we frequently do anyway....

so yeah, drop me a line.
If you need my address, just ask and I'll make sure you get it!

So until my next post,
Blessed Be

Spring Semester 2012 Day 2

Well hello again,

I really didn't mean to let this go for as long as I did but I guess I just forgot to keep writing here. I mean I've been busy too but that really shouldn't be so much of an excuse. People are busy and have lives but are also able to keep their commitments at the same time. So why can't I?

Happy New Year!
even though it's late. I feel like I should still tell everyone to have a good year because the year is just beginning and the possiblities are endless.

As for me,

I'm studying my brains to mush. I've got 19 credit hours at the moment and if I get the special permission that I need to get, then I'm going to take 22 because I feel like I can handle it.

What are those classes?

Here's my schedule:

Monday: 9:30-10:20 French 102
                1:30- 2:20 Geography
                4:30- 5:45 Econmics

Tuesday: 8:00- 9:15 General Studies Writing 1120
                11:30-12:45 Latin American Literature
                1:00- 2:15 Latin American Civilization

Wednesday:  9:30-10:20 French 102
                      1:30- 2:20 Geography
                      4:30- 5:45 Econmics

Thursday: 8:00- 9:15 General Studies Writing 1120
                  9:30- 10:20 French 102
                  11:30-12:45 Latin American Literature
                  1:00- 2:15 Latin American Civilization

Friday: 9:30-10:20 French 102
             1:30- 2:20 Geography

The optional class that I'm trying to get in on top of all of these is Monday, Wednesday, Friday from 3:30-4:20 and is called Pop Culture in Latin America. At the moment I'm just sitting in on it because to have 22 credit hours you have to get the dean's permission.

Christmas break or Winter break, whatever you want to call it, was okay. I worked at the supermarket in my hometown some and made some money. I got to see my best friends and snuggle with my favorite little puppy dog but I felt really unproductive the whole time I was home. It made for some very poor decisions that lead to sitting in front of the television or turning on music to pour through the surround sound speakers so loud that I could hear it pretty much in every room in the house.....

I've moved across campus for this semester so e-mail me if you want my new address. I have to say that part of me wishes that I didn't have to leave the house even though I wasn't being treated well there. There's a comfort factor that I'm lacking at the moment that I know I really didn't have there either......I just keep going round in circles with my thought process and things get more and more complicated as I go.

I'm still writing even though my other blog has been sorely neglected. I have one that I'm worrking on at the moment that I really enjoy working on but I'm not sure how much longer I'll be able to keep working on it. I have a feeling that as soon as I start getting assignments, my novel will fall by the waiside again. I guess that I just have to remember my priorities and stick with it.

Things will turn out as they turn out. No changing what is already planned for us, even when we think that we're making a random or spontaneous decision.

I leave you with a latin phrase that I found recently and thought was interesting.

Testis temporum,                                  The witness of time,
lux veritatis,                                          the light of truth,
vita memoriae,                                      the life of memory,
magistra vitae,                                       the instructor of life.
nuncaa vetustatis.                                  the herald of old age.


As always,
Blessed Be