back in H20Town

yes, that's right. i'm back at school. this is the first of three more weeks left of this semester. well technically, it's only two weeks and then a couple days of finals. and i am very ready for this semester to be over.

i was thinking about what to write in this blog on the way back to school today, and i had a bunch of things thought out in my head, and now i can't remember any of them.

thanksgiving was good. we got to see all of our missouri family, which was nice because we don't get to see them very often. the only bad thing was that my mom got sick the evening of thanksgiving. and it was funny because my grandma kept saying "it wasn't because of my cooking". haha. but it was just a typical thanksgiving. tons of food, watching football, knitting, and a lady with a mullet. (sorry, i didn't get a picture. but she was there, i promise.)

and on the way home i got to talk to my friend alissa from high school. i haven't gotten the chance to talk to her since i left for school, and i talked to her most of the way back to school tonight. we are planning to meet up on sunday afternoon for lunch, so hopefully that gets to happen, because i miss her.

it snowed again today, and i was very happy. we went outside after we got our Christmas tree up and took some pictures out in the snow, and they turned out really well. i was sad because emily wasn't there, but i'm sure we will take some more later. i'll have to post some tomorrow.

NO BAND IN THE MORNING!! woohoo! that means instead of having class at 7:14, i don't have a class until 9:20. yaaaaayyyyy!!!!!!!!!

but now, sadly, it is almost 11:30, and therefore time for me to go to bed. i'll post some pictures and write more about break tomorrow.

i hope everyone that happens to stumble upon this post has an excellent week.

Thought for the evening/week/until i get another one:
"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. If we did not sometimes taste adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." -Anne Bradstreet

i forgot something. :]

just wanted to say thanks to all of you ladies that my grandma recruited from her blog to come over and read mine. your comments were very encouraging. feel free to read or comment whenever. i don't usually have anything too terribly exciting to say, but i love talking to people!!

now i'm off to the basketball game!! woohoo!

:]

Snow!!!!

I'm so excited! it finally snowed today in Watertown. everyone here has been talking about how it's snowed in their hometowns. even one of my roommates, Jessica, from NC said that they have had snow down there a couple times. I love the winter. I think snow is beautiful, especially when it's falling. We got about 2 inches overnight, and i wasn't expecting it, so that was a real blessing when I got up this morning. it's kind of funny how the little things in life make us happy.

As for my schedule next semester, i'm going to talk to my advisor about it again tomorrow, and she said that it should be able to be worked out for the most part. so i think i'll be able to stay here. that's another huge load off my shoulders.

tomorrow i'm leaving for thanksgiving break. i'm going to missouri with my family, and i'm very excited. most of the time when i've been home on the weekends, we haven't all been together because of people working or with friends or whatever. but we're all going to be together this week and i'm very happy about that. i just hope i can find someone that has an extra suitcase here, because i let my parents take mine at the beginning of the year. if not, it looks like i'll be making a wal-mart run!! :]

well, my tummy's telling me it's time to make the trek to the dining hall and get something to eat. there's a girl's and a guy's basketball game tonight, so since i have time to do all my homework over break, i'll be going there after dinner. Go Crusaders!!!

frustrated.

so i just found out that most of the classes i was planning on taking next semester have prerequisites, and i only have 3 classes that i can take as of this moment. i thought i had everything worked out, and i was going to take some classes early and everything was going to be good. but now i can't. so i might be going back to community college like dad said in the first place. and this is very frustrating.

i read Psalm 5 in my devos this morning, and in verse 8 it says "Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face." this was sort of a slap in the face from God, saying that i'm trusting too much in my own ways and i need to trust Him because He has a perfect plan for my life.

maybe i'm supposed to go back to community college to be a witness there. who knows. i guess only time will tell for me, but i know that God has my future in His hands.



I am not skilled to understand
What God has willed, what God has planned.
I only know at His right hand
Stands one who is my Savior.

first post!

yay! so this is my first post on this blog. how exciting is that? yes, very. i know. anywho, nobody is probably ever going to read this except for me, so i'm going to put whatever i want on it. the last blog i had lasted about 2 months, so we'll see how this one does. now that i'm in college, i should have more to blog about, so that might make it better. i definitely won't use correct capitalization, and i might not always make sense, but that's okay. my english teacher isn't going to read this (but if he did, he would probably have a heart attack!!)

it's really cold here at Maranatha today. the wind in Wisconsin seems a lot colder than anywhere else i've been. we just got done making tags for the presents people are going to buy for the Calvary bus kids that aren't getting a whole lot for Christmas this year. i think it's so cool that we get to do the society that's community outreach, because that's right up my alley. i love serving people and helping out in any way that i can.

i get to go home tomorrow, and there are only four more days until thanksgiving break! and 34 days until Christmas!!

i'll figure out how to use this blog more tomorrow.