It's Been Ages

It has been SO long since I have blogged! My goodness! Slacking to the nth power. I don't even know what I am saying. But seriously. I haven't blogged since Spring Break. Holy gee whiz! That was almost 3 whole weeks ago. Last time I wrote, I was still 20. Part of it has been that I've been SO dang busy. But part of it is that I have been working on a big blog. So. Here it goes... catch up time...

I ushered in my 21st birthday with a birthday party with my niece and nephew, consisting of playing games in the shallow end with all the elementary kids while the high schoolers had a dumb-off. There were lots of high schoolers. And it was very hard to determine the winner of said contest because they were all so dumb. I don't remember being that dumb in high school. I'm actually pretty sure I wasn't. Anyways. Also went out for ice cream. Did some homework. Joined with my best friend, played some basketball, ate some tacos and cake, and played with the kids some more. Good times. And I am super cool and turned 21 on the weekend on Spring Break two days after St. Patrick's day and never drank a drop.

Week 1 return from Spring Break: busy, loaded with homework, mixed in with a fun trip out to eat with my girls. That was a lot of fun :) especially in all the plaid. Which led into week 2 which was

Week 2: humiliating. Lots of little things happened that week. Things just weren't going my way for a lot of reasons. Good feelings don't always lead to good things. Rejection. Hurt. And just plain bad luck. But despite all the little things that went wrong, God still had daily reminders of how blessed I am despite things not going the way I would have planned them. Week 2's weekend was one of the best in awhile. I was expecting it to be a productive/somewhat boring weekend since I was the only one from my room on campus, but I had a really fun time. Friday, I hung out with Lauren and Scooter and Amanda and it was a great time. Lime Lake, climbing trees with Scooter, playing telephone pictionary and laughing my brains out, and piling 8 people into a small 8 person car and going to Steak and Shake at 2 AM. It was grand. And Saturday *drum roll please* I GOT MY EARS PIERCED!!!!! I freaked out and caused a bit of a scene, mostly just everyone in the store knowing I was nervous and had taken 2 tylenol prior to coming, but I GOT THEM DONE! I was so proud of myself, haha, and it literally did not hurt at all. It stung a little afterwards, but the initial piercing process, which is what I was most worried about, didn't hurt a bit. :) I like it too.

Week 3: so far, pretty busy. Monday and Tuesday were a touch disheartening and I realized that I am burned out with 6 fully packed weeks left, so that sucks. But then the Norwood's had a baby which took two professors out as well as two classes :) I really wanted to post something as my status, but I'm friends with my professor, so I figured it might look bad if I was like "A baby was born that killed two birds with one stone," or something along those lines.

Tonight, I took a pretty serious nap (for the second night in a row) and am now getting ready to go to bed. But there is my update!

I'll continue the picture challenge later. I'm going to bed now. Peace and blessings.