Refreshed.

There is nothing like a good 4 days of intense work to get ya all rested up over spring break. hahaha.

No really, the last four days have been fantastic. Tuesday, I drove (in the pouring rain the whole way, lol...fun) to Tulsa to volunteer at Big World Ventures for a few days over the break. Tuesday, I made phone calls then spent the night in a hotel. Wednesday we went through EVERYone's file for the Brio trip to check them and I spent the night with Alisha and Jorge. Thursday we filed, and entered info into the computer, then I spent the night with Caleb and Becca. Then today we....didn't do a whole bunch...got the mail, made some copies and the MOSt fun ever--arranged my soon-to-be hall slash office so it looks more like an office than a hallway. yay! So...by all accounts, it doens't particularly sound like a restful week, but trust me it totally was.

Something about, being somewhere I love, doing something I love, and hanging out with people I love...it's great. It makes practically anything fun, and can brighten the most dreary of days. I love it. Turns out I was right that this week was exactly what I needed. I feel rested and ready to head back to school for a few months. I can't believe I'm graduating....it's going to be great! :)

It's not late or anything, but everyone else is asleep....so maybe it's time to turn off this computadora and catch some zzz's. I'm sure everyone will be up by like 7 in the morning anyway, yay for hotels. :-) lol.

Craziness has officially set in...

Man...I'm feeling it right now. You know, that thing where everyone freaks out if you are taking any more than 17 hours in a single semester? Yeah...I've got 25. Seriously, it's nuts...I have good days, then I have days when I wonder if I will ever survive until May 10th. But it will be great, really...What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger. I am learning how to be more disciplined, what's really ironic to me is that--along with the more discipline--has come a greater appreciation and enjoyment of my free time. Lunches spent with good friends, will be precious moments I cherish for long after graduation day.

This Wednesday two good friends and myself traveled the three hour drive to Tulsa to see Rent, the Broadway show, in real life--not just the movie. Seriously, I was on the edge of my seat the entire time...I knew basically every song, I knew the whole plot, there were no major surprises...I was just so excited I couldn't sit still.

Also on Wednesday my best friend asked me to be the maid of honor in her wedding on May 31st. I am so excited. I'm kind of nervous...I really have no clue what a maid of honor is supposed to do. Plus her 2 roommates, the other bridesmaids are like totally prepared, they are making plans, arranging our shopping trips, contributing all of their amazing ideas and skills to make this wedding a success for our friends. Makes me kinda feel like a bad friend because I'm kind of on the outside looking in so far....I hope to get more involved now. They've been "in the loop ever since they got engaged a week ago...I've been kind out of it....but I want to help out as much as I can. We're going dress shopping on Monday. It's gonna be way fun....I hope....I'm nervous about that too....I've never had much luck finding dresses that I like. I'm praying the search goes well...both for me, but more importantly for my fave bride evah...ambam.

Well...it's spring break. which i like to (slightly) lovingly refer to as "homework week". Yeah, that's right...I'll be doing work most if not all of the break. I'm excited though, because I'm going to Tulsa to work at the office for a few days, so that'll be WAY fun.


I guess that's all for now. If you think about it, please be praying that the craziness of life right now doesn't get to me too much. That'd be fabulous, thanks.

Life...

Okay, I know this is the stress talking, but life kinda sucks.

Really, life is fantastic, I've been growing a lot lately, which I love.

But I have too much school and too much drama going on in my life right now. It's not really very fun. Sad face.

I have decided though, that a trip to Tulsa to see Rent tomorrow...AND a trip to Tulsa to volunteer slash hang out at the best office in the whole world, with some of my favorite people is probably just the right medicine to help cure my current ails. Thank you Jesus for giving me sweet opportunities for rest....or at least relaxation.


I think that everything will start looking up after today anyway, because today is my super stressful day. And I heard some things last night that have hurt my feelings and made me really sad...but maybe I can handle it better after all of this school crap is over with. Hopefully.


Well...I guess that is all, I'm done ranting now.

A little tale for ya...

Let me tell you a little tale…Yesterday, it was pretty warm. Then, this cold front was coming in, and it made some pretty nasty storms. Because that’s what warm/cold fronts do to each other, and voila—we have tornados. Joy.

While I was at my parents house, it rained and hailed…Then things suddenly seemed to clear up so, I decided to go ahead and go back to school.

I start driving, it’s a little rainy, but nothing major. Then, I turn back onto 54 about 18 miles or so from town and it stops raining entirely for a few minutes. Weird. Then all of a sudden it starts POURING and hailing. Having never driven in hail, I kinda freak out…I pull of on a country road and call my mom. She says that if it’s not terrible, then I should just keep driving because there is a wall cloud, but she thinks I’m on the tail end of it, so it won’t be a big deal.

SOOO…I have to turn around on this tiny country road, trying to be really careful to not get stuck in mud, and get back out on the highway. Then it starts hailing more….and more….and then the hail gets bigger….and within a few minutes, the road is so covered in hail that my car can’t get traction very well anymore and I’m kinda swerving around, so I let off the gas….and yet my car doesn’t slow down. I’m freaking out, but finally things even out, and I’m a little less scared. So here I am driving in this crazy hail storm, clutching the steering wheel, praying that God will protect me. But seriously, maybe I don’t have enough faith, but I could hardly imagine that I would make it out alive…

After about 5 minutes or so of this, I finally get out of the hail, and it’s just pouring down rain. Shoot, I can do rain, no big deal, so I chill out a little. I speed up a little, trying to get to town because my parents said there was wall cloud that I needed to get home ASAP. Well, it turns out 60 was too fast and I started to slide on the road, and lose control. So I let off the gas and try to keep my wheel under control as I’m sliding and swerving down this hill, all the while I’m about to meet a one ton truck. Once again, I could hardly see how I was going to make it out of this alive. Then just in time, I get back control of my car and things are good again.

As it turned out, my parents misjudged where I was at in relationship to the wall cloud and I more or less drove straight into the bad stuff. Eek. THEN my dad tells me later that there was a tornado that touched down just a mile or two from where I was at within like 5 or 10 minutes of me being in that area…wow.


Basically, I now consider yesterday to be pretty much the scariest experience ever in my memory. I was so scared, and I was driving alone, and I am convinced that God’s protection is the only reason I didn’t have a wreck or get hurt…it was seriously that bad. So yeah, thanks God—you rock.