Room Cleaning

Since the semester ended, I've tried to keep myself busy by totally deep cleaning my room. It's not that it's a total pig stye or anything, but I have bins of old papers from High School and even elementary school that I needed to go through and purge.

It is taking me way longer than I thought...But it seriously gets worse before it gets better. I wish I was like Samantha on "Bewitched" so I could just wiggle my nose and then magically everything would go into place and be perfectly organized! But that's definitely not reality.

Other than cleaning my room I am also trying to get to the gym way more often. I decided not to work for the two months before my mission, so that means I have no excuse to waste time.

My life is pretty non-eventful these days.:)

A Hate-Hate Relationship...

Do you know how some people say they have a love-hate relationship with someone? Well let me tell you, i have a hate-hate relationship with finals week. Whoever came up with the idea of having a week full of end-of-term exams was, at best, STUPID. So, while i am in the thick of this ridiculous thing called finals, I hope everyone else is actually enjoying their week and weekend. I won't be.

But, as I like to think of it, this is my last round of finals for about 2 years...which is crazy and WONDERFUL!!! Hallelujah!:) When I come back home from the mish I might be one of the oldest "undergrad" students at Messiah, but hey, who cares right?

Welcome Home, Jimmerooo!

So I am about to hit the hay (dad's expression for going to bed) but before I do I just have to say that I'm really glad Jim is home from his business trip. He got in on Sunday, and I'm so glad that now Lisa and Jim are reuinited and the fun can begin again!!

It was great getting to tell Jim where i'm going on my mission....he is seriously the LAST person to find out! And it was also nice to hear how excited jimmer and liser are for me, even if i am going to utah.:) I'm actually really excited for the adventure headed my way.

And the other thing i'm way stoked about is the fun fest this that will occur this weekend because jim and lisa are coming up to the homestead here in pa to PARTAY!:) No joke, mom and dad have already planned a food-filled weekend. So, watch out J and L, you better bring your "fat pants" because as dad says, you're gonna have to "let the belt loose" after the meals yet to come!

Ok folks, i'll sign off now. (clap clap) => that was me "clapping" off the lights. you know, like in the "clap on clap off" commercial with the old lady who is in bed and suddenly "clap claps" her lights off and then abruptly rolls over..... I know, great visual, right?!:)

NOTE: I do not really own the "clap on clap off" lights....it would be pretty sweet if i did though.:)

Mission Call

I GOT MY CALL!!!
Just two days after my last post (Saturday) I got my call in the mail! Me and Amber were actually out at the mall and my mom frantically called us to tell us "you're packet is here!" So we pretty much rushed home to rip it open.:)

Drum role, please.....

OGDEN, Utah!!!

"I'm goin' to Ogden!" You know the movie Singles Ward...when Dallin opens his call and he gets sent to Boise?! And he's WAY excited but all of his friends feel sorry for him?! Haha...well, i must say, for me it was sort of the other way around. I was slightly shocked and disappointed to be going to UTAH (of all places!) but everyone else has been SO excited for me. I think I just needed to let it soak in a few days. I'm still sort of processing it, but I am getting more and more excited each time I think about it.

Plus, I also came to realize that it doesn't matter where you go. It's really just about humbling yourself and doing and going where the Lord has a purpose for you. I've felt that particularly strong.

I leave July 16, which is a month later than I thought, but I think it will be great to have some time off from school and just be with my family.

So, YAY OGDEN!:) Mom said she is going to frame the letter...haha!!!

Going batty

Hi everyone. How's life? I hope everyone is doing ok. It's such a crazy time of the year for everyone, especially if you are in school. I've been so maxed out with school work and concerts it has really been insane.

No. I have not received my mission call.

I thought I'd just get that out of the way. I have had so many dreams about this it's not even funny, and now my friends are starting to dream about where i might go too! Can you say, weird?! I feel like such a ball of nerves and on top of that I am going nuts over school. But, I guess I need to just take a chill-pill and stop dwelling on what I have no control over....

....yeah, well try telling my brain that!!! Even when I try not to think about it...yep, you guessed it...I think about it.

So, I figured I might as well have a little fun with this...

I'm taking a poll (this is extremely immature of me but what the heck, who cares...)

Where in the WORLD do you think i'm going?????

While your thinking about very vexing question, check out my new website i had to create for a computer science class: Click here. (You're going to laugh when you see what it's about....can you say "wow, she really can't stop thinking about it..."????)

Tour Pics

Hi everyone!

Sorry it's taken me so long to post...I think I got a virus on my computer from the mean cruel people who posted a comment on my blog and I (naive as can be) clicked on it only to find out that it was a virus! So my computer has been very fussy lately...Anyway, oh well what can you do?!

Here's pictures from our spring break concert choir tour. We toured Pittsburgh for five days. It was fun...and tiring, but I lived to tell the tale.:)

Ok, let me explain this pic: This is Matt using a marshmallow gun on the bus...the object of the game was to project it into someone's mouth. It's obvious we spent WAY too much time on the bus.

This is everyone in the back of the bus with their mouths open trying to catch the marshmallow...(no joke, someone actually DID catch one in their mouth!:)

And again, another weird game these two had to play...I think they were acting something out...??

Yay! Me and my girls...we kept each other sane this tour. Jenna is on the left, brittany on the right.

Me and Brittany were bus buddies.:)

Me and Brittany on the first day of tour...notice we're smiling....on the last day we were not. Haha!
Brittany got these rotten teeth from her secret pal (we called them "Prayludes"...) She actually had to wear them the next day and sing a tune in front of everyone in choir. It was priceless.:)

Cereal Girl goes to Philly

There's nothing like a spontaneous road trip, right?! Last friday Amber had to go to Philadelphia for her old college roommates wedding. Sara was planning on going, but in a last minute change of plans wasn't able to... SO.... I decided I'd skip my classes that day and go along for the trip! Even though the weather was very treacherous we were able to make it there safely and had a grand old time.

We stayed in this really ritzy swanky hotel called the Omni...it had a five star ranking and boy was it the royal treatment! They had these little bell-hops that were dressed in cute little suits and everything was very rich looking. The wedding was actually there inside the hotel. While Amber went to the wedding me and Bethie went out on the town... We got to do all the classic Philly things...

We got some yum-o Cheese Steaks (And no, I did NOT eat both of them!!! one was for bethie!)

Admire the really funny window displays (This suit is either really trendy or just butt ugly):

Go into vintage shops and try on oversized ridiculous looking shades (Bethie wanted to buy them but I had to put my foot down...):

We went to this old fashioned diner and got really great malts. (Mine had huge chunks of apple pie mixed in!):

Then the next day we all went to the great and powerful KOP (King of Prussia Mall). The bathrooms alone were a funfest in themselves!

It was so fun just spending time with my sisters... It seems we don't get to be all together very much and so it was like old times with our weird little trio.