3 Semesters

I only have 3 semesters left to go at St. Kate's starting Monday. I'm fairly excited for this semester, and actually for all of my time left here, because I already know what classes I am taking, every last one until I graduate. I practically know what time of day I'm taking them. While I appreciate the sense of security that gives me, and the necessity of it, so I know I can complete all my major requirements, I sortof miss early on in my college life where it didn't matter what I took and I didn't really know until I registered what I'd be taking that semester, let alone the next semester. Of course, there were always some classes I knew I'd be taking, but there was till some excitement in choosing my classes when the time came, not a year in advance. Oh well, for the most part I like what I will be taking, and the only problem will be if some class times overlap. That is my only worry. So I guess the sense of security isn't complete yet, and there is still some excitment in registration. I have to take all the excitement in my life that I can get. Actually, my life has gotten slightly more exciting since the last time I wrote about it. I've gone bowling a couple of times with some friends (and Eric of course) which was nice. I'm glad I got to catch up with them, plus I love bowling, so it was great. I actually have pictures posted on facebook from the time I went with friends from high school, so if you want, check them out. I still have to add more that I will (hopefully soon) be getting from a friend who went with. Also exciting, Eric and I have been doing more wedding planning and have days planned in the next month to do some more things such as visit the florist and register for gifts. We also have been doing our NFP classes and will be finished with those on March 10th. It's going ok, sometimes it gets boring but we're halfway done at least.

I feel like most people having really been updating their blogs, which is partially why I haven't updated mine-I usually only do so if I check other people's, and since most people haven't been updating, I haven't been making a point to check them as often. Plus I'm just so busy lately (ha ha) watching tv and sitting around my room waiting for the semester to start, working in the evenings, that it just hasn't been a priority. Seriously though, it's nice to have a week or so to be back at school and get settled in again and thoroughly relax before the semester starts. I think by the time Monday comes around I will have completely broken any addiction or habit to watching tv and movies and computer games and will be able to focus completely on classes. Which is good, since I have all major classes, which I'm sure I've already mentioned before, in this post and others. In case I haven't mentioned it, the classes I will be taking are Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Film, Modern Philosophy, and Christian Marriage (that's the one at St. Thomas with Eric). Except for Modern Philosophy, I think it will be a good semester. And that one should at least be interesting, but I hear it's really hard. I like the professor though, who I've had a couple times before, so I think that will help a lot.

And on one last note, I may be able to do my senior honors project (which counts as a four credit class and goes on my transcript) by running a marathon.

And I can barely look at you
But every single time I do
I know we'll make it anywhere
Away from here

Back to school and back to work

I moved back to school on Sunday even though classes don't start for a week. Kinda feel like I'm ditching my family since Jeph is in the hospital and there really isn't anyone to stay home with the kids. Gramma's coming though which is good, and the kids only have 3 days of school this week so I don't feel as bad. Still, if I hadn't already planned to come back and made a committment to my boss and co-workers to be here supervising, I probably would have stayed longer. I finally visited Jeph in the hospital last night and might stay with him tomorrow if mom needs me to since she has a work meeting to attend.

There really isn't anything for me to do on campus, at least there wasn't yesterday since EVERYTHING was closed for MLK, Jr. Day. Even the food place. At least I don't have to rely on eating there, because I caved and spent some money on groceries. You can buy a lot for $15. Hopefully now I'll have enough to eat for the next 2 weeks. My big plans for the next two weeks are to work, which is only for about 4 hours in the evenings, to work out, which I already started doing today (wow am I in poorer shape than I thought), to read a book maybe (read an entire one in an hour today, how sad is that?), maybe to scrapbook, and to watch most if not all of the movies I got over break or for Christmas gifts. Which totals 10. I'm down to 8, although I watched one at home but I'm still counting it.

School starts on the 29th, sad to say I'm actually ready for it. And for my roommate to move back in, which isn't sad because she's also my friend so I like living with and spending time with her. And it's the second day I've been back and I'm sortof bored sometimes. Although it's nice to have some quality time to myself, I spent most of the day yesterday watching tv. Not good. Eric and I will also be hanging out a bunch, hopefully working on wedding plans if we can get our act together. We are sortof disorganized, which is funny because we actually have an organized timeline of what to do and when to do it. But we sortof have stopped halfway while doing some of the things, and that has made everything disorganized. I did have my first dress fitting over break, which was a blast and it was so much fun trying my dress on again and seeing me in it! I love it so much and I'm so excited to wear it. Wish us luck on all the wedding planning-I really hope we get a lot more done now!

We'll do it all
Everything
On our own

The New Year

It's a new year, 2007, the year I'm getting married. I tried to think of some resolutions and the best one I can come up with is worker harder on wedding plans, because we hardly ever do anything. But if it's something fun and enjoyable, can it be a New Year's Resolution? Or does it have to be something hard that takes time to develop a habit for?

I also don't quite understand why everyone makes such a big deal about the New Year. Is it really a time to start fresh or whatever? Because let's face it, most people don't really expect anybody, including themselves, to actually change that much, and the next day isn't that different from the one before it. Plus, it's really just a change of a number, and you're just getting older without realizing it until you're there. So really, I don't see what's so special about the New Year.

So this is the new year.
And I don't feel any different