Happy Friday!!

Yay it is Friday!! I have officially gotten my first week back at school over with!! And it was quite splendid.

And today is splendid as well. I finished my one class of the day by 10, biked at UREC with Hannah, showered, and am about to go eat at Green's. Tis lovely already.

Then I just get to chill until Large Group. I am quite excited for that. Especially singing. I can't wait to be with Stephanie to sing... it always makes me feel closer to God because I know how into it she gets. Love love love!! Happy Friday everyone :D

When will

the smell of hairspray not bring me back to the nervousness before a meet, the fidgety car ride there, the sweaty palms before beam, the intensity of the sport, the failing or winning, the stiff hair that was coated with this spray, the scrubbing in the shower trying to get it and the feeling of gymnastics off?

I don't think it ever will. It happens every time. But I'm ok with that.

New Year's Resolution

My New Year's Resolution has been to be healthier.

But not just the "I want to lose weight and work out blah blah blah". That would be ideal, that is my goal, yes, but it's other things too.

For example....

-flossing every day. Definitely skimped on that for the past... life.

-washing my face when I wake up and go to bed. Don't always do that. Ew.

-eating healthier. And NO I don't mean not ever having dessert or ever having food I like, it's honestly just because I feel gross after eating crap.

People tell me I don't need to lose weight and some people tell me I DO need to lose weight. I guess I can see maybe from an outsider that I sound dumb, I was a gymnast, I'm in good shape, but that's the thing. I was a gymnast. I worked out everyday but Sundays for the last 6 years of my life, and almost that much for the past like... 10 and so on.... Not doing that for 8 months has taken a toll, maybe not visibly exactly, but mentally.

I don't like heaving after running a mile, I don't like not being able to do even 3 pull ups, I just don't like not being the athletic girl. I'm definitely not going to be as athletic, but I want to change my lifestyle. So there ya go.

... Because I want to get to that point some day.

Happy Girl.

I am so incredibly happy with life!!

My classes are for the most part interesting, I like my schedule, I've had some awesome lunch dates with people, my friends here are great, my friends at home are amazing, I have a great relationship that is really strong and just getting stronger, my family is sweeet, and I don't know... I can just feel God's presence in my life. Which is awesome :D And I hope I can just feel him in my life more and more.

Yay.

Happy girl.

Fresh start

Today was surprisingly satisfying.

My 9 am GCOM class was pretty chill. My professor (or Sarah as she'd like to be called) was fairly young and laid back. Which is nice for a speech class. We have to start off the class by telling an embarrassing story however.... guess I'll be telling Eric's and my first kiss story again!

After that I had Spanish 300... which I was worried about. The teacher speaks all Spanish but thankfully I understood a lot of what she said. She seems nice but strict so we'll see how that goes.

That ended at 12:30 (praise!) and I had lunch, got my GCOM book, and slept. For 2 and a half hours. Back to college life :D

Small group was amazing! I scheduled some lunch dates with peoples :D I really wanna get closer to the sorta friends I already have. Go fresh starts!!

lolz.

Back.

I am officially back! And it feels right. Which is great. I basically have been unpacking and organizing since I've been here. I really want to start the semester off right so I figure trying to stay organized is a good start.

It was nice seeing Hannah and Bea and Meghan. We talked about our breaks and it's just like when we left :D

Now Meghan and I are watching our favorite, 5 and a half hour version of Pride and Prejudice.

I'm still a little stressed though. This is why:

1.) Classes start tomorrow.

I am obviously going to be a little stressed about new classes. Finding them, the work, the professors.

2.) I don't have all of my books for my classes yet.

That is REALLY stressing me out. Especially because I looked at one of my class's syllabus and we have homework out of my missing book tomorrow. AHH.

3.) Upon looking at my Spanish syllabus, I realize I'm not that great at Spanish.

This is the class with the homework tomorrow. And the missing book. So. There are several problems here.

Maybe luckily though.....there is a girl in my class from my last Spanish class so I can maybe borrow her book? I don't know. I just need to trust that God will get me through this like he gets me through everything else!!!

Leaving.

Should totally be packing. I probably will in between sentences in this post. I don't feel ready to go back to school, kinda like you, Steph. I don't have all my books and I just have a slightly off feeling. I think I get that whenever there is a change in my lifestyle though, so I probably shouldn't be worried. I'm sad about leaving all my friends. I felt that the break went by very slowly, which is amazing. Not slowly in a bad way I mean. At the same time though, I felt like I didn't get enough time with people individually. I need to work on that.

I'm obviously also not looking forward to the whole "long" distance aspect of Eric's and my relationship again. I put "long" in quotations because I feel silly complaining because it really is only 2 hours away but it's still difficult at times. I get frustrated easily with texting constantly and just not being in front of him. But, it's definitely made it stronger, so I won't dwell on it too much.

On a positive note, I am kind of excited for my new classes. I just wish I was fully prepared for them, aka having all my books.

I'm also really excited for IV activities to start up again. Tomorrow I get to meet with my small group which will be so awesome and comforting :D

And I'm kind of happy to just get back in the groove of things. Hopefully everything goes well!!