Post-Holiday

I hope everyone had a happy and safe holiday.

Wow year 2012, it seems surreal
did any of us ever really expect it to come?
It has been twelve years since 2000 and the span keeps getting
wider and wider.

This year is also a leap year. What do YOU plan to do with your extra day?
Share it with loved ones? Catch up on your to-do list?

What about trying to reconnect with someone you lost touch with?
My suggestion is to use it wisely ;)

-Kathleen

Winter Break

I realize now that most of my blog posts last year were about my fears about going off to college...

And I can honesty say that I survived my first semester! It was a big change.....and it took me two months to be completely home sickness-free BUT I LOVE IT!

I didn't want to come home for winter break. My 'home,' my life is there.....now back at my childhood home....I am bored and more lonely. I miss my friends, my routine, my roommate the food!

It is all very conflicting, I get to see my family....but I don't really feel happy and in the Christmas spirit.

And as much as I don't necessarily want to be home - neither do I want to go back to school.

But all in all, I love college and everything about it. I KNOW I choose the right school and I am in the right major :)

Merry Christmas to all, Happy Holidays, Season's Greetings and Happy New Year!

College Update

So I am entering my fourth week of college and I am feeling a bit stressed because well it is my busiest so far. I am battling between staying up with friends or going to sleep early (but if I do I cant sleep).

But I love it, I was anxious at home watching the pile rise in the living room of things I needed to take with me. But now that I am all settled and have a schedule, friends to eat and laugh with and activities to take me away from work (one of which is laundry) I find that everything for the moment is in a nice balance.

ha.......

The End of an Era

Of all the things I wanted to say, it seems that they have all gone away.

Six years of elementary education was just fine,

three years of middle grew me up

and four years of high school gave me strength

Then betwen me and college came a summer to remember, with warm nights riding with your best friend with the sun roof open and listening to country music, and the freedom of having no worries, no obligations, no daunting dates. I was free.

And now I am just 12 days away from knowing my other life, the rest of my life as I go off to college and leave it all behind. But I will never fear-for my best friend will always be here :)

Happiness :)

I am really excited!
I have a very fun weekend planned out, actually...the next two weekends planned out :)

First I'm going to the beach with the most fabulous group of friends, and then my cousine and I are going to celebrate our graduation together >..<

I am so at peace right now, all the stress of school is gooooneeee!!
And though I know that I should be excited for my freshman year of college in the fall, I'm not. It's work and stress which I don't really want right now.

But for right now, everything is perfect and excellant, just the way it should be.

Early Summer Update

I haven't posted in a while so here I go
my first post of summer 2011.

A lot has happened...I'll try to catch you up in a nut shell

On Valentine's Day I had the greatest surprise of finding out that I had won a prom dress!
I recieved the pink ball gown in April, got it fitted and in early June I went to my Senior Prom. My date was a sophmore friend, I dragged him along but I know he had fun dancing as much as I had.

I only had to take one final: Physics becasue I got A's in all four marking periods and on the midterms of my other subjects. It was heavenly.

I got a 97 on my research paper. A feminist approach to the book, Bread Givers.

I graduated from High School in late June. My last name starts with a "y" and since there were no "z" names I was the last one to graduate! It was so exciting and I got the biggest applause (because everyone was excitied for it to be over but since I loved it)

Today I just got back from a trip to British Columbia, Canada where my Grandma Nita lives with my baby cousin Tommy.

Happy Fourth of July to all and have a safe and healthy summer!

Buffalo Girls won't you come out tonight...

So lately I have been putting together a little bucket list, if you will of all sorts.
These are fun little things that I (can soooo do) would like to complete while I am still young and "full of life" as they say.

1.Go swing dancing. It just seems like soo much fun! Whenever I hear music with saxophones (like the song "Buffalo Gals") it just makes me want to get up and move. I don't like the club dance moves which my peers enjoy (like grinding). I have never really slowed danced with anyone either but hopefully my senior prom next week will change that and it will be fun.
2. Be envolved in a historical reenactment, especially around the civil war and revolutionary war era. I LOVE history and especially the clothes they wore, and I just thought it would be fun for one day (or weekend) where I can dress up like they did back then and churn butter the old fashioned way.
3. Run a muck race. I don't know if you have heard about these, but they are a 5K race with obstacles! Like climbing ropes, jumping over logs, swimming, and RUNNING THROUGH MUD! Sounds like fun doesn't it? It is soooo up my alley and I wish I could do one right now.!
4. Do a polar bear plundge. yeah...this one I am not sooo hyper about but it seems like one of those things you just gotta do.
5. Hike the Appalachian Trail, I once wanted to be a "thru hiker." A person who spends 6 months on the trail hiking the entire thing! Day in and day out, and the trail runs from Georgia to Maine...but now I just want to hike a piece of it, and I have with my cousins. BUT I would like to spent 2 weeks out on the trail or at least an overnight hike.

Do you have a bucket list? If so, what is on it?
Have a wonderful end of spring and don't forget to go outside!

-Kathleen