Yay weekends

Yay for awesome weekends! This weekend was so great! I spend the entire weekend with John (yeah, the WHOLE weekend - Friday through tonight at 9:19pm), and it was so nice. It was one of the most relaxing weekends I can remember! Friday we just vegged, went to Café on the Corner down in Dover, then just hung out at my apartment the whole night. Saturday morning we had pancakes for breakfast! Yum! I haven't made pancakes in over a year! Then we vegged for most of the morning (note: vegging will be a common occurrence in this update), then went to look for a wedding gift for a friend of mine who's getting married a week from today (yeah, I know, I should have started looking like a month ago), then we went to his house and vegged. That night we went out to Olive Garden with Mr. and Mrs. Graichen (aka Dave and Alison) and it was a ton of fun! It was great to see Dave and Alison, and catch up with the two of them. It's amazing though, how quiet I felt I was through most of the dinner though, when they were all talking about music and teaching music and stuff... and I'm like "okay... I should have been a music major..." It was funny, we (John and I) got there at about 5:30, and ran into his friend Nick and Nicks girlfriend. So we got to catch up with them for a little bit, then Dave and Alison got there, and Nick got seated. We still had to wait an hour. Fortunately the food was good. The service left something to be desired, but oh well. Anyway, we got back to my apartment, and John and I were both exhausted... we pretty much fell over dead by 10:30. Then this morning, John had to teach a lesson, so I did homework (or, pretended to, is more like it). Then at 10 I went to his house so we could go to mass together. It was okay, but the priest used the whole sermon to plug the RCIA classes which are starting on Thursday. That wasn't too exciting. The rest of the day we spent at Johns house, I did a bunch of homework and he worked on outlining the new 6th-8th grade general music curriculums. Then he updated some of his RK websites while I finished reading the chapter I needed to read in the most boring textbook ever. We didn't do too much for the rest of the day. His mom made soup for dinner, then we taught her how to play Roll Dem Bones, so that was fun. Then we just chatted in his room about a ton of stuff tonight.
Thi weekend was kind of interesting though... I talked to John on Thursday about this, and now I'm putting it out there for all to know. I'm going to be doing the RCIA classes and Johns mom is going to be my sponsor. She was so excited when I told her/asked her! I am looking forward to them too. It will be a lot to learn between now and the Easter Vigil, but I believe this is something I'm ready to take on now, and will be good for me. I need to ground myself in my faith during this time in my life, and I wasn't getting the "grounding" I needed from the UCC/Protestant church. I've noticed, though, that each week I get a little more comfortable at mass, and I feel like I am getting so much more out of it... I'm not sure why, but it feels like it fits.
Anyway, it's getting late... (I know, 10:30's wicked late!) I'm pretty tired (don't ask why, I didn't do much this weekend), so I need to get some sleep.
Peace and love, all!





580!

Stuff

It's so strange what a difference a couple of days can make. I feel so much better today compared to how I felt on the 7th when I wrote. I just had to make it through another week of classes I think, and get my schedule figured out, and now I've got the other stuff I was worried about figured out too, so that ALSO makes me feel good. And now I'm just waiting to hear back from Brooks to find out about that Rx Tech job they might offer me, hopefully I'll know sometime today. So now I just need to eat some lunch and go to the laundromat, otherwise I won't have any pijamas to wear to bed tonight! I can't have that. So I'm going to bring my 622 book with me since I have like 40 pages of reading to do this weekend in that book alone, I'll do that at the laundromat so I don't get (overly) sidetracked. Seeing as how there is a CSI marathon on Spike TV right now, it would be very tempting to stay inside and watch that all day, but I don't think that would be a wise idea. Fortunately I have gone out once today, and it's BEAUTIFUL out. I was able to get my add/drop form signed and handed in, so I'm officially in every class I should be in now. That is a big relief. One of the classes doesn't even have a textbook! How cool is that?!
Anyway, it's time for lunch. I just wanted to update everyone to let you all know that I'm not as much of a wreck as I was on Tuesday!
Shalom!

Crazy Weeks

I started my classes last week, and holy craziness batman! I'm taking 4 classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and one on Wednesdays. One of the classes I was trying to get into on Tuesdays and Thursdays I had to add, and so did 15 other seniors, when there was already 50 people in the class. We all needed it to graduate, so she can't give any of us priority. So after finally hunting things down and getting stuff situated, I was able to add the "same" class, only through a different department. So I had to start that one today. It was weird, I've never had to do that before. Now I'm working on trying to swich one of my classes from Tuesdays and Thursday nights from 7-8:30 to the morning from 8-9:30. I know, it's crazy right? Well, its either that, and have all of my classes back to back, or have this 4 hour window of time which drives me CRAZY because I don't want to bring 8,000 textbooks to campus with me every time. So I e-mailed the department, and I'm trying to get THAT squared away. But since I've already highlited the textbook for the section I'm in now, I can't actually return it, they'll do a buy back, so I'll get less money, which sucks. But I can't find the textbook for the other class either, so I don't know how much it is! Ugh. I want to swich sections though, because then I can have my nights to do homework and spend time with John - which is something I've already really started to miss this semester, and I KNOW it will get worse as the time goes on, since I'm taking classes that confuse the hell out of me. Seriously, I don't think anyone knows how much of a headache I leave these classes with because I don't understand them! Well, I mean, I understand them, but for some reason, nothing is registering with me right now. I have a feeling I know why, and John would probably know too, but I'm not going into details about that on here. It's a little too personal. Sorry guys.
I'm also looking for a new job. Yes, I have a job at Bath and Body Works, which is great, BUT, I'm not getting the hours or the pay I need to... well, get myself out of the debt that I am in right now and still maintain all of my rent and utilities and car payments and such. So if anyone out there knows of anything that's paying well and I can get decent hours at, please let me know!
I miss John. I know he's going to read this, and I know a lot of other people are going to be like "eewww, I don't want to read that," but sorry guys, I don't care right now. I miss getting to spend the time together that we got at the end of the summer. I'm not sure how we made it through all the weeks I was at the camp, but we did, and for some reason, now, just going one day is hard. I don't know how you all do these long distance relationships... I guess it's that I know he lives so close to me, or I live so close to him, whichever, and I can't see him as often as I'd like. I feel so much better when I'm with him, like everything is okay, and all of my problems will have an answer, and it will all work out okay. I hope I never lose that feeling with him. I'm afraid it could happen, and he knows why, but I'm going to work my hardest to not let it, as long as he promises to do the same.
Anyway, I'm going to go eat "dinner" before class (dinner consisting of a granola bar and a yogurt).
Shalom y'all.