Hope Still Flies

- "Set Fire to the Rain" by Adele

If you haven't listened to Adele's new album, shame on you. Go. Now.

I figured since it'd been a month since I'd updated, I'd pop in and say hi. And I'm alive.

All's usual around here. I'm constantly thinking that I couldn't be busier, and then I go and prove myself wrong. Stress level seems to be at a high point right now. I figured once I was done with English classes I could be done with writing.

Oh, boy, was I wrong. My life right now mainly consists of writing lab reports and doing homework in between. I spend more time dealing with lab data in Excel than I spend seeing Michael. I've been trying to keep ahead with everything when I can. All while sending out resumes and cover letters to places to try to secure an internship for the summer. 

And truthfully, I could complain all I want, but really, I'm lucky. Amidst all this stressful schoolwork, I am learning all sorts. I sleep with Michael next to me every night, and I can always get ahold of him if I need to. My family is all kinds of supportive with any and all decisions.

And I have an abundance of Girl Scout Cookies, thanks to my nieces.

In all seriousness, though, I try not to throw myself pity parties. I complain to Mike more than I should though, poor guy. 

I'm drowning my sorrows in cookies. Before the Girl Scout cookies were here, I was making peanut butter chocolate no bake cookies every few days. The amount of sugar I went through is astounding. Heh. 

Overall, though, life here is good. I do update my Project 365 blog (link at the top underneath the header) every day. It's been fun, even though the pictures aren't all that exciting, it's good for me to take that 10 minutes out of my day to do something not school or work related. 

Like I said. Nothing really exciting going on. Trucking along. I can't believe tomorrow's March 1st. Almost halfway through the semester already, and heading to Pennsylvania in a few weeks (!!). This past weekend I got to go Wichita and visit. Gage, Madi, Megan and Garrett are all growing up ridiculously fast. Beth and I went bowling with the older kids and had a fantastic time...

On Sunday they all came over to my parents place to hang out and play games. Garrett and I ran around outside...

 
I'm biased and all, but he's one smart 19-month-old. When I got to Beth's on Saturday morning after I was done giving hugs to the older kids, I found Garrett and he reached out for me, remembering who I was. He recognizes the letter P, and even draws it. His vocab is growing a ton. It's just ridiculous. 
And he's just as cute as ever, right?
Okay. Break time's over. I hope everyone is well!

-"Who We Are" by RED

As I was trying to think of something to blog about besides ridiculous classes and whatnot... So I thought I'd try this "I love... but..." idea I thought of when I was waiting for Michael to get ready for class. I'll start with that one.

I love my husband. A lot. But he doesn't have this obsessive need to be early like I do. At all. So when we're traveling together for something and he's not getting ready as fast as I'd like, it takes every ounce of will power not to rush him. Which I end up doing anyway. By pacing or staring. Oops. Well, if he'd just be ready to leave earlier... (love you, Mike!)

I love the look of snow... But my poor Bug doesn't do good with snow drifts. I have the clearance of about a foot. That plows/drifts up pretty quick.

I love like my majors... But some days I wish I'd picked something like photography or English. Mostly when I'm trying to write up a lab and I can't for the life of me figure out what's going on.

I love my discount at work... But I usually end up spending too much money on things like books. Worth it.

I love my family... But that makes me miss them so much more.

The love I get from them, though, makes all this heartache worthwhile. When I get to missing them, I watch this video of me and Garrett. It makes me laugh no matter how many times I watch it, because I remember sitting there with him for an hour while he was amazed with the laptop and watched Blues Clues. And how adorable is he when he says "Uh oh!". Excuse my crazy voice at the end... He was smashing my keyboard.

I'm sure I've got a lot more of those, but this migraine's killing me. Thankfully the snow days earlier this week mean I don't have any homework due tomorrow (funny how that works, eh?) so I'm going to go lay in bed and watch Grey's Anatomy. My dad would now insert a comment about how Grey's can't make anyone feel better, ever. And that he's going to disown me if I watch any more.

=) I miss my family.