Because Rambling is What I Do Best...

Well, it's 2010 folks! Graduation year!!! Soo stoked. I'm back into the same old school routine, with a slightly altered schedule. I am in drama class now and we are putting on a show of the play "A Doll's House" which should be pretty awesome, I'm excited despite my disappointingly small and slightly lame role. Oh well, life goes on, yes?
A few weeks ago, I went into Chicago with my friend by train and we played downtown for most of the day and ended up both getting our cartilages pierced on a whim. It was spectacular, gosh I love spontaneity.
So being back into school after Christmas break also means getting back into my running schedule which has become all but completely destroyed due to holiday feasting and laziness. Needless to say, after my pretty pathetic two-mile run yesterday, I am sore today. Not a good sign, my friends. I hate being out of shape!!!! I really want to train for a half marathon... which seemed possible last year at this time when I could run 7 miles a day no problem. Grr I hate getting lazy. Oh well, i have a lot of time since most of my scholarship apps are done, so I'm hoping to motivate myself enough to get faithfully dedicated again. I do love it, after all, it's just a bit of a love-hate thing for the first two/three weeks of getting back into the swing of things.
In other news, I am completely excited because I only have a 2 DAY school week coming up. why do you ask? Well, Martin Luther King Jr. Day on monday, I'll go to school tuesday and wednesday, thennn on wednesday afternoon, my friend from indianapolis is driving up here, staying here that night, then on thursday morning, she and I and my sister are all taking a roadtrip to washington dc!! Woooot. we are going for the March for Life and also to visit the many awesomee friends we have there. I am sooooooo excited. wowwow.
I'm not feeling creative right now or talkative, I just kind of feel like sleeping. Ever have those days where you just feel like even when people LOOK at you, it's too loud? Everything bothers you? Yeah it's one of those dumb-no-reason-for-my-bad-mood days. I think i'll take a nap, thank you.
Until next time where I ave nothing of substance to say again.

Merry Cookies

I got to wake up bright and early this freezing Saturday morning and work at the annual Trinity School Christmas Bazaar Cookie Walk. Every family who has children attending Trinity needs to make 7 dozen cookies per child attending. My poor mother had to slave over 28 dozen cookies. Ridiculous. Anyway, I never fully realized how much people really like cookies... I mean, they were legitimately frantic over getting the kinds of cookies they wanted. Old ladies were shuffling down the cookie line with an unnatural, flustered intensity as they were determined to get the best cookies before the others in the line got to them. It was hardcore entertaining for me. My job was to replenish the half- empty trays of cookies and keep them filled with the hundreds of varieties of cookies. The cookie walk began at 9 in the morning, and all the cookies were gone by 10:15. Before the walk started, the line for it was out the door of the building. That is pathetic, people. Forreal, it's weird that you're so desperate to get your clammy hands on holiday themed cookies. This is why America harbors the world's biggest population of obese people. It's unfortunate that Trinity School's fundraiser contributes to that statistic, but at least we're getting money to pipe heat through our school's ancient radiators. Honestly, every time the heat turns on in our school, it sounds like the building is finally ready to collapse, or at the very least, an army of very small people is tromping through the walls, ceilings, and pipes. Every time the heat begins to turn on, there never fails to be a muffled whisper of "they're coming for us!" from someone in the classroom.
In other news, I'm excited to watch the Florida v. Alabama game today... although, I have yet to decide who I want to root for. I'm going to watch it with a hardcore bama fan, and I'm tempted to root for Florida just to be contrary. I may get ostracized though, haha.

Gosh, I really have eaten a lot of cookies today. We got to take home a large bag of broken cookies, and it's sitting right next to me practically ASKING me to eat them. It's tough, really. I think I'll go on a run later...
I hope it snows more today! It snowed some this morning and it was very pretty, and actually began to stick, but then the sun came out and it stopped. In my opinion, if it's going to be under thirty degrees, it may as well be snowing, because cold weather is miserable, and if it's not even snowing, then it's completely pointless.
Well, I'm off to continue being lazy, feel bad about myself for being so lazy, and then probably end up having another cookie to cope with my self pity, and then feel even fatter.
Sweeeet.

Painfully Ordinary

So today, I basically felt mentally impaired. i don't know what it was, but there was some kind of wall between my hearing something, comprehending, and responding. Example from Spanish class- Teacher:"Mary will you read the next example?" Me:"Do the next example?" Teacher:"Yes, read it in Spanish please." Me:"Wait, where are we? I'm sorry I was writing something down, I don't know where we are." Teacher: "The last sentence on the page." Me:"Wait, but I thought I was supposed to do all of the examples?"
....Yep.
That is pretty much the story of how my entire day went. I was acting and feeling completely dysfunctional and stupid. Why?! I blame it on schoolwork. Namely MATLAB. If you don't know what matlab is, don't even worry about it, just know that it is the spawn of Satan and it will kick you in the butt. I just spent like 3 hours working on a linear algebra project that we had to do with matlab.... it was truly a walk in the park, a joyride, a real JOY. You should try it sometime.

My neighborhood is all lit up with Christmas lights and its really fun to run in. I normally get sick of running in my neighborhood because it feels small, but now it's fun because I can look at all the lights when I run by :) The only downer is that there are tons of cars b/c people tour the streets to look at the lights. It also legit snowed for the first time today! Even though I'm not a big fan of winter, it still kinda gave me warm fuzzies when snowflakes were clustering in my hair and making little piles on the sidewalks.

Quote of the day: "Pain of Discipline, Pain of Regret - pick one".

Remember to wear red to support our troops tomorrow!!!

What a Wonderful World

Fun dress

The whole family :)

Me and my gorgeous sisters

Me and my cousin Emily

Me and my cousin Gracie

Candid.

my crazy hair with the pool in the background. I LOVE the colours.

Decided

This is basically how I feel right now. Despite my oncoming cold, stomach ache and homework looming over my head, I have made the decision to be a sunny person for the remainder of school until Christmas break. 3 weeks is a long time to remain positive but I think I can do it... maybe possibly.
Today's reasons to keep smiling:
1) I have fantastic, amazing, wonderful friends who are hilarious and keep me sane
2) My family is awesome
3)Tomorrow is hump day which means it's almost thursday, which means its basically friday which is practically the weekend.
4) I only have one more scholarship application until I'm DONE.
5) I'm alive.
6) I went running today
7) I am alive.
8) I am loved.
9) I understand physics! [big deal, people]
10) .... wild card. I can't think of anything else right now.

This may not turn out so hot, but I'm trying right? I at least get some points for that.

[I'm definitely putting off a large amount of homework right now]
I am sucha happy kid because it was BEAUTIFULLY sunny today. I felt like such a little kid, but during lunch today i just sat on the sidewalk criss-cross applesauce and soaked up the sun. [well... as much as I could with a hoodie and pants on haha] Nevertheless, it was fabulous :)

Quote of the day:
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." - Abraham Lincoln
[Let's hope he's right.]

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Bliss

So for Thanksgiving, my family and I traveled to Jacksonville, Florida to be with my dad's side of th family. I twas an 18 hour car trip there but it was TOTALLY worth it. The first day we were there consisted of hanging iut by the hotel pool, surrounded by beautiful palm trees and crystal blue skies. It was amazing. My grandpa was turning 80 and so he had a huge party at his ritzy country club, at which he bought us all [the whole extended family] a beautifully delicious dinner. I have never eaten so well as I did on that trip. Coincidentally, I'm pretty sure I gained some love handles, but hey, that's what running is for :)
I'm pretty exhausted because I got back in town at 3:00am and I went to school today. YUCK. It wasn't fun. On the other hand, Christmas break is t-minus 3 weeks away and I CAN'T WAIT! It will be so fantastic.
I have to do homework now, as awful as that sounds. Hooray for Locke's Treatise on Government! NOT. I thought I was done reading Treatises [sp? haha] after I read Aquinas. I guess not. Oh well, reading makes you smarter :)
PS, I got accepted to IUPUI and Belarmine gave me a good scholarship!! Now everyone just needs to pray that I get the full ride that I applied for! I would DIE of happiness, that would be so wonderful. Oh I hope I hope I hope.
Tip your waitresses, they are under appreciated.

It's a wonderful night for a moondance

The Ballroom Dance was on Saturday night, and here I am with some of the lovely sophomore girls and my brother John who forgot how to smile. Nice one, Johnjy.