SOOOOOO. This is it. I am officially living in BYU. I've been here for three days now. Wednesday was moving in day. Now I finally have a cute room!! :) It was fun to put up all my new stuff and create my space from scratch...granted, that space was very limited, but hey, whatcha gonna do (whatcha gonna do when they come for you?) Pics will follow shortly but I'm still getting the hang of...wait for iiiiiiiiiiit....this new laptop! WOOO!
Indeed, I am very adulty. :) I now have a laptop, an all sports pass (GOOOOO COUGARS!!!!!!!! Gotta go buy the game day shirts!) and my very first credit card. Despite all these extremely adult-like items, I have just gone through a New Student Orientation which felt like a mix between EFY and a school field trip to the museum. There were some dry moments, but also some really fun times!
I was extremely blessed. We were assigned "Y Groups" at random, so basically I found myself thrown in with about twenty people I'd never met and was pretty much assigned to be with them all day. I don't know how I got so fortunate, but I made friends in that group pretty fast! Real friends too, that I can be stupid around and they don't walk away. So that's always nice. :) That experience has made me feel a bit more confident about making friends and fitting in here.
There's so much to say, but I don't even know where to begin or how to say it. For all those of you with deep wonderings (You know, all three of you. You know who you are.) Yes. Yes I've been on a date. But before you go crazy and do the victory dance of "I told you so" let's just all realize that this isn't something we should be getting used to. So get down off your high horse (or high My Pretty Pony).
It is probably evident from how scattered and sporadic this post is that I'm kind of tired. I had all these plans about doing crunches then going to sleep but ended up talking to my roommate until past three in the morning. But I guess that's how life goes sometimes. And that can for sure be nice.
August 25, 2012
August 21, 2012
Happy Tuesday to You!
I was about to write a different title for this post, but I just got a text from Iceberg (mmmm....milkshakes) which began "Happy Tuesday to you!"
Is it a little sad that I've only gotten three texts thus far today, and one of them is from Iceberg, reminding me that it's $5 combo Tuesday? Perhaps, but I think I'll keep living and see what happens.
The truth is, as you know, I'm pretty bad at keeping up with the blog. Now that I'm back in work and will be starting school in a few days I don't foresee it looking up much. But perhaps I'll have a change of heart and become a consistent writer.
Maybe.
Life has been crazy this summer. A trip to Georgia, and then to Mexico were kind of the highlights, prefaced by a week in Wyoming for Trek, and followed up by a last minute trip to Cedar City, getting a new job, hanging out with friends, and getting ready to move to college.
Which I'm doing tomorrow, btw. I've been trying to get everything I want squeezed into a few boxes, and I'm currently legitimately concerned about whether or not everything is going to fit. As my mother told me though, where there's a will there's a way. And there is a will baby. There is a will.
As for the usual things that come up in my life-dancing and writing- there's been less of that than normal, but it's picking back up. I didn't have any dance classes this summer, but I did hang out with dance friends a whole bunch, they're kind of like a second family. I'm also in two dance classes this semester, and have three dance auditions next week, which hopefully will result in more dancing! Woo!!
Writing, on the other hand, has experienced a sharp uptake in the last week. What prompted the jump in writing activity? Quiet, children, and I shall tell you. I was going along, minding my own business, living my life, going to work, la dee dah, when I received a message from another member on fanfiction.net. The message, while meant well, was asking if she could write one of my most popular stories for me since I hadn't updated it in quite some time. That question sort of horrified me. I thought to myself, You can't just take my story!! That's mine! I have poured my soul into this! And so I kindly replied, you know, thanks for the offer, but I'm actually going to update today. So I did.
The result?
As posted on facebook, because I'm very proud of myself, views came pouring in. In the last month alone I have received over 11,970 views from the USA, and over 15,000 views in total.
That's a thrilling feeling, knowing SOMETHING I'm writing is reaching people. Even if it's just a silly story, there are people out there who care about what I have to say, and that's enough to make this a happy Tuesday.
Is it a little sad that I've only gotten three texts thus far today, and one of them is from Iceberg, reminding me that it's $5 combo Tuesday? Perhaps, but I think I'll keep living and see what happens.
The truth is, as you know, I'm pretty bad at keeping up with the blog. Now that I'm back in work and will be starting school in a few days I don't foresee it looking up much. But perhaps I'll have a change of heart and become a consistent writer.
Maybe.
Life has been crazy this summer. A trip to Georgia, and then to Mexico were kind of the highlights, prefaced by a week in Wyoming for Trek, and followed up by a last minute trip to Cedar City, getting a new job, hanging out with friends, and getting ready to move to college.
Which I'm doing tomorrow, btw. I've been trying to get everything I want squeezed into a few boxes, and I'm currently legitimately concerned about whether or not everything is going to fit. As my mother told me though, where there's a will there's a way. And there is a will baby. There is a will.
As for the usual things that come up in my life-dancing and writing- there's been less of that than normal, but it's picking back up. I didn't have any dance classes this summer, but I did hang out with dance friends a whole bunch, they're kind of like a second family. I'm also in two dance classes this semester, and have three dance auditions next week, which hopefully will result in more dancing! Woo!!
Writing, on the other hand, has experienced a sharp uptake in the last week. What prompted the jump in writing activity? Quiet, children, and I shall tell you. I was going along, minding my own business, living my life, going to work, la dee dah, when I received a message from another member on fanfiction.net. The message, while meant well, was asking if she could write one of my most popular stories for me since I hadn't updated it in quite some time. That question sort of horrified me. I thought to myself, You can't just take my story!! That's mine! I have poured my soul into this! And so I kindly replied, you know, thanks for the offer, but I'm actually going to update today. So I did.
The result?
As posted on facebook, because I'm very proud of myself, views came pouring in. In the last month alone I have received over 11,970 views from the USA, and over 15,000 views in total.
That's a thrilling feeling, knowing SOMETHING I'm writing is reaching people. Even if it's just a silly story, there are people out there who care about what I have to say, and that's enough to make this a happy Tuesday.
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