I was gonna do a “end of the year survey” but got bored with it…so no survey for you.

Anyways, it’s so awesome to be home. No worries about classes, no work for school…just no stress in general, which is always a wonderful thing. I got my grades and GPA a few days ago, which was a little disappointing(for me), but eh. In case you want to see:

Physics: B
Physics Lab: B+
Chemistry: A
Chemistry Lab: B+
Calculus III: B+
International Relations: A
Intro to Engineering: A
My GPA is 3.62 right now, which is a lot lower than I’d like.
I feel ok about school, though, mainly because now I’m used to the routine and know how I need to study for next semester. Next semester will be crazily filled with studying, but hey..that’s what I’m going to college for, so that’s what I’ll do.

Off the topic of school, has been a pretty awesome week so far. Last week was just full of being lazy and enjoying home life once again…wow, I missed my mom’s cooking. Sunday, a bunch of people from my church went Christmas-caroling through a couple of different nursing homes…it was so joyous, singing to all these people…especially when they smiled and sang along. I do love Christmas songs. If I had my way, they’d be sung all year round.

Christmas is only three days away! I can’t wait for it…always such a happy time of year. Actually this whole season is so much fun. In a few minutes, I’m going to do some work(i.e. leave-raking) for a neighbor, and tomorrow and Saturday will be working at Wright’s Gourmet..even though I won’t get to relax, at least I’ll be getting paid. Anyways, need to eat and then run to work…

Yummy macaroni and cheese…I love my dad for making me some!! 🙂

Today was a pretty awesome day. Got to sleep in late, and then hung out with Rob(from my bible study group) for a while…we tossed the football around for a while, then went trekking through a bunch of trails by Lake Alice. I love hiking so much – me and Rob were talking about hiking part of the Appalachian trail in a few years, which will rock hardcore.

Got back to my dorm for some studying for my final exam. It shouldn’t be that hard, but studying always helps! Tomorrow, gonna take the exam at 7:30, then head back to Tampa around 10:30 or so. No thinking about school for a while…bliss.

Now, back to studying.

Physics exam was intense. Intensely hard, that is. As soon as I looked at the test, I felt my mind erasing itself…definitely not a good feeling. Oh well. At least I only have one more exam, and then I’m free.

I think I shall go to the Union bookstore and console myself with a good book.

Well, 2 exams down, two to go. I’m so happy calculus and chem are finally done…such a relief to see the books sitting on my dresser and know I don’t have to worry about reading them anymore. I aced the final calc exam, giving me a B+ for the class. And this morning, only missed 3 questions on the chem final, so got an A for the class! God is good. I’m most worried about physics though…I can only miss 1 or 2 questions to get an A..so I’m going to be studying like crazy.

Can’t wait ’til finals are all over so I can go home and really get into the Christmas spirit…this Wednesday, I’ll be back in Tampa!

Chocolate and strawberries…nothing’s better than that.

There’s got to be fondue in heaven.

And the moon is simply beautiful tonight.

Happy Thanksgiving, one and all!!

Had an awesome day today – just relaxing with my family, eating, football, and more eating(turkey, potatoes, asparagus, dressing, black olives, green olives, cherry pie, pumpkin pie, peach pie…mmm..)

Tomorrow will be a day of more relaxing! Most likely will not be braving the shopping scene…will be a bloody day out there.

I’m so thankful for all of God’s wonderful blessings, including you my amazing friends…it brings warm feelings into my heart knowing I have friends like you.

Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!!!

Tomorrow I’ll be in Tampa!

And Saturday, I’ll be at the UF/FSU game! It was so awesome finding a ticket.

The weather lately has been absolutely amazing…sunny and cold, just the way I like it.

My first semester of college is almost over. That’s sorta scary…I’m getting mostly good grades, some not as good as I’d like, but God is good.

I can’t wait for Christmas break…my favorite time of year is almost here!

Tonight was absolutely amazing.

Short poem comin’ right up:

Two stars shooting through the blackness,
looping ’round the universe
shining bright with awesome power
and twinkling down upon
our world.

1. Open up the music player on your computer.
2. Set it to play your entire music collection.
3. Hit the shuffle command.
4. Tell us the title of the next 20 songs that show up (with their musicians), no matter how embarrassing. That’s right, no skipping that Carpenters tune that will totally destroy your hip credibility. It’s time for total musical honesty.
5. If you get the same artist twice, you may skip the second (or third, or etc.) occurrences. You don’t have to, but since randomness could mean you end up with a list of twenty songs with five artists, you can if you’d like.
6. Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven
7. Pink Martini – Let’s Never Stop Falling in Love
8. The Allman Brothers Band – Hoochie Coochie Man
9. Lost Prophets – Ride
10. Andrew Lloyd Webber – Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again
11. John Williams(Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Soundtrack) – X Marks the Spot
12. Halo Soundtrack – Remembrance
13. Anberlin – The Runaways
14. Credence Clearwater Revival – Who’ll Stop the Rain
15. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Original Soundtrack – Blast Off
16. Republic Commando Soundtrack – Com Interference
17. Cowboy Beebop Soundtrack – Digging My Potato
18. Swingle Singers – Mission Impossible Theme
19. Billy Joel – Goodnight Saigon
20. Green Day – Stuck With Me
21. James Horner(Braveheart Soundtrack) – Making Plans/Gathering the Clans
22. Gladiator Soundtrack – The Emperor is Dead
23. John Philip Sousa – The Thunderer
24. Styx – Boat on the River
25. Trans-Siberian Orchestra – God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

So many things have happened in the past week.

In less than 14 hours, I will have all my exams and quizzes done for the week. Three tomorrow morning…so tonight is quite stressful. But somehow, as the night goes on, I become more calm. This weekend has been such a rollercoaster, and now it’s almost over…next weekend I’ll be with my family. Looking forward to that. 🙂

To my friends who have always been there for me…thank you. I don’t know what I would do without you.