May 20, 2012

I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, "wow, Lisa, after 28 weeks you finally missed a week. You loser." Well, you're right. Last Sunday was really busy and I thought I would just post on Monday. Then Monday was super busy so I thought "Tuesday, why not?" but then Tuesday was a blur and then by Wednesday it was kinda just pointless and that's why I decided to just wait until today.

Let's not dwell on the past and just move on, shall we?

Just a few memorable markers from the last two weeks:

-It's been a whole year since I quit cracking my fingers (on purpose, I can't help it if it happens when I stretch)

This really isn't that important, I guess but it's a milestone for me. The only reason I remember exactly what day it was that I quit was because I had lost my ring (the one I loved that I had gotten from my mother) on the way to visiting a friend in Boise. I didn't realize it was missing until the friend and I were watching Wicked. Right there, in that stadium, right in the middle of Gravity (haha no idea what song it was, I don't even know Wicked songs) I made a silent vow to stop cracking my fingers. I'm very melodramatic like that but guess what? It worked. 

-I am still struggling to catch up in all my classes since going to Florida but guess what, I still think it was entirely worth it.

I'm starting to realize that my academic adviser lied to me when he said I would be just fine taking biology and chemistry at the same time. He told me, "oh, everyone takes them at the same time and are just fine!" No. No-one takes them at the same time. Those that do, end up dropping one or the other so they can focus on one and not fail. At least, that's what the million of people I've talked to have done. They're both 4 credit classes and although my other classes aren't 'hard' per say... they're just time consuming. My business class is super easy but we have projects all the time. I'm bound and determined though to do well. Or at least pass.

-I am getting better at archery! I now am usually pretty consistent and can hit the target. (once and a while, it might even be a bulls eye)

Some random guy broke one of my arrows on Thursday. I stayed for the open shoot after class because we didn't end up shooting that day at all. Our instructor instead gave us an hour long lecture on how us girls need to get used to the idea that most likely our future husbands will want to hunt so we better be okay with that. A lecture that was entirely lost on me because I don't care. I wish my friend Stephanie hadn't skipped that day because I didn't even have her to bother and just talk in the back about superheroes instead of listening. 

-Mother's day was last Sunday and so I got to skype with my parents. I really don't use skype anymore, which is probably a shame because it was pretty fun seeing them, actually seeing them.

We have this photo thing in the living room of our apartment that we had all found some of our favorite pieces of art from an art history book to put up there. For mother's day, we all put photos of our mum's up and to be honest, they've just stayed up since. I like it because I haven't exactly got any photos up in my room this semester. No posters either.

 

-I got woken up on Friday by a call from Forks, Washington. It was an advertisement or something. I was still half asleep so I just got kinda angry, tossed my phone away after hanging up and falling asleep. Still, I think it's sort of hilarious. Is that their new ploy? To get people to answer their phone and hear their crap? Get all the teenage girls who have been waiting for that call for forever? I can just imagine.

-I'm dating someone now. Moving on.

-My life is the Avengers. I have so many feelings about this movie and I saw it twice last weekend and then this weekend Stephanie (the girl from my archery class I mentioned before) had a Marvel movie marathon. Seriously, I can not get over the Avengers. Every single time I see it, I just notice more and more that makes it stand out from everything else.

-Made a decision about Western Michigan. I am officially transferring there in the fall. It was a big decision but I'm really excited. I have a million and one things to do in order to get ready. I still need to look into classes, find out when I'm registering and find housing. It's a lot to deal with at the moment and I keep thinking 'I'll deal with it when I have time' but obviously my schedule isn't clearing up anytime soon so I just need to buckle down and do something about it.

Alright! Tonight is a partial solar eclipse and we're having a little party for it. We got fancy wine glasses and sparkling cider and I'm making scones, lots and lots of scones. I've got strawberries for strawberry scones. I've got raspberries for raspberry scones. I've got blackberries for blackberry scones! And I've got blueberries, you guessed it, for blueberry scones!