Good News!

I have officially grown over 1 inch!

My brother is still shorter than me.

All is right with the world.

Back to the Land of the Sun

I'm home again. Which means:

. I can tan again
. My allergies are back
. Once again, I can get away with sleeping in till 12 every morning... er... afternoon.
. It's Christmas cookie time, and since I haven't had any yet this year, I must make up for lost time and bake an abundance of baked goods.
. I have put off Christmas gift shopping, as always, so I have a lot of shopping to do.
. My puppy is here!
. My dad cleaned my car inside and out because he loves that car almost as much as I do.
. I get to hang out with my friends to the max.
. I have to try to not think about how I'm not going back to Belmont next semester.
. I get to go to my church tonight! Holla!
.It's Christmastime which can also be translated as the time where the best animal in the world is pasted on everything everywhere. Yeah PENGUINS!

Stupid girls

*sigh*

It's irritating when the friends you've had for years start being stupid when they "grow up." By grow up, I mean get older, not actually mature. You think you can count on these few people to develop into intelligent, wholesome people, and they disappoint you hardcore. I feel like it's always triggered by a girl. People say that money is the root of all evil. I once heard a guy say that girls cost money, so they are in fact the root of all evil. I must agree. Girls ruin perfectly good guys (and other girls too). I almost want to begin a long rant on why girls suck, but I feel like everyone already knows that.

Stupid girls.

snow! SNOW! snow!

It's December and it's snowing! Nashville gave me a goodbye present.

I've decided that I love snow. Snow is one of the most beautiful natural decorations. The day God invented snow was a really good day. I'm so glad He's a genius. Whenever it snows, I sing the snow song and it really bothers Kindall. It'd probably bother me if I wasn't singing it. SNOW SNOW SNOW!

Roundhouse Kick to the Face

Of late, it seems as if life has been throwing a tantrum all around me. It's as if the last 18 1/2 years had some sort of get-out-of-life free pass and that pass expired at the beginning of this semester. I've heard of more people dying this semster than I can remember in my lifetime. I have seen so many relationships end leaving both parties bruised and hurt. I have witnessed various accidents happen that don't make sense. And it makes me wonder. Why so sudden? Why in one concentrated dose? Is this just life running its natural course, or is there a specific meaning behind these events? I realize that stuff happens to people every day, but why am I just now coming in contact with it?

Whether or not I learn the answers to these questions, I'd like the emotions being spewed at me to tone it down. I don't handle the waterworks very well.

20.

Today... well I guess it was yesterday now... was my birthday. For the past 7 years, I have been a teenager. Leaving that stage of my life behind sounds odd. By sounds, I mean when people ask me how old I am now, I say 20. 20. How the heck did that happen? Have I really been around for that long? I'm 1/5 of the way to 100. 100?! Oy.

Despite the fact that about 1/4 of my life is now gone forever, I had a pretty smashing day. Nothing really epic happened (well, minus the FANTASMIC concert I went to with Kindall and Norton - Winter Wonder Slam a.k.a. my birthday present from Kindall), but I was in a really cheerful mood all day. Most people would say that's because it was my birthday, but if you were just thinking that, you were dead wrong. I'm never really excited about my birthday. I've never made a very big deal out of it. Yes, it is the anniversary of my birth, but so what? This is what makes my chipper mood a pleasant surprise. Maybe I subconciously wanted to make this birthday the best yet, since it will be my last birthday with my friends at the Mont. Whatever it was, I liked it. I was so happy that I didn't even get frustrated when we had to sit in traffic for 30 minutes on the way to the concert.

Also, my friends pretty much rock. I already mentioned Kindall's rocking birthday present, but on top of that, Liz gave me purple corduroy TOMS so that I can try to be trendy, Rachel bought me a cookie cake with a big ole icing penguin on top, Norton bought me a frosty, I got to talk to a bunch of my friends and family (who I dearly miss) on the phone, and thanks to facebook, several people who never talk to me wished me a happy birthday. Does it get any better than that? (I'd like to clarify that my friends are not awesome because they buy me stuff, but because they made a day special that I didn't think would be. I am blessed)

Exhale

I should be asleep, but I just finished writing most of the paper that is due tomorrow... er... later today. It's about a book. The book is about the history of a Japanese family. Originally, I thought it was going to be one of those books you read to make you fall asleep, but it's actually been quite interesting.

I am not going to go crazy. I think I've decided that this is true, or that I will make it true if it's not. The show I'm costuming opens on Friday, and I have very little to do regarding the costumes until then. I like it when I think I'm going to survive. I mean, ultimately I KNOW that's true, but FEELING gets in the way far too often. Sometimes I'd like to push pause on my emotions and have a period of time where I only have to think about facts. Stress is irritating and unnecessary. Who invented it? We should throw trout at that person. Judging by that last sentence, it is time for me to close my eyes and dream of anything but costumes and cute boys; two things that have been on my mind far too much of late. I need a break from both.

*end aimless ramble of exhaustion*