I'm Going to a Party

A choir party to be exact. I love choir parties. Actually, I just really love choir and choir parties are like everything good about choir plus good food and extra time with choir friends.

My sister decided to make a cheese ball. Cheese balls are pretty awesome.

Sarah is pretty awesome. 

I decided to make brownies. Brownies are my favorite. 

I like brownies so much I borrowed a friend's kitchen twice last semester to make them, aided by my accomplice, Cara. 

I miss her. We're going to make brownies and lots of other stuff next semester in our very own beautiful kitchen. We will have parties of epic proportions. B-) 

Well, I will see you all later. . . I have some brownies I need to taste-test! 

Toast. . . French Toast

I don't have to go to work until eleven today, so of course the natural outcome of that was a breakfast that involved strawberries.

Can you say YUM? 

Now I'm ofski to help promote world peace by making Krabby Patties at the Krusty Krab! Hope you're all having a splendiferous* day!

*Splendiferous is actually a word. Who knew??

We Went Strawberry Picking

Today is my day off so we decided to go on an 

adventure in a strawberry patch in Nokesville. 

The Strawberry Patch 

Sarah

Me
 

And I'm Still Rolling Along. . .

Ahem. I was all excited about being a faithful blogger and it's been TEN WHOLE DAYS since I posted last. I am ashamed. :( 

But to bring you all up to date: Exams are over. I survived (barely) and I'm home! My dad and my uncle came down and helped me clean and pack and then took me to Disney World! We spent half of Friday in Animal Kingdom and the other half in Epcot. We even stayed for the fabtabulous fireworks and braved the rain in our Mickey Mouse ponchos. Fun times. :-D

Since I've been home I've been doing a bit of spring cleaning, unpacking and catching up on watching "Lark Rise to Candleford." It's good to be back with the home folks, eat real food, and see rolling hills of green again. I missed Virginia a lot. 

On Thursday I called McDonald's to see if they had a place for me and they asked me to come in Friday morning! I guess they missed me. :-P I worked eight hours yesterday and today. Last summer I was nothing but a frightened young whippersnapper so I didn't dare ask for Sundays off, which I regret. This summer I asked Jackie right off about not working Sundays and she was totally chill about it. Yay!

Also on Thursday, I spent most of my morning quite ruffled and troubled because I could not get our vacuum cleaner to work. I was distressed over this because my room was in desperate need of vacuuming and my allergies were flaring up something terrible and if your vacuum fails WHAT CAN BE DONE???? I researched machines and they're all frighteningly expensive. I grew more impatient and frustrated by the minute and I spent several hours on this search for the affordable-yet-powerful vacuum. I eventually gave up and decided to check my grades and financial aid again. My grades were posted (well, all but one) and my financial aid package was complete and <drum roll. . .> I found out I got a another scholarship for next year! ! ! And then I laughed at myself for how wound up I'd gotten over a stupid vacuum cleaner. My Father owns the cattle on a thousand hills (and is quite generous about them) and I was wasting energy worrying about a dust-sucking machine. That's embarrassing. :-P 

And is if that weren't enough to put all my worried feelings back where they belong, my dad came home that night and fixed the vacuum for me and I was able to vacuum all around the house without buying a new one after all! It reminded me of Matthew 6: 

"Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, 

and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 

And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? 

And why are you anxious about clothing? 

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: 

they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon 

in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these."

So yeah, I just wanted to share that in case any of you all are worried about anything. We have Someone watching out for us Who knows our every want and need and holds back no good thing from us! :) Take heart and happy weekend! 

Adventures of Insanity

I feel like this accurately describes the craziness of my life right now. 

Today was a day of epicness.

It was the start of my final exams. I gave my very first speech and people laughed. Which was good. I mean, it was supposed to be funny.

It was the end of my voice lessons. It rained. Hard.

I got an email saying my Workship hours are logged and I have 45.5 hours. Sweet!

Then I went on a random run to the DMV with my two awesome friends, Ben and Matthew. It was pretty intense - we had to go through security. They were just renewing registration or some such thing. I got to hold the paperwork. But they couldn't put the 5-15 on because it was raining. Fun times.

Later Matthew and I went to Chipotle and ate real food. I just finished my leftovers, they were great. I feel like this last week is nothing but stress and eating and partying with people because you're going to be parting ways too soon. Also studying and finishing projects as close to the last minute as you can get.

Tomorrow I'm going to Paris Cafe and Dunkin' Donuts. I have an 8am exam. I have a book report and three papers due. I have a room to pack up and clean. I'm really excited and I'm not even being sarcastic about that.

Now I'm going to bed and sleeping. Hopefully not dreaming about all the stuff I have to do. :-P 'Night folks!