I want to be happy, so I will be happy.

My, oh, my has this week been the longest, fastest week ever. I can’t believe that tomorrow is FRIDAY!

Our Christmas Break countdown is down to 7 (just hours from 6) and my last day of classes is tomorrow. I cannot believe how fast time seems to be flying around here. I blink and another day is done. In the words of Meredith Grey, “…how do we make it stop?”

It has been a trying week, both academically and emotionally. With classes coming to a close, the pressure of final exams and papers is looming overhead. Thankfully, however, our homework weekend prior to Thanksgiving Break left myself ahead of the curve and with a lot less to try and accomplish this weekend—a load off of my mind!

On the emotional front, a member of the Quad has become quite distant, quite randomly and quite suddenly. For what reason the rest of us cannot seem to identify. We have each approached her at different times to try and come to terms with the distance—find an answer really—but with little luck. Just reassurance from her that it is nothing we have done and that she is simply  busy. Ouch.

So we’re left scratching our heads at the baffling absence and mourning the one who should be here to complete our set.

We’re all trying to keep each other going with lots of jokes, laughter, and tokens of appreciation. Because without these ladies I don’t know how on Earth I would have gotten through this first semester. And I try and remind them how grateful I am to have them in my life every single day. (Meredith—you rock!)

We are determined to have a great, last weekend together before Break, full of Christmas movies, homework, Christmas music, some more homework, and our very own little Christmas on Sunday.

I want to be happy, so I will be happy.

To end, the words of One Tree Hill’s Julian Baker, “Happiness is not a destination. It is a mood, it is not permanent. It comes and goes and if people thought that way then maybe people would find happiness more often.”

Homework Weekend

We (being T, M, and I) have dubbed this weekend, "Homework Weekend."

I made my list of every thing that needs to be finished by the end of the semester (Dec. 10) and I'm working to finish it all up before going home for Thanksgiving Break this Tuesday. While I know, realistically, every thing on the list won’t be done, 90% of it will be finished before I leave Tuesday. I do not want to spend my turkey-eating, baby-holding, picture-taking days worrying about homework.

We’re breaking up the monotony of the homework with Christmas music and movies…and food. It’s quite the combination!

  

Can You Guess What I'm Doing?

 

Or rather which, of the hundreds of assignments I have due before the end of the term, class it is for?

Storm the Villages with Torches

I know, you don't even have to say a word!

I've been working and working on this blog header and it's obviously still not up-probably because I can't come up for a name, but I think I've got it now. Definitely by the end of this weekend every thing will be complete...I'll let ya know. I'm deciding what all I want on the side still.

Enough about the blog you say? How am I?

Wellll, for the first time in a long time I'm have a really, really good week which is very surprisng. We get like final grades before report cards and even though mine are less then where I want them to be lately I just can't stay in a bad mood for long. I think I've figured out the secret for snapping out of a bad mood--will def. share later! Other than that I've been managing my time and finding time to read AGAIN! I just finished a book called Thirteen Reasons Why that I will definitely be doing its own blog post on sometime in the near future that's how empowering it was. The month has flown by and it's almost April...in like three hours. While that means the year is almost over it also means I am that much closer to be a........SENIOR! Scary, I know!

Gots to go; once the header's up I'll devote the time I've been spending on that to this nightly!