Well, it looks like this week is going to be another one of those where I am running around, with things to do back to back to back. That was how last week was. In ways, it's a good thing because I sure don't have time to be bored, and the week goes by extra fast, and that puts me that much closer to Thanksgiving break, and going home and seeing my family. On the other hand, I have 3 papers that I need to get written this week. One is due Friday, one on Monday, and one on the Monday we get back from break (but it is a really scary paper, so I want to have it done before I leave). Sooooo, in all the time that I'm not running around, I really need to be working on writing a paper of some kind.
Good news: I leave for home for Thanksgiving break in 8 days!!!! Nikki is coming to visit me at home during Christmas break in 26 days!!!!!! Finals will be a thing of the past in 24 days!!!! I finish my SWOT project today!!!!
Scary news: That means that everything I have to get done (papers, tests, presentations, interviews, finals, driving home and back down here for Thanksgiving, computer class projects, midnight madness, football games and practices...) all have to happen in the next 24 days, and of that 24, I will only be here for 18 of it, the other 6, I will be at home for Thanksgiving....EEPPP!
Anywho, please keep me in your prayers because I know I am going to be crazy stressed in the next little while...I know I'll make it through, and get everything done, the question is, is how much sleep I will get, and how sane I will be when I get done.
I gotta run, and pack up my backpack, and find food to take with me and go to Accounting and Economics and Chapel...Hope you all have a wonderful day!!
That is how long I have until I have to leave for campus. I'm excited about my schedule for next semester. But, at the same time, I'm a tad...ok, maybe more than just a tad, scared about Industrial/Organizational Psychology with Dr. Dickey. I never had general psych, and I've never had a 3 hour night class before. So, we'll see how it goes.
I have got to stop getting so worried/stressed/worked up about my grades, and school in general. I have got to figure out that it is ok to do fun stuff, and to not always get the best grades...I definitely have not been getting the best grades this semester. I don't know what's going on. I can give the speech about how "in the end, the grades won't be what mattered, it will be the friendships that I formed, and the fun things that I did." I can give that speech all day long, but I am having trouble convincing myself of it.
Wow, I am having extreme troubles typing this morning. I'm excited. Thanksgiving break is coming!!! I get to see my family, I get to have cold weather, I get to live in my purple room (seriously, walls, carpet, everything- purple), I get to see my Chick-fil-A friends, I get to worship with the saints in Mineral Springs (or Minimal Springs as my sister and I like to call it), I get to...oh wait, I was about to start being stressed by school again. This is ridiculous. Anyway, I can't wait for Thanksgiving break, it's going to be great.
Now I must away, and off to Accounting go...
Hope you all have lovely days! It's pretending to be cold outside, so that is an excellent thing!!
I think Austin Royalty has that class as well. And he hasn't had general phsych either. I know he's taking some upper D evening class with Dr. Dickey, I just don't remember which one.
As far as stressing out about classes. Just do your best, because that's all that God or anyone else CAN ask. I am looking forward to facing you on the line...should be fun.
Today was the big day! The rumors were flying thick over the weekend and all morning...and I was hoping that it would be today because I was ridiculously tired, and didn't really want to go to class at all. The announcement was amazing in chapel...I wonder if Mr. Embry led "Think of the Home Over There" on purpose, or if it was a fluke. You should go download the podcast and listen to the elation that was oozing out of Hutchinson this morning. It was AMAZING! Kinda like asking day, but better because there wasn't any awkward asking going on!
So, I got out of my 3 afternoon classes, although I did have to go to my 2 this morning...I also got out of 2 quizzes, and a whole bunch of reading that I was going to have to do between chapel and 1:00, so that was really nice.
I got to help people move their stuff, which was fun. It is very interesting how much less stuff guys have than girls....hmmmmm.
Just got back from a yummy lunch with a super fun group!
All in all, having an amazing day! Plus, only 2 more days of classes until FALL BREAK!!!!! We kinda got an extra day today...sort of. Oh yeah, and now I have gotten to go in all of the guys dorms, well, except for old Boswell, but still, I've gone in all the ones that are still standing.
I feel like I'm rambling. I hope you all have a fantastic day, I sure am!
I've actually been in all the dorms except Neo-Boswell, but I plan to visit it soon; what did you think of it compared the other dorms (esp. Sutton/Hinely/Terrace)?
Well, the title is completely unrelated to the rest of the post, but it is something that I am curious to know the answer to, so if you know, please tell me!
Thank you all SO much for your prayers on my families behalf while my dad's job situation was up in the air. We now have answers, and a resolution to the whole situation. My Dad was able to get onto a team that is being transferred to Massachusetts. So, in the spring, or possibly even June, of next year, my mom and dad will be moving to Massachusetts. My sister will stay in NC, and will carry on with her plans to go to a local community college there in the fall. I will be at home over the summer for an internship that I am hoping to get, or just working...whichever happens. So, I should be there when mom and dad actually leave to go up to New England.
It is still hard for me to comprehend what is actually going to happen, and to think about the fact that my parents won't be there over the summer, or other times that I go home, after this spring. I know that it will all work out for good, and I am SO glad that my dad was able to keep his job, and everything that went with it. But, I'm really scared about what is going to happen with my sister living on her own in a whole big house all by herself and what my mom is going to do in Massachusetts without us to homeschool and just an apartment to take care of, and all her friends down here, and my dad having to leave all of his friends, and eldering at church and everything. I just need to accept that it will be ok, and that God has a plan for everything that is going to happen. For instance, my dad has a friend from high school who lives in Massachusetts who is not a Christian...maybe this will be an opportunity for her to be taught the truth when she might not have been able to hear it.
Anyway, things are looking up because Daddy for sure has a job. So, thank you all for all your encouragement, and prayers. God is faithful and knows what we need!!
Hope you all are having a great weekend, keep all the people who have midterms next week in your prayers. I have 5 and some discussion questions all next week, so I'm starting to stress a little bit.
As far as serving sizes go. I think the "half cup of ice cream" thing proves serving sizes are not real. In any case, you can just use the extra Pop Tart like the extra fork you get in restaurants. If you drop the first, you have a back up.
That sounds great Charli! I'm so glad things are working out! And what an opportunity for your parents! Churchs are few and far between up there! I think it will be great for the area that your parents will be moving up there! I see them as being a big help!
Hmmm... and in answer to your Pop-Tarts question: Have you ever seen the movie Father of the Bride? The part where Steve Martin goes to the grocery store, has a nervous breakdown, and tries to remove two buns from the buns package? Yeah. I bet this Pop-Tarts conundrum is a similar situation.
Yesterday morning, my mom called to tell me that my Dad's company was closing 95% of it's Charlotte office. People were either going to be let go, or get transferred to Massachusetts, Connecticut, or France. His meeting to let him know what would be happening to him was yesterday afternoon. My family had known about the Charlotte office closing for a little while now (I'm not sure how long), but they hadn't told me yet so that I wouldn't end up worrying about it when they didn't know anything at all; but since a decision was going to be made today, they went ahead and told me. I'm glad that they decided to wait to tell me, I think they made the right choice. Daddy's meeting was at 1:40 yesterday afternoon, and the ultimatum is that he will be losing his job in 60 days. He is welcome to apply for another job in the places that they are transferring people to, but he is not being transferred.
Please pray for, me, my family, and especially my dad right now. There aren't that many jobs for what he does in the Charlotte area, so it is quite possible that he will have to move. If he does have to move, my mom will stay in NC, until May to finish up Becca's senior year so that they don't have to figure out a whole bunch of homeschooling laws in another state. They will keep the house in NC, and Becca will stay there and go to a local community college in the fall like she was already planning to. Eventually, if mom and dad do have to move, they are going to try to come back to NC, when daddy retires, or a new opportunity presents itself.
We have lived in NC for 12 years...that is the longest that we have ever lived in one place. It is really hitting me hard to think that I will go back "home" and part of my family might possibly not be there, and it scares me to think that my dad won't have a job in the middle of November. Please pray that he will be able to find a new job ASAP, and that it will all work out for the best no matter whether they have to move, or if they get to stay in Charlotte. Daddy is one of the elders at our congregation at home, and it really makes me sad to think that he may have to leave, and won't be able to work in that capacity again for a while...being an elder has been something that he has wanted to do for as long as I can remember, and I don't want him to have to lose that.
My mom is going out of the country this evening on vacation with a friend from church. It was already planned before all this came up, so there's no point in canceling it now. Please pray for her safe travel and for my sister and dad while she is gone.
Thank you to everyone who has already been there for me as I cried until my tearducts were sore yesterday, and for telling me that it would be ok, and that God has a plan, even if we can't see what it is right now. I really appreciate it, and I am so thankful that God gave us the gift of friendship.
I was going to try to leave some encouraging words, but you summed it all up in that last paragraph. God is in charge. You know we have been through this as well, twice. If not for the changes we wouldn't have met new friends...YOU and all the others in NC. Amanda probably would not be at FC or have met Alan. We know if we put God first, He will take care of us. There is absolutely no doubt He will take care of everything.
