Okay, so I need to update - but I guess I will do it when it's not almost midnight. Things are crazy around here. People coming and going, meetings, getting ready for school, adjusting to a new place...it's all so weird to me. All I can say is life is tough, but life is good. It's all about the positive right now. That's the only way it can be. That's the only way to survive the chaos. :-)
After talking about it and worrying...waiting and praying...packing and unpacking...I AM FINALLY HERE!! I am in Canyon and I love it! I love my new place and I really love my new church family in Amarillo! I don't like being so far away from my family and everyone else that I love, but I am enjoying the switch in atmosphere and weather! It is gorgeous here..call me weird..but i love the panhandle/west texas area! I love that canyon is a small town and then I can drive down the expressway and go to Amarillo and find EVERYTHING! School doesn't start until August 25th, so I'll update between now and then..and try to find time when school starts to tell you how music therapy is going! I am just feeling so blessed and spoiled to death! We're having a rough patch in our lives in other areas...but I hope and pray that we'll get through this hard time soon and things will get better when i get my grant money and I get busy with school, etc. transistions are hard sometimes. i am bound and determined that this will be the best time of my life! I will make everyone proud! I have already made so many friends - and I just need to keep my focus! I will update more later...I need to clean some stuff up and take care of some errands. Leave me a message...I love messages!!
I'm so glad you're there Keri!!! Have a blast, you deserve that! So are you close to Palodura (sp?) Canyon? I loved going there as a kid and watching the musical, "Texas!"
hey girlie! Glad to see things are going well for you! I'm in Craig, Colorado now... and we're having a baby in November... crazy! Hope to hear from you. Love ya and miss ya!
Well, things are changing left and right! I have been accused of disappearing, but I am here! To tell you the truth, I have been totally drowning in schoolwork - trying to keep my average up in order to transfer in a safe position. The hard work has paid off! I made all A's both semesters this year! Now my personal life has suffered, or lack thereof, and my apartment looks like a tornado went through it...but I have the grades!
I have a job at Hobby Lobby as a full-time cashier. It's not exactly my dream job, but it helps out with the bills for now! I feel bad though, because since I don't know my exact moving date, I didn't really bring up that I was moving at all when I was hired.
It seems as though I will have a bright future in Canyon at WTAMU. I have found an awesome 3 story, 2 bed/2 bath apartment in a great part of town. I am being allowed to take Fresh. and Soph. Music Therapy classes at the same time my first semester and I am just so excited to get away from East Texas and start things over. I truly am a different person than I was when I was younger - even than I was when I first started college. I like to think that I am a better person. I have learned from my mistakes and the mstakes of others. However, I will miss some of the people around here, just like I miss others fom my past every day.
I had two very bad wrecks in my HHR - neither my fault. After about 4 months of dealing with insurance companies and dealerships, I finally got it fixed. They really had to replace the whole front and back end on my car. Everything but the inside is basically new! LOL
Mom, Dad, Jan, and Seddie are now going to church with me in Lindale. Dad misses preaching I think. I don't really hear from them or see them much. I don't really go to their house much. Please pray for all of their health situations. Nothing very serious is going on and I am sure that none of them would want me to go into detail, but if you would keep them in your prayers I would appreciate it. We all could use some help from some prayer every once in awhile. Like I said, it's nothing to be alarmed about so don't go calling them or anything.
I have been invited several times to go make a 3rd CD in TN. I can't afford the trip or the CDs themselves that I have to buy afterwards, so I don't think I will take the offer this time. I haven't even been singing at oprys lately. Who knows?! Maybe I'll do a farewell performance in June! LOL
I hope everyone is doing great! Summer is here! I can't believe it! I'll try to catch up on reading all of your blogs!
Take care!
whew, you sound busy!!! And hobby lobby is a great job, especially since they're closed on Sundays. I'm glad things are looking up for you, and I know your Dad must miss preaching, he was and is great at it :-)
Lil' Wayne! Get with the times, man! lol A Texas opry house is where they have country music - modeled after the "grand Ole Opry" you've heard me use that term before haven't you?? Shame shame...LOL
Alas, I have strayed from pleonast - but I am back.
Great things have been happening for me! I can't even begin to describe the good fortune I've had in the last few months. I have been truly blessed among all of the strife going on around me. It's one of those things where you look around and go, "This can't be happening. There's got to be a catch."
I'm back in school and making all A's. I think I've found a great new start in West Texas A&M where I plan on going to work on a Music Therapy degree in the fall. All of my family is here together in the same city again, and doing as well as could be expected under the strange circumstances. I have wonderful friends in Lindale that I will truly miss when it is time to leave for school this summer. Life is pretty good right now.
I have a lot of catching up to do with a lot of people! I want to get to know y'all again! Hope to hear from ya soon!
Hi Keri! Good to hear from you. West Texas A&M is where both of my brothers graduated from and it is only an hour and a half from us here in Lubbock. We will have to get together. Glad things are going so well.
you still have not answered my question :(..am I going to have to hunt you down on instant messenger and get you to tell me what color :)...just kidding but I'm serious!! I'll make you a scarf if you want one. I'm working on my 2nd one already and I have a friend wanting a baby blanket but I can make you one..it just might take me a while to get it done so I need to know now and maybe I can get it done before the blanket. The blanket isn't needed until at least August. So let me know!!
