ohmygosh

1) i can't believe it's already the thursday before i have to go back to school.
2) i can't believe that i am three weeks behind on my 90 day bible reading plan... /:
3) i can't believe i have not practiced my spanish at all during this break.
4) i also can't believe this is my second blog of break.

What the heck?!? Where did all this time go, and why does it seem that I've massively wasted it? Granted, I was under the influence of heavy narcotics for a week after my wisdom teeth were removed, but those other weeks I was totally capable of getting things done. Seriously! I just chose to be lazy.

Honestly though, there are a lot of really really good things that happened this break! I spent time with my family and my friends from home. I was able to watch a ton of great movies and docs, one of which was so good it may or may not have me considering a career change :) I also read 4 or 5 really good books! And, maybe most importantly, I felt very relaxed - I truly felt like this was a much needed break from school.

So even though I didn't get all the things done I had planned, I would say I had a really nice break :) Thanks be to God for time to relax and thanks for the upcoming semester of hard work.

Break!

I apologize for the length of time since my last post. Although it seems like I would have more time over break, it somehow seems that I have less! It's amazing how much time you lose when you get to sleep in and then don't have a routine. This has proved true for everything I used to have no trouble getting done while at school - blogging, reading my daily Bible readings, working out, etc!

Despite my inability to manage my time while away from school, I've had a delightful break hanging with family, seeing old friends, and laying around reading. This is my first break EVER that I haven't had to worry about finals right around the corner. My only school responsibility during this month off is to order my books for next semester!

I hope everyone is having a wonderful Christmas (despite what everyone thinks, Christmas really is 12 days long!) full of celebration of Christ's birth and life and love and death and resurrection. I know this holiday is really about his birth, but I have a hard time only celebrating one part of the life of Christ when I know the whole story! Like I've talked about in other posts, I love the liturgical year, but we can't completely recreate the feelings of the Israelites because we are lucky enough to know the story of our Savior!

Well, that's all I have to say for now! I have a bananagrams date with my brother, and I'm blogging on my iPod touch, so it's a little slower than usual (and pretty darn trendy!). For now, I'll end with a few pictures from my break. Merry Christmas!!

Chicago at night is beautiful! 

Kyle concentrating on Words with Friends ;)

The giant Christmas tree at Macy's in the city. Awesome!

It's been a Bananagrams kind of break :)

DONE!

I'm officially done with finals and my first semester in college. WHOOHOO! It's such a weird feeling to be done. This semester flew by - it honestly feels like I've only been here a week! I'm super excited to have a month off to relax though, even if I'll miss everyone here!

I'm busy gathering up stuff to go home, so I'll post something for real later. I just wanted to share my excitement and share with everyone how truly blessed I am to be in college surrounded by such amazing people. SO BLESSED! My roommate says it best on her new blog - check it out, it's awesome!

And now a few pictures from the last couple of days!

My beautiful roommate trying to figure out how to sell her books!

The laundry I did last night. 4 LOADS! I think that's a record!