what am i doing?

i need to figure my shit out.

Officially going home for christmas!!! woot!  i had to forfeit all my Christmas presents but that's ok. I don't really need much anyways. So I am going to KC for a few days, then my dad's for Christmas then to Edmonton around the 27th - so you guys better be around (you know who you are)...

I am done with school finals tomorrow!!! Then about a week of just work and catching up and getting ready for next semester and our new staff members, etc.. which will be nice to just be relaxed and productive for awhile - then Break!!! I am looking fwd to Christmas with snow. We had some here but it's mostly gone again.. just not the same. Last week when we got two days of snow - it was craziness!! People do not know how to drive here. I have helped several people get out of parking spots and stuff simply because they thought they were stuck but really were just afraid of the ice. I felt like a super hero and was proud that I knew how to get them out successfully... haha... Also I got in a car accident the day it snowed.. My friend Brandon rolled his jeep in the ditch. I was in it, with two of our friends and it was kinda scary. Luckily (acutally its amazing) noone was hurt but I've never been in a car upside down before - and can't really say I wanna do it again.

Welp hope finals are good for people in school and it's almost break time!!

Here's some pics of things going on lately:

Aerosmith Concert

My Staff of RAs I supervise (with Brandon)

Thanksgiving night at a bar on the Plaza in KC - our Cheezy Christmas sweater contest

It is blooowing my mind how fast this semester has gone by. Next week is American Thanksgiving then there are really only 2 weeks of classes left. Holy crap! It is scary. I get to take a few days off and go up to Independence for Thanksgiving to hang with old friends and take part in cheesy christmas sweater parties!

I have been feeling extremely busy lately and I don't think that will stop until the end of the semester. Classes are getting crazy because my professors leave all assignments til the last minute. I hate when I feel more organized than my professors. Shouldn't they have figured out good lesson plans by the time they are qualified to teach masters programs??? jeez.

Yesterday me and six friends took a mini-road trip to Dallas Texas which is four hours away. Why, you ask?? To go to the AEROSMITH CONCERT!!!!! Yep, pretty much amazing. I haven't rocked out that much in awhile! Ha. Good times. My friend EJ ordered the tickets and he made us interview to get our ticket. So I went all out and gave him a road trip resume complete with references and list of road trip experience. As part of the interview we dressed up like 80's rockers for the show and had to make a poster we would take to the concert. Yesterday was the first time I had ever been to Texas, so my poster said: Steven Tyler popped my Texas cherry. ha. it was pretty funny. I got lots of laughs from the crowd around us. Fun times.

I am working on how I can go home for christmas. Right now my funds are not anywhere near enough to pay for a plane ticket.. so I am working on getting some people to go with me so we can road trip it.. but apparently it is snowing like crazy at home, so hopefully that won't be a bad idea. I really want to go home for Christmas, it would be really weird not to be with my family on Christmas day but we'll see....Anyone wanna go to Canada???

Think that is about it for now.

 Well I figure that there is no better way to procrastinate on homework than this.

I have been living in Oklahoma for about 3.5 months now which seems craaazzyy that the time is going by so fast! I really love my job and find myself working in my office in my spare time because I WANT to not because I have to. So that makes me happy !! School is alright too. Some classes are harder than others but nothing I can't handle. Grad school is actually a bit easier than I thought it would be - which is good and bad at the same time.

I have met lots of really fun people. I like all the Grad Assistants I work with and we have a good time hanging out in our "spare" time. My student staff is crazy and I love them! They call me "The Seal Killer" because one time I told them that we wear pants made out of seal fur in Canada to keep warm. I thought they knew I was kidding... they didn't. They even made shirts with seals on them and leave notes on my door and send me SAVE THE SEALS websites.. that's awesome. It was my birthday last weekend and that was a good time going out with friends here. Kinda different being so far away from everyone .. but hey it was fun.

I am also really enjoying being closer to my Graceland crew. I don't have to miss out on everything now just because I am so far away. I get to see people on weekends and breaks and got to go to homecoming at Graceland and I love it. I just got back from two of my friends' wedding and it was beautiful and there were lots of other people there I miss too!! Everyone is getting married - which makes me sort of excited to one day get married and have a big party day and at the same time makes me want to throw up.

So life is good and I like it. Lately I miss being at home and miss my family and stuff there.. but can't have everything right. so this is good for now.

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