Best Friends

Scared/surprised faces. Um... yeah.

This monster ate my roommate :)

I love my friends.

Yeah, we rock!

Sad faces... or extremely distraught faces.

Gangsta Tikla

Cute picture of me and Kathryn

Kathryn trying to make me laugh, so my smile would be more genuine or something

uhhhhh.....I don't really know what this was. Goofy maybe?

Sad (or high) faces. Awwww.

Coming Home

Hannah doing her splits

Hannah rolling out the dough

Angry Sam cooking sausage

Heather and me (my eyes look really weird)

Heather and Sam

The beautiful Leah

Me at Applebee's

Hannah choking her little sister Leah

Our glasses at Applebees as well as Leah and the "gray bunny"

Me fixing the sink... again.

Tikla's Surprise Half Birthday Party

Dani, Kate, and Christine getting the dinner ready before Tikla came home.

It was a surprise party. Do I really need to explain what this picture is?

Tikla and her cake made by Kathryn.

Kate, Dani, and ... possessed Tikla.

Kathryn and I had been planning this since before Christmas break. We thought it would be funny to celebrate Tikla's half birthday since we wouldn't be together for her real birthday. It got pretty crazy too. So here was our story. Christine was having a "recital" that Wednesday, so Tikla wouldn't plan anything that day, and then later we would tell her it was canceled. We started getting everything ready before Tikla got back at a little after seven. Well, Kathryn was running a little late, and so was I. I came back from the Creamery and Kathryn flagged me down to inform me that Tikla was on her way right then. So we bolted into the kitchen, made Dani the official distraction, and started decorating and fixing dinner. I don't know what all happened in Dani's attempt to distract Tikla, but it worked.

Then to get Tikla out of the apartment we asked Julia, our RA, to ask her to come over for any reason she could think of, which ended up being "a problem with the honor code". Poor Tikla. lol. Then Dani ran over to their apartment and told Tikla that something was burning, which is completely possible in our apartment. They came into the kitchen, and Dani yelled, "It's your birthday cake!" It was pretty funny. Needless to say she was pretty surprised, seeing as it wasn't actually her birthday.

Later on we were all talking about things we said and did, and started filling in the puzzle pieces for Tikla, and all of a sudden, she asks Christine why her "recital" was canceled. We all started busting up, and she figured out that that was made up too. It's a good thing that Tikla doesn't think about things like that a lot, or she might have started to wonder why Christine was having a recital when we'd only been in school for a week and a half.

Sorry

Ok. So when I start something new it takes me a really long time to get used to doing it regularly which is why my journal is usually a week's worth of entries every six months or so.
Which is why the last time I wrote was in November. Yeah, sorry 'bout that.

It's a new semester (not some-esther), and so my schedule is completely different now. I like it though. I get to start tutoring for 1st-3rd grade in a week, and I AM SO EXCITED! I haven't been around little kids for awhile, and I loved being with my (yes they were mine) fourth, sixth, and eighth graders. Unfortuately now they are my fifth, eighth, and nineth graders.

I'm majoring in Psychology now. I discovered two things last semester: I can actually write and I love psychology. So now, since I actually think I'm capable, I want to be a child psychologist like I did in middle school. I loved my psychologist in seventh grade, and I've always wanted to be someone like her. Her name was Mrs. Kneibert. She helped me through a lot of stuff I was going through. Once I missed a session, and she checked me out of school and took me to Wendy's. She was really cool.

That's not everything from last semester and this one, but those are the major things.

And I am still convinced that referring only has two r's. It looks weird with three.

Final Analysis

People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfishness, and
ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and true
enemies;
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone may destroy overnight;
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is all between you and God.
It was never between you and them anyway.

Mother Theresa of Calcutta

To not have regrets

Today in Intro to Family Processes we talked about being over committed. He had us read this poem, and now I am determined that I will never have to say these things.

If I had my life to live over, I would have talked less and listened more.
I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained and the sofa faded.
I would have eaten the popcorn in the 'good' living room and worried much less about the dirt when someone wanted to light a fire in the fireplace.
I would have taken the time to listen to my grandfather ramble about his youth.
I would never have insisted the car windows be rolled up on a summer day because my hair had just been teased and sprayed.
I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose before it melted in storage.
I would have sat on the lawn with my children and not worried about grass stains.
I would have cried and laughed less while watching television-and more while watching life.
I would have shared more of the responsibility carried by my husband.
I would have gone to bed when I was sick instead of pretending the earth would go into a holding pattern if I weren't there for the day.
I would never have bought anything just because it was practical, wouldn't show soil or was guaranteed to last a lifetime.
Instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I'd have cherished every moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.
When my kids kissed me impetuously, I would never have said, "Later. Now go get washed up for dinner."
There would have been more "I love you's".. More "I'm sorrys" ...
But mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute... look at it and really see it... live it... and never give it back.

Erma Bombeck

Well. . .

I have absolutely nothing to say for my first post, so I think I'm just going to put a lot a cool quotes.

My favorite:

God, Grant me
The Serenity
to accept the things I cannot change
The Courage
to change the things I can, and
The Wisdom
to know the difference.

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right. . . .
Martin Luther

When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
Helen Keller

The great blessing of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.
Seneca

Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.
Thomas Fuller

I recommend you take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.
Earl of Chesterfield

Just some random quotes I found.