Day 2 of Duty

Best part: Walking past one of the Men's Basketball apartments and watching them playing DDR in their living room.

Things I Love About Christmas Part One

1. My father, who constantly whistles Carol Of The Bells
2. Riding around in the Kaiser Limo
3. Christmas Eve ZUMBA
4. Presents. Duh.
5. Not fighting with my brother.
6. Spending lots of time with baby Zeke.
7. Grocery shopping with my parents on the 23rd so we can be prepared for the big dinner we host on the 24th!
8. Making one heck of a lasagna and then dropping plates off at my friends' houses.
9. Chai lattes with my Dad while Mom drags us around an antique store.
10. Terribly wrapping all of my Mom's gifts.

Rachel Berry and Brittney S. Pierce are faking it until they make it!

Betherly is officially our celebrity couple name.... BECAUSE WE'RE FAMOUS!

Totes just sang in front of our church in the Christmas Celebration Choir. One service down, two more to go.


We're already signing autographs. ;)

Moooos-lum.

Is this time even real? Seriously, Bethy and I have been up since 5:00am.... well, that's when our alarm went off. It was more like 5:30am. But at least we had a great wake up present, BABY ZEKE! He was laying on the couch when we finally dragged our exhausted behinds out of bed at that foul time of day.

We had to be up to do our first Muslim prayer...

See? Proof. 

Finals

Two down, three to go. Including one in less than 6 hours and one that still needs to be written. I was trying to work on that one when I started writing this. Procrastination at its finest. I'm exhausted and discouraged and frustrated and irritated and I just want to scream. That was a terrible sentence; my apologies. I need to get back to my essay. There really was no point to this. Again, my apologies.

Also, Kim. Stop reading my blog.

Kim

don't read my blog.

Firecracker

According to Wikipedia, a firecracker is a small explosive device primarily designed to produce a large amount of noise, especially in the form of a loud bang; any visual effect is incidental to this goal. They have fuses, and are wrapped in a heavy paper casing to contain the explosive compound. 


With the exception of the word "small", I am a firecracker. But not in the good Josh Turner country song way, more along the lines of a person with a short fuse who tends to explode once in comes in contact with the smallest flame.


I wish I didn't get irritated so easily, especially when it comes to my friends. I just need to realize that the world doesn't revolve around me and sometimes plans change. I also need to realize when to turn off my phone and ignore the world. 


So that is what I'm doing. My Facebook password has been changed and a small white lie was told in my final status. I'm hoping it means people won't try to contact me. Yes, I'm shutting everyone out, but I've found that if I do that, then no one can hurt me. Let's hope it works. 

Dead Week

I just had two of the most terrifying dreams ever. Why my brain is so violent, I don't know, but it truly is frightening to think that I could dream such violence. I blame Moulin Rouge. I would really like to go back to sleep, but for the first time in my life, I'm afraid to close my eyes.

In the past 36 hours, I have slept for 28 of them. I don't know if I am truly this tired or if my body is preparing itself for the hell week that is about to come to fruition. I missed church, I didn't get my laundry done, nor did I do any of the school work I was trying to get a head start on. Productivity is definitely the bane of my existence. This is the week when I need to be the most productive. I have two final papers to write plus one to make corrections on and re-submit. I'm hoping I can finish all three today and head straight into making the study guides for my four final exams. That's my goal.... Let's see if I can actually attain it.

Dying Week

Dying week is officially over! This has definitely been one of my busiest weeks so far this semester, but it's over and only one all nighter had to be pulled! It was actually pretty fun too because my friend Mikel stayed up with me while we worked on essays that either had to be due the following morning (Mikel) or were due two days prior (me).  Next week is dead week and all I have left to due are study guides for my four finals and one take home essay. It's going to a hardcore study week because all of my finals are worth at least 20% of my grade, which will definitely make or break my semester. 

Because I've been working on so much homework this week, I haven't really had any brain busting discoveries to share. So this will just have to be one of those mundane life posts that don't really matter to anyone but me!