THE ANNOUNCEMENT I'VE BEEN WAITING TO MAKE!

Hey Everyone! So I have been waiting to tell you all about my plans for next year, but didn't want to publicly say anything until I knew for sure. Watch this video to find out what I'm talking about. If this is the first you're hearing about it - I'm sorry! I wish I could sit down with everyone that I know individually and tell you the whole story... but I figured that if you had to find out about it online, a video was the most personal way. I'll write more about it later to keep everyone updated! Love you all! PS - I'm graduating from college TOMORROW!

(I made this video on Sunday so its a few days old)

the final finals week

its the day before finals and I'm at starbucks working on papers and other homeworky things. what do i want to be doing right now? finishing my song for my songwriting final... but papers must come first sadly. i will be done with my undergrad college career in 5 days... crazy! i am excited about being done writing papers and random tedious busy work... but i am sad to leave the home i have made for myself over the last 4 years. check back in a week or so for an update on my post-graduation plans. also if you're wondering what this whole twitter thing is on my sidebar over there --> its basically a mini blog that i update pretty frequently. so if you want to know what i'm up to... thats usually more updated than the actual blog is. its filled with what i'm doing, random thoughts, and responses to my friends random thoughts and activities. i hope you are all having a wonderful weekend!
dont forget to enjoy the little blessings in life, such as the dancing trees out your window. love!

Lazy First Day of Spring Break

Spring break is here... finally! Not that it will be much of a break for me but today has been one of the best lazy days ever. I have been hanging out with Faith, helping her set up some website stuff and also doing some of my own. This last week was insane, I felt like a frog jumping from one lily pad to the other, jumping from work to homework and class and back to work. I am going home tomorrow and am finishing up my internship with Radio Shine this week. Then I'll come back and have 3 weeks of classes left, then finals and graduation. I am not quite sure whats next but I'm starting to see God's leading in some directions. I'll write about it soon. I am actually writing this from my phone though a text message but it is kind of slow going, I'm going to go continue my lazy day now.

studying my life away.

study study study
all night long
papers flood the table
books stacked, a ladder to the ceiling
will it ever end
is my motivation wrong
i don’t know if i am able
to stop this groggy study feeling

7.33 down .67 to go

I am in my last semester at APU as an undergraduate student... it is weird. Classes are going pretty well, except for the major senioritis that is kicking into high gear about the same time that midterms and projects are kicking into high gear too... not a good combination.

I turned 22 a few weeks ago which also feels a little weird... 22 is not old by any means but it says “adult” more than 18 or 21 does. Don’t get me wrong, I’m ok with that its just that these past 4 years have flown by and I can’t believe I’m nearing the end of this part of my life.

I was able to go home over the 4-day weekend that happened to fall on Valentine’s Day and Janelle’s birthday... Janelle is 14 going on 25, Justin is driving, has a job and a girlfriend, and Jared is as cool as ever. It is a joy to watch them grow and change as they figure out their own paths and start making life choices but it is also sad in some way, that our collective childhood is also coming to an end.

I have been making (or at least trying to) some important decisions about the next few months and years as I head towards graduation. I am thankful that this semester is lighter than last (it is still crazy, but no all-nighters have been pulled yet) because I cannot imagine doing everything that I did last semester on top of trying to figure out what is next. I have decided, for now, that I am going to be done with school for a while. I was thinking about getting my teaching credential just so that I can have it and have teaching to fall back on if I need to... but I do not really want to teach at this point and getting my credential is a full time thing and I really need to have a job as well. So... I have been working on my resume and am going to start sending it out pretty soon to anything that I can find, preferably related to the music business here in LA. I have a few girlfriends that I am going to get an apartment with in the area which will be nice as I leave a very large community of friends.

12 weeks from now... I will have been in a friend’s wedding, graduated college, gotten my first (off campus) apartment, applied for more jobs that I will probably be able to keep track of, and be starting over in a sense... or rather, starting a new chapter of my life. Its a big black hole of unknown opportunities, people, and places and I’m nervously excited to enter this thing everyone calls the “real world.”