the grass is greener

yesterday it cooled off a bit and rained. i love it when it rains - i'd much rather have that than snow! when i was coming out of my apartment and heading to class around 5 i noticed the grass was starting to turn green! it's really spring! hooray! although i love spring, i'm not loving school so much. i just want to be done so badly. it's hard to have my peers graduating this year while i still have to wait another full year. that's part of the reason i want to be done, but i also just want to be married and settled in my new apartment and have a vacation. well, sort of - i have to take two correspondence courses during the summer. maybe i'm still in vacation mode from easter and now that i realize i have quite a few projects to do, i'm feeling the pressure. other than my bad attitude towards school i'm doing well. wedding plans are going great. i'm starting to delegate tasks to friends for the big day. it's hard for me to do that since i like to be in control of things most of the time. it will be difficult for me to let go and trust someone to do exactly what i see in my head, but i know it will make the day run very smoothly and be less stressful for me.

Finally Spring

today it got up to 67 degrees! it's about time for weather like this. the important thing is that it looks like it will stay around this temperature for awhile (well in the 50's but that's wonderful). this type of weather always puts me in a better mood and makes me do productive things. i went running, tanning, mailed another batch of wedding invites and will shortly be doing homework. see why i need to live in california? i'll get things done all the time! rachael patterson and i have made a pact to run together on monday, wednesay and friday mornings. i'm really looking forward to it because i need the accountability and i've gotta get in shape and look my best for the wedding. also, when i go running at the beginning of the day i have more energy for the rest of that day. it was also a great day because nick suprised me with a photo album he had made from sony imagestation with our pictures from italy. it was like having a magainze of our trip! and the fact that it was a suprise made it even more special. i love him so much! well no more time for writing in here - i've got productive things to get done :)

Easter

it's that time of year again - chocolate bunnies, cadburry eggs, a big fat ham and mashed potatoes. however, my easters have been a little different since i came to school. i usually love staying around during breaks, but for some reason easter sunday isn't usually one i like here. it gets overlooked by the families that normally take in college students during holidays like thanksgiving and it's not like nick and i will eat an entire ham together so i don't do any cooking. this year was boston market and dawn joined us! for dinner it was subway and two movies in dawn's suite. i'm glad she's been around this vacation especially since i just spent spring break mostly alone. don't get me wrong, the day wasn't horrible, i would have just liked a big meal. it was beautiful outside today and i did some homework in the park, but it was a little windy and since the grass is still brown it wasn't all that i had hoped it would be. tonight when i walked back to my apartment the air had that springy smell and feel to it. i love it! i hope next weekend has beautiful "birthday weather" for me.

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Let's see how this works...

so here I am, joining with the others and their blogs. I had said I didn't want one of these because I was worried I wouldn't keep up with it but I thought I'd give it a try anyway. I make no promises, but perhaps you will be able to hear about my life more frequently than the mass emails I send so rarely anymore. I suppose I should tell you about what happened in my life recently...well this weekend is our easter break and like normal I have stayed at school during the time off. I have high hopes of getting ahead in homework, but we'll see how that actually goes. yesterday I went wedding dress shopping - again. I already have my dress, but after it was altered and I've tried it on a few times it just wasn't doing it for me. I didn't feel grown up and it didn't fit the outdoor wedding. so I took a trip to david's bridal and bought a new one. It is so comfortable (imagine that for a wedding dress) and perfect! It definitely says, "I'm grown up and sexy - look at me come down the isle!". that's what I was going for when I first went shopping. I just pray my original dress will sell for a decent price. folks buy things off eBay like crazy these days. there you have it, my first entry. hopefully a new one comes soon.