ONE WEEK!!!!

That's right folks, one week until I will be home!  It seems soo crazy that this semester is over and that I will no longer be in San Francisco :(  I am very sad to leave my house, my friends, the program, and San Francisco, but I am excited to go home!  I would love to stay in SF, but I hate this inbetween period of waiting to come home.  I either want to stay or go home now, not just sit around for another week.  I am not a fan of waiting periods such as this.  Knowing that I will be home in one week makes me want to just leave now and start my new gig there.  Since I will not be taking summer school at Westmont anymore, once I get home I have to get a job pronto.  I will be taking one class at Saddleback, but that will be pretty easy.  I opted to not move to Santa Barbara 3 days after I get home.  It was just too much.  I knew that once I got home I would not want to leave again, and it was kind of a waste of money to pay Westmont tuition to take a class I can take at Saddleback for 1/50 of the price.  So I decided to stay home this summer and start working as soon as possible since I have had no income for 4 months and am hurting just a tad bit on the money side of things.  But that will soon be over when I start working 40 hour weeks just like the good ole days.

In other news, Alicia Theule (my sister's husband's brother's wife) just had a new baby a few days ago!  From what I hear, both mother and father and daughter are doing well after a few unplanned complications with the birth.  But little Penelope Jane is doing well now and I'm sure they are having a grand old time with the new addition to their family.  If you want to see pictures, you can go to their page (Casey and Alicia) on the left side of my page.  

Seeing as I am at work currently with a big presentation in an hour and a half, I should probably go and prepare for that.  But I wanted to let you all know that I will be home in only one week, and I will see you all very soon!!  Hope you all have a lovely day and week and I can't wait to reunite with you all and share my stories :)

weekend in santa barbara

So to continue my post from yesterday, I will fill you in on my weekend.  Westmont's spring formal was on Saturday night, so 5 of us rented a car and drove down for the weekend on Friday after work.  It was great to see my friends at the Santa Barbara campus!  Friday night we went into the mountains and had a bonfire with this amazing view!  But typical me faceplanted in the dirt and cut my chin, arm, bruised many areas of my body, and sprained my ankle.  A few of the battle wounds are as follows...

My chin is actually starting to heal, but I feel as the days go by I keep finding more and more bruises.  Apart from my fall, I had a great night.

Saturday was 87 degrees, and so my best friend Megan and I spent a good portion of the day at the beach with a few other friends.  Saturday night was the dance-Megan and I joined one of my roommates, Sarah, and her date Jesse and her brother Matthew for dinner.  Then we went to the dance where we met a few of our friends, and actually didn't do much dancing, thanks to the horrible DJ.  All in all, however, a good night.  From left to right, my roommate Sarah, my good friend Allison, me, and my good friend Kerstin at the dance.  I'm not sure why I have such tall friends...

...And no, that is not chocolate on my face, as a coworker asked me on Monday morning.

Sunday was another 87 or so degrees, so we returned to the beach-played a little volleyball, frolicked on the sand, got a little sunburned (and tan).  We returned back to SF pretty late, but it was an awesome trip.  I just can't believe that I only have 2 MORE WEEKS!!!! AAHHHHHH!  I know I keep saying that, but it's just soooo wiilldddddd!

Well I will most likely see you all very soon when I come home for a few days in May, and if not, I will see you definitely when I come home in June for the summer.  Hope you all are wonderful and I miss you all very very very much!!  

crazyyyy

I apologize deeply for the lack of posts lately, but things have been beyond crazy up here the past few weeks!  Time just started to fly by and suddenly things that "weren't due till the end of the semester" were needing to be done because well, it's now the end of the semester :(  I can't believe it, it has gone so fast, and I don't want to leave!!!!!!  But I have gotten a lot accomplished in the past few weeks, but still have much left to finish in the next 2 weeks.  I am just now finding time to write this on my lunch break at work while devouring a delicious slice of pizza.  Wait, back up.  2 weeks???? I know right, it's ridiculous!  I am done at my internship exactly 2 weeks from today, and done with school 2 weeks from tomorrow, and then I move home in 2 weeks from Thursday.  And while I miss you all very much, I have to say that out of everything I have to do in the next few weeks, moving home will be my least favorite out of them all.  Yes, even below my papers and presentations and other various work.  I absolutely love SF and never want to leave!  I was even looking into transferring to USF or something of the sort, but turns out it's actually more expensive than Westmont, which is beyond ridiculous.  

Besides being upset about leaving SF and my roommates who go to school in Boston that I won't see for a long long time, I have been writing long papers, reading long books, having long talks, and doing just about anything else that takes up a lot of my time.  However, I did just get back from a fantastic road trip to Santa Barbara yesterday.  5 of us girls rented a car and drove to SB on Friday night for Westmont's spring formal dance which was on Saturday night.  It was a blast!  I got to see a lot of my friends that are in SB and hangout with my new friends that I have met this semester.  It was really fun, except for the sprained ankle and broken face (pictures and explanation to follow).  

Since my lunch break is coming to a conclusion, I must get running.  But here is the layout for the next month or so:

• Many papers and such work due in the next 2 weeks
• Moving home May 1
• Move to Santa Barbara for summer school May 4
• Move back home June 6

Yes, the next 1.5 months will be wild, but then I will have a nice relaxing (not really) summer of work.  Yay!  But at least I won't be poor anymore!  Ok gotta run, I'll post pictures later.