A Brief Recap

I'm back in Fredericksburg! And I'm super excited to be here.

In the past two weeks, quite a few things have taken place.

First, I went to Grandma's house, just in time to see all the beautiful azelas in bloom! 

(You can click on the pictures to make them bigger if you so desire)

More pictures of Grandmas! It was so beautiful, I took lots of flower pictures. My Grandfather left a wonderful legacy in his gardens. 

Then I got to spend a day at Pittsburgh with my favorite brother. We walked around, went in some stores, heard some horrible Steeler chants, ate loads of carbs at the Spaghetti Warehouse.... 

Then, the next day, Eric ran in the Pittsburgh Marathon! His time was sub 4 hours -- SO FAST! I'm so proud of him.  

I made this applesauce cake while I was home. I read this good book (only good, cause the plot was terrible, but the writing was fantastic, which is all I really care about in the end), and I worked on some stuff, including doing the weeding in the gardens and helping my mom build the wall to surround our vegetable gardens. I haven't gotten to plant anything except some basil and tomatoes my Uncle grew from seeds yet though, because we've been so busy with construction! 

Then I got packed... (yup, looks like I got everything I'll be needing in one suitcase there....)

I also made a strawberry and rhubarb pie to take with me for my new housemates! I made one for home too, which disappeared in under 2 days. This one kind of came out ugly looking, but everyone knows its not the looks that people eat pie for.

And I've moved in! My room is pretty tiny, but I'm used to that. I think it's the same size as my room at home in Vienna, so I feel right at home! 

What a good day!

I got my grades back today, my best friend comes home, and Pippins eye has some movement back!!

I'm so glad its summer break,  even though its almost over for me. I start class on the 21st of May, so I have a little over a week before I go back to Fredericksburg to live with friends.

Also, I'm really glad I don't have a phone. I realize how often I checked it for the time, so now I'm constantly wondering what time it is, but it doesn't even matter... because I'm on break.

Writing

Me: I think I'm going to write a book and try and get it published. I just want it to be really good.
Mike: No one's a really good writer on their first book.
Me: Thats not true- some authors get famous right away, like J.K.Rowling.. or Stephanie Meyer.
Mike: ... like I said.....

Pandora and I are bros.

So Pandora just played two of my favorite songs back to back. Life right now is so brilliant.
Its the little things.

Two favorite study songs:
1. Ebla by E.S. Posthumus
2. Fortune Days by Glitch Mob

I only have two exams left, and I feel good about both of them. Tomorrow, I'm going to spend a majority of the day reviewing for my soil's exam, and then I'm going to try to go for a nice long walk. Hopefully, my legs and hip will behave properly and allow me to walk like a normal person.

My legs have been hilarious lately. It's like they don't know what to do with themselves when I don't take them on runs. Its like I have two hyperactive dogs attached to my legs. Anyway I end up sitting they are like, nope don't want to sit that way, why don't we go all over the place? I'll be in the middle of studying and realize that I'm half standing with my legs in some weirdo yoga pose.

I'm excited to see Eric run this weekend! Go brother go! You run faster than Oprah!!!!

Future Julie's House

Stairs AND a bookcase???? How cool is that. 

Normal kids watch tv and stuff to procrastinate... I look at interior design blogs.

An Itty-Bitty Freak Out

So, this is the last week of classes before we start exams. Luckily, today I finished with all the prep work I needed to do for my Soil Science presentation, which is this Thursday. I know some people in the class haven't even begun their research, so I feel good about that. I haven't started studying really, but I don't have class tomorrow morning, so I'll probably do some of it then. I'm also not so sure about how I'm going to present my topic- I'll be going over that a few times tomorrow too.

 My Environmental Regulations teacher has suddenly decided to make plenty of things due, on top of our final poster presentation, which is, of course, a group project. I hate group projects, have I ever mentioned that?

 My Linguistics professor is off in the cosmos or something, who knows what's actually going on there.

 And then my Global Cities literature professor gave us our take home portion of the exam today in class to finish next Friday, which I'm going to start on soon.

 To top it all off, my Moder British Literature professor proclaimed that she has graded everything, however, she has only graded 8 of the 10 response papers I turned in, so I don't know whats going on there. Also, she gave me a B on my midterm paper, saying she would have liked to see something that wasn't even in my thesis, so I don't know how she could have taken off points for that, but she did.

 Also, I have no meals left, only about $150 left in flex. If each meal is about $7-10, then I only get to eat once a day, unless I steal food from Seaco/make Mike feed me.

 On the plus side, last weekend was SO MUCH FUN. And I'm all caught up on Game Of Thrones, so life is good.

Phew, it all makes sense now

So, I still havent decided if I want to dress up as a dwarf, or if I want to be a Hobbit. Perks of being a dwarf: I get to go "its true you dont see many dwarf women. But were so alike in voice and appearance, that we are often mistaken for dwarf men!", at which Christine can follow me around, and say, "Its the beards" or...

But, if I go as a Hobbit, then I have an excuse to go around Barefoot!! EITHER ONE IS SO BRILLIANT. I woke up this Morning with THIS in my head... I had such a hard time at breakfast trying to explain to Mike what I was talking about..... Time to write an essay!!!!!!!!!!!! Good times.