Snowy weather...

I have a little time to spare, so I thought I'd get caught up. I don't really have any fanciful notions about posting every day or anything, but I figure the more I post the more I make some people (I'm talking to YOU, Mom!) happy.

Because I'm not on the meal plan, this is a view I see very often as I walk to Worner for dinner at night. The sun goes down behind the mountains around five, so it's always dark on my walk to dinner. And as much as the food in Rastall isn't amazing, they do have really yummy rolls for their "sliders". Instead of making full-size burgers and grilled chicken sandwiches, they now have a "slider bar" every day. I think it's pretty awesome. (Sorry about the crappy cell phone picture, I didn't have my real camera with me.) (January 27)
And this is what I woke up to this morning. It snowed over night and continued snowing off and on all day. It was very cold, as I'm sure you can imagine. This picture was taken from the steps of Palmer Hall as I left class around 12:00 pm. (January 28)

I met with the director of Off-Campus Studies today just after lunch. She was super enthusiatic about the Chicago program and about me going in my senior year. She said she thinks that is the best time to go because after spending so much time learning in the classroom you get to apply your knowledge in a real life setting. She was also very excited about the fact that I want to be a midwife, and gave me a lot of suggestions on things to read and places to check out to help with my Capstone Project for my major. Basically she was just amazing and so helpful. It makes me even more excited about everything!

Fuzzy headed...

I have been busy lately, but my real reason for not posting sooner? I'm lazy. I just never want to take the time to actually post. I have been taking my P365 photos, though.

But, finally, here is the promised vegetable photo!

Right now, these may be my favorite Christmas present. (Or second favorite, actually. For a minute there I forgot about the computer. Oops.) But I'm constantly wearing my cozy new slippers because it has been so cold in my room!

And yep, I'm crocheting on a regular basis again. (Which you could probably tell by the cool Etsy sidebar I put up. Neat, huh?)

A little winter weather photo. I didn't realize until after the fact that the camera on my phone had a big smudge over it. Oh well.

More crocheting. I feel like this little puppy need a nose and mouth, but I can't decide what color they should be.

And I'm back to doing my Wii workouts! (Finally.) I'm not ashamed to say they're kicking my butt, either. I've been crazy sore from all the squats and lunges and, worst of all, inline skating. You crouch down and hold in a squatting position until a jump comes, and then you jump up, landing back in a squat. Over and over again. I hate it. But the rest of the routine is usually fun!

And a little twist on my usual crocheting- I've been using a bunch of free patterns I found. The only problem is that they're Japanese patterns. Written in Japanese. Which is where the fuzzy headedness comes in. However, they have charts with symbols, and once you memorize the symbols, it's not too difficult to translate. I've just been writing the patterns out in my pattern journal as I translate them. They're SO CUTE though, so I'll go through the effort it takes to get them. (I did add the heart in on this one. He was supposed to be holding a carrot.)

So that's basically all I've been doing. Except, you know, the super exciting news I have only told a few people. I'm applying for a domestic study abroad program (What an oxy-moron, huh?) in Chicago for this coming fall semester. It's an Urban Studies program and it just looks AMAZING. You can check it out at www.acm.edu/chicago. I really hope I get in, and if I do, I'll be a Southwest Studies major and an Urban Studies minor. Plus I'll spend four months living in Chicago. The application is due on Feb 10 on campus and March 15 at the ACM office, so I won't know for a while, but wish me luck now, anyways, if you'd like!

Settling in...

It's good to be back on campus. Well, kind of. Of course I miss everyone at home, but it's good to get back into a more organized, scheduled pattern of life. Not as much fun, definitely, but less exhausting! So here are my P365 photos since my last post.

January 12- Rob and I celebrated his cousin Juanio's birthday with Juanio and his family and Pancho Villa. (Not a good idea, let me tell you. Almost everyone who drank it got sick, with the exception of me and Juanio's brother Justin.)


January 13- I ate this delicious, ginormous candy bar. (Ok, I forgot to take a picture until really late, and this is all I could come up with!)


January 14- Rob and I ate at this really yummy and unique restaurant in San Antonio.

January 15- Going away party at the Banda house.

January 16- Frozen pizza party at Mom and Dad's house.

January 17- My flight got delayed and I missed my connecting flight in Dallas. I had to take a later flight and I finally got to my room around 5 pm.

January 18- First day of class! I decided to get out of Foundations of Nonviolence and into State and Local Government.

January 19- Before class every morning we are required to read the New York Times. Luckily they have free copies in the building my class is in.

So that's basically how my life has been. I'm all unpacked and have started crocheting again because I'm in need of money. I've decided not to stress over getting off the meal plan and just stay on, which has prompted something crazy. Something you might not believe. I'm eating vegetables. Really, between yesterday and today I've had 9.5 servings of fruits and veggies. And only 3 of those were fruits! I've discovered that fresh baby spinach has no taste. And broccoli isn't THE most disgusting thing in the world. And I really do like carrots.

See? I told you that you wouldn't believe me. Just wait until tomorrow's photo of the day. I'll show you.

A new month...

(And somehow I completely skipped December!)

A new month, a new year, a new decade. A time for new beginnings and great hopes. Here's mine.

Complete all aspects of P365.

What is P365? Well, it's a goal to take at least one picture every day, then scrap a layout of those pictures every week, so that at the end of this year I'll have 52 layouts that detail how my year was spent. I realize that interesting pictures will be more difficult to find once I return to school, but that just means I'll have to be more creative!

And since I have a little bit of time and a reliable internet connection today, here are my first eleven pictures of the year, beginning with January 1st, 2010.