Time Flys

It has been two weeks since I have last posted, and so much has happened! College is still pretty awesome for the most part. Life isn't worth it, and I still despise math, but I can get over that. Music hasn't gotten any easier either. It's not that music is hard. I get it theoretically, but learning it hasn't gotten any easier. I just have to push through this semester though. The reason why? I just changed my major. I am no longer an insane music major. I am going to be a web design/development major. I am so stinking excited! I feel like this is the right thing for me to be doing right now. I will probably also get a minor in photography. Because of this major change, there might be a lot of changes on how my blog looks here in these next few years. I am very excited to dive into this field. I am going to miss this beautiful walk to the Snow building (where all my music classes are). I guess My other buildings aren't too far away, and one of them I will probably walk this way to get to it.

Enough of that boring stuff. I promise I have been out doing exciting things too. My roommates and I went to  a church Halloween party Saturday night, and we were dressed pretty crazily. Emily was a minion from Despicable Me, Madeleine was a Redcoat from Pretty Little Liars, and I was a person from the capitol in the Hunger Games.

We only made it to the last few minutes of the party, but it was still fun. Getting ready was probably the best part, in my opinion at least.

I had another exciting adventure involving the lovely bathroom this week. Yup. The same one that I got locked in two weeks ago. This time, the problem is a little different. The shower has been leaking a steady stream of water, so we had the apartment maintenance come and take a look at it. It turned out that it was a miracle our shower had even been working! It was dripping because some piece had been stripped. Because of this, they had to cut a hole in the wall behind the shower to take out the parts and replace them. My bed happens to be right where they needed to cut a hole, so my bed is on the floor next to my roommates right now until the drywall gets put back on. It's no fun. Yeah. That's where my bed was, and hopefully will be back sooner rather than later.





Last Friday night, some awesome people from my English class got together to hang out. They rock. That's really the simplest way to say it. They are the best, and I don't know what I would do without them. We had an awesome night eating chocolate chip pancakes and hanging out doing dumb things. I'm just going to leave it at that. Okay, we watched football, talked, and might have pranked a person or two. Don't worry, it was nothing serious, but it was way too much fun.

You can read a little more about that night on the tab (up at the top of the page) that says "My Dreams" if you really want to. Just for your info, I updated all of the tabs, and the "My Dreams" tab is new. I am going to post about the awesome stuff that I am doing there. It's kind of a life-long bucket list of sorts. I am super excited to start working on that project, and hopefully there will be more to come on that page soon!

College life!

It has been way way way too long since I posted, and so much more has happened than I will even be able to remember. College is great, but it also comes with it's challenges. I would prefer to focus on the good rather than the miserable, but I will still touch on some of that to keep the picture of my college experience fairly accurate.

First off, There have been many fun times between my roommates and I. One time, it was pouring rain on the day that we had a campus wide devotional. We hurried home from the building so we wouldn't get soaking wet. My wonderful friend and awesome roommate Emily is an usher for the weekly devotional, so she had to stay after, and thus got stuck in the worst of the rainstorm. Because of this, she took cover in the apartment of some of her other friends that was closer. She waited there until the storm calmed down, then came back home. While she was gone, I had been telling another roommate of mine, Kami, about working for Tracy Jewelers. This led to us both looking at engagement rings. Emily came home and I said to her rather excitedly, "Emily, you missed it! We were just looking at engagement rings!" She just heard the "engagement" part of it, and automatically assumed that I was engaged. Needless to say, the whole apartment was in tears since we were laughing so hard! There have been several other experiences like that, but I think that one alone perfectly illustrates the mood of the apartment...for the most part that is. I would rather not go into the other side. Let's just leave it at that because that's a whole lot easier.

Schoolwork isn't necessarily harder, but there is a TON of work. I agree fully with this pic that I found online

It's seriously ridiculous. All of us just hope to "defy the laws of physics" although we feel that it is utterly impossible. I know that as I get minimal amounts of sleep, yet still do my very very best to maintain good grades and have a social life, I do end up like quite a bit of a zombie. With me though, this usually results in more giggling with my favorite roommates than anything, which tends to make us stay up even later since we can't stop laughing. There have been far too many funny instances of that to even start listing them off.

Yesterday was an interesting day as well. It started off with an experience that I will never forget. I woke up, and went into the bathroom. I went to unlock the door and open it, and then things got interesting. As I grabbed the doorknob to pull the door open, the knob came off the door. That's right, I was holding the doorknob in my hand, and it wasn't connected to the door. I was locked in the bathroom. I tried using pressure to put the knob back into place so I could forcibly unlock the door and pull it open by grabbing the bottom of the door and pulling it open. This proved to be futile, and I had to come up with another idea. Thankfully at that moment, Kami came by, so I knocked on the door. She had seen my hand at the bottom of the door and wondered what in the world was going on. We ended up getting a screwdriver sent under the door so I could completely remove the door handle and get out of the bathroom. We now have a doorknob sitting on our bathroom counter.  

Being a music major has been stressful as anything gets! I have just about had it! Music is great and everything, but it has been far too frustrating. I have been putting in the extra effort to learn the music correctly, but it has made it so much more difficult as of the past two weeks. My first week learning the song, I was able to learn the sections of the piece perfectly. Since then, I have practiced twice as hard and long as that week, but have accomplished way less. In the hour that I have practiced so far today, I have only been able to learn one more measure. For all you out there that don't know what that is, it's about 3 seconds worth of music when played. This is not fun to handle at all. I will figure something out though.

All in all, life has been super fun, but I'm not sure I will be involved in music on the academic level for much longer.