I've decided since I haven't posted in a while (what's new?) so I decided to post a Molly-esque list style post. Hhaha

Three Things I've Been Listening To Lately:

1. Jenny & Tyler

2. Nickel Creek

3. Regina Spektor

Three Things I've Been Watching Lately:

1. iCarly

2. Wizards of Waverly Place

3. Hannah Montana

The Last Three Books I've Purchased:

1. The Notebook (by Nicholas Sparks)

2. A Walk to Remember (by Nicholas Sparks)

3. The Choice (by... you guessed it... Nicholas Sparks)

Three Things That Are Taking Up Most of My Time:

1. Work (Nanny)

2. Piano

3. Packing/Cleaning

Three Things I Currently Want To Buy:

1. A keyboard (or if anybody has an extra they can let me borrow for a year to keep in my dorm room that would be great! haha)

2. Rain Boots

3. Nice Clothes

Three Things I'm Looking Forward To:

1. Living in Norman

2. Working Out at The Huff

3. Piano Lessons

Three Things I Love:

1. Tea

2. Piano

3. Disney Movies

That's all for now!

I move in 8 days!

San Francisco

Now an update for San Francisco (This will most likely NOT consist of coherent, flowing sentences) -

I was there for three days: Wed, Thurs, Fri.

W and TH had AMAZING weather. It was clear and sunny! No humidity! Not usual for SF.

Friday was San Fran weather again. But definitely not as humid as Houston!

So Wednesday, we got there in the early afternoon. Went to the Exploratorium museum. It's a hands-on science museum. It was really cool. I was really enjoying the  Physics, Audio, and Visual part of the museum. Not so much the Biology part. I discovered I can't hear above about 15000 hz, and I have zero heat in my nose and fingertips. Went to dinner on Pier 39 - ate at Bubba Gump's!! I really want to watch Forrest Gump now.

Thursday: Went to China town, "Where it's all about China and Chinese people" according to a tour guide on a passing duck tour. Molly would've loved it - asians everywhere! Ate at a really nice restaurant. Tried dim sum -YUMMY! Waiter was funny - wouldn't let Morgan order what she wanted because "she would no like." Hahahahaha! Then took a "Mr. Toad Tour" around San Fran for 90 minutes. It was really nice! The driver was HILARIOUS. Saw Meg Ryan's house, Nicholas Cage's house, The Mrs. Doubtfire house, and the Tanner house (from Full House). And some other houses where movies I can't remember because I didn't watch them were filmed. Also saw the Golden Gate up close and personal,  and the bay had about 100 windsurfers I think they were called. Had dinner at a really good italian restaurant. bought a new rain jacket that's offwhite. I LOVE IT!

Friday: Went to the aquarium. Pet a shark, a skate, a starfish, and a sea cucumber. Saw baby octopi (they were ADORABLE!) Went on an hour long cruise tour. Saw Alcatraz and went under the Golden Gate. REALLY windy and cold. Checked out of hotel (btw, we stayed at the Marriot!!! Nicest hotel I've ever stayed in - valet, bellboy, and everything!) Drove to Golden Gate Park, went to the De Young Museum and saw the King Tut exhibit - interesting but disappointing. I wanted to see his coffin. But it wasn't there. But I did see some stuff that was on his body when he was buried, like necklaces, daggers, etc. Went back to Reno.

So that was San Fran in a nutshell! I also knitted a scarf. It's really pretty! Crimson, of course!

Currently listening to: Jenny & Tyler

Currently reading: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince... surprised?

(funny tidbit - when i was typing up "Potter," I accidentally typed "Potty.")

That Post I Promised

Okay, so remember the post that I said I wrote but the internet freaked out? Here it is. Pretend this was written about a week ago.

I know it's been about thirty years since my last post, but I just haven't had the motivation. I figure nobody really reads this, and those who do already know what's going on.

But I'll enlighten you with a little update I guess. Don't get too excited and think this is going to become something I do frequently. ;)

Right now, and for the past week and a half, I've been roaming around Nevada/California.

Just kidding, I haven't been roaming, but I have been in good ole' Nevada and Cali. I have family up here, and we're staying with them.

Last week, we all went to Graeagle, California and went camping! It was so much fun. We came back today. I got really tan (for me anyways) but i think it's going peeling. So sad. Anyways, it was very relaxing. We had about five hammocks set up. And I read a total of four books while I was there. The Giver, At First Sight, The Glass Castle, and Stargirl. All very good. If I had to put them in order, I would probably say At First Sight was my favorite. And then I can't decide between The Giver and The Glass Castle. And then Stargirl was good, just not as good as the others. Thanks Erin and Zach for letting me borrow those! I've been a reading machine the past two weeks; I'll be asking for more when I get home! Haha.

Anyways, there was a beautiful little creek down by the campsite. So we spent quite a bit of time down there. One of the days we took a three hour hike flowing the creek upstream to a set of waterfalls up the mountain! It was absolutely breath-taking. Oh, and, the water was FREEZING! it's snow melted, so I couldn't feel my feet by the end of it (we had to walk through the water most of the time). So it took about 2 hours to get to the waterfall (we did stop for a little lunch/snack). And then we had three choices: go further up the mountain to MORE waterfalls, go back the way we came through the freezing water, or climb up this really steep hill through the forest until we got to a road that we could walk on to get to camp. My cousin, Bobby (he's about 30), Garrett, Morgan, and the "neighbor" kid Cameron decided to continue up the mountain. So I was stuck with the others and had to do what they wanted to do. So Aunt Julie, Mom, Bre (Bobby's fiance), my cousins Brooke and Molly, and "neighbor" girl Rachel, and I decided to brave it through the forest and find the road. Basically, it was so steep in some spots that we had to be on all fours. And then other times it was really flat and we had to walk through weeds and fallen trees. And then Mom, Bre, and I got separated from the rest of the group. They continued straight while we decided to take a little path. Eventually, we saw the road. But it was at about an 80-85 degree incline about maybe 30 yards up. And not only that, but it was all rocks. So we climbed up it. I rock-climbed in the wilderness! No harness, nothing. If I put any weight on the little rocks, they would tumble down. So I had to STREEETTTCCCHHH to get to the big rocks. If the adrenaline wasn't pumping so hard, I probably would've broken down crying saying "I just can't do it!" like I did when I fell at the very top of the mountain skiing in April. It was probably the most exciting thing I've ever done. While I was balancing on the rocks waiting for Mom to climb up so I had room to move, I was thinking "If I fall and tumble down this hill thing filled with sharp rocks and bushes, will my body immediately black out so that I'm not awake when I feel the pain? Or will I stay conscious and be able to remember it - if I live?" Well, I didn't get to find out. Hahahah

That was the most exciting thing that happened all week.

Oh, and the fireworks show. The fireworks were so big and close to us that when they popped off, the BOOM rattled your bones. It was amazing.

YAY ROOMMATE!

I KNOW WHO MY ROOMMATE IS!!!

And I'm really excited. I found out her name a few weeks ago, and I sent her this freakishly long email about myself. Well she didn't respond until yesterday or so. So for a few weeks, I was getting really anxious thinking she didn't exist. But she finally emailed me back with information about herself and I am so excited to live with her!

Her name is Amy, she lives in the Dallas area. She's a Christian, she's wanted to go to OU pretty much her whole life, she's organized but not always tidy, her grandparents live really close to campus and we can eat there if we want, she's athletic and likes to work out to a program called "Turbo Jams." I think we're going to get along really well! She seems extremely nice. I'm so excited!!! OH and she's an Industrial Engineering major.

And she might be coming down to Kingwood at some point, so we might be able to meet then! Otherwise, I guess we'll wait until she moves in! (I move in three days before her).

I'm so excited. I'm not expecting to become bestest of friends with her, but I hope we at least get along. Which I think we will.

I'm so excited! I know I've said that a billion times already, but I am!!

Just so those of you who are still checking my blog in hopes of an update know, yesterday I typed up this really long update on my vacation that I've been on (Nevada and California) on my MacBook. I wasn't even done yet. And then the internet went out. But luckily, I copied and pasted it to a Word (actually it was TextEdit) document and saved it. But UNluckily, I'm on a different computer right now. So I don't have it. And there is no way I'm typing it all up again. So you're in for a treat until I decide to get on my laptop: A list of little updates!

• I graduated Summa Cum Laude on June 6, 2009!
• I've had three "Graduation Celebrations." I feel spoiled : One with friends, one with family (and those I consider family) in Houston, and one with family in Nevada. Lots of cake, lots of fun, and best of all, lots of money ;) Haha just kidding. Not really
• I started my nanny job. Best paying job I've ever had. And very relaxing. I read three somewhat thick books in a week : My Sister's Keepers, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, and Thr3e. All very good.
• I'm still cow-ing at Chick-Fil-A. I'll miss that job when I move. And since I'm on vacation until Saturday, I'm missing "Cow Appreciation Day" !!! I'm so sad :(
• Jon's living in Minden, Louisiana for the summer. So although I thought the long distance part of the relationship would come to a close come summer, we're still a good 4 to 5 hours apart. But that's okay. He's come home about five weekends since he got out of school.
• I found out my roommate for college next year! Her name is Amy Leonard. And I know nothing about her except for her name and her ou.edu email address. I sent her a very long email about a week ago, and she still hasn't responded. I wonder if she's even going to OU. Jon had a roommate and everything at A&M even after he told them multiple times he's not attending A&M. I bet I have a roommate at LSU, because they keep sending me junk saying "We're so excited you're going to be a Tiger!" And I've told them MULTIPLE times I'm not attending there. Oh well. Maybe I'll have a room to myself?
• About two weeks ago I left for vacation with my family to Reno, Nevada. I have family here. We hung out for the first week, and the second week we went camping in Graeagle, California. It was amazing. I'll give more details on that when I get on my MacBook, since it's already typed up and all.
• Tomorrow we leave for San Francisco for three days. I'm excited!
• I registered to "audition" for the Pride of Oklahoma (the marching band) on Synthesizer. I'm getting pretty nervous about being the synth player. I feel like I'm going to let everyone down and I'm starting to feel the weight of the burden that's been placed on my shoulders. I hope I don't break down.
• I got a Twitter account. twitter.com/taylorconcialdi I'm not sure how often I'll use it. It's seems pretty stupid. But I'm sure I though facebook was stupid at first, too. Send a request to follow me :) (The only reason I put it on private was within a few days some creepos started following me and I had to block them. I figured I'd just put it on private.)

I think that's about all.
You're Welcome. :)

God Is So Good

WARNING: this post might seem like I'm trying to show off or "toot my own horn" (bahahahha that phrase always cracks me up!), but it is not.

As many of you know, one of the top things I've been praying about is scholarships for school at OU next year. It's basically been part of my prayer requests since well.. the beginning of this school year. And I just want to keep ya'll updated on how God has been answering my prayers.

• When I got accepted to OU, I received an automatic $14,000 scholarship that's divided among four years. So that's $3,500 a year, or $1,750 a semester.
  
• In the middle of March, I received $28,000 from the School of Music to be divided among four years. $7,000 a year, or $3,500 a semester.
• Earlier this week (I think it was Tuesday?) I received  from Alpha State, Mu Phi Chapter Delta Kappa Gamma Society International (what a name, right?)  a one-time $750 scholarship for next fall. 
• And today, I was notified that I will be receiving $16,000 divided over four years from Houston Endowment Inc. for the Jesse Jones scholarship. So that's $4,000 a year, or $2,000 a semester.

So, next semester, as of now, I will NOT have to pay $8,000 of the total! :D

Or, if you want to look at per year, I will have $15,250 in scholarship money!

God is so good.

An Important Announcement

As of March 25, 2009 at 10:31 pm

I am officially going to the University of Oklahoma!!!

My parents have told me that we can afford OU (as long as I keep getting scholarships) and that I can now consider myself a Sooner!!! I'm so excited!!

Norman, Oklahoma here I come!!

10 Things I've Learned

Here are some things that I've learned about myself this year:

1. I'm too hard on myself. Especially concerning my bassoon playing.

2. I doubt. Everything. It's unhealthy, because I don't research to prove myself wrong. I just wallow.

3. I think too much. And usually pessimistically. One little negative thought turns into an ocean of misery.

4. I cannot write. I'm really good at getting the ideas out (once I have them) but forming coherent, flowing sentences is not my strong suit.

5. I take a lot of time to figure out the right words to say. Sometimes too much time.

6. There are very few people that I fully trust. And it is very easy to break my trust. I wish it wasn't that way.

7. I feel other people's emotions. I cry when you're sad, I rejoice when you're happy. Although sometimes it's a burden, it truly is a blessing and a gift. It helps me to be more sensitive.

8. I really like the color red. But it's not my favorite color.

9. Things have always come very easily to me. College is going to kick my butt next year.

10. I am not worthy or deserving of God's love in the least bit. But somehow, and I will always be grateful for this, His unconditional love is always there.

the future holds so much change.

i'm excited and scared.

I am very excited about my summer job!

I'll be watching 2 boys who are going into the seventh grade. I met them and their parents yesterday. I can't wait! It should be a very interesting, no-stress, awesome job! One of the boys, Ryan I think his name is, plays saxophone. And the other one, Chris, plays... you guessed it... BASSOON! I literally jumped out of my chair with excitement when he told me that. Anyways, I'm really excited about it. All the details aren't worked out yet, but it's going to be really fun. I can tell me and "the boys" are going to be great friends. They're a little bit older than I was imagining, but you know, that just means I'm "babysitting" less and more just making sure nobody cuts his arm off. Oh, and their houses are REALLY nice. And one of them has a pool. So maybe I'll find my hidden love for water again. But probably not.

I knwo I've said this a billion times, but I'm really excited.  This is going to be something totally new for me AND the boys and their parents. They're used to being in daycare during the summer.

I learned how to cook scrambled eggs this morning! They weren't that good, but it's a work in progress.

I've also decided I want to have a pet that most people don't have. Like a pig or something. At some point in my life, I WILL have a pig... or something.

That's all for now.

Alright, so in case you can't tell, I'm trying to keep up with my blog a little bit more often.  I just still haven't decided if I really want to update about my life or what on here. I wish I was the type of person that could post deep, philosophical epiphanies or something, but I'm not. I honestly don't think I'm that deep of a person and I haven't figured out if that's a good thing or a bad thing. Probably a little bit of both. So for now, I'll just update about the last few days of my life. This is going to end up being kind of long so I'll paraphrase each paragraph now, and you can choose what you want to read.

Exciting: Summer job

Funny: Sleep conversations

Exciting: LSU auditions

In the last post I mentioned a possible summer job. I didn't want to go into too much detail until it was final because I tend to spread the news of things too early and I end up disappointing myself even more when it doesn't happen. But I'll go into detail now :) Last week I started REALLY praying about a summer job opportunity. And I definitely was NOT expecting finding a job this early. But I did. At ABS, I was just sitting there talking to Lauren and Kristina and I heard Mrs. Angie say "Is anybody looking for a summer job?" and I immediately said "I am!" So long story short, Mr. Dave's boss is looking for kind of a "nanny" to look after two sixth grade boys this summer from 7:30-4:30. This is exactly the kind of job I had in mind! Well, not EXACTLY. I was envisioning an office just filing things, but this is better. Because now I can get pretty nice pay during the day, and also do the cow in the evening! I was waiting for Mr. Dave to email me with her information, but Mrs. Angie said that he already talked to his boss about it and she's really excited about me! I can't wait! It'll be nice to have some extra money this summer. Most of it will probably go into savings/thing I'll need for college. I think I'm going to start building the list of things I'll need now. Especially clothes. I borrow a lot of clothes from Mom and Morgan. Oh, btw, today is Morgan's birthday! She's 16! Scary! I knit her a scarf for her gift, but I lost one of my knitting needles and now I can't finish. :( I hope I find it soon. I was planning on knitting a lot on the way to Oklahoma. Maybe I'll go and buy a different size and toy around with those for a little while. We'll see. This ended up being a random train of thought. Oh well.

Friday night I left for Louisiana with my mom and we stopped at our really close family friend's house and stayed with her. Her and my mom are the very best of friends, so it's always awesome to just sit and listen to them talk like old friends. It makes me happy that Mom's happy when she's with her friends like Mindy and Kim. Anyways, so I went to bed at about 10:30. So I called Jon before I fell asleep, but he was in a movie and so he said he'd call me back. So I fell asleep. Around 3:00am I woke up again on my own because Jon hadn't called me back yet (or so I thought). I also have a rough night's sleep when Jon says he'll call and he doesn't. I worry that something happened to him. Anyways, so I grabbed my phone to see if maybe I had slept through it ringing (I had put it next to my pillow so I could feel it vibrate rather than putting it on the table next to me so I could hear it vibrate). But no missed call. So I was starting to get upset and I thought about calling him to make sure everything was okay. But I decided to check my Call Log before I called him at 3 in the morning and woke him up. Good thing I did, because he HAD called me at midnight. But I didn't sleep through the ring, I slept through the conversation!!! We had a 2 minute long conversation and I was sleep-talking the whole time. I didn't remember even waking up and answering the phone. I was kind of confused at 3am, but when I woke up six hours later, I realized I had been talking in my sleep. I've never done that before. Well, talking on the phone in my sleep. I've woken myself up from talking in my sleep. Hahahahah. I thought it was hilarious though.

Anyways, so the reason I was going up to Louisiana was for my School of Music audition. Basically, it went really really well. The bassoon professor REALLY liked me and he basically told me that I would get a full ride if I went there. Even though that's REALLY exciting, it makes me nervous and freak out kind of. I REALLY REALLY don't want to go to LSU. I mean, it wouldn't be that bad considering I wouldn't have to pay, but I just don't feel like that's where I belong. I just wouldn't be comfortable there. Yesterday on my way home from work I started crying and freaking out thinking about going to LSU. And everytime I think about it, I can feel my stress level rising and it's so hard to handle. So just pray that my OU audition will go that well. And for my nerves. sigh.

Everytime I work, there's always at least one little kid that's either a little bit afraid of me or one that absolutely loves me. And they're accompanied by his/her mother. And it always makes me really excited about being a mom someday. The love she shows to her child is just overwhelmingly amazing. I wish I could explain the way this one mother talks to her son. It's the cutest, sweetest thing I've ever seen. You can tell she's a good mom. And they come at least twice a month. I want to be just like her someday. I don't know who she is, but she's my role model. I hope I'll be a good, loving, encouraging mother.

Anyways, I think I've overwhelmed you enough for one day.

Today has been a very exciting day! And so much has gone on this week. It's crazy. I can go into more detail about everything later, but here's a brief overview.

My LSU auditions are this Saturday. And my OU auditions are Monday the 16th. I'm really nervous. But I've been emailing people at the OU School of Music a ton asking questions and stuff to get my name in the system. Hopefully that means I'll be more recognizable and get more money? We'll see.

OU loves me. Love = Money. At least that's how it should go down in my book. Because I really need scholarships.

I went to Calculus tutoring today and I finally understand what we've been learning this week. It is such a great feeling. I love it.

POSSIBLE summer job! It's perfect. I really hope it all works out. I'm definitely going to go into more detail about this later. I just don't want to act like I got it in the bag and then woops! no more job. :(

I've gotten a lot of knitting done this week. I'm excited.

Jon and I kind of had a rough last few days. Mostly yesterday. Miscommunication, misinterpretation. All that jazz that happens when you live a billion miles apart. BUT we talked it out and everything is up to snuff! I really hate it when we aren't on the same page. But luckily, we're both patient enough and understanding enough to let the little things go and work through the big things. I'm so lucky to have in my life.

And on a bigger note, I've begun to realize how my past has shaped me into the person I am today. And I'm finally starting embrace it and accept that it's a part of me.

I feel great.

God is good.

My letter jacket tail is true. "GOD PROVIDES"

Who's Got Talent?

i've forgotten how much i love performing.

last night was the "Who's Got Talent?" Show at Cy-Fair. I was in it, playing piano and singing. I was EXTREMELY nervous before hand, but like always, once I was put in the spotlight, all nervousness vanished. I love performing. So so so so much. It really makes me miss all of the things I used to do that would put me on a stage. Piano lessons and dance recitals, mostly. I love just getting up and being the center of attention for just that one moment and not have to worry about feeling conceited. I just get up and do my best. And afterwards, everyone's always so encouraging. Man, I miss it so much.

Most of my friends at school don't read this blog, but if you happen to read it today, thanks so much for coming to the talent show if you came! And thanks for the billions of hugs from everybody!

After I performed, I went into the audience during intermission and all of my band friends were sitting by the door and they saw me and ALL of them got up and came and gave me a hug and told me how good I was. Which was extremely encouraging because that was teh first time most people at school had ever heard me sing. I received a lot of comments that were along the lines of "OH MY GOSH I had NO IDEA you had a voice like that!" and "Since when do you sing?!?!" etc. It made me feel really good about myself. And it doesn't even matter that I didn't even place, because I did my best and everybody loved me. Apparently I had a huge "fan base" there. hahaha.

I love my friends.

i don't know what's harder. going two months without seeing jon, or seeing jon everyday for a month and having him leave again.

long distance relationships suck.

bahahahahahah. so i had to work tonight. and i am required to park at the 24 hour fitness across the street to allow more parking spaces for customers. so i'm driving into the parking lot and it is totally PACKED. there were absolutely NO parking spaces. luckily, someone was pulling out as i was pulling in and i snagged a spot where i usually park. i was extremely confused why there were so many cars there. and then i went to work at 5:40. i left early and clocked out at 6:40 because there was absolutely NOBODY at chick-fil-a. i saw a total of three children there and by 6:30 two of them had left and the other was playing in the play place. so i had the option of going home and working on more scholarships (i've been really motivated for scholarships. i'll get to that in a second as soon as i'm done ranting about this) or dancing by myself in a cow costume for an hour and a half longer. i chose the former. so i'm walking across the street to go to my car and leave and the parking lot is STILL packed. and all of the sudden, i realize why. new years' resolutions. everyone wants to get in shape. and i started laughing out loud. i'm making a little bet with myself to see how long it takes for all the hype about staying fit dies down and i can finally find a parking space easily again.

on a different note, SCHOLARSHIPS! i've really been on fire today about scholarships, and hopefully this lasts a while. because last night, as i was laying in bed ATTEMPTING to sleep, i got extremely stressed out. i was just breaking down because i was so uncertain about everything. if i don't get enough scholarship money to go to OU, i'm going to have to go to community college or LSU. and i definitely don't want to do that. i mean, my parents would pay and get loans and stuff so i COULD go where i wanted, but i wouldn't ask that of them. not just so i can become a teacher. and i don't want to come out of college with a bunch of debt. so i was freaking out. and i was just praying and praying about it. and somehow i fell asleep. and so this morning during first period i went to the counselors to give them a counselor report thing for this one scholarship that is due this friday. then during third period, the counselor called me in to ask me a question about the thing, and we talked and she's really nice (she's rooting for the Gators to win the football game on thursday, though. so she's automatically knocked down a few spots on my lists. haha just kidding) and she gave me a few other schloarships to apply for. and one of them is due on wednesday and hopefully not many people will apply for it. and this other one i'm not sure about, but i'll try it anyways. what the heck right? so hopefully i'll just keep finding scholarships to apply for and be diligent about it so i can get some money for college. i can't think of anywhere else i'd rather be than the University of Oklahoma.

oh and since i talked about new years resolutions, here is my list of ongoing goals that i have had for the past about 7 months and i'm just kind of... renewing them and making them a little bit more challenging.

1. i will read my Bible or do some sort of Bible study every day. (i know i will fail at this because i'm human. but it's always a good goal to have!)
2. i will not drink soda for the rest of the year. 2009 will be soda free (over teh summer i decided to go on a soda fast and i just continued it into the school year. but i've been breaking it quite a bit lately and i can definitely tell the effects it's having on me)
3. i will not eat any food after 9:00 pm (once again, something i started at the beginning of the school year and i haven't been very diligent about it lately)
4. i will work on scholarships at least every other day (this one is new)
5. i will not stress out about things that don't matter and i will put complete trust in the Lord and just wait for things to work out in His timing. i will also try my best not to be negative. (i will also fail at this because i'm human and that is my tendency. but i've been making a conscious effort to not be like that and i've been having trouble with that lately)

so there you go. try to keep me accountable, if you will. :)

i'm not a fan of just writing about what i've been doing unless it's something really exciting like my little college road trip, but I guess that's what i'll do..

this break has been WONDERFUL. very unproductive, but absolutely wonderful. I have been so blessed. my family has been acting so civil towards eachother; i thought that was impossible! and i've been able to see jon practically EVERY DAY. that still blows my mind. i'm so used to seeing him for maybe three days at the most, then having to return to our separate states. but for the past three weeks i have been able to see him for at least a few hours or so everyday (minus two). it's so amazing. i miss him so much. but now he's off to miami to play in the drumline for the national championship game. and i'm still stuck here in houston. and he won't be back until a week from today. but when you've gone seven weeks without seeing each other, a week really isn't so bad. pardon my "French," but long distance relationships suck terribly. i advise to avoid it unless you know your relationship has a really firm base and communicating isn't a big issue. although, it seems lately jon and i have more trouble communicating while he's in town than while we're 417 miles away, and that's mostly my fault. but anyways, i'll wrap up this jon rambling. haha. 

the wonderful and talented katie and chris stockwell took my senior photos and they're AMAZING! i absolutely LOVE them. you can look at them on my facebook, but i'll put my favorites on here. jon and my mom also came with us, and it was so much fun. jon was a little bored and probably annoyed that i required him to wake up at 7:15am to do this, but it's okay. he was in some of the pictures and i LOVE them. the "kiss" pictures were awkawrd to do though; i couldn't stop laughing. it was just SO awkward! me and jon aren't into PDA very much, and when katie asked us to kiss for a picture in front of my mom, i just couldn't handle it. i busted out laughing every time we tried. it was funny. but for the most part, it was a great experience and i am so thankful for the stockwells. 

also, i don't know if i ever posted this, but i'm sure everyone knows. i am the cow mascot at chick-fil-a. it was a lot of fun at first. and i mean, it's still fun. it's just becoming more and more of a chore. don't get me wrong, i'm really glad i get paid so much to just run around the store and act goofy with kids. but i only work a few hours each day. i need a job that i can get more hours! but i'll probably wait until summer to do that, since i have to balance band and school AND a job. at least band doesn't interfere with this job. i'm jsut kind of getting tired of it. also, i need to keep this job for at least a few months. my only other job was just a summer job at All About Music, and if all of my jobs only last a few months, that'll look bad. so i'll at least keep this one until may. maybe this summer i'll just rock two jobs, because apparently the cows sometimes go to astros games and such! that would be fun. 

anyways, i have to jet. but that's basically what my Christmas break has been so far. 

maybe i'll let everyone know what my "new years' resolutions" are in another post, although they aren't really new years' resolutions. they're just a list of things i decided to discipline myself on sometime last year, and i wish to continue them. hahaha.

peace out!