what a week!

It's been an intense two days. Classes, interviews, a ton of reading, and a project. I ended up not presenting in class... very thankfully... but wow. it seems like the days are simply too short. Lord, would you mind stretching out the hours?? you know... just a little bit : ) I have SO MUCH TO DO!!!

:P !!! well, I don't believe He's willing to stretch time, but I've definitely had the energy to do it all. I end up crashing at the end of the night, but I've been able to do everything. And despite the physical tiredness, I feel great! I suspect I like being busy : ) I enjoy the feeling of accomplishment.. and I feel there's a little part of me in everything I do.
Speaking of duties... school has a little red flag on it. I'm behind, and I need to get back on track. Reading, mainly. lots of reading. and some memorization.. and a few essays and one big project. Please remind me ... why am I taking so many hours again??? oh yeah. I'm completely insane. maybe I could argue for temporal insanity: I didn't know what I was doing when I enrolled!! lol... innocent as charged... or is it guilty?? well, I did know. perfectly well. so now I gotta keep it up : )

There's lots of things I've been thinking about. the main one being the fact that time is running out. I spent the night last night with Janie. I missed her so much! We have a little to do list, which I will share with you.

Things to do while we can!!

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Janie & Arely's to do list:

(well.. some of them are omitted from this list... due to -*jiji*- eh... some reasons)

Go to the movies

Take a road trip

Scrapbook

Exercise consecutively for 5 days

Go on a double date

Cook something challenging

Round up the *international friends* for one last Hoo-rah!

Take pretend drunk pictures

Go to a casino-Winstar

Cook dinner for our mens-4 course meal

and THE ROADTRIP IS THIS WEEKEND!! I know. I have to study. I will have to get things done this week. I wish coffee still had an effect on me : ) Anybody needs a study buddy???


well... time for Bible Study...
this blog entry will have to be written in several parts... lol.... sorry for the grammatical and spelling horrors-- I mean, errors. I will come back and fix 'em : P

Great weekend : )

Went home this weekend to see my nephew... he is gorgeous... huge and gorgeous : )

Saw my family. They're all doing very well. Mom's recovery is going better than we expected. I am so grateful! They had a missionary group... in the middle of the school year... and I got to see some old family friends. It was a short visit, but I enjoyed it a lot. Being home is always so good! I'm planning to go home right after graduation, I have SO MANY little home improvement proyects!

I didn't sleep much last night. Definitely not more than an hour and a half... so I slept through my last class.

Val has disappeared on me. I'm hopefully going to visit her sometime soon... Janie's mom seems to be doing well... haven't seen Aleks in a while... I think her and Fer have broken up for good.. but well, you never really know. the fraternity is doing well... we're all SO busy. it feels good. we have the stepshow on friday! International night on Saturday. maybe a trip to El Padre Island during spring break... although I think I'll be visiting my grandmother then. lol... unless Dad wants to go see her over the Easter break...
so much to plan...

TO DO LIST: plan out trips, catch up on my reading, go visit the church offices (do some catching up), get the graduation invitations...send them...
SLEEP : ) !!!

XV Formal...

...soooo.... women have a thing about "seeing" guys... Such was the manly discussion between one of my good friend’s boyfriend and some other guy who shall remain unnamed… hehe.. it was great. “My girlfriend always wants to see me” the kid complained… didn’t like him too much. My girl friend wasn’t too happy most of the night… due to the guy’s unbelievable lack of interest… but…… **insert evil-looking face, right here** but you will miss her! I shall get my revenge **muahahahaha** or shall I say **muajajajaja*
Great insight giver, this walk-into-a-guy’s-conversation business…jijiji

Formal was GREAT!! We had so much fun!! We were worried about not having enough space, about the presentations (well.. our worries about that last one were confirmed by me..lol.. trying to go back to the previous PP slide …) but it all went just fine. The only thing that makes me sad is we were all going around like crazy, and forgot to take a chapter picture! Can you believe it?? But oh well, we took God only knows how many pictures of everyone and everyone’s Momma * giggle* -- like Big Vero used to say. And we had fun… we danced and talked and laughed and …ate! Twice! It was lots of fun.

…got surprised with the awards… I think this was Yuritza’s plan. She announced all the wrong people in chapter. Yuritza is so, so amazing. She’s gonna end up Chapter president next year, I tell ya. She’s like, the perfect girl.

I never did go out and find a dress. The pink dress was forbidden… no pink dress to the A-Psi formal. I would have been the center of some crazy mob attack. You either wear the frat’s colors or you wear neutral colors… lol… it’s like being in a gang! Lol. What an awful comparison. I take it back. It’s about respect… like wearing a mini skirt to church. It’s ok to wear it to the beach… just not to church. hehe…better metaphor, I say.

Paul (Omicron chapter): Arely! Hey, como estas? No saludas, niña!
Me: Hey, Paul! I’m doing great… sorry… when did ya get here?
Paul: Just got here. I was gonna say hi, but you were salsa dancing… looking so in love! Thought I’d wait … so is he your boyfriend?
Me: Yeah **big old smile**
Paul: You all look very cute together. Hacen bonita pareja.
Me: *balancing from side to side, my hands behind my back…* hehe… gracias…
Paul: De veras. Se ven muy bonitos.

I know. We’re cute. What can I say? :-P !! Of all the boys in Dallas (lol.. and Kansas and Oklahoma) I found the best one. Jiji… sorry for the rest of the girls :-P !!

Hmm… I should have taken pollito to the formal. You know, moral support. Lol.. he would have had a LOT of fun too… haha.. Janie would have gotten a trip out of it.. hehe… it’s all good… I’m having enough fun imagining it.

Well.. I think I will continue this one sometime later today… I’ve been up for a while, but I think I’m not completely sane yet. Fun times, though. Fun times.

Yes. I like this better.. : ) !!

So colorful.. hehe...

Que Bello!!

Blog's been changed!! (no kidding... you might be thinking... )


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Happy Birthday Misi!!

Misael doesn’t read my blog… but I don’t care…

Feliz Cumpleaños, cara de pato! Te quiero!

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Formal’s tomorrow. No dress yet. The powerpoint will have to wait till tomorrow. I have to write an essay. Had a test on Thursday… it could have gone better. Had an essay due Monday and another two today. I like my professors, though. Really. Chapter was a little discouraging on Thursday. Add to that the fact that I was tired, a bit sad about the test, and a little overwhelmed with work. What a week!

Well… I think I haven’t completely lost it yet. Today it was cold and damp… my experience of the weather was quite unusual today… I thought it was a beautiful day. Perhaps it was the sunshine, or the Boy’s baked cookies, or the really really long prayer I said last night. I’m glad that God can interpret half-muttered words spoken against the pillow! Let’s see… thank God for…

My amazingly fun, crazy family… and for radio stations and coffee shops… and football… my good friends… and their phone calls… and their craziness… and Yuritza’s sense of responsibility… and Thank God for my Boy… and his pasta & tuna… and TV shows.. and blogs… and coffee beans, and cocoa beans… and mailing services… and vanilla, and all those wonderful spices… and thank God for long distance services… and cars …and for whoever invented computers…and photography.. and thank God for my bed, and my fuzzy pillow, and large mirrors… and planes… and all of those wonderful things that make life so crazy and so peaceful… and so amazingly great… so perfectly chaotic… so beautiful and interesting…

I’m going home next week.


Oh……!!!
One last announcement, everyone: Misael is the quarterback of his team! How cool is that??

He tenido una sensación muy extraña últimamente. No me siento ni triste ni contenta. Es una sensación de indiferencia emocional que hace mucho tiempo que no sentía . La única explicación que puedo encontrarle a esto es que estoy en algun tipo de limbo, que he estado esperando a que este semestre acabe y que me he estacionado en esta espera, con los ojos al futuro. Con lo poco que me gusta esperar.
No caí en cuenta hasta hace algunos días, cuando una amiga me llamó para ver si todo estaba bien y preguntar por qué no había llamado en tanto tiempo. Tal vez me esté haciendo daño el no pasar suficiente tiempo con mis amigos. Tal vez simplemente estoy reaccionando al hecho de que ha sido un semestre difícil. Tal vez sea la monotonía la que me esta causando un aburrimiento crónico. Qué se yo. Lo único que he logrado deducir es que tengo que mantenerme aun mas organizada, para poder hacer tiempo para mis amigos. Y para recuperar mi gusto emocional. En poco tiempo tendré que volver a empezar de cero... pero por lo pronto, me gustaría disfrutar lo que tengo.