crazy
so in a little less than a week i will be turning 21. its kind of crazy how fast time has gone by. i feel like it was just yesterday that i was just a little girl without a care in the world and having joint birthday parties every year with my big sister. but here i am...21...a year and a half away from graduating from college...have had a boyfriend for 10 months now...and am becoming more and more independent. i'm pretty happy with where i am in my life for once. i decided this year the best thing for me to do would be to stay away from "home" and just stayed up here on campus in minneapolis. i'm moved into my first apartment. i no longer have to deal with all the drama that comes along with living with my mom. don't get me wrong i love my mom and i miss her...but i just decided i'd had enough i guess. i'm happy here. my boyfriend is only a couple of hours away (compared to the 17 hours away he'd be if i went home to mississippi) and he has been really good to me :) , i'm working 3 different jobs but i'm paying my own rent and bills, i have an awesome church full of awesome kids that are truly a blessing to me i've had so much fun teaching them and hanging out and getting to know them, and i have some awesome friends here. so life is good. of course it has its challenges. i do miss all of my friends from mississippi a lot...i haven't been home since christmas and the way my finances are looking i won't be going home till christmas again. but life goes on :).
last night i spent my night at church helping out with a kids overnighter...and i just have to say that kids make me laugh a lot. i learned that red rover is a dangerous game. about 8 kids got hurt...i became nurse holly and bandaged several people up...convinced one girl that her bone was not sticking out of her arm (that that was just how her arms were)...convinced another little girl that she did not have a concussion and later convinced her older sister that her sister was not going to die when she went to sleep because of her "concussion"...and sat with a boy while he recovered from getting kicked in the side. all of these injuries from one game of red rover. this little girl named reba came back outside and she comes up to me and says "i had to go inside to get a drink of water...my mouth was so hot...it was like 10 degrees!" i laughed. kids say funny things. my girls were afraid to go to sleep...or the floor was too hard...one girl woke up crying...the rest were "whispering" and laughing...i slept maybe an hour or maybe 2 at the most. i have this weird thing where i can't sleep during the day so i'm like exhausted but can't sleep right now. blah.
ok so i'm gonna go lay in bed now and watch tv and maybe (hopefully) fall asleep for awhile. adios.
last night i spent my night at church helping out with a kids overnighter...and i just have to say that kids make me laugh a lot. i learned that red rover is a dangerous game. about 8 kids got hurt...i became nurse holly and bandaged several people up...convinced one girl that her bone was not sticking out of her arm (that that was just how her arms were)...convinced another little girl that she did not have a concussion and later convinced her older sister that her sister was not going to die when she went to sleep because of her "concussion"...and sat with a boy while he recovered from getting kicked in the side. all of these injuries from one game of red rover. this little girl named reba came back outside and she comes up to me and says "i had to go inside to get a drink of water...my mouth was so hot...it was like 10 degrees!" i laughed. kids say funny things. my girls were afraid to go to sleep...or the floor was too hard...one girl woke up crying...the rest were "whispering" and laughing...i slept maybe an hour or maybe 2 at the most. i have this weird thing where i can't sleep during the day so i'm like exhausted but can't sleep right now. blah.
ok so i'm gonna go lay in bed now and watch tv and maybe (hopefully) fall asleep for awhile. adios.
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