Almost there, yet so far away...

Well, just thought I'd update before getting back to writing papers hardcore. I am looking forward to break for a lot of reasons... of course I want to be done with work. I want to have all the pressures of these classes off my back. I want to see friends. But I also really want to get back so I can work out every day at the YMCA again. I have NOT worked out consistently here and it is bothering me. The other thing is that I want to be near my mom. I found out she has pneumonia in one lung, and although it's not life-threatening in the capacity that it once was, I'm still worried. So if it's not too much trouble, please say a prayer for her. As much as I talk about my mom being.. my mom.. she is a wonderful wonderful lady and I couldn't imagine a better mother. She has always been there for me and always will be. I wish everyone could have a mother as loving as she is, and some of you do I know. But to me, my mom is fragile. She had a stroke earlier in her life, and seems to be susceptible to these sort of things. I have always had a complex about my parents dying and leaving me alone.. but I think that's partially due to being an only child.

See, unlike most of you, they are the only immediate family I have. I don't have any brothers or sisters to lean on and have for the rest of my life. God gave you a wonderful gift if you have siblings... DO NOT TAKE THEM FOR GRANTED! Be thankful that you have people who are that close to you and will always be there for you no matter what. My lack of siblings has caused me to become closer to my friends than maybe a lot of people are. I don't want to judge how close you all get to your friends, but I know mine are basically my brothers and sisters. My best friends I know will always be there for me and I can count on them as if they were a brother or sister. I don't ever plan on losing them. I also have a lot of friends, and this is probably again partially because I feel the need to get close to people. I also sort of "adopt" the younger siblings of my friends sometimes... for instance, I used to treat Melissa's little sister Brianna sort of as my little sister... I do feel bad that I don't see her anymore though, but that's difficult. My little cousin (altho not so little anymore.. geez where does the time go?!) Adam (aka Adumb) is also sort of like my little brother. We all need people we can be close to... it's a basic human need.

Ok, so the last few days... went to Max and Erma's with Lindsey on Thursday. I did not sleep through it this time (yay). It was a very good time- great food obviously and great conversation. I actually let her play country on my radio though... ya... I think the world is going to end now. After dinner, we went back to her room for awhile, then when she went to mass, I went back to Bernet. However, me being dumb, I forgot that I told Kelsey (aka Victoria) that I would help her move heavy stuff in her room around. SO I ran back over to Campion and headed up to the 4th floor to help her out. Good thing I did, because they had 2 girls and 1 admittedly not so strong guy to move dressers on top of each other, armoirs across the room, and a huge ass tv up on top of the 2 dressers (and even if they were strong enough, they weren't tall enough anyhow.. I guess being 6'4" comes in handy sometimes ;)) So after that I headed back cuz I still had to study for a test and read articles for a meeting at 10:00.

On Friday, I took the stats re-test at 9, which seemed pretty easy. At 10:00 I met with Palermo about my independent research stuff, which was amazing as always. I LOVE this stuff and wish I could talk to him every day... we think on teh same wavelength and just have a great connection.. I couldn't have picked a better candidate for this. It's so great when you meet people that just have a common understanding with you. You can relate to each other without even having to think very hard. So, then my last social psych class was at 11 with Yost. Sad to not have that class anymore though. After class, Alexandra and Alison dragged me to lunch as usual, but I wanted to go anyways. However, when we got there, Alexandra felt the need to let us know that her "uterus is leaking." YES, IN THOSE WORDS! Sammie Flores, upon hearing this, just threw his arms up in disgust and was like WHY DID YOU JUST TELL ME THIS?! He was done eating after that.. wasn't full, but was done nonetheless lol... ya, it's always interesting when Alexandra, Sarah Jane, Sammie, Liz, Andrew, Margaret, and I get together... ok so last sociology class was after that, and my child development class was cancelled. So, naturally I went back and napped for a few hours. It was awesome.

Soon after waking up, Christine stopped by to talk.. I hadn't talked to her in almost a week I think, so it was much needed. She saw someone giving away these squishy pillows, and knowing how every time I go to her room, I immediately pick it up and start playing with it, she got me one. Awww, she always thinks of me... I am SO lucky to have someone like her in my life. So then I went back with her to her room where we talked while cuddling (yes, friends can cuddle). Then, I came back up to my room to grab some food with Mike before going to see Narnia. I picked up Lindsey at Campion, then went to Case to get Erik since Phil backed out (boooo). Well, Narnia was amazing. I highly recommend it. You have to really think about the movie and not just take it at face value though. You can learn a lot from the message of it... it applies to everyone. It's actually EXACTLY what my independent research project is on.. those very ideals inside each one of us.

So after the movie, we went back to Erik's house (where Phil and Tom also live) and hung out for awhile.. I think it was the first time I have been there and not watched NEXT though.. strange.. but we had a great time talkin (mostly about funny stories relating to Erik) and left after an hour or so. It was nice to see them. I felt kinda bad though cuz I knew Lindsey was tired... she felt bad cuz she thought she made us leave early, but she shouldn't. All in all, things are goin pretty well, I just want to get everything done ASAP and get home to be with my family and friends. I still have no idea about the work situation, but I'll worry about that later... peace.