Christmas Break

Hi!

Well, since most of my readers are here in Liverpool, I wasn't planning on updating my blog... but I suppose I will for the 3 or 4 of you who aren't here.

Christmas break has been going very well. Work is work... nothing much to report. I've been working with my RA from last year cleaning the Quads (girls' dorms). We finished all 8 floors last week, which was more than our boss expected we'd accomplish. I think that when I get back to school we're going to have to clean the cleaning closets (oh, joy). And at some point I'm going to clean my dorm.

I got home last Saturday, and have been enjoying a lot of good family time :) Christmas was really nice this year. Very laid back and relaxing. On Christmas Eve I gave the Children's Message (in front of the congregation)... I'll never do that again. It went okay, I guess it's just that it's not something I'm used to doing. When I told Rachel I'd never do it again she said, "Oh, stop Elizabeth, you will so do it again" and she's probably right. Oh, well. The service was really nice. There were two services, and of course we stayed for both. Christopher Ames played for us -- I love his music! Second service the Keller family did advent, and they did a great job of sharing their family's Christmas traditions.

The day after Christmas I got some really good time with my family. We all stayed home and played board and card games all day. I don't think that any of us even changed out of our pajamas that day. I loved it!! Today has been laid back, too.

I'll go back to school on Tuesday and start work again on Wednesday. School starts again on the 14th. I can't believe I'll be a second semester sophomore!! I'm looking forward to my classes next semester. I'm taking my beginning classes for R&P. :)

I'm running out of things to say... Oh! I got a new cell phone! It has unlimited calls and texts. I don't have it yet, but I'll let you know when I get it what the new number is.

Bye for now!

Finals Week

Finals are finished! I am so happy to be done with school for a while... but at the same time, I'm ready to dive into my next semester. Oh, well. This break is very much needed. And the money that I'll be making is much needed too.

I only had one test - The rest of my "finals" were projects, presentations, portfolios, and papers. I feel like they all went well. I got three of my grades already, two of which were actually lower than I anticipated and the other was much higher than I probably deserved (weird...).

Everyone in my dorm is gone. I think there's one other person in the building, but I'm not sure. I'm starting work on Monday full-time, so that should keep me busy enough. I also plan to work on writing the curriculum for the summer's Kid's Church (I'm thinking a sports theme... any suggestions?) and playing lots of Sudoku and coloring in lots of coloring books! :)

I guess that's pretty much it for now... my last few entries haven't been very interesting, have they? I guess I have a pretty boring life, lol. Oh, well. Maybe over break something exciting will happen and I'll figure out an entertaining way to write about it.

Until next time,
Liz

Update

For those of you wondering when I'm coming home, I will be staying at school to work for Housekeeping until the 23rd, and will be returning to school on January 1st to continue working. We'll have to get lots of playtime in during that week that I'm home!!

I'll keep you posted on stuff going on here. Nothing much has changed since my last entry... I'm very glad that my Tuesday/Thursday classes are done forever. Now I just have to get through this research paper and I'll be good for my Monday/Wednesday/Friday classes.

Blessings!

~ Elizabeth

Loss of Motivation :(

**Warning**
I just read this entry and it's basically me rambling because I feel guilty about not updating this blog in so long. I can sum it up now if you don't feel like reading: Nothing has happened since my last entry. :)

So this past week I have not been motivated at all to do any work whatsoever. It's gotten pretty bad...

Finals are next week. I have a take-home test, a research paper, and another paper due on Monday; a presentation on Tuesday; a test and a portfolio due on Wednesday; and a party for FYS on Thursday. It's that stuff due on Monday that is stressing me out the most I think, though it must not be stressing me out very much considering I have procrastinated so much this week.

I'm not sure yet when I'll be coming home. Honestly, I'm not anxious to be home. I am afraid that four weeks of being home won't necessarily be good for me. I love my family so much, and I don't want to get on their nerves (or vice-versa). We'll see. I'll come home on Friday at the very earliest.

Nothing out of the ordinary has happened recently. It's been pretty normal here. I'm finally done with Social Life stuff for the semester, so that's good. My last OPE was today. I baked the kids cupcakes and some of them drew me pictures. I wasn't tired last night... either that or I just didn't feel like going to bed, so I didn't get much sleep last night. I think I may be getting a little sick, so I'm going to be sure to get more sleep tonight and the rest of this week. Of course it doesn't help that the food in Garlock has been less than appetizing and it's been really cold out lately.

Well, I didn't have anything to say in the beginning... and I have even less to say now, so I'll releive those of you who are still reading. :-P Have a great week!

~ Beth

I know, I know

I know there hasn't been a post in a long while. Sorry about that! Finals are coming up, and suprizingly I haven't yet turned to blogging as a form of procrastination! (Of course, I have found other ways... many many other ways.) I will post an update soon! It's time for class. :)