so another weekend is coming to an end. i really wish that weeks would go by as quickly as weekends. i feel like it was friday morning about 5 hours ago.
lindsay's "friend" (wink, wink), chris came to visit this weekend. he's so sweet. she definitely needs to keep him around! the three of us watched resident evil with paul on friday night. what a weird movie! i should have expected that though, considering paul picked it out. i'm still trying to figure out what actually happened in the end. it was just suddenly over. i don't know, maybe i missed something.
later that night, our good friend, ryan (or wyan hehe) came to visit from boston. well, he didn't actually drive all the way from boston just to see us. he was home for a wedding, and stopped by for a little while. unfortunately, brad didn't get out of work on time, and paul somehow forgot that he was coming, so he only got to see lindsay, kate, bryan, and i. it was so good to see him. i hope he gets to visit again soon. i miss the little homestarr runner wanna-be. ;) haha
i had a craving for a new book or two, so on saturday i drug lindsay, chris, and kate to borders with me. i just love bookstores. something about them always makes me smile. maybe i should get a job there. hhhmmm...
lindsay, chris, and i took a trip out to park city after dinner last night, and i bought two used cd's from fye for thirteen dollars! how cool is that. chris and i spent the rest of the trip keeping lindsay away from all the pretty purses. (you don't need any more, lins. you already have enough for the entire population of lancaster county!)
i spent the rest of the evening reading my new books and listening to my new cd's. of course, i talked to my stinky pants, too. he is so freaking adorable when he's tired, but extremely difficult to have a conversation with. i think we spent about five minutes trying to find out whether he was tired or not. to explain... i asked him if he was tired, and he answered with, "am i tired?" we did this quite a few times until i finally informed him that he was in fact tired, and he should go to sleep. *sigh* what a cute little nerd.
well, that's about the extent of this weekend's excitement. i can only imagine the excitement that is to come with the next week...

ah, friday. the week of classes has come to an end. i'm definitely looking forward to relaxing this weekend. i'm stayin at school, along with lindsay and skippy. everyone else is going home. i'm sure the 3 of us will have a ridiculously good time. we already have a trip to wally world planned. =)
so yesterday i had chem. lab again. i'm happy to inform you that i was finished early! so to reward myself... i'm going to the bookstore this afternoon to buy myself a really cool pen for 99 cents. (man, i'm such a nerd!) i think i deserve at least that after the week i had...
my dear friend, pauly and i had one of our little... uh... "misunderstandings" this week. he thought i was mad at him, and i was just frustrated with a certain situation. so instead of coming to talk to me about it (like i've told him to do on many occasions *wink*) he just avoided me until i got so fed up with the craziness that i went upstairs to talk to him about it. i know this sounds like an easy task, but it's not for someone as stubborn as i am. so to make a long story short...we talked, we lauhged, we hugged, and now everything is ok. eh, no, i guess i can't really say that, but we're at least talking to eachother now. =) hopefully in the future everything will be ok. for now i guess all i can do is wait...

well... i'm back at the good old 'ville now. (can you sense the enthusiasm?) i'm glad to see all my buds, but this school work stuff is not my favorite. i have a chemistry lab this semester. you may be thinking, "she's an english major. why in the world would she have to take chem. lab?" i wish i could answer that question for you, but i have yet to figure it out myself. however, i do have a theory. i think they make everybody take a chem. lab so they can make tons of money on the ridiculously over priced books. or it could just be that everyone is out to get me. so today i had the first lab session. all we had to do was weigh some things and mix some other things. you'd think that i'd be able to do that in a reasonable amount of time. i'm sad to inform you that that is not the case. the class was supposed to be over at 20 after 4. i left at quarter of 5. AND i still hadn't finished any of my calculations. why? because i don't know how to do them!!!! i'm just THAT dumb! so tomorrow i have to treck all the way back to sci tech to hand in the lab report that everyone else in the class finished. boy, do i feel intelligent. but finally... some good news... first, we have the internet back (it's been down since we got here because of some viruses), and second, i'm going home for a long weekend tomorrow. thank goodness the first week of hell is almost over...

so i'm home for the summer now... bored to death. i haven't gone back to work yet, because i'm not sure when jimi will be coming home. his family and i are going down to georgia to see him get off the plane. unfortunately, i haven't heard from him since the 10th, so i have no idea when he's coming home, nor do i have any idea where he is. i'm going a little crazy here. i miss him so much... plus, i need to get back to work, but i can't do that until i know when i'm going to georgia. i can't wait til all of this is over. it's so much harder being home. all i do is think about jimi and how much i miss him. at school people were constantly around... they kept my mind off of it, but here... it's just me.

whoa... it's been a while! sorry. so here's what's new in my life...

on saturday my friend Paul's band played here (at millersville). it was awesome! i'm so proud of him! hehe and here's the best part... he wrote a song about me and jimi! wahoo! haha it made me cry like a little baby, but it was amazing. he is so talented. i hope so much that things work out for him and Null (that's the name of his band). i love it so much... i just have to share it with you...
"She's waiting here, Lonely here. Hoping he'll find his way home.
Morning after morning, empty home, He's been gone so long now. She
wants him more everyday....But He's off to save the world...
So far away, but she'll not forget, someday, this hero will return
and save her as well...
She smiles now through these tears, stares at a picture of him.
Night after night, comforts him, these kisses are real enough now.
She touches his face and closes her eyes...and he's off to save the
world..."
Null- Someday
isn't it awesome!!! =) i'm such a nerd, but no one has ever written a song about me... so i'm a little excited. =) hehe i can't wait til he records it and jimi can hear it.

speaking of jimi... (lol, when am i not?) he called his parents at 2 o'clock this morning!!! wahoo!!! =) they only got to talk for about 2 minutes, but at least they got to hear his voice, and we all know he's safe. i wish he could call me, but it's a little hard considering the circumstances. hopefully he'll be home soon, and able to call me whenever he wants. =) i can't wait to hear his voice... there's just something about it... it's so comforting... it's like... home.

i was on spring break for the past week (and so was my bestest friend, sarah... so i got to spend time with her... it was wonderful!), so it's been a little while since i've updated my blog... how sad... i'm sure you all missed my radom jabberings. =)

well, i must say, i've been havin a tough couple of weeks. jimi is in the middle of iraq, and i just can't seem to get away from the news. there were a few nights that i stayed up staring at the television for no apparent reason. i couldn't bring myself to turn it off. in some weird way i guess it was comforting or something. it's all the same information now though. no one knows when it's going to be over, but people continue to ask. it's so frustrating. i understand that people want to know. believe me. i want to know just as much if not more than most people, but i just can't take listening to one more person say that they don't know anything.

i got out to visit some of jimi's family. it's so nice to see them. they're such wonderful people. they've always been so kind and supportive of me. they're like my second family. (i hope that one day they'll be my real second family) =) becky (his little sister) and i went to applebee's one night. i'm so amazed by her maturity in this situation; she's been so strong, and i'm so proud of her. hope and gary (jimi's aunt and uncle) had me out for dinner on saturday night. hope had her sister's kids, too. let me tell you about an amazing woman!!! she has four kids of her own- 3 handsome boys, and one beautiful little girl- and then she has her sister's three kids over, plus two dogs, AND gary!!! ;) i don't know how she does it! it's always so nice to spend time with them. they always make me feel so welcome, and i just feel closer to jimi when i'm with his family. (so if any of you are reading this... i love you so much... thanks for everything!)

so as i was saying before... i was having a rough couple weeks (between visits to the miller's) but today was WONDERFUL kate and lindsay came rushing into the room this afternoon yelling, "IT'S LIKE CHRISTMAS!" because i had gotten six letters from jimi. it was so wonderful to read them. i can almost hear his voice as i read the words. and yes, i cried. his sweetness, kindness, and caring never cease to amaze me. he's such an incredible person... words could never express how special he is and how much he means to me. i always had this idea of what love was like, but this is so much better than i could ever imagine. i hope he gets home soon... i can't wait to... i don't know... i can't wait to do anything with him. i just want to be with him. i've never missed anything or anyone more in my entire life. until then, i will just have to pray and trust God for his safety.

today was another gorgeous day. i'm getting spoiled. kate, lindsay, patty, and i ate lunch by the pond today. it was so nice to get to sit and enjoy nature for a change.

i've had a much more emotionally stable day today. however, i don't know how long that will last. i have a feeling i will be on an emotional roller coaster for the next few months. i just can't wait til all this craziness is over. i can't say i'm totally against this war though. something needs to be done, and it apparently can't be done peacefully. it's going to be extremely difficult to just sit here watching the news, not knowing where jimi is, or if he's ok. but i know God is in control, i know jimi is in His hands (john 10:27-28... "my sheep listen to my voice; i know them, and they follow me. i give them eternal life, and they shall never perish. no one can snatch them out of my hand."), and i have every confidence that He will protect him...

ah, st. patty's day...

today's been an interesting day. scratch that. it's been a horrible day. i should've known it was going to be a bad day when i couldn't sleep through the night. i got out of bed this morning, ready to give a speech in my speech class. i was confident. again, i should've known. somehow my five minute speech turned into a two minute, five second speech. how did this happen, you ask. wish i could tell you. i've been trying to figure it out all day. i haven't even come up with a theory. i'm completely flabbergasted. on top of that, i got back a test on which i got a 76 (so much for the luck of the irish). THEN i came back to my room, completely defeated, and opened the new york times website only to find some more horrifying news. apparently the U.S. has ended negotiations with the U.N. and will most likely be going to war in a matter of days or weeks. to some of you, this may be good news, but to a girl whose boyfriend is in the army and currently stationed in iraq, it is anything but. i'm having slight difficulty deciding whether or not to watch President Bush's address to the nation tonight. on one hand, my day has already been so horrible, i fear a nervous breakdown; but on the other, i think i want to know what's going on. ignorrance is only bliss in some situations. plus, i'm probably going to find out anyway, so i might as well get it straight from the source.

somehow st. patrick's day has lost some of it's luster for me.

i'm going to scream. i just tried to post something, and it didn't work. it did, however, succeed in deleting everything i just wrote!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ah, saturday. i love saturdays... the days of freedom and laziness. today was an exceptionally wonderful saturday. the weather was GORGEOUS! i think the temperature actually hit 60. the birds were chirping, the sun was shining, the suirrels were... uh... well... doing whatever they do, and i was reveling in the beauty and serenity of nature. it was the perfect day... almost. if only i could have spent it with my boyfriend. i try so hard not to allow this situation to keep me from enjoying myself, but it isn't exactly an easy task. i've been through this before, but at that time the world was in a much more stable state (what a scary thought considering the state it was in at that time). jimi has been in kuwait (this time) now for approximately two months. two months... i can't believe it's been that long since i've seen his smiling face. the thought brings tears to my eyes. no one should have to be away from the love of their life for that long. but like i said before, this isn't the first time. i will get through it. i don't know how- other than by the grace of God- but i will get through it. for some reason days like these make me think of him more than other days. maybe because they bring with them the thought of hope and peace. whatever the reason, i miss him very much today. i long for the day when we will be able to walk down the street, hand-in-hand, reveling together in the beauty and serenity of the world around us.

unfortunately my computer skills are much worse than my grammar skills. i want to link to my roomate, kate's blog, but i'm having a little difficulty. where's my boyfriend when i need him? oh right, he's in kuwait, or iraq (he couldn't tell me exactly) fighting our "war on terrorism".

well, i've decided to join the world of "blogging", since all my friends are doing it. i feel a little left out. plus, it gives me a chance to use my ever-so-excellent english skills. yes. i am a nerd. i like english. deal with it.