Well I haven't written on here for a while just because I have been so lazy and in a stage where the world is against me, but things are happening behind my back that i don't even realize how awesome it is. The first thing is my new youth group that I am in charge of. I am almost finished with the room and we are having our first night on Wednesday! I have a lot to plan these next 2 days, but I'm confident I will get it done. I am so thankful for the opportunity to do this, because it first of all gets me away from the house and focusing on something else, and then just the chance to serve in the church. I am so excited for what's to come. Another great thing is the snow on the ground. I usually hate winter, but I've come to realize that during winter is when all the best things happen to me. This year for example I finished school in the winter, I started a youth group, spending time with the family over the holidays,etc. Today is amazingly beautiful with the snow sparkling underneath the clear blue sky. I might just go outside and sit in it ha. I feel like today is a start of something new for some reason. Maybe it's because I know all my friends back at school have just started their spring semester and I'm not there with them, but with that running in the back of my mind I'm OK because just like they are starting a new semester I'm starting a new and exciting phase of my life. Another exciting thing that happen today was I look at my application for getting a job in air traffic control and guess what!?!? I received a referral list that says they are reviewing my application and will let me know if I will get an interview or not. It's great because I've been waiting for at least some news on this, and hopefully in the next couple of days I'll will know if I have a job or not. So even though this "break" has been quite a slow and dismal time, I have realized that it was full of amazing things that I just didn't realize were happening. Here's apicture that describes it all. I found this artist through another blog and absolutly fell in love with Sarah Jane Studios artwork. It's called January's fresh start!

Well today was bitter sweet. I said most of my goodbyes and probably cried for an hour this morning. I'm gonna miss my housemates so much. It was a great place to live for my last semester here at Beaver Falls, but I'm ready for the most part to move to the next phase of life. I'll be heading back home tomorrow after I visit a friend's house in Youngstown, which I'm kinda excited about anyways. I just need to figure out how i can fit all my stuff in my nissan sentra one of the smallest cars out there it feels like. I hope I can fit everything in it. ok well I'm going to finish up some more packing before it gets too cold and dark. When I go home the whole unpacking is not what I'm looking forward to. It will probably take me a couple of days to unpack and just go through my clothes to give away and readjust to living at home again. wow I haven't done that since highschool. I'm a little excited though. I get to really start my youthgroup and have wednesday night things yey and plus i get to play with my band more often so that's always fun!! ok but really i need to finish packing!! next time I write I'll be at home.

Ok I don't know why I didn't do this before, but everyone at the house is all about finals. So I thought, hey maybe it would be good to give some tips on surviving finals. Here is how I survive finals week.

1. Set your timer to an hour and study during that full hour and then when the timer goes off take a 20 min. break.

2. Take a long shower, and play your favorite songs. This always helps me to relax. Shoot if your really daring...even sing in the shower!

3. I have started to get into yoga and have found that doing it either in the morning when you get up or before you go to bed, helps with stress. (I do Kundalini yoga. Nothing special really it's just what my mom has.)

4. When I have exams I like to make a schedule down to the hour of what I need to do. I usually don't keep on schedule, but it's always nice to know where you're going.

5. This is something my mom would say: " Drink lots of water! Oh and eat salmon it's good for the brain."

6. Last but not least. Find time to have fun! maybe even watch a movie with someone special!


These are just a few things that helped me. If you have any other great ideas for finals let me know!

Yes that's right it's Mixtape Monday. Since it is finals week here in City House and throughout all of the united states, I thought it would be best to give you guys a great mixtape of some of my favorite songs lately. Enjoy!!!

well I know I haven't put up any pictures yet of things that I find at thrift stores, but I did find a really cute teapot that when I'm older will base my whole kitchen around this teapot, but I don't have it downloaded on my computer yet. Well school is almost done wow!! Today I receieved my control tower operator certificate, so yea now I'm a certified controller. I've been waiting for this day since 6th grade to come, and I did it. Me and Caitlin, my roomate, went out to Eat-n-Park for lunch to celebrate because I had a gift card for there. It was good to get together one last time just me and her. It's sad I'm leaving PA forever and not seeing some of my friends again. I'm not so sure I want that to happen just quite yet. I have met some really great people and it seems I'm just starting to get to know them and now I have to leave..it just sucks! Also not so sure about living back home. It's back to, where you going alice? what time will you be back? drive safe. etc. No more of hey lets just go out to pittsburgh for the night or really anything I do. I also have to find a job to do between now and when I start working at a facility controlling traffic. Also I don't have that many friends back home like I do here so that's another thing. I really only have one more week and then I'm done. I have a big test on monday, which I need at least an 80% on it to pass the class so if that doesn't happen maybe I will have to stay up here another semester... and that would kinda stink to have to retake a class!! It's also my 21st birthday tomorrow..nothing planned, because alll my friends have tons of school work to do so another year of sucky birthday for me. I always thought about my 21st birthday and how awesome it would be, but it's totally not going to be what i thought. My roomate said we would go out next week, because she has to go to a wedding, but that will stink because it just won't be my birthday it will just be like hey we're going out. whatever I shouldn't be surprised that it's just another crappy birthday. I guess this is my complaining blog, sorry it's depressing and just annoying but it's what I'm going through. ok I'm done. till next time!!

I haven't been on here a while, but I've been thinking that I wish my blogg wasn't about stupid updates that in reality no one cares about. I wish I had more time to do different art projects even though I'm not really artsy at all, but I can be if I take my time. I was thinking maybe I should just do a blogg about online art I find or different art bloggs that I find interesting and they do amazing things! so i guess from now on I'll be putting up pictures and maybe doing some updates on what is going on. I suddenly became fascinating about Alice in Wonderland..go figure. I think the pictures from the book and different quotes are amazing and has so much meaning. For instance the picture I have up now it reads, "It's not a clever one! Still, you're the right colour, and that goes a long way." "I don't care about the colour," the Tigerlily remarked. "If only her petals curled up a little more, she'd be all right." Wow even though the flowers didn't think Alice was clever they were nice in saying that all that matter was her colour. A person doesn't have to be clever, but when someone shows their "colour" that is what people should be seeing anyways, but then the arrogant Tigerlilys who I would say the people who don't look on the inside but the outside told her that if only her petals were curled up a little more she would be alright. As Alice goes through this wonderland the creatures never find her good enough...something is always wrong, but the pther flowers got it right... It's the colour that counts! So let your colour show, let it shine and not be hidden from the world by becoming part of it, but stand out and make a difference!

So today I probably had the best day i have had in a long time! It started out with me and my roomate doing devotions and praying about a situation that is happening in the house. I then started packing things up for my parents to take back home with them on there way through PA. I acctually got kinda excited cause I know it will be soon where I don't have to be in PA anymore, but I know i will miss it. Once my parents arrived from their vacation, they showed me pictures of the trip and talked a while about it. We then headed to Waffles Incafinated which is an awesome place to eat down here..kinda like a hidden treasure that not many people know. The food was great and my mom loved it. We stayed there for a while and then wentback to the house to pack up my things in the car. I had to leave right after that to take a test so we had a quick goodbye. I took my test which went really well and the headed to the Beaver County Tower to control some airplanes. I would have to say that was the fatest hour I have ever been up there, because the traffic was constent. After that I went back to the house and here I am writing. Dinner is at 6 so I was hoping to get some things done, but I doubt that will happen. The house had a meeting tonight after dinner and it might get a little heated, but i have good hopes that it won't. I can't get into too much detail, because I would be writing forever. But anyways on the way home the song Time of My life by David Cook and it just made me realize that I have to enjoy every moment and just live and love. It's a great song if you listen to the lyrics and I wasn't gonna post another video, but it just felt right. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have!!