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!!

Yesturday I spent all day at the the Geneva College Library working on homework. I sat in the same place as I always use to sit and so many memories came rushing back. My freshman year and how many people I met and even though I had a rough roomate I had the most fun during freshman year. I have met people who have challenged my beliefs and morals and grew even stronger in them while still growing. I do miss Geneva, but I relaize that that phase of my life is over and am contempt in that decision. Soon I will be done living in PA and working in the "real world" and through Geneva and the people I have met they have prepared me well and I am confident that I will do well.
After a while I started thinking about living life in the moment. Don't be too focused on getting out of highschool and getting away from home, and don't get too focused on getting through College because it will go before you know it. My mom was always trying to get me out of highschool as fast as possible. She would say, "Oh I can't wait for the day you graduate from highschool." Then once I graduated from highschool she would say, "Oh I can't wait for the day you graduate from college." and she would tell toms of people that. Now since I will be done in 7 weeks she just can't wait. I think we should "enjoy" and take time to focus on the life we are living now, because we will never get to experience this ever again. In that sense I will always miss being in highschool and now I will always miss being at Geneva and miss the great people that I have met, and the next thing I will miss who knows. But I know I have tried to make the best out of it and wouldn't have changed it for the world!

well I'm pretty sick with this cold yesturday I stayed in bed till 3:30 pm and my roomate made me breakfast in bed. than I watched tv all night and then played ticket to ride with my other house mates. It seems like I've been watching tv a lot lately... I always feel weird when people come in the house and I'm sitting there in the same spot where they saw me when they left. I know I shouldn't care, but what else is there to do when your sick and don't want to do homework. Right now I should be at this after school program at the church, but since I'm sick I don't want to get the kids sick and plus if I go I'll probably feel worse afterwards! It's amazing how much crap is on tv isn't it? I mean you really get sucked in for hours at least that's how it is for me :) I can't wait to be done with school only a couple of more months!! Before then I have to decide on where to live. I have no clue really where to go the choices are down to Cleveland tower or Akron Canton tower...... hmmmm I just don't know, any sugestions?? of course my mom wants me to stay home raise enough money to pay off loans and buy a house. here's the only thing with that idea I love my family to death I really do.. but do I want to live my entire life in that area? whereas if I went to Akron then I'd be 40 min. from home wich isn't bad but far enough ya know. I also want to meet new people and i feel that if i stay home I'll just be bored and just do nothing hmm I don't know what will happen but I kinda need to decide soon . I think I'm gonna sleep on it.......

I would have to say I have a lot of stuff on my plate right now, and it's only going to get harder. School is well like I tell my friends I feel like I'm in a special ed class with a special ed teacher... no really I do. It's really pointless right now except that this is my last class ever there at CCBC and I have to do it to finish the degree. Also a lot of people are getting sick! My roomate sounds horrible, people in my class are sick, and I can fell a soar throat coming...not good. I've been taking vitamins andd drinking orange juice so hopefully I won't get anything!! Today I'm not sure what I have planned. I might go to a Geneva volleyball game with a friend. I know I have to finish a math test and get that ready ummm what else I guess just chillin. Oh I know I need Subway scrabble letters!!!!! if people are reading this and they go to Subway can I have your codes for the letters? that would be awesome. what else I have a headache and I think I should change out of my clothes and put something more comfortable on and maybe take a nap. I have a lot of studying to do this week but I highly doubt I'll do it ..I'll try. Ok till next time!

Well it has been quite awhile since I have written in my new blog. I'll give you a quick brief of what has happen the last week. As soon as I made my new blog we had a big wind storm come through that knocked out our power for 5 days! so we had no electricity and I would have to admit I liked it a lot, except for the whole not have a fridge or doing laundry. When the power went out I was doing laundry and had to dry my clothes outside that sucked. what else happened oh that was the day when Pittsburgh was playing Cleveland so me and some other people went to a bar to go watch the rest of the game and we got kicked out cause I wasn't 21. I would have to say that was one of the most awkward times in my life lol. When the power was out I learned about how we really need all the electronic stuff we have, and how much we use and waste power! Through those days I decided also to become vegitarian go figure haha. Not that i don't think that eating animals is wrong it's that the meat we do eat has had growth hormons and antibotics that are not suppose to go in animals and economically is not good. so we'll see how this goes... I also went to pittsburgh on Saturday with most of the house which was a lot of fun. I went to IKEA (if that is how it's spelled) for the first time kinda exciting lol and then we went out to this really nice chinese restaurant. then now I have spent all day cooking for tonight. I was cooking for 12 people now it's only going to be 10 and we are haveing stuffed peppers for dinner and the peppers are from the garden that me and my roomate picked. I'm not sure how well it's gonna taste?? ok well back to cooking!!!

* Welcome to a whole new world of blogging*

That's what I feel like. That I'm in a whole new world, of online blogging that is. I decided to get this blog to write out my journey; my ups and downs, laughter and pain, and everything in between. I hope you will enjoy reading my blog, but most of all as you join me in my journey, I want you to learn from my life and the life of others.

Live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Ephesians 5:2