No Family Guy Quote today :( Decided to go for a quote from a great book:

"A man's (or woman's :) ) steps are directed by the Lord. How then can anyone understand his own way?"
Proverbs 20:24

This a great verse for me right now. Most of you know of the events that have occurred over the past few days, so I won't bore you with stuff that you already know. Some people wonder why I did what I did, and so do I, sometimes. My main reasoning is just that I need some time away. Everything that I've known over the past almost two and a half years has been Marc. Now I'm not saying that that is a bad thing, it's just that I think I've lost Kim along the way. I just need this time in order to figure out who I am and, most importantly, what I want. I have no idea what the future holds for me, and that scares me to death. I don't know where I'll be in a year, a month, or even a few weeks. All I know is that after I move home for the summer, my life is going to be completely different. Everything that I've known over the past two years is going to be gone. Everything is going to be different. Mo matter how much I would love to just hold him and tell him everything is going to be okay, I know I can't do that. I need this time, and I think he needs it, too. I just need to figure out who I am and what I want, with life, love, and just everything in general. I don't really know how to explain how I feel, and I completely understand if people don't get it (although I know one special girl out there knows what I'm going through;) Love ya!). I'm just really confused about everything right now. I just need some time to get my feeling straight. Whether that time is a few weeks, months, or even years, I dunno. Anyway, so that is my current thought on that topic. If you couldn't tell, I really don't know what I'm going to do, or how I feel, hence why the above verse is to good for me. The Big Guy Upstairs has it all under control, and I am totally trusting him.

Anyway, on a lighter note, I had my final performance for my voice class tonight. It went pretty well, better than expected. I am now all finished with that class, which kinda stinks because it was my favorite one. That means one down and four more to go. The next few days are gonna be pretty stressfull with papers and finals (great fun). I hope everyone is doing well, and don't stress too much about finals. Just a week and a half and it will all be over. Have a good night/day everyone. :)

Family Guy Quote of the Day:
Eliza: Ew, your breath smells like kitty litter.
Stewie: I was curious!

*Taking a break from horrible W131 paper*
You know what, I have come to the conclusion that W131 is not pointless. Even though I hate this class more than anything else on the earth, I have learned many things from it that I can apply to other papers that I write. But, no matter how much I learn from this class, I still think the cultural myths and stereotypes are a bunch of poo! Who cares about the cultural myths and stereotypes that are seen in Charlie's Angels, Tommy Hilfiger ads, or any other magazine ad!!!! Why can't we just write research papers or compare and contrast papers?? Why all this cultural analysis stuff with racism, femininity, and homosexuality?? WHO CARES???!!! Anyway, now that I have all of that out of my system...

Two weeks, yes, two weeks of actual classes left. Oh how the heart is happy! :) I'm getting to the point where I am just too anxious for classes to get over that I don't care about my work (which is not good). Take for example today. Right now, I should be working on the rough draft of a 6-8 page (right now I have about 2 1/2 pages) paper which is due tomorrow. Instead, I have distracted myself for about the past hour or so, and now I am doing this. Oh well, I'm sure I'll get it done.

Nothing too exciting is going on in my life right now. I went to Peter Grimes last night (an opera). It was pretty good, kinda boring at times, but pretty good all around. Tonight we have a pay-per-view at the guys place. I'm excited about going to it and being able to hang out with everyone. I've realized that I only have a few more weeks of hanging out with the gang. Yes, they will all still be here this summer, granted Steve's parents agree with him staying, but I won't be. I'm sure I'll be up a couple of times a week, but I won't be around to just hang out whenever. I love my friends here. This time last year I would not have dreamt in my wildest dreams that I would have the group of friends that I have here. This time last year, I was just "Marc's girlfriend" who showed up every now and then for a PPV. I'm happy that I now have formed personal friendships with everyone. I'm no longer just "Marc's girlfriend." I'm now just "Kim." The guys are no longer just Marc's friends who I hang out and watch wrestling with. They are now my friends, too. I've gotten to know everyone so well this year. Cory, Rob, Chris - you are all just like my big brothers who I can laugh and joke around with all the time. Cody - you have been a real blessing this year. You are one of the kindest guys I know, always there for me and Marc when we are in need of a "counseling session." :) I'm going to miss your random spears next year. :) Steve - You are also one of the nicest guys I know. It's gonna be weird (and sad) not having you around next year. Who am I gonna go tanning with?:) You are going to be greatly missed next year, but I know that you must move on in order to work for ESPN someday ;) Lastly, Marc, thank you for being you and for bringing me along to all the wrestling activities so that I could meet all these wonderful people. You know I love you babe.:) I just want to say that I love you all!!! Thank you for taking me in and including me in your group of friends. I have a lot of great memories with all you guys this year, and I'm sure next year is going to be just as memorable with Marc, Chris, Cory, and Rob living together. (oh, the possibilities) :)

Well, I guess I better end all this sappiness and get back to work. Have a great day everyone, and I love you!!!

Family Guy Quote of the Day:
Stewie's Letter: Dear stupid dog, I've gone to live with the children on jolly farm. Good bye forever. Stewie.
P.S. I never got a chance to return that sweater Lois gave me for Christmas. Umm, I left the receipt on top of my bureau. I'm probably over the thirty day return limit but umm… I'm sure if you make a fuss they'll at least give you a store credit or something. Umm.. It's actually not a horrible sweater. It's... It's just I can't imagine when I would ever wear it you know? Oh I also left a button on the bureau. I'm not sure what it goes to, but I can never bring myself to throw a button away. I know that as soon as I do I'll find the garment it goes to and then it'll… Wait a minute, could it be from the sweater? Did that sweater have buttons? Hmm… Well I should wrap this up before I start to ramble. Again, goodbye forever.
P.P.S. You know, it might be a little chilly in London, I'm actually going to take the sweater.

Well, today was a pretty good day. I went to class, worked out, tanned, the usual M,W,F routine. I didn't have to work tonight which was great, so I was able to nap and get some homework done. So far this week has been alright. Not having classes on Monday was really nice. I didn't want to go on Tuesday. Well, as most of you probably already know from Marc or Steve's blogs, we didn't get to see Warrior on Monday. It ends up that he spoke on Tuesday, not Monday. It still made for a fun evening, though. After hanging around Woodburn 120 for a while and after Steve vandalized the chalkboard :) we (me, Marc, Chris, Cody, and Steve) headed to MCL for a scrumptious dinner. Then we headed to 482 for wrestling.

I worked Tuesday night, so not much happened. Tuesday was a pretty boring day, much like today.

Tomorrow should be a wonderful day. It is supposed to be really warm. I don't have a lot to do tomorrow, so it will most likely be a pretty relaxed afternoon. Our awesome cook and wonderful secretary have decided to cook us house rez's steak and grilled chicken on the grill tomorrow night for dinner! I am looking forward to it.:) Then I've got Encounter tomorrow night. I'm looking forward to tomorrow being just a nice, pleasant day. I'll let you know tomorrow night if my day worked out how I hoped it would! Have a good day everyone and I love you all!!

PS: Cory, look who's blog I have a link to now!!!:)

Family Guy Quote of the Day:
Brian: You want some ice cream?
Stewie: No.
Brian: You want some McDonalds?
Stewie: No.
Brian: You want to take a dump in Mother Maggie's shoes?
Stewie: Yeah.
Brian: Okay, let's go and take a dump in Mother Maggie's shoes.

Hello Everyone and Happy Easter!! I hope everyone has had a great weekend. I know I have. I love being home and being able to spend some time with the fam! :) I got home around 5:30 Friday night. Dad was the only one home so I was able to just sit and talk with him for a while. Mom and Grandma got home a little while later and we just hung out and talked. Mom made this amazing chicken for dinner. YUM YUM:) After dinner, we just hung out and talked for a while. We went to DQ for desert. YUM YUM again:) Saturday I went shopping with my sister, Stacey, and then went to a cantata with Marc. It was great as usual. This was my third year to go. It is always a nice way to celebrate Easter! I went back to Marc's house that night and celebrated Easter with his family. His mom, she's so sweet, got me a black "K" purse filled with travel sized accessories (Advil, band-aids, a brush, a lint roller, and chapstick). Sunday I got up and went to church and then did fun family Easter stuff all day.

I decided to skip my two classes tomorrow and stay home for one more day. Tonight I have to watch Charlie's Angel: Full Throttle for a paper for W131. Tomorrow, I am going to my old high school to search through the music files in order to find a song to do for my final song in my voice class. Then, I'm going to go eat lunch with Mom, Grandma, and all their church lady friends whom they eat lunch with every Monday. Then I'm gonna head back to Bloomington to work on some homework all afternoon.

I am just sooo sick of school!! I have loved being home and not having to worry about school. I can't wait for summer. I am going to miss Bloomington, though, the 482 gang, the house, and the independence. Most importantly, Marc. I don't think I am going to get to see him a lot this summer, and that stinks. I'm going to be really busy with work, children's church, and music stuff. I've decided that I am going to audition for the School of Music in the fall, so I have to work really hard on stuff this summer. I'll probably only get to see Marc about once or twice a week. It is going to be like old times for us again. It's gonna stink, but I know we can make it through it.

Well, my dad just went to bed, so I've got the living room to myself so that I can watch that movie. Goodnight everyone, and I hope everyone is doing well!!:)

Family Guy Quote of the Day:
Chris: When I stick this army guy with the sharp bayonette up my nose, it tickles my brain. Hah hah hah ... ow. Oh, now I don't know math.

Well, today was a pretty boring day. I went to class and skipped working out. I had way too much stuff to do today, and I didn't feel to well. I came home and ate lunch. Good ol' chicken fingers and fries, yum yum. I love our cook!:) After lunch and laid down because my stomach hurt and I ended up falling asleep for about a half hour. I was awakened by a phone call from Marc. He asked me if I would like to join him and the guys and go to a political science rally/talk thing next Monday. First off, I couldn't figure out why he would call me and ask me this and not just wait till he talked to me next. Secondly, I could not figure out for the life of me why he and the guys wanted to go to a political science talk. More importantly, I didn't know why Marc thought I would want to join them. Mainly for the fact that I was still half asleep, I agreed. I figured if they guys were gonna make a get together out of it, I may as well go too. After a few moments, I became a little more aware and was really trying to figure out why they wanted to go to this. As far as I new, none of them had any interests in political science. Marc then told me that they were going to invite the speaker over to their place that night to watch wrestling with us. Now I became even more confused. Why in the world would they ask some political science guy to come watch wrestling?? Then, I asked Marc who the speaker was. His reply: "Oh, The Ultimate Warrior." WHAT??!! The Ultimate Warrior?? For those of you who don't know, The Ultimate Warrior is an old school wrestler. Now everything began to make sense!:) So, next monday, we are going to go listen to Warrior talk about political science, and then we are going to see if he would like to come watch wrestling with us. No matter what happens, it should be fun.

After that unusual conversation, I got in the shower and then started my afternoon of homework. Great fun! I did homework pretty much all afternoon, with a break to talk to Andrea, my future sister in law, and to do some scholarship searching. Then I went to dinner, took a little nap, and went to the guys' place for RAW. After RAW, Marc and I went to Taco Bell for some chat time since we didn't get to see each other much today. It was fun. I'd forgotten how good their cinnamon twists are!

Well, I've had my share of homework for the day, so I think I'm gonna head on to bed. I have three classes tomorrow, homework, and then Steak and Shake. Four more weeks!:) Goodnight everyone!!

Family Guy Quote of the Day:
Stewie: You know, I rather like this God fellow. Very theatrical, you know. Pestilence here, a plague there. Omnipotence ... gotta get me some of that.

Hello! Well, I haven't updated for a while, so I will try to summarize my past four days into a not so long blog. So, here we go....

Thursday: Well, the big event of this day was performing my song. My morning started with me drinking that horrible Chamomile tea again. I tried putting honey into it, and that made it taste a little better, but it still wasn't that great. Creighton (my instructor) vocalized with me at the beginning of class to make sure I was able to sing. He said that I should be okay, so I sang. I didn't to a horrible job, but I could have done better. The main thing was that I wasn't able to practice the song a lot since I had been sick, so I wasn't very confident about it. Creighton ended up having me get up again after everyone was done performing to redo the high part of the song. He complimented me on how I got into the song. He said that I had good facial expressions and what not, and he said that I was "feeling" the song. So, all in all, the performance went fairly well. I'm excited for mynext and final song because I get to pick it out. I can pick anything, but Creighton suggests I do a song from a musical because we have to right a two page paper over the song. I'm just excited because I get to do something that I want to do, rather than all those stupid songs from our book. The rest of Thursday was pretty normal. I studied that afternoon and then went to Encounter that night. Nothing out of the ordinary.

Friday: Once again, a usual day. Went to class, ate lunch with Marc, worked out, came home, showered, napped, and went over to Marc's and cooked dinner before I went to work from 8-2. I got home from work around 2:30 or 3. I noticed that Marc's car was still at the house meaning that he and the gang had not returned from Hairbangers Ball yet. So, I decided to kill time downstairs and wait to see if they got home. Sure enough, they got back about ten minutes later. Marc and I hung out in the great room and he told me all about his first Hairbangers Ball experience (btw, if you would like to hear how his night went, just click on the link "Marc" on the right). I got to bed around 4.

Saturday: I got up around noon and just hung out. I did my chore and called my mom and talk to her for about two hours. After I got off the phone with her, I went to Marsh and got some nachos for lunch. I got home and ate lunch with Ashley as we were trying to figure out her outfit for the evening. She went to a ROTC banquet with Eric (a guy from CSF), so she had gone shopping and needed some fashion advice. We were both getting ready later on that evening, and I felt like a mom. I was helping her get ready and taking pictures of her and Eric. It was great fun. :) I ushered for the Singing Hoosiers show that evening. Surprisingly, it was a lot of fun. Everyone there was really nice, and the show was really good. After the show, I went to Marc's and watched TV for a while and then headed home to bed.

(Finally) Sunday: Today was a normal Sunday. I went to church and then went over to Marc's and ate some pizza for lunch. Then we watched Office Space , which I had never seen before. It was pretty funny, but not as funny as I thought it would be. After the movie, I went home to work on some homework. I talked to mom and Josh (friend from HS) for a little while. He is working on a song, and it is a duet and he wants me to sing with him on it. We are going to try to get together sometime over Easter weekend to practice. He seems really anxious for me to sing with him. He is an amazing songwriter, so that has me even more excited. We've talked about writing some stuff together. He keeps encouraging me to write more. I've only fully written one song, and any time I try to write, there's just nothing there. Maybe it will be easier working with him. I dunno, we'll see. I'm just exciting to start playing and singing again. I never make time to play my guitar anymore. I need to start playing more often. Anyway, I'm gonna shut up now because this blog is already tooooo long.

Well, that has been my past few days in a nutshell. Now it is time to get some sleep before classes tomorrow. Have a great day everyone!!

Current Mood:
Tired

Family Guy Quote of the Day:
Lois: A flight attendant? Wow, that does sound exciting. What made you change your mind?
Peter: Just my desire to see you happy.
Lois: Aww .... (hugs peter)
Peter: And to exploit your hard labour for free travel and fun.
Lois: What?
Peter: Shhh ... I didn't say anything. Go to sleep crazy lady.

Hello. Today was a pretty boring day so this will probably be another boring entry. I did the usual M, W, F, routine: went to class, worked out, ate lunch, showered, etc. I went over to Marc's this afternoon to practice my song that I have to perform in my voice class tomorrow. I'm still dealing with my cold, so my voice isn't 100% yet. I tried the Chamomile tea today and all I have to say is "Ewwwwww!" That is the most disgusting stuff I have ever had. I am going to put some honey in the next cup I have, and hopefully it will taste better. I'm really worried about my performance tomorrow. My voice isn't that bad, but when I get nervous, it gets worse. I don't know why I get so nervous when I have to sing in front of people. I've been doing it for as long as I can remember, and I love it. I don't want to sound big-headed, but I love being in the spotlight, but even though I like it, it still scares me more than anything in the world. That is why I miss high school shows. I miss performing. I miss solos and dance routines. *Sigh* Good ol' Golden Arrow Singers!! Anyway, I think I am going to do pretty bad on my song tomorrow, but at least I have an excuse. I'll let you all know tomorrow how it goes.

One great thing happened today! You may or may not recall the horrible paper that I wrote for W131 that I turned in last Friday. I hated this paper. I worked on it for hours, and I thought I did the whole thing wrong. I was praying for a B on that paper. Well, I got the paper back today in class, and I got a 160/170 (about 95%)!!!! I was so excited!! That was probably the high light of my day!

After practicing my song for a little while over at Marc's, I had to go to work. Work was okay tonight. It was mainly just really slow. I felt like I was there for 24 hours. I don't work tomorrow, and I am very excited about that. I think tomorrow is going to be a great day. I have class from 11:15 to 1:10. After class, I plan on coming home and taking a much needed nap. I don't really have a lot of homework to do other than a 2 page thing for W131 which should be pretty easy. So, I think I am just going to take it easy tomorrow. I hope my day goes according to my plan and it is a good day.

I got an email from my future sister in law tonight. I love her! She is sooo sweet and I can't wait to have her in our family, even though she already is, just not legally! :) She sent me a picture of her wedding dress (which is gorgeous! and it only cost $90!!) She said that she wanted to get together over the summer and go shopping for wedding stuff! I'm so excited! I love weddings! I still can't believe that my brother is getting married. Careless, immature Mike getting married. It is kind of a scary thought! (Just kidding!) I know that he will be a great husband and that he and Andrea will be very happy!!

Well, this has been way too long, so I think I will end it here. I need to get some rest before my day tomorrow. I hope you all have a good day today!!