So it’s been four months and a lot has changed since I came back from Europe. Forive me for the time delay, but I guess I just needed a little more time to rest from writing. I told myself after spring quarter I’d have a chance to take a break, but that didn’t happen with my blog and all, but I think I’m back, and I’m doing my best to want to put my thoughts out straight again.
So after a wonderful three weeks at home, a fun packed weekend in the fresh Seattle air and the start to winter quarter, I’m feeling pretty good.
The last three months since school started in September have been nothing short of a whirlwind. I like to think of it as my “Mad Season” (thank you Matchbox Twenty).
With starting off the quarter in full swing being the opinions editor for The Falcon, and dealing with the insane drama that came with, I don’t know that I ever had a chance to fully settle in mentally. It really seemed like there was just one thing after another: dealing with the many adventures and depravities of the “Batmobile,” the name most of the boys have given to the Reatta, my mood rut, settling in to my closet space (bedroom) that gets zero sunlight (what’s a Nor Cal beach babe to do?) and having to deal with a season of insanely large spiders, catching up with friends while making new ones too, trying to grip on a fresh start that just wasn’t happening in “the Bubble” (SPU), trying to figure out why I wasn’t treating some of the important people in my life the way they should have been treated, grappling with forgiveness and reconciliation, keeping on top of 18 credits, severely missing my best girls from home, especially Melissa, trying to throw myself fully into anything and everything I could get my hands on that had nothing to do with the paper and SPU, and having the final culmination of Fall quarter being the possibility of a fling and the death of one of my best guy’s mother’s just didn’t seem like the way I had intended my senior year of college to kick off. Needless to say, and I’m not exaggerating, just ask Caitlin, it really was just one thing after another.
I think I finally realized that God was testing me. He was reminding me how strong of a girl I was and that I really could handle anything he throws my way.
Now I don’t want this first post to turn into a novel (no, that novel is a few years off yet) but I know you’re all just dying to know more : )
My three weeks home was amazing. I finally had the chance to breathe, even in such tight quarters. I’ve always said family was where it’s at for me, and I still feel that way 200%, so you know amidst the arguments and tiffs I was happy. The bros are growing so fast and are turning into such little kids that I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around it. Chase is turning into the whiniest little baby, but he is the youngest, and I guess I just never saw him turning out to be like that. Seth is a little booger because you can’t talk to him without him getting mad at you, unless you catch him in a tender moment. They really just are their own little persons.
I could tell you about each member, but you can inquire if you want to know more.
As for right now I’m optimistic about Winter quarter. There are a lot of ideas floating around in the abyss of my mind of how I think things will pan out.
I’ve only told one person this, but my goal is to make this year a non-stop adventure. I don’t want to make any resolutions this year because I made some personal goals over summer and that’s where my focus is.
Strangely enough, I’m excited for the amount of reading I’ve got this quarter because I actually have the time for it! Sick, I know! Haha I’m even hoping to do some pleasure reading on the side! Oh gosh, now I’m grossing myself out…I’m so not a reader!
Slowly but surely, I’m settling into the woman that I want to be. I’m beginning to realize whom the people in my life are that I really can’t live without (after a crap load of weeding) and I’m more coming into the city girl Ashleigh and I always knew we were! I think I’ve picked the right city too, at least for now.
At that, and with so much more to say, I’m going to cut myself off. Caitlin has me committed to working out with her in the morning. My first committed workout since I retired from gym in April… this is really going to suck! C’est la vie!
I’ll do my best to keep up with “my times” so you can all do your best to keep up with me. So with Christ on my heart, curly hair on my head, and my iPhone to my left…that’s it. That’s all.
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