Family Relations

I updated my Family Relations blog today. We talked about some really great things today that I think are applicable to everyone and I found interesting so I hope you do too! Please read here!

Sorry...this one might be kinda depressing

So do you ever feel that your life is just coming too fast and you aren't ready for it to start? Well then can I PLEASE join your club? Most days I just want to stay in my bed and not come out. I want to be excited about what's coming. I really do. I spend the majority of my days prepping and telling myself that it's going to be awesome. It's only what I've been working toward the past four years! So how come I'm not excited? I wish I had a pause button. Or can I just ask for a time out while I re-evaluate my life? Or you know what would be even better? A couple years ago for Mother's Weekend on the Saturday they had a workshop thing with different speakers. One speaker we went to talked about life and submitting our will to the Lord's. She said, wouldn't it be convenient if we got an e-mail that said what career to pursue, where we will work, who we will marry, and how we'll meet that person, and then how our life will work out? YES! I thought, and still do. Yes, that would be fabulous! So an e-mail or a letter in the mail would be absolutely fabulous.

I have had my life completely planned out since I arrived at college. I chose my major and I didn't stray from it and I will graduate in 9 semesters. I've always known exactly what to do and how I was going to do it. Now I'm clueless and I hate it. I hate not knowing what's going to happen. I would now like to plan the next four years...but that's not allowed. Why am I so confused right now? Oh yeah...it's life! I forgot for a second, okay maybe the past 2 weeks, that LIFE is happening to me. Got it.

Is this depressing? Are you all thinking, Hannah! GET A GRIP! Alright, alright. I will get a grip and stop. So guess what I'm going to do? Meditation. Yep, I am going to begin meditating every day. I have wanted to start meditating since I read Eat, Pray, Love and now for my World Religions class we have to do a personal project about a religion and I decided to learn about meditation and meditate. I'm so excited! I think that will definitely help me to relax. I will replace the almost daily cry fests with meditation. I will trade the puffy eyes and headaches for relaxation. It's going to be difficult though, because I can't turn off my mind. It is constantly going! Which is why I need to learn to control it and make it be quiet!! I started tonight and it definitely made me feel better. So yay!! Here's to meditation, Zumba, and the people close to me who will help me survive and come out on top this semester!

Thanks for listening.

Yes...I am still here...barely

2010 ended and 2011 began with me laying deathly ill(perhaps that's an exaggeration...) on the couch wondering if I'd ever be able to, not only swallow again, but keep whatever I swallowed down. Not the most exciting new year ever and now those sick lazy days of playing wii and napping on the couch are over! This semester will be a BUSY one, the first week alone almost killed me. I think that I finally have everything organized, church and school wise (except visiting teaching assignments...I really need to get on top of that). But busy is good...at least for right now it is. I'm only taking 14 credits and I've got some fun classes in there!

• Psych 365 Emotion and Motivation
• Psych 310 Culture and Gender
• Fam 160 Family Relations
• World Religions
• English 370-Jane Austen
• Beginning Bowling

Exciting eh? I think so! The Psych classes definitely have the potential for kicking my butt! But they are both interesting topics and I love the teachers so the hard work is worth it(ask me if I feel the same in a few weeks) And the last three classes are just for FUN! I haven't taken a "fun"class my entire college experience. They don't have anything to do with my major or minor. (for Family Relations I am required to keep a blog about the things I learn. On my blog list is a new blog "Family Relationships" PLEASE read! I will be sharing insights from class, it should be good) It's fate that they bring back, after 5 years, a class dedicated solely to Jane Austen my last semester. I LOVE that class! And bowling is just AWESOME.

HOLY COW....it's my LAST semester taking classes! Weird, I have been going to school for as long as I remember and come April I'll have to put all that knowledge to the test. How do I feel about that? Terrified, excited, relieved, anxious, sad, happy, pumped, ready....wait am I ready??? I don't know! This is going to be a crazy semester. Lots to do and tons of decisions.

BRING IT ON!