The joys

Of stress.

Today I'm home sick. Only not home from school, nah that's no longer allowed! I'm missing too many days of school when I go to China to take sick days!!

In 15 days I will be on an airplane to Seoul, Korea, followed shortly by another long plane ride to Beijing. 15 days! That's crazy!

It's hard to believe that my beautiful little sister whom we know only through brief letters and photographs will soon be joining our family.

I remember the day we met Luke at the orphanage. His big almond eyes. His excited babble to his friends. His utter joy at the bubbles we were blowing to entertain him.

How quick we all bonded. I can only hope that with my new sister the bonding will be as instantaneous, but there is always fears of a more difficult struggle. Though no struggle is insuperable.

I haven't begun packing yet. However, I'm sure I will soon. Two weeks from tomorrow. Sheesh! That date sure snuck up on us!

Yesterday I made some cupcakes for some friends at work. They turned out pretty well for being spur of the moment!

I've also been making bows lately in excessive amounts to take to China with us. Sometimes when that creative flow starts it just doesn't stop!

I turned 18 this past Saturday, and spent a wonderful day at work(partially), with my family, and with my wonderful boyfriend. I haven't really worked out a birthday party yet- China's been creeping up on us too fast, but that'll get done eventually.

Things are crazy. Life is pretty good.

Hopefully I'll blog more. :P

Finally time

To play catch up.



You know how they always say senior year is supposed to be easy? Whoever said that lied. I've never had a more stressful year in my life to say the least! But I'm halfway through- just three and a half more months and that part of my life will be done.



So here's kind of an update on life:



I'm working at a local bowling alley- I have been since mid-June. I love the job, don't get me wrong, it's just a lot to add to my schedule. Sometimes I go two and a half days without seeing my family just due to the hours I get home at!

My family is traveling to China in a month! My whole family. We're crazy. My new little sister will probably be completely over-whelmed, but we're all so excited!

I'm going to be pictured in the March edition of Super Models Unlimited magazine, all thanks to my wonderful modeling company Woobie Wear!

I got accepted to my first choice college and got a wonderful scholarship! Unfortunately, the school is private and price-y but the scholarship definitely helps! I was also accepted into the school's nursing program, which is what I was hoping for. I'm hoping to become a pediatric nurse after college, hopefully in a hospital. I don't have much of an interest for working in a doctor's office.

I was able to keep my GPA first semester, let's see if that works out this semester as well since I'll be missing two weeks of school while we're in China!

But anyways. Despite the decent amount of snow that's been falling here all morning, school has not been cancelled and it has started to rain now. So I should probably head off and get ready for my quiz in Calculus.

Yuck.