Big changes this way come...

So there have been lots of huge things happening in my life lately!

First, Phi Mu got 5th place overall in Homecoming which is amazing!! Number 5 out of 14 isn't too shabby! It was funny though because all of the areas we thought we would do well in are the ones we didn't place in, and the areas we didn't even concentrate on were ones that we got first and second place! Funny how that works out :) I'm so proud of our pairing! And definitely kinda sad that it's all over..

Second, my term as House Manager for Phi Mu is coming to a close...so that my term as President of Chi Chapter can begin!!! I feel so honored to be elected by my sisters for such an important position. I think everything will run smoothly considering I'm able to transfer many of my skills from House Manager to President, but regardless I really want to do well! My term actually starts in January, although our current President and Chapter Adviser are already helping me transition over! :)

Third, my life in terms of planning for my future has been crazy lately. Literally everything I do on a daily basis directly impacts my life for the next 6 years since I plan on going to grad school. Scary huh? Well I sure think so. Consequently I'm not able to be there for Anand as much as he needs me to be, and in order to take care of myself, we're not together. Boyfriends take a lot of work and I regretfully just don't have the time and energy to be able to keep up. We've talked things through, and I'm glad he understands that this is for the better of both of us in our current stages in life. Still such a hard decision but I'm surviving.

Other than those three things... school is going well, my research in one lab is almost finished, my capstone project has been submitted to the important psych people, and I'm still managing to have a little bit of fun in my "spare time"!!! That's all for now. I'll try to keep this more updated :)

Oh this semester...

This semester has been kind of ridiculous, I'm definitely going to be taking some reallllly easy classes next semester so I don't get my butt kicked anymore! School has me running around like crazy, then my research labs on top of that take up what little "day free time" I have while Phi Mu takes up my "night free time" for dance! At least dancing is a great stress reliever for me and I still have fun!!

Speaking of, dancing is going amazing. I love the fraternities we're paired with for Homecoming this year and all of my dancers work really hard to learn the dances and catch up when they've had to miss practice. I've hung out with them a lot too and they're pretty chill! :)

Our new Baby Phis are being have initiation tonight, and I'm so excited! They're all amazing. We are having our pledge family dinner this evening and I'm so excited our family is expanding with such awesome girls! I can't wait for them to be full out sisters! Love them.

It's weird because I have so much going on that I can't think of anything to write about...funny how that works out! I'm done for now...

Craziest Week Ever!!!

So this week has been a lovely mixture of "horrendous and magnificent"!

I am probably way over involved what with taking a biological psych class, a writing intensive class, an honors capstone, a sociological class, being House Manager, Homecoming Dance Director, participating in GAMMA Jam, being a sober monitor, and working in two separate research labs. Yea I know I'm crazy, and most people would advise me to give something up ...but I'm just not a quitter!!!

My "to-do" lists this week have been ginormous, the one I'm working on for this weekend has 19 parts to it! Plus this week I had to write two papers, a research outline, read countless numbers of chapters in my text books, and memorize and get evaluated on a 5 page script. It then makes me laugh when people ask me to do something in my "free-time" ...because I don't have any!! :-/

I have barley had the chance to see Anand this week outside of our class together, and I haven't had the chance to go running, fix my nails, or even soak up some rays. I'm seriously hoping that I have a better week next week! This stress and no way to relieve it is just awful.

On the bright side I have done decently on all of my assignments and on my evaluation :) I also was a sober monitor for our Winery social, and somehow I even managed to still have fun!! Lots of fun!

Today Patrick is coming to watch Mizzou's football game with Anand and I, and that should be a blast! Our tigers have really surprised people so far this year with all of their talent in their younger players. I am wearing my #9 jersey in honor of my FAVORITE, Jeremy Maclin! Anand got me the jersey for valentine's day because since Jeremy was going into the draft it would be my last chance to wear his number! Wasn't that sweet? :)

So I hadn't updated in awhile, but in my "free-time" (haha) I promise I'll keep up with it!! ;)

Time to get some foodage before the big game! M-I-Z... (Z-O-U!!!)

First Day(s) of School

I'm done with the first two days, yay! They were easy but definitely gave me a bit of a wake up call for what the rest of the semester is going to be like. Should be a tough one :-\

I've got a lot of research hours this semester, especially considering I'm in two labs! I enjoy it so far but I just hope I don't mess anything important up! My classes vary greatly in difficulty. I think they will mainly just be large time consumers. One class I thought would be easy surprised me and it's actually going to be my most difficult one! At least another girl who I met today in lab is in it with me so maybe we'll be study buddies. After I finish this blog I'm going to start homework and hopefully keep procrastination at bay from this point on (yea right!).

I am in a Psych class, an honors Psych capstone, a Socio class, and a writing intensive Classical Humanities class PLUS being a Research Assistant!

My goal is to get another 4.0 this semester so I can have two in a row, wish me luck!!!

Anand and I went running last night, I was so proud of him for going with me because I know he hates it. After trying to find the "park just around the corner" for about 30 minutes we finally plugged it into the GPS and got there lol It figures! There weren't any good trails that we could see so we ran laps around an extended soccer practice field. I think when we calculated it out he ran about 2 miles and I ran about 2.5, so that's not bad at all! Soon he'll be passing me up, I just know it! ;) Until that day though I'll have to keep motivating him to keep up with me!!

I got to see Stephanie, my best friend since elementary school, last night! She stopped by Columbia to visit some friends here before going back to...are you ready for this...*Harvard* for the semester. I was so excited she called me, we got to sit and chat and catch up for a few hours which I loved! I got to show her the House (of course) and my room and we just enjoyed filling each other in about our lives. Every time we get together again I can definitely tell why we're still best friends! :) Of course I miss her already but at least I got a good Stephanie dose for now!! It was an awesome surprise!

Well now it's time for me to actually g4t stuff done tonight...boo. I guess I'll start reading out of those books that ended up costing me $400 this semester, ick!

I'll keep you updated!!!!

BID DAY

Oh my goodness, today was absolutely A-MAZ-ING! We worked so hard these last two weeks and it really paid off! The baby phis who joined us today are all gorgeous, super involved, and waaaaay fun. I'm so excited, we took some risks and ALL of it panned out beautifully :)

Not to mention I feel somewhat responsible for 4 girls joining our house today! I feel so honored!

Thanks to Beth for kicking our butts into shape and believing in us, McChes for keeping us working hard, Becca for dealing with all the craziness, Katie O for being so bubbly, Katie consultant for guiding us, Ashley for making a kick-ass dance, Phyllis for everything as usual, the moms (including my own!) for being so helpful with details, all of our day chairs, and of course all of my fabulous sisters for getting their act together and really working hard all week. It was totally worth it girls, sooo totally worth it! :)

I've got a lot of Phi Mu love in my heart right now. Mary, Mary, and Martha would be proud!

Here's to an awesome year!!!!!

Work Week: Day 1

So glad to have all of my sisters back! I love the bonding and the blossoming friendships :)

My daughter, Brittney, is back in town! Yaaaay! And my granddaughter, Amber, lives in the House now too! We have the bestest pledge family ever for sure!

I've finally gotten my portion of our room straightened up and I've even started decorating, pretty neat huh! Everyone loves Christy's flowers on the wall, which of course just so happened to look best in the shape of a quatrefoil ;)

Today was a pretty chill day for Work Week, it's fun showing the newer girls the ropes! I think everything is going to be so much easier this time around, so I plan on having a good time no matter what! Most girls are now checked in to the house, thank goodness, and I got to do my first day of dancing which always brightens my day. Today I was extra motivated after dance and decided to go running on the track. I made it to about a mile and a half after dancing for an hour so that's not so bad! At least I got out there at all! It was weird running on the track and not on trails, I think I've already turned into a distance runner, aaaah! Haha

Anand comes back to Columbia tomorrow and I'm SO excited! I've missed him :) I probably won't get to see him for very long tomorrow because that's when the more intensive stuff starts, but at least I'll try my best! His fishes definitely miss him too. I bet he's gonna have sooo much fun attempting to unpack (especially the things I packed for him Cindy-style lol) but at least he'll be back in town with his "homies." Sweet word.

Anyway, I need to get rest so I can keep being awesome this week, we've gotten off to a really great start!!! I LOVE PHI MU!!!!!

Busy week!!

So this week has been extremely busy and hectic for me!

Sunday, I ran in the five mile race with Mommy and Daddy. We thought the race was at 7:30 so we planned to arrive at 7, but it turned out it was at 7:00 so we got a whole 2 minutes to prepare and get our numbers on, thank goodness we were planning on being early! The run wasn't terrible and I ran it in 49 min and 13 sec which is pretty awesome! I started with a really fast pace but I just couldn't keep it up after 3.25 miles, so then Mommy passed me, but at least she was only 30 sec ahead! I got 68th overall out of 127!

Monday Tuesday and Wednesday flew by. I had so much packing to do and preparing for check-in along with taking care of puppies that I barely remember these days even happening!

Thursday I moved in to the Phi Mu House! Yay! It was great getting to see my friends on Exec and starting to plan the semester! We had several projects we worked on to help welcome the other members so that was fun!! Any down time I had I was getting all my documents together for check-in, story of my life for the past couple days! Friday was basically the same as Thursday.

Saturday was the big day!!! All the rest of the girls moved in and my check-in process worked well so I was excited! It was tedious but hopefully everything will run much smoother in the future :)

I'm already tired of writing so I'm going to be done. I've still got unpacking to do and then I have to run some errands and feed the fishies and stuff! Today was a long day, but at least I survived right??