Sunday, August 4, 2013

Back after a long summer's nap

Well, I'M BACK-! for now.... we shall see how I keep up with this here blog over the school year =P It's been such a long time since I've even looked at this thing! Hopefully I can start to post somewhat regularly... or regularly irregularly...

Yeesh, it's August already! The past week or so I've mused on the fact that 2013 is already over halfway over, so I've been in a pretty nostalgic mood; listening to slow acoustic type music, wearing jeans and light sweaters, (!!!!) and thinking about the fall weather I adore so much. If there's one thing I love about the psychotic, bipolar disaster we call weather over here in Michigan, it's autumn. As summer fades, anticipation for winter builds- so it's this freakishly awesome in-between-state where warm and cold are constantly at war, and the result is colored leaves, crisp air, and sheer happiness! :) (I'm an October baby through and through, if you can't tell) Even the fact that my feet and hands have been colder than usual is making me excited =P

The prospect of going back to school is also surprisingly welcomed into my mind.... kind of. I've been doing some school reading lately, and the weekly routine of getting up, going to Mass, going to classes and seeing my siblings- erhm, classmates- for hours, cuddling up with some tea and a blanket to do my homework, everything- it sounds so appealing to me right about now. School can get crazy and be WAY too stressful, and after staying up until 1:30 or 2:00 in the morning every night can be slightly exhausting after a while, especially when there's a full day of school the next day and a couple hours of ballet to be endured on top of it, BUT- the education both my classmates and myself are receiving really is remarkable; we are blessed more than we know. The sacrifices our parents have made to ensure that we have a rich and rigorous authentically Catholic education are immense, and I'm so thankful to my mom and dad that my sister and I have had the opportunities that we've had, that we do have. So my question is: WHY NOT be totally excited to start another year there?!?!?!??! By the end of it, we'll have had two semesters to love each other more and become better friends, two semesters to strengthen our relationship with God and to deepen our understanding of the faith, and two semesters to grow more brain!!! (or at least stuff even further what brains we do have ;) 

So to the class of 2015: These two years are our years. Our years to really stick together and be awesomer than EVER!! This is our high school class! these years will be the memories we'll look back on after ten years, when we have children of our own, and when we've settled into our various vocations. So let's make 'em count! I LOVE YOU!!!! 

So on the fourteenth of this loverly month, I will be doing a photoshoot with my friends Aubrey and Emily! The pictures will be taken by Naomi Earnest, a talented photographer in the Ann Arbor-Saline area- she's already snapped some lovely shots of the beautiful Emily, which I would encourage you to check out on Mrs. Earnest's blog here. I shall try to post some of the pictures after the fact, but I really don't know if that's going to happen for sure or not =P for you Facebookies, I think Naomi will post them on the vortex, if you're interested.

HERE, have a song. "Down there by the Train" by Tom Waits. It's quite melancholic if you listen closely to the lyrics, and his voice takes some getting used to, but he's won me over for the most part. His voice sounds like Fall and Winter to me. Hehehe :)  (It is an acquired taste though, let me tell you.) This is an example of what I've been listening to lately ;) 

Alrighty, well if you've read to the end of this, I applaud you. ;) God bless! 

xo
B :)

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