The Upside of What May Be the Downside

I am so excited for this Spring semester!  Things are going well, despite the whole thing getting off to a rough start with having to catch a ride with my high school and college classmate Nathan Lippert.  Not that that's a bad thing,  I just like my driving time jamming out to my Annie soundtrack, Wicked Soundtrack, Selena Gomez, Taylor Swift.... all those fun things. :) Things are going right though, and I feel like I should list them as future reference when the semester starts getting bad.  (I have terrible Irish luck, so I know it's bound to go bad)

1.  I was able to have a normal conversation with someone who I have not had a good conversation with in 2 years, and I wouldn't even call that one good conversation.  It was a nice change.

2.  I'm now a writer for the school newspaper.  Randomly went to a meeting this morning and got all signed up for an advice column!  I always wanted to be a writer, and I've had people tell me to do so... now I get too! And get paid as well, which is nice, since I now can't go get my job at the zoo :( ...)

3. I work with the coolest people in the world with tele-counseling!! It may be work but with these people it rarely feels like work :D

4.  I got a card from Katie Strupp today!! WITH A CHECK! Those Pray! shirts were one of the top ten stupidest things I have ever done.  But I love mine, I love seeing people wearing them, and I'm so glad to finally have all the money in for them.  I still owe 3 people a shirt and one person money.... need to get on that...

5. I ordered my Beauty and the Beast poster!! I thought about letting my Belle Keepsake box go back up on Disney Movie Rewards, but I found it on Ebay for like, 11 dollars, and I'm going to try to win it.  I would have had to buy two more movies to get it anyway... stupid points... At least Mulan and Bambi can have some company on my wall.  I don't think they like Justin Bieber very well!

6.  I am officially a Junior in college!! That's so weird... Thank you J- Term!

7.  Rachel Olsen is such a wonderful friend!! She drove me to Wal-Mart yesterday and let me get groceries.  All I had was some Sunny D and VERY moldy bread left in my room after vacation... Not exactly healthy to live on... Rachel is my best friend here and she's so full of God! I saw God use her as a tool right there in a Wal- Mart aisle!  It's nice to know people like her are in the world :)

8.  My room smells AWESOME!  I got a Scentsy fire-less candle thingie and it smells AMAZING!  I got it for Christmas.

9.  I have so few classes!  I'm used to 3, boom boom boom, 3 days a week in the morning, with more in the afternoon, and classes on the other 2 days of the basic work week as well.  I had 3 classes today,
spread out, and plenty of nap time!!  I have 2 classes tomorrow, and one is Choir! Ha! I love this!  And painting class is going to be like I died and went to heaven! A-mazing!

10.  The last great thing about this semester, and my whole life, is that even when I have something terrible happen, I always know God will swing it around in His own time.  He will always see me through.  My insecurities are arrogance.  Is He not big enough? Not great enough?

The sun will come out

Tomorrow

So you gotta hang on til tomorrow

There'll be sun

Just thinking about 

Tomorrow

clears away the cobwebs and the sorrow

til there's none

When I'm stuck with a day

that's grey and lonely

I just stick up my chin

and grin 

and say, oh

The sun will come out Tomorrow!