The End of the Week Already

It's Thursday! Yay! I love Thursday. One evening class, so I can work on getting stuff done throughout the day. Today is Sara's (my roomie from last year and one of my roomies for next year) birthday. We're going out to Coldstone tonight after we're all back from classes, then we're having our usual CSI night. Although, I may have to skip TV tonight and finish reading Antigone. Bah.

This weekend is the Nickel Creek concert in Portland...yippeee!! I can't wait to go see more of the west coast and to hear some incredible music while I'm at it!

The bachelorette party for my best friend, Kim, is all in order now. It's Thurs the 29th at Paint-A-Pot in Holland. It's a good, central meeting place for all of us. She and will have been running errands all day in GR and will be ready for a break and some light hearted fun with a bunch of our Ranch friends. We can't wait! I haven't told Kim about what we're doing yet. She's just going to find out once we get there. The girls and I are really excited. Everything that we paint will turn into a gift for Kim and Troy, so they'll have all kinds of personal dishes and things to use and remember us and the party by. I know, it's a GREAT idea. Thank you, thank you :) After painting pottery we're going to go out for drinks and dessert. Kim's sis, Robin, is also flying in from the West Coast (San Diego) and will be staying at Kim's with me until the wedding, so we're going to have a small slumber party Thurs or Friday night with movies, popcorn, talking, etc. It'll be a good time. I love that everything is coming together so well!

It's the end of the third week and I'm feeling the fast pace I need to keep this quarter. I need to stay on top of everything, if not ahead of everything! I'll have major work to do this weekend and next week in order to be ready to leave for a week for the wedding. I'm taking two of my three mid-terms early, so they will be out of the way and I won't have to worry about them at all while I'm in MI, so there's a relief.

I've been invited to apply for a spiritual pilgrimmage to Iona, Scotland at the end of this summer. The office of Campus Ministries are the ones putting it on. I have the time, the great desire to go (the trip sounds like it was written for me and where I am in my walk with Christ), but I do not know yet if I have the funds. Hmmm...I'm thinking of applying and seeing if I get in first, and then maybe by then I'll know whether or not I can afford it. Pray for me...

Off to Child Language Development and the Reading Process...woo hoo!

Peace