I do...?

I feel like everyone I know is getting engaged. I guess it makes sense since we're all gonna graduate this year or next and this is the age when people typically start getting engaged. It's just weird because I still feel like a kid and I can't imagine getting engaged right now.

Anywho, I judged a solo and ensemble contest this morning with my friend Tara (our time was volunteered by our professor....) and it wasn't as painful as I thought it was going to be. The contest was for 5th and 6th grade students, so we got to hear LOTS of Suzuki. Most of the kids did really well. We actually got to give one kid an Honors rating, and he was so excited. That was probably the highlight of my morning.

Mmk well I'm gonna go take a nap now since I had to get up at stupid:30 this morning. 'Til tomorrow.

[This is the bean in Millennium Park in Chicago. I took this picture when I was there with my family a couple of years ago. Cool, huh? :)]

Quarter-life crisis

I honestly have absolutely no idea what I want to do with my life. I'm afraid of making any life-changing decisions because I worry that it might be the wrong one, but I'm also afraid of regretting anything I haven't done. There are so many things I want to do, all of which require resources which I don't currently possess, but I'm scared of breaking away from the path I'm currently following because this one at least has a foreseeable future.

I had a similar crisis this time last year, but I chalked it up then to the horrible living situation I had been dealing with since the previous October. My living situation right now is much better than it was last year, however, and there really isn't anything else going on in my life that might be causing me to question everything I've been doing for the past three years of my life.

I guess my main concern is that I don't want to settle. I feel like once I graduate, I'm going to start teaching, and that's going to be it. That's what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my life. Don't get me wrong, I love to teach, but I don't want the rest of my life to start when I'm 22. I don't really think I was made for a career. In my ideal reality, I would work a myriad of jobs. I would try out anything that interested me. I would go back to school and get more degrees just for the sake of learning more about topics which interested me.

What will probably end up happening is me staying right where I am and wondering what would have happened if I had just been a little more courageous.

Hoppipola

I will love for ever and ever anyone who can tell me from which movie this picture comes. Ta!

Is it summer yet??

I'm so ready to be finished with school. I can't imagine having to do another year of this. Can't I just graduate already???

Also, I know I said I would talk about the side-by-side rehearsal in this post, but I really don't feel like writing right now. I just want to sleep forever and ever. So here's a nice picture to look at while you wait for tomorrow's post. Goodnight!

All nighters SUCK

I took this picture in the library last night while I was working on the presentation I had to give today. I always tell myself that I'm going to stop procrastinating. It never happens. Anyway, we had a side-by-side rehearsal with the FWSO today (it was amazing. I'll talk more about it tomorrow), and I literally fell asleep in the middle of rehearsal. So yeah. I'm gonna go to bed now. Goodnight!

All this beauty

The other day I was at the store with my dad getting groceries for dinner, and I saw this while walking down the frozen food aise:

For a while, I was trying to figure out how the Tom Thumb employees had managed to make the ice look like that, but then I realized that it had naturally frozen like that. These beautiful, leafy patterns appeared on every door in that aisle. I looked around to see if anyone else had noticed, but no one else was paying much attention.

I guess this is just a little reminder to always look for the beautiful things in life, no matter where they happen to appear.

Happy Easter!!

It was a good day, overall. I was feeling rather cynical at the church service this morning, but I will spare you from what was going through my head this morning. Or maybe I'll just save it for another post. Anyway, at breakfast before we went to church we got our annual easter baskets from Mom filled with dark chocolate and jelly beans and miscellaneous gifts. My favorite part was the actual basket. Isn't it adorable??

After church was Easter lunch at Mimi's house. These flowers were blooming at her neighbors house. I think they're called wisteria.

So pretty!

I didn't take any pictures of lunch, but it was delicious. We had pork, veggies, rolls, and plenty of really good wine. This picture is of what we had for desert. It's a cupcake that Mimi baked inside this jar and topped with raspberries and chocolate frosting. It was as delicious as it looks.

And of course the whole family had our annual post-Easter nap. I'm not sure about everyone else, but I slept for two hours and it was glorious. I hope everyone else had a fantastic Easter!

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Congratulations! You have been awarded the chance to look inside Lacy's mind! In this blog post you will experience what no other meanderer of the internet has ever before experienced! Prepare yourself, for what you are about to read... may shock you.

"Oh. It's 11:00. I haven't written my blog for today yet. Guess I should do that.

*stares blankly at screen*

"I'm out of things to write about. I've exhausted all my resources. Why did I decide to do this again? Maybe I should just switch to every other day. Or every few days. Or whenever I feel like it."

Ok, I can't do this. My stream of conscious is just as uninteresting as my actual life. So yeah, here's today's post. Hopefully I'll have some interesting Easter pictures/stories for y'all tomorrow.

Fridays are good

I dyed eggs with my mom today. Well, it was more like she watched me while I dyed them. It was a lot more fun than I thought it was going to be. Rather than bore you with the details, I will just show you the pictures.

There were more than this but these were the only ones worth photographing.

We had to get some school spirit in there. Doug made the A&M one. The bottom says "Whooooop!"

My typing is disturbing Sparky's sleeping. Look at that glare! Guess that's my cue. 'TIl tomorrow, then!

Well hey there, Sand Man

I don't really want to write anything right now. I was going to post a YouTube video, but YouTube isn't loading for some reason. Phooey.

The good news is that I'm home for Easter. No class tomorrow due to Good Friday, which means I get to SLEEP. Halleluia.

Sorry for the lameness of today's post. If anyone is actually reading this, feel free to complain about it in a comment.

...kbye!

Brunettes have more fun

I dyed my hair! This picture doesn't really do a good job of showing the new color, but it's a few shades darker than it was before. I really like it. =)

In other news (I say this a lot, don't I? I'm gonna have to come up with another phrase), I pulled two all-nighters in a row the past couple of nights and am extraordinarily tired, so I am gonna go on to bed. 'Til next time!

I heart wine

I love it when I find a cheap wine that's super delicious. This was about $6 at Target. If you like fruity wines, I suggest giving this one a try. Also, it has a screw top which is always a plus in my book.

In other news, I pulled an all-nighter last night so I could get the rough draft of a project finished. My rough draft was 23 pages long. I thought mine was going to be one of the longer ones, but when I got to class I discovered that most people's drafts were between 20 and 40 (!!) pages. I don't even want to think about how long the final project is going to be...

Anyway, the reason I am confessing about my all-nighter is because right now I am attempting to study for a test I have tomorrow and it is really, really hard to do. The three hour nap I took earlier and the copious amounts of caffeine I've had since I woke up don't seem to be doing me any good. Needless to say, I don't think I'll be staying up very late tonight.

Who decided that this would be a good idea??

Oh, right. I did.

I started doing this because I wanted to get back into the habit of writing, but lately it's just been kind of a hassle. Also, I got the idea for this little challenge while I was on Spring Break, blissfuly free from any and all school work.

Of course, now that I've been back for a while, updating my blog every single day is a much harder task than I thought it was going to be. Particularly since I never really have anything to say. I mean, let's be totally honest with ourselves. Who wants to sit around and read all the random crap that comes out of my brain when I'm super-duper stressed? Right. That's what I thought.

So anyway, I figured I'd just go ahead and get today's post out of the way while I have some time before class. Although I really should be working on the rough draft of that project that's due tomorrow.

Also, can I just say that updating my blog while drinking coffee at Einstein's makes me feel really urban and chic? I feel like I should be surrounded by skyscrapers and busy business people rushing in and out while I watch them from my seat in this booth. Never mind the fact that I haven't showered and look like I just rolled out of bed and came straight here. Which, you know. I did.

Right, well I do actually have to go to class now. I hope to God we don't have a quiz today because I didn't read the chapter and I am all out of freebies. Here's hopin'.

'Til tomorrow!

Here's today's blog

Oops

I forgot to update my blog yesterday. I doubt anyone noticed, though.

I used to get headaches a lot. Seriously, I used to get headaches every couple of days, and more often than not they were debilitating. Thankfully I don't get them as often anymore, but when I do get them they're pretty bad. Like the one I have right now. Thankfully the Excedrin is starting to kick it. It feels like a blanket over my brain, if you can imagine that.

Um, yeah.

Anyway.

I slept for 14 hours last night. I feel like I could probably do the same tonight. I have a lot of catching up to do from last week. So yeah. I'm gonna go do that now. Goodnight, imaginary readers!

I just want to sleeeeeeep

I tried to post from my phone yesterday, but it doesn't seem to have appeared. Hmmm..

In other news, I am severely sleep deprived. It may be a while before I can write another coherent post.

Umm. Yeah. Bye.

Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweek!

My life is so much less interesting now that I'm back at school. Also, my camera battery is dead and I can't find the charger. Sad face.

In other news, I'm about halfway done with my paper. So, yeah. Hopefully I'll be wrapping that up soon.

Also, my cousin is cuter than yours. KTHXBAI!

Stress

I have a term paper due Friday. I may have mentioned that before. I still have a ton of work to do. I also have a rough draft of a project due next Tuesday. The final draft of this project will probably be between 40 and 60 pages in length. I haven't started because I've had too much other stuff to do.

So, yeah. If my posts over the next few days seem less than sane, that's why.

Snow, now with 100% more pictures!

Snow, wtf?

It occurs to me that I haven't updated my blog yet today. So... yeah. Here we go.

Yesterday it was 70 degrees and sunny here in North Texas. Now? It's 34 degrees and snowing. WTF?!?! I'd post a picture of the snow for you, but it's itty bitty and isn't showing up in any of my pictures. Boo.

Well, since I have absolutely nothing to talk about, I'm going to just post an oldish picture and call this post a wrap.