We skipped fall and arrived at winter

Hi everyone!
So, I left Minnesota thursday evening to about 80 degree weather and came back sunday night to pouring rain and freezing cold temperatures! I'm not sure exactly how cold it was, but I had shorts and a t-shirt on and that was not enough clothes! Right now it's 44 degrees and I just got back from this outdoor rally in the park next to us called Reign Down. I had my pea coat, jeans, mittens, and a scarf and I still could have been warmer. Can't wait 'til the actual winter!! :/

Tonight was one of our first real musical practices for the "Fantasticks". It was a choreography only rehearsal and I had a blast! We choreographed two songs today. One called "the abduction scene" where we play indians and cavalry, and the other was called "Pay" where we do a lot of creating the scene as he sings through the song. I actually met everyone today and I think had a small conversation with all of them which was really good. It will be fun to get to know everyone better at rehearsals.

School has been going good...I feel like I have a good handle on my homework and so far have good grades in my classes. I do have 2 tests this week though so we'll see after that.

This past weekend I got to go home for the Norris Musical "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers". It was really cute and they did a really good job on it! I thought I would miss being in the production a lot, but I just enjoyed watching it from the seats instead.

Well, this is one of my only nights I've had without much homework, so I think I'm gonna go and just enjoy it.

Too long

Oops. I thought I would be able to keep up with this, but I don't know...it might just be a monthly publication. But anyways, rather than type a lot about what's been going on since the last time I posted, I think I'll just try to put some pics on here.

My room when I first moved in

My roomate and I before "SACadelic"

Jill and I at Applebees during the Lifelight festival

The Old Mill Ruins a couple blocks from school

Our beds after rearranging again today

My desk...nice and clean!

The start of something new?

Well, here we go...I haven't decided if getting a blog is
A. a sign of maturity
B. like going back to my middle school days of using Xanga....or
C. getting old and boring....

I'm not sure yet, but I'll continue it as long as I have time and as long as I enjoy doing it I guess. First my sisters had blogs and then my brother, then finally my mom...kind of sad that I get one after my mom, but at least I beat my dad. Hmm...that'll be the day.

Well, I'm sitting in Minnesota right now with one day before embarking on the next "chapter" of my life. I've been excited about this day for the last 4 years, and I've been waiting for that wave of dread to come over me, but it hasn't happened yet. Hopefully the optimism continues. We'll see what my posts look like when homework is in full swing and the newness has died down.

Mom and I drove up to Steph's(my sister's) house this afternoon with my car loaded to the top with clothes, a chair, books, backpack, shoes, laundry detergent, and a very traumatized pink beta fish named Willie. I'm generally a pretty optimistic person so the thought of Willie not surviving the trip never crossed my mind until we had got here, sat down to eat dinner, and I realized Willie was still sitting in a crockpot in the warming car. I ran outside and fortunately, he was still alive....swimming like he had gotten extremely seasick on the trip up, but nevertheless, swimming! Thank goodness I didn't have to experience his death... :/

Tomorrow we're going to the state fair where I'm sure I'll get a start on the freshman 15. Jeremy (brother-in-law), has convinced me that I'm going to love chocolate covered bacon, but I guess that's one thing that will have to be tried before I'm going to admit to liking. Sounds disgusting, but we'll see.

Well, I should probably get to sleep and try to get 'rid of these allergies or a cold that I've contracted in the last few days.