Bring on the weekend! Woo!

Dang. Everything in my life seems to be going my way right now. It's amazing! Things are turning out better than I could have imagined and everything is beginning to line up. Wow, it's just incredible. I almost wish I could step OUT of my life and watch it from a 3rd party perspective, but then I snap out of that and think, NO! I want to LIVE this, not watch it!

I am really looking forward to next year already. I am so excited to be an RA, and the planning for that is going well. I have some of the best girls for my leadership staff, and of the girls that I know of who have already signed up for housing are awesome. Kem 3rd East is the place to be, I can feel it already! The whole 3rd floor should be incredible, on that note. Mel is the RA on the West side (fo shizzle?!) and I think she will be an excellent little rah-rah. I ate lunch with Megan Iazeolla today and explained her responsibilities as leadership under me; I just got more and more excited as we chatted. I'm so glad she is my suitemate! WOO!! I haven't decided on a theme for the unit yet, but I have some pretty fun ideas a-brewing. Good thing I am creative, or else we would be stuck with plain white walls. How boring. I still have plenty of time to decide all of that stuff, but I need to be deciding on unit parents in the next few weeks and I'm not sure of who to ask.

And Nicole is my roommate! That excites me. I don't know her very well, but I'm looking forward to living with her. Noz is on my floor, too. She told me she signed up to be in one of the 8 person suites and that just made my day complete. Yay, Nozy-Noz.

Also, I am becoming more aware of what my future holds. And by future, I mean the future that awaits me after I break out of "The Wu." I'm beginning to see where my passions are and what I truly enjoy doing, let alone what I am the most gifted at and where my talents lie. It's been a long year trying to deceipher those things out, that's for sure. I've gotten fairly discouraged a few times, but thankfully the Lord is faithful and provides what I need, usually in the form of other people. I like people. Anyhoo, I'm seeing how the things that I like the most (history, theology, cultural studies, Spanish, etc) fit together. Finally. I feel like I have learned so much this semester. My classes all seem to be fitting together and overlapping, which provides valuable insight into each different area. I love that! Do I know what I will be doing in 5 years? Hahaha, heck no! BUT I have more of an idea. That's refreshing.

I rearranged our rooms last night. I was on a big decorating kick. I want everyone to come see just how adorable my new little area is. The living room is more functional, too, and this layout makes it look even bigger. That was a feat, as it's already bigger than the rest of the living rooms in the whole dorm. Also, I unbunked my bed, finally. There was no need for it to be bunked anymore, since nobody sleeps up there, so we took the bed apart. Right now, it's sitting in the hallway outside of the storage closet. I put a note on it saying we'd move it "later." I want to see how long it can stay there unti lsomeone gets mad at us and makes us move it out of the way. It's not blocking anyhting, though, so we'll just wait and see. It's just amazing, though! I can see my desk when I walk in the door! Taking down that 2nd bed opened up the room a lot. I can sit up straight on my bed now! And LIGHT gets to it, which is new! I kept looking at it last night, smiling. Who knew that no longer having an empty bed on top of mine would make the world a better place? I'm just really easily pleased, I guess. But that's a good thing. It's people like me who find the joy in the small things, so other people can be happy with the big, expensive crap. Nope, just rearrange some furniture and I'm all smiles.

A list of important things that have occured over the past few days of my life:

* I am an RA next year. WOO!! I'm pumped! Kem Hall, 3rd East. Everybody, sign up to live in my unit, it promises to be oodles of fun. Ween-tacular, to be exact. I found out early, early Friday morning (and by early, I mean I went on a mini-scavenger hunt with the other future RAs. I found myself sitting in Steak n' Shake at 2:30 a.m., wearing someone else's socks and horrid, bright orange lipstick smeared on my face as "war paint."), then got my official letter in my mail box later in the day.

* My family came to campus on Friday. We ate in Baldwin, then we went to Ivanhoes. Ivanhoes is the coolest ice cream place around. Actually, I think it is the ONLY ice cream parlor around, so it wins by default but still, it's nice. After that, we all went to Kalee's room and watched my video of Kalee and Nicole sock wrestling, then I went home with my parents. The reason they came in the first place was to pick me up. I had left my car at home because both of their cars happened to be in the shop at the same time. Bummer.

* Dad and I watched _El Dorado_ after we got home Friday night. That's my favorite John Wayne movie. I love watching movies on my parent's bed with my dad. We always both fall asleep very quickly, it never fails. If anyone is ever looking to watch a good JW movie, let me suggest this one. I love it. _The War Wagon_ is a goodie, too, but _El Dorado_ wins hands down. You know it's a good western when the main character's name is Cole Thornton. Maybe I'll name my first son Cole Thornton Insert-last-name-here. Ok, maybe not. And a recovering alcoholic for a sheriff named J.P. Hera? Come on, this is good stuff!

* Saturday afternoon, I went out with Andrew. Spending time with him was, by far, the highlight of the weekend. I don't think I stopped smiling all night on Saturday. :)

* A quote from Ben Waterman at church today, "Keenan, you look good enough to eat! And I'm feeling cannibalistic!" I had to sit down, I was laughing so hard.

* Stroup was at church today, and she came to eat lunch at my house afterward. It was so good to see her. I've been incredibly worried about her the past few weeks, but I guess things have worked themselves out and are on the upswing once again (If you are reading this, Stroupy, I love you!). That makes me very, very happy. She is coming to visit next weekend, and I'm already excited. The best relationships are the ones that never seem to fade as time passes. I don't get to see her very much, but when we finally do get to spend time together, it's as if I saw her yesterday and nothing has changed between us. Sigh, what a great friend.

That's my weekend in a nut shell. I hope everybody else had a spendid Valentine's Day, and if not, well... better luck next year? I'm kind of glad that's it's over, honestly(Allow me to clarify. I LOVED what I did on V-day. I wouldn't have changed anything about it.), because I was getting pretty tired of hearing people complain about the stupidity and vanity of the holiday, but I really think people were just upset because they didn't have someone to spend the day with. That's a legitimate thing, but even when I didn't have a "significant other" with whom I could celebrate the day (that'd be the past 19 years, to be exact) I didn't loathe the 14th of February.

Besides, St. Patrick's Day will be here before you know it, and then we can all river dance and drink green beer (or kool-aid, if you are IWU-conscious) and pinch people for not wearing green. And really, when else are leprochauns cool?! Who wouldn't want to be a part of that? Sign me up!!