new year.. new goals..

Okay so the year is already 11 days in.. so perhaps the phrase "new year" has come and gone. And with it so many fun things. A crazy rain storm new years night, MSU winning the Gator Bowl.. or should I say pulverizing Michigan? Yes, let's go with pulverizing Michigan! The new year has also brought a purchase of MCAT studying materials (which should arrive soon) and the hope of the purchase of a new computer (Macbook Pro all the wayyy for apt 8!).

The newest fun thing that this year brought was a snow storm to sweet Starkville which put my friends out of school for a day and put me out of work for a day and a half.. glorious, glorious times. We played and played in the snow (after we got done complaining that it wasn't snowing enough..). My friends and I walked to campus with Baxter in tow and pelted each other with snowballs along the way, tried out many sledding hills on the way there til finally settling on the biggest hill in town (or so we thought) behind the MSU postoffice. We acted like a bunch of 5 year olds.. sliding down the hill and sprinting back up. Definitely the most fun of the year thus far! I decided I want to live somewhere that it snows some during the year. Not feet and feet of snow, but definitely a couple inches every now and then.

I am slowly embracing the idea of MCAT studying every night. I began tonight reading one of the workbooks that was emailed to me.. with the assurance that a hard copy was soon to follow. This semester will be quite different from the last as I spend most of my time after work studying instead of simply giving in to whatever I wanted to do any given night. I keep reminding myself that by acing this test I am one step closer to my dream.. and I am counting on you guys to remind me of that too! Daily, if need be!!

The other thing I hope this new year brings is a newfound closeness between me and Jesus. I so enjoy talking to Him as I go throughout my day.. and I enjoy reading books about different views of Christianity and such. It is such a blessing in my life these days to have time to do that.. to read whatever type of books I want.

Last but not least.. I should share some pictures of my last couple weeks!

sweet Raysha and I at a wedding.. and now she is married.. whoa!!

the boyfriend.. you would not believe how hard we had to try to get a good picture (insert some kind of joke here....)

partial small group reunion over christmas! we missed you drew!

Merry Christmas family!

this sweet puppy dog still holds my heart

I will try to blog more these days.. but I really make no promises seeing as how most of the things I would blog about would be MCAT related.. and probably not very interesting to anyone but myself. Nevertheless, I shall try!