the beginning

As I was creating this blog, I remembered Xanga. That was my first online blogging experience. While reading it, I realized how much of a high schooler I really was. We all know what that means... I wrote a few profound things, but overall a lot of my entries were full of information that people either didn't want to know or didn't need to know. Now that I just finished my third year of college, I decided that this was something I could do to express my opinions on things, maybe vent a little bit, and most importantly show my love for people. What you are about to experience is the life of your typical college student. This may sound slightly boring, but I assure you that your "typical" college student may not be as typical as you think. So here we go.

I'll go ahead and start with some general yet important information about me.

There are three very important things in my life, and they all mean the world to me: my family, my friends, and music. My family and I are very close, and I love them more than words can express. My friends are the people who are constantly on my mind, and they're the other people (other than family) that I would most willingly give my life for. And music is my passion and is something I'll never give up as long as I live. I love singing. I love playing the piano.

Here's my life lately.

I finished my junior year at the University of Oklahoma last week. As it came to a close, I really began thinking about what my life will be like in the coming years. My years in college have flown by faster than I could have ever possibly imagined, but I think I can use them to get a glimpse of what my life could become. These are some of the most important years of my life, so surely they can help me determine how to live the rest of my life.

Since summer has started, a few interesting things have happened.

1. Rachael, one of my very best friends, graduated. This is very exciting/traumatizing because as excited as I am for her to do amazing things with her life, she will be greatly missed by all of the people that she touched.

2. Oklahoma hasn't seen temperatures over 90 degrees. It's tornado season so we've had lots of storms come through, but it's been unusually cool.

3. (Well, really a sub-note of 2) Oklahoma had the worst hailstorm it's ever seen on Sunday. Now we're talking some UNREAL sizes and amounts of hail. I was at my aunt's house when it hit. We got golf ball sized there. As we were watching the news (we=me, my aunt, and my grandma), good ol' Mike Morgan informed us that parts of Oklahoma City had softball sized hail. AND it was hailing so much that, no lie, the ground looked like it was covered in snow. Oh yeah, and to make things worse, the whole storm lasted all of 5 minutes. The amount of damage caused in 5 minutes of storm was unbelievable. Then after it stormed, it was as sunny as could be, like someone played a huge prank on Oklahoma City. "Oh just kidding. The storm that just shattered your windshield didn't really happen."

4. After somewhat bragging about having 20/20 vision my whole life, I discovered on Tuesday that I no longer have 20/20 vision. I mentioned something to my mom last year about how I couldn't really see very well far away, but my lack of seeing far away never really hindered me at all or caused headaches or anything, so I just put it off. I said something to my mom again a couple of weeks ago, and so she scheduled me an eye appointment. So I went in on Tuesday at 11 and left at 1 with contacts and an order for some glasses. Now, as bummed as I was about having to get all these things, I am pretty glad I can see clearer, and my glasses that I ordered are SUPER cute. So, I guess it's not all bad.

All of these things are pretty minor occurrences in the long run, but right now they're pretty life-altering, which then goes to show that the little things in life really do make a difference, even if it's only for a little while.

As a young woman, I know I've still got things to learn, I'm going to make mistakes, and I've still got my life to figure out, but at the end of the day I know 3 things.

I am loved.

I will always be loved.

LOVE conquers ALL.

Thanks for reading. You'll hear from me again soon.