Today was great! The sun was out in full force when I woke up this morning. I got out of the house, went to campus and had coffee. Went shopping and ran some errands with Jacqueline, the colony president, who I live with. Just one of those put you in a good mood days.
I have some plans for Easter and I'm glad I won't be spending the day alone. One of the advisors, who is my age, invited me to come to Easter with her famiy. This is such a great act of sisterhood and one of the many reasons I am so thankful to be a part of a sorority with such amazing women. It'll be great to be in a family atmosphere and have some home cooked food! I also am going to go and hang out on Saturday with Stephanie and some friends which should be good to shake things up in my life.
This afternoon I took a walk around this lake/pond thing of sorts that's right near the house. It was such a change of pace to get some fresh air and a little exercise, I miss that. Now that I completely explored this trail I think I'm going to try and go run the other days this week. At the end when you're right close back to Jacq's house there's a little dock with picnic tables and I went and just sat for a while.
It's really true that I am always a million times more happy when the sun is out. Sitting there with the sun on my back watching the water was probably the highlight of my week. Time where my computer wasn't in sight, I didn't have my work phone. Just me, and while I am alone a lot this year, just me in an environment I want to be in.
I think it's funny to think about the things that were so important to me a year ago and the changes I was going through in life. Then looking now and wondering if this time last year I would ever have imagined my life as it is now. I think it's funny how people can so quickly become such a large and important part of your life and you can easily give away your trust.
What I also find so interesting is how these people can have such a quick change of mind and heart and suddenly be out of your life as quickly as they came in with the wind. One thing I am thankful for though is having so many great memories to pull out of the files of my mind and that I have so many happy memories of a time in my life that luckily never got long enough to become tainted in any way.
One song that I find completely tells a story I can relate to with this is "This Ain't Goodbye" by Train--check it out. Love Train in general...God they're good! And "Hey Soul Sister" made it to #1 on iTunes this week finally. What a great pump up song I can't get enough of it.!
By the way the inspiration for my post title is a song by Ben Harper that I highly suggest you check out if you haven't heard it. Guess it's a big music day for me. With so much time alone, and on the computer, this year I have listened to ridiculous amounts of music. I use up my 40 hours a month on Pandora usually within the first week and a half of every month. And I've paid the 99 cents to keep listening until the next month. I've discovered a few new great music sites http://fratmusic.com and http://grooveshark.com. The first one has great party mixes and the second has a top hits playlist and then you can create and save your own playlists. Kind of like project playlist but way better.
Back to shoveling through a few more emails and some meeting planning right now and then I'm calling it a night. Overworked and underpaid...and lovin' (almost) every minute of it!
Until next time,
xoxo Anna
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