Well, I know its been forever. Life is good.

Anyway I have to sit through a CPA firms webcast on effective writing for my Tax class and I'm a bit bored. SO I'm playing on the internet while listening. I usually get paid for these thingies not the other way around.

Anyway.....

Nebraska is growing on me and at the same time I'm missing FL and at the same time I'm really excited about moving to PA in the Summer. So I was thinking about the unique positives of each area I've lived in and am going to.

Southern Maryland:
Family
Pretty (mostly)
Water is very close
You can eat crabs any time you want
Lots of stores and things to do
Lots of jobs and money
No matter how much roads change I'll always be able to know where to go
It will always feel like home

Saint Augustine, Florida
Absolutely Beautiful
Warm
Sunny
The Ocean is RIGHT there!
Familar
Lots of accounting jobs and job contacts
Pretty much the same stores as in the East Coast
Everything is there but you can still live in the country
Reasonable to live there
Disney is close!
LOTS of things to do

Eastern Nebraska
Kristen
my job
PEOPLE
friendly people
higher ethical standards
family/Christian values prevelant
More down to earth
Very economical to live here
I'm comfortable here

Southwestern, PA
Nathanael (most important)
Family
Settled
LOTS of outdoor things to do
Close to MD
Closer to FL than NE
Closer to large bodies of water
Mountains/hills
Very pretty
Economical to live there
Everything is there but you can still live in the country
Less crowded


So anyway.... remarkably when I make this list everywhere has about the same positives..they are just weighted differently. Interesting

A Psalm Of Life
Poem lyrics of A Psalm Of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Tell me not in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou are, to dust thou returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each tomorrow
Find us farther than today.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.

In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife!

Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act, - act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o'erhead!

Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sand of time;

Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solenm main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.

Let us then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.

Wow its been forever since I last updated my Journal. I've been crazy busy this past month though. I've been spending all my weekends up in Johnstown and have started dating a great guy and everythings pretty sunshiny there. I've had the most fun - biking and flying and hanging out and just having tons of fun. Like I said crazy busy. I drove out to Nebraska last week and stopped in Saint Louis along the way and saw the arch! YAY! That was very cool. I'm all settled into the Lincoln house - I bought all my bedroom furniture for a total of $30(except the bed) and had a fantastic time repainting everything in crazy colors. Lots of fun.

Anyway...life is good.

I miss PA but other than that things are swell.

I talked to the admissions person at UNL and he seemed to think my application was positive and I should hear from them very soon. My current concern is getting a job. I'm going slightly crazy from lack of job. I've never taken a break this long and I am really ready to find a job. I've just been able to start looking though since I just came out and I seem to have some good leads so ... nice.

I love this song. Its one of those songs that fits my life at this exact time.

After years of expensive education
A car full of books and anticipation
I'm an expert on Shakespeare and that's a hell of a lot
But the world don't need scholars as much as I thought
Maybe ill go traveling for a year
Finding myself or start a career
I could work for the poor though I'm hungry for fame
We all seem so different but we're just the same

Maybe I'll go to the gym so I don't get fat
Are things more easy with a tight six pack?
Who knows the answers
Who do you trust?
I can't event separate love from lust

Maybe I'll move back home and pay off my loans
Working nine to five answering phones
Don't make me live for my Friday nights
Drinking eight pints and getting in fights

I don't want to get up just let me lie in
Leave me alone I'm a twenty something

Maybe Ill just fall in love
That could solve it all
Philosophers' say that that's enough
There surely must be more

Love ain't the answer nor is work
The truth alludes me so much it hurts
But I'm still having fun and I guess that's the key
I'm a twenty something and I'll keep being me

So since I've been the loser blogger lately I figured I'd update...

I just got back from PA Monday and we're going back up tomorrow apparently. Kristen and i flew into MD on the 5th and went to DC, Williamsburgh and all which has been fun. We went to the spy museum which was awesome. And this time next week I'll be driving to Nebraska. SO much traveling about. Still waiting on my acceptance/rejection from UNL....

By the way I love this song and it kinda describes the way I feel right now....


Open Road

I'm sitting at the wheel
I got a green light
I'm not afraid of nothing
cos heart and soul im built for life

so let the engines roar
push the pedal down
i want the white lines on my highway
to lead me out of town

I'm rolling on and on and on
who knows where i'm going

Life is an open road
its the best story never told
It's an endless sky, it's the deepest sea
life is an open road to me
life is an open road to me

i got headlights
to guide me thru the night
i got the window down and the radio playing
it makes me feel alive

I'm rollin on and on and on
who knows where im goin

life is an open road
it's the best story never told
it's an endless sky, it's the deepest sea
life is an open road to me
life is an open road to me

So I'm in Nebraska tonight. Yesterday I came home to MD from a weekend at PA to help Mom fix up one of the rental houses. The house Kristen and I rented is adorable, its cute and contempory yet has lots of character. I love it. Anyhow.... not much else is new, I'm enjoying my break and am still desperatly hoping to get into UNL. I called Flagler today and they informed me they were just now starting to send out transcripts this week due to "updates" they had to make to the register system. Crazyiness. Anyway I'm praying I get in.....

My parents bought my sister and I e Red Slider turtle hatchlings. They are aquatic turtles and are absoloutly adorable. I spent the past hour concoting a habitat for them in an aquarium tank. they're adorable and keep swimming all over it. The one can see her reflection in the back of the tank and is memorized by it.

Well I graduated. With Honors! It was really nice most of my family was there and it was awsome. Mom and Dad bought me a super nice diploma frame and frame and a Sephora gift certificate AND a turtle, which i am naming Saphira. Kristen bought me an awesome makeup kit and Gammy gave me money. Anyway its been a great weekend hanging out with everyone.

Its so excited graduateing and I am really excited about leaving for new things, but I am also incredibly sad leaving. I'll miss this place and school so much. I'm also terrified everthing will work out right. But i know in all it will. Anyway its really hard leaving this place. Its so beautiful and wonderful. Anyway


laters I guess.

Well all my classes are over. My auditing professor shocked everyone by buying us all beers at Scarlett’s for our last class.
I have two finals tomorrow and two more on Tuesday and then a major exit exam on Wednesday. I think I’ve bagged my honor stole, I could still mess up this week on exams but I got an A in my iffy class so I think I’m good. I am so excited; I can’t believe I graduate next Saturday!

I went to sleep around 1 Saturday morning and woke up at 3 and couldn’t get back to sleep for anything. No sleep for me. The plus was that I got to see one of the most beautiful sunrises ever on the beach. It was perfect. I can’t wait to move and try new things but I am going to miss the Ocean so much. It has such a positive effect on me. I mean after getting absolutely no sleep AND finding that my apartment’s wireless had gone out I was in a great mood after seeing the sunrise over the Ocean.

Anyway……..

Oh I love the last panel of today's Get Fuzzy:

Well the GMAT was terrible, I really should have gotten my act together and taken it earlier and with more study time. But I didn't. Yuck. Anyway the presentation went pretty well which is good. I'm still hoping and praying I get into the grad program. We shall see.

In other news...... 16 days until graduation!!

So my weekend is almost over *sigh*. This week is going to be crazy busy hateful. I'm taking the GMAT tomorrow morning which I am insanely nervous about, it'll pretty much determine whether I can get into grad school or not. My last practice test went well but I'm afraid I won't do as well tomorrow. Which obviously would be really bad. So very nervous. Wish me luck!

Then Tuesday I have a large presentation for Business Strategy which is scary because it could give me the A or kill my chance for an A. And an A in that class determines whether I graduate with Honors. So I have to do a good presentation. *sigh*

Anyway other than that life is GREAT! (seriously I'm not being sarcastic)

Ok so I found out why I havn't gotten a call back on my job testing yet....the HR person is out until until after next week. Yuck. Yuck. Long time to wait to hear.

We got the house!! we got the house!! Kristen and I now have an awesome house to rent when I move out. YIPPPEE! If you can't tell I'm excited and its the weekend! Making a list of all the things to get this summer:
1) Patio furniture
2) Grill
moving on..... :)

Ok so I am a terrible journal updater lately.
I've been appying for jobs, applying for houses, and generally hoping I get an A in my Business Strat course so I can graduate with honors. So ...
I bought a class necklace today and got my tassel and cords for graduation!

So anyway excitedment for graduation mostly lately.

“Modest, humble, gracious, mild mannered, calm, fearless, understated”