Game Night

Oh, blog! How I've missed you!

My intensive is now over, and I think it went really well. I loved my teacher and our class discussions. Musical theater is such a passion of mine and reading the classic scripts has been so interesting. But now, the hard stuff is over (meaning eight hours of lecture every day and reading two plays and writing two papers every night), and I have normal classes starting Monday. I'm taking six classes, and either four or five of them are journalism-related - I'm so excited. It's going to be awesome, and I have just two semesters left! This is my last spring semester, which is crazy. It really has gone by super fast, but even earlier today, my roommate said she did something yesterday for the first time in her college career: hung out in a group setting with boys and all the roommates! :)

Last night was extremely fun, though. The three roommates, one of my roommates' boyfriend and his friend, and I went out to dinner and then back to our apartment to play board games. We ended up playing Phase 10 for THREE hours. It was such a good time; so much so that we played "Pass the Pigs" and Apples to Apples after that. It was so interesting to see everyone's mood change from game to game: Phase 10 was extremely serious and frustrating, Pass the Pigs was silly, and Apples to Apples was...sillier. And probably where we learned the most about each other. We loved our game night so much that Kendall (one of my roommates) wants to do a game night every week or every two weeks. I am thrilled because I've wanted that for a while. I think there is no comparison to playing games and conversing with one another for a night. It's laid-back, creates great memories, and gives tons of easy laughs. The stuff that people say when trying to justify their answers during Apples to Apples is priceless. One of the adjectives for Apples to Apples was Eternal, and Erin (roommate) tried to justify picking Jupiter. "Jupiter - it's a PLANET." - that was all the rationality she needed. :)

I've realized something in my life recently: I live surrounded by clutter, and I really want to get rid of that. It's so...disorganized. Whoever said that the first step to an uncluttered mind is a clean workspace was right. De-clutter, I say! De-clutter. I find that I hold on to so many "sentimental" things in my materialistic side of life, when really, the stuff is overlooked and if I got rid of it, I would never know. Just as it says in 1 Peter 2:11 (which hangs on my wall, right next to my bedroom door), "Dear friends, I warn you as temporary residents and foreigners to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against your very souls." Wow...feel like cleaning up anything right about now? It's just STUFF. I think I need to repeat that every now and again to myself.

I'm so glad I have time to write in this again... I really have missed it so much! Today has been the perfect Saturday, so far: I slept in, made pancakes for my roommates, worked out, cleaned up, caught up with Internet videos, and watched some movies. What could be better?