Moved!

Guess what...
I've moved! I'm now living in Shoreline with my friend from 6th Day Dance . I'm out of the house, and I'm not currently going to Central Washington University. Maybe in a couple of quarters, once I've figured things out (a.k.a. gotten a job). But now I won't feel sick when I talk about moving away to Ellensburg!
What happened was this:
Monday evening my parents and I sat down and had a "conversation" Ok, Carole you have three choices:

1. Go to Ellensburg and attend college (get into debt and stay there for, like, ever)
   
2. Stay at home and pay $100 rent every preceding Friday for the upcoming week (starting today), as well as respect the rules of the house (which you already have disobeyed and won't be likely to obey soon)
   
3. Move out on your own and take care of yourself

Every time I talked about going  to Central I felt sick, and my roommate did too, so on Tuesday Sixth Day Dance Company had their bible study, and after seeing a short film that had a very emotional message, I could not stop crying. I seriously couldn't. So after everybody left, our Chaplain, my roommate, and I talked for about an hour and a half about what was going to happen in the next three days. 

We weighed my options all the while I couldn't stay composed and the Chaplain essentially said this: "Right now there's no support group in Ellensburg, but there is this, [and she pointed to my friend] you don't need to be isolated right now, you need this, you need this support and encouragement, you don't need to be alone or feel alone right now, you need people who care about you surrounding you. With God, you won't miss anything; you will never miss anything."

She was absolutely right.

I've been in a not-so-nice living situation for some time now, and the time to change was right now.

So after much blubbering, excuse making, reality checking, really visceral emotional gauging, and love and comfort from those who really care I prepared to move out on Thursday.

Prayer, and a feeling of right-ness settled on me, and I was able to spend the next day packing and readying myself for the move. My parents and I again had a "talk" and I told them I was moving out. Some hurtful words were said on their behalf, but I simply had to leave. My mother had to leave right after talking with me to go to take care of my grandmother in Yakima; she was in shock.

I called the Chaplain and she said that she was able to help that day, but not the next, and the realization of moving out that day instead of the next seemed appropriate. So I gathered all my things together, moved them by the front door and prepared to leave. I called a couple of friends to help. Six people, a convoy of five cars, and an hour and a half of working had achieved the goal. I was out. I left my keys, the group prayed, and we departed. I was moved in by about 8:45pm. 

This, was a God thing. There was absolutely no way that I could have moved in such a short time, except by the grace of God. This was meant to happen now,and I am SO GRATEFUL!!!

Psalm 55 is awesome.

"I Don' Wanna!"

Is it all so utterly infantile to...

not

want

to

go

to

school?

I don't really want to go this quarter, and I hope that people read this and can relate to the circumstance that I am entering in to.

I do want to go to school, I just think that now is not the proper time.

I don't have enough money do to it on my own.
Loans don't help because I'd still have debt coming out of it. I went in to the financial aid office at CWU, and I discovered upon exiting, after having taken what I could get by way of financial aid from them, that with two small loans I was made ill.

Sick to my stomach ill.

Not throwing up ill, but sick to my stomach.

I don't know that debt is supposed to have that affect on a person, but that's what I felt.

My mother thought that I was just making it up.

I wasn't.

So, here I am, at a crossroads.

Confused.

Frustrated.

Tired.

and I've been asking the Lord what to do, and it's still not clear.

Please pray for me.

NEW JERSEY!

I've had a grand auld adventure in the eastern states of New Jersey, and... New York!
Yes! I can check that off of my bucket list for this year!!! which I have done, and edited back in the month of whatsis in this blog.


I'm presently overwhelmed by actually going from NJ, back to WA, then to Spokane where I dropped off my Sister Cathy at her new College: Whitworth! Then I went with my mother and brother to Yakima, where our grandmother lives, stayed there for a day and a half. We left this morning, went to Ellensburg, to Central WA University, where I will be going, and did a bunch of paperwork/running around/kerfluffling...

So now I'm back in Kenmoreland trying to remember how my trip to NJ was...
It was amazing.
Let me compose my thoughts on it, and I'll be posting here presently!

Trip Prep!

I've officially printed my boarding passes for the flights down (or is it up) to New Jersey!
That means that... barring a major change in airline scheduling... I'm GOING!!!
I'm so excited to finally be going to visit family that I haven't seen in (get this!) FIVE YEARS!
So I'm packed, (except for ibuprofin and acetomenophen and antiacids) and I really want to say huzzah for travelling!!! There's the checklist that goes in the bag too, never forget to bring your checklist! It's the most important thing ON the list!

"huzzah for travelling."

Where are all my pictures?

Oh, there they are.

I love the flash in this picture! It was actually an accidental fluke that I was able to capture it!



I miss you Christine!

Anyhoo, I'm excited, and distracted, and getting ready to go! The excitement for seeing my family again is almost tangible! Oh, be praying for my flights because hurricane Irene is headed up that way and I might have a grand-er adventure than I have planned for.

Which size of towel should I bring?

Maybe size 42.

Monday!

Third time's the charm! It only took me three tries to log in to my blog account today. Then the computer automatically decided to log me in to my e-mail account from my blog account. I may be old fashioned, so I prefer to have my accounts un-linked for security reasons. Automatic pop-ups that say "e-mail!" "Facespace" "remider" etc. are really very irksome. But what I really wanted to say is that...
I'm going to New Jersey on Thursday!!!
I forgot and thought that it was on Wednesday that I was leaving, but I was mistaken. I leave Thursday morning! I'm excited to go on an adventure!
In the mean time I am attempting to get college things lined up and running around on errands looking for what it was that I was supposed to remember to do. Good thing I make lists!
I will attempt to take pictures, but I don't have a proper charger cord [since I broke mine], so I will not be taking my laptop with me.
Huzzah for my cousin's wedding!

Bucket list!

I did it!
I met a rock star without knowing it was a rock star, then got to know her a little bit!
(aka famous musician) See post from march 2nd. So far I have achieved a couple of the things on that list, including completing one glove out of two...
 Things are picking up this year, and I'm at the end of migraine number 2 of 2 so far. Where do they come from, and why do I have them? I've done research and so far the results are inconclusive. However I'm learning to find the precursors of the actual migraine and start my rest regiment earlier, forestalling the presence of the migraine for more than one to two days. Because mine are so nasty everything gets knocked out my appetite, my body temperature and I'm super sensitive to light and sound. Sometimes it feels as if my nervous system is on fire. But this time it was wierder because i had trouble breathing and my forearms were not working as well as they usually do using them was kind of like moving through sludge.
Oh well, it's pretty much gone now. I'll conduct further research and post as conditions change. 

The Letter M

It just occurred to me that three of my greatest friends' names start with the letter M. I'm sure that this has little bearing in what is actually going on in the world, but it is nevertheless a breakthrough in observation on my part. The fact that it took me so long to figure this out is probably the funniest thing ever.