Kumbaya...

So it's been about a week since I got back from NY, but here I am packing again. Tomorrow I'm off toward the Kitsap peninsula to the little town of Seabeck to attend a new student retreat for students in my program. I don't know all that much about Seabeck other than the fact that my brother's ex-girlfriend was from there.

The retreat is 3 days long and we will be staying at the Seabeck Christian Conference Center. From what I can gather...the grounds will most likely resemble the location of many 5th & 6th grade camps. The only problem is that I'm not a very outdoorsy sort of gal. Which was shown by my aversion to camping over the years. I'm hoping it won't be too bad as we will be in cabins (I think & hope) and there will be bathrooms/showers.

Not sure what it will be like, but hopefully it will be okay. I've had visions of them making us hold hands around a campfire singing Kumbaya. Let's hope that doesn't really happen because I don't think I could handle that!

Blog On...

Okay....I've finally got a bit of time for the good old blog. The last few weeks have gone quickly and I believe as of last Friday we have officially transitioned from Summer to Fall.

A few weeks back we had a wonderful Girls' Night dinner at the Melting Pot. Fondu is so yummy!!! I love myself some cheese! Oh and the chocolate of course!

Last week I ventured across the country to New York to visit Gina and to get away for a few days before I started school. I had such a fabulous, fabulous time! Gina actually didn't have all that many rehearsals while I was there so we did get to spend a lot of time together. She was also nice enough to do some of the touristy things with me like the Empire States Building. We did the Chinatown thing and even had time to hit a Festival in Little Italy which was awesome!

I found out something awesome on my trip! The bars in NY stay open until 4am!!! So needless to say... it was very rare that we would go to bed before 5am. I'm actually still a little tired from so many days of that.

The only real bad thing was that on the flight home, we had a 3 hour delay. It seemed that the pilot for our plane was stuck on another plane due to bad weather. They couldn't get any other pilots because the new regulation stated that pilots were limited as to how long they flew in a day and all the pilots available had flown from the westcoast so they couldn't fly us back. They did try to make it up to us by buying everyone on the plane pizza so that was nice. The only thing was that I didn't get home until 2am.

The day I got back was the day of Kim's Farewell Thanksgiving Dinner over at Chez McCarthy. The dinner was fabulous thanks to the wonderful chef Nifer and her assistant Jeff! It was a great dinner and we were even fortunate enough to have Henry join us!

The next few weeks will probably end up zipping by as well. I will be in full school mode beginning with orientation this Friday and the 3 day retreat next week. Classes will also start next week. In the meantime, I'm filling my time with packing, cleaning, and combing through ads to find myself a new home. Hopefully I'll be able to juggle everything and keep my sanity!

I Need a Little Time...

Okay...so I keep meaning to do a nice little blog update but haven't gotten the chance. Right on the heels of getting back from NY I found out that I have to find a new place to live in 30 days on top of school starting next week. I'll be away most of next week on a retreat for school so this does NOT help my situation. I'm a bit stressed at the moment, but will update more on NY and other things as soon as I get the chance. Until then...some of my NY pics are up on my flickr in case anyone is interested.

Back to School...

For the last few months, I've been pretty preoccupied with the idea of going back to school. So I did some research and found a great Graduate Program I was really interested in. I went through a long drawn out application process which included getting old transcripts from schools, getting referrals from previous instructors, several writing sample submissions, and an interview with the faculty of the program I was applying to.

I finally received my letter in the mail the other day. I was accepted into the program and I'm due to start school again the first week of October which is coming up fast. To be honest, I'm looking forward to having classes again. Plus, it's one step closer to being able to do something I love.

Other than the school stuff, life has been pretty mellow. My friend Darryl came out for a visit from Maine. We ended up having a mini reunion dinner with one group of friends while he was here which was really fun. We ended up at Wild Ginger downtown. I'd never been there before, but I really loved the ambience.

I just realized my trip to New York to visit Gina is coming up quick. It's the one last trip I'm allowing myself before school starts. I'd actually been so focused on school that I'd almost forgotten about it until my buddy Dave reminded me the other day. We have some tentative plans for when I'm in New York, but we're leaving some time open. That way we can have some time to just see where our mood takes us.