once upon a time...
i went on fall break. and it was amazing. mel, jessica, ben and i left last wednesday. we stopped at my house for the first night, had a great homemade meal and some cupcakes! and just relaxed. twas great. then we left the next day and drove up to ben's house. it was wonderful! we had so many good homemade meals!!! it was great! we went shopping, went to a movie, visited ben's old school and his church and his grandparents, watched t.v. and movies at night, introduced mel and jessica to the red green show haha. hmm...and we went to a couple of parks and we went to lake michigan! it was so relaxing and fun. it was nice for the four of us to be able to just hang out together with no time pressure or homework, but to just relax. good times. very good times! it was gorgeous up there too! there were so many trees changing colors! it was so pretty!

jen had to go home to connecticut for break, but she was with us in spirit

we visited the playground at ben's old school

we went to visit lake michigan at sunset. it was cold, but we had a blanket and lots of fun...probably one of my favorite memories of the trip, but there are so many good ones to choose from that i'm not sure.

and now we're going back home tonight. and taking jen with us in person this time! and my gma will be there. i'm excited...should be good times!

help! i have a 5 page paper(and it's double spaced so really it's not that bad) but i can't finish it! i'm stuck and i've been working on it all night! silly procrastination. i have learned. next time i start much earlier. i can't take more of this night-before-writing nonsense :) what silliness.
in other news my gma is coming this weekend for the ol bday. yay! and i'm going home and taking with mel and jessica and ben and jen! fun times.
well done procrastinating for a bit...have a good night!

had a wonderfully amazing weekend! more details later, but it was really fun and relaxing.
will you pray for me though, cuz coming back has been really exhausting for me, and i'm just worn out right now in so many ways. things'll be better, but it's kinda tough right now. love you. gnite =)

God is good and chapel was amazing!
break is here and we're off to my house!
with a stop at camp and then off to MI!

my new pic is me with my fall break group =D while we were picnicing at the indian mounds this week. i love these kids!
{shout out to maggie: that blanket you made me is not only my favorite nap blanket, but it's our picnic blanket now too!}

chapel this morning was all worshiping with music. no sermon, just singing and praying. it was incredible! and we get to do it again tomorrow! i love the chapel's like that! God is so good and spending an hour praising Him is pretty amazing!

tomorrow...i'm heading home! lots to do before then, but i'm excited! yay for whoever invented break. have a wonderful tuesday!
love, e

in 47 hours....i will be done with classes and ready for fall break!
actually i'm ready for break now haha. but then i'll be allowed to leave. heading home for the night, and then up to GR with jessica and mel and ben the next day. i'm excited! definitely ready for a break!

i had a good picnic at the indian mounds yesterday with jen, ben, jess, and mel. it was fun! kinda cold, but fun. it's where our picnic idea originated. and we've been to john bryan a couple times and to the gorge, but this was our first picnic at the indian mounds. =D good times.

i got to walk home in rain drips today. it was really nice! it's so pretty here!

i feel like a nap. ttyl

so i got to go home this weekend for a quiz. it was fun. relaxing to be at home, and good to see friends at quizzing again. i didn't really even know why i was going, cuz i definitely wasn't prepared to quiz study-wise, but i'm glad i went.

it's been a fun weekend. walmart tag, condiment games, catch phrase, a good jen walk,a maggie talk, dorm room hanging out, and quizzing. good times!

now comes the hw part. happy sunday!

i'm sitting in the library right now. i've been doing that a lot lately actually. it's kinda nice to get the hw done before 2am. go figure. and it's quiet here =). it's amazing how much easier it is to study without my bed sitting there begging me to come nap too. =)

so one more week of classes before fall break! craziness...it came so fast! i'm excited though!

hm...i think i'll finish this update later. i feel like i have more to say. but i can't think of it right now. so i'm gonna go look for a good book. any suggestions? something semi-deepish really. that i can learn from. but that won't be so deep that i can't figure out what's going on. i'm kinda feeling like some C.S. Lewis. maybe, maybe not. we'll see. have a great wednesday! ttyl

life confuses me. a lot sometimes.
and the weather here is pretty much perfect today!
and this weekend i celebrated timothy's birthday and got to hang out at camp with melanie!
and we celebrated jessica's bday on monday and got to go to colonials!
and i spent 2 or 3 hours in the library today. still lots more to study, but that helped a lot.
and i'm going to read part of winesburg, OH for lit class. it was written about clyde, OH. so i'm kinda excited.
and now i should go study. happy tuesday, world!

it's friday!
it's fall!
it's gorgeous!

today i: sat by the lake with my friends while we took personality tests and watched cardboard canoe races. had outing time with ben and a coffee date with jen. and i got to have a date with jessica and got to watch the play too, but that was last night and not today, don't tell ;). went to kaitlin and matt and bethany and lisa and whitney and katie's concert. played with condiments hehe. had my last class canceled. twas a good day!

my friend cos's cousin Christine came to visit him today. she's staying in my room tonight! it's perfect cuz the roomie went home for the weekend to go hunting so now i'm not alone(yep haha. betcha not many girls out there who can say their roommate goes hunting! i'm so proud of her =D) and it was nice cuz Christine and i got to talk for awhile tonight after we headed to bed, and i haven't gotten to have good nighttimeish talking since last year with lisa. so it was really fun. she's a cool kid. and kim and i had a roomie date this week. it was good. we're talking a lot more now than we did at the beginning of the year so that's pretty happy stuff.

and there was lots going on in life this week. lots that Jesus is teaching me too. and i'd love to talk all about stuff like that, but i tend to find really completely off the wall things really interesting when i get this tired, so i think i'm going to head to bed and if it's important i should still remember tomorrow haha. happy weekend everybody! love you!

today i did dishes.
and other stuff. but that was a big accomplishment in my life today haha.
i wrote a skit for theatre. about senior skip day in iowa when i went to school and all that crazy stuff happened...like the starburst thing.

we lost power tonight at least twice. it was pretty fun. i'm kinda easily entertained. =D

yesterday i had a date with my gma on im. i'm pretty sure i don't know anyone else who gets to email their gma and ask for an msn date haha. but they'd be missing out, cuz it was pretty fun! i learned lots of cool stuff about her...i like her a lot :)

"i put God first made him number one; higher than all of my plans; i put God first made Him number one...my heart is under his command"...the camp song of the day stuck in my mind :) have a good one! ttyl

"it is more blessed to give than receive; Jesus said long ago; remember these words when it's joy that you seek; it is more blessed to give, than receive".....camp songs in my head today =). fun times!

i got to watch nathaniel play bball last night! that made me pretty happy...i haven't gotten to do that very often since high school. it was fun!

had another Bible study last night. our chapter this week was on the attributes of God and it was really exciting; lots of good reminders of how amazing God is!!! i learned a lot from the girls, and it seems like we're already starting to bond really well! it's been good! i got to have supper with Ivey, the girl who leads my other study, yesterday too! she's so encouraging and such a great example! i'm looking forward to getting to know all of them better this year!

well, off to naptime(i hope =P) before my last sand vball game.

have a happy tuesday!

hello all out there in the blog world. welcome to my mind. i was thinking the other day, and i realized that most of the people who read my xanga anymore are people who don't have one of their own. so i decided i'd rather have a blog where you can all talk back at me if you want to instead of just reading it. so here it is. my blog. works the same as xanga in a lot of ways, only you can comment on here now too. even if you don't have a blog. so yep, here it is. =) and just for fun i figured i could include my last xanga post too. here it is....

a week in the life of me: last week i...had another picnic with mel and jessica and ben and jen! fun times hiking in the gorge! it's so pretty here! we drive down these roads that are surrounded by trees on both sides and theyre so green and pretty...and then some spots have leaves that are starting to change, and that's so pretty too!;had some really good walks and talks with friends! Jesus has given me great friends! i love them!;had bfast and played monkey tag with the friends and BOTH brothers cuz timothy spent the weekend at school.; saw my family and talked to them for awhile ; got to have lunch with the adopted family ; got to work with the middle school at midtown (my saturday church) again!;played sand vball and even won one of the three games-fun times!found out that i get to accompany jessica, mel, and cos to ben's house for fall break! and stop at my house for a night too;had more good times with my bible study girls; eloped with a tatoo artist from yellow springs (k so obviously not really, but i figured you deserved some excitement if you're still reading at this point); discovered why i love vecinno's and beans and cream. even the non coffee varieties;walked to beans and cream in the rain with my friends! i love playing in the rain with people i love!;had two classes cancelled today!;got new contacts;ran out of whales haha;

i also broke my phone. this is an important one actually. cuz i won't be answering my cell for awhile. i was talking to mel on saturday and i dropped my phone and picked it up in two separate pieces. the bottom half still worked and i could call people and talk to them and feel it vibrate when they called me haha. but i couldnt see anything on the screen and i couldnt hear anyone when they called me haha cuz those are in the top part of the phone. so long story short, unless one of my friends finds an old verizon phone that i can use, i'll get a new one in December, until then you can email me/ call a friend or family member to get my room phone here.well you made it through another uber-long update into the life of elizabeth. hope you're all having a great week! love ya! ~e