Happy Valentines Day Everyone!!!! Love Carol. She made this delicious cake for the flat on valentines day. A Peppermint chocolate cake....mmmmmmm...I am only putting this next picture up because mom wanted to see how long my hair is getting in the process of growing it out. I have pledged to not cut it until we leave for holiday, and maybe later than that. I think I want to cut it then so that I have little to keep clean when travelling, it's cooler and then my overly large forehead can find some sun. We don't leave until March 21st so I have well over a month to continue towards a shaggy head. Notice I got "wings" behind my ears which is a good sign that it's getting longer than usual.
I am so much more content with myself now that my life is so much busier. Granted it is never a real delight to be up to your ears in work and stressed to your limit but that "relaxed" and lazy month in January taught me a few things that I've always known but have forgotten about me as a person. I am known to my friends and acquaintances back at Luther to be a fount of never-ceasing energy typically. Quite frankly people have professed to just getting tired out being around me. I love life, I love being busy, I like to move and constantly be active. I don't nap, I don't need to sit down and relax at intervals in a busy day, I like to do a job through til it's done and then sit back and relax. People think I am a rather crazy individual when it comes to being involved.
This year hadn't allowed me to get to that level of efficent busy college living that I am typically accustomed to. At Luther I typically can be caught in so many different extracurriculars. I might be out playing sand volleyball one day, after playing raquetball with my pals, lifting, outreach team meetings, choir, APO, Daily theatre practices, class, at one point I was illegally playing for four differnt outdoor soccer teams, as well as indoor volleyball and soccer teams. Basically what I'm trying to say is that this week, though extremely busy, has made me a much happier person. I have commitments and events to keep me occupied and get me out of the flat. I have moments where I wish I could have time to relax and do all those things we dream of doing when we have endless days with nothing to do, but January proved that I would never do those hobbies and things I would want to. I know better know, and for that I am grateful.
I now have found that balance with Church Choir, Classes, and Play Practices on evenings. I am bummed out that I had to drop volleyball for theatre, but sacrifices have to be made. I also have a week with another job as a poll clerk coming up in early march.
My first injury of the year (besides that nasty rugburn on my forehead from the beginning of the year....don't ask but a funny story)!!! I was chopping up some veggies for a stir-fry for Mary and I, and got to the peppers when I slipped up and sliced my thumb. It bled something awfully, and I tearfully (not really) found Mary to patch my wounds.
She's a good nurse I guess....
Back to valenines day, Mary and I walked through Wollaton park during the afternoon. It was such a sunny day. There is a golf course in the park, and as you can see in this pic how golfers not only have trees and sandbars to worry about, but moving obstacles with antlers. Golfing alongside deer adds a whole new natural element to the sport I would venture to say.
Mary seems to always be on the phone when we go on nice strolls. A child of technology...how sad. Just joking, that's absolutely not true, but while we walked she got a call from her sister and from non other than ma and pa Ites! What a loving family!
We finished off our afternoon walk, meandering along the university lake. The beautiful weather lent for some nice photo oppurtunities. That's the trent Building tower up in the left corner. Doesn't look like winter, does it?!! Not even a bit of ice or frost most mornings.
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