yay for updating!

guess it’s about time i updated here! i’ll actually be updating again a lot more frequently now, cuz once again my internet time has been limited, so i’m back to what i used to do, type this up in a word document and post it when i have internet access. no more spending all my time on my Shoutlife. my mom decided to take over, and she doesn’t believe me when i say that i have planned out all my school to be done in the middle of April, so she’s decided to limit my internet time to make sure i’m spending enough time on school work. at least after April, i’ll be done, will know what school i’m going to, and will shortly after then get a laptop, WOOT!
so yesterday, when i got back from my violin lesson, i had two letters on my bed...... hahaha! both from colleges telling me i’ve been accepted! now i am accepted to 3 schools! (well.... sorta 3 and a ½ :D) PBU was the first to accept me, the two new ones were Houghton and DePauw, Uconn is the ½ they’ve accepted me to the school itself, they haven’t contacted me yet about the music school. Wheaton is actually the only one i haven’t heard from at all. mom called them the other day, and they said they won’t contact anyone til after April 1st, grr. at least i’m getting close, not much longer to wait. YAY!
so after a winter of no snow, we’ve actually had a lot of snow the past few days. we had this one day of snow, then freezing rain, turning it all to slush, then freezing. then a little more snow on top of that. yesterday we got maybe 3 inches of snow, and we got another couple overnight, and it is still lazily snowing right now. i’m getting this crazy craving for a snowball fight! i haven’t actually played in the snow for sooo long! i don’t think i went in it once last year, except to walk thru it to the car. not sure about the year before, might have shoveled it once or twice. i haven’t gone sledding in forever tho. we have this tiny tiny “hill” in our backyard, but i’ve actually never gone sledding on a real hill. must do that someday.
well i must be getting to some work now. i shall post much more frequently now.

i know i haven't updated in forever.....

i've been so busy lately. i should say rather that i have let myself become too busy with too many things, many of them meaningless, and am not spending my time wisely. quick update on happenings in my life. i have visited PBU (Philadelphia Biblical University) and was accepted there, and will be travelling to Houghton on Sunday, my last audition, finally! after that is just waiting to find out where i'm accepted, and all the financial junk. hm..... other stuff..... we got snow wed., it was crazy! it actually wasn't much snow, it started as snow during the nite, got maybe an inch, then it was freezing rain till morning, and all thru the day, finishing with about 3 inches of pretty much ice. i had work wed, so i went, even tho it took about 20 minutes to get there, instead of the usual 7. it was a 6 hour shift, and sooooooo dead! i was so surprised that there were some people who came out in that weather at all, it was horrible out! we never had more than two people on register at a time. at one point, it was so dead, we had already picked up all the green baskets, and straightened the magazine racks, so Nancy comes over, tells Jay to clean all the registers, and she hands me a feather duster, i ask her what that's for, she tells me to go dust off all the candy! now yesterday morning, Dad had to go to court about the accident he had a while back that totalled his car. the accident that wasn't his fault. on his way, this ginormous 18 wheeler had this huge slab of ice slide off its top. my Dad had just enough time to see it flip thru the air towards him, no time to move anywhere, think "oh how much damage can a bit of snow do?" before the ice hit the windshield, and totally smashed it! my Dad was fine, but had to drive home in all that glass to get the van and rush over to court for the other accident. the windshield is fixed now, we had someone come over in the afternoon yesterday. i had work yesterday too, and it was pretty busy, all these people getting in their shopping they missed the day before. then i had the Uconn symphony concert last nite, sooooo fun! i'm actually having a hard time getting my thoughts together right now. just wrote on my shoutlife about something i've been thinking about, and am kinda blogged out now. i'm putting a link to that post here if'n ya want to read it. thing is, not sure if you can see it. i know you have to have a shoutlife to read the blogs, but i think i linked to it in such a way that you can access it.
http://www.shoutlife.com/profile_view.cfm?uid=4342&blog_id=29185&view_mode=blog
i need to go eat now, and spend a good several hours practising, haven't done that in a while, soooo bad.

snow!!!!!! (and silver pennies)

so we finally got snow! i was afraid we'd end up with no snow this winter, sooo wrong, a New England winter with no snow, absolutely depressing! granted, it's only about an inch and a half, but that's still enough to make a few good snowballs with, hehehe! i have yet to lure my siblings out there...... actually tho, not sure i want to go freeze again myself yet. i was out in the coldness from 7 till 10 this morning at the barn, it was gorgeously white, well, not for long, i mean, how white can it be at a barn, seriously, but it was freezing. just watch, we didn't get snow till Feb. but watch it keep snowing into April or even May, just watch it! that would crush me. oh and Mom's poor flowers! a few weeks ago we saw that her crocus were already popping up cuz it was so warm, and now they're gonna die! ohhhhhh! crocus always symbolized spring for me, it was never really spring, no matter how late it was, until the crocus came up. and last week, at my violin lesson, there were robins all over my teachers lawn, poor things, now it's cold.
other news: silver pennies. yesterday at work, during my last half hour, it had finally slowed down in the store, and between customers i opened a thing of pennies cuz i was running out, and as i dump then into the coin drawer, i glimpse something silver before closing my drawer to take care of the next customer. i was thinking, huh..... did a dime somehow get wrapped up with the pennies??? after my customer left, the store was pretty dead, so i opened me drawer and went searching for it, and it wasn't a dime, it was a penny, but it was silver! it was from 2002, it wasn't just copper that was old and worn out, it was silver! i took it over to Josh to show him, he was examining it and testing it, it certainly looks real, and is real metal.... then i showed Naomi, and Trisha hears us talking about "silver penny" and comes over to see it, then Linda comes running over cuz she heard us talking, she takes one look at it and goes, "oh that's a dime you knuckle-heads!" Trisha says no, it's a penny, just look at it. then Linda actually takes it and looks closely at it and exclaims, OH! it is a penny! then Josh says, and we let you be on register? oh it was such fun! i asked if i could switch one of my pennies for it, and now i'm gonna keep it forever! anyway, that's all for now, must get some stuff done before i lose the whole day. i am copying this to my shoutlife too, i love that site!