Ok, so my xanga is dead. It's very sad. But I'm starting this blog for myself, because I feel like it's about time I got one (again), and I feel like Blogger is the program to use for it.
So, some things that are going on in my life right now:
-I'm looking at colleges. Big on the list (ok, the only two) are Calvin College and North Park University. Funny, I was always so sure I'd go to Calvin, but the more I look at North Park, the more I want to go there. I like their Spanish program better, and I feel like I could do more there. I also like that things are small and close, versus Calvin's incredible spread-outness, not that it's a bad thing, just that I always thought it was a real long ways to get anywhere there, and the idea of everything being so close together, it gives it more of a community sense, I guess. So I'm filling out my North Park application, and I'm stuck on the essay question. But I'm sure something will come to me soon. I applied for Calvin on Nov 16, and as of now I haven't heard back from them yet.
-Christmas break is coming up and I am looking forward to the break from school, if not the extra hours I could potentially work at work. I could use a break, I mean, have you seen how messy my room has gotten lately?
-Speaking of messy rooms, I recently had a revelation. Ok, it started about a month or so ago. But it's only recently that things are starting to come out of it. I bought these expensive shoes because I was sick of having sore feet at work and Erica, the only other girl working there, wears hers all the time and said she never gets sore feet. So after months of thinking about them and asking others, I finally decided that I could justify buying them. But this led to an interesting experience in which a friend sort of dared me to count all the pairs of shoes that I own (including sandals, flip-flops, slippers, and sport-specific shoes). The total came to 34 pairs. Things have been piling up for so long, I didn't even realize that I had that many. So I've started getting rid of them. I gave two pairs of old running shoes to my sister to drop off at a shoe recycling thing, and then this week I put out 6 pairs for Goodwill. Now, when I did this I finished going through my clothes for Goodwill too, and I filled two banana boxes and one big fold-up box FULL of clothes! It's ridiculous how many clothes I had, and even more ridiculous that some of my drawers are STILL BURSTING. I think it's evident that I have a problem with hanging on to stuff and having too much stuff. Mom didn't realize I was going to donate that much clothing: now she wants to have a garage sale. But I don't want those boxes of stuff to be sitting around all winter for a garage sale that may or may not happen in the spring. I told her to go through it, and when she's done, I plan on bringing it to Goodwill. Part of me (the Dutch part) feels like it's a shame to just donate all those clothes when I could probably make at least 50 cents on each item there and have a pretty profitable garage sale, but the new me that's fighting against these traditions I've made for myself is screaming to just get rid of it and be done with it. Besides, if it's money I needed, God will provide it some other way, I'm sure.
Well, I've officially gone on for a very long time, so I suppose I'll stop now.
Have a good weekend,
~Jaclynn
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