And so begins the last semester

Ugh, sorry to dump a catch-up post on you to read.  I'll try to keep it brief and organized (ha!).

• Christmas break...where did it go?!  The break really actually flew by this time around.  The only long part was working between Christmas Day and the 3rd of January when I went home.  Yeah, people, I went a little crazy.  On the 3rd I worked only 4pm-9pm, helping to train a new CNA on how to be the "fourth person" on the 3rd floor of the nursing home.  The "fourth person" helps relieve the other 3 CNAs who work 3pm-11:30pm by helping with dinner and helping 5-6 residents to go to bed.  As soon as I was done at 9pm, I drove straight back to Wichita.  Told you I went crazy...but I just wanted to get home so badly!  Ergo, about 1am, I returned home.  My dad was sweet and stayed up to wait for me, and we ended up chatting till 2am.
• I also had the chance to return to the great city of St. Louis for the wedding of a good friend from Rockhurst!  Let me tell you, I love St. Louis so much...the people, the food, the sites, the memories...only I wish the traffic wasn't so darn awful.  Really, it's a bad idea for one lone girl from a town of 800 to be put in the middle of rush-hour traffic on super highways following a Google map.  Needless to say, I was glad my STL friends did all of the driving on the day of the wedding.
• Speaking of weddings, one of my best girlfriends from high school got married on my birthday!  I mean, what more can a girl ask for on her birthday than seeing great friends and a dance to boot!  Matt goes to school with the bride and groom at BC, so it was nice for the four of us to get to be together again.  And the bride looked FABulous.
• My time home was really chill.  I worked more on my genealogy project.  Saw a couple friends.  It was a nice time.
• On Saturday I had to work, but on Monday morning I had my WSU grad school interview, so my weekend was a LOT of travelling!  I went up to KC on Saturday, worked that evening, went up to BC on Sunday to take a load of stuff up to Matt that he had left at his house and went to Mass with him, and then went back to Wichita.  I was gone from my house for just over 24 hours and traveled almost 500 miles.  Have I mentioned I'm crazy...?
• Interview day at WSU!  The day was alright over all: had a tour of the PA building, talked to the students a lot...and then the interview.  I was so nervous, I just know my answers came out more jumbled than I would have liked.  The only thing making me less nervous is the about 50/50 chance I have now of being accepted.
• School started on Tuesday!  Last first day of undergraduate classes.  Weird.  I think it's going to be a great semester.  I have one intro to psych course, one philosophy, and three theology courses.  It's rather strange to not have a science class with a lab, but I really really don't mind.  Do you understand how much more time I now have?!

Well, that wasn't quite as brief as I planned on, but now you don't have to worry about a catch up post for quite a while!