"it always protects. always trusts. always hopes. always perseveres"

God has truly blessed me with amazing things. gifts.

And lately, I've gotten my head on straight and started thanking Him for those everyday.

Because those things become more and more prevalent everyday.

so, so thankful.

so, so happy.

fall :)

fall. fall. fall.

the leaves. the colors. the cool air.

love it :)

Gulf Shores, Alabama

Dauphin Island.

Notre Dame.

Muncie sunrise. Beautiful :)

Both from Spokane, Washington.

Best 3-day vacation everrrrr.

mondays.

Mondays really suck. And you would think, being just over 2 months into school, that my homesickness would have subsided. NOPE. Still here. The only point that it does subside is when friday comes around. I know, I know... "get involved, keep busy" blahh blah blahhhhhh.... i'm shy, quiet, reserved, and I like to keep to myself. But I'm trying to stay positive. After all, I'm stuck here for the next SIX years... so I might as well suck it up now, right? I do have a lot of things goin' for me right now though... things that keep me goin'...very, very thankful for those :)

This morning

So I ended up coming home last night (Thursday) because my Friday class was cancelled. So I wake up this morning, at my house, walk upstairs, and see smoke, or what I thought was steam, coming from my mom's driver side window of her van. Now there's a big difference between steam and smoke... and the more I looked at it, the more I realized it definitely wasn't just steam. "Mom... what is that?" As she stood up, I took a closer look in the window. Yeah. Her van was ON FIRE. Soooooo... we run outside, think about it, and then realize it's probably not a good idea to be standing anywhere near a van that's on fire. So we run BACK inside, saving the outside cats of course, and call 911. By this time, it's a-blazin'... it's really burnin.... So long story short, the firemen come within 5 minutes, and put that baby out. So the smoke clears, and man is that thing done for. Interesting morning.

literary element

So this is the hardest paper I've ever had to write. And I think I picked the hardest song possible to analyze. Awesome, right? So I'm using allusions as my literary element, which there are plenty of, religious ones, specifically, but which direction do I take them!? How do I connect them with the actual meaning of the song? There are so many different directions I could go with this... Sooooooo confused.

I just want to travel and take pictures.

All day.

Every day.