Summer Goals Evaluation

Today's horoscope: "You are right on schedule in your life so don't worry that you are lagging behind"

Thanks horoscope for those words of encouragement.  

Welp, school starts tomorrow morning which I guess signifies the end of my summer.  Due to Master Francis's wise training, I feel compelled to evaluate my summer goals.  In case you didn't know, they have been posted on the right hand column of my blog since the start of summer.  

1. Eat healthy... check!  I even became a vegetarian and weigh 15 lbs less than last summer.  

2. go running 3x a week.... well, this goal started out really well and lasted about a month, then I started biking more and felt like I got my exercise that way.  I went running this morning.  I'll make a new exercise goal.

3. Go to the temple 1x a week... failure.  I did this for three weeks in a row and then the temple closed for cleaning and I just didn't go back after that.  Now I live 3 hours away from my closest temple.  But those three weeks were very spiritually uplifting, I can tell ya that much.  

4. Keep in touch with missionary friends.... CHECK!  I keep in touch with Elder Morris, Sister Folkner, and Sister Hafen.  And they are all healthy and happy last I heard.  :)

5.  Learn the Elgar cello concerto... I did ok with this one.  I know notes and where I am going in the 1st movement and most of the 4th movement and have done some serious passage work in the 2nd movement.  I feel like I am in a good place to start working on it with Professor Uchimura now.  I know it's so cliche for a cellist to love the Elgar concerto, but MAN I love it!!  All y'all who don't know it should go check it out ... like SOON!

6.  Learn to scrapbook... lol.  Check!  I'd love to show you all my new discovery of my creative self but me and the scrapbook are both in Michigan.  You'll just have to take my word for it that it's going well.  I didn't know I had it in me.

7. Review music history and theory... check!  I was amazed at myself for how efficiently I did this.  And it payed off cause now I don't have to take remedial coursework!  YAY!  

8. Save money.... check.  

9. Walk more than drive... easier in Logan than in Kalamazoo, but I think I can safely say that I gave this one a good effort.  

So it was a pretty good summer, eh?  I'm really excited to start school tomorrow.  Time to make new fall goals.  Look what you've done to me Anne!  ... I love it.  

Another Horoscope

Today's horoscope:

"Changes are coming, but at least you won't be bored."  

SURE THING!  I can think of only a handful of elements in my life that are staying constant lately.  And I'm definitely far from bored, which is making the time fly by at a lovely speed.  

I hung out with my besties at a CD release party for Marshall Jensen this weekend.  There was a BBQ and fun little concert in Jeremy Winn's backyard.  I sure love acoustic music.  And Marshall is good!  Ya'll should give him a listen sometime.  Summer nights + good music + friends = awesome.  

It seems like I went to a lot of doctor appointments last week.  I went to chemo with my Mom so she wouldn't have to be alone- we ate snacks and 

watched episodes of the office on her ipod while she shot up the big drugs.  I went for a gyno visit, and the doctor reminded me of Meryl Streep somehow, but made me feel comfortable and concerned about my health.  And last but not least, the ENT who I'm pretty sure thinks that all I want in life is sinus surgery.  He seemed really nervous to tell me that my problem isn't serious enough for surgery at all... as if that's not GREAT news!  He made fun of me for being a music major grad student though, and told me that I'll just have to live with my post nasal drip for the rest of my life.  I was definitely sick of him by the end.   

Breaking news- I'm trying out vegetarianism for a month... not so much because of animal rights and PITA whatever, but because of the way meat and dairy products feel in my digestive system... and that way is SICK!  It's a completely selfish experiment, and so far the results are good.  If things keep going this way, I might just be a veg for life! :)  

This is a long post.  Here's a picture of Stephanie and me at the Logan Carnival!  

Horoscopes Etc.

On Yahoo!'s homepage, there is a little navigation bar that has links to email, weather, music, traffic, and such.  It also has a box for your daily horoscope.  Now believe me, I'm not one to plan out my life in accordance to what stars and planets are aligning at the moment, but it has become a guilty pleasure of mine to read my horoscope and muse about how it could apply to my current situation.  Here's what mine said today:

"Reminiscing about the past is better when you have someone to remember it with"

OK... On the first reading of this I thought "how true is this!".  I've been missing my missionary like crazy these past couple of days, most of my best friends in the world are in various places around the country, and I've been spending lots of time reminiscing and looking at old photos of good times past.  True story that it would be better to have these friends around to re-share these good memories with!  It's been lame doing it alone.  

Then I read it again.  Perhaps it means that the memories are more clear, more accurate, more correct when you have someone else to recount the stories with.  Two heads are better than one when it comes to such things.  They say that absence makes me heart grow fonder.  Maybe by reminiscing alone, I am creating a rose colored version of the past?  

What ever the Yahoo! stars are trying to tell me today... with my great migration to Michigan growing closer and closer (26 days!), today I feel like clinging to the past, and everything familiar, with anyone who's willing!