Final This Final That

....And suddenly it's almost Christmas! Crazy. I've been in the land of term paper writing for about the last month and now get to write finals. Fun times...At least the topics were relatively interesting. But it meant that for much of the last couple weeks I hadn't really eaten incredibly healthy or gotten enough sleep. :( ya sad day. I've also made friends with the library; spent more time in the library this semester than I have in the last 3 years of school. Oi. And I find that I don't actually mind working in there. But oh well. I have a bit of time to recover from it.

In other news, I went to an Ugly Sweater Smoothie Party. That was fun. Smoothies are delicious and some of the sweaters were pretty bad...although when I went to Value Village in search of a sweater (cuz Value Village is just know to have such things as tacky sweaters) I found it difficult to find one of that caliber...I did manage to find one though it wasn't quite what I was looking for but it worked. And now I have an Ugly Sweater for future events of that sort.

Oh I have a new job. H'ray! Thus far I'm really enjoying it. And the hours aren't too bad right now and it provides a change of pace from school and extra cash is always good. Plus I get to work with a friend.

So ya. Other than that there's just been little things that make up my day and usually doesn't prove to be all that exciting. The only exciting thing right now is being done exams and going home for Christmas. Ya just a bit excited about that...considering I haven't been home home since last year it will be interesting to see what's changed or hasn't changed since then. Either way I'm looking forward to it. :) Should be good.

And ya that's been my life. Oh I had my first coffee type drink the other day...I think they called it a peppermint latte or something. Not too bad though it won't be something I get very often. Same with mochas. I've determined I don't like the mochas at Starbucks; too much coffee and not enough hot chocolate. Ya big stretch considering I don't drink coffee....ever. So ya.

Yup that is pretty much all that is exciting in life right now.

Oh and one more thought. One of my profs mentioned a couple weeks ago that Advent/Lent are times of reflection. I found it a very interesting statement considering we were in the midst of hard core paper writing time. But reflection usually means that you take time out of your day and meditate on what God is doing in your life and to just not be rushed into doing "everything else." Essentially both seasons are times of preparation to witness what God is about to do. With Advent comes Christmas and with Lent comes Easter (i.e. the death and resurrection of Christ). Moral of the story is to take some time out to reflect on these events during this season that we may be prepared for the coming of Christ.

Alissa