this color is my mood - i am slightly sunny and happy, which is fantastic. did i mention that i move to Texas in LESS than a month? actually four weeks from yesterday. THAT is weird. sometimes i think that it is not actually happening and it makes life much easier. :)

went to jazz in june last night and was SORELY disappointed. the band was lame - we left at intermission and went to la mexicana for margaritas. GREAT idea. :) the worst part is that two INCREDIBLE groups played for the first two weeks of jazz in june and everyone was used to that. it was such a let down. but we did play "pass the pigs" which might be one of the COOLEST games ever. everyone should own it and play it all the time. i may have won.

my friend elizabeth passed the BIGGEST test of her career and i am so ridiculously happy for her!!!! she is now a CERTIFIED child life specialist, and that is a big freakin deal. i can possibly explain how cool it is - and i don't feel like we really have celebrated yet. that needs to happen.

i went garage sale-ing and found a couple of good things for the apartment. obviously they are not big things, because we would have to then move them to Texas. we're buying all of the BIG stuff down there. i found a cool wine rack for 5 bucks, a CD for a dollar, a couple of mugs, two champagne glasses for 25 cents each that are in GREAT shape, and a wicker decorative thing that was....free. :) if it doesn't fit in the car, we'll just throw it away!

the end for today!

slightly freaking out....

I mean, just a little bit - not too much. I am sitting at Panera with my good friend David and we are working at our computers. I went on the UT-Austin music website to look at graduate registration stuff. Turns out the total hours required for a Saxophone Performance Degree at UT is 30. 30 hours. That's NOTHING. I mean, I guess that is the norm for graduate program, but it just doesn't seem like a lot. I can't wait until I am taking just a few classes and I can devote so much time to practicing. The minimum number of hours I can take to be a "full load" is 9. That means that I could be taking 3 classes with one being my lessons and that would be it for a semester. I know this doesn't seem like a lot now, but I'm pretty sure that it will be extremely intense. I hope survive. OK my computer is dying. Peace!

the beginning...

Here I am, a month and a half out of the big move, and I am an organizational machine. I only have one suitcase left to unpack of the abundance that invaded our home a few weeks ago. I have never gotten rid of so much stuff in my life and it feels FANTASTIC. Just as a point of reference, this is what my room on campus looked like before the move:


Yeah, I know. What a disaster. So all the stuff got packed up and moved home and I thought my parents were going to kill me. Fortunately they settled for nagging me constantly and slowly but surely things are falling into place. I have almost all of my kitchen stuff, office supplies, and decor packed. The clothes will be a much bigger project to save for a different date.

Going to a bridal shower tonight - I can't believe my friends are getting married. I truly feel like an adult. Sometimes.