On grace, patience and long distance

Weekly weigh in: 149lbs (I'm in the forties baby! Down 11lbs total!) 

I've been a wreck of emotions these past two weeks, I started my second and final semester of my undergraduate studies. Starting a new semester is always the best feeling: fresh notebooks, new textbooks less money, not being behind on reading. And then, about 1 1/2 - 2 weeks in, the "start of semester slump" hits! You realize how heavy your course load is, that you haven't been doing your readings as intentionally as you should have been and you just want to finish (or in my case, graduate and marry your best friend). I know that I'll finish my semester well, and overcome difficulties just as I always have been able to in the past. It's just hard, and some days every morning I don't feel like getting out of my warm, cozy bed.

Here's another thing. It's hard showing grace to difficult people. Today for example, I haven't been feeling well and I'm frustrated when people don't understand that. Have you never been sick yourself?! Ugh. Anyhow, on a positive and unrelated note we are getting TONS of wedding rsvp's nice and early which is SO great.

Long distance: if you remember my earlier post on this, which you can find here! I really hate not seeing Kyle every day. It would logically seem that the closer I got to graduation and the wedding (96 days btw!) that the easier it would be. WRONG! So wrong. The closer it is, the more I just want to be married and doing every day life with him. I'm so ready to be moving on from this phase of my life, yes I've enjoyed my college years and in the future I'll have some more schooling (planning on returning for my Bachelor in Education); but for right now I'm done.

So here is to losing more lbs, losing my semester slump and continuing to get out of bed for classes I don't want to go to. Real life folks.