Rest

I just read all of my current roommate's blog which you can find here. I found it hilarious, probably because It is exactly how she talks, and I had heard many of these stories. I realized that I spend way too much of this blog talking about former roommates when I have such an awesome one now. So this lovely little paragraph is for you Laura Steffen. Just for you. :)

So remember that post that was me basically complaining that I wanted to go home? Well I decided to. And not just for a weekend, but I decided to not take classes summer and go home for about three weeks, and then just come back and hang out. This decision was really difficult for me, basically because I was really excited to be able to say I was a Junior by Fall semester, but I'm tired. I'm tired of going to school. I've been going for a year, and I learned that apparently I need breaks. I guess that isn't hard to imagine, most normal people do. So I will be leaving my dear little Provo this next Tuesday and I will be in Maquoketa for about 3 weeks! By the way that picture ^^ is of my tiny town of about 6,000 people. I'm excited, but I also think I might die of boredom because I won't have my car with me, so I won't be mobile.

Despite this setback, I have already made goals for myself to meet when I am at home.
First: I want to exercise! I am so bad at doing any form of exercise, and I don't know why. But I am going to go running, go swimming in our wonderful pool, and chase all my little siblings and hopefully this will somehow translate back to my life in Provo when I return.
Second: I am going to read. For fun. In high school I read a lot. More than any of my friends, or basically anyone I knew my age. But since I've gotten to college, I haven't read for fun at all. I have to read so many textbooks that for my free time I watch movies or tv on Hulu. It has really gotten bad. I miss books though so I am going to read.
Third: I am going to help my mom. In high school, as much as I would like to think I was helpful, I'm pretty sure I was a lazy little bum. So I will be doing the dishes without being asked and watch the kids without grumbling. Or at least I'm going to try.
Fourth: Okay, this one isn't really a goal, just for my own personal pleasure. I'm going to beat up my little sister Moriah. She turned 16 and I told her she wasn't allowed to, so I'm going to take it away from her. :) I miss her, and I hope that we can talk and become close again while I'm home. It has been hard to talk to her about stuff that I'm not present for, so hopefully I can be a better big sister and actually listen and be interested in the things she will tell me.

I'm really happy to go home. I was upset with myself for being weak and needing to, but now I'm just so excited to go home, that I don't even care. I am going to miss everybody here though. What am I going to do without my friends for 3 weeks? I'll get by I'm sure, with a little help from my family. (Ha, see what I did there? If not you can just ignore this parenthetical statement.)