always blessed, soon to be stressed

Here's a taste of what is coming up in my pro-life life!

an article to finish

a phone date soon

a coffee date Friday

an article to begin

a form to get filled out to achieve organization status on campus

a banquet to volunteer in Austin

a meeting to brainstorm

a meeting to plan events

a meeting to choose a venue for an event

a meeting to educate

a benefit to attend in Houston

a benefit to volunteer in Austin

a form to fill out to be in the quad

an event to plan to bake 1,000 cupcakes

a day to distribute cupcakes

a cause to be fundraised for

a maternity home walk to support by said funds
a million emails to reply to

*throw in a dozen more meetings and some more articles and a few more cupcakes and that's pretty much the rest of my semester. LOL! I'm not complaining. I'm not. Just assessing my schedule; trying to brace myself for everything that is about to hit. I'm blessed to have so many opportunities to fill the pages of my agenda and the entries of this blog.

Oh and by the way, in the next few weeks I will be volunteering 7ish hours a week at an emergency children's shelter. SO excited! SO scared I will not ever sleep anymore with everything going on. I seriously think it'll be a really great though.

i think i'm in love

...with children who have Down syndrome, or anyone who has Down syndrome for that matter.

After everything I've been reading and watching and thinking and seeing lately, I am pretty sure I have fallen in love.

As a result, I've contacted an organization in Austin that is focused on children with Down syndrome and I might get to do my volunteer hours there for my social work class this semester!

Even if it doesn't work out (there has to be a social worker on staff to be my supervisor, blah blah) I am still totally volunteering there. So excited.

weep alone

Oh just a little poem that I love by one of my favorite poets. I happen to be able to relate to this at this very instant, so that rocks! Bolded some of my favorite lines. Almost finished with a task that has been strangely seemingly impossible for me the past 10 days! That is an "up" to this "down" of an hour.

"Solitude"

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Laugh, and the world laughs with you;

Weep, and you weep alone.

For the sad old earth must borrow it's mirth,

But has trouble enough of its own.

Sing, and the hills will answer;

Sigh, it is lost on the air.

The echoes bound to a joyful sound,

But shrink from voicing care.

Rejoice, and men will seek you;

Grieve, and they turn and go.

They want full measure of all your pleasure,

But they do not need your woe.

Be glad, and your friends are many;

Be sad, and you lose them all.

There are none to decline your nectared wine,

But alone you must drink life's gall.

Feast, and your halls are crowded;

Fast, and the world goes by.

Succeed and give, and it helps you live,

But no man can help you die.

There is room in the halls of pleasure

For a long and lordly train,

But one by one we must all file on

Through the narrow aisles of pain.

pro-life turtle race success

What does a Pro-Life club do for a social event? The answer to that question is obvious: eat watermelon, play volleyball, and race pet turtles. 

A week of planning and preparing the competitors definitely paid off. Bobcats for Life had a great time at the river and I was so happy the event went well... no, not "well" but GREAT!

watermelon + volleyball + pro-lifers + turtles + river + ukelele = great afternoon

watermelon chunk spitting contest

watermelon spitting contest winner, John

Tuck, a.k.a. the champion

Why, yes! Our Priest IS cooler than your Priest.

Annnnd they're off! or at least Tuck is.

 

aint it funny how time slips away?

14 = hours I've spent on Bobcats for Life this week
3 = hours I will spend on Bobcats for Life tomorrow

15= hours of class I have on my schedule
12 = hours I will have after I drop my 5th class... 5 classes in one day... not a good idea.

50 = hours of B4L work a semester I must complete for TX Right to Life
50 = hours of volunteer work I must complete this semester at an agency for my Social Work class

12 = hours I work on campus per week
8 = hours until I wake up for work

2 = hours I spent watching The Office with Ryan yesterday
0 = hours I should have spent watching The Office with Ryan yesterday


Today I tried to do some math and figure out how many hours of my week are "free" a.k.a. empty for studying, napping, having a healthy relationship, etc. It's really not too bad, like it could be worse, but it's definitely a lower number of "free" hours than I've seen before... and that still isn't counting everything that is important to me that I have prioritized (lately, very poorly) into my schedule. If it weren't for journaling and the occasional therapeutic rant on this blog, I would probably lose my mind. I got a nap in earlier so now, at 10:45, I'm going to chug some Coke Zero (sidenote: "chug" is an awful word) and try and finally knock out this task that I have been somehow only touching the surface of for a week now.

I need to make a priorities chart. I also need to cancel Netflix so I'll stop watching The Office.