I forgot about Xanga...and I really haven't had the time to write here in between work, church, studying for the GRE, taking Macro, CB, writing off line and blogging on another. I'm not really sure how I've been fitting in regular exercise and socializing on top of everything that's been going on.  This summer was especially busy with A1 and such...and I planned on having a FUN summer by way of going to Rivinia, downtown, the museum, the beach, and BBQ-ing as much as we can.  None of that really happened and I'm beginning to think that it's the nature of being an adult.  Even if you did consider 30 as the new 20, I'm still 30 nonetheless...I half expected the summer to be like ones we use to have...

Remember loitering at the mall for hours, going to the pool and hanging out with your friends all day and all night, then calling them the next day to do the same old nothing you did the day before?  This is why summers seemed so long...between June and August, there is less than 3 months to just hang, but seemed like a lifetime when I was young.  Then there was the annual Methodist joint summer retreat I SO looked forward to...seeing people whome I called my childhood friends, at the end of every retreat someone went home with convictions to do their QT everyday, but most of us just went home with a new crush.  Looking back, we were seriously SO naive and innocent, so pure and carefree. 

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I'm really proud and happy with Hans' friends...who are now MY friends.  They rebuke and tell how it is, but at the same time love you for who you are.  They highlight and understand your true self and celebrate the person you are.  I've seen another side of this group this weekend and I love love love them!

Walking around U of I...I'm double fisting some snacks.

At Jupiter:  Pizza is SOOOO good here! 

The other side of the table....

Group shot.

Goofy boys...up to no good as usual.  Aren't' they so cute? Shabs about to poke or jab Dan, Dan giggling expectantly, Hansy and Bernie loving each other?

I've recently been doodling in a small sketch book I purchased from Michael's...just coloring various things...like trees, birds, flowers, random designs and swirls...  I often have these spurts of images, especially during QTs and Sermons and I want to draw them....  Lately I'm drawn to these images of "what it's not".   Like this one...where she's so glamourous and beautiful, but she's so sad. She looks held together, someone that does all she's suppose to and appears beautiful. happy. but really, everything she feels is opposite what she appears to be.