post 100...yay?

I have made 100 posts on this blog. Does it call for celebration? Maybe, maybe not.

So, I'm going back to Utah tomorrow afternoon. I have mixed feelings about it. I'm excited to get back and see my friends again and to be in a routine again, but I'm sad because I don't like leaving home and I'm not looking forward to the snow in Utah! Especially after the lovely warm weather we've been having down here in Houston.

I should probably talk about what I've done this break.

Let's see, I went Christmas shopping right after I got back. Then I went to a Houston Symphony concert. My mom sings with the chorus and every Christmas season they sing Handel's Messiah. It's amazing. Then there was Christmas preparations--we had to put up the tree because my parents weren't able to get the tree out of the garage by themselves. They waited until my brothers were back. There was shopping, shopping, and cooking. We went out to eat a few times. Then there was Christmas Day. We didn't get up until nine-thirty. That shows how old we are. But I figured that since my birthday is Christmas Day, the birthday girl should be allowed to sleep in. I turned 22 (yay). 22 is my favorite number, and I really don't know why. It just seems like a nice number. I got some nice presents. For Christmas dinner, my aunt and uncle came down from Humble and we had a single man in our ward over as well. It was pretty fun, and it was delicious. Mmm-mm.

Two days after Christmas, I went to a wedding reception for a couple of my friends: Hannah and Brandon. I originally knew Hannah--we were in the same dormitory freshman year. We met while we were doing laundry--she said that she was living in Japan and I told her that I lived in Japan once. A year later, she started dating Brandon, who was from my home stake. I did not know him because my home ward got moved into his stake the day I graduated from high school and he was on his mission. But I did meet him when I went home for a summer. They got engaged and were married in Houston, since her family has lived all over.

This last week, I went to the eye doctor. It turns out I have something on my eye because my eyes weren't getting enough oxygen; that was because I was wearing my contacts almost constantly at one point because my glasses broke. So, I'm trying to wear my glasses more often. And my eye doctor wants to try out a new contact lens brand on me. I've done a little bit of clothes shopping. I've gone on walks to try to burn off some of the holiday/final exam calories. I passed all of my classes, yay. I saw "The Tale of Desperaux" today and it was cute. I went to another wedding open house, and oddly enough, I knew the bride and groom for this one too! Nathan was in my ward when I lived in Katy. Our parents are good friends. Natalie was in my ward my sophomore year at BYU. She and I found out we both knew him when we first met. It's a small world when you're Mormon.

That was my break. I go back to Utah tomorrow *tear*. I will begin my final full semester in college on Monday *another tear*.