Life as a disaffiliate

Is rough. I am having a blast with the girls on the council as well at the Recruitment Councilors, but I miss my sisters. mucho.

Plus the long days and work are harder without your closest people by your side.

Which makes me excited for Bid Day. :)

Other than that, tomorrow is the Vendor Fair, which I have put quite a lot of work into. So we'll see how that goes. I'm excited for the Bare Escentuals group thats coming. Who doesn't love free, really expensive makeup?

Other than that, I'm excited for this upcoming year, good things are in store. Im sure of it. :)

disaffiliated.

Recruitment Time!

So the time has come, recruitment time! or at least work week. Which for me, a disaffiliate and member of the panhellenic council, starts at 9am tomorrow.

I'm excited to be making such a big impact on the other side of recruitment but I am most definitely going to miss being with my sisters. I felt like last year was the first time I really connected with the entire chapter and I am super sad I will be missing out on that with the newer girls.

But on a brighter note, I am so freaking happy to be back in the house. It literally feels like home. Even before I was unpacked, and in a different room than last year, it just felt right. Everything about it feels right. Except for Dustin not being in Tucson... soon. :)

Well this one seems more like a diary entry than a blog post, but yeah.

recruitment time.

the plan.

So I have always been a believer of God has a plan, even if you can't see it.

Well after ADPi elections in September, I definitely couldn't see it. And even after I got on panhellenic I was still sore about not being able to live out my "dream."

But today I officially saw the light. Not being president has opened up so many other doors for me. Panhellenic is so much cooler than I thought it was going to be. I applied to be an orientation leader this summer. Im working 3 jobs (if you include panhellenic). and I joined Psi Chi (which I am now thinking of running to be the president in the fall).

And what is even better is I still have so much more time for the people who mean the most to me.

I now know that if I was president I wouldn't have any of the time for all these things and that there would have been a small chance that relationships I have with family, friends, and Dustin, would have had some strain put on them.

And what is even better about "seeing the light" is that I can finally let go of this resentment about the elections.

Thank God for this fabulous plan.

moving on.

Whats new?

So whats new?

Im doing the Panhellenic thing now... and I love it. It's so much easier than my last position at ADPi (MEVP), I get paid, have more free time, the prestige that comes along with the title, the chance to make a difference in the community, the opportunity to be a leader and positive role model for other sorority women, etc. Basically so far so good. I have already- had the deans list ad designed and printed in the daily wildcat and made a 27 page academic resource manual for all 4 councils (PHC, IFC, NPHC, and USFC). Starting next week I will be having one on one meetings with the scholarship chairs from Panhellenic and begin planning the 4.0 banquet with Graham from IFC. Its going to be awesome!

ADPi is... fabulous but I'm just having a few rough parts. I think once we get into the swing this semester I will be fine. Maybe it's because this is our first week of chapter and now we're finally all back together.

School is good. Im only taking 12 units, and they're all on tuesday and thursday. Fabulous. Nothing to special about the classes tho- I'm just trying to finish up some electives now that I am done with degree number one.

Friends are great. Still love living with Poolsie, and missing brunette number 1 a ton. But good news is that we will all be reunited next weekend at my moms big 50th birthday party!!! But back to Poolsie- it's nice to have a friend I know that I can count on in the good times and bad. :] and I am so glad I will get to live with her for another year and become even closer. Nic Nak is fabulous. We still don't spend as much time together as I would like (I guess that is what you can expect when 2 people who are as busy as we are, don't live together), but whenever we are together its like we never parted. She is such a good, old friend and I am glad Im still so close with her. 9 years... wow.

Family... not so good. UE has been in the ICU for 2 weeks now. His lung collapsed 2 weeks ago- that, plus a mixture of the phenomonia, and lung cancer they diagnosed today- is not good. They'll be discussing more surgery options tomorrow... so we'll see where that goes. I've been home both weekends, but won't be able to go back this weekend. What IS nice is that I will be going home next weekend for my moms birthday party- and will be there Friday-Monday.

Speaking of the party... its going to be INCREDIBLE. I am going to wait to be able to past pictures with the blog... so I'll let the suspense build.

As far as the boy goes... literally all of our friends are breaking up. Todd and Britt started dating 2 weeks before us and broke up a few days ago. So that has me a little on edge. And then today I realized- what if while Dustin is helping Todd recover, from what I can only imagine is sheer devastation, he starts to see the single life as something fabulous? I get that whatever happens, happens- and that God has a plan. BUT, losing Dustin is something I can't even begin to consider. But I guess that's what love is all about. Putting your faith in someone and taking the chance. :]

He is my person.

Well I am going to go for now.

faith.

My first post

Well! Here is my blog. Pretty exciting. And yes, I am following Kierens trend. Although, I do not intend on having like 57 blogs. :]

One of my 2009 New Years Resolutions was to keep up this diary I have, so far... epic fail. So hopefully this well be an attempt to make up for that.

Hmm... today was Veterans Day, yay dad! I did pretty much nothing. Unless you count getting my hair cut and watching Juno. Okay, I did a little more than that but still stacks up to be just about nothing. This week is pretty much awesome. Its been very relaxed. AND this weekend is Treehugger, which I did not get to go to last year because of instillation (im pretty sure). Speaking of ADPi, I would like it to be documented that I was elected onto the PanhellenicCouncil! Which is pretty exciting! Vice President of Internal Affairs. There were a ton of people who applied so I didn't really think I had a shot, surprise!

I think this is going to be all for my first post, bye bye for today.