Hi-Lo-Ha-La!

I hate that I have become so inconsistent in my blogging attempts! I think to myself, "Oh I should totally blog about that," then I never do. I love having pictures to go along with my stories but I never seem to upload them fast enough. So here is my blog...without pictures.

Hi
I am an official graduate student of Oklahoma City University. I start in January! OCU is a private school about 15 minutes from home. It's kind of affiliated with the United Methodist Church. I'm not even sure what the degree I'm pursuing is actually called because it's fairly new at the school and they've changed the name several times already. It's something like Master of Education: Applied Behavioral Studies in Professional Counseling. I want to be a child and adolescent counselor, not in school but in my own facility. I enrolled for my first two classes last Monday and that was really exciting. I'm taking Sociocultural Foundations in Counseling then Addiction. My advisor is interesting to say the least. I think he's a germ-o-phobe because I stuck out my hand to shake his twice and he acted like he didn't see it. He's also real sensitive to smells. I really enjoy awkward people so I'm sure we'll get along well. :)

Thanksgiving was also really good! It's my favorite holiday because it's the only one when I get to see all of my extended family at once.

Life Hurts God Heals graduation was also week before last. It was really fun. I catered in some yummy Mexican food and we had a luau/Survivor theme. There were 16 graduates this time around. Graduation is always bittersweet because I enjoy the break but really miss Tuesday nights with students.

Lo
I've just been so busy of the past couple weeks and will be until January. I feel like time is flying by and I'm missing out of just seeing the world. I went to the National Youth Worker's Convention in Nashville and one of the speakers talked about being slow and taking time to take everything in. They had shirts that had "I'm in the slow club." on them. I tried to get one but they sold out way to fast.

Ha
Stefanie and I flew out to Nashville before the rest of our group. As I was trying to put my suitcase in the overhead compartment Stef said, "Excuse me Ma'am! There are people behind you!" The people around us got real quiet and one man stood up to help me. It was so funny! So that became our new thing. We did it several times a day when we were in a large crowd just to get reactions. People were hilarious! They didn't know that we knew each other and we're so shocked by how rude we were. It's probably not as funny to you as you read but someday I'll do it to you and you'll understand! :)

La
Today is our annual Christmas luncheon at work. It's my 3rd one and I've been looking forward to it for a long time. Really good food, really funny entertainment and a couple hours that I don't have to sit at my desk!