August rush

My. oh my!

It has been faaaaarrr too long since I've updated this thing! (p.s. for those of you who read this on facebook, its actually being imported from my blog...crazy, i know).

It's August. Can I repeat that again?

it's August. As in, the 8th month of the year. The month my brother turns 16. The month my sister goes to her freshmen year at A&M. The month that I move to New York. The month, where it all changes.

I am thankful for this summer. For a month in Haiti. For friends' weddings. For 2 weeks away with my family. And for time now. To sit. To think. To relax for the first time in 22 years. No summer reading. No planning for organizations next year.

We have our apartment. It's amazing. Katie and her dad found it while we were on the cruise and it is stinking neat. What a huge relief to have that settled! And sorry internet world, but i ain't postin' an address or picture, that's just asking for creepiness.

I'll hit on 3 topics this time around: Weddings, Haiti and New York.

1.) Weddings
I have married friends. And more than 3. People who are MY age living life together. How special to get to be there on their special day. Every wedding makes me more and more confident that I am NOT ready to be married now, or anytime soon. I got a DINOSAUR tattoo on the cruise, if that doesn't just scream immaturity, i don't know what does.
One thing I have learned is that weddings are the perfect time to meet people that you may or may not have some small connection with. For example, I have been in 3 weddings this summer (bridesmaid, 2 house party). At every wedding, the common fact known is that I am moving to NYC for grad school. So without fail, every wedding someone "has to introduce me to (insert name of person living in new york here)!"It's hilarious. But I have made new friends for the fall and since I am going in with 5, thats pretty nice.

2.) Haiti
Oh Haiti. I wish I could sum this up in a paragraph, let alone, any words at all, but thats just a joke. I really thought I would go this time, spend a month there, get my fill, and be done with it.
wrong.
wrong wrong wrong.
i went from a complete lack of a desire to go on missions, to a sincere desire to just...go. And right now its Haiti. Right now my heart longs to be there. To be holding those kids. To be loving on those women. It's hard not knowing when or if i will be there again. It's harder knowing a more long term stay is not in the plan right now. But thankfully the Lord continues to have bigger and better plans than I can ever imagine, so I rejoice in the fact I can take confidence in that. All I have to say is, don't forget Haiti.

3. New York
I'm scared to death.
3 weeks until the biggest change of my life. Leaving the comfort of...everything. It's weird. It's freeing and its paralyzing at the same time. I want to run two totally different directions sometimes and its bizarre. I took for granted the four years where I lived in the same city as my best friends. HA! But really. It's not like you think about that at the time, but really! When is that ever going to happen again? So now its just a waiting game. Waiting for august 24th. In essence, I get to completely start over. I mean, I could finally go by Stine if I really wanted to! So right now, we'll leave it that I am excitedly nervous.

I just totally lost my writing groove so i'm going to end this little dealio.

I also wanted to announce that my roommate Katie, and I will be creating out own blog to chronicle our adventures in NYC as she goes to culinary school and I do the music business thang at NYU. So look forward to that coming to a Macbook near you September 2010!

Peace, love and shark week.

ckm