So this is the life.

Funny how growing up kinda makes you wish you can go back to high school just a while longer... (never thought I'd say that. Ever.) Just a few months and a little exposure to some adult responsibility, and I'm desperately searching for the rewind button. Okay it's not that bad... but the teenager in me requires me to be melodramatic. ;)

College! Going well, but not all that fun. Community college pretty much just feels like high school for grown ups. I'm doing well in all of my classes... all As so far. Just lacking a bit in the social department. Most of my friends are off livin' the university life. But it is what it is, and it's free. So I figure I can tough it out till next year when I head up to BYU-I! Just one more year.

To get through the school year, my parents finally helped me get my first car! A '98 Ford Taurus. It was a cute little grandma car. I drove it for approximately 5 weeks before I managed to get in an accident and break the poor thing. It wasn't my fault, but it still made me sad to see my first car leave so soon. As of this week I am now the owner of a 2003 PT Cruiser. At least this car has a CD player... :) Haha. Here's to hoping this one will be with me a long, long time.

I guess that's all that's up with me... Keeping busy with school and work. How boring. Putting all of my money towards gas and my car. Also sad and boring. This growing up thing ain't all it's cracked up to be.

Dangity dang.

Well look at that. Another year gone by, and my boredom has yet again led me to my blog. I'm awful at updating these sorts of things! Maybe I'll actually catch on this time? We'll see. :)

Lots has happened this year! I mean, I'm graduated from high school now and moving on to a whole new chapter in my life. I guess I should highlight some important events and whatnot that have happened? I've been all sorts of busy, as always, keeping up with my usual inability to tell people no and the stress that follows such handicap. There was my last season of marching band; participating in a stake performance of Handel's Messiah; several gigs with my Concert Choir homies; babysitting for my beloved choir director Mrs. Corley; accompanying our newly established jazz band; keeping involved with National Honors Society; attending many church shindigs; picking up a new and very dear best friend, Caleb Tyler Wood; going to almost every high school baseball game of the season (despite how little I may have previously known or cared about baseball...) in attempt to support my new friend; playing lots of piano; going on all sorts of adventures with some of my good friends (usually entailing delivery of treats or winning of talent shows, etc.); attending my senior prom, complete with limo and hot date; and just being a teenager... all while trying to balance 3 AP classes and a full school schedule. Despite the incredible lack of sleep, the stress, the emotional breakdowns, and everything in between, I don't think I would change much about this year. Don't get me wrong though, I am so glad it's all over.

Most recently, many events have been reminding me that I'm growing up! I've started my own little business as a piano teacher, I've just been hired as a hostess at the Outback (my first real job!), I'm applying to college, and now I'm graduated from high school. I don't know if you can really absorb how weird all of these changes are for me.

Some of my dear friends are already leaving, and I feel kind of lame staying back and attending community college. I don't want to be one of those weird kids that can't let go of high school and move on with life. But we'll see what goes down! Goodbye Valley Vista High School.... hello life.