a thanksgiving return..
well, it's been over a year since i posted on this. i've been writing more lately (journaling, nothing else) for several reasons, and i've been considering blogging again for a little while. today i clicked around livejournal for a bit.. checked out thriftwhore, which is basically all i've done on here since i last posted.. and i also read some old entries. of course i didn't read all of them, but i read a few from around times that i remember were interesting points for me. and yeah.. i just.. decided to write something now.
guess i could start by catching up and diligently filling in the huge gaping hole that is left from a year and months of not posting, but i honestly just don't feel like it. so, i'll summarize. a lot has gone down, for sure. i've have a life in texas now. i have just as many wonderful people in my life here as at home, and it's really comforting and leaves me content (at the worst) at the end of most days. so, that's nice. studying music education is going swell. i'm considering switching to a degree with an emphasis in elementary music ed (crazy? maybe.). this semester i've been studying the kodaly method with a class that went to hungary for 10 days; that was/has been pretty epic. it's certainly impacted the way i think and view certain things, especially myself and my life. i journaled the whole time i was overseas, and that's one reason i've been considering doing this blogging thing for a while..
so, today was/is turkey day, 2007. i've dubbed this one A Trierweiler Thanksgiving because i'm spending it in austin with my bff Danika (Trierweiler is her last name.) and her great family. so far it's been pretty relaxing and nice. danika and i are housesitting for a friend of her family, so we kind of have our own place, but we spend most waking time here at her parents' place. tomorrow i think we're going downtown to check out waterloo (record store) and book people (book store, of course) and perhaps some thrift stores. speaking of thrift stores.. i bought a digital piano/keyboard tuesday! it is the most fantastic thrift of my life thus far. it's a yamaha, 88 weighted key, touch sensitive, 3 pedal, midi capable, dual track recording keyboard.. with a built in metronome. about $225. amazing. it's basically what i've been wanting for years at the only price i could afford, and i love it to death.
a week, dead/juries week, finals week, and then i go home (to wv) on the 16th of december. i can't wait for this semester to end; it's been full of so much i'm ready to just make a part of my past. there have been good things, though, as well.. so, i can't complain too much. the semester will probably end all right too, which is good. i just feel like i've missed home a lot more this semester, and it will be great to be back for a while. there are people i can't wait to see, and i feel it will be a great break full of hanging out with many great people i haven't seen in far too long. i'm also hoping to find closure on some things that i just haven't been able to while being in tx the past couple months. well, one thing, i guess. and maybe i don't mean closure.. maybe i just mean a sense of peace or peaceful acceptance. though i was able to get my life back on track (not that it was ever really that awful, but it was difficult for a while), something is still missing. that was all pretty vague, i guess, for people who don't know what i mean.. a close friend passed away, in short, and.. well, that's what i was talking about. so, home, yes.. i'll be there soon, thankfully.
eh, i'm done writing for now, basically. this might be something i make a habit of doing, and it might be something i abandon again. we'll see. (: for now, i'm back.. along with my boring ramblings about my somewhat boring life.
guess i could start by catching up and diligently filling in the huge gaping hole that is left from a year and months of not posting, but i honestly just don't feel like it. so, i'll summarize. a lot has gone down, for sure. i've have a life in texas now. i have just as many wonderful people in my life here as at home, and it's really comforting and leaves me content (at the worst) at the end of most days. so, that's nice. studying music education is going swell. i'm considering switching to a degree with an emphasis in elementary music ed (crazy? maybe.). this semester i've been studying the kodaly method with a class that went to hungary for 10 days; that was/has been pretty epic. it's certainly impacted the way i think and view certain things, especially myself and my life. i journaled the whole time i was overseas, and that's one reason i've been considering doing this blogging thing for a while..
so, today was/is turkey day, 2007. i've dubbed this one A Trierweiler Thanksgiving because i'm spending it in austin with my bff Danika (Trierweiler is her last name.) and her great family. so far it's been pretty relaxing and nice. danika and i are housesitting for a friend of her family, so we kind of have our own place, but we spend most waking time here at her parents' place. tomorrow i think we're going downtown to check out waterloo (record store) and book people (book store, of course) and perhaps some thrift stores. speaking of thrift stores.. i bought a digital piano/keyboard tuesday! it is the most fantastic thrift of my life thus far. it's a yamaha, 88 weighted key, touch sensitive, 3 pedal, midi capable, dual track recording keyboard.. with a built in metronome. about $225. amazing. it's basically what i've been wanting for years at the only price i could afford, and i love it to death.
a week, dead/juries week, finals week, and then i go home (to wv) on the 16th of december. i can't wait for this semester to end; it's been full of so much i'm ready to just make a part of my past. there have been good things, though, as well.. so, i can't complain too much. the semester will probably end all right too, which is good. i just feel like i've missed home a lot more this semester, and it will be great to be back for a while. there are people i can't wait to see, and i feel it will be a great break full of hanging out with many great people i haven't seen in far too long. i'm also hoping to find closure on some things that i just haven't been able to while being in tx the past couple months. well, one thing, i guess. and maybe i don't mean closure.. maybe i just mean a sense of peace or peaceful acceptance. though i was able to get my life back on track (not that it was ever really that awful, but it was difficult for a while), something is still missing. that was all pretty vague, i guess, for people who don't know what i mean.. a close friend passed away, in short, and.. well, that's what i was talking about. so, home, yes.. i'll be there soon, thankfully.
eh, i'm done writing for now, basically. this might be something i make a habit of doing, and it might be something i abandon again. we'll see. (: for now, i'm back.. along with my boring ramblings about my somewhat boring life.