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| Well it's about time for another update I suppose.
I made it through my semester at PCC. I had a really fun semester! I made several new friends that just made the time go so much better than my first year down there. I LOVED all of my classes (except that stupid world history!) and I am proud to say that I made the president's list!
My semester at PCC ended nearly a month ago, and I am now attending Calhoun (again). I'm taking ten hours: Calculus 3, microcomputer applications, and World History 2. I am also working two jobs (Valley Birkenstock and Jason's Deli). I have absolutely no life and I have no idea how I'm going to ever study, but somehow I suppose I'll make it through.
This weekend my brother Joseph is getting married!!! He is marrying a girl (named Sarah, oddly enough) that he met at college. She is so sweet and they are a cute match!
Man, everyone is getting married these days. Two weeks after Joseph's wedding I'll be driving up to Knoxville to see Tabitha get married. Man I've known her since like 7th grade. And now she's all grown up! And it seems like every time I turn arounud someone else has gotten engaged or as a new bf/gf or something. I'm feeling left out. Sometimes I don't like waiting on God's timing, yanno? But I know that God has something amazing in store and I can't wait to see what it is! | | |
| Well, today was my last day at work for awhile. My last day in pants for awhile. This will be my last time to sleep in my bed for awhile. Why?
I'm leaving tommorrow to go back to PCC. I packed tonight, and actually I am a little bit excited. It still almost doesn't seem real. I'm actually going to be wearing skirts for the next few months? Weird.
Anyway, please pray for me. I am nervous/scared about going back. What if I get lonely (again?) What if I get in trouble (again)? What if I have bad roomates? It's just so easy to worry, yanno? But I've got to just trust God.
Please pray for me, that I adjust well and that my calculus credits transfer. And please keep in touch; it's so easy to get lonely. | | |
| My friend Anthony had surgery on December 17 to remove a tumor on his brain. I have talked to him online a few times since then, but it looks like he has gotten worse. Here is an update I got from his parents. Please pray for him!!!
Dear Anthony's Friends,
This is Rose and Tony once again and we have some sad news as of this morning to report. It was hard enough for us to swallow so please be patient. For the past two days Anthony hasn't really been himself. He has been worried and at times confused about where he was at and what he was doing. Last night, Anthony was restless and could hardly sleep but when he finally did at like 5am, we were calmed. However his team of 7 doctors did rounds and checked in on Anthony and his sleeping every half hour. Around 11:30am one of his doctors noticed a sharp decrease in his breathing pattern. When they lifted up his eye lids, his eyes where not visible. His team was suddenly called in and as we watched helplessly from behind his window his 7 doctors stood above him trying to figure out what is wrong. After about 15 minutes of debating, the doctors came out and told us that our son had another coma.
Personally, we don't believe them! Something else is wrong and we don't think they know. We know our son better than they ever will, and something else is wrong. But assuming that it is a coma, the doctors said that Anthony will have a tougher time coming out. They said that the first one was not that big of a deal since he just came out of surgery and his brain needed the restoration. However, now they are worried about his second one because the possibilities vary widely, but it is based on his will and determination, which has been on rocks the last few days. I almost am tempted to say that Anthony saw this coming and was worried, while at the same time at peace, but we will never know unless he wakes up. Yesterday Anthony had the nurse give him papers to sign saying that if he became "unable to function", then to pull the plug and we couldn't do anything because he is legally an adult.
Times are tough here and I cannot express enough how grateful we are that he has caring friends who love and support him through it all. Thank you! Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers, as we surely will and hopefully he will wake up soon enough.
God Bless,
Rose and Tony Smith
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| Well, this is probably my last post as a CCC student. I've had one final already and now I've got to take two on Tuesday and two on Thursday and I'll be done. It's so weird that it's over. In some ways I'm ready for it, but in other ways I feel like I just started! I'm going to miss my calculus class.
In six weeks I start my fourth (or maybe fifth? or would you even say third?) semester of college. I'm going back to PCC. Yah, I am. I know you think I'm crazy..I think I'm crazy! I just feel like God wants me there for now. I don't know right now if I will be there just one semester or if I will graduate from there. I really don't know. Right now, there's not very much that I'm certain of anymore. Life was so simple when I was just a kid. Now it's growing up around me and I don't know what's going on. I feel so lost. I don't really know what I want. Sometimes I feel like I don't even know who I am.
A week or two ago I found out that my friend Anthony has brain cancer. He is having surgery on December 17. Please pray for him!  | | |
| New shoes today! 
(Yes, I actually got them this time!)
Now that I got that out of the way, I need to finish writing my paper on Merry Maids... | | |
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