Deux semaines...

Home from YHC!!!  It rained Saturday which sucked but at least I got to enjoy the company (and I managed to get a little schoolwork done as well).  Today, I could not stay so long as I had to hightail it to Gainesville.  My great-Aunt is turning 80 on Wednesday and her immediate family threw her a surprise party at her church.  It was very good to see everyone and catch up (We need to do so more often).

So the next two weeks (or rather week-and-a-half) will be rather hectic with my finals and all.  Also, I'm really getting down to the wire with all my GCSU stuff.  Starting with my next paycheck, I'm going to nip it in the bud and get everything reserved.  This is going to happen, and besides God, I'm the only one who can make it so.

In God's Hands

On the left: Emily, me, and Carissa prepare to go SKYDIVING!!!

I am happy to say that I took a risk and went SKYDIVING on Saturday, and it was unlike anything I have ever done or felt before.

Let me tell you, the sensation of skydiving does not become real until you are actually on that plane.  As it takes off, it finally hits you that it will not be landing with you on it.

The sensation of the actual dive is incredible.  As the group started their jumps, I was astounded as the plane quickly emptied out.  The girl before me went out quickly, and as she flipped out of the plane I had half a second to think "Oh no!  That's me in a couple seconds!" before I myself flipped out of the plane into my own dive.

You fall down crazy fast, more than 100 miles per hour, and honestly it felt like I was flying.  Even though I was falling thousands of feet, I felt lifted up and the sensation was definitely worth the pressure that my ears were feeling.  Falling so many feet, it was comforting to know that God was with me the entire time, and the winds rushing past me, giving me that flying sensation, gave me the impression that God was holding me up with giant hands.

The most uncomfortable part for me had to be the deployment of the parachute, but it just goes to show that sometimes doing the right thing for yourself is intense.  Yet once I settled down and got used to the harness, there was an amazing peacefulness in the air.  I was still very high up.  I remember at one point my instructor (his name was Mike) showed me that we were still 1500 feet up.  But it was peaceful, and the view was fabulous.  God was definitely with me.  How many people can say they've dropped thousands of feet and lived to tell about it?  Okay, okay, quite a few can, but definitely not everyone.

So...a little change of plans...

Oh my goodness!  In just three short weeks, I will be done with my core and halfway finished with college!!!

Really makes me wonder where the time went...

But there is also so much going on!  Skydiving on Saturday, YHC a week after that (I changed it to that weekend so I could spend the weekend there, although I have to go to Gainesville that Sunday for a little surprise for a family member), then finals and then job hunting and getting everything really really ready for GSCU in August!  Not to mention the mini-trip to Nashville and the big kahuna two-week trip across the country to Arizona.

Whoa!  Me, my little brother, and my Dad---driving across the country and all over AZ in an itty bitty mini-cooper named Sir Desmond Chips - How will I survive???  (I'm kidding!)

But seriously, a lot is happening in my life right now and I am actually quite terrified about all of the prospects, but I've got to do it.  I'll regret it if I don't.

-Jenn

Plans...plans...plans...

So...another busy week...so much to do and catch up on...

Day 7 will be up tomorrow on my other blog...it has been a lot for me to start doing this before my six months are up, but I'll give it my best!

So, lots of trips and mini-trips coming up!  I'm going up to YHC on the 17th (right after I go SKYDIVING!!!) to see Sarah Lynne and everyone and to do a little hiking before the semester is over.  I have to figure this one out but I'm looking to see if I could go to GCSU on the 23rd to do a little job hunting.  Also, we're heading up to Nashville in late May to see my cousin and her boys!  Dad wants to go to a concert up there that weekend and he thinks it would be better not to put Nashville into the AZ trip since its such a lofty trip already.

So...in the news...

I gave blood today, best time by far...quick and easy and I feel great!

Also, two tests this week, and thus far I made an A on the first one!

-Jenn

Discouragement...

First of all, Happy Easter!

Second, it was a terrible idea to give up my scale for lent.  I weighed myself this morning when I woke up and, even though I've been persistent as ever with my exercise, I gained all but 1 pound back from when I had my surgery.

That's 9 pounds in less than 2 months...

I'm trying not to give up on this, but it's really really hard.

Finally...

I have managed to survive this crazy stressful week...Only a month to go and then I'm out for the summer...

...Anyway, lots to look forward to this weekend. I'm going to the movies with Sarah Lynne, Naomi, and Symone tomorrow. And then on Saturday I'm going on a waterfall hike with NatureBound up in Helen. Then of course Sunday is Easter, and after relaxing for a bit I'll have to do some more studying but at least the weekend should help me bounce back...I have gotten less than 7 hours of sleep every night this week.