"Let Me Go Ho-o-o-o-o-oooome"

I give our friend, Mr. Buble, credit for the title.

For the few of you who care, this is what life is like right now.

I got 3 hours of sleep last night.

• Good thing I'm good at running off little sleep.

I sprained my ankle walking home from school.

• A lasting weakness left from my days as a gymnast. I was watching a 2007 documentary last night about the Magnificent Seven women's gymnastics team of 1996, the team captain (Amanda Borden) of which was my coach at once point. They talked about how gymnastics just kinda beats up the body and some bodies just give out earlier than others. That's sort of what mine did. Knees, and especially ankles. I'm doing gymnastics again this fall, obviously much more basic than the level I once competed, but I'm mostly just going to try to get my strength and flexibility back. Any old tricks that decide to show up will just be bonus. I'm excited.

Juries are tomorrow. And I'm losing my voice.

• Nervous....

My eyes are watering because they just want to sleep.

• Good news. I get to sleep in tomorrow. :)

I had a migraine all afternoon.

• And Markie was nice enough to let me just lay on the couch in the cool, dark quiet for awhile after work.

I almost had to learn/memorize a new song for juries tomorrow.

• False alarm! Thank heavens!

I really need to shower.

• ...I'm getting around to it, ok?

Except for the dance competition on Saturday, I don't think I've worn make-up really at all in the last 2 weeks at least.

• Not sure why....laziness maybe? I'm definitely not against make-up. In fact, I like it, and it makes me feel good. I guess it's just a phase...hopefully.

My pile of laundry still looks untouched despite the fact I've already done a load.

• But then I'll have clean clothes!!!

Today was the last day of classes!

• We had a waffle-making/eating party in Theory this morning. And I made a chocolate fudge cake with cocoa butter-cream frosting and cocoa fondant for our dance TA (we had a party for her), and it turned out DANG GOOD.

Tomorrow's my last day of work!!!!

• I quit my job. Officially. And it feels great! I just realized that I'm not going to have time for it with my 10ish classes in the fall, so I quit. Luckily, I've saved most of my money, so it shouldn't be that big a deal to take a semester off. And if it needs to happen, now's the best time to do it.

And best of all....I DRIVE HOME ON WEDNESDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• I'm so excited. :) Like super duper excited. It's been a long time since I've been home, and I'm just ready to battle it out with my brothers and feel that Arizona sunshine bake my skin while I eat Popsicles and go swimming. It'll be great. :)