Why?

So I've been contemplating starting a blog for awhile. 

It seems to be the new bandwagon again, but also as every week passes I get busier and busier.

And time is spent less on facebook and AIM to chat and catch up with friends and family.

So I figured I would start a blog, and put the link on facebook etc and whomever can read it, and then when I do get the opportunity to catch up (hence the title) there will be less time spent trying to fill everyone in.  

So school has been kicking my butt to no end.  This semester has been one of the most challenging.  I think it's because I am starting my major Spanish courses, which require papers which are longer than 2 pages in Spanish.  And it is quite difficult to think in another language.  After I'm done with a paper, I am so exhausted you would have thought I ran 5 miles.  Then even though I only work two nights a week, and Saturday mornings, work is just so long and after you've been up since the early hours in the morning and going to class all day you're already tired and work just adds to it.  And then my remaining nights are spent budgeting my time between homework, studying, and being able to maintain some sort of good family time, and social life.  Whether it's just having the opportunity to sit at the dinner table with my parents, or literally falling asleep on the couch at 10pm with Chris (wonderful favorite) that's just how the cookie crumbles.

Saturday nights are some of my most cherished nights because I spend them with Sam and Jessica.  Without these two in the city, I would probably have one of the most boring lives ever.  I'm looking forward to Christmas Break because my other saviour, Jen will be home again!  

But in the next couple months I'm quite excited for.  Here's the catch up sort part.  Christine, an amazing hairstyle, and a great friend of Sam's, needs a hair model and asked me to do it.  This week I'm getting my hair colored, styled, cut and whatever else and my make up trial run by a MAC professional.  Then Monday the 27th I have a photoshoot for a book that will be in salons across the United States.  Yikes! I'm excited, but so nervous.  It's like that Sex and the City episode,  Carrie claimed "I'm not a model!" And then backstage Samantha tells her "Oh honey, you're a model."  Then she realizes she is, with her fabulous high heels, and jeweled panties. That was my reaction when I first heard, but the more I think about it, and hopefully the support with text messages (hint hint!) I can have my Carrie moment.  

New Year's Eve, my cousin Erin is getting married, and I'm so excited.  It will be fun to spend the night with my family, and just have great time.  Also I can pretty much say with a lot of confidence that my date will be the best dancer there :].  

Also in these next couple months I will be starting my planning for studying abroad this summer.  I'm still debating between Barcelona, Spain and Buenos Aires, Argentina.  There's a lot of factors that I have to think about.  Finances, economy, the courses, education and just experience in general.  The biggest thing out of that list that is really making me think is the finances part.  The economy is horrible right now, and just even trying to shop around for flights is going to be a challenge and a struggle.  And the debate between the Euro and american dollar.  More pros and cons lists to come to make.  

But that's all for now, I feel like I'm always on the go, I'm surprised I got these few minutes to start this blog, but we will see how far it goes.