Thanksgiving break - the much needed refresher!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING, everyone!!

It has been quite some time since I have taken a few minutes out of my life to document the insignificant details for you. And, since my last post, I have accomplished...well....hardly anything. Truth be told, staying up until 4 a.m. for homework ruined me. That night, along with sleep, I lost what little motivation I was hoarding. Since turning in that paper, I have accomplished close to nothing of scholarly significance. In place of my motivation, I have acquired somewhat of an apathetic (or perhaps drudgery is a better word) attitude towards anything having to do with my Fall 2008 semester classes. Despite having a relatively non-busy week, I am currently 4 chapters of reading behind in cell and molecular biology, I managed to lose my physics notebook and thus haven't taken notes for an entire week, and I actually subconsciously gave myself permission to shut my brain off during organic chemistry lectures because the reactions of the week just seemed like way too much to handle. But did I just sit around doing nothing all week? No, of course not. No, instead of making it easy on myself and catching up on work for my classes, I daintily pretended I could have a grand old time, and thus read Stephanie Meyer's Twilight and updated my IPOD. I found the book alright, but not nearly as good as all the hype warrants it to be. And, the music? Well, it did make my drive home on Tuesday rather enjoyable.... I'm now banking on the hope that this marvelous Thanksgiving break will put some fire back in my brain so that I can trudge through the last two weeks of the semester in a scholarly manner.

Thanksgiving break thus far has been a wonderfully refreshing event. I had a grand 'ol time on my drive home Tuesday afternoon, singing the entire way. In fact, I think I sang myself to exhaustion. I fell asleep on my bedroom floor at 7:00 and ended up officially curling up in my bed at 8:30 and not waking from my peaceful slumber until 10:00 on Wednesday. That was worth about two entire nights of sleep at the Mount! Yesterday I went shopping and got a new phone to replace my malfunctioning razor. My mom made me homemade mashed potatoes for supper, and I spent the evening at a family friends' house, reminiscing and watching a movie with some of my best and longest-lasting friends.

Currently, I am a bit uncomfortable, as I stuffed in a bit too much of my Thanksgiving feast. Here in my hometown of Elgin, NE, Thanksgiving doesn't mean a home-cooked meal with family, but a trip to town for a homemade parish meal at the St. Boniface Parish Thanksgiving Bazaar. This year marks the 84th annual bazaar. People come from all over and stand in line sometimes for as long as an hour just to eat the scrumptious food. It's great for all of the outsiders, but for families like mine who are members of the parish, Thanksgiving means working at the bazaar and seeing very little of each other. It is a day-long event as there is more food to go along with bingo and a raffle during the evening, followed of course by clean-up. In any case, all the work and sharing that goes into the day is something to marvel at. I guess I have an entire parish family to be thankful for on Thanksgiving day! And I must be off now to go pick up my little brother from his shift of working at the games for kids.

Happy Turkey Day. Don't forget to count your blessings and eat too much food! :)