Well, tomorrow/today since it's after midnight, is Friday. I made it through the week rather well. Thus far, I've turned in 2 essays, taken 3 quizzes, 1 major test, and turned in a painting. Tomorrow, thankfully, is my easy day. I am so glad for it. This weekend I need to do some major poetry reading and some really good research for another essay I have coming up.

Here are the good things that have happened this week:

1) I started a new painting that I really enjoy.

2) I learned that I like spaghetti squash which both fits with my diet and is cheap.

3) I had dinner with friends every night this week.

4) I used up the last of my groceries and get to go shopping tomorrow with recipe plans.

5) I FOUND OUT I GET TO GO TO EUROPE OVER SPRING BREAK!

6) I received letters from two great girls this week and from my dad.

7) Valentine's day was actually really fun!

8) I made an A on a Latin quiz. (This is a big accomplishment for me)

9) Tomorrow we get to start mentoring 1 on 1 at WAI.

10) I'm just still so glad my mom came to visit.

Well, thus far, I would call this new week successful. Today, I made it through all my classes and ended up having a great night. Isaac, Sarah, Conner, Jacob, Ben, Dan, Ryan, and myself all went out to eat for Valentine's Day at Olive Garden (my dinner was on Sarah. thanks friend!) and then Ben, Ryan, and Conner, surprised my roommates with me with a crafted arrangement of fruit and our own personalized cards. This was funny because my roommates' cards had pictures of their pets and mine had a tree. Which is great for me, because I really love trees. Plus, the tray that they brought the fruit on had rocks on it (which I like to collect).

On top of all this, I woke up to pink roses from Maria with a Valentine's day note. Sweet roommate? Yes.

I am very glad for the start of the new week for a lot of reasons. Tomorrow is Monday and once I get past it, I will have 2 quizzes down, 1 paper down and a much slower rest of the week (hopefully). Plus in my literature and media class, we get to watch Eat Pray Love, which I haven't seen yet. AND, then I get to go out to dinner with friends for Valentine's Day.

In addition, and probably the bigger reason, is because I have been down for no reason and I feel as though a fresh start will be good and that's what Monday will be.

Time with my mom today was great and very much needed. I was glad to hear that my sister did so well in her mock trial event and to see pictures from her birthday party this weekend. Plus, my mom got to see some of my paintings. Speaking of, I'm excited to start some new ones. I have a few sketches I want to get out; they're starting to keep me up at night so I need to prime my canvas and get to it. If they turn out well, I'll post some pictures. (Although I say I'll put pictures up a lot and it never seems to happen. I'll try to make it and exception to the norm)

All day today I had a looming desire to pack up my car and literally just drive away. I packed a bag at 730 this morning, got ready, put it in my car, and couldn't make myself do it. Which ended up being a good thing because today was a rather great day and I would have missed it. I think restlessness has to be a part of the human condition... or something along those lines, at least.

Tomorrow my mom is coming down which is really good because I have missed her and getting some quality time will be nice.

I have recently had to limit my diet to not include wheat, milk, meat, chocolate, caffeine, sugar, chocolate (this doesn't need to be listed separately except for the fact that i LOVE it), soy, and refined flours (there's a lot of weird stuff too like, honey and aspartame, but those are not really significant). I, at first, thought that this would be really hard and that people would get annoyed with me for not being able to eat without constantly asking, "hey what's in this?" but all of my friends have been especially great about it.

In particular, I eat with 3 other friends about once a week and I saw two of them looking up how make spaghetti squash today and I know the other one looked up what types of food I could eat before he made dinner last week. It's such a good feeling to know that you have friends who are as unselfish as these 3. I really can't even describe how special it made me feel to know that they cared that much. It was definitely unexpected and is still appreciated.

So, if any of you are reading this, thanks! You made my week immensely better.