The week in a nutshell... or maybe a nut.

Monday starts off with a glorious 2-hour delay, which results in one of those lazy days at school where teachers don't assign much. I go to Oskaloosa that night for a Teen Council meeting, go to McDonald's, have a conversation with an old friend that almost makes me cry, go to Wal-Mart and talk with my friends about how our SENIOR YEAR is almost over, and then come home.

Tuesday. What did I do on Tuesday? ... Oh yeah. Early jazz, and then a conversation at Val's after school. I was feeling particularly moody at that point, so my bad if I seemed like a bit of a jerk while we were sitting on that wondrous leather sofa. My family and I went to my grandparents' house that night, and my grandma spoiled me with pizza, cupcakes, pretzels, and candy. I'm blessed to have the grandparents I do. :)

Wednesday... blood drive. I wasn't as nervous about donating blood this time around since I've done it once before, but when the lady told me that I had a temperature of 100.3 I thought I wasn't going to be able to give this time. She took it again and said that it was 98.7... weird.

Thursday was kind of boring. Actually, it was so boring that I made a list of things to do when I got home from school - practice for my jazz solo, work on scholarships, memorize stuff for mock trial, film my baby goats for a Spanish project, etc. (Speaking of goats... y'all need to come over some time and see all of the little animals in our barn before they get big and ugly. Lol.)

Today was a good day to end the week on. While I'm disappointed that I didn't get the University of Iowa Presidential Scholarship, I did find out that I'm still getting a grand total of $14,000 or so from Iowa for my first year of college! That leaves me with like $6,000 in estimated expenses, and I'm hoping that I can easily cover that if I manage to get some of the other scholarships I've been applying for. Looking back on it, I'm really happy that I worked hard for my grades in high school. There were times when I didn't see the point of it all, but now that I'm getting money from a university without even having to fill out an application, I can see its worth.

Now my parents and I are going to see my grandma over on the other side of Oskaloosa... and tomorrow is the second-to-last competition for jazz band this year. I'm sad thinking about it, but as Dr. Seuss said... "Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened."

:)