Apples and Appleton

I decided that I need one more post for November. Next month I'll hopefully be able to blog more than five times. I'm so excited for December. With December will come all of the much needed changes I've been so longingly waiting for. I also can't wait to allow my mind to be freely creative without guilt. I constantly think of things I want to write about, paint, or even hear songs I want to choreograph to but I have too much school work to worry about right now. I could put aside all of these matters of "great consequence" and indulge in my creative urges, but knowing that I am procrastinating on things I ought to be doing slightly stifles my process and thus the end result is not as purely imaginative as I would like. I figure I might as well just get all of the unimportant stuff like exams and papers out of the way before I can focus on what is truly important to me.

I am so utterly exhausted today. Thanksgiving break was absolutely wonderful, and incredibly relaxing but I feel like it took a toll on me. It was very emotional for some reason. I guess I'm just an emotional person, but I feel like I was even more so this past week. The Dells was nice. Except I sliced my finger real good trying to cut an apple. (It's funny because as I'm typing this entry I am eating an apple.) I stood at the kitchen sink stating, "Ow it hurts. It really, really hurts. Ow. It REALLY HURTS!" for about five minutes. It didn't stop bleeding for two hours and about 20 paper towels went to their capacity that night for my dear finger. There was talk of possibly going to the ER, but it ended up being a pretty little cut. It sure didn't seem little as it bled for two hours though!

After the Dells I went to Appleton to visit my boyfriend's family. It is still so surreal to me that I have a boyfriend, especially such a kind, fun-loving, forgiving boyfriend. Anyhow I spent Friday through Sunday at his house and it was really easy going. Much more easy going then I am accustomed to. It was really nice finally being able to see everything he always talks about. It's crazy how well you can picture something that someone is talking about without ever having been there, but you really do get a much clearer understanding of a person when you see them in the environment they grew up in or are spending much of their time in. I can't wait till I can visit a good friend of mine at college in North Dakota so I can understand her new life better.

On Saturday we watched Up and if you haven't seen this movie, see it! It is absolutely adorable. It may sound silly but I was just bawling during a couple parts of it. It really hit me hard and actually made me have some revelations.

I think I ought to stop for now and actually get to all of the matters of "great consequence" that are currently accumulating in my life. Yuck. I will leave you with a song with "November" in it by a band I never really heard of, but they're aren't that bad.