coming to an end.

my christmas break is almost over, and i'm a little disappointed. i don't want to go back to school. mostly i don't want to go back to class. i looked at my classes the other day and realized that i don't want to take any of them. none. i suppose that is part of being a senior in college about to enter my last semester.

so... i am now, basically, obsessed with the office (the american version that is). and not only am i, but my parents are too. i took my gift card from barnes & noble and got the second season. i have completed watching the whole thing, and now i'm working through it with my parents before i leave. also, anna d emailed me a link that has all the episodes on it, so now i'm all caught up on season 3 too. a great way to waste my time, and laugh my pants off over break.

also, last night i convinced my mom to go see the holiday with me last night. it was so good. i really enjoyed it and i'm glad that i finally got to go see it. i'd like to see it again, but i'll wait till it comes out on dvd. i'll probably buy it actually. i still would also like to see casino royale, the james bond one, but i'm not sure when that'll happen since i never see movies when i'm at school. maybe i'll have to make more of a point to do it.

alright, that's it. i leave in under 2 days to go back to illinois, and yea... i don't want to do it. so, in my avoidance mode i'm going to go back to watching the office, and i'm going to hole up in the house.

happy new years everyone!
- corrie

fun.

this was the best christmas ever. why? because i got to say "ass" in church (in a old song, so it meant donkey, but whatever), and i heard my grandma say "damn it."

the best.

on a similar note this fun observation by me:
watching the office with family is like getting to say "ass" in church.
the best.

happy holidays everyone.

hope you have as good of highlights as me.

dolphins: to my friends in the midwest.

how many of you out there got to spend your christmas eve driving along the beach and watching dolphins play in the ocean? huh? not many?

haha! suckers!

a california christmas is the best kind of christmas.
(forget the snow when you can be wearing a t-shirt and flip flops on the beach!)

merry christmas everyone!

saticoy burning.

so... family life is still up and down, but my mom and i had quite the adventure tonight. actually it wasn't as much of an adventure as i would have liked it to be, but it was an adventure none the less.

after choir practice my mom came home and grabbed me to take me town to saticoy (about 2 miles from my house, if that far) to show me the fire that appeared to be burning the whole of old town down, and boy was it crazy. from telephone road it was really hard to tell what part of town it was in and what was burning. after taking some pictures we got back in the car to head home, and i convinced her to take a few detours and we ended up getting some great looks at the fire. in the end we figured out that it must be some quarry type place in town, and it is just burning to the ground as i type this.

so here are a couple of the pictures that i took from this little adventure tonight.

ocean.

i saw the ocean today for the first time since i've been home. it was amazing as usual. the water reflecting off of it, the glasseyness of it between gaviota and santa barbara was beautiful. it was something great to see after my wake-up call this morning.

last night i drove up to san luis obispo to surprise natalie and go to her 22nd birthday party. it was a total blast, and great to see all of my friends again. then i drove to laura's and stayed the night with her. we slept on the couches in the living room cause her room is a mess from her recent trip to costa rica, so at 6:30 her alarm went off and woke me up. that wasn't a big deal, i knew it would be coming (she did have to work today afterall), and i fell right back asleep. what i didn't expect was the phone call i recieved at 6:47 from my mom.

i knew that it wasn't going to be good, mostly cause she'd never call me that early if it was. and the worst that i expected it to be was what it was. my grandpa died this morning. we knew that he was dying, but none of us knew that it would happen this quickly. on friday my mom told me how bad it was, and now he's gone. it's crazy to think about. it wasn't all that long ago, around thanksgiving, that we found out he was sick.

i'm not sure what to do with myself. my dad had gone out to help my grandma yesterday, so he was there when it happened, and for that i'm thankful. my mom has talked to him a number of times this morning and he told us to not go out there, and that's really all i want to do. even if once i'm there i don't have anything to do, i feel it'd be better than being at home and knowing that things aren't the same, but sort of going on like it is.

right now they're working out the details of the funeral, my dad, uncle, aunt, and grandma that is. from what i know they are going to have something down in hemet, and then have him cremated and bring him up to cayucos. funny thing. before thanksgiving my grandpa mentioned to my dad that he'd like to go up to morro bay (which is right next to cayucos) after christmas. it's something that we did last year, and when i was younger we used to vacation up there in the summer. now he will be going up there, but not in the way any of us expected. God is good.

all i can be is thankful.
- corrie

time to go.

well. here i am sitting at my desk. (actually, it's julianne's desk, but whatever, it's in our room.) about to finish up my packing and head out of here. i hate leaving but i'm always so happy to get where i'm going. hope that my flights go well today, and i can't wait to get home! woohoo!

here i come!
- corrie

beautiful days.

i love days like today. nothing to do, but hang out and walk around campus. the best part about walking around campus today was the beautiful weather. it's days like today, in the midst of what is supposed to be a cold winter, where the weather is on the warm side (almost 60) and everyone is outside. it makes me want to go get my frisbee and go out to scott field and play. so nice. then to be able to go back inside and hang out and talk with some fantastic friends tops it all off. i'm going to go out in a little bit with another friend, and i'm really looking forward to it. we're going to go and get ice cream and sneak it into whatever movie we decide to go see. i havne't been to the movies in i don't know how long.

what a wonderful day!
- corrie

done! with so much.

well, i am officially done with the fall 2006 semester at greenville college. that means that all i have left is interterm, and spring 2007 semester and then i'm done. five classes. that's it. then i graduate from college. it is so weird.

yesterday i turned in my final assignment, which took me all day to complete. it was such a nice feeling. handing it in, and walking around campus and then back home with a friend from california who is leaving tonight cause he's graduating. that was nice. then last night julianne and i went and got chevy's fresh mex for dinner (yummy steak burrito!), and cold stone for dessert. it was a really nice relaxing time.

then after we got back i hung out around the house, and ended up getting a facial by my friend kristen who just started selling mary kay cosmetics. i did it with katie and alyssa so that made it even more fun. joked around and laughed a lot during the process. later, after they had left, we had a surprise party for our housemate liz derstine. it wasn't her birthday, but she did get engaged, and so andre (her then boyfriend, now fiancee) got some people to plan it for her. she was surprised all around yesterday which was good. after that was all over i went to bed, cause i was tired.

now it's a lovely day in greenville, super warm for this time of year (55 outside right now), and i'm trying to decide what to do. since i'm all done with classes i can do pretty much anything. good stuff. i'm looking forward to today and tomorrow because i get to hang out and do nothing, but i'm also really looking forward to coming home on saturday. it'll be so nice to be back home! woohoo!

what to do next?
- corrie

nel noddings.

right now i should be writing a paper on a communication theorist by the name of nel noddings. but lets be honest. i really don't want to. and when i say really, i mean really don't want to. i have no desire to sit here in my room writing a paper. i have mentally checked out from this semester. i still have 9 days of classes/finals left, but i'm already done. i wish that i could just hang out. i don't even really mind going to classes, but i don't want to have to do anything for them.

up until yesterday i also didn't care if i was here or at home, but then i got back from a weekend in harrisburg, il (with my former roommates mandi, and christine), and decided that i didn't want to be here anymore. home is sounding better and better. i get to go home in about 12 days. not too much longer. that is all.

checked out.
- corrie

snow!

could the timing be any better for the first snow of the year? i don't think so. i'm ushering in the month that hosts christmas with one of the most beautiful things of all: SNOW!!!!!!!

note: at 12:10pm the temperatue is 25 degrees, with a wind chill of 12. nice huh?