tumblr thursday on friday, a throwback to my younger years, and a countdown

i have been busy. like the busiest i've been all summer probably. and as a result, i haven't paid much attention to my blog. so last night i was all "ugh i didn't get to tumblr thursday" but then i realized i can do it today, cause this is my blog and i make the rules. so, without further ado, tumblr goodness...

love me some tumblr. anyways, so on wednesday i took kate up to her new middle school to get her locker and stuff set up with pictures and such (she even chose a picture from this day, awwww). here's the neat thing. kate and i went to the same middle school (prms). so i've always been bugging her about teachers that still teach there that i knew, and what's changed, blah blah blah. the first one i asked about was mrs. james, my middle school choir director. and guess what, she's still there.

so this year, because the school district is getting so huge and expansive, they opened up a new middle school (abms), and took some of the prms teachers with them. one of which was the fabulous mrs. james. on our way to abms i told kate that we were not leaving until i had seen that woman. i loved her and she changed my liiiiiife. can i please just show you this beautiful school? kate is so lucky. this place is incredible. i'm jealous.

after kates pictures were up and she had tested her locker out a couple times to make sure everything was right, we walked all over that monster of a school on a hunt for the choir room, and mrs. james. we passed the band room, we passed the orchestra room, and then WE FOUND MRS. JAMES. best day of my life. we talked for half an hour about the 7 years it'd been since we had seen each other, choir directors, my old classmates, my future, her beautiful new choir room, and it was the absolute greatest thing. it completely made my day and i rambled on about it for the next several hours (sorry kate). 

this is my last weekend in kansas! i'm still having mixed feelings about it, but it'll probably go by so fast that i won't even have time to decide exactly how i feel. i don't work again until monday so i'm planning on: dragging brent to see glee in 3D with me, my last saturday pilates class, lake time with brent's family, a party at church for my little 7 year olds, and maybe a skype sesh with my mother dear whom i miss so very much. i can't wait.

watch this...

5 days until my last day of work

6 days until chris comes

8 days until we leave kansas

9 days until i'm in provo with aims baims and sassafrass

10 days until death cab for cutie with amber

17 days until vegas with juelaine

20 days until california/disneyland trip

27 days until i drive up to idaho

and then most likely i'll stop the countdowns for awhile

oh! one more thing before i leave you. i would just like to say that my application is in, my references have been sent, and my interview has been completed. which means, now it's just time to wait to hear if i got accepted for china. this time last year i was getting my acceptance for ecuador. so crazy. i'm such a little traveler. i love it. sorry for the longest blog post ever. i just had lots of catching up to do since my mini hiatus from blogland. have a happy friday!