Good Things Are Happening!

After months of worrying about financial aid for Winter semester, today I opened my email to find a delightful surprise: a Pell grant that covers tuition entirely and a subsidized Stafford loan that I can live off of for the next 4 months. This means I won't have to work while student teaching! Yay!

Also, my friend Ty Trejo in my ward invited me to open for his show on December 15th! So, I'll be playing a song I wrote earlier this year on my guitar, and as I sing, Ty will be joining in on the piano. He also invited me to sing some harmony vocals to his original songs. So, I am incredibly excited about this. I love music. And I love singing. It's nearly impossible for me not to feel happy, even on the crummiest of crummy days, if I'm singing to music I love.

As far as the cd recording goes, I am currently wrapping that up, now that I can afford to. I have half of the vocals completed now! I'm actually hoping to have the vocals all recorded within a week from now. Fingers crossed. I was going to go in this morning, but my voice was hoarse. So, Thursday we shall try again. My goal is to have the cd mixed and mastered before Christmas.

And lastly, I am going home for Christmas!!! Yay! I miss my family. There's just something about being with family for the holidays that makes life ten times more meaningful. Working at a job where I speak with strangers everyday on the phone. Living far away from all relatives, Utah,...when everyone I love lives in England, Massachusetts (thank goodness for spell check, b/c I definitely did not spell that correctly on my first try...my second try being me clicking on the spell check's correct spelling option), Texas, Oklahoma and so on. And spending most of my time worrying about MY life. My car, my rent, my job, my schooling, my bills, my crushes (or the lack thereof), my everything. Buying a plane ticket tonight with my mom on the phone suddenly shifted all my thoughts from me to my family. And thank goodness for that.

So, this past year, and especially these past few months have been rough for me. But, things are now looking up. Good things really are happening!