These past few weeks

Having a small moment to sit down and actually blog again feels strange. It isn't really that I am much busier than I have been in the past, but the things that I have been doing have been regularly taking me out of the house, off the computer and although I am receiving messages and information through my phone I haven't really felt like I had a moment to interact back. Everything is flowing over me and I am quickly getting closer to the day that I leave for Switzerland. I feel like I have lost my solid grip on my time and energy and have let the days pass through me. If I write out about what I have been up to these past 2/3 weeks, I couldn't possibly seem like a person that has lost their ability to control their world, and yet that is how I feel. 

I will hopefully find more time to write later today, but right now I have a few pressing AMSA things to attend to that are wearing on my conscious and forcing an overwhelming sense of guilt. I especially want to get a moment to reflect on this past year and write about my hopes for 2014. (maybe even post a few of my photos! They have been piling up since mid December) 

I will sum up in bullets what I have been up to :) 

- Learned to drive stick shift 

- Gone Rollerblading both in Blacksburg and back home

- Learned how to play racquetball

- Learned how to shoot a bow and arrow 

- Pangelinan Christmas Party

- Todai with my family

- Iceskating in Reston Town Center and the Counter with the Corner 

- Playing tennis in the cold

- Going swimming at Oak Marr

- Christmas Dinner at the Webers

- Festival of Lights 

- Went out dancing at the Park at 14th 

- Matt's Cookie Party

- Costco trip with my parents 

- Gone shopping for the perfect red lipstick with Joy 

- Tim visit

- New Years Eve dinner with my parents and tons of russian salads

- New Year's Eve Party at Caity's

- Getting back into running after being sick in December

- Went to DC - Natural History Museum, Art Gallery, Botanical Gardens, Air in Space, and Busboys and Poets - walked home in the snow

- Went Iceskating at Fairfax Ice Arena

- Hung out with Joy at her new apartment

- Royal Tea Party at Michelle's House

- Shooting range with my dad

- Dinner at awesome restaurants like Yechon and Yazamoto 

- Watched "Flashdance: The Musical" at the Kennedy Center 

- Finished "Speaker for the Dead" and "My Horizontal Life" - loved the first, hated the second - now I'm reading Orange is the New Black, The Valley of Amazement and listening to the Omnivore's Dilemma on audiobook

- Got a primary care physician for the area and started filling out medical forms for Penn State

- Slowly purchasing things for PGS like my textbooks and a winter coat and extra contacts

Thats...basically my last two/three weeks. I guess I've been having a really good time, I'm just not really feeling like myself lately. 

The next couple of weeks will be as much of a blur. Hopefully this week I will see a few friends to catch up one-on-one and then I leave for NJ to visit Tim. We're going to NYC to see Wicked (his Christmas present for me) and then going skiing for two days. Then when I get back I plan on finishing up the last of packing and getting ready for my trip. This all so surreal.