No more school...for a while!

Life was once exciting but now that its not so new anymore, the exciting factor has decided to crash. Luckily I finished my first semester of college here at NAU and am still alive. I have to say that right now is probably the hardest time of my life so far and its quite hard to keep my spirits up. I have moved to a new apartment, about a half mile from my last one and I have 3 new roommates. This apartment is right next to south campus so its really nice, or it will be once school starts and I have to go to school everyday again. I just got my grades for this past semester and I got all Bs and one A in marching band. I was really happy to see those letters on the screen because I stressed all semester about keeping a 3.0 so that I could keep my tuition waiver. I just barely got that 3.0 though, I have a 3.09 right now. That means I won't have to work as hard as I thought I would have next semester to keep my GPA up. Right now on my break I'm just working and going home on Saturday. I had quite a scare on Monday cause my boss told me it was impossible for her to give me the time off I asked for. It's a horrible feeling to know that I can't go home for Christmas my first time away from home. Luckily a very nice co-worker switched her vacation so that I could go home and see my family.
Next semester I am going to try out the business field and see if I want to major in that field of study. I'm taking a business law class, intro to business management, a computer class that is required, geological disasters, and history of clothing. It's 16 credits and 6 classes so a bit more of a load than last semester. I'm hoping I'll like these classes more cause it was pretty depressing this past semester and I didn't even want to go to school. I'm hoping these new classes will somehow change my mind about wanting to go to school.
I still don't have a boyfriend so don't anyone go thinkin or spreadin that I'm getting married. I still have a few guy friends, many have moved. I'm going to be quite lonely up here without my best friend Brooke. I didn't realize how alone I would be until it got closer to her moving away. Now that she's back down south, I'll sure miss her.
It snowed quite a bit almost 2 weeks ago...I'm pretty sure it snowed about a foot and a half. The snow is still on the ground. My first time driving in the snow wasn't too bad, only missed an entrance to a store three times so I was driving around in circles cause I couldn't stop soon enough. I also learned that my car does quite well in the snow and I'm so glad its front wheel drive. Brooke kept asking me if I was sliding around like she did when she was driving and I wasn't and then I found that her truck is rear-wheel drive and that makes quite a difference.
Hopefully I can go snowboarding when I get back from home...I have a friend who works up at Snowbowl and he gets free rentals, I'll just have to pay $50 for the ski lift pass. That's one reason why I wanted to go to school up here so I think $50 shouldn't damage my bank account too much. And plus, he's a snowboard instructor up there so he can teach me. I'm excited about that.
There's just a little update on my life here up north. Nothing too exciting...oh but I did cut down my first christmas tree with an axe a couple weeks ago. And I've had a lot of snow rubbed in my face and lots of fogged glasses when I go inside.:) Anyway, I'm still alive and that's one thing I'm grateful for especially during these hard times. Feel free to write or call or text me.