So I'm back in Nashville! And I'm lovin' it!  We've all decided that this year is gonna be drama free, and so far it has been.  This means that all the drama from home was left in Knoxville and will stay in Knoxville.  I do have to throw in however that I miss all my friends back home.  Work is what kept me going this summer.  And I miss all my friends at the Y.  Ya'll better keep your promises and come and see me, and I'll keep mine too.   All my girls at church I miss ya'll too! I really wish I could have gotten to say goodbye.  So ya'll stop by on your way to Arkansas! I promise I'm gonna make it down there this semester.  Just let me know when the shower is and i'll be there if it's not the weekend I'll be in South Carolina, home for the UT games, or in Memphis. 
Things have been a lil slow here at school cause right now only freshmen are moved in.  But some of my good friends are living off campus so they are already here.  Last night I went and saw Four Brothers with JT and Ryan.  It was so much fun.  I forgot how much fun it was to just hang out with the guys.  The movie was INCREDIBLE!  I'll admit it, I CRIED.....but ya'll I just can't handle it when a good looking guy cries.....movies and in real life.  But it was great, a lot of language and violence but still great.....have your id ready when you try to get in. Tomorrow evening I'm gonna be hangin out with some of my Gamma Lambda girls.  Just chillin' and talkin about the summer at one of their houses.  I can't wait.  Then Friday I'm goin' out with my friend Kate (who is now engaged!!!!! yay!!!).  It's gonna be a ton of fun.  So hope ya'll won't need me this Friday cause I'll be out in Lebanon!  Well I guess that's pretty much it for now.  Hope all is well, and stay in touch!

what a night....really what a week!  i mean, i end this week thinking....why couldn't the whole summer have been like this....but i guess really a lot of it was my attitude and the fact that i just didn't have time to hang out with everyone like i wanted. but this week i was fortunate. was able to hangout with Y guys outside of work and old friends that i haven't been able to spend time with for a while. it's good to know that the quote about not seeing someone for a while and then being together again and just picking up where you left off is true.  so this calls for a shout out to bridget.....girl had a great time with you tonight, lets do it more often!  and boys....you all are always there when i need you and i have no idea how you know when that is.

well i'm out....night ya'll be good

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it's been a while since i've felt a sense of comfort.  i mean i've always felt safe and comfortable in knoxville and nashville and anywhere i've been.  but a comfort as in i guess you'd say a spiritual or religious comfort.  i hate to admit it but for a lil bit, especially since october there has been a lot of questioning of why? and why can't this prayer be answered this way, or why did God put me in this situation.  Mainly recently the thought has been, 'Please God help me through this time,' or 'please get me out of this situation,' or where is God right now. but what brought this comfort was just a simple rainbow.  i was driving to drop of a dvd that john and i had rented and it had been pooring. but as i was on my way out of the neighborhood it started to clear up.  and i looked up and there was a bright beautiful rainbow.  and to the left was another somewhat lighter rainbow.  and what i loved about the first rainbow was that you could see all the colors.  THE WHOLE ROY G. BIV!  usually they are so dim you just see the first few colors.  and you all know that usually i don't compare things on a Godly or spiritual level.  but today it was like God was saying "YES, i'm really here!" hopefully things will start looking up, or at least hopefully i'll have a better attitude and outlook on things.

well now onto the rambles of just stuff about life.  nothin's changed. physics is halfway over which i am very happy about.  it's been difficult but i know i could have been worse.  it's getting really close to being time to get back to nashville which again i'm EXTREMELY HAPPY ABOUT.  birthday is coming up but that's nothin to exciting more.  everyone knows what it'll take to make it a good one, we'll just see if it happens.  jenn and her family are gonna come down the weekend after and celebrate a couple of days with me and see the new house which hopefully we'll be in soon. dad and i went over there tonight and things look great! i'm really starting to get excited about the house.  makes me sad that my room is the only one that hasn't been painted yet, so really i don't know what the color looks like or if that's even the color i want it to be.  my light is gorgeous.  didn't get the 18 in. chandelier i wanted but this one has some gorgeous crystal that hangs off all around the edge.  i'm looking forward to bringing all my nashville friends home for ut games and stayin there. 

well i think things are gonna go well the last two weeks here in knoxville.  but i would be lying if i said i didn't want to get back to nashville. i'm gonna have to buy a lot of stuff for my room to be just the way i would like it. and i already started buying my text books.....i think by buying them on amazon i save a good $200 or more.  but i'm gonna make the best of knoxville.  made some tough decisions recently which are upsetting....burnt a few bridges....but sometimes that's what it takes to get your life straight.  everyone deserves to be treated kindly....or atleast they all deserve to be treated like a human being!  so to you knoxville folk....we got about two to three more weeks to party...you Y folk, can't wait until the 6th!!!! and nashvillians....I'LL BE THERE SOON!   miss ya'll soo much, LOVE YA MEAN IT!

i'm soooo sore from wakeboarding yesterday!! but that's okay, i still got my workout in before work.  although i was only able to get 30 mins in before work because my physics teacher ran over like 15 or 20 minutes today.  he better not keep doing that cause i got plans after class everyday.  but the workout was good.  got to talk with a couple of guys from high school while i was up there.  actually one i had never talked to before but now totally wish i had.  the guys at work make fun of me casue when these two guys started coming into the Y to work out they all were like 'they are laura's kind of guy, bet she'll be tryin to talk with them and flirtin.' well they didn't know that one was a friend from high school.  so when they left i talked with them and stuff.  all the people i work with started freakin out and sayin stuff too me.  oh well....guess it's time to get some real work done.  the physics isn't gonna get in my head just sittin on my bed while i play around talkin to people on the internet.