NEW YEARS!

Apologies for the prolonging of a few entries.
And today is New Years! I can't believe 2012 is over with TONIGHT. Looking back on this whole past year, and thinking where I was a year ago (babysitting), blows me away. It just does.
Life has been crazy and crazy wonderful since I've been home on break, especially staying at the house for a month. I don't really miss it at all, but parts of me does. I think the best part about break is knowing that in less than 2 weeks I get to go back to school; for the school part and for the living somewhere else part.
Speaking of school, the whole semester has flown and I was trying to think of how to sum it up and I can't! One thing I know for a fact though: God has rocked my socks off just about everyday in Mississippi through people, through situations, through the Word, and has given me such a peace about being back that I can't imagine what it would have been like had I tried to go somewhere else. Granted, school this time around was extremely different (in regards to classes AND people), but it was definitely better in all aspects. God also let me see a lot of the work He was doing that I couldn't see last year; He showed me reasons why I went through everything I did, almost every week, and is still showing me stuff! I didn't know so many things could be worked through and worked out so beautifully when they were given up to God!
Want to hear something strange? I'll tell you. I was doing some cleaning and lounging earlier (because what else does one do on Christmas break?) and my dad told me that he had a tub of some of my old stuff that he wanted me to look through before he put it up in the attic, just to see if there was anything I wanted to keep or throw away. So I brushed it off until about an hour ago. It was in my parents room, this huge lime green tub, of stuff I had no idea was. Ha. I opened it and almost started crying. In that stupid looking tub was almost everything I had ever had in my room all throughout high school (books, pictures, cds, cow decorations, jewelry, scarves, things that adorned my dresser and bookshelves, EVERYTHING!). I had put everything into this tub when I was packing up and leaving for school freshman year, August 2010. It was sooo weird to see all of that stuff again, and to think that this stuff was what my whole life was about from 2007-2010. Going through it now, it just seemed like a lot of dumb trinkets and notes and things... I think the weirdest part of the whole thing was the fact that I didn't remember a lot of it. The notes I wrote, the pictures I took, the things I collected.. they felt like some one else's life that seemed extremely familiar. It didn't seem like this was my stuff or my life that I was looking through. I don't think of myself as too different from my high school self, but looking at everything tonight I realize that we are not the same person in the least bit. That girl doesn't really exist anymore. I mean KINDA, but not, ya know? A little sad, but more so pretty cool if you ask me :)
Speaking of high school, the people I'm hanging out with tonight to bring in the New Year are allll of my friends from middle school and high school. So like, seven of us? Haha I'm kind of super stoked to catch up on life and play Just Dance 4 and sing karaoke with the dweebs I grew up with who are now adults living their own lives. LIFE IS SO WEIRD WHEN YOU GROW UP. Okay, enough of that.
On a closing topic: there's mucho more I want to write about; so much I want to type out and think through and be transparent about. But, alas, my ways are not His, and He's telling me, "Not right now." It'll come one day, and I can't wait for that day -to tell all- but that day and that post are not today. Sorry! ;D