35 Days

In 35 days I will be able to fly home from this semester of school! That's a few days after the semester ends, but it's when plane tickets were cheap. After this semester of school I won't be returning to BYU for 2 years because I'll spend the summer working, then I'll serve as a missionary for my church. I'll be gone for 18 months for that, and then when I get back I'll work during the summer again before returning to school.

Anyways, I am so excited to go home! I love it here at BYU, but sometimes I get homesick. Today was my little sister's 6th birthday and she called me because she was missing me and wanted to talk to me. Here was a part of our conversation:

Me: What are you doing to celebrate your birthday today?
Geral: I'm having a candyland birthday party and we have sooooo much candy and a lot of games planned and cupcakes that we are going to decorate with candy and dancing and it will be soooo much fun! You should come to my birthday party too!
Me: I'm sorry, but I can't. I have school today and I'm too far away to make it there in time even if I took a plane.
Geral: But it's spring break! You should come home for spring break!
Me: I don't have a spring break. If I did then I would come home for your birthday!
Geral: Oh, I just miss you so much. *little sniffle*
Me: Are you okay?
Geral: Yeah, a sad tear just fell down my face, but now it's gone because I need to be happy for my birthday party.

I miss her (and the rest of my family) about as much as she misses me and I would have loved to go to her candyland birthday party, even though I was informed by my sister Sarah that "10 six year olds+candy+games+candy+dancing+candy= 1 massive headache" I think it would be really funny to see a ton of six year olds all hyped up on sugar and dancing around!

Anyways, that's all I have to say right now because it is now past 11:00 and I'm trying to get to bed earlier because I get up early for my job. I don't work tomorrow, but I was thinking about going to the gym. Maybe. We'll see how I feel about that in the morning.