That's right! New Year, New Stories... phew

What can I say... the last month has been crazy.. extremely crazy. The last week ESPECIALLY! I don't know how on earth this is gonna lay out considering it's been so long since I've written, so bare with me my lovely readers.... and let's see where this takes us!

HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL!! It's so refreshing to re-start isn't it? Like starting new classes, a new job, a new assignment, new is usually pretty decent... but does new always make a good change? That's my philisophical question... Wah ah ah, I feel I've become maybe more wise this year... But of course I can't judge a whole lot off that considering it's like a very few days into it!

So, Winter Break was amazing! IT was soo nice to be gone from Winona, from a town I was hoping never to see again. Anna moved out, and we rode back home together. It was almost drama for that because her parents didn't want us to come home cuz of the huge snow storm we got. OH well, we made it back and it was grand. Unfortunately I can't remember everything that happened, but I know a lot of it. We all spent a lot of time at Adam's house and Nick's house. We did our fair amount of bowling, talking, puzzles (yes... puzzles... go figure), card games, broomball, pool, fooseball, darts, movies, and everything else in between. I'll try to think of some really good times. I worked a lot... it was insane. Checks were good, but at the same time over break, my car took in a whopping $700 for repairs... let's jsut say that's more than my income... Merry Christmas to the car right? haha... it's all good though. God provides, and I know it'll all come together nicely. It always does! Zach was home!! Yay! It was really good to just spend some time with him before he heads back to Mississippi and then to the frightful Iraq. I think he was really glad to be home as well. Robbie got surgery on his leg, and even though he still has to be off it for the next three weeks, he's doing better, andI'm glad for that. I got to be with some of the older Panera crew for a night at Bucas which was nice. There was only a small amount of us, but I haven't seen some of them for at least 2 years. I'm still positive I'm going to have a Panera table at my wedding.... give love to Panera! I also got to see the 8th floor of Marshal Field's set up for that thing they do every year. This year it was Cinderella, and it was cool to go to. Marlise had a friend, Cammie, come visit from school, so it was nice to meet her. Oh yah! we also had a Secret Santa christmas party lke the week we came back, and there were like twenty of us, but it was so fun! Everyone was there (minus like Laura K. and stuff) but it was a good turn out! I was happy to be surrouned by friends after my oh so crappy holiday season (let's just say, christmas is not my family's strong point... cough cough...moving on..) So yah! I got a really cool nut cracker man from Mitch Pemberton! It was really cool and now is sitting in my room.. woo hay!

Moving right a long.... Oh I got my highest bolwing score ever! It was like a 162 or something down right amazing! It'll never happen again so I figured I'd post it so it'll never be forgotten! Okay, moving right along to New Year's... So Jen had two friends visit her (Elliot and Nolan) who are from South Dakota. Well they came for New Year's and went to Kelly's yearly broomball New Year's thing! It was really fun cuz there were people everywhere! In the basement, upstairs, playing broomball, etc. Well, towards midnight, I had been playing broomball, an dJen's friend Elliot was coming after the ball, but slipped. Well he kept sliding... right into me! So he hit me pretty hard cuz next thing I knew.. I was on the ground feeling pain through my lip! I moved my hands away from my mouth and yep... blood. So yah. Basically what had happened was that My top tooth went THROUGH my lip and created a huge hole thing and I spent my New Year's in the bathroom crying because of the blood and pain. Besides that, I loved New Year's... it's just always so crazy.

Well, the next major event would probably be Comedy Sportz. Nate, Justin, Kara, Rachel, and I went to Comedy Sportz just last weekend because we all thought it sounded like fun and Justin still had not gone. But the bad part was that I had gotten sick that day. To put it in a sugar coated way, I threw up about six times that night.. and the worst was prob. when we were coming home from the show and we were on 394 and I was doing it out a car window... but we won't go there here.

SIDENOTE: It's just been confirmed that our Miss Koenecke will be staying Morocco for another two months.... so she will be home in APRIL! Ahh! That's crazy long but we must all support her in her endeavors so all be praying for her alright?! God has some amazing things planned for that young lady... I can guarantee it!

Ok, so the most difficult thing this break was the boy drama. There has been a lot of it. I won't mention names for the sake of the boys, but the count was up to... 5? It's all been dealt with and final just over with, but it was crazy. i know, it sounds so terrible of me to be like, dang I had five guys liking me, what a terrible thing. I mean it's honestly really flattering.. the bad part is hurting them in any way considering all of them are my good friends and I would never want to cause problems. So love to you all, seriously, no hard feelings correct? I think what made it a little harder was the fact that it all errupted upon me in the same week. Intense... very intense... but it's safe to say all is well again.

Break has been officially over for 48 hours now, but believe me the last 72 has been a struggle. I had a jam packed day Wednesday because I had royalty photos earlier in the day, and then I had to get my car fixed, but it took forever (time and lots of money) so I didn't even get it back until 5:30, and then by the time I packed and got everything together, it was a little after 6:00. I made few stops, but finally got here around 9:30... and the hard part was that Anna was not here with me to do it all over again. I was completely solo. To put it in not so many words, my roommate was not very welcoming, and I ended up parking my car over on West Campus, called some people, and cried while I sat in my car in the parking lot. It was not a joyous time. To comfort myself, I called Justin while I waited for the bus. Turns out the buses were either not running, or not running a very regular schedule... so I had to walk two miles back to main campus in the dark late at night... so again, I cried. It was horrifying and I just kept praying to God that I'd be okay. He got me safetly back to campus... around 11:00 or so, an dI was soo tired. Not a very good way to start the new semester. Then I only have 12 credits from last semeseter (long story) and 12 this semester, meaning I won't be a sophmore next year! HORRIFYING!! But I was able to sign up for another class, so at least I have 15 this semester. My classes are pretty decent, and I'll be really busy, but that will be nice. A Sidenote from classes, this girl Britney that I met in my Orientation class just moved up one floor from me, and she said she'll be visiting a lot, and tha tmakes me happy. It's like Anna is gone, but I'm getting all these other oppurtunites for othe rpeople to be with, so I'm hoping it stays this way... Everyone keep praying for me because it's going to be crazy, and as some of you have already witnessed very well, I get very emotional...... again sorry Mark, Anna, Lee, and so forth. Heh. They got the brunt of it basically.

So yah, that's my life in a very large nutshell.... is that an oxy-moron or what? Mr. Berrgeren would be proud.

Now tha tI have officially worn out my welcome, I will gladly leave! =) Until further letters, I bid you ado! Keep on smiling all... God always makes it better and well worth it to be alive!

Love Always,
Amy <3>

Yay College-Type-Moments: Cammie, Marlise, and I all tried on these fetching hats at Marshal Fields.. aren't we just oh so cute?