Wow, so I really stink at this whole xanga blog thing. Sorry guys.

I can't believe it's already been 2 weeks since I got home from Pittsburgh. Did it ever even really happen? Sometimes I feel like it was just a dream...but then I get a phone call from a camper or a voicemail from a fellow staff member...and I realize that yeah, it did happen...and I grin.

So what have I been up to these last couple weeks, you ask? Well...lots of fun things. I've been back to work in the alumni office at the college, working all the live long day on profile books, in preparation for the reunions going on during homecoming this fall and whatnot. And I work with the most awesome people, they're so much fun...wow I'm blessed.

Meanwhile I've been filling my evenings with long over-due catching up and fun times with friends from home. Basically cramming an entire summer's worth of fun into just a couple weeks (or trying). Yeah dawg. I've gotten to hang out with my girls, see the Calvary crew...and even hit up a Coldplay concert (AMAZING). It's been hard though, because even just a week after my getting home, my friends already started trickling off back to college. Sigh. The hard thing about life as a college student, I've decided, is that now...you're always missing someone. If you're at home you miss your college friends, and if you're at school you miss your friends from home. Although on the bright side you now have twice the friends, which is pretty super-cool in my book.

This week has been packed with hanging out-age with people I haven't seen in forever. Sunday night was with the Calvary group, including a few faces who hadn't been there in a good while. Always good to catch up. Monday night Jarrettemo came to hang out (and we got into some sweet piano/guitar jamming action); Tuesday I went to our cyber church bible study for the first time all summer, and I saw a bunch more friends from home, as well as some new faces; Wednesday I went up and hung out with the Linesville crew, which included some crazy good times with sparklers, bottle rockets, and roman candles...as well as a bonfire, s'mores, and guitarring (yess); then tonight I had the immense pleasure of going out to dinner with my darling Becca and Emily. How bout I am SO psyched that we'll all be closer in proximity this year, with Becca at Westminster, so that we can continue the awesome fellowship with each other. I love those girls! Oh and I had a hair appointment today, which resulted in darker hair for Brittany again. I think I dig it...something new and different again, which is always fun.

In other news, I'm leaving tomorrow morning to go visit Lizzy in VA Beach! I definitely wanted to try to go see her before school started back up again, since I missed the whole moving her down thing when I was still in Pittsburgh. I kept trying to figure out the cheapest/best way to get there (pay an arm for a plane ticket, or a leg for gas)...and I finally just settled on driving myself down there. It'll be a 9-ish hour drive at least, and I'm going by myself...so that'll be...fun? I'm loading myself up with good CD's, and I'll have my cell phone available for random calling purposes (consider yourself forewarned now, if I have your phone number...you just may be a lucky recipient of a phone call from moi).  Actually...tomorrow night I'll be driving to my aunt and uncle's house first, since they just moved there to VA beach also. And I'm sooo excited because I am surprising my cousin Kara, whose 16th birthday is next weekend. She's kinda lamenting the fact that she had to move to a different state right before her big 16th birthday, which she had been anticipating for years and was planning to have a big special party....and now she doesn't know anyone at her new town yet, since school hasn't started. Sooo that's the other big reason for my driving down there this weekend...I'm going to surprise her and make some sort of attempt to make her birthday special and fun. I'm just so psyched because....I looove surprises!

As you can totally see...God has been blessing me hardcore lately with awesome times with friends and loved ones. He just never ceases to amaze me with His outpouring of blessings on my life, when I so do not deserve it. But even if circumstances in my life were really crappy right now, God would still be awesome and be worthy of glory, honor, and praise. He just...gah...rocks my bologne.

[Sidenote...I just realized that whenever I type these long catch-up entries, I sound really hyperactive...]

Ok, I could probably go on about more that has been going on and more that will go on...but Brittany really really needs to pack. So, I'll end this here...leaving you with a promise of another update relatively soon. (...hopefully!)

<>< grace and peace.