Happy things!

There's so much fun to be had in the next few days, weeks, and months!!!
- This weekend a good friend is getting married and I'm looking forward to wearing a brand new dress (that I got from J. Crew for a fifth of the original price) and dancing up a storm.
- Next week I am done with phlebotomy and will be officially certified to work. And my sister has a wedding shower!
- The next week I take a trip to Clemson to drop off a load of furniture/clothes/all-manner-of-stuff
- The next week I'm going to Maine, New Hampshire, AND Vermont! And will be eating lobster (something I have NEVER done before), biking a lot, and going sailing!!!
- Then I have two weeks of simply school (and hopefully work, too).
-Then 4 straight weekends of Clemson football in Death Valley!
-Then my sister's bachelorette weekend!!
-THEN MY SISTER GETS MARRIED!!!

So there's my life through October 7th! It's going to be fun, busy, and quite the adventure!!!

I was just thinking about Christmas the other day and how different it will be this year--B and J are with her parents this year, M and D will probably split time between the two sets since their parents live so close together, and I will be the only Wingate at home for the entire thing. I wonder how I will feel about it then, I wonder what will have happened in my life by then. I know I will be done with college and I may know if I'm into grad school or not. Hopefully I will have worked in the hospital for a few months by then and will have gained a lot of experience, how will that affect me? These are the things I wonder. If the months following October 7th are as busy and dynamic as the weeks leading up to that weekend will be, I am in for a wild ride. Who knows what changes will have occurred in my life by the end of December! It's a little scary, I'm not going to lie.
A part of me is laughing at the future and dying to know what's ahead, but the tiny, scared part of me is wanting to hold on tightly to the here and now. This semester will be one of major transition, there's no doubting that. Most days I will be blissfully unaware of the changes occurring and then they will sneak up on me like they have tonight. But that's good too, I would hate to feel like I was in transition every minute of every day!!