I still love waking up in the morning and seeing blue sky through my window. I think I will always have to have a window in my bedroom, so I can wake up and see the sky without having to move. There is something so cheerful about that color of blue in the morning. Maybe that's why my room at home is painted sky blue. :)

I'm in a great mood today. A GREAT mood. For starters, because it is gorgeous outside, warmer than it has been lately (ie not snowing), and I have nothing 'scheduled' for this evening. No homework assignments to get in, no pressing work I'm behind on, nothing to stress about, at least for tonight! I think I'm going to make a serious effort to clean my room, that is, if I don't get distracted by my computer. And I need to get to bed early tonight... get my beauty sleep, so I can look stunning tomorrow and cause Joe to fall on his knees, unable to do anything but drool. *polishes halo while grinning innocently* :)

Seriously though, I don't want to be sleepy tomorrow, cause tomorrow is... Phantom Friday! Our big date! Probably the biggest date I've been on since like, the prom. ;) So I'm rather excited about it. It's going to be a lot of fun! Three things I hope for tomorrow: I can figure out a hairstyle to complement my dress; I don't spill food all over my dress at the restaurant; I don't sing [too much] during the show. :) But I'm not really worried about any of that... it shall be, in his words, "nice, fun, relaxed, stress free and hopefully at least a 'touch' romantic". :)

Today is a smiley overload day, it seems. ;) But this has been a great week. Monday, as I mentioned in my last blog entry, was awesome. Tuesday was decent, although it took me a lot longer than it should have to get started (and hence finished) with my combinatorics homework. But once I got that pretty much done, in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, I was back on a natural high. Natural highs have been great lately. :) And then yesterday... started out a little shaky, because I went to a meeting that didn't go very well, but it wasn't my fault or my problem so it wasn't a big deal. Yesterday evening I was inducted into Pi Mu Epsilon, the national honorary mathematics society. That means three things for me: I get a fancy certificate to hang on my wall; I get to impress prospective employers by listing it on my resume; I get to wear pretty purpley cords at graduation. I also get to wear gold Latin Honors cords, so I'll be all colorful and stuff. I love showing off. It is a curse. I try not to do it ALL the time. But I think I'm entitled to my moments. :)

So yeah... yesterday evening was topped with spaghetti and good conversation, and today I've just been feeling good all around. Happy about having a good night last night, excited about what's to come tomorrow night. I love that it's 7:30PM right now and the sun is still up -- one good thing to come of losing an hour of sleep last weekend. ;) I think as soon as I've posted this, I'm going out for a walk into town to enjoy the last few minutes of twilight, and the nice warm 46 degree weather. Weatherbug says it's going to rain tomorrow, but weather.com is saying partly cloudy, so maybe we'll be lucky. At any rate, I know I'll be feeling sunshiney, and I have a feeling I know someone else who will be too. ;)

I wrote a nice long prayer in my other blog today. I haven't been writing those as much as I did the first couple of weeks. I think I've been praying in my head a bit more, but it helps to get things down every now and again. I sort through my thoughts a lot better when I write them down, and sometimes I start writing about things that I didn't even know I was thinking. :) It's pretty cool! I think I figured out the key to lifelong happiness -- that is, overall happiness, because you obviously can't be happy ALL the time. But at the end of your life, if you can look back on everything and feel pretty good about all of it, including the bad stuff, then I guess that would be lifelong happiness. And I think the key to getting there is realizing just how lucky you are, no matter how bad things seem sometimes, and trusting that God has a reason for everything. That's not an easy thing at all. I hope I can remember it later, when I know I'll need to.

I love being me sometimes. :) Isn't it great to be able to say that? Not "I wish I was her." Not "Why can't I be as lucky as him?" Nope. Today, I can honestly say, that it's great to be me!

*heads off to downtown Fred with a big smile on her face*