grad.

Life has been crazy especially over the past three weeks, but basically since christmas.  My final semester at college has been filled with every emotion–happiness, sadness, confusion, and lots of stress.  I had my final portfolio review and senior art show as an undergrad the first week of May.  Getting everything finished and ready for those activities really took a toll on me.  I had minimal sleep and forgot to eat consistently which left me really sick and weak feeling during the review and show.  However, overall I got positive feedback from the professionals at the review and got to interact with everyones' friends and families at the show, which was a fun ending to a very stressful day.  


After the show, my classmates came over and we made some pizzas and drinks and just spent awhile relaxing and enjoying each others' company before everyone departed for the summer.  When I went to bed that night, I was out.  I ended up sleeping for a full 8 hours which felt so good.  

art show presentations.

The next day we had graduation practice in the morning followed by baccalaureate in the afternoon.  I got to spent the day with my roommate who was also graduating.  We both had been running around like crazies and hadn't had time to spent together so it was nice.  We were randomly placed as roommates first semester freshman year and have been together every since.  Her large extended family had arrived the day before so they came to my art show and spent the weekend with us.  

baccalaureate.

Finally it was May 5th which is Cinco de Mayo and therefore our grad was dubbed Cinco de Graduation. We were in the afternoon ceremony and therefore had time in the morning to get things organized.  My sister even came over to help fix my hair.  

looking intelligently into the future.

Post grad, everyone came over and we had a fiesta for Cinco de Graduation with tons of mexican food from our favorite place.  We even had some piñatas hanging from our light fixtures.  However, being the control freak I am it drove me insane having everyone trying to fix things and move things around.  The margs definitely helped me calm down and they were delicious!

It doesn't feel like I graduated 9 days ago and I doubt it will hit me until everyone else goes back to school in the fall.  I don't feel like I should be old enough to get a "real world" job.  It actually scares me a lot.  I haven't done much since graduation except do some shopping and scrapbooking to help clean our house up.  I feel the need to be more productive now, but I really did need some time to relax and enjoy being out for the summer.  

The rest of this month is going to get busy very quickly with siblings and friends graduating from other schools.  I will be doing lots of baking and cake decorating for their upcoming parties.  Tonight I will be uploading photos from my camera to my computer and finishing some household chores.  Tomorrow I hope to add multiple recipes we've tried over the past couple months as well as some more updates on life.  

Till then, cheers!