Reasons you know you are a music major... at heart

 **Disclaimer: I am no longer a music major. But I am keeping this list, because it definitely still applies to my attitude about... everything

1. You note the part-writing errors in the hymns at church

2. You start stressing out when the leading tone doesn't resolve

3. You get Solfege stuck in your head ALL the time, and sometimes you sing it in the shower. Really.

4. When you are listening to music on the radio, you find enjoyment in being able to find "do" at any given moment

5. When your brother Bryan is juicing oranges, you figure out what "note" the juicer's motor is humming and you freak out with joy when you run to the piano and realize you were actually right (Yes, it was indeed an A. Be proud)

6. You start a blog just because you're excited about the playlist

7. Um.... you're pretty much completely DEAF. (okay, maybe that one is just from stupidity of loving to listen to loud music when I am cleaning the bathroom or snowmobiling or driving alone....or maybe it's just selective hearing...we'll never know.)

8. You feel like a total snob when watching people conducting hymns....because it drives you nuts. (Because of course you had to take an entire course on conducting and you learned the right way to conduct. And they are not, in fact, doing it accordingly. Yes, that bar is, indeed, the downbeat. Bless their hearts. See what a snob this has made me? dang it....)

9. You can't listen to classical music without starting to analyze it

10. You get really excited about modulations.

Yes, I was a Music Therapy major. Yes, I loved it. It is still a huge part of my life, and I am so grateful for my time at Utah State.  If you ever wish to know why I changed to nursing, when science is hands-down my WORST subject, I will tell you. If you ever wish to know if I survived nursing school...well... stay tuned. So do I.

romance.

That blizzard may have been a bit weaksauce, yes. But . . there's still no denying it.

SNOW. :)

And so it begins

I have class in 45 minutes, and I do not want to even move.

4-day forecast for Logan, UT (high/low)

Fri: 38/22 Sat: 43/22 Sun: 38/20 Mon: 43/25

You'd think surviving a Logan winter would pretty much toughen up your skin enough to be okay the rest of the time, right? HA. Think again. Of course I knew Logan was cold, but still I seemed to have forgotten that it was always this bitingly numbing outside. And this is just child's play.

Just to humor myself, I Googled the weather in Kiev. 
It's comforting, really, that the weather is still in the 60s in that part of the world. I feel a little bit better about going.

But that still doesn't solve the problem that I have before me at this moment.

Engineering building... Why are you so far away?

fyi

I must make a correction. Sorry St. Petersburg, but I will not be visiting you, or finding my Demitri for that matter (such a shame).
I got placed in Kiev, Ukraine!
I leave sometime between January 7th-12th.
I WILL BE THERE FOR SIX MONTHS!!
CAN WORDS EVEN EXPRESS HOW ECSTATIC I AM?!
(Ahem, Mallory, I am still torn, despite my great enthusiasm. ;) I am going to definitely have some withdrawals without my lovely roommie. And no texting you every single random happening that I could ever even ramble about in a day?? What is that going to do to me psychologically??? *shudder..)

Anyway. I am going to live in a foreign country. For six months. During the coldest of absolute deathly bitter freezing months. Yikes. And do I speak a lick of Russian? Have I even figured out how to say "hello" yet??
Of course not.
It's 12 letters of the Cyrillic alphabet long. And also, Russian is not phonetic. It is not pronounced the way it is spelled. Intimidating? I think yes. But never fear. I am determined to learn this fantastic, beautiful language.
There is going to be a LOT of charades going on for those six months :)

Oh, and by the way, if you are wondering how to pronounce "Kiev,"
It is pronounced "keev" in Ukrainian, and "key-ev" in Russian. So no matter how you say it, you'll always be right! (I know you were stressing about that)

Досвидания!

Thank You

Thank goodness for conference. Thank goodness for institute. Thank goodness for scriptures that fill my soul with light, truth, and hope, no matter what unbearable things continue to go on around us in this world. I stumbled across this scripture when I absolutely needed it (funny how that always seems to happen, isn't it? :) Thank goodness for these truths..

Romans 5: "For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us."

"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us.

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor pricipalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 

Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

 

More than conquerors.  Can you imagine anything more glorious than that?  I absolutely love this; I am so grateful for these words.  I am so grateful for the constant hope and light that I can gain from them in even the most difficult of times.