Thus the Drama Begins... and Sort of Ends...

I've been contemplating starting a blog for some time now. The biggest reason is for me to let my friends in all corners of the globe know whats going on in little 'ol Dubuque, Ia. Katie's in LA, Liss is in Rome, and all my other friends spread out over the Midwest.
Secondly, life is too interesting not to be able to share it with everyone else! Life never leaves me board and I always seem to have stories, wisdom's, and gossip to share. Drama seems to find me wherever I am. Lord knows, this summer has been filled with enough of it to fill a novel.
To fill everyone in, this is where my life is at...

I am in my LAST semester at NICC (thank you Jesus!) I start at Clarke this winter (assuming I can get loans to cover what I didn't get in financial aid). I have decided on a Communications major with emphasis in Advertising and Public Relations along with a theatre minor. The sole purpose of the minor is to simply give me more theatre experience.
I'm back at home with my parents (so far, so good...) and newly single. I've spent the last three months freaking out about being single (somewhere I never thought I would be again), and in the last week or so, have embraced it! Last Wednesday night, after my grandpa's funeral, while making mac n' cheese in my kitchen with my mom and Michelle, it suddenly occurred to me that I was happy again. I haven't been able to truly say I was happy since May! It seemed like strange timing, seeing as I had just lost and buried my grandpa, but it somehow made sense too. Grandpa started getting sick around the time Adam and I broke up. I hadn't been able to catch a break since. If I wasn't having issues in one department of my life, I was having them in another. When Grandpa finally passed last Friday, the drama of this summer finally came to an end. I could finally relax and get a new perspective on my life. Losing someone close to you makes you look at things very differently. It made me think a lot about what I want out of life. I want to be happy. I want to go to Clarke and finish school, move to a big city, meet someone great, fall in love, and live happily ever after. I know not all of this will happen without bumps along the way, but hopefully it is all something I can accomplish.
I'm a little disheartened that it took me all summer and losing a grandparent to get to this place. I feel like a lost a whole third of a year, but those three months are over now. Starting now, I get my life back. I am going to live it the way I want to, and God help the man, woman, or child that tries to stop me!