Loving the Uke

The weather has been beautiful in Portland for the past two days; sunny and warm. It's making me really sleepy and surprisingly homesick. I'm really excited to go back for summer, mainly because I'm soooo over of not having a job. I'm planning on working ALOT this summer. That is, if I can get a job. I'm not coming back until mid-June so who knows what will be available. But it would be ideal if I could cocktail again and train to bartend, but the chances of that happening seem slim for some reason. I would go back to the Flame but it seems sketchy.

I have a few major goals this summer:

1. Learn to play the Ukulele. Reasons being:










2. Learn to sew. Both Allison and Taylor are fashion majors, so I'm gonna hop on the bandwagon. Plus, I have sooo many cute shirts and jeans that would be sooo much cuter if I could alter them. 


3. Write a creative-nonfiction book


4. Read the Lord of the Rings Trilogy 


5. Work at least 25 hrs a week and do well in my summer school class =) 


I guess all my "major" goals are pretty trivial, haha. But, I'm really looking forward to the free time. I've never felt more burnt out with school. I honestly don't know how I'm going to do another year. (dreading it). hmm, it'd be pretty great to take a year off and maybe gain residency and pay waaay less for school. But knowing that I would have to go back after that year sounds absolutely painful. I probably wouldn't go back. Plus, I want to graduate before I'm 23. That's a valid major goal, I think. But it's a very irritating one. 


Well, if I took a year off and gained residency that would mean that I would be an Oregon resident. Which would be cool, I guess. But I'd probably move back to Cali after that year and then have to become a California resident again. And, it's kinda a breach in my pride...I love being a native Californian =)