No wonder I can't breathe. I've been drowning.

18 credits equals a 54 hour work week because of all the time you should be spending on your classes. Plus working 15 hours a week to earn money. Plus one of my classes is basically a job, so essentially add on another 15 hours a week. That's 84 hours a week.

No wonder I've been drowning, metaphorically speaking.

I've been trying to do...basically the impossible. No human being should be trying to juggle everything that I was doing this semester.
Working.
Going to classes.
Homework
-This includes: Group projects, papers, accounting assignments that I don't understand and so I have to go through and teach myself, teaching my Economics lessons to myself since it's an online course, and more.
Going to church.
Trying to fulfill my callings (which I have failed miserably at).
Keeping my room and apartment clean (Trying to at least).
Spending time with my awesome boyfriend.
Doing things with my roommates and/or ward friends.
Taking care of myself- hygiene, eating, sleeping (which sometimes gets forgotten)

Everything requires TIME. Time has become my most precious commodity. There never seems to be enough time to do everything that my life has required of me. I did this by choice, I admit. I never fully realized all that it would take.

I feel like I failed miserably as a person this semester. I lost sight of the most important things and often times would do the things I wanted to do in the moment instead of remembering the things I want most.

During this Christmas break, not only will I be working to earn some extra money, I am going to take some time to spend time with family and figure things out. I need to take a step back and look at the big picture of where my life is going and where I want to be in the end.

Some of my plans have changed. I am now taking less classes next semester because of adding a class and changing one of my other classes. Both of these classes will take more time and I am not willing to spread myself thin again, or at least as thin as I was. These changes weren't what I was expecting, but I am excited for them and am excited to see how everything pans out in the other things I'm still figuring out.

Thank you all for your love and support during this crazy semester I had during Fall 2012. I wouldn't have been able to do it without you.

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