MT SUC

This blogging thing.... time consuming... I should try to do it more often.

Today was a very frustrating day. I woke up early to get to class only to find out that I had been dropped from ALL of my classes due to "non-payment." What I came to find out was that Mt SAC decided to implement a new policy that means you have to pay for your classes within 72 hours... However, they failed to mention this to a large population of students. There was no Flashing red light or bold print that said "hey, by the way, you should probably pay for your classes so I don't kick your butt out of school..." yah, it SHOULD have said something like that... Instead, I received a very helpful email, to my student account (during summer holidays) that informed me I had been dropped due to non-payment. lovely.

So, I spent all day waiting around trying to get some classes and ended up with ONE class... Chinese. Fabulous. Good thing I need 4 to stay in the country. Way to go Mt SAC!

Anyway, that was a pain.

Australia Tonight!

I am certain that one of my least favourite things to do on the whole earth is pack a suitcase. I just hate it. I put it off forever, and then I ended throwing random things into a suitcase because I hate taking the time to figure out exactly what I will need for 16 days in advance! No one wants to do that... no way. I thought by now I should be an expert at packing, and maybe I am, I mean I d0n't usually show up with out everything I need, so I must be okay right? Anyway, I am packing because tonight I am leaving for a 16 day choir tour of Australia!! We are going to Sydney, Nelson Bay, Brisbane, and Port Macquarie. Beside the fact that it's winter over there, this trip is going to be amazing and I am ver much looking forward to it. We have a few activities planned other than our many performances at Australia's National Choral Festival. We are going Camel Riding on the beach, whale watching, and the Australian Zoo! If I see a blue whale, my life will seriously be complete...

Other than that life has been pretty normal. Cam has been in China for the last week or so, and now I leave, so total it will be about a month that we haven't seen each other. That is a long time, and I am not a fan. We will get back around the same time though, so that will be good.

As for the wedding plans, I have a dress officially, and am just finishing up the last odds and ends that need to be done in advance. Everything else can wait until I get back.

I'll have my laptop in Australia, so I'll keep you all posted on my adventures over there :)

Wedding Prep

I just had such a great day with my soon to be mother-in-law Beth. She is so great. She drove me all over to town to try on dresses and look at decorations and eat lunch and all that wedding jazz.
ANNNNNDDDD

I think I found "The Dress" It's amazing.

I am on summer holidays now officially, with only one and a half weeks left til Australia baby! This is wedding finalizing time. I want everything mostly decided by the time I leave, so I will be a busy bee this next week. If anyone has some suggestions on wedding anything, I am all ears ;)

Cameron left for China yesterday on business and won't be back until after I am in Australia, so we won't see each other for a whole month! I am not excited for that...

Reese and I cleaned our whole apartment, donated a bunch of stuff to DI, and went grocery shopping like real adults haha. We never have time for that. Now our closet actually fits most of our clothes. It's pretty sweet. That hasn't happened since we moved in haha.

cool blog

Go to 12foot3.com and go to the Taiwan section if you want to see where I'll be living in 6 months!

Exciting Adventure

I forgot to mention a crucial part of my marriage plan.

Cameron got a full ride scholarship to Jinwen University of Science and Technology in Taiwan! This means that we are moving to Taiwan in January and living there for two years! I am so excited it's ridiculous. I am going to teach English and pick up Mandarin, and maybe take some classes too. We will be living in Xindian for the first while, and then taking it from there. Cameron served his mission in Taiwan and speaks mandarin, so he knows some people and knows how to get around, thankfully. If he didn't I might be a little more nervous, but I am definitely way more thrilledd than nervous.

Too Long

It has been way too long since my last post! This is definitely because I have been so busy with living life, I have forgotten to write about it!

First things first, I am ENGAGED!!

I am getting married October 9th, 2010, to the wonderful Cameron Miller!

I still have to upload the pics form my camera, so those will be soon to follow.

This is the secret that I have been posting frustrated blogs about randomly. Cam and I have been semi-secretly engaged for maybe a month and a half now, but we couldn't tell anyone of course, until he asked my dad for permission, that was a must. Soooo we waited and waited until the third week of May rolled around and my dad came down to see my final concert. He took him out for lunch, and everything ran smoothly. We all went to Disneyland a couple days later and he fits in with my family just great.

Now, all I had to do was wait... and wait... and wait some more 'til Cameron "officially" asked me.

About a week later, the day before we were both making a trip to Canada to see my sister graduate high school, Cameron and I have a date planned. I am definitely expecting something to happen today so I made sure to dress cute and put on some makeup haha.
Cameron and I drive to downtown Fullerton for our date at Angelo and Vinci's, a fun little Italian restaurant. He makes me park really far away randomly and says we should go for a walk... ok?

So, we are wandering around, I have no idea where we are going, but I'm pretty sure there's some secrets going down. Anyway, he finally stops me on the corner somewhere near AnV's and we sit down on some steps to a building. He says he has something for me... he stands in front of me and gives me the little love schpeel, you know, and then gets down on one knee and proposes. Of course I said yes! (I let him off the hook way too easy, haha, all he had to do was ask me a question he already knew the answer to....)

We continued our walk to AnV's and when the waitress led us upstairs, a huge roar of "Congratulations!!!!" is yelled at me! There was about 40 of our friends and family there for a big engagement party! It was so fun! So we all just talked and ate and hung out. I got to show off my fabulous ring; it really is stunning, I love it.

We had a great little party, and then called all our family and friends to fill them in on the news...

Now it's planning time... so much to do.

Concert Weekend

I had my final concert at Mt SAC with the chamber singers on Saturday night! It was a little weird because usually this is the last time we all sing together, so it's an emotional experience or something, but we are going to Australia in a month, so Mr Rogers just treated like any other concert... which was a little weird. Anyway, it was cool. Cam and his mom came to watch and my dad and Beth and Kylee came down this weekend to see my concert and do the Disneyland thing. It was a great weekend, my family and Cam and Reese and I all went to Dland on Sunday and had a fun, exhausting day. A secret lunch date was had... I will just have to wait and see the results of that... I will post as soon as I can for that one.

Cam and I are flying up to Canada on Thursday and i am extremely excited for a little break! Karina is graduating, so I am going to see her for that. I can't believe she's graduating, that means I have been out of high school for tooo long! haha I am very proud of her, especially for getting into the CIA (Culinary Institute of America for all those who were confused...)! She is moving to NY in the spring and is off on a fabulous new adventure.
Oh, yesterday I went to my Psych class and my prof said even if I got a zero on the final, I would still get a 4.0 in the class, soooo guess who doesn't have to take her Psych final!? ME!! So nice! 9 days of class, 1 concert, 3 finals, and then I'm done at mt SAC!!!! finally.....

I think that is all for this weekend, all that I can disclose at least...