Summer Vanished and September Crept It's Way In

Where did summer go? It doesn't seem long ago that it was summer and I was having a pretty lame one but then summer camp came along and then August Sunday nights at church and a few Wednesday nights hanging out with church friends. But then it was over as quickly as it had begun and now it's September. How did this happen? It seems like I didn't do half the things I wanted to do, but that doesn't matter to me anymore. The surprises were far better than my hopes. I mean, seriously, I went to summer camp and came home with more friends than I had had when I left. I wrote (another) book. I became more involved with church. Those are much better things than the ones I had planned.

But September is here, tomorrow's Labor Day and Tuesday I not only start school, but I have my very first piano lesson too. Hopefully it'll go well. I remember writing a blog post on my other blog about how I had eight days until school starts, but now I only have two. I had twenty days until baptism, but now I only have fifteen. Truth be told, I'm more excited about that than school. There's a lot left to do in only one year of high school and I thought it would be nice to wake up early, be more structured and finish school earlier than I do now, but it's still nice to stay up reasonably late without having to wake up early. Which is why I plan on staying up late tonight because I'll be able to sleep in tomorrow.

Senior year starts on Tuesday. When I started high school, a fourteen year old ninth grader that had no clue of what she was doing with herself, I thought I had time. But then January hit me like running into a wall straight on and I realized I had wasted all of the time I never really had in the first place. I wasted it. Now there's no getting it back. So it's senior year and I plan to make the most of it, but in a totally good way. Getting more involved with church, working my butt of to graduate in 2014, getting more involved in youth group, hopefully maybe even write another novel, and learning piano and guitar. I honestly don't know what's in store for me, but we're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?
Oops, that was a Doctor Who quote, but it works. But maybe it's a better thing to use for senior year than quoting Loki saying "I do what I want."