Erica McCann

It’s been a good while since I’ve “blogged.” as April pointed out. So uh… here’s an update on my life.

Pretty much, my life has been turned around completely the last few months. It’s looking like i probably won’t be going on that mission anymore… cause it’s looking like i’m gonna be married this year.

Speaking of that, Mark McCann has pretty much turned my life upside down the past few months. He’s everything i’ve ever wanted/needed in a guy and more. He’s perfect for me. It’s an awesome thing. I love it. I love him.

Recorded on another Jenny Phillips cd, this time the primary one. “I will follow God’s plan for me”. Jennyphillips.com

Off track right now. For my first job as something other than food service… a call center. Oh well, it’s a job. I start fer real next week.

Night classes SUCK.

I don’t wanna be allergic to cats anymore.

I can’t stop eating these rainbow colored goldfish.

Happy 2011?

Bout 10 days till i go back to Idaho land. Not sure how i feel about it.

More nervous for this semester than any other for some reason. Maybe it’s just having new room mates. Maybe it’s new classes. or the fact that i absolutely hate the wind in rexburg and snow and stuff.
Also, everyone always talks around me like “Oh em gee, that was the hardest semester i’ve faced. Wow. Crying every night out of stress. No friends. Boys spitting on me. Blah blah” and i’m just sorta… expecting a bad semester. SImply because everyone else has bad semesters here and there, so it’s my.. turn? Which isn’t logical– i know whether i’m happy or not depends solely on my attitude. And i have a pretty good one. Just nervous.

Kinda feel like i don’t belong in one place anymore. Guess i’ve been feeling like that for a while though. It’s just starting to hit me harder. People are becoming home to me- wherever they are. Wherever cody is, or melissa is, or my sister is, or jamie is, or my parents are, or amy or marky or a few choice other people…. but places don’t really mean much to me anymore. I’d love to just travel. Go on a huge awesome road trip to alaska or go to china and teach english or just serve my mission wherever they send me. I don’t feel grounded anywhere anymore.

It’s weird being grown up. I still feel like i’m a little 14 year old girl sometimes. But i’m almost 20. Big difference. I know people my age and younger that are MARRIED. My sister was married at my age. I’m not quite there yet, haha.

Got some awesome stuff coming up though. Recording with Jenny Phillips. Going back to Idaho. Meeting new people. Got no real reason to complain.

So i haven’t exactly been an avid blogger since i started with my… one glorious post, a good few months ago. I feel like that whole last sentence/fragment had horrible punctuation… but whate’er. I haven’t taken a real english class since AP lang. my junior year of high school. Which was a good 9 years ago. Minus like… 7 years. But still. I’m aloud to be rusty. Just not rusty like metal gets. Moving on.
I’m back in Georgia-land, which isn’t as glorious as i was expecting. I walked off the plane and breathed myself a nice glass of water. Everything is…. Lush and green and huge and buggy and hot and humid and hot and there’s trees everywhere- NOTHING like the west. I’d forgotten what the south was like in the summer and…. although it has its beauty too, i miss Idaho. I never thought i’d say the words, and somewhere a girl named Jamie Wadsworth just felt the power of those words and is rejoicing. But Idaho is awesome when it’s not raining and windy and miserable. I miss it. I miss the spiritual bubble.
But, i have to say, i love being around… let’s say all sorts of ethnicities. I love love love it. I love being the minority. There’s so many… white people in Idaho. Too many.
Nonetheless, here I am in the real world again for 7 weeks. Maybe shorter if i won the Jenny Phillips vocal competition and need to fly back out to Salt Lake City for recording a song on the next youth cd. Woot! I’m not expecting to win though. There’s lots of amazingly talented people out there, and although i believe i’ve got some talent, i’m not breath takingly spectacular. But if i’m meant to get my shot, i will. I find out August 7th.
Otherwise, i’m just chillin here till i go back to Idaho to be an I-Team leader. I’m super duper excited to do that. I’m figuring they’ll fix me up with my future husband or something, and we’ll go around together and help the freshies get established at BYUI and help them make friends and achieve all their hopes and dreams… maybe not that last part. But it’ll be a blast. i loved get connected as a freshman, and i hope to make it a good experience for those coming in.
I’m still a little shaky with my schedule, still hoping some classes will open up (i hate having low priority for registering..), but i’ve got some good ones. I’m taking mission prep with my bestie melissa. What are the odds of that! I took an amazing Missionary Book of Mormon Class this past semester too. Amazing teacher, Bro. Christensen (the older one). Made me super excited to serve a mission. That is….sigh… if i don’t get married. I’ve decided to stop being so stubborn about it. If the opportunity arrises and i pray about it and God’s like, “get married.” then i’ll…..sigh….probably do that. But if i pray and God’s like “What were you thinking? Those people in Chile need you Sister Verner!” (not that i’d go to Chile… i just heard that if i get called anywhere in South America i have to die my hair darker… lame…) then i’ll be like “Will you wait for me ____?” and he’ll probably be like “Eh, i’ll pass.” and i’ll just move on to someone far superior to him. Like Edward Cullen. (Just kidding… i’m really not that lame…)
This is way too long for a blog post. So i’ll wrap it up. Life’s awesome. I’m a happy person. I ate like 4000 calories today…