Erin Jamieson

Let’s just start with today. Today is the day I am to land (literally and figuratively) in my sophomore year at Belmont University. I started the day already in a flurry.  I spent the summer working. A whole lot. I wasn’t dying or anything, but there were moments in my own dramatized world where I felt I might. Nonetheless, there was little time in my schedule these past weeks to get my brain in order and start packing for my journey back to Nashville. I thought I was pretty much packed when we left on Monday for our three-day family “vacation” to Chicago (I say “vacation” because who can really be properly vacation-ed in 72 hours or less). It was a wonderful mini-getaway and we arrived home at approximately 1:30am. I woke up this morning realizing that in less than 6 hours, I needed to be in the car ready to drive to the airport. Our vacation to Chicago had excluded my little sister Carly due to all the variables and struggles of vacationing with her and we were all in ne...

Have you seen that commercial ? The one where the little boy, so endearingly, mixes up his words and accidentally states that he will start a "New Year's Revolution" rather than a "New Year's Resolution." I just thought that was the cutest. I have never really been into the whole "resolution" thing. I always figure you can make goals for yourself whenever you want, why wait for a roll-over of the calendar? And being an "Artist Type," I tend to have a lot of ideas but less-than-stellar follow-through ability. Well, this year I decided to do it. I wrote resolutions. I wrote them down in two places—my phone for easy access and my prayer journal for concrete proof. I even told one of my best friends about them (because when you tell someone about it, then you're really stuck with 'em). Some of them include memorizing a bible verse a week, buying less pop, reading through the whole Bible this year, and blogging. Blogging is somethi...