OMG This Isn't a Movie Review!

So, I'm taking a break from the Summer of 100 Movie Reviews this afternoon (don't worry, Rachel Getting Married review coming later this evening) to let you know what's been going on this summer now that I am home.

There hasn't been much going on so far, again it is just the beginning of summer...not quite a week, but I've kept busy. Basically- my dad found out that I know how to use Excel, and has essentially hired me to become his personal inventoryer. I've inventoried his records, his office, and his dead mother's stuff from Ohio. Grandma Toots' stuff is actually pretty cool...I found some great blackmail stuff such as a "book" dad wrote in the 3rd grade called "Dollie's Shoes," a charming story of a little doll who wants to be given to a little girl for Christmas because she will then have shoes for her warm feet. Also, Toots kept all the letters he sent her from college, which included some fun details, including his grades and GRE scores. Tee hee...

As you can tell, I've been watching a lot of movies so far and I've been knitting. I want to start working fairly regularly for the Linus Project, with a personal goal of 5 baby blankets by the time school starts. Also, and this is strange...I have the urge to study. And this brings me to a big point of this blog post:

I want to do better. I need to do better. Someone the other day told me that he was personally surprised that I have stuck with Catholicism as long as I did and that he noticed that I have kinda fallen off the horse of zeal and enthusiasm that I had before I became Catholic and immediately afterwards. I have become a luke-warm Catholic and that is not how I want to be. But this isn't just Catholicism...I've beomce a luke-warm everything. I'm not giving things 100% of my efforts and I know I am not trying nearly as much as I should or could be, letting myself get sidetracked and distracted. So- I am going to do better. I want to turn my life around because at this rate, I'm going to graduate with no where to go and no way to get a job, especially in this economy. I want to try again.

Anyways, I will talk to you all later tonight after I watch Rachel Getting Married.