Hello Everyone! As you can tell, I've been busy lately and haven't written. Woops. Thanksgiving break was a great relaxing few days. My family had a crazy pajama party/game night with my cousins. I got sick and then better again. I ate a ton of food and just finished off my last piece of pumpkin pie tonight (sad day). I got a high B on that test from last week and I'm all set for finals. I have a lot of Stat lectures to watch, but this week is mostly about planning Phi Lamb's Initiation ceremony. It's a bit of work and preparation to get everything ready, but I'm so fortunate that I don't have school work to focus on this week, so YAY!
The last two days have been absolutely gorgeous. Monday it rained and was cool and today was sunnier and cooler which means I got to wear boots, a turtle neck, and sit outside on my break to read. Simply Gorgeous. As soon as I got back from break, I cleaned my room extensively and Kayla came over and helped decorate. I have a 3ft Christmas Tree on my dresser, lights over the whole room practically, and ornaments hanging from my ceiling. It's so cool! I wish they could all stay up longer than 2.5 weeks... I'll probably leave them up over break and have a Christmasy January, too.
I water marbled my nails yesterday in red and green with a white background. Some of them look really good, others not so much. But I think it was successful for my first time doing it!
The rest of the week is busy, so I'll tell you about it now. Tomorrow night is Worship Under the Stars with Phi Lamb. Thursday, my brother and I are buying tickets to see Monty Python's Spamalot in February! I am so excited and glad that we'll be going together. Friday night, the Freshmen Leadership Council is hosting Winter WonderSwamp, so Hannah and I are going to check that out. Then we will return home for a movie night/former roomie bonding time. Saturday my cousin Leann and my Mom will be passing through on the way to see my cousin play in the Tri State Band concert. So we will go to lunch and possibly a craft show! And finally, the highlight of the week, Saturday night is the Christian Greek Semi-Formal (aka a dance). I'm super excited to go! Sunday will be busy but I will definitely be attending the music department's Christmas Concert. YAY! I love Christmas music!
Hope you have a wonderful week and I'll try to talk to you soon!
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Day 267: Late Nights
So sorry that the writing is getting more an more spaced out. I've been going to bed after 3:30am every morning, so I don't really feel like writing a ton. It's 3 now and I just finished studying for my test tomorrow. I'm ready to go to bed at midnight soon. Tomorrow night will be a long night, too, partying, hanging, and helping a friend write a paper. So yeah. Here's a quick run down of the week from what I remember right now.
Monday - Normal Monday
Tuesday - Community Group and I don't remember what else.
Wednesday - An advising appointment with a "Natural Resource Conservation" advisor. Contemplated changing my major again. Not sure still. We'll see. Had lunch at A Cafe. Participated in a flash mob for Dance Marathon, which was awesome. Then went to class and ran to the Museum of Art and the Museum of Natural History with Elizabeth for our class assignments. Then we went to a Taco Night at a friend's apartment. The evening culminated in Elizabeth and her little Kayla (later joined by my little Sarah) coming over to my room and watching Pocahontas and hanging out. That was a very late night.
Thursday - Went to CRU which was off campus and after Kayla came over, shortly followed by Sarah and we of course stayed up late again.
Friday - Stuff. and then we went out to Sonny's for dinner and headed to CRU's Barn Dance. Everyone gets dressed in plaid and cowboy boots and heads to this random field in the middle of nowhere where we are taught to square dance. It was a lot of fun, but more work than I was expecting. After the dance, Sarah and I stargazed on top of her car for almost an hour. It was so beautiful. We got some dessert and then drove home. I then did some homework because I'm productive lately.
Saturday - My parents came up for the game! We went to the dining hall for brunch and then headed to the game. It was a rough first half, but we won the game. It was a pretty empty game which was nice for us. After the game we went to the car and tailgated with some delicious food. Sarah and Kayla came later and we ended up going over to some of the BYX boys' apartment and played Monopoly. It was a lot of fun, but very long. I went down to $31 and no properties, back up and then down again to $21 and one property and ended up almost winning! Well not really, but I did last the longest. I only had 3 railroads and the two utilities and I managed to hang in there with the guy that had all of the properties and hotels and houses for a good 30 minutes. It was exhilarating.
Sunday - My parents picked me up and we had a picnic lunch. Then they drove me to Lake Wauburg where there was a Phi Lamb party. It was pretty fun, but I was exhausted (because the night before I was up late again doing work). I came back and took a nap and headed to the common area to study with Sarah and Kayla. While here, I ate leftover Sonny's, free Thanksgiving food, got the Michael Buble Christmas CD from a friend, took a 45 minute walk, finished my Wikipedia project and paper, and started/finished studying for the Environmental Economics test that I have tomorrow. The Wikipedia page was a ton of work, but it's finished now. You can see it here! Please read it and enjoy all of the work that I put into it. Thank you!
And now that I've been in this room for 8 hours, I think it's time to leave. Goodnight!/Good morning!
Monday - Normal Monday
Tuesday - Community Group and I don't remember what else.
Wednesday - An advising appointment with a "Natural Resource Conservation" advisor. Contemplated changing my major again. Not sure still. We'll see. Had lunch at A Cafe. Participated in a flash mob for Dance Marathon, which was awesome. Then went to class and ran to the Museum of Art and the Museum of Natural History with Elizabeth for our class assignments. Then we went to a Taco Night at a friend's apartment. The evening culminated in Elizabeth and her little Kayla (later joined by my little Sarah) coming over to my room and watching Pocahontas and hanging out. That was a very late night.
Thursday - Went to CRU which was off campus and after Kayla came over, shortly followed by Sarah and we of course stayed up late again.
Friday - Stuff. and then we went out to Sonny's for dinner and headed to CRU's Barn Dance. Everyone gets dressed in plaid and cowboy boots and heads to this random field in the middle of nowhere where we are taught to square dance. It was a lot of fun, but more work than I was expecting. After the dance, Sarah and I stargazed on top of her car for almost an hour. It was so beautiful. We got some dessert and then drove home. I then did some homework because I'm productive lately.
Saturday - My parents came up for the game! We went to the dining hall for brunch and then headed to the game. It was a rough first half, but we won the game. It was a pretty empty game which was nice for us. After the game we went to the car and tailgated with some delicious food. Sarah and Kayla came later and we ended up going over to some of the BYX boys' apartment and played Monopoly. It was a lot of fun, but very long. I went down to $31 and no properties, back up and then down again to $21 and one property and ended up almost winning! Well not really, but I did last the longest. I only had 3 railroads and the two utilities and I managed to hang in there with the guy that had all of the properties and hotels and houses for a good 30 minutes. It was exhilarating.
Sunday - My parents picked me up and we had a picnic lunch. Then they drove me to Lake Wauburg where there was a Phi Lamb party. It was pretty fun, but I was exhausted (because the night before I was up late again doing work). I came back and took a nap and headed to the common area to study with Sarah and Kayla. While here, I ate leftover Sonny's, free Thanksgiving food, got the Michael Buble Christmas CD from a friend, took a 45 minute walk, finished my Wikipedia project and paper, and started/finished studying for the Environmental Economics test that I have tomorrow. The Wikipedia page was a ton of work, but it's finished now. You can see it here! Please read it and enjoy all of the work that I put into it. Thank you!
And now that I've been in this room for 8 hours, I think it's time to leave. Goodnight!/Good morning!
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Day 266: Busy Fun
This was by far the busiest weekend I have had at school this year. But it wasn't busy in a bad way, just packed full of SO MUCH fun!!
(Thursday finished up my tests and work for the week. Tests didn't go that great but oh well.)
Friday was Veteran's Day so we didn't have school. Instead, the brother frat, BYX hosted a cookout at the school lake recreation area. We played volleyball, talked, and went out on the lake. Four of us took a row boat and paddled with canoe paddles and two others hopped in a canoe. We just cruised around the lake. So much fun!! When we got back to shore, the people that were left all started taking pictures. Which lasted another 20 minutes (of pure craziness). But the pictures came out great and hilarious. Precious memories. :)
After the lake, the car went to Cracker Barrel for dinner where I had the yummiest pancakes with peach topping. Mmmm. We had a great time laughing there, too. As soon as dinner ended, we raced back to campus for the basketball game. We stood in line for 45 minutes, but that was just more time to hang out with everyone! We won the game with 99 points!
At this point, I went home and watched The Holiday and painted my nails. I tried this new technique where you dip white nails in rubbing alcohol and place a piece of paper with a design on it on top of the nail. It takes the ink off of the paper and transfers it. It worked pretty well, but next time I'm going to use a darker print. Right now they are pink/red/purple paisley on a white background. Next time (aka next week) ZEBRA!
Saturday I went shopping with my friend Sam (not the one from the other stories). We were shopping for Barn Dance which I will tell you about later in the week. But basically I needed a plaid shirt to wear. And I found one. We were looking for boots too, but didn't find them on that outing. We did however run into my little and her best friend (Elizabeth's little) Kayla. They were also who I hung out with all of Friday, just so you know. And today actually. Anyways. We talked for a little bit at Goodwill and parted ways. They ended up going to our next stop and hiding in wait for us to come into the store. Very sneaky!!! Very funny! After both parties finished shopping for the day, A study night was held in my dorm commons. I didn't have any studying to do, so I colored pictures of dinosaurs and solved Sudoku puzzles! So relaxing. Then my brother and his girl friend picked me up for a late night Target/Walmart run. I got a belt and new boots that I will wear to Barn Dance. They are wintery, not western, which means that I can wear them for all kinds of things.
Today I woke up, went to Publix with my brother, and then was picked up by my Little and taken to TCBY. Kayla's boyfriend was visiting and he was forced to meet the "family". The visit was complete with intense questions to determine his character and if he is suitable for our lovely Kayla. He is. Also, the yogurt was delicious.
After TCBY, we ran back to campus for UniteNow Worship. All of the Christian organizations get together after a week of 24hr prayer and have a 3 hour worship session. It is so great to meet people from different organizations and all get to worship together. Just amazing.
After the Worship night, Sarah, Kayla and I went back to the commons again for another study night. Only difference is tonight I did my laundry while they studied. And in the meantime I tried to find classes for Kayla to take next semester to fulfill her gen-eds. It was pretty amusing. They're still at their studies. I came home at 2:15 and it's now after 3. Late night studiers. Woo.
So that pretty much wraps up the weekend! I think I saw my roommate a total of 6 minutes the entire 3 days. That's not good! I hope you had an equally fun/productive weekend!
(Thursday finished up my tests and work for the week. Tests didn't go that great but oh well.)
Friday was Veteran's Day so we didn't have school. Instead, the brother frat, BYX hosted a cookout at the school lake recreation area. We played volleyball, talked, and went out on the lake. Four of us took a row boat and paddled with canoe paddles and two others hopped in a canoe. We just cruised around the lake. So much fun!! When we got back to shore, the people that were left all started taking pictures. Which lasted another 20 minutes (of pure craziness). But the pictures came out great and hilarious. Precious memories. :)
After the lake, the car went to Cracker Barrel for dinner where I had the yummiest pancakes with peach topping. Mmmm. We had a great time laughing there, too. As soon as dinner ended, we raced back to campus for the basketball game. We stood in line for 45 minutes, but that was just more time to hang out with everyone! We won the game with 99 points!
At this point, I went home and watched The Holiday and painted my nails. I tried this new technique where you dip white nails in rubbing alcohol and place a piece of paper with a design on it on top of the nail. It takes the ink off of the paper and transfers it. It worked pretty well, but next time I'm going to use a darker print. Right now they are pink/red/purple paisley on a white background. Next time (aka next week) ZEBRA!
Saturday I went shopping with my friend Sam (not the one from the other stories). We were shopping for Barn Dance which I will tell you about later in the week. But basically I needed a plaid shirt to wear. And I found one. We were looking for boots too, but didn't find them on that outing. We did however run into my little and her best friend (Elizabeth's little) Kayla. They were also who I hung out with all of Friday, just so you know. And today actually. Anyways. We talked for a little bit at Goodwill and parted ways. They ended up going to our next stop and hiding in wait for us to come into the store. Very sneaky!!! Very funny! After both parties finished shopping for the day, A study night was held in my dorm commons. I didn't have any studying to do, so I colored pictures of dinosaurs and solved Sudoku puzzles! So relaxing. Then my brother and his girl friend picked me up for a late night Target/Walmart run. I got a belt and new boots that I will wear to Barn Dance. They are wintery, not western, which means that I can wear them for all kinds of things.
Today I woke up, went to Publix with my brother, and then was picked up by my Little and taken to TCBY. Kayla's boyfriend was visiting and he was forced to meet the "family". The visit was complete with intense questions to determine his character and if he is suitable for our lovely Kayla. He is. Also, the yogurt was delicious.
After TCBY, we ran back to campus for UniteNow Worship. All of the Christian organizations get together after a week of 24hr prayer and have a 3 hour worship session. It is so great to meet people from different organizations and all get to worship together. Just amazing.
After the Worship night, Sarah, Kayla and I went back to the commons again for another study night. Only difference is tonight I did my laundry while they studied. And in the meantime I tried to find classes for Kayla to take next semester to fulfill her gen-eds. It was pretty amusing. They're still at their studies. I came home at 2:15 and it's now after 3. Late night studiers. Woo.
So that pretty much wraps up the weekend! I think I saw my roommate a total of 6 minutes the entire 3 days. That's not good! I hope you had an equally fun/productive weekend!
<3 And a belated Thank You to all veterans and current military members. <3
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Day 265: Productivity
I don't think I've ever been as productive in one weekend as I was this weekend. I slept in on Saturday, right through most of the homecoming football game. Then I worked on my massive amounts of work for the week. Here's the lowdown. (Where'd that phrase come from?) I have an Archaeology test and a Statistics test on Thursday. I had to catch up on Stat lectures, fill out an 80 question study guide for Archaeology, and study for both of these classes. For Sustainability, I had to read 5 chapters of Ishmael (which is very good) AND work on our term paper project. My group and I are creating a Wikipedia page for the class. Don't worry, I'll link to it when it's finished. The project isn't due for another two weeks, so I thought that the group meeting we were having would be kind of pointless this weekend. Instead I found out that we had the rough draft of the page due online at noon on Monday. Um... WHAT!?!?!? Needless to say, that's all I did on Sunday. It takes a ton of work to make a Wikipedia page. I live chatted with an administrator so he could teach me what I needed to know. But regardless, we couldn't put the page up "live" until next week anyways thanks to Wikipedia rules. I have to build my "street cred" a little so I am worthy of Wikipedia's name. :) And my TA approved the draft and said it looked great. So that was a huge relief.
Monday I went to the advising office to change my major. I had to wait almost two hours, but I finally am a Sustainability Studies major! YAYY! Unfortunately, to be 'on track', I have to take 3 core classes next semester. Too bad they only are offering two... (one of which I just found out about today). I have an appointment to meet with the Sustainability adviser, who is also my teacher for the class who wrote the book that we have to read that I don't particularly enjoy. Hopefully he is knowledgeable in the area of advising. As I get to register for classes on Thursday, it is imperative that I figure out which classes I'm taking ASAP. I was aiming for no class Fridays, which I may have mentioned. Unfortunately, I think that will be impossible. The two classes I have to take are MWF2 and MWF5 (periods). Second period is 8:30AM. Goody goody. I liked sleeping in so much this semester. So now I'm trying to rework my schedule so I have Tues/Thurs off (except of course for my Fruit class where I get to eat free fruit (and cookies)). Hopefully it all works out. I'll let you know later.
Tonight was community group, which was amazing. We are doing a bible study on the women of the bible. Tonight we discussed Abigail (1 Samuel 25) and the Proverbs 31 woman. So awesome. Check it out. Last week was Hannah (1 Samuel 1) READ THEM. Such awesome Godly women.
Tonight was also archaeology night. YAY....
Tomorrow will be statistics and then Thursday will be tests and Friday will be NO SCHOOL!!!!
Ready for the Christmas break countdown???
10 M/W/F classes (not including the Wed before Thanksgiving, because who goes to class then anyway?)
7 T/R classes (if I decide to go to class Tuesday before Thanksgiving, which is unlikely)
= 17 school days (+/- 1) until finals!!!! YAYYYY!!!!!
I like when you can count the days until break on your fingers and toes.
Darn. I was just looking at my schedule thinking that I could essentially go home before the Monday of Thanksgiving week since I only have one class Monday and my Tues/Wed classes are excused/canceled. But I see a slight snaf-oo in my plan. I have a test Monday. :( Maybe he'll change it!!! We are behind in that class... Hopefully.
Well enough ranting for the night. Sorry I don't write as often anymore, but isn't it more exciting to get a great long blog one night than 3 teensy weensy blogs every night? It's like getting to eat an entire cookie rather than just a bite at a time. Mmm Cookies...
Monday I went to the advising office to change my major. I had to wait almost two hours, but I finally am a Sustainability Studies major! YAYY! Unfortunately, to be 'on track', I have to take 3 core classes next semester. Too bad they only are offering two... (one of which I just found out about today). I have an appointment to meet with the Sustainability adviser, who is also my teacher for the class who wrote the book that we have to read that I don't particularly enjoy. Hopefully he is knowledgeable in the area of advising. As I get to register for classes on Thursday, it is imperative that I figure out which classes I'm taking ASAP. I was aiming for no class Fridays, which I may have mentioned. Unfortunately, I think that will be impossible. The two classes I have to take are MWF2 and MWF5 (periods). Second period is 8:30AM. Goody goody. I liked sleeping in so much this semester. So now I'm trying to rework my schedule so I have Tues/Thurs off (except of course for my Fruit class where I get to eat free fruit (and cookies)). Hopefully it all works out. I'll let you know later.
Tonight was community group, which was amazing. We are doing a bible study on the women of the bible. Tonight we discussed Abigail (1 Samuel 25) and the Proverbs 31 woman. So awesome. Check it out. Last week was Hannah (1 Samuel 1) READ THEM. Such awesome Godly women.
Tonight was also archaeology night. YAY....
Tomorrow will be statistics and then Thursday will be tests and Friday will be NO SCHOOL!!!!
Ready for the Christmas break countdown???
10 M/W/F classes (not including the Wed before Thanksgiving, because who goes to class then anyway?)
7 T/R classes (if I decide to go to class Tuesday before Thanksgiving, which is unlikely)
= 17 school days (+/- 1) until finals!!!! YAYYYY!!!!!
I like when you can count the days until break on your fingers and toes.
Darn. I was just looking at my schedule thinking that I could essentially go home before the Monday of Thanksgiving week since I only have one class Monday and my Tues/Wed classes are excused/canceled. But I see a slight snaf-oo in my plan. I have a test Monday. :( Maybe he'll change it!!! We are behind in that class... Hopefully.
Well enough ranting for the night. Sorry I don't write as often anymore, but isn't it more exciting to get a great long blog one night than 3 teensy weensy blogs every night? It's like getting to eat an entire cookie rather than just a bite at a time. Mmm Cookies...
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Day 264: Homecoming Week
WOOT homecoming week at school! You know what that means? No school tomorrow!!!! YAY! Phi Lamb and our brother frats and sister sorority all get together for different events during the week. Last night we had a hilarious Skit Night. It was so much fun to go to it and hang out with all of our brothers and sisters.
After the skits, my little Sarah and Kayla, Elizabeth's little, decided to camp out for BEAT shirts. For 5 games each season, they hand out free shirts for the first 1800 members to reach the door. Normally the line is insane and it's difficult to get them unless you get there early. Today wasn't the case, but we camped out anyway. It was something I had been wanting to do at least once during college, so now I have!
I was interrupted by a friendly visit in my room and now I have no energy to finish this blog. So instead of sentences, here's the phrases of what happened.
After the skits, my little Sarah and Kayla, Elizabeth's little, decided to camp out for BEAT shirts. For 5 games each season, they hand out free shirts for the first 1800 members to reach the door. Normally the line is insane and it's difficult to get them unless you get there early. Today wasn't the case, but we camped out anyway. It was something I had been wanting to do at least once during college, so now I have!
I was interrupted by a friendly visit in my room and now I have no energy to finish this blog. So instead of sentences, here's the phrases of what happened.
- ate pizza
- bought air mattress
- watched movie
- made friends with cop on patrol
- another friend joined us
- (he's in our brother frat)
- stalked brothers in the frat to learn their names
- added them all on fb
- talked
- a lot
- walked to bathroom 7 mins away
- several times
- got more snuggies cuz it was COLD
- got cold
- went to sleep at 5
- got brought breakfast by a sister
- woke up b/c it was cold
- went back to sleep
- woke up from Fed Ex delivery truck
- ate cold pizza for breakfast
- got free shirt
- went home
- showered and crashed after only having 2.5 ish hours of sleep
- tried to wake up and failed
- was late to class
- got there and it had apparently been canceled
- was really confused
- instead got football ticket with my brother
- came home and took a quick nap before class
- class
- took a 15 minute nap
- went to surprise birthday dinner for my Grand-Big at TGI Fridays
- got 137 reward points for tonight's dinner
- now have enough to get a free dessert and chicken/seafood meal OR free ribs/steak dinner
- YAY
- came home
- watched the season premiere of BONES!!!!!!!!!!!!
- I missed BONES.
- now it's back
- yay
- super happy
- decided to sleep early
- over an hour and a half ago
- now I'm going to bed
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