December 31, 2012
HAPPY LAST DAY OF 2012!!!!! I can't believe it's already the end of the year!!!! It's so crazy that I can look back at my whole year in picture and see all the stuff I did!! Like graduate and move into college....good times.
Anyway, nothing exciting really happened today because I spent my whole day reading! I finished a book and then started another book and finished that too. We all woke up really late because we had such a busy day and late night. So nothing happened and then Mom made dinner and we ate. Kelley decided she wanted to dance so we played Just Dance which is cool because we were playing Just Dance at the beginning of the year so the year has come full circle :). We decided to go the movies to see Les Mis today and we just got back!! It was a very long movie but I thought it was good! It was all singing so if you don't like singing...don't see it. Now we are watching the New York new years and there's only 1 hour left of 2012 for me!!! So crazy...this year was so crazy!!!
Anyway, nothing exciting really happened today because I spent my whole day reading! I finished a book and then started another book and finished that too. We all woke up really late because we had such a busy day and late night. So nothing happened and then Mom made dinner and we ate. Kelley decided she wanted to dance so we played Just Dance which is cool because we were playing Just Dance at the beginning of the year so the year has come full circle :). We decided to go the movies to see Les Mis today and we just got back!! It was a very long movie but I thought it was good! It was all singing so if you don't like singing...don't see it. Now we are watching the New York new years and there's only 1 hour left of 2012 for me!!! So crazy...this year was so crazy!!!
December 30, 2012
Today was a very busy day!! We had planned for a month to go to a Wolves game so that we could do something fun with Nadia. The day to watch the game was today! We had to leave the house at 1 because the game started at 3. We took this picture before the game started and you can see my new, awesome, sheep sweater that I bought from Old Navy the other day!! I know it's amazing :). The Wolves were playing a team from Canada which was supposed to be one of the best teams in the thing. The opening was cool when they introduced the players...there were a lot of fireworks and fire and such. Then the game happened. Hockey is a lot more interesting to watch than other sports just because it's fast paced so it went really fast! The game lasted for 2 1/2 hours and the Wolves ended up winning 3-2! Yay!
After the game, we went out to eat at a really nice place that had amazing food!!! It was sooooo good!!! Then we went to Lincoln Park to look at the lights!!
It took a very long time to find parking, but eventually we did and we had to walk for a while before we got to the park. The lights were cool and some of them played to music. There was an ice carver too which I find amazing!!! You can see all the pictures below if you click on the button!!! After an hour looking at the lights, we walked back to the car and drove home. We dropped Justin off at home so he could get a movie and then he came back and we watched The Avengers. Everybody fell asleep except for me and Justin and when it was over, we all just went to bed. It was such a fun and busy day!
After the game, we went out to eat at a really nice place that had amazing food!!! It was sooooo good!!! Then we went to Lincoln Park to look at the lights!!
It took a very long time to find parking, but eventually we did and we had to walk for a while before we got to the park. The lights were cool and some of them played to music. There was an ice carver too which I find amazing!!! You can see all the pictures below if you click on the button!!! After an hour looking at the lights, we walked back to the car and drove home. We dropped Justin off at home so he could get a movie and then he came back and we watched The Avengers. Everybody fell asleep except for me and Justin and when it was over, we all just went to bed. It was such a fun and busy day!
December 29, 2012
Today was a day of driving to town a billion times!!! The whole family has been waking up late-ish so our days have had slow beginnings. This morning we woke up and Mom made French toast. We all took showers and then we headed over to Grandma's house! My great-aunt had just bought a house in town and we picked up Grandma and headed over there to see it. The house was so beautiful!!! It was like the most perfect house ever haha :) I liked it a lot. We got a tour of the place and it was really nice except there's no furniture yet. Except for Grandma's Elvis chair which she showed off proudly to us. You can see that picture by clicking the button below! We stayed there for a while to look around and the house was kind of smelly because they were painting. Afterwards, we drove Grandma back home and then we all ate lunch and then Kelley, Nadia, and I went to town to do some errands. The thing on the top of our list was to get Just Dance 4. We went to Game Stop but we decided to go to Target instead and that's where we bought it. Then I turned in my lottery ticket which won me $10!! Woo! I'm so rich. And I bought another lottery ticket (SPOILER ALERT: I didn't win anything and neither did Kelley). Then we went to the dollar store to buy stuff and then we came home. Right after we got home, Kelley noticed that we bought the Just Dance 4 game for the WiiU and not the Wii :( Since we were determined to play tonight, we jumped in my car and returned the game to Target. They didn't have the game for Wii so we drove over to Meijer and got it there instead. Then we drove home and we were able to play our game all night long!!! I took this picture of Kelley and Nadia while they were playing What Makes You Beautiful. Throughout the course of the game, Jill and I decided through text that this game was made for her since it has all her favorite songs haha. We got pretty hot and eventually we decided to stop since Dad was in bed so I read and Kelley read but she fell asleep on the couch so I decided to go to sleep too.
December 28, 2012
Nothing really exciting happened today. I sat around for most of the day reading and playing Sims. Jersey was cute like always, and when Kelley was playing with her paw, she rested her paw on top as seen in the picture. Kelley sent me this picture and it was pretty much the only picture from today.
Kelley cleaned her room and then we decided to drive to town to show Nadia our schools. We walked around the Square for a while and it was super cold, but we managed. We bought cookies and hot chocolate from the bakery and then we sat inside and ate them. We found a cool book store in one of the buildings and the books were super cheap and in good condition so we spent some time going through them! The people that worked there were super nice too!!
When we came back home, I decided to read some more and then we ate dinner. Afterwards, we played Just Dance for quite some time and it was so much fun!!!!! We unlocked more things in the game...yay!
Later, Justin came over and the fam decided to watch Crazy Stupid Love, but I had just watched it at Maritza's house so I didn't feel like watching it again. Instead, I went to my room and read. And eventually we all went to bed. Yay!
Kelley cleaned her room and then we decided to drive to town to show Nadia our schools. We walked around the Square for a while and it was super cold, but we managed. We bought cookies and hot chocolate from the bakery and then we sat inside and ate them. We found a cool book store in one of the buildings and the books were super cheap and in good condition so we spent some time going through them! The people that worked there were super nice too!!
When we came back home, I decided to read some more and then we ate dinner. Afterwards, we played Just Dance for quite some time and it was so much fun!!!!! We unlocked more things in the game...yay!
Later, Justin came over and the fam decided to watch Crazy Stupid Love, but I had just watched it at Maritza's house so I didn't feel like watching it again. Instead, I went to my room and read. And eventually we all went to bed. Yay!
December 27, 2012
Today I bought a whole bunch of clothes!!! We woke up kind of late this morning because we were sleeping in, and Mom made pancakes for us around noon haha :). I sent out my Dance Marathon e-mails to my teachers which was a productive step in my life :) We all took showers and when everyone was ready, we headed to town to go use some of our Christmas monies! We went to Maurice's and Old Navy and then we headed to a mall to do some shopping. The mall was super crowded and packed and I was about to go crazy when we went into Forever 21 because it was so crowded and the clothes were just piled on the floor and on the racks and the music was super loud so we didn't last very long in that store.
We got hungry at one point and ate amazing pretzels. I bought two pairs of skinny jeans for the first time ever which was exciting! And then we decided it was time to go home. It was pitch black out but it was only 6 o'clock so it was ridiculous! I ended up falling asleep on the ride home, but when we got back, Mom had lasagna ready for us! Then we watched Hunger Games and I took this picture of the three of us cuddling on the couch :). It was just as good as the first time I watched it and it was Mom and Dad's first time watching it and they both agreed that it was disturbing :). Then we all went to bed afterwards with our pockets lighter and our closets fuller!!!
We got hungry at one point and ate amazing pretzels. I bought two pairs of skinny jeans for the first time ever which was exciting! And then we decided it was time to go home. It was pitch black out but it was only 6 o'clock so it was ridiculous! I ended up falling asleep on the ride home, but when we got back, Mom had lasagna ready for us! Then we watched Hunger Games and I took this picture of the three of us cuddling on the couch :). It was just as good as the first time I watched it and it was Mom and Dad's first time watching it and they both agreed that it was disturbing :). Then we all went to bed afterwards with our pockets lighter and our closets fuller!!!
December 26, 2012
Happy Day After Christmas!!! If only we lived in England, then it would be Boxing Day!!! Whatever that is! I had many opportunities to take good pictures today but it didn't happen...boo. I spent my whole morning reading and trying to play Sims haha. Kyle got me Sims Seasons for Christmas and I was peeing myself and I was able to install it and everything, but then it kept crashing after about 5 minutes, and I was angry so I would try, get frustrated, and then read instead.
After a day spent doing that, Kyle, Kelley, Mom, Dad, Justin, and I left for the airport to pick up Nadia! She was flying in from Michigan on a really small airplane and we could not find the terminal for the life of us. We got there about a half hour early and we were just walking around and then we spent another half hour with Kelley talking to her on the phone as we tried to get closer to each other :) She ended up getting off the plane and then having to take a train and walk down some stairs to get to us...so we weren't close at all haha. I tried to get a picture of her and Kelley hugging but the camera was freaking out when I tried to take a picture so that didn't work! After that, we drove over to Kyle's apartment to drop him back off at home. Then we all said goodbye to him and we went home.
We decided to watch Brave tonight because it's a cute movie and Kelley just got it for Christmas! I saw it in theaters, and it's just as cute the second time! Then we all went to bed because it was a long day :)
After a day spent doing that, Kyle, Kelley, Mom, Dad, Justin, and I left for the airport to pick up Nadia! She was flying in from Michigan on a really small airplane and we could not find the terminal for the life of us. We got there about a half hour early and we were just walking around and then we spent another half hour with Kelley talking to her on the phone as we tried to get closer to each other :) She ended up getting off the plane and then having to take a train and walk down some stairs to get to us...so we weren't close at all haha. I tried to get a picture of her and Kelley hugging but the camera was freaking out when I tried to take a picture so that didn't work! After that, we drove over to Kyle's apartment to drop him back off at home. Then we all said goodbye to him and we went home.
We decided to watch Brave tonight because it's a cute movie and Kelley just got it for Christmas! I saw it in theaters, and it's just as cute the second time! Then we all went to bed because it was a long day :)
December 25, 2012
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!! This morning I woke up to PRESENTS! We spent a good amount of time in the morning opening our presents, and it was great! Kelley got a whole lot of books for her future classroom, and I got a whole lot of great stuff including the entire set of Boy Meets World!!! My life was made :) And an awesome jacket that I'm obsessed with :). We ate lunch and I took a shower so that I could straighten my hair. I finished reading my book, Justin came over to exchange presents, and then we were off to my grandma's house! Justin decided to join us for a little while for Christmas. Kelley, Jill, and I chatted for some time and we took a lot of pictures together. We had to arrange it so that it looked good because Kelley and Jill were both wearing red and white stripes and I was wearing yellow so I had to be in the middle, but Kelley and I look alike so normally we stick Jill in the middle to break things up...so it was a huge picture-taking mess.
We had dinner which was delicious because my aunt made amazing potatoes that I'm in love with. Then we opened presents. Jill got me an awesome candle that smells like tea and lemon and I can't stopped smelling it because it's so awesome. Everybody loves it!!! Grandma's birthday is also on Christmas so we celebrated it by eating cake. Usually, she gets really small log cakes for us to eat but this year she got a MASSIVE cake. If you don't believe me, you can look at the picture by clicking the button below...
After Christmas at Grandma's we went home and Jill came with us. I wrote my Dance Marathon stuff to send to people. I also wrote my bio which you can read here. Then Kelley fell asleep and Jill and I spent the rest of the night on Facebook before she went home. Then I went to bed. It was a great Christmas, I'd say!!
We had dinner which was delicious because my aunt made amazing potatoes that I'm in love with. Then we opened presents. Jill got me an awesome candle that smells like tea and lemon and I can't stopped smelling it because it's so awesome. Everybody loves it!!! Grandma's birthday is also on Christmas so we celebrated it by eating cake. Usually, she gets really small log cakes for us to eat but this year she got a MASSIVE cake. If you don't believe me, you can look at the picture by clicking the button below...
After Christmas at Grandma's we went home and Jill came with us. I wrote my Dance Marathon stuff to send to people. I also wrote my bio which you can read here. Then Kelley fell asleep and Jill and I spent the rest of the night on Facebook before she went home. Then I went to bed. It was a great Christmas, I'd say!!
December 24, 2012
Merry Christmas Eve!!! I hope you had a wonderful day because I sure did!!! This morning I took a shower and read a lot. Mom made pancakes for us which were declious and then she started making the food for tonight, and when it was time to do the kabobs, I helped her kabob them. Kelley went with Justin to one of his family's Christmas parties so she left at noonish. Our guests came around 5 and they included Uncle Jerry, Aunt Patty, and Grandma. We had a lot of appetizers to eat and Aunt Patty was making a lot of drinks for the adults to drink. Kelley arrived a little bit later and Justin stopped in to say hi before he left.
Dinner was super awesome and delicious but I ate too much :(! But it was still delicious! We sat around the table for a long time afterwards just talking and it was really nice. Kyle asked what movie we were going to watch tonight and I really want to see the Dark Knight Rises and if we did a lot of complicated things like hooking my desktop up to the tv and renting the movie on Amazon, we could've done it, but Kyle was really tired by the end of the night and didn't feel like watching a 3 hour movie :(.
We took a lot of pictures with the fam. There were a lot of different combination of people, if you click the button below, you can see the many pictures! Including some awkward ones where some people look weird...like me :). Then we opened presents!!!!!! I opened a hat from Judy and we had Grandma try it on and it was hilarious! You can also see that picture in the button along with the picture of Grandma with her Elvis gnome!!!! She's the cutest :). We hung out for a little bit after the present opening and then our guests left! It was a pretty great Christmas Eve and I love my family!!!
Dinner was super awesome and delicious but I ate too much :(! But it was still delicious! We sat around the table for a long time afterwards just talking and it was really nice. Kyle asked what movie we were going to watch tonight and I really want to see the Dark Knight Rises and if we did a lot of complicated things like hooking my desktop up to the tv and renting the movie on Amazon, we could've done it, but Kyle was really tired by the end of the night and didn't feel like watching a 3 hour movie :(.
We took a lot of pictures with the fam. There were a lot of different combination of people, if you click the button below, you can see the many pictures! Including some awkward ones where some people look weird...like me :). Then we opened presents!!!!!! I opened a hat from Judy and we had Grandma try it on and it was hilarious! You can also see that picture in the button along with the picture of Grandma with her Elvis gnome!!!! She's the cutest :). We hung out for a little bit after the present opening and then our guests left! It was a pretty great Christmas Eve and I love my family!!!
December 23, 2012
Happy Christmas Eve Eve!!!!!! Today I made cookies. When I woke up, Mom was in the kitchen so I joined her. We made a whole bunch of deliciousness and it took a very long time. Kelley and I spent a very long time making candy cane cookies that are super yummy because they are made with cake batter. We had to twist two different colored doughs together and there was a whole lot of dough so it took a long time. By the end of the twisting, we were starting to go crazy. After that, Mom and I made Jewish pastry things that set off our fire alarm for a good 15 minutes. Our whole house was smokey and Jersey ran downstairs so we opened the doors and windows which made the house super cold. It was totally worth it though because the pastries were DELICIOUS!!! We got done around 3:30 and then we all took showers. It was nice to finally be clean. Kyle came home on the train and then we set out to dinner with some family friends. We went to a new BBQ in town and the food was excellent! I took this not-so-great picture of some of the people we ate with but I didn't want to be that person that makes everyone look at a camera so I did it candidly instead. We stayed for about 2 hours and then we said bye and left. On the way home, we passed a house with a lot of lit up deer in the yard because I've been bothering Mom and Dad for a few days to go see them so we finally did! Then we went home and I read until it was time to go to bed. Yay for the whole family being together!!
December 22, 2012
Today was a busy, busy day! I woke up and had to get ready super fast so that we could leave in time for breakfast!! Kelley and I still left a little bit later than we were supposed to but that's okay!! We had breakfast with Butch, Judy, Mindy, George, and LeeAnn. We ate at this really good restaurant in town and it was super good and delicious and I was about to explode from eating so much! We stayed there for a while talking to everybody and then we all separated. Kelley and I drove separately so that we could go shopping afterwards. Kelley still had to do her Christmas Shopping so we drove to many many stores. The traffic was terrible since Christmas is just in a few days. We spent most of the time stuck in terrible traffic lines and I was getting really frustrated. We ended up buying for all the people we planned on today and then we headed home. We got home a little before 6 and I never want to go shopping again. Kelley and I ate dinner and then we wrapped the presents we bought today. Now we're watching Ghost Adventures on tv because Dad's weird and this is the dumbest thing I've ever watched in my life...I think I'm going to read because this is ridiculous...BYE!
December 21, 2012
This morning I saw Arzu with the first time since summer!!! We had planned on going to Barnes & Noble so that I could do some Christmas shopping. I picked her up at 9ish and we left her house around 9:30ish and then we drove to town. It was nice to hang out with her!! I got a lot of Christmas shopping done and then we went to Target because she was looking for a secret Santa present. At Target, I got a new phone case!!! My phone case kept breaking so that it was exciting to get a new case! And it's super cute!
I drove Arzu home, and we took this adorable picture that's kind of awakrd. Then I went home and dropped off the stuff I bought before I was on the road again to visit my parents at work! Mom wanted me to eat lunch with her some time this week where she and Dad works so that I could see the new cafeteria. I got a personal pizza and they both got fish and we ate together. After we ate, Dad took me to his office so that I could see it and I saw his name tag and it was so official. Then I went back to Mom's office and I said bye to her before I went home.
I ended up taking a nap on the couch (surprise!) for a few hours and I woke up with a knock on the door from Justin!! I was still half asleep when I let him in haha. Right behind him was Kelley! It was so exciting to have her home!!! Now I have something to do with my life haha!! Yay! Eventually, Mom and Dad came home and we ate dinner and then Mom, Kelley, and I started working on making Christmas cookies!!! Kelley and I stayed up pretty late laughing and talking and then eventually I went to bed!
I drove Arzu home, and we took this adorable picture that's kind of awakrd. Then I went home and dropped off the stuff I bought before I was on the road again to visit my parents at work! Mom wanted me to eat lunch with her some time this week where she and Dad works so that I could see the new cafeteria. I got a personal pizza and they both got fish and we ate together. After we ate, Dad took me to his office so that I could see it and I saw his name tag and it was so official. Then I went back to Mom's office and I said bye to her before I went home.
I ended up taking a nap on the couch (surprise!) for a few hours and I woke up with a knock on the door from Justin!! I was still half asleep when I let him in haha. Right behind him was Kelley! It was so exciting to have her home!!! Now I have something to do with my life haha!! Yay! Eventually, Mom and Dad came home and we ate dinner and then Mom, Kelley, and I started working on making Christmas cookies!!! Kelley and I stayed up pretty late laughing and talking and then eventually I went to bed!
December 20, 2012
Happy last day of the world!!! I spent my last day doing absolutely nothing!! I planned on doing nothing all week so I was excited to do nothing with my life!! I pretty much read all day so that by night I had finished Pride and Prejudice!!! It was good and I recommend it to people who don't mind reading books that were written in the 1800s. It was supposed to be a romantic comedy and I thought it was pretty funny. It also ends the way that I'm pretty sure everybody wanted to end.
Today was also the start of the snow storm we were supposed to have. It just rained until 3 and then the snow started. I took a picture of the snow because it was the first time we got legit snow this year and I was excited. It snowed for the rest of the day. I ended up going to bed somewhat early because I have a date with Arzu tomorrow morning!!!! Nothing really happened other then me reading all day haha.
Today was also the start of the snow storm we were supposed to have. It just rained until 3 and then the snow started. I took a picture of the snow because it was the first time we got legit snow this year and I was excited. It snowed for the rest of the day. I ended up going to bed somewhat early because I have a date with Arzu tomorrow morning!!!! Nothing really happened other then me reading all day haha.
December 19, 2012
Mom had planned for a while on taking off work today so that we could Christmas shopping! We wanted to leave at 9 but we ended up leaving about 10ish instead. We drove to a place about a half hourish away to do all our shopping. Mom ended up getting everybody done for Christmas and I didn't buy anything haha. We ate at a Go Roma for lunch and it was really good. That was the first time I had been to one of those before! We were planning on being out all day but we ended up being home a little after 4. We drove back to our town to do grocery shopping to buy stuff for making Christmas cookies before we came home. I tried to take a picture of all the bags we had accumulated throughout the day because we were overflowing the car. So I took this picture but it doesn't really show all the bags that well. I ended up taking a nap on the couch which seems to be a daily routine for me...I read some more in Pride and Prejudice and then I went to bed early in the morning. It was a great day of shopping!
December 18, 2012
Today I went to Jill's classroom!! I woke up at 6:45 but I accidentally slept for a few extra five minutes. I was planning on getting to her classroom a little before 8 but I got there right at 8. I was nervous to meet her kiddies because I'm really awkward with children but it ended up being perfectly fine!!! I fell in love with her classroom because they made me laugh a lot haha. They called me Miss Lisa because otherwise there would've been two Miss Sullivans since that's Kelley's name :). I went to help them make Christmas ornaments for their parents. The ornaments were super cute. I had to paint their hands and then they put their handprint on the ornament so that they looked like snowmen. After those dried, I had them draw the snowmen on. They all went crazy after recess since it started snowing while they were out there!!! I was really excited too because it was coming down like crazy!! But it ended soon and none of it stuck. I left after they went to lunch.
I went home and ate and then I ended up falling asleep on the couch until Mom and Dad came home. Then I read some and we ate dinner together. I spent the rest of the night reading and then I went to bed.
I went home and ate and then I ended up falling asleep on the couch until Mom and Dad came home. Then I read some and we ate dinner together. I spent the rest of the night reading and then I went to bed.
December 17, 2012
Today was my first official full day home and it felt so good! I woke up at 11:30 today because I can do that kind of stuff now hahaha. I wanted to wake up at 9 but that obviously didn't happen. I had planned yesterday on going to visit Grandma so that's what my plan was all day. Once I woke up, I took a shower and ate some foods. I had to drop some letters off at the post office and then I went to my grandma's house. I got there around 1:30 and I stayed until about 4:30ish so I was there for three hours :). It was a really nice visit. We talked about a lot of things which isn't hard to do with her because she can talk forever about everything haha. In the picture you can see that she was wearing her socks from the hospital haha they cracked me up.
After that, I went home. We ate dinner and I started reading Pride and Prejudice which I tried reading once before but I gave up after about the second chapter. I have made it farther than that so hopefully I'll finish it! I made plans to go to Jill's classroom tomorrow and then I went to bed in preparation for my early wake-up tomorrow!
After that, I went home. We ate dinner and I started reading Pride and Prejudice which I tried reading once before but I gave up after about the second chapter. I have made it farther than that so hopefully I'll finish it! I made plans to go to Jill's classroom tomorrow and then I went to bed in preparation for my early wake-up tomorrow!
December 16, 2012
Happy 19th Birthday to Maritza!!! She's the greatest! Unfortunately, I did not get to spend the whole day with her because I went home today. When we woke up, we just laid in bed for a while and talked. I had a weird dream last night where I was being chased by some creepy person and I was trying to find our car so I nudged Maritza in the middle of the night and asked how far away the car was parked hahaha. When I woke up a little more, I realized I had no idea what I was talking about so I just went back to bed. I told her about this when we woke up because she didn't remember it happening :). I gave her cookies for her birthday and then she gave me a book for Christmas. We ate breakfast then and then I repacked my things in my bag before we set out. I said bye to her parents and sister and then Maritza drove me to the train station. I was a little nervous because I wasn't picking up the train at the main station but at the station that was close to her house and there were a lot of tracks and I didn't want to get on the wrong train and my bag was really heavy so I didn't know what I was going to do with it, but it all turned out okay. I said bye to Maritza and then I got on the train home! I ended up sitting in a spot where my bag could go by my feet so it was all good. Mom and Dad picked me up at the train station and then we went home. I was so excited to see my pup!!!!
Mom got out the Christmas tree and we started decorating. I took this picture when the tree wasn't done yet. The angel is still crooked, the tree skirt isn't on, and the tree is not against the wall but I forgot to take a picture of the finished product so this will have to do! While tree decorating, I took a picture of Jersey which could be found by clicking the button below.
After tree decorating, I decided to read the book Maritza got me and I ended up finishing it at 1:30 in the morning! It was good and it took place in Iowa City so I knew every place they were talking about which made me excited :) Then I went to bed! I love being home!
Mom got out the Christmas tree and we started decorating. I took this picture when the tree wasn't done yet. The angel is still crooked, the tree skirt isn't on, and the tree is not against the wall but I forgot to take a picture of the finished product so this will have to do! While tree decorating, I took a picture of Jersey which could be found by clicking the button below.
After tree decorating, I decided to read the book Maritza got me and I ended up finishing it at 1:30 in the morning! It was good and it took place in Iowa City so I knew every place they were talking about which made me excited :) Then I went to bed! I love being home!
December 15, 2012
This was the only picture I took today to document my day so it has to be my POD. I woke up at 9:30 this morning but I decided I was still tired so I kept sleeping until about 11:30 :). I took a shower and then I ate breakfast. Maritza had to get shots so I went to get them with her, her sister, her sister's boyfriend, and her mom. After the shots, we went back to her house before we went to Starbucks! She decided to celebrate her birthday with her friends today so two of her friends came over and we ate delicious food and watched Crazy, Stupid Love we ate some brownies after trying to find vanilla ice cream and I took this picture of her drinking her fake milk. Her friends stayed until about 12 and then we went downstairs and it took a while for us to fall asleep. So we just stayed up and talked and looked at the internets. It sounds like nothing much happened today but it was pretty busy!
December 14, 2012
Today I am officially done with finals!!!! This morning was super hectic because I had to get ready to leave. Maritza and I went to breakfast together and then I had to pack all my stuff. It took me longer than I thought it would because I had to figure out what I would actually use in the month that I'm gonna be gone. So I packed my things and my bag was super full and I was wondering how I was going to walk to the bus stop from our room since the bus stop for Megabus is farther away than the bus stop for the other bus place I take.
When I was talking to Maritza about this dilemma, she recommended that I ask Elle if she could drive us but that didn't work out so Elle suggested that we take a taxi instead! Which I would've never thought of since taxis normally don't exist in my life. So we went to the front desk and called for a taxi at 2:20. We then had to finish packing and doing the things off of our checkoff list. We were able to cram everything in before getting in the taxi to take us to the bus stop. That taxi was the best thing in my life because I could barely get my bag to the front of my residence hall without dying and Maritza was the same way with rolling her suitcase. The guy was really nice too except that he was new so he didn't really know what he was doing.
Our bus driver was completely crazy and was yelling at everybody and we were both afraid she was going to turn away our bags but it was all right. We left an hour after we were supposed to because she was having trouble fitting everybody's luggage into the luggage compartments, but then we did leave. I finished writing my chapbook on the bus and then I fell asleep. Our bus driver was singing and dancing the whole ride back to Chicago. Maritza's parents picked us up and we drove back to her house. We ate dinner and then I submitted my chapbook!! That means I'm officially done!! Then we watched John Tucker Must Die and some youtube videos before we fell asleep. Yay!
When I was talking to Maritza about this dilemma, she recommended that I ask Elle if she could drive us but that didn't work out so Elle suggested that we take a taxi instead! Which I would've never thought of since taxis normally don't exist in my life. So we went to the front desk and called for a taxi at 2:20. We then had to finish packing and doing the things off of our checkoff list. We were able to cram everything in before getting in the taxi to take us to the bus stop. That taxi was the best thing in my life because I could barely get my bag to the front of my residence hall without dying and Maritza was the same way with rolling her suitcase. The guy was really nice too except that he was new so he didn't really know what he was doing.
Our bus driver was completely crazy and was yelling at everybody and we were both afraid she was going to turn away our bags but it was all right. We left an hour after we were supposed to because she was having trouble fitting everybody's luggage into the luggage compartments, but then we did leave. I finished writing my chapbook on the bus and then I fell asleep. Our bus driver was singing and dancing the whole ride back to Chicago. Maritza's parents picked us up and we drove back to her house. We ate dinner and then I submitted my chapbook!! That means I'm officially done!! Then we watched John Tucker Must Die and some youtube videos before we fell asleep. Yay!
December 13, 2012
Today was a wonderful day in the life of Lisa because I had my last final!!! I woke up at 8 to read through and print off my paper. I spent the rest of the morning studying for my cinema final. My final was at 12:30 and it was supposed to end at 2:30. I was really nervous for this final because there was a short answer section and I wasn't sure that I knew enough about the articles I was reading to answer questions about them. Then, when my teacher walked into class, he told us that we didn't need the booklets to write in for the test because there was not short answer portion!!!!!!!!! We had to match movies with their directors, answer true or false, and then there was a multiple choice sections. I was done in 15 minutes. Afterwards, I went to lunch and then I went back to my room. Maritza has been obsessed with Gossip Girl lately and she decided to pack today. She is so addicted to it that she was watching it when packing. She also was so absorbed she didn't notice me taking a picture of her....or when I leave the room....she doesn't notice...we need an intervention.
I wanted to take a nap but I couldn't fall asleep so instead I did laundry. I did all this in the time before my final was supposed to be over. I started working on my chapbook since it's due tomorrow night at midnight. Once I hand in my chapbook, I'm officially done with my first semester of college!!!
After laundry, I tried to take a nap again but it didn't work. Instead, I worked on my chapbook. We got dinner and I spent the rest of the night working on my chapbook. At about 12:30 we both became extremely slap happy and we both died crying at one point. I took a video of Maritza laughing really hard but this website doesn't let me upload videos. She fell asleep soon after and I decided I should sleep too so I laid down to go to sleep at about 1:30. I didn't fall asleep until about 3:30...I hate my life.
As a bonus picture, you can see all the shoes Maritza is bringing home with her for the one month break we have...let's all be disgusted at the same time....Ugh. Just click on the button below!!
I wanted to take a nap but I couldn't fall asleep so instead I did laundry. I did all this in the time before my final was supposed to be over. I started working on my chapbook since it's due tomorrow night at midnight. Once I hand in my chapbook, I'm officially done with my first semester of college!!!
After laundry, I tried to take a nap again but it didn't work. Instead, I worked on my chapbook. We got dinner and I spent the rest of the night working on my chapbook. At about 12:30 we both became extremely slap happy and we both died crying at one point. I took a video of Maritza laughing really hard but this website doesn't let me upload videos. She fell asleep soon after and I decided I should sleep too so I laid down to go to sleep at about 1:30. I didn't fall asleep until about 3:30...I hate my life.
As a bonus picture, you can see all the shoes Maritza is bringing home with her for the one month break we have...let's all be disgusted at the same time....Ugh. Just click on the button below!!
December 12, 2012
Happy 12/12/12!!! Sadly, today was not a very good day. I did not celebrate the last repeating day in any way except to study. I woke up unhappy because I was up all night writing my paper. I tried to study for cinema in my room but I got frustrated so I went to the library instead. I was at the library for a good four hours reading articles for my cinema final and finishing writing my paper. Eventually I went from being completely stressed out to completely fine and I felt so much better. I don't know why this happened though because I still had a lot to do. Around 4:30 I got really hungry because I hadn't eaten anything all day so I went back to our room so that Maritza and I could dinner together. I ended up eating pretty much the whole dining hall hahaha. It was so good. After dinner, I went back to our room and studied some more before we headed over to see some puppies!!!!! Last week I got an e-mail that said some organization was bringing therapy dogs to the IMU for two dates during finals week so we could pet them when we got stressed out! I wasn't able to go the first day they brought the dogs so Maritza and I planned to go to this one. There were about 10 dogs there and so many people!!! As you can see from the picture, it was really hard to get close to the dogs because people were just swarming them hahaha. We're all dog deprived :) We stayed a little longer than we wanted to but that's okay because the break from homework was worth it. You can see a few more pictures of the dogs in the button down below.
When I got back to our room, I read more articles. I got really tired at 1:30 so I decided to go to bed but when I went to go to sleep, I was suddenly wide awake so I didn't end up falling asleep until 2:30. One more final tomorrow!
When I got back to our room, I read more articles. I got really tired at 1:30 so I decided to go to bed but when I went to go to sleep, I was suddenly wide awake so I didn't end up falling asleep until 2:30. One more final tomorrow!
December 11, 2012
Today was the day to get two stressful things out of my life!! I'm hoping to make it three by the end of the night! I woke up at 6:30 this morning to go to my stars and galaxies final. If you would like to see what my alarm clock looked like to get me up at that time, you can click the button below. I went to my final. It was still cold out this morning so I had to bundle up and walk to the building where my class is. The first 23 questions were all questions I was prepared for because I looked over the tests my teacher sent me. The rest were questions from the new section and they were okay but some were a little hard. I finished a little after 8 and then I waited outside the classroom for my friend to finish. We walked to the dining hall together and then we ate breakfast. We both had finals at 3 today so we sat in the dining hall for about an hour to avoid studying for those finals. When eventually we went out separate ways, I studied for German. I went to lunch with Maritza eventually and then when we got back in the room, I studied some more. I decided to take a quick nap because I was tired. When I woke up, I had a half hour before my final so I quickly studied some last minute things and then I went and took my test. It was fine except for a few sections that I had no idea what I was doing. On all of our German tests, we always have "vocabulary" sections. The review never tells us what to study for for vocabulary. It always just says "review the vocabulary from this chapter" but for this review it said "review the vocabulary from all chapters" and I thought that sounded really time consuming so I didn't. So when it came to that section, I just circled random words because I didn't know what any of them meant.
The final ended at 5 but I got done at 4 so I walked to CVS afterwords. When I got back to my room, I cleaned out my folder from all my stars and galaxies and German notes that I don't think I'll need in the future and I recycled it. So I took a picture of my recycling bin. You can't really tell how much is actually in there, but there's a lot. That's my schedule on top. Now I'm in my room and I'm avoiding writing my cinema paper that I'm hoping to finish tonight so I can study for cinema all day tomorrow! That's my last test and it's on Thursday. After that, all I have is a portfolio thing to turn in.
The final ended at 5 but I got done at 4 so I walked to CVS afterwords. When I got back to my room, I cleaned out my folder from all my stars and galaxies and German notes that I don't think I'll need in the future and I recycled it. So I took a picture of my recycling bin. You can't really tell how much is actually in there, but there's a lot. That's my schedule on top. Now I'm in my room and I'm avoiding writing my cinema paper that I'm hoping to finish tonight so I can study for cinema all day tomorrow! That's my last test and it's on Thursday. After that, all I have is a portfolio thing to turn in.
December 10, 2012
I realize I look like a weird-o in this picture but this is my legit smile because I was laughing when I took it...I don't remember why. So don't judge me.
So this morning I woke up to get stuff done. I took a shower and then went to meet with my stars and galaxies teacher to ask him some questions I had about stars, galaxies, and the universe. It was pretty deep. The meeting only lasted a few minutes but it was the most helpful meeting ever because he e-mailed the first two tests we took in that class and told me to look over them and find the questions that relate to the problems on the final. So I pretty much got 23 free questions out of 57.
It was super freezing outside today. I took a picture of what weather.com said the temperature was and you can find that by clicking the button below this!!! As you can see, it was 21 degrees outside but it felt like 9...the wind was so cold. Every time I stepped outside for more than three seconds my face felt like it was about to fall off :(.
I had a German review thing that I went to today from 12:30-1:30 and it was super helpful because we went over a bunch of stuff I was confused about. Then I went to the IMU to study which didn't really work out. It was kind of loud there so I just listened to music while I wrote the "essay" portion of my German test. (And by "essay", I mean 12 sentences). While I was writing those sentences, I had German questions so I texted Kelley and she helped me out eventually I decided to go back to my room. Maritza was on a run when I got back and when she got back, there was frost on her hat. We went to dinner and when we came back, I studied. There was a cookie decorating thing going on but I decided to study but Maritza went and she made a cookie for me! That's why we took this picture. You can't really see them because of the lighting but they were delicious!!!! Then I decided to get together with a girl from my stars and galaxies class who lives on my floor and we sat in the lounge and talked about things. When I went back to my room, I studied some more and then I took a shower, studied for German, and went to bed at 11:30 because my final is at 7:30 tomorrow!!!!
So this morning I woke up to get stuff done. I took a shower and then went to meet with my stars and galaxies teacher to ask him some questions I had about stars, galaxies, and the universe. It was pretty deep. The meeting only lasted a few minutes but it was the most helpful meeting ever because he e-mailed the first two tests we took in that class and told me to look over them and find the questions that relate to the problems on the final. So I pretty much got 23 free questions out of 57.
It was super freezing outside today. I took a picture of what weather.com said the temperature was and you can find that by clicking the button below this!!! As you can see, it was 21 degrees outside but it felt like 9...the wind was so cold. Every time I stepped outside for more than three seconds my face felt like it was about to fall off :(.
I had a German review thing that I went to today from 12:30-1:30 and it was super helpful because we went over a bunch of stuff I was confused about. Then I went to the IMU to study which didn't really work out. It was kind of loud there so I just listened to music while I wrote the "essay" portion of my German test. (And by "essay", I mean 12 sentences). While I was writing those sentences, I had German questions so I texted Kelley and she helped me out eventually I decided to go back to my room. Maritza was on a run when I got back and when she got back, there was frost on her hat. We went to dinner and when we came back, I studied. There was a cookie decorating thing going on but I decided to study but Maritza went and she made a cookie for me! That's why we took this picture. You can't really see them because of the lighting but they were delicious!!!! Then I decided to get together with a girl from my stars and galaxies class who lives on my floor and we sat in the lounge and talked about things. When I went back to my room, I studied some more and then I took a shower, studied for German, and went to bed at 11:30 because my final is at 7:30 tomorrow!!!!
December 9, 2012
Today was much like yesterday. Nothing really exciting happened :(. I studied for stars and galaxies some more and then I picked up my German book at one point to look at what I needed to know for my final. My German final and my stars and galaxies final are on the same day but I haven't really studied for German yet...At some point in the day, Maritza decided to clean out all the food she didn't want any more and she left it in a box in the hall that looked like this. I asked her to take a picture for me because I thought it was funny. It was pretty full when she first put it out there and this was after people had picked through it. All of it was gone not much later. I don't really have much else to say about today.
December 8, 2012
The next few days are going to be pretty boring in my life because the only thing my life consists of is studying...boo...but that means the end is near! I woke up two hours later than I wanted to today because of my stressful day yesterday. I was planning on finishing one unit of notes to study for my stars and galaxies test but each chapter in the unit was taking me a really long time to do. My plan was to work on a variety of homeworky things instead of just one class but I ended up spending the whole day just studying for stars and galaxies. But that's okay because that's my first final and it's definitely the hardest and the class I should be studying for. Earlier in the week, we saw a sign that said our boys a cappella group would be having a free concert tonight at 7 so Maritza and I decided to go to that even though we should've been studying. That, my friend, was the best decision of our lives. They were really good and it was a great break from a long day of boringness. The concert was an hour long and they all had great voices and then we went back to our room. I studied some more and then went to bed eventually...nothing too exciting.
December 7, 2012
Today was a very stressful day and I feel bad for everybody who had to talk to me today haha. All I did was complain about my papers that were due. I wanted to wake up at 8 but I woke up at 9 instead and then I started working on my essay. I worked from 9-12:00 until I decided I should probably eat something so I ate some macaroni. Then I had to go to German which was our last day of class. She brought cookies and we did evaluations and then she read us a Christmas story in German. Then I went to stars and galaxies which was also my last class. We talked about life elsewhere and it was crazy and it blew my mind and it also freaks me out at the same time. Then I went to the library. The problem with my paper was that it was about a page and a half longer than it was supposed to be. My plan was to take about an hour cutting it down and then start working on my extra credit paper. It ended up taking me from 2:30-5 to cut down my whole paper to 6 pages. Ugh. So I didn't have time to write my extra credit paper. I went to dinner with Maritza and we ran into a guy from dance marathon so we ate with him and then we went back to our room. I decided I could write my extra credit paper in the three hours I had before we went canning but it turned out that the extra credit paper topic was too complicated and I spent pretty much the three hours writing a paragraph and then erasing it. At 9:30 I decided to give up because I couldn't write 3 pages in 10 minutes. So I just decided not to do it.
Last week, Maritza and I had signed up to can for dance marathon tonight in downtown Iowa City so we had to meet at the IMU at 9:45. We were given giant green t-shirts, a plastic box thing, and a tag that said we were canners. I took a picture of Maritza which you can find if you click the button below because she looked ridiculous. I don't know if I mentioned this to the cyber world be she's really short so her giant t-shirt was pretty much a dress on her haha. We ended up getting $76.94 and we split it so that we each got $38.47 for our dance marathon account!! It was really exciting and an interesting experience. At first we were really nervous but eventually we were just shouting at people. If I had a dollar for everybody who said they didn't have any cash or that they were broke (while walking to the bars) I would have finished my fundraising. It was really cold out and it was even raining/snowing! Some people actually donated because they thought it was crazy that we were out there in the cold. One guy actually gave us $15...it was crazy. At midnight we decided to go back to the IMU and count our monies. We had to thaw out. I was wearing under armour pants, jeans, rain boots, an under armour long sleeve shirt, a t-shirt, a sweat shirt, a jacket, the giant dance marathon t-shirt, and glittens and I was super cold. When we got back to the room, I got some water and then Maritza passed out and now I'm writing this because I don't feel like doing any more homework after today.
I forgot to mention that the POD is of a bunch of yummy treats! Apparently there was some sort of baked goods exchange with the rowing team so Maritza brought back a whole bunch and she put it under our Christmas tree because it was a gift to me haha. You can see our Christmas tree in this picture. Isn't it so cute?! We each had a cupcake cone and they were amazing. I also ate all the puppy chow. Yep. That was my day.
Last week, Maritza and I had signed up to can for dance marathon tonight in downtown Iowa City so we had to meet at the IMU at 9:45. We were given giant green t-shirts, a plastic box thing, and a tag that said we were canners. I took a picture of Maritza which you can find if you click the button below because she looked ridiculous. I don't know if I mentioned this to the cyber world be she's really short so her giant t-shirt was pretty much a dress on her haha. We ended up getting $76.94 and we split it so that we each got $38.47 for our dance marathon account!! It was really exciting and an interesting experience. At first we were really nervous but eventually we were just shouting at people. If I had a dollar for everybody who said they didn't have any cash or that they were broke (while walking to the bars) I would have finished my fundraising. It was really cold out and it was even raining/snowing! Some people actually donated because they thought it was crazy that we were out there in the cold. One guy actually gave us $15...it was crazy. At midnight we decided to go back to the IMU and count our monies. We had to thaw out. I was wearing under armour pants, jeans, rain boots, an under armour long sleeve shirt, a t-shirt, a sweat shirt, a jacket, the giant dance marathon t-shirt, and glittens and I was super cold. When we got back to the room, I got some water and then Maritza passed out and now I'm writing this because I don't feel like doing any more homework after today.
I forgot to mention that the POD is of a bunch of yummy treats! Apparently there was some sort of baked goods exchange with the rowing team so Maritza brought back a whole bunch and she put it under our Christmas tree because it was a gift to me haha. You can see our Christmas tree in this picture. Isn't it so cute?! We each had a cupcake cone and they were amazing. I also ate all the puppy chow. Yep. That was my day.
December 6, 2012
Today was great because I officially had my last rhetoric and cinema class! I also finished my last German homework which you can see picture there <. So I went to cinema today and we talked about Batman some more. We actually got out early today which doesn't happen ever in that class. Ever. We had to do some evaluations for that class too... Then I went back to my room and worked on my presentation that I had to give in rhetoric. I realized that I didn't really have many sources in my presentation so I decided to look some up. I went to lunch and then I went to German. We worked on a worksheet that had words that sounded the same so we all made sentences using those words and then we had to read them and everyone had to guess what we were trying to say. Then I quickly went back to my room and finished up on my rhetoric project before going to rhetoric. We had to finish up Tuesday's group and then fill out evaluation forms and then our group was able to present. It went pretty well. People seemed to like it which is always a good thing. We finished when the class was over and then our teacher took a picture of our class and we were able to leave. When I got back, I finished my last German homework which made me really excited since I've had German homework every day since the beginning of the year. So I took a picture of that since it was very exciting for me. I have a paper due tomorrow at midnight. The draft a I wrote for Tuesday was pretty bad and when I reread it, I realized that some of my sentences weren't even full sentences so I pretty much had to rewrite the whole thing haha. So I started that at about 8. Maritza and I chilled on our floor, she studied for her age of dinos exam and I wrote my essay. She set up her camera to take pictures every five minutes and they were pretty funny to look at haha. Around 1 I decided to take a shower to wake me up and then I wrote more of my paper and went to bed at 3:30.
December 5, 2012
Today was another stressful day mainly just because I had wait all day until 7 o'clock so I could do my reading thing. I'm in a class (was in a class) called Writing Commons where we write stuff and that's pretty much it. As part of our final grade, we had to go to this bar/restaurant thing we had a reading where 60 students from all of the writing commons classes read for one minute from something they've written either in or out of the class. I'll talk more about this later.
So usually, Wednesdays are my second favorite day of the week after Fridays because I have the least amount of classes on those days buut, I had 0 time to do anything today. I was planning on waking up at 8 but that didn't happen because I'm very good at convincing myself that I don't need to wake up in the morning, so I woke up at 9 instead. I spent the morning choosing what I was going to read tonight and then Maritza and I went to get lunch. I had German and stars and galaxies today and we actually did a review for stars and galaxies. He told us topics that were going to be on the test and then he reviewed them for a little bit. After that, I went to the library with my stars and galaxies friend and we did homework. Then I had to meet up with my group for rhetoric at 3:30. That didn't take that long so I headed back to my room. I don't really know what I did between 4 - 5:30 because it definitely wasn't homework like it should have been. I think Maritza and I just talked for a long time. At 5:30 we went to dinner with another girl in our hall and then after we came back, we headed over to the bar/restaurant at 6:40 with another girl from our hall.
Since my teacher guy helped set up this reading thing or something, his classes went first so I was the 6th person to read. I was really nervous but it went all right. It was nice because there were so many people going that you forgot what everybody read a few minutes later. I had Maritza take a picture of me while I was reading so that's the picture I used. That got over at about 8:30 and then we left to go to the IMU so we could use or IC$ but that event was taking too long and we all had things to do so we left before it started. I finished my German homework finally and then I worked on my group presentation that I have to give tomorrow. I was never getting tired so I stayed up for awhile. Maritza and I ate both made soup and hot chocolate and then we went to bed eventually. I'm glad today's over with.
So usually, Wednesdays are my second favorite day of the week after Fridays because I have the least amount of classes on those days buut, I had 0 time to do anything today. I was planning on waking up at 8 but that didn't happen because I'm very good at convincing myself that I don't need to wake up in the morning, so I woke up at 9 instead. I spent the morning choosing what I was going to read tonight and then Maritza and I went to get lunch. I had German and stars and galaxies today and we actually did a review for stars and galaxies. He told us topics that were going to be on the test and then he reviewed them for a little bit. After that, I went to the library with my stars and galaxies friend and we did homework. Then I had to meet up with my group for rhetoric at 3:30. That didn't take that long so I headed back to my room. I don't really know what I did between 4 - 5:30 because it definitely wasn't homework like it should have been. I think Maritza and I just talked for a long time. At 5:30 we went to dinner with another girl in our hall and then after we came back, we headed over to the bar/restaurant at 6:40 with another girl from our hall.
Since my teacher guy helped set up this reading thing or something, his classes went first so I was the 6th person to read. I was really nervous but it went all right. It was nice because there were so many people going that you forgot what everybody read a few minutes later. I had Maritza take a picture of me while I was reading so that's the picture I used. That got over at about 8:30 and then we left to go to the IMU so we could use or IC$ but that event was taking too long and we all had things to do so we left before it started. I finished my German homework finally and then I worked on my group presentation that I have to give tomorrow. I was never getting tired so I stayed up for awhile. Maritza and I ate both made soup and hot chocolate and then we went to bed eventually. I'm glad today's over with.
December 4, 2012
I would just like to begin by saying that this isn't me in the picture; it's Maritza. I also didn't take this picture either haha. So today was okay because I got to get one of my assignments kind of out of my life. When I woke up this morning, I showered then ate breakfast and then I went to cinema. We spent the whole class period talking about Batman so it was an interesting class. After that, I went back to my room and worked on my draft that was due today. I still had a whole section to write so I quickly did that and then printed it off. It was really bad but that's okay because it's only a draft and the final paper isn't due until Friday at midnight so I just need to super revise the whole thing.
After that, I went to German and then I came back and I'm not really sure what I did in the time between then and rhetoric but I came back and then I went to rhetoric. A group presented on legalizing marijuana today and we also were supposed to look over each other's drafts but nobody really did that. At the end, we got our last paper back and we turned in our draft. After that class, I went back to my room and I had no idea what to do with my life because I have a lot of stuff due in the next few days that I didn't know what to work on. I decided to work on my German homework because that's what I do when I'm not sure what to work on. Maritza and I went to dinner. When we were walking out of dinner, we saw a sign for a blood drive in the basement of the place where we eat so we went down. I was getting anxious because I had to meet up with a group at 7 and it was about 6:15 when I was trying to give (key word TRYING). This blood place took forever to do everything. When I went to get screened, the lady checked my pulse and it was too high, then she checked my iron which was fine I guess except for that she pricked me in a sensitive spot and then squeezed half the blood from my finger into the little plastic thing. Then she checked my pulse again and it was still too high so she decided to check my temperature...and I had too high of a temperature. Apparently you need 37.6 to donate and I had a temperature of 37.8 which I looked up and it equals 100.4....umm what? Apparently I had a fever all day and I didn't even notice it. Maritza said she agreed because I was really hot all day and she said it wasn't that hot out...why didn't anyone tell me this?! So I didn't get to donate and now I have a sore finger. Maritza did though, as seen in the picture. After failing, I went and met my group in the library and then we did our stuff and I came back to my room. I finished my German homework and we had a hall meeting in our lounge where they talked about moving out for break. Then we went back to our room and Maritza and I talked about childbirth hahaha.
After that, I went to German and then I came back and I'm not really sure what I did in the time between then and rhetoric but I came back and then I went to rhetoric. A group presented on legalizing marijuana today and we also were supposed to look over each other's drafts but nobody really did that. At the end, we got our last paper back and we turned in our draft. After that class, I went back to my room and I had no idea what to do with my life because I have a lot of stuff due in the next few days that I didn't know what to work on. I decided to work on my German homework because that's what I do when I'm not sure what to work on. Maritza and I went to dinner. When we were walking out of dinner, we saw a sign for a blood drive in the basement of the place where we eat so we went down. I was getting anxious because I had to meet up with a group at 7 and it was about 6:15 when I was trying to give (key word TRYING). This blood place took forever to do everything. When I went to get screened, the lady checked my pulse and it was too high, then she checked my iron which was fine I guess except for that she pricked me in a sensitive spot and then squeezed half the blood from my finger into the little plastic thing. Then she checked my pulse again and it was still too high so she decided to check my temperature...and I had too high of a temperature. Apparently you need 37.6 to donate and I had a temperature of 37.8 which I looked up and it equals 100.4....umm what? Apparently I had a fever all day and I didn't even notice it. Maritza said she agreed because I was really hot all day and she said it wasn't that hot out...why didn't anyone tell me this?! So I didn't get to donate and now I have a sore finger. Maritza did though, as seen in the picture. After failing, I went and met my group in the library and then we did our stuff and I came back to my room. I finished my German homework and we had a hall meeting in our lounge where they talked about moving out for break. Then we went back to our room and Maritza and I talked about childbirth hahaha.
December 3, 2012
Today was stressful for many reasons, the majority of which is because school only has two weeks left to cram everything in. I was planning on getting up at 8 to get things done but that didn't work so I woke up at 9 instead. After I took a shower, I studied for my German quiz and then I went to lunch. After lunch, I studied some more. I took my German quiz which I think I did pretty well on and then I had stars and galaxies where we learned about life and the possibilities of life on other planets. Apparently, there's a chance that whales can be swimming on one of Jupiter's moons...that's crazy. After that class, I went back to my room to try to do my German homework quickly but I never do German homework quickly so I was still doing it by the time I had to print off my final essay for my writing commons class. Writing commons was short today because we just turned all our stuff in, watched a few videos, and then filled out a review sheet of the class. I was glad it got done early because that meant I could finish my German homework. Maritza went out running but when she came back, we went to dinner and then I settled in for the night to write my five page paper of a draft that's due tomorrow. I meant to write this draft over Thanksgiving break but...that didn't happen. So I had to write it tonight. At one point in the night, I heard a bunch of excited voices in the hall and I thought I heard someone say something about a puppy so I went out to investigate and there was a dog in our hall. Someone's dad had brought their dog and we were all super excited because we're all animal deprived. I took a picture of the dog...it's not very good though. After that, I didn't leave my room for the rest of the night and I ended up giving up on my paper and going to bed at 2:30. Today was the last day of writing commons which means one class down and four more to go!!!
December 2, 2012
Today was a very busy and stressful day. I woke up at 8 so that I could shower so that we could go to the house walk today!!! It was a lot of fun and there was so much cute stuff!! Mom and I have been doing this for about three or four years now. At one of the places in the house walk, they had this creepy sign that we could put our faces in so Kelley and I decided to do it! As you can see, it's very creepy. And the head holes are unrealistically large. At this same place, Kelley and I both bought trees for our apartment/dorm!!! If you click the button that says "other pictures" at the bottom of this post, you will be able to see the picture of Kelley with her tree! She's so cute! His name is Franklin. My Christmas tree was a lot smaller because I was putting it on my dresser and because I had to take it back with me on the bus. It was a Charlie Brown Christmas tree so it was just a small branch from a pine tree stuck into a block of wood...it's super cute :) I didn't take a picture of it but maybe I will tomorrow.
We did the house walk from 10-1:30ish, eating lunch at our favorite restaurant in the area. We met this lady who did these crazy crafts where she cut up old labels and then made pictures out of them. They were super cool...and expensive. After we ate lunch, we went to the last house where Mom found a bunch of cute things and then we had to head home.
I had to repack my belongings and then I said bye to Jersey and Kelley and then we were on the road again back to the bus stop. The bus was a little late getting going but eventually it did get going. I sat next to this lady that kept putting her arm way over the armrest so I had to squeeze into my seat while trying to do my homework. I did my homework for about 2 1/2 hours on the bus and then I decided to stop because I didn't feel like doing it any more. I finished my essay that' s due tomorrow and then I started working on another thing. We actually got into Iowa City earlier than we were supposed to. The guy said we were going to stop for a 20 minute rest stop along the way but that never happened and I'm glad. I met Maritza about half way back to our dorm because she came to pick me up, and then we walked back together! She had decorated the room some more with ornaments and she was really excited with our new Christmas tree!! When we got to the room, I ate dinner and then we tried figuring out how to print her thing but that was a complete failure so we gave up printing her thing. I did homework until 2 in the morning and then I passed out! Yay! Only 2 more weeks before break!
We did the house walk from 10-1:30ish, eating lunch at our favorite restaurant in the area. We met this lady who did these crazy crafts where she cut up old labels and then made pictures out of them. They were super cool...and expensive. After we ate lunch, we went to the last house where Mom found a bunch of cute things and then we had to head home.
I had to repack my belongings and then I said bye to Jersey and Kelley and then we were on the road again back to the bus stop. The bus was a little late getting going but eventually it did get going. I sat next to this lady that kept putting her arm way over the armrest so I had to squeeze into my seat while trying to do my homework. I did my homework for about 2 1/2 hours on the bus and then I decided to stop because I didn't feel like doing it any more. I finished my essay that' s due tomorrow and then I started working on another thing. We actually got into Iowa City earlier than we were supposed to. The guy said we were going to stop for a 20 minute rest stop along the way but that never happened and I'm glad. I met Maritza about half way back to our dorm because she came to pick me up, and then we walked back together! She had decorated the room some more with ornaments and she was really excited with our new Christmas tree!! When we got to the room, I ate dinner and then we tried figuring out how to print her thing but that was a complete failure so we gave up printing her thing. I did homework until 2 in the morning and then I passed out! Yay! Only 2 more weeks before break!
December 1, 2012
I would like to give a shout out to JANELLE today even though she doesn't regularly read this. Happy Birthday Janelle! She turned 20 today! I woke up this morning at 8:30 and decided not to shower. I went and ate breakfast and then I came back to my room to pack for my overnight visit home. I took the megabus back to Chicago. Maritza had practice this morning so I didn't get to see her before I left. I left my room later than I wanted to so I had to half run all the way to where the bus was supposed to pick me up. When I got on, the bus driver wasn't there which was strange so I just sat down. Later he showed up and I had to show him my ticket and soon we were on our way. It was really nice because there was nobody sitting next to me. I took this picture to try to show how empty the bus was but it's not a very good picture. The seats in front of me, next to me, and behind me were all empty. It was pretty nice because I worked on my homework and I'm always self conscious that people are reading over my shoulder but I didn't have that problem today! It was also nice because megabus has outlets so that I could charge my laptop. The bus dropped me off 20 minutes early and Mom and Dad weren't there yet so I went to stand in Union Station to try to find a bathroom but Kyle came looking for me so I didn't use the bathroom haha. Mom and Dad were helping Kyle move into his new apartment which is why they were in the city today. We stopped at a Whole Foods and ate lunch which was really good. Then we dropped Kyle off at his apartment and we headed on our way out of the city. I fell asleep in the car ride but eventually I woke up. We stopped at the hospital to visit my grandma for a little bit who is doing well and is just as adorable as ever. Kelley and Justin and Mindy were already there. We stayed for about an hour and then we had to leave because the visiting hours were closed. I drove home with Mom and Dad and Kelley and Justin showed up later. I ate some food and then I just chilled on the couch. I should have done homework but that's what I'm about to do now...so yeah. Let's get on that.