Thank God for a snow day :)

We spent Sunday waiting for the snow to start... and then it did and busses stopped running early, then we were wishing for a snow day, and we got our wish. Total accumulation = 8 inches. The snow makes everything look so pretty again - everything was melting and becoming muddy. The down side is, when all this snow melts, it will add to the already saturated ground - it has been predicted that there will be some major flooding this spring.

Unfortunatly, I spent most of the day sick, in bed :(. I really wanted to go play outside, but as the day progressed and I started feeling worse and worse, I realized that playing in the snow was not going to happen. But I got all caught up on sleep, and did alittle homework (not as much as I probably should have).

For dinner we decided to make homemade breadsticks and spaghetti, it was so much fun. I sat and watched my roomates and Becca make the breadsticks, not wanting to spread my sick germs/not feeling up to it, which turned out delicious. Dinner together was a great way to end our snow day.

Great, yet exhausting day!

well... we were up making cookies that were supposed to be cupcakes (and we were supposed to make at 8) until like 1150 and by the end of that endeavor we were all completely wired. And apparently it has become a tradition (starting with Nancy on the 2nd) of taking a shot at midnight so, the two birthday girls plus the other two roomies all did that. and then it turned into dance party central... luckily no one lives below us, they would not have been too happy. We danced, sang karaoke, and watched funny videos till like 2am (luckily I had gotten all my homework done, cause none of it got done after like 8. Finally the birthday girls went to bed exhausted.


620 came too early, had to take showers in shifts this morn becuase all three of us wanted to shower and we all had 8 am classes - 2 of us had to catch the bus @ 730. And then the academic marathon began. Had class @ 8 then 940, then had a break for lunch (in which I finished my homework and ate) then it was off to lab... which took 4.5 hours.... NO FUN!

break for dinner. We (Julie and I) decided to go out for dinner, and our roommates joined and becca - who practically lives with us anyways. We all went to La Casita - Maxican and Julie and I got free dinners. We also took advantage of our refound freedom of not being underage (both of us were abroad last semester) and ordered margarita's - they were ginormous, not a good combo for having to go to choir next. That made for an interesting class period. lol.

And now I am done, and exhausted, what a marathon of a day. ~4 hours of class, 4.5 hours of lab and a little bit of fun time to wrap up another birthday. It was a good one, celebrated with good friends, but wishing I could be home. Atleast this year I didnt have a dream that mom and Nellie came to suprise me and when I woke up, they weren't there - that made for one sad day last year.

The Birthday Week Extravaganza has begun!

So freshman year, 2 of my other friends and I dubbed this week birthday week extravaganza. Two of us have birthdays on the 15th and one on the 19th. And this year we are all turning 21 and have decided to do something for our birthdays (last year Julie and I didn't do anything, the year before was a jello party). So this year since all four of us in the apartment have birthdays in Feb (the first one was on the 2nd) we have decided to host a combined birthday party on the first friday that we are all 21 (that would be the 25th).

So happy birthday to Julie and Laura, and myself - and Melissa (a friend from HS who also has the same birthday as me).

stupid ice...

So the weather has been SOO beautiful the past couple of days (and by that I mean like upper 30s-40s - which is like 50 degrees warmer than it was last week). But with the nice weather comes melting. There are puddles EVERYWHERE and falling ice from the roofs = not so good. Well at night these puddles freeze and form nice slick layers of ice... And as I was carrying cupcakes outside to another dorm, I slipped on a patch of ice and down I went and half the cupcakes went everywhere... my bottom was wet, and my jacket got frosting on it... nicht so gut :(.

Lesson learned... dont go outside after it is frozen unless unavoidable because then you risk falling on the ice. I didn't hurt myself, this time, but next time might not be so lucky.

What a lame friday night

So... this week has been such a long week. I slept little and did a lot of homework. Living on maybe 5 hours of sleep a night I have discovered my new best friend - coffee with hot cocoa mixed in. The problem with this is, I am up forever so I have to drink it at like 3 in the afternoon.

Thursday, I was called from work saying that I was supposed to be in 15 minutes ago - but this shift was not on my calandar... and I had traded with a girl the night before so I could have the 25th (becuase it is the first friday after all of us in my apartment have turned 21 and we are going to have a joint birthday party). So I was less then thrilled to go into work and work until 10, then come back and study for my test the next day. Well, bright me, decided to have a cup of coffee at 930 - so I was wide awake when I got back to study for my exam.

By Friday, I must say I was completely exhausted. So exhausted in fact that after I got back from a dinner that I had at like 830, I pretty much sat catatonic on the couch for an hour and a half then went to bed. I was in bed by 10 on a Friday night... that hasn't happened in a while. But I don't feel too bad about it because one of my roomates was in the same boat.

Needless to say I slept for 11 hours last night and woke up feeling great! Oh the joy of Saturdays when I don't have to work, but now I get to study for my test on Monday!  :(((((( The hardest class of them all.

Thomas is not my best friend...

St Thomas Aquinus that is. We are reading parts of his summa theologiae for my theology class and him and I are not getting along. The way he speaks... I just don't get it, which is a problem becuase I have ot write summaries after every reading. Why can't he be as easy to read as Harry (Harry Potter that is) - I am reading Harry as a before bed book when I am not too tired/ I don't feel like doing homwork book.

I thought that this class was going to be fairly easy, like the rest of my theo classes have been, but Thomas has proved me otherwise. I fall asleep reading him, it's like he is speaking another language (well technically he was).

once again my homework has defeated me...

Well... first of all, my writing utensils don't seem to want me to do homework today. Everytime I sit down to sit down my pencil disappears (but I can locate 2 erasers in my vacinity)... It is getting quite frustrating. They seem to like the cracks of the couch better than being used to do science.


Second of all, the fact that I haven't had calc1 since high school is beginning to defeat my quantum attempts... I can't seem to remember how to take a derivative of this function that I could have easily done in high school. After staring at the problem for a REALLY long time, I finally found a page in the chapter like it as an example, so I know how to do the problem in theory, but can't apply that theory because my math is defeating me (algebra was defeating me on a previous assignment that we had to do this weekend). It is a very good thing that I am not a math major.


But on the up side I did get my biochem done (after a few hours) and micro. But micro took me FOREVER as well... oh dear.