two weeks

The semester is almost over! I'm excited for Christmas but not at all for finals.

It's sleeting....mur...so no ISU bible study tonight. I really wanted to go since next week will be out of the question.

On Wednesday nights at Champaign Church they have student announcements after the service. Here are a few of my favorites from the semester.

"If you could all come out to the world relief room Mark has something in the closet to show us."

"Paper copies of the calendar are out on the... credenza...yeah."

"Tuesday night we are going Christmas caroling.... at Schnuck's.... we'll have a salvation army bucket thingy."

So instead of studying.... Elf awaits! :)

For Gab

ahem. this blog is for gab. i love her a lot. she is great. she is my faithful blog reader and bugs me when i should be writing my lab reports. this picture is us in mexico with our drills.
the end.

*GRIN*

Manhappening Part 2

Scott made an excellent supper of hamburgers Monday night, we played some games and then they had prayer meeting at their apartment. Afterwards I got to experience a KState stairwell singing. :) It sounded pretty cool. I hung out with Scott and his roommates until pretty late and we made pizza rolls and chocolate chip cookies. I don't think they have swept their kitchen floor all semester...

Tuesday I slept in- thanks Tifani for the bed! A bunch of us went out for breakfast...well, it was breakfast for us lazy visitors anyway. :) Scott and Matt and I went back to KC in the afternoon and played Rook with Ned until Karen and Randy got home. Then we went to Jackstack. It was wonderful. :)

We left for home this morning and I ended up driving all the way back. Traffic was really bad...I forgot how many people would be traveling this weekend. But gas was still only $1.98 in Missouri. :) I'm tired.

We're going to Gridley tomorrow. Woot.

Manhappening

So I survived my craziest week so far this semester. Barely. :) Three tests, two lab reports, and some random homework do not make for a relaxing week. I was glad for Friday.

Friday evening a group of us went out to eat at Papa Del's pizza for supper and then Coldstone for dessert. We ended up hanging out at the Shaker, posing thought provoking questions, listening to some amazing musical talent, and just having all around good times. :)

I went home Saturday morning and didn't do much all day...very nice for a change! On Sunday Alyssa and I went to Fairbury for Darl and Janelle's wedding. We didn't stay for the reception, which was sad, but I had to get back home so Matt and I could leave for KState. :)

I spent approximately 10 hours on the road yesterday- good thing I like driving!

You would think that I've been to KC enough to know the way...but I was too busy talking to Matt to pay attention to the road, so we took a slight detour through St. Louis. It was nice to go interstate all the way, and we still made it in 6.5 hrs. Even with the ten minute emergency stop. Matt's power adaptor broke off in the cigarette lighter and was sparking and smoking. So he had take the fuse out, get the pieces out with a tweezers so my car wouldn't start on fire, and then put it all back together again.

We got to KC at 10:30 and then went the rest of the way to Manhattan with Scott and his friend Mike. They talked about food the whole way. It was pretty funny, and it made me kinda hungry.

I crashed at Tifani's and somehow I managed to not wake up her roommate. Today we slept in and got the campus tour- KState is lots different from U of I. The buildings are white limestone and the whole campus is a lot more compact. Tonight we're going to play some Rook....

A weekend in Champaign

It's been a long time. Since august actually. So it was really fun to stay in Champaign for the weekend.

Friday we had thanksgiving dinner at the church, so we'd been cooking up a storm at our house. I had two pies in the oven, and Gab had just left to take the food to church when I get a phone call... Yeah, she got a flat tire and needed somebody to come get our thanksgiving dinner. I didn't want to leave my pies, so while BJ put on the spare, Matt came and got the food. Even though he was "busy"- so sweet of him. :) The dinner turned out great! There were several international students there for their first American thanksgiving...good stuff.

Afterwards us girls were sitting in our hallway discussing how lucky we are to know such great guys! They change tires, come get food out of the blue, help with dishes, clean up tables- they're just plain amazing!

Saturday I ran some errands and bought wedding presents...woot...the mall was packed because it was Dad's Day weekend. Then I got some homework done, surprisingly. Matt, Markus, Amber and I went out to eat at Baker's Square before the Varsity Men's Glee Club concert and barely made it back in time. The concert was so good! They are so good! And they sang this super cool version of Nkosi Sikelel' Afrika/ Africa that blew me away. Wow. We sang Africa in HS jazz choir, and it was cool then, but man- their version was phenomenal!

Church was great- so good to be in Champaign for a change. :) I've been studying almost ever since....yuck. I am not a fan of Biochem. It's going to be a long week.
Blessings.

I might not be ditzy...but man am I dumb!

Last night some girls came to visit me and go to Champaign church. Yay for them! (To everyone else who was invited and didn't come- you're a panz.) I gave them specific directions to church with landmarks and everything so when I got a call that they couldn't find the right road I was kind of surprised. I even commented to Amber and Sarah how some of the W-ton girls were pretty blond sometimes.... Um...yeah...so it turns out I told them the right road, but the wrong landmarks. So much for being a smart chem major. Yikes that was dumb. :p

Our house is full of flowers thanks to Amber's floral design project. They're so beautiful! I'm so excited I get to take that class next semester. :D

Our fridge is full of food for the YG Thanksgiving Dinner. They bought a 25 lbs turkey the other day not realizing that it would take 7 days to thaw in the fridge- so we've been thawing it in cold water in the sink. It kind of cracks me up.

Today is my grandma's 91st birthday.

I can't wait for Thanksgiving break. I will hopefully get to spend a few days with Scott in Manhattan, if Matt gets a deer. Otherwise it might be not quite as long. :)

The whole world is at sixes and sevens...

...and why the house hasn't fallen down around our ears years ago is beyond me!
Gotta love a little bit of Thornton Wilder's "The Skin of our Teeth" every now and again. :) Definitely my favorite play.

Anyway, so I had a busy and kind of crazy rest of the week. Wednesday evening I went to a job fair workshop that was pretty pointless. They didn't really tell me anything that I didn't already know. Nic and I ended up being pretty late to Cissna church because I didn't get done with that until almost 7ish. Cissna was fun! There was a pretty small group of U of I people there, but it was good to hang out with Mike and Joanna and the rest of the Kaeb's. :)

Thursday I went to the job fair, and talked to all Ag companies- I didn't really think about it until later. :) I got a pretty sweet free Pioneer hat that I'm not allowed to wear at home. :) And a free t-shirt from ADM. And I got to wear my new charcoal grey suit out in the freezing cold.

Friday night I went to singing at the home in W-ton. It was a pretty good night- lots of the residents were out of their rooms to listen to us. One old couple who have been married for 70yrs and knew all the words to every song, told us how they had stayed married so long- "because he always did what I told him to do." So cute and so funny!

Saturday morning, bright and early, I went to Jakey's state CC race. They did pretty good, the team didn't place, but he got his best time at Detweiler. I was pretty excited to see Kaitlyn Bastert run- she won the girls race by 50 seconds, and made it look effortless! Second place was from Eureka- woot! Abs came over in the evening and we watched the long version of "Pride and Prejudice." It was great.

So now I'm back at school again- mur. This semester is going sooo fast.

Good times

Monday evening Amber, Sarah, Amanda and I hung the hammers from the piano on the living room wall. We borrowed Chris's drill, but he wouldn't let us have it until we went to Lowes and bought wall anchors and screws. It looks pretty cool. Kind of modern.

Yesterdays organic lab was the most frustrating lab I have ever been in. Ahhh. Way to many people, not enough equipment, only two TA's and not nearly enough time. I was there until 5- pretty ridiculous since I'm usually one of the first to leave.

But it was all good when I got home because Heidi came to visit me. And most of the Shaker was at our house for supper. (I guess some of the girls wanted to apologize for all the pranks or something crazy like that.) They had the table covered with tin foil and then we dumped the food out in the middle and ate with our hands. Amber brought some wonderful steak, and we had marinated chicken, potatoes, vegetables. Yum. And great harvest bread. It was soooo amazingly good. I made pies on Monday...I love pie.

Cleanup was really easy! Just roll up the tinfoil. :) Then Heidi and I did some homework and drank root beer and I taught her how to tie a tie. With my scarves. :) We went to Perkins at 10 to study with some people. I got stuff done...so that was worth it. We even got to bed before 1am. for a change. :)

One of my professors didn't show up for lecture today so we all left after 10 minutes. It was great. Now I need to finish my lab report so I can go visit Joanna in Cissna tonight. :)