Guess who has her very own cordless drill set!!

*grin*

And it came with a mini hammer, a crescent wrench, a stud finder, a pliers, a tape measure, and drill bits. What more could a girl need!?

I got some other cool stuff too. Like a U of I lab coat. :)

Merry Christmas...God Bless us every one!

Shopping

So my sister woke me up at 11 this morning to go shopping. I'm not sure how I managed to sleep that long because I went to bed before midnight! O well. Anyway, so I took her and my cousins Kendra and Clayton to Peoria. Kendra and Shelly went and shopped by themselves so I got to help Clayton find presents for his family. :) It was kind of fun. Although I prefer shopping by myself, and for myself. It's just a lot faster. Clayton did treat me to Dairy Queen. (Awww)

After supper I had to go to Carli's and my birthday party at G and G's. woot. We had some pretty cool sparkler candle things on the cake. They never serve caffinated pop which is a crime in my opinion.

Well anyway, I should go to bed now and try not to sleep all day tomorrow. :)
Blessings.

I fell down the stairs

It still really hurts. *sigh*

So in the past few days I've been caroling for a bunch of nuns, went to the YG Christmas party, baked some cookies, turned 22 (so old!), slept a lot, read some RJ, met my cousin's fiance (they're from California), and been lazy a lot.

Tonight I went to a Christmas party with the girls I hung out with "back in the day," ie, bible class. :) It was lots of fun- we had a gift card exchange, ate some good food, played what if, and even busted out some MASH for old times sake. Good times!

Heidi even brought me some birthday cupcakes.... and food coloring to decorate them! *grin*

It's bedtime. Blessings.

Home

Finals are over! Woot! They weren't too horrible I guess, but I'm glad to be done and off of my chocolate and Dr. Pepper finals week diet. :) Hopefully I passed.

Last night those of us who were still around went out to eat and played games at shaker, kind of an unofficial goodbye party for Bob. Sarah and I totally destroyed everybody in trivial pursuit and then we played loaded questions for a while. It was really fun. I love U of I people they're the best.

I left for home afterwards and got there kinda late. Eh, o well. :) I need to unpack today...

Christmas Card

Left to right: Ashley M., Jenny M., Meg D., Alyssa L., Gab R., Amber M., Amanda B., Me, Sarah D.

We got some funny looks when we walked back to our house completely soaked. We left wet footprints all the way across Lincoln. :)

Many thanks to Chris our official photographer.

Waiting....

For Matt to come back from Congerville with my car so that we can take Christmas pictures and I can go back to school and study like crazy for my final tomorrow at 8.

I wish he'd get here already!

Last day of classes! Woot!

I'm kind of excited. :) This semester was really long, but flew by so fast. Crazy. I feel like I learned a lot, but my grades don't really reflect it.... mur. O well. So here are some things about my classes....

Biochem- biological processes are amazingly complex and so much is because of Chemistry! It would have been a much better class with better professors. I slept a lot. (In lecture, only sometimes in my bed).

Astronomy- "The big bang created flowers." Haha. The God that made the stars is amazing, and it's hard for me to comprehend how astronomers don't see His touch on the cosmos. O, and Bob was in it with me, so that was fun.

Organic Chemistry- I like orgo. My professor for this class was the best I've had at U of I, mostly because he really cared and really wanted us to learn it well. "Resonance is the answer to everything in life." - Professor Peter Beak.

Organic Lab- 100 kids, 2 TA's, not enough equipment, and a lab that was covered in construction dust constantly. Not my favorite, and I usually love orgo lab- so frustrating!

Instrumentation of Chemical Systems analysis- The guest lecturers were good. They didn't put me to sleep like the professor did. I don't like instrumentation theory because a lot of it is over my head and doesn't make sense until you actually use it. We learned about NMR- it was invented in Noyes Lab. :)

Instrumentation of Chemical Systems analysis lab- So much fun! We had really nice research grade equipment and everything worked like it was supposed to. A lot of stuff clicked for me finally so that was good. I did have to write lab reports every week and I'm glad that's over.

Senior thesis project- translated some computational lab instructions for one program to WebMo. Kind of fun. The professor I work under is a really cool guy who demonstrates Rutherford's gold foil experiment with a paintball gun in the classroom. *grin*

I wrote 17 lab reports this semester for a total of 136 pages, not including prelabs. Kind of a lot. Hooray for being done!

Now I just have to pass my finals....

Blessings.

Christmas Caroling

I think I missed it at home. :( But last night instead of singing at the nursing home we went and Christmas caroled at Schnucks. It was pretty cold out and their weren't a lot of people shopping on a Tuesday night. O well, I liked it. Hopefully shivering helped burn off some of the calories from the wonderful supper Saltshaker made us. :)

Afterwards we had hot chocolate at 711, and watched the fire burn...
Lys put whipped cream and candy canes in the cocoa- so good!

I need to finish my ultimate lab report (not to be confused with my penultimate or antepenultimate lab reports- they're already done).

Oh! I got a new t-shirt. It's black and says chemistry on the front (the I is a big block I, of course). And the back says "The name is Bond, Ionic Bond. Taken, not shared." I laughed out loud when I saw it. *grin*


Blessings.

Memories are made of this...

So it's been a really great weekend. Friday evening and early morning was spent at "The Castle" (the name I suggested, right Mike!) playing games, singing, and just plain having a lot of fun. The KS girls showed up pretty late so I barely saw them even though they stayed at my house. :) I made good use of Amber and Sarah's futon- it was kind of weird sleeping in my old room again. I forgot how loud the door is when you're half awake. And how light it gets in the morning.

We had babysitting day at the Church on Saturday. It was lots of fun. There weren't a million kids there like we always have in Washington, so it wasn't mass chaos kids everywhere jenny can't take much more at all! We made gingerbread houses and played lots of sardines. :) And us "adults" (so weird!) did the "Hi, my name is Joe, and I work in a button factory...." routine for the kids. They thought it was hilarious. Addie and Kedron must think I'm really old. I was keeping an eye on them in the kitchen, and Addie said something about how, "you're a mom." I said "uh...not quite," and she replied, "but your hair's in a bun!" I was trying to keep from laughing and racking my brain how to explain this to a 3 yr old... I just told her I was a grownup and that's why. So funny!

Saturday night Amber, Sarah, Bob, Matt and I went to Dos Reales for supper before the Other Guys. Matt practically killed us several times while driving my car. My friend Holly (from high school) met us at Follinger and turns out that she is in a class with Amber! So random! It was good to see her again. :)

Church today was good. I didn't do much this afternoon, bummed around. I did get some homework done. I went out for supper again with Amber, Sarah, Bob, and Matt. Troy and Josh joined us from CV. We went to Village Inn Pizza, which has a game room a few steps down from the main dining room. Level with the back of the booth we were sitting at is a railing affair with posts that were fairly narrowly spaced. Sarah started talking about how it would be a great place to film a martial arts video and Bob said he was pretty sure he could jump through those posts. The guys weren't so sure it could be done and Troy even busted out with "teach the young men to be sober" and Matt "when I became a man, I put away childish things." He had to wait a while for the employees to all be out of sight and move a table...but...to make a long story short Bob ended up jumping through the posts- it was beautiful! So smooth, with a perfectly timed twist! And the only other people who saw were the kids playing darts who wanted a repeat. Wow. Made my week. I haven't laughed so hard in a long time!

So I should really start studying for finals. Or send out christmas cards. Or something productive.
Blessings.