Bubble Tea

I got out of lab early tonight. Hooray! As much as I enjoyed playing with liquid nitrogen and low energy x-ray diffraction, I still was excited because some Gridley people came down for the evening.

We went out for bubble tea. I was not feeling adventurous and got strawberry. I wonder how many people actually order green bean slush in a given week.

If anyone was wondering I think like a serial killer. (According to BJ)

Having a girlfriend is equivalent to buying 3 beers a day.

It's really really really cold out there. Pretty sure my down comforter is one of the best purchases I have ever made.

Meet me in St. Louis

So I had a great time in St. Louis this weekend. Meg and I, BAM, Nic, Josh, and EZ all went out together. The road trip was pretty uneventful and we made it in time for Matthew's testimony so it was all good.

Meg and I stayed with the Rinkenbergers and Kent and Jan H. were there too. It was a fun night. Meg got beat at Foosball. :) We tried hard to feel sorry for the guys... they stayed with Nathan and got to sleep on couches and the floor. We each got our own very comfortable double bed.

I'm not feeling very motivated to do anything at all right now.
Blessings.

A good day

Yesterday was fantabulous. I woke up on time and didn't hit the snooze. (amazingly enough) My first class of the day was floral design and I made two corsages that don't look too bad! :D Then I went and signed up to take piano for two credits... it should be fun, but I'm really really bad so I do feel sorry for whoever has to teach me.

We did our first experiment in Inorganic lab. I don't have to wear goggles and I get my very own hood! The experiment actually worked and the mixture turned all sorts of pretty colors: blue and purple and finally red. The only bad part was that my TA, who reminds me very much of BDY, dropped my sample in the rotovap. He saved most of it so it's all good. :) I was so excited to be in a real lab again I didn't even mind... I think it was the fastest four hours ever.

After supper I went to a singing at Saltshaker. It was Rogan's birthday so Meg baked him a cake and I donated one of my corsages to the cause (Since I have no reason to wear them and they will probably just get moldy in the refrigerator). Blake whipped up some really good taffy and we pulled it. Mike and I had a lot of trouble figuring it out so Gab had to rescue us. :) It turned out pretty good considering. Us girls reclaimed three of our pans that they were hoarding. I finally figured out the chemistry problem they had on their white board this morning... it was really bugging me. :)

My Friday lab doesn't start until next week so I got to sleep in this morning. When I finally woke up Gab made me come to the gym with her. I was not very awake and I didn't notice that I grabbed the 20lbs ball for our ab workout.... yeah.... I'm going to hurt a lot tomorrow. And I just finished cleaning so that's a workout in and of itself.

I'm going to St. Louis tomorrow for Matthew Schrenk's testimony and baptism.
Blessings.

Sledding

I have p-chem lab from 6-10 on Tuesday nights. Which isn't that bad, but... I don't like night classes and I have to miss singing at the home. It's required and it's pretty easy and my schedule was hard enough to figure out this year so I just decided to deal with it. However, I refuse to be excited about it.

So I was kind of bummed about not going to the home last night until I got home from lab and Amber and Sarah asked if I wanted to go sledding. YAY! I love sledding. We don't have a lot of snow right now, maybe an inch or two, but it was perfect sledding weather. None of us girls had sleds, but Amber and Sarah came up with some rubbermaids. 711 brought their awesome couch-on-skis-sled. There were a few real sleds but the couch was by far the best. :)

I thought C-U was pretty flat and boring, but there is a really good hill, marriage hill, out by orchard downs. We had a lot of fun and I got very wet and cold. So of course we had hot chocolate when we got back.



The couch sled arrives... it was hard to push it up the hill, but such a great trip down!

BAM, Me, Amber, and Fred ready to go. Blake Z., Blake K., and Jer gave us a nice running start. Matt totally panzed and didn't show.

Action shot of some of the guys heading down the hill.

The rubbermaids were kind of disappointing. Sarah and I tried really hard but only got about halfway down the hill. O well. It was a nice thought. :)

Ice Skating

Sometimes when it rains and fills up the drainage ditches and then freezes we get a great ice skating rink at our house. If you don't think about what exactly was being drained, or the lovely view from behind the hog houses. :) Saturday it was frozen, so Shelly and I went skating. Unfortunately, Matt drove the honey wagon right over the best part of the ice so it was an obstacle course trying to dodge the harrow, the woodpile, the holes from the wagon and the clumps of grass sticking through. Good times.

School

So I was in KS last weekend for Ned's baptism. It was kind of crazy, we drove out in a snowstorm, but overall it was very good. I don't know what it is about our family- for some reason we always seem to have a lot of people in not very big places. There were 20 some extra people at aunt Karen's for the weekend; every bed and most of the floor space was taken.

We came home Monday morning and then Matt and I left for school. Woot. Not sure if I'm happy or sad that this is my last semester. My last first day of school went ok. I don't really have a lot of classes this semester which is going to be very very nice.

It was good to be back in Champaign church again tonight. And good to be with my roomies again.

Screw your courage to the sticking place and we'll not fail

Or fall. Much.

I went skiing today with Heidi and Katelyn at Chestnut in Galena. We made it without getting lost! Even with our random route through Iowa. (Hooray for mapquest) It was lots of fun but I'm going to be soooo sore tomorrow. :) They were making snow all day today and the wind was blowing up from the river so it felt like icy needles on my face. I broke down and bought some ski goggles. I'm sure I looked hilarious but Kate and Heidi were nice enough not to mention it.

So skiing kind of terrifies me when I am at the top of the hill. And anything steeper than "green" slopes is petrifying. Hence my title and your Shakespeare for the day. :) Yes, that phrase actually went through my head, and yes, I know I'm weird.

We sang three part harmony on the ski lift. And in the car. I hurt already.

There's a lot of dust under my bed

Happy New Year! Um...yeah... my life is pretty boring....I don't really do anything.

I survived the Wyss Christmas- the screeching violins, the missed notes on the piano, the presents, the FOOD, the Rook games... I got a large periodic table to hang on my wall and a CRC. :D Very exciting.

I went to Gab's on New Years Eve. It was a good time. I did not get enough sleep.

I finished the last RJ in the house so I'm going to have to go to the library.

I've been sewing a lot randomly. Matt and Kacie both think my skirt looks "old ladyish." *sigh*

I think I'm going to Springfield tomorrow.
Blessings.