Starting and Stalling

Yes, I am aware that it is pretty late and that I will be waking up in a few hours to head to Chi-town. But tonight was pretty great because I learned how to drive a manual car. I picked it up really quickly but was still shaky on the actual driving. We drove around in a parking lot for about 20 minutes when Ariana said I needed to drive on real roads. Did I stall? Yes, a number of times, the whole stopping and starting thing is still pretty awful, and you know, stalling enough times to miss a stop light is a little embarrassing, but oh well, I finally learned! Now I just need to get a car with a stick. And then when I got back, I saw that Nemesis, the women's club team in Chicago will be having pick-up practice in April, which just seems great, yay for Ultimate!

Daffodil Season

Sometimes little comments make you feel really special, like Heather informing me that last summer at camp, the returning counselors mentioned me in good ways, and having your wonderful friend who is a bit crazy email you with about seven websites for possible shoes to wear to her wedding (for the wedding party), or just a facebook message. As much as I dislike facebook, it does have it's perks (like the picture of my blister, which had a blister bandaid over it, and my shoe wore away the bandaid).

The weather puts me in a good mood, spending time with my roommate puts me in a good mood, talking to my priest and seven other guys while eating buffalo wings and having a drink puts me in a good mood. Ok, maybe you are thinking, am I always in a good mood? Well, if I ever blog about not being in a good mood, my mother gets concerned (hi, Mom), but things are generally going well and I am just enjoying it. And the daffodils are starting to come up.

Elated

Today was an incredible day! I just want to share that with anyone who may be reading this, or maybe so that I can look back at today when things aren't going so well. There was one pretty huge thing that happened that usurped everything else, but when everything is added up together, it was incredible.

• I got to sleep in, since my first class didn't start until 9.45
• Lunch and hanging out time with Heather
• Work was fun, we played Family Feud
• Frisbee, sun
• Spending time with the roommate
• Doing our Pchem homework in two hours
• getting a pretty rockin facebook message from a friend I haven't talked to in two years
• Andrea calling me with potentially wonderful news
• talking to said friend, not knowing where to start, realizing we are both also pretty cool

Tomorrow is packing, putting together the "driver packets" for the driver to ND, and then it is off to Notre Dame!

Spring Time and Sunny Skies

This great weather has been around for a few days, and it is making everyone more pleasent to be around. Yesterday, my lab group had to prepare a few solutions, and it took longer than it really should have, but making those, finishing my quant homework, and tryinng to print off a few graphs, I still made it out to Frisbee practice by 4.40pm, still having over an hour with the team.

The fields we practice on are extremely muddy between us, the soccer team, and the rain. At one point, I was in my defending endzone, guarding another player, and I saw the disc going in the direction opposite of my player. I turned from where I was heading and started to run towards the disc. As I was doing this, the mud engulfed my foot, and instead of taking a step out of the mud, I just fell into the mud, and the guy scored the point.

Today I get to go and do it all over again, and then the entire weekend is also filled with Frisbee, what a good weekend. We are heading to Notre Dame, the tournament we went to that started our rag tag team. There are only seven women's teams, that could be good or not so good, I guess we will find out. Either way, I get to play a lot of Frsibee.

Home again

It has been almost two weeks since I have posted, somewhat of a pet peeve of mine. If you have a blog, then you should post at least once a week, if not, then what is the point. But, I was in Georgia for a beautiful week, and then in Milaukee for three days.

Georgia was great, we drove two days down there, more like one and then a few hours. We had an elceltic group that meshed together really well. We were all looking forward to the work and also getting along with one another. The nights were spent playing Euchre and crazy games, listening to another student's stories that just got crazier but had a maticulous amount of detail, and also playing volleyball and even ultimate frisbee. I brought my disc along, and the guys pulled it out of my bag every time we stopped on the road, stop for a bathroom, take out the frisbee, stop for gas, frisbee, stop for food, frisbee, which of course I didn't mind.

The weather was amazing, we had 70s pretty much the whole week, the only time it even hinted at rain was the last day we were working, it got cooler but we were so awesome that the rain held off. The group spend two days working on Shirley's house and then the women headed to the women's build and the guys had to sit around for one day, which was a major shame since they were there to work, but some work was found for them on Thursday and Friday. Hopefully, they will be better organized for the next group.

On Monday I headed up to Milaukee and spent time with the bride-to-be and also tried on so many bridesmaid dresses that my hair will never be the same. After almost throwing in the towel and Andrea settling for David's bridal dresses, my train to Chicago was cancelled so we headed to the mall, and meandered into JCrew, a store which we both love but can never afford. And there was the most simple, amazing dress in pink and brown. We tried them on and she decided on it, I am excited because it is a great dress that I can wear again, and it is from JCrew!

Now I am trying to figure out stuff for Frisbee, and I feel responsible for dropping the ball (again), which is really hard when no one has ever done this before, but I am determined, but also have to realize when to quit. Tomorrow I am heading into the city to be fake irish and then going to the St. Patty's Day Dinner with Matt, yay for spending time with friends and trying to relax at home.

Habitat cubed

My mission for the next week is to find a crazy hat to wear while playing ultimate and being a camp counselor, or some other kind of awesome job like that. This hat must be of the baseball cap style and either have the state on it, be bright blue, or some kind of crazy saying on it that is camp appropriate.

Oh yeah, also this week I will be heading out on my third habitat trip for St. T's, which, from what I see, is going to be awesome. Everyone else going on the trip has not been on the trip before, and I find that to be exciting, because then there are no expectations and everything is new. We are heading down to Georgia, which looks like it is going to be warm and after today's weather, it is a welcome change. My phone is going to be turned off for the week and we will be sleeping in cabins. The first day it is warm enough, I plan to be wearing shorts and sandals, I hope that 50 degrees is warm enough.

And now it is bed time, hopefully. Have a great week!