Green Tea Anyone?

Ah roommate drama. Last night marked the first official roommate meeting in my apartment. I didn't think those actually happened. Things have been a little tense, to say the least. I mentioned this a few days ago, but my one roommate went home and kind of left us with no internet for the weekend which kind of jumpstarted everything else. When she got back she sent one of my other roommates some angry message. Something about "I don't appreciate the attitude about the internet. I took the trouble to put wireless in our apartment and if you guys don't appreciate that then I can take it home and you guys can buy a new one for yourselves". But I'm just paraphrasing. Anyway, that started some argument about how Sunchase doesn't know we have a dog, and threatening to tell them so she would get in trouble, blah blah blah. There's been a bit of drama over the dog. My roommate left him home until next semester because she claimed my other roommate was abusive (dramatic). He was a stray and was obviously not raised very well, so training him has been a process. He's gotten better but hasn't completely gotten past chewing on things, or eating your food. Oh well, he is a dog i suppose. I'm the opposite of a confrontational person, so this yelling at each other face to face thing was a little uncomfortable to me. I put in my 2 cents but stayed out of it for the most part. I tried not to get involved, but it was still pretty annoying.

I think Thanksgiving is coming at a good time, we could all use a little break from each other. There has been this unspoken awkwardness for a little while now and I can only hope it gets better once we all get back from break.

On a side note, I woke up after my nap yesterday with a cold. Just in time for our presentation today! I'm desperately trying to get rid of it before it gets worse/before break so we'll see how it goes. Might have to stock up on dayquil and tissues. I'm drinking green tea right now. It's supposed to have antioxidants and all that good stuff that's good for you. It was on the list of top 10 things to eat/drink when you have a cold. Thank you google.

On a happier side not, today marks the end of my work for the week! When 4 o'clock rolls around this afternoon, I'm pretty much checking out. No more activities requiring brain power. See ya next week school.

Just Trying to Stay Alive

I'm glad you guys have good things to say about the Homestead! Apparently it's a pretty popular place around here so i'm excited to experience for myself.

Ashley, your comment perfectly describes my situation. Just hanging on, doing my best to get everything done. I enjoy doing this blog, but sometimes I can't help but find it to be an inconvenience. It's nice to be able to get stuff out there, but it's hard to keep up with when I have all these other assignments piling on top of it!

On a lighter note, this weekend was fun. It was filled with food. Sheetz, Chanellos and Panera in 2 days, that should be like a record or something. But I enjoyed every second of every bite. I let myself have fun without worrying about work, until now at least. I'm always afraid to check BlackBoard on Sundays, there always seems to be some new assignment or announcement about something. That's probably why I haven't looked at anything until now. I blame our apartment's lack of internet. My roommate,who went home for the weekend, has the router in her room and locked her door. Sometimes the internet goes out and we have to unplug it to reset it. But needless to say we couldn't do that this weekend. It's pretty annoying and it's happened before but I guess to look on the positive side of things, it kept me off Facebook for a while. At least until my other roommate found a cable to plug into the wall. I feel like we're addicts or something, itching for a little bit of facebook stalking, or texts from last night. I'm currently sitting on the floor of our living room writing this post because the cord won't reach into my room. Maybe I should look at the criteria for internet addiciton again.....

I lost my debit card like 2 weeks ago and called in for a new one to be sent here. I still haven't gotten it so I called back and turns out they never had the right address. I always get nervous sending anything to school, especially when Chase Court isn't a real street and Apt E sounds like D. So many things can go wrong! But they let me order a new one, this time to home, so crisis averted.

Now to look at the guidelines for our technology critique...the first offcial attempt at writing this thing...

1 Week Down, 1 To Go

The Homestead

One more Biopsych test complete! I'm sure a lot of you are sharing this victory. Those tests never get easier, no matter how much I study. But I can't say I wasn't warned.

I have never been more excited for Thanksgiving break. I love turkey. We're not doing our traditional dinner this year. Instead we're going to some fancy hotel called The Homestead where my brother proposed to his wife that hosts certain events like this. I'm excited, but I can't say I won't miss waking up in the morning to the smell of turkey, or helping my mom make the thousands of different sides. And when I say help I mean watching the parade and popping into the kitchen every once and a while to check up on things. I do what I can. But, nevertheless, I'm still excited for break. I looked this place up online and it's pretty gorgeous. It's in Virginia, but an hour or 2 south of JMU. I'm looking forward to some real southern Virginia cooking.

Now I've gotten myself all excited. I still have about a billion tests and papers to do before stuffing my face :(

There are some pictures of the hotel up top. There's a better one on the website but I couldn't get it to work.

Ah, What a Weekend

A little follow up on my last post...

Avery's party was so fun! I never thought I'd be so entertained by a playground and a bunch of 2 year olds, but here I am. She got so many presents, half of which I played with too and had so much fun. That little girl never ceases to amaze me. She's so smart, and says things you would never think a 2 year old could even imagine. I found myself just kind of sitting, listening to the things she had to say.

I've seen my family a lot in the past month, and it's been really nice. I've always been grateful that I get along with my family. After coming to college I've learned that a solid family relationship is really important. I'm always happy I can go home whenever I want to and know my parents will always be excited to see me. In fact, coming back to school this afternoon was a bit of a struggle. Maybe it's the upcoming holidays that have me feeling a little nostalgic? Either way, I would have been completely content sitting at home with my mom, finding something to watch on tv.

I'm waiting for party pictures to go up on Facebook and when they do they'll be up here ASAP!

A Few More...

Birthdays Galore!

Tomorrow marks my niece Avery's 2nd birthday and I'm so excited to celebrate with her! Just last weekend was her mom's, my sister in laws birthday on halloween. Needless to say, their house was decorated like you wouldn't believe.

Next up, Avery's pink-themed party. Pink candy, pink presents, pink decorations, pink everything. I think she's getting her first bike, pink of course, and I can only imagine her excitement when she gets it. This girl has more toys than you could imagine. Whenever we've gone over to babysit, I could entertain myself for hours with all her stuff laying around.

Now for the hard part, the presents. Who ever thought shopping for a 2 year old would be this hard? But if you have everything what else do you need. I guess a little JMU gear could never hurt.

On a Side Note....

This whole no more limewire thing is gonna take some getting used to. What else am I supposed to do when I'm not working on things I should be?