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Day 676: People
Sep. 29th, 2008 08:52 amPeople are what make life worth it, I've decided. Friday was pretty good. I went to school and worked my tail off so I wouldn't have any homework this weekend, which was awesome. It meant my weekend rocked something fierce.
Friday: was full of awesome. After school I went home and took a nap. Because I had to stay up late. Because I had every intention of partying up. There was a multi-stake Young Single Adult event out at the Checketts' place, and Amber had invited me and Kara to her place for a sleepover so we could get our middle school on and also celebrate the completion of the first draft of teh appellate brief of t3h d00m0rz. Which is seriously what it was. Technical legal name and all. (*deadpans*) We had food and sat on the grass and looked at the stars - Angela and I tried to locate the north star, and pestered some former boy scouts into helping us - and listened to Brother Mangrum (also Professor Mangrum, who I'd had earlier that day) speak about Why We Are Christian. (When I was in a religious studies class when I was a kid my teacher told me that we're not Christian and I pretty much cried. Once I was out of sight of the entire world.) There was a barn dance. I stuck around long enough to do the traditional line dance to Footloose and to ask two boys to dance, although on only one occasion was the dance technically girls' choice. Funny how there are more couples dancing when it's girls' choice.
Then Kara, Amber, and I escaped for our sleepover. We went to Wal-Mart, where I bought an awesome cute hat for five bucks, some treats to help with the sleepover atmosphere. There was some madness at the five dollar DVD rack (I picked up Spaceballs, a Brad Pitt movie and a Christian Bale movie - come on, it was a sleepover!) and also some yarn to make some Moogle dolls. Crocheted. Cousins to the crocheted Cthulhus. Hello stuffed animals for Christmas! Poor Kara fell asleep pretty early, which left me and Amber to rock it up on Guitar Hero and also Sing Star. Three discs of Sing Star. Till three thirty in the morning. Even though I have spent a life of tone-deafness, I rocked it up pretty good. So the next time Amber plays, everyone will think that she has the high score on all of the songs. Heh heh. I have learned of many awesome songs via Sing Star.
Saturday: The next morning, Kara had to take off early, so Amber made herself, me, and Brielyn (who plays racketball with Amber every Saturday) sausages and waffles with homemade whipped cream and fresh strawberries. It was good times. Then I ran home and cleaned. Which was awesome. Got the place spiffy and clean and then zoomed off to the airport to pick up Mom and Dad. After we dropped their stuff of at my place, we ran around like mad to Costco and Lowe's and the grocery store to get supplies for Mom and Dad while they're here, the leftovers of which shall feed me. I've never had so much food in my fridge, not even after I first moved in. That evening I went to the Dallons' house for food, because we girls were gonna get together and have taco salads before the General Relief Society Meeting. Poor Sister Dallon was feeling kind of ill (a bad encounter with some calamari) and so we girls went on alone. Brielyn and Lindsey were kind enough to pick me up so my parents could have my car. The broadcast was awesome. On the way home poor Brielyn got into a fender bender. All of us were fine, and the other lady was fine, but Brielyn's pretty brand new car got banged up around the end. We made it home safe, and I hung out with my parents. Mom couldn't sleep, so we stayed up late talking about life, the universe, and everything, like we do. I stayed up late getting some writing done, and then went to bed.
Sunday was all good. Mom and Dad did some more things around my apartment - I now have an awesome new light and other things - and Mom started prepping food because we fed the Sister Missionaries last night. I prepped my lesson, read for Institute, and got started on a green Cthulhu. Mom brought me some awesome safety cat eyes. This means that only some of the Cthulhu dolls will have cat eyes, others will have the bead eyes, but it's better than all the little dolls looking the same anyway. As noted above, I also have mad plans to make Moogle dolls. Mom also brought me other cool crafty things, like books to crochet cool clothes, awesome doll dresses, and some colored wire so I can do awesome medieval chain maille jewelry-type things. I swung by Barnes & Noble on Friday and picked up some origami books - one on folding money and one on making awesome animals. (Amber wants an elephant.) I also bought some pastels at the art store so I can color the animals once they're made, spray them so the pastel doesn't smear, and give the little animals as presents. For a law student who is a writer in her spare time, my apartment looks like it belongs to a nutty granny crafter person. (Let's face it, though, writing and law school are all in one place - on the laptop). Mom and Dad came to church with me. It might have been weird, as Mom was there when I taught for the first time since I've been back, but it went well. Having the sister missionaries over for dinner was awesome, because I like them lots, especially Sister Hansen. When she gets done she's going back to George Wyth to get her degree in Statesmanship, which is all kinds of cool. Once she gets off her mission, we'll have to stay friends so we can debate about the Constitution and other cool things.
This morning I got here at six and had three subjects (crim law, legal writing, crim pro) all done before nine. Hence this rather long update. But it needed to be done. Also, I found out that my bestest friend Ericka has a new man in her life. It makes me extremely happy that she's happy.
Friday: was full of awesome. After school I went home and took a nap. Because I had to stay up late. Because I had every intention of partying up. There was a multi-stake Young Single Adult event out at the Checketts' place, and Amber had invited me and Kara to her place for a sleepover so we could get our middle school on and also celebrate the completion of the first draft of teh appellate brief of t3h d00m0rz. Which is seriously what it was. Technical legal name and all. (*deadpans*) We had food and sat on the grass and looked at the stars - Angela and I tried to locate the north star, and pestered some former boy scouts into helping us - and listened to Brother Mangrum (also Professor Mangrum, who I'd had earlier that day) speak about Why We Are Christian. (When I was in a religious studies class when I was a kid my teacher told me that we're not Christian and I pretty much cried. Once I was out of sight of the entire world.) There was a barn dance. I stuck around long enough to do the traditional line dance to Footloose and to ask two boys to dance, although on only one occasion was the dance technically girls' choice. Funny how there are more couples dancing when it's girls' choice.
Then Kara, Amber, and I escaped for our sleepover. We went to Wal-Mart, where I bought an awesome cute hat for five bucks, some treats to help with the sleepover atmosphere. There was some madness at the five dollar DVD rack (I picked up Spaceballs, a Brad Pitt movie and a Christian Bale movie - come on, it was a sleepover!) and also some yarn to make some Moogle dolls. Crocheted. Cousins to the crocheted Cthulhus. Hello stuffed animals for Christmas! Poor Kara fell asleep pretty early, which left me and Amber to rock it up on Guitar Hero and also Sing Star. Three discs of Sing Star. Till three thirty in the morning. Even though I have spent a life of tone-deafness, I rocked it up pretty good. So the next time Amber plays, everyone will think that she has the high score on all of the songs. Heh heh. I have learned of many awesome songs via Sing Star.
Saturday: The next morning, Kara had to take off early, so Amber made herself, me, and Brielyn (who plays racketball with Amber every Saturday) sausages and waffles with homemade whipped cream and fresh strawberries. It was good times. Then I ran home and cleaned. Which was awesome. Got the place spiffy and clean and then zoomed off to the airport to pick up Mom and Dad. After we dropped their stuff of at my place, we ran around like mad to Costco and Lowe's and the grocery store to get supplies for Mom and Dad while they're here, the leftovers of which shall feed me. I've never had so much food in my fridge, not even after I first moved in. That evening I went to the Dallons' house for food, because we girls were gonna get together and have taco salads before the General Relief Society Meeting. Poor Sister Dallon was feeling kind of ill (a bad encounter with some calamari) and so we girls went on alone. Brielyn and Lindsey were kind enough to pick me up so my parents could have my car. The broadcast was awesome. On the way home poor Brielyn got into a fender bender. All of us were fine, and the other lady was fine, but Brielyn's pretty brand new car got banged up around the end. We made it home safe, and I hung out with my parents. Mom couldn't sleep, so we stayed up late talking about life, the universe, and everything, like we do. I stayed up late getting some writing done, and then went to bed.
Sunday was all good. Mom and Dad did some more things around my apartment - I now have an awesome new light and other things - and Mom started prepping food because we fed the Sister Missionaries last night. I prepped my lesson, read for Institute, and got started on a green Cthulhu. Mom brought me some awesome safety cat eyes. This means that only some of the Cthulhu dolls will have cat eyes, others will have the bead eyes, but it's better than all the little dolls looking the same anyway. As noted above, I also have mad plans to make Moogle dolls. Mom also brought me other cool crafty things, like books to crochet cool clothes, awesome doll dresses, and some colored wire so I can do awesome medieval chain maille jewelry-type things. I swung by Barnes & Noble on Friday and picked up some origami books - one on folding money and one on making awesome animals. (Amber wants an elephant.) I also bought some pastels at the art store so I can color the animals once they're made, spray them so the pastel doesn't smear, and give the little animals as presents. For a law student who is a writer in her spare time, my apartment looks like it belongs to a nutty granny crafter person. (Let's face it, though, writing and law school are all in one place - on the laptop). Mom and Dad came to church with me. It might have been weird, as Mom was there when I taught for the first time since I've been back, but it went well. Having the sister missionaries over for dinner was awesome, because I like them lots, especially Sister Hansen. When she gets done she's going back to George Wyth to get her degree in Statesmanship, which is all kinds of cool. Once she gets off her mission, we'll have to stay friends so we can debate about the Constitution and other cool things.
This morning I got here at six and had three subjects (crim law, legal writing, crim pro) all done before nine. Hence this rather long update. But it needed to be done. Also, I found out that my bestest friend Ericka has a new man in her life. It makes me extremely happy that she's happy.
