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Day 705: Sisters in Arms
Dec. 13th, 2008 01:23 pmThat's right. I wanted to call this entry Sisters in Arms because, well, we were sisters in arms last night, and it was full of awesome. Also, the most recent episode of Criminal Minds was called Brothers in Arms, and, let's face it, I'm sort of a Criminal Minds junkie. Because seriously, what girl in her right mind would turn down a guy with an IQ of 187, who also has an eidetic memory and can read 20,000 words a minute?
But yeah, yesterday was pretty freakin' cool. Thursday was, well, a bit bizarre. The only real useful thing I did the entirety of that day was clean my house. While it still needs a good chemical scrub-down, it no longer looks so discombobulated. The yarn is organized, all of my Christmas presents are sitting in a little Christmas Present army on one of my chairs (I still have to get them ready to ship out) and my house is habitable again. Let's face it - a person's space reflects what's going on in her head, and my head was pretty insane for a while there. But now I'm calm.
On Wednesday night I went to a basketball game with Amber and Anthony. We got lots of junk food, snarked about our not-really-cheerleaders, and had a grand time. Also, it was an amazing game. And we won, which was all kinds of cool.
Last night was one of the coolest nights in a very long time. The Sister Missionaries came over for dinner. I'd almost forgotten they were coming, but they called to confirm, so I remembered to put out some chicken to thaw (because all I can really make is lemon-butter-scarborough fair chicken) while I studied. I threw on some Fiddler on the Roof in the background while I studied (found it on the five dollar DVD rack at WalMart one day) and outlined until it was time to cook. And then I cooked - chicken and rice and peas. Since I am paranoid about cooking I called my mom to make sure about the cooking times on the peas - and my dad answered the phone! It was the coolest thing ever, to just randomly hear his voice like that. The sister missionaries came, and we had some good talks - I like the sister missionaries a lot. All the ones who come through are very, very awesome. After they left, I did the dishes (got to use my shiny dishwasher again) and then Angela came over.
I crocheted a snow flake for Kara's tree, because it was her tree trimming party, and then Angela and I went. Kara lives way out west past the bishop's house, but I got directions from her instead of google map and it went well. There were a whole load of sisters there - me, Amber, two Rachels, Amy, Abby, Valerie, Brielyn, Lindsey, Kara (obviously) and Angela came with me, so when push came to shove there were ten of us. Maybe eleven of us? I don't know. One of the Rachels had brought food, so Angela and I tucked into the leftovers. We listened to Christmas music and decorated the tree - and then Amy had a plan. She had her huge van, and she had a plan. We were going to go a-pranking. And a-pranking we went. We went to a nearby Hyvee and bought nearly 150 plastic forks. Then we piled back into Amy's family van (had to duck a couple of cop cars, and the steam on the windows from the nine of us hid that I was sprawled across laps in the back like a corpse and Kara was crouched on the floor) and drove to a certain someone's house, and forked the lawn.
Seriously. Crept up, stuck all the forks in the lawn, and took off. Then we took a few drive-by pictures and honked the horn and drove off. It was crazy exhilarating fun, which was a bit worrisome, seeing how basically committing a misdemeanor was all kinds of a thrill ride. It took us ten minutes to commit the actual deed, and then about fifteen minutes later trying to figure out how to take a group picture with the timer on Kara's camera. This morning when I signed onto facebook I noticed that one of the occupants of the prank-recipient household had declared her intentions to de-fork the lawn and find out who did it. It was an awesome good time, just the girls having fun. Although we did declare that if so many attractive, single, successful, intelligent young women were hanging out like that together on a Friday night, the men were obviously off their game as far as asking us out.
I didn't care. It was awesome, awesome good times.
And today, about twenty minutes ago, I finished my crim pro outline. So now I'm going to prep Christmas presents and things. Just thought the world should know. Also, I am going to level up my wizard for D&D tonight, and I'm even going to the dance afterward.
Sisters in arms - armed with forks! Neighbors, beware.
Also, this face right here totally justifies my love of Criminal Minds:
But yeah, yesterday was pretty freakin' cool. Thursday was, well, a bit bizarre. The only real useful thing I did the entirety of that day was clean my house. While it still needs a good chemical scrub-down, it no longer looks so discombobulated. The yarn is organized, all of my Christmas presents are sitting in a little Christmas Present army on one of my chairs (I still have to get them ready to ship out) and my house is habitable again. Let's face it - a person's space reflects what's going on in her head, and my head was pretty insane for a while there. But now I'm calm.
On Wednesday night I went to a basketball game with Amber and Anthony. We got lots of junk food, snarked about our not-really-cheerleaders, and had a grand time. Also, it was an amazing game. And we won, which was all kinds of cool.
Last night was one of the coolest nights in a very long time. The Sister Missionaries came over for dinner. I'd almost forgotten they were coming, but they called to confirm, so I remembered to put out some chicken to thaw (because all I can really make is lemon-butter-scarborough fair chicken) while I studied. I threw on some Fiddler on the Roof in the background while I studied (found it on the five dollar DVD rack at WalMart one day) and outlined until it was time to cook. And then I cooked - chicken and rice and peas. Since I am paranoid about cooking I called my mom to make sure about the cooking times on the peas - and my dad answered the phone! It was the coolest thing ever, to just randomly hear his voice like that. The sister missionaries came, and we had some good talks - I like the sister missionaries a lot. All the ones who come through are very, very awesome. After they left, I did the dishes (got to use my shiny dishwasher again) and then Angela came over.
I crocheted a snow flake for Kara's tree, because it was her tree trimming party, and then Angela and I went. Kara lives way out west past the bishop's house, but I got directions from her instead of google map and it went well. There were a whole load of sisters there - me, Amber, two Rachels, Amy, Abby, Valerie, Brielyn, Lindsey, Kara (obviously) and Angela came with me, so when push came to shove there were ten of us. Maybe eleven of us? I don't know. One of the Rachels had brought food, so Angela and I tucked into the leftovers. We listened to Christmas music and decorated the tree - and then Amy had a plan. She had her huge van, and she had a plan. We were going to go a-pranking. And a-pranking we went. We went to a nearby Hyvee and bought nearly 150 plastic forks. Then we piled back into Amy's family van (had to duck a couple of cop cars, and the steam on the windows from the nine of us hid that I was sprawled across laps in the back like a corpse and Kara was crouched on the floor) and drove to a certain someone's house, and forked the lawn.
Seriously. Crept up, stuck all the forks in the lawn, and took off. Then we took a few drive-by pictures and honked the horn and drove off. It was crazy exhilarating fun, which was a bit worrisome, seeing how basically committing a misdemeanor was all kinds of a thrill ride. It took us ten minutes to commit the actual deed, and then about fifteen minutes later trying to figure out how to take a group picture with the timer on Kara's camera. This morning when I signed onto facebook I noticed that one of the occupants of the prank-recipient household had declared her intentions to de-fork the lawn and find out who did it. It was an awesome good time, just the girls having fun. Although we did declare that if so many attractive, single, successful, intelligent young women were hanging out like that together on a Friday night, the men were obviously off their game as far as asking us out.
I didn't care. It was awesome, awesome good times.
And today, about twenty minutes ago, I finished my crim pro outline. So now I'm going to prep Christmas presents and things. Just thought the world should know. Also, I am going to level up my wizard for D&D tonight, and I'm even going to the dance afterward.
Sisters in arms - armed with forks! Neighbors, beware.
Also, this face right here totally justifies my love of Criminal Minds:
