I've been home for about 4 days now and I already feel like I'm out of things to do. I'm not, but I feel like it, especially during the day. Usually I have classes or homework to do or I'm taking a nap, but I've been getting more than enough sleep and I don't have any classes to go to. I think I'm going to start on my reading list today [or tomorrow] and I guess I could clean the house for my mom. Any ideas?
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Monday, May 5, 2008
This is going to be a long post again, because I did quite a bit this weekend!
Friday, Elizabeth and Sarah got here and we got food at WalMart then just came back here and made it/hung out.
Saturday, we woke up somewhat early and went to the zoo. It was a little chilly and some rain, but nothing we couldn't handle! Afterwards, we got lunch then came back here to look for places to watch the US Women's National team's [soccer] game against Australia. Well, not many bars/restaurants in STL have Fox Soccer Channel but we managed to find one [The Dubliner] and they set us up in our own little room and everything because the Cubs/Cardinals game was going on and the Kentucky Derby but they wanted us to be able to watch the games still. What a game it was!! Two own goals and a coronary later, Angela Hucles ended up scoring the winning goal with seconds left, and an AMAZING goal it was! We went to the Galleria after just to walk around. We ended up just coming back here and hanging out in the lounge after that.
Sunday we slept in a little because we were exhausted. We went to Laclede's for lunch because Elizabeth made friends with the bartender the day before when we were trying to see if they had FSC. Then we went downtown early afternoon to hang out before the game. We went up in the arch and I was a little scared at first, but it was awesome!!
Emily got hungry so we went to Morgan Street Brewery so she could get a burger. We got a little more than we expected. It's kind of a long story but the main point of it, was that we think they kicked this group of people out because they left the brother inside by himself [we think he may have had Autism or another developmentally disease] and he had had a beer or two and must have said something to someone. Well the bouncer guy called the police and they ended up arresting at least two of the three people [the mom, and her two sons] because they wouldn't pay for their food because they hadn't eaten any of it yet because they got kicked out. Well this turned into a 6 police car + a paddywagon...for three people who wouldn't pay their bill. It was quite the attraction though! People that were in the horse drawn carriage rides and stuff were taking pictures and everything. I hope their day turned out okay though.
This post is already extremely long, but I still haven't talked about the game, so I apologize. The game was awesome though! Our seats were, well the very top row, but we had a great view of the field! The Cardinals unfortunately came out on top but as the title of this says, we'll get 'em next time! I did get a few comments about my shirt, but I'm sure it was all in good fun ;-)
Friday, Elizabeth and Sarah got here and we got food at WalMart then just came back here and made it/hung out.
Saturday, we woke up somewhat early and went to the zoo. It was a little chilly and some rain, but nothing we couldn't handle! Afterwards, we got lunch then came back here to look for places to watch the US Women's National team's [soccer] game against Australia. Well, not many bars/restaurants in STL have Fox Soccer Channel but we managed to find one [The Dubliner] and they set us up in our own little room and everything because the Cubs/Cardinals game was going on and the Kentucky Derby but they wanted us to be able to watch the games still. What a game it was!! Two own goals and a coronary later, Angela Hucles ended up scoring the winning goal with seconds left, and an AMAZING goal it was! We went to the Galleria after just to walk around. We ended up just coming back here and hanging out in the lounge after that.
Sunday we slept in a little because we were exhausted. We went to Laclede's for lunch because Elizabeth made friends with the bartender the day before when we were trying to see if they had FSC. Then we went downtown early afternoon to hang out before the game. We went up in the arch and I was a little scared at first, but it was awesome!!
Emily got hungry so we went to Morgan Street Brewery so she could get a burger. We got a little more than we expected. It's kind of a long story but the main point of it, was that we think they kicked this group of people out because they left the brother inside by himself [we think he may have had Autism or another developmentally disease] and he had had a beer or two and must have said something to someone. Well the bouncer guy called the police and they ended up arresting at least two of the three people [the mom, and her two sons] because they wouldn't pay for their food because they hadn't eaten any of it yet because they got kicked out. Well this turned into a 6 police car + a paddywagon...for three people who wouldn't pay their bill. It was quite the attraction though! People that were in the horse drawn carriage rides and stuff were taking pictures and everything. I hope their day turned out okay though.
This post is already extremely long, but I still haven't talked about the game, so I apologize. The game was awesome though! Our seats were, well the very top row, but we had a great view of the field! The Cardinals unfortunately came out on top but as the title of this says, we'll get 'em next time! I did get a few comments about my shirt, but I'm sure it was all in good fun ;-)
Friday, May 2, 2008
I've come to realize that weather.com isn't always accurate. Usually it's a degree or two off, sometimes is just partly cloudy when there's supposed to be no clear sky at all. Today though, I think I've lost all trust. We were supposed to have SEVERE thunderstorms and wind and lots of rain [I was excited because it's good cleaning weather...otherwise I just want to go outside and enjoy it] well as you can see from the picture posted below, it's not storming, it's not even rainy [or really cloudy for that matter] it's sunny and there are a few clouds in the sky. Don't get me wrong, I love this weather, I was just prepared for something else. Oh well, I'm off to enjoy it now!
It looks funny because I took this out my window, and there was a screen there.
It looks funny because I took this out my window, and there was a screen there.
Monday, April 28, 2008
It's going to be April 30th tomorrow and there's a frost advisory tonight. Seriously? And to make it worse, they turned the heat off in our building a week or so ago because it was so warm. Basically, I'm going to be an ice cube in the morning. Let's just hope it doesn't make me any sicker.
This past weekend was again, busy.
Chartwell's [the source of all food on this wonderful campus] is doing a fundraiser of sorts for student organizations on campus. Your group can be put into a rotation at Chaifetz Arena and work a concession stand if you have enough people, or just a little stand [Dippin Dots, Budweiser, etc.] and then your organization gets 10% of the profits made, but you're guaranteed $100 at least. So Friday night a bunch of us from Students for Life worked the Barry Manilow concert. Let me just say, it was an interesting crowd. We were able to watch parts of the concert when it wasn't busy and Barry is quite the performer! We don't know how much we made yet but from 3 of the 4 registers, we made close to $2000, so we at least made $200! Not too shabby!
Saturday was Spring Fever which was a carnival and concert this year. Usually it's just a concert, but since the Arena just opened, SAB decided to utilize that and make it huge. I headed to the carnival around 1:30 with Biji and Hannah L. Some of Biji's friends from St. Louis College of Pharmacy met us there too. For the carnival being organized [for the most part] by students, it was great. There were 5 or 6 rides and then quite a few booths by student organizations as a way for them to make some money. Students for Life had the funnel cake stand as always. I worked the last shift and guess what?! We ran out of batter. Now usually that's a bad thing, which I guess it is, but usually we don't sell that many so this time it was a good thing! After cleanup was done, we headed inside to the concert. There were 5 bands/artists: Tyler Hilton, Chingy, The Starting Line, Jo Dee Messina, and Augustana. Quite the lineup, huh? The theme was Rock, Rap and Rawhide if that helps. Overall it wasn't bad, just extremely long [it started at 6 and it ended at 12:15] and loud at times.
Sunday I went to the mall with Hannah L. and Biji because they needed to get a couple things and I wanted to get off campus for a little while. Of course, I didn't find anything I liked, but that's probably for the better. Well, I did find a few skirts at GAP but I decided to just wait until I go home to get them. We ate at California Pizza Kitchen for lunch which was delicious! Afterwards I took a nap because I was reallllllly tired. When I woke up, I felt like I'd been hit by a bus [and still do] I don't know what happened during that nap! My heads been killing me, and I pretty sure I have a double ear infection, sore throat, and it's hurting to breathe again. So I've been taking ibuprofen and drinking lots of water and sleeping but it doesn't seem to be helping. I felt a little better earlier today and thought it was going away, but no such luck. But that's probably a good sign so hopefully tomorrow I'll be feeling better!
That's all for now...and it was a long post. I'll have a lot to post about next weekend [nothing exciting or blog worthy seems to happen during the week] because Sarah and Elizabeth are coming down for a couple days! Annnd the much anticipated Cubs/Cardinals game on Sunday! Can't wait!
And please continue to pray for the Smith family. Angie posted a slideshow of pictures of the family during her pregnancy and of Audrey. The background music is a song she wrote with her husband, Todd, of Selah. She also just posted a link for a video, they were interviewed for. She explains it on her blog. Yes, it's long [over 22 minutes] but well worth it!
Chartwell's [the source of all food on this wonderful campus] is doing a fundraiser of sorts for student organizations on campus. Your group can be put into a rotation at Chaifetz Arena and work a concession stand if you have enough people, or just a little stand [Dippin Dots, Budweiser, etc.] and then your organization gets 10% of the profits made, but you're guaranteed $100 at least. So Friday night a bunch of us from Students for Life worked the Barry Manilow concert. Let me just say, it was an interesting crowd. We were able to watch parts of the concert when it wasn't busy and Barry is quite the performer! We don't know how much we made yet but from 3 of the 4 registers, we made close to $2000, so we at least made $200! Not too shabby!
Saturday was Spring Fever which was a carnival and concert this year. Usually it's just a concert, but since the Arena just opened, SAB decided to utilize that and make it huge. I headed to the carnival around 1:30 with Biji and Hannah L. Some of Biji's friends from St. Louis College of Pharmacy met us there too. For the carnival being organized [for the most part] by students, it was great. There were 5 or 6 rides and then quite a few booths by student organizations as a way for them to make some money. Students for Life had the funnel cake stand as always. I worked the last shift and guess what?! We ran out of batter. Now usually that's a bad thing, which I guess it is, but usually we don't sell that many so this time it was a good thing! After cleanup was done, we headed inside to the concert. There were 5 bands/artists: Tyler Hilton, Chingy, The Starting Line, Jo Dee Messina, and Augustana. Quite the lineup, huh? The theme was Rock, Rap and Rawhide if that helps. Overall it wasn't bad, just extremely long [it started at 6 and it ended at 12:15] and loud at times.
Sunday I went to the mall with Hannah L. and Biji because they needed to get a couple things and I wanted to get off campus for a little while. Of course, I didn't find anything I liked, but that's probably for the better. Well, I did find a few skirts at GAP but I decided to just wait until I go home to get them. We ate at California Pizza Kitchen for lunch which was delicious! Afterwards I took a nap because I was reallllllly tired. When I woke up, I felt like I'd been hit by a bus [and still do] I don't know what happened during that nap! My heads been killing me, and I pretty sure I have a double ear infection, sore throat, and it's hurting to breathe again. So I've been taking ibuprofen and drinking lots of water and sleeping but it doesn't seem to be helping. I felt a little better earlier today and thought it was going away, but no such luck. But that's probably a good sign so hopefully tomorrow I'll be feeling better!
That's all for now...and it was a long post. I'll have a lot to post about next weekend [nothing exciting or blog worthy seems to happen during the week] because Sarah and Elizabeth are coming down for a couple days! Annnd the much anticipated Cubs/Cardinals game on Sunday! Can't wait!
And please continue to pray for the Smith family. Angie posted a slideshow of pictures of the family during her pregnancy and of Audrey. The background music is a song she wrote with her husband, Todd, of Selah. She also just posted a link for a video, they were interviewed for. She explains it on her blog. Yes, it's long [over 22 minutes] but well worth it!
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
My life since I posted last has been, well, busy.
Saturday morning I was up at 6 A.M. for Special Olympics. I was really excited for it, but already exhausted so I was hoping it would go well. We got to the high school where it was taking place at 7:30 and just sat around until about 9 when Opening Ceremonies started. Then we were supposed to be paired up with a buddy. Well because of the weather, not many athletes from the first group we were paired with showed up, so they didn't have enough athletes for us so we were given two other groups. Those didn't have enough either. I was a little upset because I was looking forward to being a buddy and now, I wasn't going to get to do it. Eventually, we were paired up with a group that was late. I was paired with Robert. He was 45 years old and high functioning. We hung out with Caitlin and her buddy, Harry all day. Robert and Harry's group had to leave early, so we started walking around and hanging out with other people and their buddies. I ended up with Kathleen, Megan and Brendan. Brendan had a little bit of time before his next event, so Megan and I went with him to one of the hallways and raced cars down it and had a lot of fun! After Brendan's last event, we said our goodbyes and headed back to SLU.
As soon as I got back, I changed clothes and headed to my bed. I was able to get an hour and a half in before Relay for Life. As always, I had a ton of fun. Relay is one of my favorite events at SLU. It's so awesome to see the campus come together for such a great cause. Everyone from my team was gone by 3 A.M. or so but some girls from Students for Life were there with their floor so I was able to stay until 6 with them.
Sunday night, I watched a movie, "Sweet Nothing in My Ear" for Sign Language. It's about a family with a hearing father and a deaf mother and a boy who was born hearing but is now completely deaf and their struggles in deciding whether or not they want him to receive a cochlear implant or not. In class on Monday, we spent the whole time discussing the movie and different perspectives on CI's. This discussion amongst other things lead me to the dilemma of possibly changing my major, again. I would really like to go into Speech Pathology or become a teacher for the deaf. But this would prolong my schooling even longer, and I would probably end up transferring etc. So I may be adding Communication Science Disorders as a minor instead of completely changing my major although, who knows what I'll have decided by Fall semester!
Saturday morning I was up at 6 A.M. for Special Olympics. I was really excited for it, but already exhausted so I was hoping it would go well. We got to the high school where it was taking place at 7:30 and just sat around until about 9 when Opening Ceremonies started. Then we were supposed to be paired up with a buddy. Well because of the weather, not many athletes from the first group we were paired with showed up, so they didn't have enough athletes for us so we were given two other groups. Those didn't have enough either. I was a little upset because I was looking forward to being a buddy and now, I wasn't going to get to do it. Eventually, we were paired up with a group that was late. I was paired with Robert. He was 45 years old and high functioning. We hung out with Caitlin and her buddy, Harry all day. Robert and Harry's group had to leave early, so we started walking around and hanging out with other people and their buddies. I ended up with Kathleen, Megan and Brendan. Brendan had a little bit of time before his next event, so Megan and I went with him to one of the hallways and raced cars down it and had a lot of fun! After Brendan's last event, we said our goodbyes and headed back to SLU.
As soon as I got back, I changed clothes and headed to my bed. I was able to get an hour and a half in before Relay for Life. As always, I had a ton of fun. Relay is one of my favorite events at SLU. It's so awesome to see the campus come together for such a great cause. Everyone from my team was gone by 3 A.M. or so but some girls from Students for Life were there with their floor so I was able to stay until 6 with them.
Sunday night, I watched a movie, "Sweet Nothing in My Ear" for Sign Language. It's about a family with a hearing father and a deaf mother and a boy who was born hearing but is now completely deaf and their struggles in deciding whether or not they want him to receive a cochlear implant or not. In class on Monday, we spent the whole time discussing the movie and different perspectives on CI's. This discussion amongst other things lead me to the dilemma of possibly changing my major, again. I would really like to go into Speech Pathology or become a teacher for the deaf. But this would prolong my schooling even longer, and I would probably end up transferring etc. So I may be adding Communication Science Disorders as a minor instead of completely changing my major although, who knows what I'll have decided by Fall semester!
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Seeing as I spend a great deal of time at my computer, whether it be doing homework or talking to friends online, I thought I would go ahead and start a blog! There's not too much going on that I really need to write about to everyone, but oh well! I hope I don't bore you too much!
I also want to encourage you to read the story of Audrey Caroline. Please keep the Smith family in your prayers this week and especially on Sunday when they are having the memorial service for Audrey.
I also want to encourage you to read the story of Audrey Caroline. Please keep the Smith family in your prayers this week and especially on Sunday when they are having the memorial service for Audrey.
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