Quel jour!
Hello all! Its now the lazy and boring (for those of us with no jobs) time between Christmas and New Years. We get to play with all our new toys (I got the sweet digital camera I wanted) and hang out with friends and family. Things have been fun but sometimes a little painful for me as well.
First off is the second annual Mario party. For those of you who are uninformed, Mario Party is an awesome video game that is set up like a board game on your TV. Last year, me, Becky, Erin and Eric all met up several nights to hang out and have epic Mario Party battles. Eric always wins, I often bring up the rear, but we always have a blast. We experiment with popcorn and sometimes our combinations are awesome (nacho cheese, spicy cheese popcorn flavoring, butter and macaroni and cheese powdered cheese) or disgusting (kettle corn, white cheddar, butter, Mac&cheese powder and chili powder). It is becoming our tradition, and is so awesome to get to spend time with Eric before he goes back to LA. Here is us at the end of game night.
Also, I had a great day skiing with my Dad. We went over to Snowy Range for a day. I had been out until 3am the night before, and had to drag myself out of bed at 7am. That was waaay too early for me, but I was greatly looking forward to it. We skiied all types of blue runs, a couple blacks and had a great time. Both of us crashed a couple times. Dad hooked one of his skis on mine as we were getting off the chair lift and took a mighty good fall. I stood on the side and laughed. On the hill, Dad and I almost skiied into each other and I over-corrected and took a wicked fall right under the chair lift. I could hear my Dad laughing at me from a good distance, and he reminded me several times of all the people who saw me crash. I was beyond exhausted that night from skiing all day on less than four hours of sleep, but still found time to hang out with my friends before going to bed that night. Becky said I looked so tired she had to make me come home. Here is me and my Daddy at the top of the mountain.
The wildest story though, is what happened last night. While hanging out at Steven's house, he decided to get out the infamous blowgun. We had a large group of people just sitting around and watching TV, and the guys started messing with the blowgun. They were shooting walls and stuff, but promised they wouldn't shoot anyone. I set my can of Dr. Pepper on the ground and Steven shot a dart completely through it, which was unsettling. I picked it up and pulled the dart out and was going to set the can back down when I saw Steven aiming at it. He shot the dart and I dropped my can in time to see the dart go completely THROUGH my thumb. As in, sticking in one side and out the other through the middle of my thumb like in a cartoon or something. Everyone just went totally quiet or gasped when I held my hand out and they could see it. Steven had the presence of mind to come pull the dart out since I was totally in shock. We ran to the bathroom, washed it off and put a bandage on. It was total chaos for awhile. My parents were gone, so I had to tell them about it this morning and they were REALLY not happy. My thumb was all swollen and gross so I had to go to the doctor and get a lovely tetanus shot and a bunch of antibiotics. The only good news about this is that Steven felt so bad that he threw away the blowgun. Crazy, crazy night. Here are a bunch of my friends at Steve's house, the night before:
My Christmas Strep
Merry Christmas! I hope you all have a lovely Holiday Season. I started mine off by getting Strep, which was really not fun. Did you know that you can get a rash with strep? I did not realize this until every square inch of my skin began to itch. After getting shingles earlier this year, I now think my skin hates me. Also, I was bummed because the rash is not contagious. I tried to give it to Becky and my Dad several times with no positive result. It is the season for giving, right? I was pretty bad for a couple days, but now I am relatively healthy again. All I missed was a night or two hanging out with my friends. but c'est la vie.
Speaking of my friends, we had a fun night playing with Erin's giant, 6 ft. tall wooden nutcracker. Steven got us all to pose with it, and some of the pictures were hilarious. Us kids and our digital cameras. Here is a pic of Becky and I giving it a smooch. After we did that, and watched the CSU rammies get KILLED by Navy, we went over to Steven's house witha few more people and played Peanuts. I am glad to report that Steven and I won, despite constant complaints of us cheating.
Have a very merry Christmas! Do you all have any interesting plans or places you are going? I am staying here in good ole Cheyenne. I plan on eating and sleeping alot, which so far have been successful. Less than three weeks until I go to the land of cheese. Also, I should be getting a digital camera for Christmas, so expect lots of awesome pictures soon. Je t'aime et bonne noel!
Warm and Fuzzy
Hello all! Yay, it is Christmas break and less than a month until I depart for France. My leave date in January 14th and I will be there until June 19th. That is over five months, which is quite a long time. I am nervous, but getting more excited everyday. I need to watch Notre Dame or Garou or something every so often to keep myself from getting cold feet. See, I compare the study abroad experience to getting married. Deep down I know it is the right thing and I am thrilled to be going, but I can't stop all the little insecurities and doubts from creeping into my head. Oh, and congrats to Jessie on her new plan to go to Spain! I commend you, and even if it isn't for sure yet, I hope you go and have a lovely time. We shall have to hang out a lot before I leave.
I got to spend this weekend in Winter Park. It was very cold, but I had a blast. John's family has a big house there and even though there were alot of us, I got my own room. I was quite happy about this despite the fact it was a den and didn't have a door. I didn't get to ski because of the cost, but I went sledding instead and still had a marvelous time. We played a lot of board games, and I won both Balderdash and Cranium, so I feel all warm and fuzzy inside. We also watched a lot of football, stayed up late and slept in until 11am both days. I love being in college and being able to go do stuff like that with my friends.
It is break time, which means all my old high school buddies will be coming back from all our various locations. I am so very fond of my college friends, but my high school ones are still my closest people (with the exception of Cait). If nothing else, we have been friends for years and have been through so many things together. They know me inside and out and they are the ones I miss the most. When I do things like get grouchy and say, "Don't touch me!!" they are the ones that laugh and mess up my hair. My mom pointed out that one special thing about my friends is that most of us met when we were like 14 or 15 so we got to know each other as people, whereas a lot of people this age focus mostly on dating. We know each other for who we are, which is something that is often hard to find. As Nick said to me this semester, "You aren't 'a girl'...you are Molly." (Trust me, it was actually a compliment).
It sounds like Miss Anna Talley is back, Steven is getting in tomorrow, Becky, Erin, and the "ewe-dubbers" are out, so now the fun begins. First thing on the schedule? Bowling and Sharis, of course!
FINALS!
Now it is finals week! The one week a year that you can use studying as an excuse not to go do something and not get harassed for it. I got a pretty easy schedule this year; only one test and two papers. Both papers are well on their way to being done but my test will require lots of studying. Fortunately, I have two full days to do that.
I am getting a little sad about leaving UW until next fall. I know that all my close friends will still be there for me, but I worry about all my little social circles. I worry I'll fall out of my busy social life, that people won't remember to include me when I get back. The smallest stuff keeps setting off the water works. Last night, I went to Late-Night (my cafeteria serves food from 8:30pm-10:30pm and it is very popular with all us college night-owls) and got into a big, laughing conversation with a bunch of my friends. I realized though, that of the people I was talking to, one was from New York, another from California, from Ohio, etc. These were the people I have met here and the ones I won't see until next fall. It is hard to establish yourself and then up and leave for five months. Also, I met a really nice guy this weekend and that has to get shot dead before it even starts. Oy.
Oh and the picture is from this weekend; it is me hugging my friend Petey. I think my hair looks good. I got bored this week and decided to give myself bangs so I cut it myself.
On a lighter note, I got forced to go ice-skating this week-end. I was peer-pressured to go and I whined the whole way there. I have only ice-skated one other time before and it was not a pleasant experience. However, my friends were really awesome and Justin held me up the whole time. I ended up having a great time and doing something I had never done before. Justin and I hit my friend Cait on the butt everytime we passed her, and she'd yell and almost fall down, which was hilarious. I learned a very valuable lesson that night..."Always succumb to peer-pressure." Or something like that.
Dead week
Hello!
It is officially dead week (the last week of classes before finals). I am very excited to be wrapping up the classes. A couple are done already. I think I should have a 3.5, which is my college goal, is to maintain at least a 3.5 for my whole college career. (Most people consider that exceptional, MOM....jk) So far, so good.
It is exceptionally cold here right now. It is seriously in the 20 below zero range, and didn't get above zero all day. It is kind of interesting to be outside in weather like this, at least to me. It is such a contrast to be a warm living thing alive in such a deadly cold. Part of me likes it, but a bigger part of me is sick of being cold ALL THE TIME. I would prefer it to be a chilly cold and not a "your breath freezes your nostrils shut" cold.
My friends are awesome. I hang out at Justin's house all the time. I really like all of his housemates, and I feel comfortable over there. However, I think they invite me to play video games just so they have someone they know will lose everytime. Justin is such a good friend. I give him a hard time sometimes...well...most of the time, but he still puts up with me for some reason. My friend Cait also rox my sox. She gives me a harder time than any one, but is really always there for me. We even went and saw the new Harry Potter movie and had a philisophical debate on the way back over whether it is wrong or not to be attracted to Harry. (Sweet movie, by the way)
I am having a hard time laughing at people who fall on the ice, which is usually not the case. I think it is because my own falling down at some point is inevitable and seeing them only reminds me of that. One of the small joys of life has been robbed from me.
Oh, and if you are wondering about the picture, this is David with a dart (mentioned in my last blog) in his leg. Ah, good times.
