Me domesticated? Take Two

Schools out and now and I'm living in the sorority house for the summer and next school year. I share the attic with 2 other girls but its devided into our own bedrooms. I decided to make some curtains for my room because otherwise its just open with no door and if people are up there they could see me change and it adds a bit more privacy and more of a room feeling. So I went and got material (its plaid and way fun) and took out my sewing machine. Come to find out it was broken :( it sounded like a gear was broken inside of it and it wouldnt do anything at all jsut make a really sad noise at me. I got it fixed though and now it works! I must say I am very proud of the work I did with the curtains, they pretty much look fantastic! Besides that whole fiasco I've also been cooking a lot. This week alone between me and Cory we've made a chicken stuffed with stuffing, a roast thing and potatoes, bread, homemade KFC chicken bowls, and homemade soup using the rest of the chicken.

Calla Lillies

Calla Lillies are my favoritest flowers of all times. They're so pretty and happy...Well, most of them anyways. My Calla Lily plant is sad and droopy and wilty, im makes me get a teary eyed thinking about it...ok not really, but it does make me sad! LUCKILY theres good news about my plant thanks to the wonderful internet! ITS NOT DYING!!!! According to the research that I have done while investigating whether or not I had killed my plant, Calla Lillies are supposed to be watered with destilled water and not just tap water, something to do with the salt and other mineral contents in it. Another reason why it was starting to look so sad was becasue apparently I forgot to water it for about a week maybe a little longer. (oops!) But its ok now that I know how to take care of my flowers they will be the most beautiful ones on the block! YAY for the internet saving my flowers!!!! Now lets just hope I remember to water them.

My cell phone rocks!!!

I am absolutely horrible with phones as most of you probably know already. I have gone through enough cell phones for one person to last years already this year alone. my new contract started beginning of January when I got my new phone 20 days later it had gotten water damaged. LUCKILY I got insurance on my phone so I was good. Unfortunately a month later I lost my phone. I have no idea what happened to it, it was never found :( Well with the phone insurance I have you only get 2 new phones a year. With the rate I was going on I bought the new one out of pocket off E-bay. This time I bought a LG Chocolate phone, not a cheap investment to buy without a contract I will say even if it was from e-bay. And what happens to this one?? Gets lost!!!!! I searched everywhere high and low for it. After not having a phone for 2 weeks I decided that it was time to call Verizon and tell them it had been lost. I call them up and they try to tell me that I have to file a police report for the lost phone, I was already frustrated so I decided that I didn't want to deal with the police report stuff so I decided to put it off again. Good thing I did though because what showed up the next afternoon?! MY PHONE!!! YAY!!! Two of my sorority sisters found it in a melting snowbank across the street from the sorority house!!! You'd think a phone that had been in a snowbank for 2 weeks would be ruined and water damaged but no! it still works!!! I had it in a case which is now destroyed, the paint is completely wore off and the belt clip is snapped off too, it looks like it was dragged by a snowplow. The only damage that was done to the phone is there are 2 gash like dents in the battery cover and the lens for the camera is cracked (the camera still works perfectly though!) my phone also has a new rattle to it too if you shake it. Besides those few minor things it still works! Another reason why the LG Chocolate is an amazing phone is because one of my pledge sisters has the same phone and accidentally put hers in the drier with her coat and hers is still fine too!

YAY! springs here!!!!........April Foolin'!

I officially hate snow! it had all melted and it had been beautiful outside (for the U.P. this time of year at least) and now its snowing again!!!! Last Friday I was out and about wearing a skirt and the day before that a short sleeve shirt. But I guess the month of April just likes to play big jokes on us up here because last night it started snowing and hasn't stopped yet! We've gotten about 5ish inches i'd say. Its kinda hard to tell because its blowing around like a mad man out there. accoding to the weather we are supposed to get 10 inches on the ground by tonight too. Who really knows whats gonna happen though becasue half the time the weather man is wrong anyways.

Besides being upset at the weater I've just been living life. Nothing too exciting going on in the world these days except for the count down until the semester is done. Only four weeks to go!!!

Life in general

So today i realized that there is only 5 weeks left until the end of the semester. I can't believe how fast its been going!!! last week was spring break, didn't do anything exciting really. Me and Cory went down state to see his family the Thrursday before break actually started. Neither of us had class that day, mine was canceled, so we decided to take off early. We were only down there for the weekend and then came back up to Houghton and just hungout and was lazy for the week with everyone else that was in town still. Wednesday of break me and some friends decided to take a mini road trip down to Appleton, WI we went shopping and stayed the night down there and headed back up in the afternoon.

Besides that lifes been good, its finally started to warm up here. It's absolutly beautiful today sunny and in the high 40's! Although it feels like its warmer then that. Thats about it though for now.

School canceled...WHAT?!

The snow is still falling but not that hard. It doesn't even really seem like we got all that much because it was all blowing so the cars weren't coevered, although it was about knee deep behind my car when I was trying to go to the bank today. But anyways thats not what this is about. Tech actually canceled classes today!! I don't even know the last time that its happend there have been none for at least the past 5 years!

Oh Joy!

/O.CON.KMQT.BZ.W.0001.070301T2100Z- 070303T0000Z/ KEWEENAW-NORTHERN HOUGHTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF... COPPER HARBOR...HOUGHTON...HANCOCK 430 AM EST THU MAR 1 2007

...BLIZZARD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM EST FRIDAY...
A BLIZZARD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM EST FRIDAY.
LIGHT SNOW WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND BECOME HEAVY AT TIMES TONIGHT. IN ADDITION TO THE HEAVY SNOW...EAST WINDS UP TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO FRIDAY CREATING BLIZZARD CONDITIONS. BY FRIDAY EVENING...MANY LOCATIONS WILL RECEIVE AROUND ONE FOOT OF WET...HEAVY SNOW. ALTHOUGH THE WINDS WILL DIMINISH BY FRIDAY NIGHT... MODERATE LAKE EFFECT SNOWFALL WILL CONTINUE INTO SATURDAY...ADDING TO SNOW TOTALS.

A BLIZZARD WARNING MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. FALLING AND BLOWING SNOW WITH STRONG WINDS AND POOR VISIBILITIES ARE LIKELY. THIS WILL LEAD TO WHITEOUT CONDITIONS...MAKING TRAVEL EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. DO NOT TRAVEL. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL...HAVE A WINTER SURVIVAL KIT WITH YOU. IF YOU GET STRANDED...STAY WITH YOUR VEHICLE.

I'll update with the amount of snow we actually end up getting...once it stops falling that is.

A new favorite...

I decided that I have another favorite thing to do in the winter, SNOWSHOEING!!!! It's actually a lot of fun and not nearly as difficult, or as much as a workout, as I thought it was going to be. Yesterday after I finished studying me and Cory were looking for something to do and we decided to go snowshoeing out by some waterfalls in the area. I had never been so I obviously don't own a pair of snowshoes so I borrowed Chelle's, once I figured out how to strap those bad boys on we were off. I'm guessing the walk out to the waterfall was about a mile(not too sure), along the way your never gonna believe what we saw, a bug!!! in the middle of winter! We were so confused, if anyone knew that bugs could live in the winter please tell me because this is surely news to me. We actually saw more then one we saw a bazillion ( my code for a lot).

As of today at about 5:00 I'm not looking forward to tomorrow evening/Friday all day beacause apparently we have a blizzard warning for the two days ugh! I'm so sick of winter already, I just want it to end for about a week then it can come back. I just hate that everything is slushy time. Thats kind of how its been for the past couple of days at least for the roads, its been in the high 20's and low 30's (HEAT WAVE AGAIN!!!) but snowing quite abit.

Pictures!!!!

I said I'd add some pictures awhile ago so here they are! the first one is Cory, Chelle, me, Anne, Jill (my grand-big in the sorority), Alyssa hiding in the back and Misi. Next is me, Jess, Ashley J, and Shiela at Phi Kappa Theta's Fall Formal. Then it's me and Cory at Phi Kappa Theta (his) formal. Then its Ashley M, me, Nick (a phi kappa theta) and Jess and Marvin Muckley, It's there holloween party they do every year, it's a murder mystery game were you have to figure out who killed Marvin Muckley-lots of fun!!!! Next is Gamma Omicron! Alyssa, Misi, Ashley M, and me at our formal. The last one is a bunch of the girls at our formal Shiela is in the blue then Lea, Ashley, Alyssa, me, Farah (an alumni), Charisse, and Kassie.

been a while...

It's been awhile since my last post so here's the update on everything so far. Carnival went pretty good we ended up taking 4th placefor the sororities, I thought we should have placed higher but whatever I'm proud of the job we did. the rest of Carnival break I guess was ok, had some drama in it. Friday we had our Happy Hour which went good and then on Saturday we had Cocktail party which was a lot of fun, a bunch of people jsut hung out at our sorority house and ate food.

Valentines day also wasn't very exciting, although I did have two Valentines!! haha, Ashley, one of my pledge sisters, and Cory. Me and Ashley had a date that night we went to KFC together and then had rush. Cory was busy all day so we had to postpone our plans until Thursday. He did send me flowers though. I guess he almost got into a fight with the Flower people because he ordered Cala lillies for me like 2 weeks in advanced and when he got to the shop they said that they didn't have any so he got me lillies and roses instead, I still thought they were pretty. Thrusday he cooked me dinner and we rented a movie too.

This week is so busy! Three exams, a quiz and a paper due! UGH! I can't wait for spring break, only two weeks YAY!!! I'm still not sure what I'm doing for it yet, I think I have it narrowed down to staying up here and hanging out or staying up here for part of it and going downstate for the other part. Oh another thing I realized yesterday we only have 8 weeks till the end of the semester! AH!!!!!!

As you can see my life is boring so when something unboring comes up I'll update again.

There's snow on the ground...WEAR A COAT!

living in the U.P. and giong to school up here we get lots of snow, I don't think that some people understand that snow equals cold outside. There are so many people that are walking around without coats or some even in shorts! I don't understand. there is one person on campus that wears shorts and a tee everyday with earmuffs! why can't people just accept the fact that we aren't in a warm place!

on another note its time for Carnival once again! YAY!!! Statue is comming along good so far we are on schedule I still have 8 hours to get in this week though, ugh! and next week I only have 3 days to get in 10 hours then its time for the all nighter! Games for carnival started last night too with Ice bowling. I was on the team for it, I got to be the ball! it was pretty fun minus that I am now bruised from hitting down the pins. I was a exellent ball though on a side note because we made it to the finals which are tonight...wish us luck!

a few other side notes, 1.) I'm so excited we have a new pledge class for my sorority, Gamma Pi, they pin tomorrow! I can't wait to see the other side of everything to see how it all process works! 2.) I got beat up by a pole today in the business computer lab. I was running late for class this morning (stupid computer / printer problems) so I had to run to the lab to print off my homework, I turned around and ran head first into a pole and now I have a giant red bump on my forehead. well thats it for now, I'll let ya know how carnival goes next week!

School days school days good old fashion rule days!

School started back up tuesday, oh joy! I guess I really can't complain though I'm only taking 15 credits this semester, done by noon on both Tuesday and Thrusday and on Friday I have one class from 11:00-noon so it's not that bad at all. I could have taken more credits but then that would of put me at taking 8a.m.s four days a week again this semester and I learned my lesson last semester to NEVER do that again, its pure torture of never getting to sleep in.

So far my classes don't seem to terribley bad, I have friends in all of them YAY! compared to no friends what so ever in my classes last semester. AND I already have a study buddy for one of my classes! I'm kinda worried about my Marketing class, I think he is going to be rediculous on somethings, like if you have 2 100% and then a 65% you get a "C" I don't understand how that averages? Also, if not everybody participates in group discussion everybody gets docked points for it, not just the people who didn't participate in class! The only thing that will make the class fun is the little side comments he makes. Today in class I learned many great things which were:
1.) There is such a thing as "sticky" knowledge.
2.) You can tell a persons job by looking at them example- two people are standing next to eachother a accountant and a marketing major. You would be able to tell which one was who by not even talking to them.
3.)1/2 of 2/3 of people are marketing people.
4.) everybody needs a connection with China or a chinesse connection, it will help your career someday! (The instructor is from China on a Side note).

Besides Marketing my classes don't seem too bad, I think a couple of my instructors might be a little crazy though, guess we'll just have to wait and see!

Moon River, Wider than a mile....

So I decided that my favorite song is "Moon River" today, actually a while ago I just redecided today after listening to it. It's such a pretty song and makes me happy when I listen to it. Doesn't even matter who sings it although I will say that the Frank Sanatra version is the best.

Besides my renewed found love for Moon River nothing else is new besides me not getting the same flight back to the U.P. as Golda and Jeremy. Luckily while they were still at Melissas we checked our iteneraries and found out that I some how managed to make my reservations for the next day, same times just wrong date, so now I got to spend an extra day in Kansas. Melissa is gonna drive me up to Kansas City tomorrow morning and then on Monday I fly out to go see Betsy and Trent! I don't mind spending more time down here, I feel bad about the inconvience I am causing Melissa though now, but I'm not missing spending an extra day in Gladstone at all. That's about it for now though update everybody later!

I heart hats!

I decided today that hats are a good accesory, they can be used for so many different reasons here is my list of things that hats are good for.
1.) keeping the sun out of your eyes
2.) keeping the sun off your face/ neck
3.) keeping your head warm in the winter
4.) covering your hair from getting wet ( the rain coat hat things, I don't know that correct term for them)
5.) a street preformer can put them on the ground to collect money in them
6.) the can hold beverages sometimes so you don't have to hold a cup
7.) my personal favorite, covering your hair when you haven't showered and you really need one but have to go to class.

I pulled off number 6 today, I decided to sleep in rather then take a shower this morning the results, me covering up my beautiful hair with a hat and tromping off to class and nobody even knew! don't worry, I came home during my break and showered so now I smell nice and clean!

Another good thing about hats is that they come in so many different styles!!!

YAY for Gamma Omicron!!!!

So Friday morning at 5:30(ish) a.m. my pledge class (Gamma Omicron) at the sorority went through! YAY! Us four girls are now sisters!! It was really exciting but very tiring because we didn't get any sleep that night. After we got our letters, the sisters asked what we wanted to do, go to sleep or stay up and celebrate.we were way to excited to sleep so we decided to celebrate. We ended up walking across the alley to one of the Frats and waking them all up by banging pots and pans in the hall and screaming. I don't think the guys were to happy about that one but they put on smiles and congratualted the four of us. Needless to say the drowsiness started hitting us again pretty quickly and we all ended up leaving to go and sleep. I ended up sleeping until after 2:00 and still didn't quite feel completely rested, although I will say that that was the best nap ever in the world. Unfortunatly the rest of my weekend was just as busy so I still didn't get much sleep because Saturday the sorority and one of the frats threw our annual Christmas party for the kids that we mentor. After that a bunch of the girls went out to eat and to do some other things and then it was off to Phi Kaps formal for the night. Once I figure out how to get pictures on here I will put some on of the Gamma Omicron girls and formal.

Winter is here....About time!

I love winter, but yet hate it so much at the same time. Here is a list of the pros and cons of winter.

Pros:
Snow, Christmas (Lights, the tree, decorations, the smell, and the holiday!), Sledding, Snowboarding, Skiiing, Broomball, Winter Carnaval here at Tech (best time of the year!!), Snow Statues, Hot chocolate (Free hot chocolate during carnaval), having the excuse to sit on the couch with a blanket, Candy canes, Snowmen, snowball fights (when your not getting hit), looking outside knowing how cold it is but you are nice and toasty inside, catching snow flakes on your tounge as they fall, watching people slip on the ice.

Cons:
Shoveling the 3 feet of snow that fell the night before, Snow getting into your shoes, soaked mittens, cold cars, sweeping off your car, scraping ice off the windsheild, ice in general, slipping, shoveling out your car, face washes, not having snowdays because the school got sued or something like that last time they had one, getting lost on your way to class because it's snowing so bad out, driving in snow, being cold. if you have to wear dress shoes / heals in the snow that is NEVER fun! winter lasting 5 months.

Oh the joys of going to school up north in the middle of nowhere when winter lasts for over half of the school year! At least winter gives us something to do and to look forward too! Because I know it wouldn't be the same up here if we didn't have a place to snowboard /ski at and winter carnaval is so much fun!!!

Back to school...boo!

You know what the worst part about a break from school is? Having to go back. This morning was rough. Yesterday I didn't wake up until 1:30 pm and didn't decided to get out of bed until 2:00 because I was being lazy. So last night when I told myself that I had to go to bed I wasn't tired at all but forced myself to sleep. So this morning when 6:50 rolled around and my alarm went off I wasn't the happiest camper.

Enough about me not sleeping because I'm gonna have to get used to that again for the next 26 days again (not that I'm counting until Christmas break or anything). But anyways, Thanksgiving break was a lot of fun. Thursday after class I road down to Rochesster with my plsedge sister Ashley and her Boyfriend Nick and then from there Trent picked my up at Ashley's house. Over break I did WAY too much shopping, mostly with Betsy but Trent a little too. Monday me and Betsy went to Ann Arbor and did some shopping at the mall there, Tuseday me and Trent went shopping while Betsy was at work and then Wednesday me and Betsy went up to Birch Run to do even more shopping. Overall I think I almost doubled my wardrobe which I already didn't need to do. So now I'm broke and nobody gets presents! haha just kidding. :) Thursday Me, Betsy, and Trent went over to their friends Hiedi and Shuans for dinner. The food was soo good. I love Thanksgiving dinner because it actually give you a reason to pig out as much as you want and you don't have to feel bad about taking seconds or thrids or if your really hungry fourths! Friday then me and a couple of friends went to the movies, hungout and went out to dinner. After that we went over to Ashley's friend from high schools house and hung out with a bunch of their friends. The next morning we had to leave which was a bummer because I really did not feel like sitting in a car for 8 1/2 hours, but we made it back safe and all in one piece. and now it's back to school work again.

2 days until Thanksgiving Break YAY!

I can't wait until break. Tech gets a full week off for break, but I decided that I needed mine to be longer so I'm leaving Thursday afternoon after classes. Not only do I get all that time off but I also get to go and see Betsy and Trent! YAY! I'm so excited to go and see them because that means I get a real mall to shop at!

Origonally I was going to drive the full 10 hours by myself, which I was not looking forward to. But now I get 2 people to go down with! I was talking to my pledge sister Ashley about it yesterday and how much I was not looking forward to the long lonely trip. She and her boyfriend were planning on leaving Wednesday but because he has a class thruday that he can't miss they have to stay and said that I could go down with them. It works out great for all of us becasuse the both hate driving through the U.P. and seeing how I'm used to it I'll do that part. Also, I loath the bridge with a passion so Nick is going to drive that part and then Ashley will drive down state too. They only live about an hour north of Betsy too so they'll have to pick me up. Oh how things end up working out when your not expecting it!

ME domesticated?

So my blog that I had finished jsut deleted itself which I am not happy about. But anyways, I bought a sewing machine this week! yes me with a sewing machine. It was a half impulse buy, I decided that I had to get one because I've had to sew things like 3 times now in the past 2 months, and seeing how I am a horrible hand sewer (I'd prpbably win the award for worst hand sewer if there was one) I decided that I must get one. while fiddling with a few there was an older couple just watching me the whole time. After about twn minutes I found a cheap enough one that wouldn't make me broke. I was walking up the aisle and I realized that I wasn't sure if it came with a needle or not so as I was standing in the middle of the row half way up to the front the older couple came up to me out of no where and told me to go back to the aisle that we were jsut in and that the needles were right acrossed the the machines, they even told me what kind to get! after I found the needles I was waiting in line at the register and they popped out of no where again! This time they asked me if I found everything ok and asked what me me decided to get the one I got and not a Singer? I was like uhh.... I don't know It looked nicer and easier to use?
After the 45 minutes it took me and a a friend to figure out work it and after the half a dozen times I had to throw our kitten across the room, she was tryying to sit on the machine, I took it over to the sorority house and showed 3 of my pledge sisters how to sew! yes, me, teaching others how to sew. Today even I am gonna help one of them sew their holloween costume!
So besides sewing I have taken up real cooking, not jsut things out of boxes! The only two things that I have mastered so far are Aunt Rose's fish and Melissa's cranberry orange but salade stuff. On my list to master is Sweedish pancakes, Fudge, pie, cabbage rolls (now that I know the secret) and other really yummy foods!