A housefull.....

Sorry that I haven't blogged for about 4 weeks.... Between going home, snow, coming back to school and getting back into the swing of things, it has been a little crazy. Needless to say, I survived my first week back and it has been good getting settled back into things.

It was great having all of us girls back in the house, and to have our first "house meeting" of the quarter Sunday night. Clearly we had A LOT to catch up on- Brittany's travels to Spain, Germany and Switzerland, snow stories, Trinh's travels to Spokane to visit Liz and other random snowy adventures. Also, we still had to exchange our secret santa gifts which was great to see how creative everyone got with their gift giving. After completing secret santa, and going over boring house stuff- do your dishes, remember to turn off the lights when you leave a room, take your shoes off when you come in the back door through the kitchen (I will honestly admit I still struggle with this one) blah blah blah.... Four hours later, we decided to be productive and end the meeting so those who wished could continue to study (Although most of us did not move out of the family room and continued to chat it up until at least 11pm)....

Last Friday, Trinh, myself and our friends Katie and Melissa headed up to Canada to go dancing and funny enough we met up with a few of the Fort boys who were hitting the bars earlier that night in Vancouver. However, after chattin' for a few minutes, they bailed and decided not to pay $10 to get into the club- can't say I blame them when it is free for us girls :-) ....

Yesterday was pretty low key between work and my classes that got out early because it was the first day of Monday classes. Although the evening was made interesting when I ran some stuff over to The Fort for Michael to take home for me, and he suggested I stay for dinner. So I walked into the house kitchen to find Ben and Jory hard at work creating a baked penne dish with bacon and sausage... Ben put me to work choppin' peppers for the salad and then before I knew it I was staying for dinner.... It being my first Fort dinner, I was impressed to see all 16 of them plus myself and five other girls from the house "The Lily Pad" all crammed into their family room having a meal like a cute little family- heck even Michael and I ended up sitting across from one another.... After dinner, a myself and a few of the Fort boys headed on over to SHOP student leader training for the INN and then it was back home for me to watch Gossip Girl and attempt to finish homework (that I of course put off and finished today- but hey it got done right?)...

Well, I better go get ready for class- these Human Services once a week night classes take a little getting used to- my earliest class all week is on Mondays and my one class today at 4pm is 4 hours long. Aside of the long, and late classes; my classes are going great and actually seem to fly by....

Also, did I mention I got a job at Miller Market- a market on campus in Red Square... I love it!!! All I do is ring people up and chat with all the customers I know. Can't complain considering I only work three days a week and my boss, student manager and co-workers are hillarious....

OK, that is really all for now.... I'll leave you with a few pics from the Falalalalalalala INN before break (jim the director of the INN is santa every year):

Small Group
Laura and I

House

Friends: Dakota, Rebecca, Rebekah and Laura