Summer Come Quick!

Can I tell you just how pumped I am for summer?

No, not summer weather, I'm not a heat kind of girl.

Number 1? Work. I'm soo ready to be back at camp. I love all my little kiddies and I miss them! It's tough to come back and see your kids so much older and cooler and so much less interested in you, but still, it's fun to see them grow up! And there are always new little poopers (literally...) to love! 

Number 2? Friends. Camp means I get to see my fellow counselors. I'm so lucky to have a job where I love the people I work with. My first year at the Y I struggled. I came in in the middle of the summer and I didn't know anyone. Last year, my second year, somehow I was cooler and made friends with my friend soul mates, Digger and Bingo. How I wish that I went to school with them, college would be so much more fun. They are some of the few people that get how crazy I am and totally embrace it, just like I embrace their crazy. I love them and I miss them!

Number 3? The BF. Summer means BF visits. Every two weeks I go to his house or he comes to mine. It's tough getting into the schedule of only seeing each other every two weeks, but after awhile we get mostly used to it. Plus when we do get together we have such a blast! 

Number 4? Crafts. I drive past Hobby Lobby every day on my way to and from work. Nuff said. 

When I was Young, I Never Needed Anyone

This afternoon the BF joined Hermione and I for lunch. I don't know how, and I don't know when, but at some point the discussion turned towards Bridget Jones. H and I love Bridget Jones. I know the conversation really took a turn for the worse when we decided to sing Celine Dion's "All By Myself" as Bridget does in the opening scenes of the first movie. We were fantastic if I do say so myself, but the BF was less than amused and was reaching critical mass for his tolerance of girly movie reenactments. Not that that means anything, he reaches critical mass with me almost every day and I tend to ignore it, I believe that in doing so I'm stretching the amount he can handle. The results aren't quite in yet...

Anyway, after discussing whether the term "wobbley bits" is as attractive coming from a non-british man, we departed for our respective classes. 

Tonight after Grey's Anatomy I returned to my room to find what? Bridget Jones! And at what point in the movie? Just about to sing Celine Dion!! So I ran down the hall (bystanders be damned) and burst into H's room just in time for her to turn it on and get in a few minutes of singing. I think we do it better than Bridget. 

Enjoy!

Quotes of the Night

Grey's Anatomy? Rerun.

Alternate plans? The Brewhouse for ladies night and free pizza. Don't get any ideas, we were all back in our dorm rooms by 10:15. Not exactly night owls...

Hannah, Hermione, and I set out at about 9:00 with determinedly empty tummies, each of us having had skipped dinner. Our tab for the night included:

3 pizzas

6 amaretto sours

1 large pepsi

Grand total? $6

Ladies night is the best night of the week. As the driver I indulged in 1 drink, 6 pieces of pizza, and 1 grande pepsi. Personal total? $1.

Quote of the night?

"Now Hermione, you've had three amaretto sours, that means you need to think three times before you text."

There were others but I forgot them, I should really keep a notepad with me at all times...

Car Conversation

Note: Hermione's real name starts with an "M"...

H: Back to good ol Manchester College!

C: Good ol MC...

-thinks for a moment-

C: Omigosh! We are MC!

H: What?

C: M and C! You and me! Our initials!

H: How did it take us three years to figure this out?

Every Time a New Song Plays I'm Starting a New Topic

"Can't That Away From Me"

I cannot concentrate on my work. It's physically impossible. The problem is I would much rather sit here listening to Ella and Louis than write a paper on the importance of viewing the French Holy Childhood Association without the frameworks of Christian missions, imperialism, and communism. 

"Anything Goes"

Hermione and I went shopping in the Fort today and she learned one more reason why I am utterly frustrating to most of the people in my life. We got lost, a lot, and I was cool with it. I kept saying things like, "Well yeah we got lost but we aren't anymore, that's a good thing! We could still be lost, this is way better." or "Yeah but think of all the things we learned today! Now we know how to get form one mall to the other and we found another Favoli's." The BF has experienced this before. The fact of the matter is, as long as I'm not late for something, I don't mind being lost and am thoroughly confused by other people's complete aversion to it. 

"They All Laughed"

The roomie's feet stink. Really badly. Before it was ok because the stench was only here when she was here because when she left she took her shoes with her and she's almost never in the room. Now her socks smell though. So even when she leaves her dirty socks stay here. However I will gladly take this smell over the stinkiness of my old roommate... Plus, generally a little febreeze can fix this problem...

"Dream a Little Dream of Me"

Speaking of the roomie. Christmas is coming and I'm not sure I was to celebrate with her. I am a Christmas freak, I want twinkle lights and bulbs e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e, however, they have to be my twinkle lights and bulbs. If that girl tries to put colored lights or red and green ornaments on my perfect brown and turquoise decorated tree laden with 2 strands of perfect clear lights I will f-l-i-p and I really feel like she's a crayola red and green kinda girl. 

"Dancing Cheek to Cheek"

Last night Bingo and Digger called me : ) I've missed my Y girls sooo much and I was sooo happy to hear from them! However I was slightly embarrassed to tell them that while they were out partying I was sitting in my room reading about Nixon and the demonstrations outside the democratic debate in Chicago 1968. 

"Every Time We Say Good Bye"

I really want it to snow. Sooooooo much. Please snow. Please. Please. Weather.com said that it was going to snow today and now they've changed it to Monday. That was cruel. Something that important should have 100% odds of happening before they post it, that stuff is important. 

Missful...

   

I know it's not a word, get off my back... So last night was Halloween and for me it was fairly sucky. Hermione traipsed off to Purdue (I didn't join because I'm pretty sure I'd be out of my league, I'm pretty much out of my league in MC when it comes to partying...) and the BF went out with his friends to B-Dubs. My other friends are RAs so they were busy busting people dressed up like angels and pimps. So I ordered myself a pizza and watched Reba. I had been cranky all day and Herm and the BF kept asking why and I just couldn't give them a straight answer as to why. I guess it could have been because I wanted to dress up and go out, or it could have been because I wanted to stay in and make fun of the lingerie, I mean costumes, the other girls were wearing. But neither was the case. I miss my YMCA girls. I know that they would've dressed up with me or stayed in and made fun of those other girls. Either would have been fun because I would be with them. I almost called to see if I could go down to IU and visit with them for Halloween earlier this week but I thought it would be too short of notice. I should have still called. We got really close this summer, but at the same time I still fear that out of sight out of mind. I mean I haven't forgotten them by any means but they're all together at school, they see each other and have fun together every day. Hopefully we'll see each other soon, but so far this year every time by the time I get to the weekend I'm either exhausted or still busy... But hey, everybody goes home for Thanksgiving, right?