What I Learned Today

There is such thing as coffee naps.  How it works is you drink a cup of coffee and then you take a twenty minute-ish nap.  While you are sleeping the caffiene in the coffee has time to get into your system so when you wake up you get the benefits of both the nap and the coffee.

This fun tidbit is brought to you by one of my friend's English paper topics.

An Update on My Roomie

All my worries about my roommate were actually rather inaccurate.  I'm not saying we're going to be best friends who are attached at the hip, oh no that will most likely not happen.  However, she's really not that bad, she keeps her stuff organized, we have decent conversations when we're in the room at the same time, all in all not a bad deal.  So today I felt a little bit bad when she accidentally got locked out of our room.  She had run into the room and set her stuff down and then ran back out without a word, I just figured she was in a hurry to meet some friends or something.  I also figured she had her key, so when I left shortly after to go up to my friends' room I locked the door.   

I was sadly mistaken, she did not have her key, as I got a text ten minutes later asking me to come let her in, whoops.  

Note to self:  Make sure the Roommate has her key when you leave.

What I Learned Today

Marshmallow dodgeball is very sticky.  It also is very difficult to see the marshmallows when you are playing at night so you can't catch them to bring your teammates back into the game.   Plus, once they are on the quad they really aren't edible anymore, which is sad because I was really looking forward to eating marshmallows.  I guess that's what the bonfire tomorrow is for.

On the bright side, my team won twice.

What I Learned Today

Command strips are false advertising.  They won't just stay until you come along and decide to take them down. Sometimes the things that they are supposed to be holding up will just randomly fall off the wall. 

What I Learned Today

They give you a lot of free stuff in college.

Today I acquired two new t-shirts, a cup (the cup was filled with popcorn), a water bottle, a bag of kettle corn, and a drawstring bag.

What's even better is that tomorrow is Quad Day. I've been told there is a lot of free stuff at Quad Day.

What I Learned Today

Getting lost in the rain is not a fun time.   

Going along with that, I also learned umbrellas really do the turn inside out thing like in Mary Poppins and mine does not require wind to do so.

What I Learned Today

The people dancing to music in the street who start clapping and cheering as you pull up to the dorm are a bit overwhelming, and they might make you want to lock the car door and never get out.

You really don't have to pick up a single box to carry it up to your room when you move into Newman Hall.

BOTD will suggest to buy every single item in the snack aisle at WalMart.

When you're really hungry it doesn't matter how gross the pizza is the dorm gives you for supper.

Oh, and my dorm looks pretty good all set up if I do say so myself.

This particular picture doesn't show the whole thing and I wasn't done decorating at this point, but it's really coming together. 

Maybe Newman Hall will become the home they've been welcoming me to all day.

Ready or Not...

Here it is.  In less than eight hours, I start the adventure they call college.  I spent the better part of the afternoon/early evening packing up my stuff into the easy to carry containers recommended by the dorms and now it is all sitting in the back of the Red Bus waiting for the morning.

While packing, I had to explain to Star exactly what I was doing and where I was going.  Her almost four year old brain hasn't quite grasped the concept of college as shown by the following conversation.

Star:  Why are you packing all of this stuff?  Is it to go to college? (emphasis on the o)

Relish: Yep.

Star:  Why do you have to take a pillow? Are there beds at college?

Relish: I have to take it because I'm going to stay there.  Yes, they have beds there so people can live there.

Star: Oh.  Are you going to stay there for a long time?

She's making me miss her already...

To Answer Everyone's Question

No, I am not completely ready to move.

Yes, I am aware I move in four days.  I just haven't touched a thing that we got on the College Dorm Shopping Night since the day after we went.  Why should I pack everything up weeks in advance?  Then there are just going to boxes of stuff sitting in my room, it would make no sense.  Plus, I use some of the stuff I am taking on a somewhat regular basis.  According to BOTD (Dad), I have to have everything packed in the Red Bus by Wednesday night, therefore I have three days to get myself completely ready.

On the bright side, with move in quickly approaching I have actually started having a legitimate conversation with the Roommate about how we plan to arrange the furniture in our room.

A Little Competition

So this evening Elizabeth Taylor decided to do Blonde Smart's nails when she stopped by.  (Blonde Smart is our neighbor down the street, basically my older sister, she too will probably be making frequent appearances on here because she also goes to U of I.)   The design was a bit complicated and Elizabeth Taylor was getting extremely frustrated from the number of times she was having to fix Blonde Smart's nails.  In the mean time, Walker Texas Ranger decided he wanted to try the design, so I let him do mine.  After they had both finished, it became a bit of a dispute as to who had done a better job, so I am leaving it up to the readers as to who did a better job.

The first candidate is done by Walker Texas Ranger.

And Elizabeth Taylor's handy work.

I'm sorry my photography skills do not really do justice to the work done so you will have to be forgiving to the competitors.  Let us know what you think!

What I Learned Today

Wiiman takes great selfies.

I have seen him take selfies before for example, the day he got his cast off I received this little gem.

However, during my attempts today to document one of our family road trips he only further solidified my belief in his selfie taking abilities. 

Sort of an Introduction

Mostly because I feel like she will probably be making many appearances on the blog, I introduce to you  Madam President.

Her name is due to her current position as the fearless leader of Section 9. This girl right here has been my sidekick, partner in crime, and whatever other titles you wish to bestow upon her since we were still in diapers.  We have done pretty much everything together since we met.  We were in the same class kindergarten through eighth grade, in high school we still had classes together, we went to most of the dances in the same group, and we did a lot of FFA together.  Two weeks from now the two of us will descend upon Champaign to try out the college adventure, watch out world.

In case you hadn't picked up on it, she's kind of played a big role in me growing up.  So it is only fitting she has a spot on this blog.

What I have learned in the last 24 hours is that Madam President and her dog are a lot alike.  They both get really excited about something and then they drag me along for the ride.  I have decided is that I prefer getting dragged along with Madam President more than Wrigley, mostly because the former does not have a leash that physically takes me along for the ride.