A Weekend in Suburbia

This past weekend the Engineer generously invited me to join her on her trip home to the suburbs.  Having never really been to the suburbs before, I took the opportunity and purchased a bus ticket to head north.

Our adventures began on Friday afternoon when we took a charter bus back to her hometown.  The bus was the first foreign concept to me, as none of the charter buses stop in my hometown.  After arriving in the suburbs we ventured to her high school's homecoming game, which other than having about twice as many people and amazing fireworks, was virtually the same as any homecoming game I had been to before.

Saturday, after taking a tour of her ginormous high school, I got to experience the awesomeness of eating at a restaurant that has been featured on Food Network's show Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.

It was delicious, I would recommend it if you are ever in that area and looking for a good burger.   Not only does the Engineer's hometown contain the Paradise Pup, they also lay claim to the original golden arches.  As we drove by the original McDonald's building I pulled a total tourist moment and snapped a picture. 

After all the adventures of Saturday, Sunday we laid low before heading back to Chambana.  

Thank you to the Engineer and her family, I have to say my first real adventures in the suburbs. 

What I Learned Today

You should always check to make sure there is toilet paper in the stall.

What I Learned Today

I can catch M&Ms better with my mouth than with my hands. 

Creative Cooking

Today I have a meeting for the Ag Ed Club.  In the e-mail with all the details in it, it asked people to bring a dessert or dish to pass.  After 18 years under the care of AL picking up some Chips Ahoy from WalMart would not have been acceptable, so I started racking my brains of things I could make in my room.  The solution, Puppy Chow.

My assistant, we'll call her the Engineer, and her roommates tested it out and gave the okay to take it to the meeting.  I guess I know where I can get rid of it if I have leftovers. 

What I Learned Today

My Spanish homework would have taken me a lot less time if I would have looked in the book first instead of using spanishdict.com to translate it.  Turns out the assignment was in the book, word for word.

You Can Tell We've Known Each Other Forever

Madam President needed to borrow tweezers, so like a good friend I walked my tweezers over to her dorm.  When I got to her room, I opened the door without knocking,  plopped down onto her bed, and threw the tweezers at her.  After she yelled at me for potentially scaring her for life because my tweezers could have killer her,  I went over to her fridge and pulled out a water bottle to ice my shin splints.   She yelled at me for that too, apparently rolling a water bottle on its side can contaminate the part you drink out of.... learn something new everyday.  

How to Make a Person a Little Bit Homesick

Moving out I knew somebody else would be occupying my room in my absence.  Since Elizabeth Taylor made it her duty to bring it up every chance she got when we had BOTD and AL in the room.   In the end Super Trooper won the battle, much to the disappointment of Elizabeth Taylor.  Two days after they moved me into Newman I got a text from BOTD that went something like, "Super Trooper would appreciate it if you would move the rest of your clothes out so he can have his dresser."  Followed by this,

My room was no longer my own.  So when I came home over the long weekend, I asked Super Trooper why his bed was in my room.  He promptly responded, "MY Room."   Rooming with him over the weekend was quite the experience since our sleep schedules do not exactly line up.  No worries, technology helped me out and he got to watch "bideos" on my "pone" while I slept in a little later.  

I guess I must have made a lasting impression as the best roommate ever because I got a text from AL this evening,  "Super Trooper wondered where you were when he went to bed and was very upset he missed your phone call with Elizabeth Taylor earlier."  Followed by the conversation she had with him in which he asked if I was coming right back.  

Man that kid really knows how to play your emotions, made me want to Face Time him right there.  Sorry buddy, I'll try to catch you tomorrow.