What I Learned Today

Dairyland Seed paring knives can be used for more than cutting food.  For example, taking down whiteboards hung with 3M strips off the walls.

Thanks Big Bad.

I Have Really Unconventional Ways to Make 15 Bucks

Or a really good way to procrastinate studying for my last final and revising my Rhet 105 argument essay.  This afternoon the RAs put on an event to give residents a study break. The event jousting. The prize $100 Visa gift card to the winner of each the men's and women's brackets. Unfortunately, the guys took quite a while and we only got part way through the women's side and had to stop because of rain, so they split the money based on how many wins you had.

That Awkward Moment

When I payed too much attention to my e-mail while I was walking upstairs and walked on the wrong floor and tried to unlock someone else's door.  Even more awkward, it was a guys' floor.  I'm really glad whoever's room it was wasn't home.

Side note: If you are going to comment anonymously on the blog, please identify yourself.  I appreciate your comments, but I would appreciate it even more if you would identify yourself.  Thank you for your cooperation.

What I Learned Today

Recorders sound a lot better when a college student is learning to play than third grader (sorry to all the little third grade musicians but it's true). Either way I've decided Hot Cross Buns and Mary Had a Little Lamb are not my study jams. Thanks anyway music major who lives above me.

What I Learned Today

The top drawer on my dresser doesn't actually lock. Therefore my prized possessions aren't safely locked away when I leave the room.  Great.

And God Said Let There Be Light...

Until the main light bulb in my room went out.  Thank goodness there are about 5 other lights in the room so I'm not stumbling around in the dark trying to get ready for bed.  Now to figure out how to put a maintenance work order in to get the bulb changed.  I'm pretty sure tomorrow is the day that they don't fill those too, since on the seventh day God rested.

I should probably put up a note for the Roommate, or I could just let her figure it out, or maybe she won't be back before they fix it....

What I Learned Today

The Engineer and I have an addiction to Downton Abbey.  It's sort of a problem.

Who's the Better Roommate?

The girl who never acknowledges my presence or the adorable little boy who woke me up at 6:20 to demand that I change his diaper and get him dressed?

I think Super Trooper wins.

What I Learned Today

When walking through the bathroom you should pay attention to random spots of water on the floor.  They can and will cause you to slip and possible bruise the side of your foot.  Which is a real downer when your main mode of transportation is walking.  It also does not increase your chances of a strong performance on quickly approaching 5Ks...

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. 

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

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

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.

College Dorm Shopping: The Aunts Edition

As I get older and reach various stepping stones in my life, my aunts graciously volunteer their time to help prepare me.  The first adventure they embarked on was prom dress shopping my junior year.  I mean I am sure there have been many other adventures one or more of them have helped with but prom dress shopping is just the one that really sticks out in my head.

Once again, last night three of my four aunts readily volunteered their time, after work of course for Munchkin, piled into the Red Bus, and drove around BloNo on the great search for the perfect items to decorate my first home away from home.

I have to give them props.  I am possibly on the list for the world's most indecisive people, which was quite evident last night.  It wasn't until the third stop of the evening that I finally began to pick items up to go into my room.  After a return to trip to Target, triggered mostly by the fact that they have a snack bar and we were getting hungry waiting for Munchkin to get off work, another stop at Bed, Bath, and Beyond, a refueling break at Olive Garden, a quick run through of the mall, a repeat of WalMart, and it was declared that I had a vast majority of the articles I would need to survive the dorm life.

Thanks to Mrs. MC, The Bride, Munchkin and AL for helping me get the stuff for my room.  Next step getting it all in my room...


*Side note:  I'm sure The Mrs. would have loved to join us on our adventure, completing roll call, however, it seems that her friends always have more important places for her to be whenever we decide to go.

What I Learned Today

Who I will be living with for the next year.


One step closer to move in day....

What I Learned Today....

I need to start figuring out how I plan to decorate my dorm....

Actually, I had this epiphany yesterday when I decided to go shopping and cruised through the picture frames at Gordman's.  I really hadn't thought about the fact that I may want to get some of the more important features of the room to then coordinate the rest of the decorations.  Of course it might help if I found out my roommate's opinion on decorating....