Unsupervised

The Great Hall. Dinner. Time with friends. Everything's great. So I leave my friends for, you know, 30 seconds to put my cup away and what do you know.....for those few seconds I'm not with my friends something bad happens to me!

I suddenly felt something really cold and wet, and the next thing I know there's a very apologetic freshman boy. He had spilled water down the back of my pants!! Cold water! On my jeans!

He felt so awkward and said, "I don't know what to do right now, but I'm so sorry!"

I hurried back to my seat which, oddly enough, was a table closest to where I was. We never sit at since it's usually filled with baseball jocks, so this was a one time thing.

My friends could tell something happened to me even before I got back. I guess my face was really red and I looked really alarmed, though one of them described my look as "cute." If the look of someone unexpectedly soaked with water when putting their dishes away is cute, then, I guess I looked cute. And we sat there 20 more minutes until I knew it was all dried off.

Rebekah told me she was wondering what was taking me so long and that she was worried something had happened. Because this kind of thing has happened before! One time I walked through the Great Hall with her and I veered off a separate way to grab an apple and would meet her 5 seconds later on the other side. Well I had grabbed my apple and of course knocked one or two over on the other side in the process. How do you knock apples out of a basket in the process of innocently grabbing just one? Well I apparently figured it out.

Bad things keep happening in the Great Hall when my friends leave me unsupervised!!

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Christmas in February

This is titled "Christmas in February" not because I'm talking about a Christmas celebration that happened in February but because I'm talking about Christmas...but it's February when I'm writing about it. Remember how my blog stopped letting me log on and write new posts for December and January? Well....I have some catching up to do that I did want to write about.

Here's some things I did over Christmas Break:

My washcloth, though
crooked, is beautiful!

C: Crochet. I learned how to crochet and I made my first washcloth!
H: The Hobbit. I re-read the Hobbit so I could compare it to the movie, which I also saw. The book is better, I have to say, but the movie was really good too.
R: Rest. I slept in a lot. Christmas Break is all about sleeping, right?
I: I got a package from Hannah!!! She sent me my Christmas package and I was so excited to get a whole bunch of candy and a pair of earrings from her!!

Sarah and I at the Bean
in Chicago

S: Sarah. Sarah Woodrow came home with me for Christmas Break since her family is in Mozambique. We had a lot of fun...we went to Chicago, we ate lots of food, we watched movies, we stayed up really late talking, we watched Friends. It was great.
T: The Thornbirds. I don't really know what possessed us to want to watch a NINE hour movie, but we did. It's one of my mom's favorites and we got a lot of crocheting done in the process!
M: Monopoly. And Life. And Clue. And Battleship. Sarah and I (and Mom occasionally) played a ton of board games. It was a blast!

Meeting Levi in the
hospital for the first time

A: Auntie Megan! I became an aunt again! Levi Hubers was born December 29 at 11:51 AM. He has red hair and is adorable. I love him! He was eight days late, but I have forgiven him for that. Seriously....he's the cutest ever.
S: Selling books on eBay. I sold a whole bunch of textbooks on eBay and obsessively spent my time checking to see if they got bids.

B: Bean game! Laurissa came over and taught us how to play the Bean game. Basically, you trade and grow different kinds of beans (coffee beans, kidney beans, black-eyed beans, blue beans, etc.) in your fields and trade them in to get coins! What a great game!

Check out that sunset.
Janessa's such a good driver. 

R: Road trip. It was a blast riding in the car with Janessa, blasting the radio and talking about cats. Good times.
E: Eating. I ate so much food. Morning (if I was awake), noon, afternoon, evening, late evening, night. Any/every time of day.
A: Atlas. I found this site online (sporcle.com) that lets you take random quizzes and I got addicted! Especially to the geography ones. So I dug up my atlas so that it could help me find all the countries in the world that started with K or show me the rivers that ran through central Europe. Twas great.

For old time's sake...a picture of
me and Kristen from this summer

K: Kristen. I caught up with Kristen a few times and it was great talking to her! I heard about how she's going to Ireland in May and how she's a super awesome soccer and track star. Yay! I love her.

Well that was my Christmas Break, thanks for asking. There were some good times in there, though nothing super exciting happened, but I had to write about it.

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Cutest Cousins

Finley and Levi have now met! Finley was so proud to be holding Levi "all by herself," and kept leaning down either to kiss him or to have him "kiss" her. It officially melted all of our hearts as one of the cutest things on the planet!

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Now for a Tuesday Adventure

Well, Janessa still had that Groupon for Lou's, so we drove on down the mountain again to that sketchy little building.
It had grape wallpaper.
It had a TV in the window.
It had birdhouses on the counter.
Its bathroom hadn't had contact with cleaning supplies in a while.
Its menu said "Out butts will drive you nuts."
Our waitresses shirt said, "Do something with your life, get me a beer."
Yep...that's where we were. Lou's in the middle of Rossville, Georgia.
Surprisingly, shockingly, completely against our expectations......the food was really good!
Thank you Groupon for bringing us to this super sketchy, wouldn't-want-to-be-there-alone, good-thing-it's-daytime little restaurant with really amazing barbecue sandwiches and hamburgers! Success!

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Just a Thursday Adventure

Janessa: "Hey I got a Groupon for $1 for $12 at a little restaurant I'd never heard of. Wanna go with me sometime?"

Me: "Of course. Is that even a question?"

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So I'm sitting at work all day Thursday (6.25 hours at least) bursting with excitement, eagerly anticipating the dinner I will be getting that is for the first time in weeks, not in the Great Hall. 

Janessa and I drive down the mountain blasting King Charles, driving on roads we've never been on before. 

The directions told us to turn left at a stoplight. So we did. And we came across a road sign that said "Funeral Ahead." Hmm. Ok. Well, there was no "funeral" ahead, but there was a humongous cemetery that we were suddenly in the midst of. Where the heck was the restaurant? We are out in the back country of Georgia in the middle of a cemetery with no Lou's Barbecue in sight! What did we do wrong?

Time to backtrack. Back through the cemetery, back past the "Funeral Ahead" sign, back past really shabby-looking houses (which I had been relieved weren't the restaurant, though at first I thought they were),  back to the stoplight. We had gone one road too far.

We finally did make it to Lou's Barbecue. It looked pretty sketchy. But it was closed. Five o'clock in the afternoon and it was closed. Why?!

What could we do? We couldn't return to eat in the Great Hall after being so excited to escape it. So we drove through the tiny little town of Rossville. It's a very southern town with old factories and boarded up windows on what used to be furniture and antique stores. 

And then we saw it....

....Roy's Grill!!

We knew it was the place for us. Set on a street corner, this little 50's-style place really brought us back in time. The waitresses conversed with the regulars, the old men ate their weekly Roy's Grill burgers, and Janessa and I sat at the stool by the counter taking it all in silently. We ate our Jr. sized burgers with fries and water, listened to the old music, and lived, just for that short half hour, in a world very far away from Covenant College. 

I forget sometimes that I'm in the south. Covenant isn't very southern, people here are from all over the place. But just a short ride twenty or thirty minutes away can put you in a very southern, hick town. 

We had no idea where we would end up after learning that Lou's was closed. But what we found was someplace really awesome and really special. I don't want to tell many people about it because I don't want Covenant to know about it. It's just so cute and 50's and there's not many places like that anymore. 

I guess I know where I'll be next time I need to escape. 

....oh, and I'm ready for some more adventure around here. 

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I don't know what happened

I don't know what happened with my blog for a while there....but it wasn't letting me post new blogs. But I guess I figured it out now because here I am writing a blog.

Yeah for writing blogs again!!! Sorry for the two month gap.

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Ugly Never Looked So Good!

Tonight was an Ugly Sweater Party 

at Zack and Davey's house. 

Janessa and I were matching in our ugly-ness. 

Just look at our Christmas spirit!!

 

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