9 posts tagged “roomates”

Bridge Over 81, originally uploaded by Lenni.

The gorgeous sky, perfect weather and amazing scenery. And you know, all my amazing friends too.

Even though the Dukes lost this weekend, I wanted to share a picture I manged to snap of a JMU touchdown at Homecoming.  Say it with me folks "J-M-U DUUUUUUUUUUUKES"

Touchdown J-M-U Duuuuuukes

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I can't believe I haven't blogged since Geeky's wedding.  I think I was very tired, from a very long weekend.  Don't get me wrong; it was a blast, and I had a fantastic time but damn! Weddings are a lot of work, and require a lot of energy and I suppose I had some amount of "wedding hangover" and just spent a week trying to sit on my ass as much as possible.

As nervous as I was about my toast, it went better than I could have expected and I'm very glad I did it.  And this makes two wedding toasts that I've done in which I've made the bride cry.  Thats right, some of you may be surprised to hear Geeky has tear ducts - but she does and even if Mr. Geeky didn't make her shed a single tear, I did.  I got high-fives from the other bridesmaid's husband because he has know Geeky for years and never ever seen her cry and didn't think it was possible.  You may be wondering what my first toast was that I got tears from the bride for - that would be when I was best man for my ex-boyfriend.  I'll just let you digest that and we'll discuss some other time.  In the meantime - evidence Geeky cried, I don't care what she tells me it was, she cried dammit!

P.S. If any of you want to see my pictures from the wedding just leave me a comment or send me an email and I'll make sure its okay with Geeky to share them with you.

My baby sister leaves for college this week.  Thats just insane to me. I mean, I remember when I hated her because she followed me everywhere imitating everything that I did, and now she's going to abandon me all by myself without anyone to hang out with and get family gossip from?  It makes me think back to my freshman year of college which seems like it was very recent - and then I realize that it was, in fact 7 years ago.  When the hell did that happen?

I am excited for my sister's freshman year, because I remember what my freshman year was like.  It was full of excitement, independence, a very very small bedroom, eating salads on the floor of said small bedroom in the middle of the day.  I remember trying to figure out what the hell was "normal" attire for Virginia, because no one ever wore sweaters for some reason and thats all I had in my closet.  I remember the stupid "icebreakers" games they had us play in our freshman classes that we never played again.  They treated the freshmen with such frailty.  Never again are you given such consideration to make sure your life circumstances are good, happy, healthy and prosperous.

I also remember the heartbreak of freshman year, and that random dude who wouldn't leave our room and instead hung out to watch THE FOG until some ungodly hour.  I remember our friend Angela climbing the tree outside our room and trying to climb in the window, getting yelled at for walking on the tables in D-Hall, and wandering aimlessly around campus sticking gummy bears on the football office walls at 2am.  I hope my sister has all of these experiences, even the bad ones.  I am hopeful that I will be able to relive freshman year vicariously through her because as awful as some moments were - I loved every second of it and wished I could do it over and over again.

Ahhh - the sweet, sweet smell of home.  I was away this weekend visiting that best friend of mine who is getting married to throw her bachelorette party.  It was just the bridemaids and it was SUPPOSED to be pretty low-key.  We were SUPPOSED to just cook her a fancy dinner and relax and watch movies.  Of course, this is not at all what happened.  We had her pick from a menu that we disguised by making it very naughty.  For example, the main course was "Italian Orgy."  Who doesn't want an Italian Orgy for dinner?.  It really is lasgna.  Which is almost as good.  We ate a lot of cheese - baked brie in puff pastry, caprese salad, lasagna, and chocolate mousse for dessert.  And of course we liquored her up, and made her try on all the naughty lingerie we bought her for us, and talked about all the things roomates talk about. Mostly boys.

The best part is that all of our significant others kept telling us to take picures of the event for them, because they were convinced our "sophisticated" all-girl sleepover would eventually result in a pillowfight in our panties.  There wasn't a pillowfight, but I did see a lot of panties, and I was definitely groped on at least four occassions.  All in all, I would say it was a good weekend.  And yes, there are pictures.  And no, I'm not sharing.  Unless asked nicely...

There are a lot of reasons why I am very ready for fall.  Among them is that I'm ready for summer to be over.  This summer has frankly - sucked.  At the beginning of the summer, MD's Aunt lost her battle with cancer.  In late July a family friend's son-in-law died suddenly in a car accident leaving behind their daughter and four month old grandaughter.  And two weeks ago my grandfather passed away.  He's been in the hospital since Memorial Day and a few weeks ago it looked like he was going to go home.  He took a sudden turn for the worse and they never really found out what was wrong and he died.  I've been visiting him every day this summer and we were very close.  I am going to miss him a lot.  Particularly his sense of humor - he used to say to me every time I left him "Be careful out there - there's a buncha old people on the road."

There are also a lot of good reasons to look forward to fall - it will finally cool down (no more boob sweat!)! We'll know if MD got a job with the Air Force and what the plan is going forward.  My best friend is getting married! And I love fall - the trees are pretty, I can drink tea at night and cuddle close.

What was your most memorable or favorite school field trip?

This is SO EASY.  And SO about Geeky. Again!  We both used to be morbidly afraid of rollercoasters.  I have since conquered my fear and just prefer not to ride most of them because I don't like them.  She says she doesn't like them either, but she's lying. She's afraid.

You may find this hard to believe but we were giant nerds in junior high school.  We actually used to read books, and then talk about them and trade them.  I mean, sure we talked about boys, and how much we hated math, and that really creepy history teacher but we also were giangantic nerds who talked about books and music and the Enlightenment.  We also both were in the orchestra together, and every year the orchestra went to Hershey Pennsylvania for a music competition.  Followed immediately by a day at the park.  What are two girls petrified of rollercoasters to do in an amusement park all day?  Ride a very small version of a Ferris Wheel. Enclosed of course, none of that wild air on your face!  All day, over and over again we rode this ride.  We're talking 5 solid hours of the same ride repeatedly.  Not even an interesting ride.

But we talked endlessly and tried to catch the leaves from the nearby tree.  The next year, after she had moved I went back with the orchestra and tried to talk to myself about the Enlightenment but it just wasn't the same.  Plus, I was talking to myself, which didn't bode well for chances of seducing Mike "Geeky's LOVER BOY" Hughes.  So I pulled some leaves from that tree and put them in an envelope and mailed them to her.  She kept them for six years before finally throwing them away.  True story.  Its okay if you cry, our other roomate does every time.