home again home again...sad face

so..craig was here and is gone. he was supposed to stay longer but it started blizzarding in maryland and they were scared he wouldnt be able to get home later this week, so his trip was cut short. and todoay we are celebrating kimberleys sweet 16! wow. time goes faster as you get older i guess. crazy.. she drives this year.

so she went into the city with some friends and mom and dad went along too, to stress, and me and erika stayed home to shovel the driveway and do birthday decorations! EXCELLENT.

im sad craig had to leave early and didnt get to be a part of this, but he has like major surgery and stuff he has to go to at john hopkins. mmm lovely.

poor craig.

i think kim is having fun.

the driveway is really snowy.

me and erika also shoveled the neighbors, just to be nice. because they are old.

i got kim lavender soap and a handmade polish pottery bowl thing from a vegan cafe in MD.

i think she liked them.

we have been getting lots of snow. i love it. snow makes everything beautiful.

Happy Sweet 16 little sister!

I love you!

bus rides

I am a second semester college freshman! I made it. and have no plans of dropping out!

guess what?

im on a bus. and on the internet!!! wow i love technological advances.

guess who else is on the bus... headed to nyc...CRAIG.

pah!

he is still coming even though i told him my parents are going to make him sleep in the basement. (even happy gets to sleep upstairs...poor craig)

it is a 6 1/2 hour bus ride. so far we have had a pretty intense photo shoot. and checked email.

ALSO... it was recently my birthday!!

and i had a fabulous birthday!

craig made me stay up until midnight. and then ben wasser called and we put him on speaker and he sang me happy birthday with craig. and then craig gave me a beautiful necklace handcrafted by this awesome lady, and the pendant was made by this tribe in africa and its just a perfect gift. Then i had two exams, and then tons of people wished my happy birthday, and my ex room mate gave me presents!! paint tray and burts bees lipgloss! awesome! and then me and craig got really dressed up and went out to dinner and drank really nice wine.

Wednesday had more finals in store, but then we packed up and headed out!

and spent the night at craigs house (where his mommy and daddy had MORE birthday presents for me) ...LOVE THEM. his mom and dad and also the presents. i got this adorable little childrens book, which is so sweet and so ME. and then also art pens and metallic markers and a watercolor pad, and organic soap! and it made me so happy! its like they've known me forever. so then we packed up and slept, and took showers, and then headed out, and now we are on a bus to NYC. and i am SUPER excited to be going there to see friends and everything. especially with craig. i think the plan is.. caroling tonight/ tree decorating, and then NYC tomorrow, party tomorrow night (Kims birthday by the way). and then NYC again on sunday!

I hope you are all in the christmas spirit!

Cheers

gingerbread houses

you can tell its a liberal arts honors college when you all get together to make ginger bread houses and you hear:

"mine is going to be miniature... low income housing. section 8."

"now i need two gummy bear guys... they're married and gay. they live in california."

"oh no my house collapsed...hurricane allie. oklahoma."

girl: lets put m&ms on the roof!

boyfriend: NO we need to stabilize the foundation and then create a garage on the side.

girl: i thought it was a church...

boyfriend: psh... a church with a garage and some kick ass cars made entirely from chocolate..!

girl: oh..

C Men concert!!

so...the SMCmen... our guys a cappella group, had a concert last night!!! it was amazing! ahhh.

i tried to post videos of some of their songs but idk if it will work... we'll see. it was so cute, their theme was SM-CNN and they were all supposed to be news reporters of something. anyways it was pretty adorable and the place was packed. embarrassingly enough, craig had saved me a seat in the very center of the front row. but i was happy to be there because people were sitting on the floors and in the aisles. i swear, every time st marys has a big event, we break so many safety codes its ridiculous.

AHHH

my life has been shaken.

today i got home from sociology class, got off the phone with my dad... and sat down to study math. and then...

knock knock

laura: hey come in!

anna from down the hall: hi! this is asia, shes here to look at your room

laura: oh hi! ...why?

anna: well this is it asia, you should live here... shes the only semi normal person on that list.

laura: hey im normal! look around this place...im not like that girl who wears animal tails strapped to her waist every day.

anna: shes right.

asia: cool. so ill go talk to res. life.

laura: wait... what? i am so confused. what is going on?

anna: asia is moving in with you.

laura: is megan moving out...?

anna: idk ask her.. ive heard things

laura calls megan.. no answer.

laura calls craig.

laura: hey did you hear anything about megan moving out..

craig: no... why would she be moving out?

laura: i have no idea

asia: so im going to go on over to res life now...

laura: uh... okay

anna: tell craig megan is moving out because hes an asshole. haha

laura: craig megans moving out because your an asshole

craig: IM NOT! im so nice...

laura: i think she was joking craig

anna: i was joking

asia: bye!

Girl from three doors down: ARE YOU GUYS TALKING ABOUT MEGAN MOVING?

anna: YES...

girl from three doors down: oh yeah, well shes moving to a suite...

laura: wait.. how do YOU know this and I dont?!

girl: i dunno...? shrug. she didnt want to tell you because she really likes you alot.. thats what she told me.

laura: oh my god. how come im the last one to know this... haha?

anyways so apparently megan got the opportunity to move into a lacrosse house, took it, and didnt want to tell me... so now i am getting a new room mate. which is exciting!! and crazy. and stressful.. its good im pretty flexible with stuff like this, because finals/birthday/christmas time is a stressful time to find out that your room mate is moving out.

so then i went to a math review session, and Fall festival, and craigs concert (and Ross's concert... it was cute they wixons like dominate the music program here... the audience consisted of me, ross's girlfriend, ross's friend, and mrs wixon), and a photojournalism gallery opening, and now im going to res life, and then home to take a shower and then go back out... to ANOTHER one of craigs concerts. (having a talented boyfriend is very time consuming).

this is what my math class looked like after everyone realized what we were learning today wasnt going to be on the final...

Math class.

So this is my last math class EVER!

earlier today i had my last art history class ever!

now i just have a few final papers and some studying to wrap things up.

math final at 5 pm on sunday...

sociology and...

picture stories finals on my birthday.

Art History final on Wednesday the 16.

then i am officially a second semester freshman!!

math is boring and i am really full.