Birthday Recap and Today

Ello world! It's Saturday, and I wish it could be Saturday every day. Of course, then it wouldn't be as special. Anyways, here's a recap of my birthday yesterday:

I woke up early in the morning again, no matter how hard I tried to sleep in. My phone actually woke me up when it beeped that I had an email, but my body decided that indeed, 6:45 was a great time to be awake. I opened the letter from my aunt and my friend. I received money from my aunt (yes!) and the most adorable eraser from my friend! I was so surprised that she even sent me a letter. How sweet! I need to send her something special for her birthday in two months now...

Ate some breakfast, chilled out while writing some letters, went to class. We only had to do 3 sets of planks instead of 4 for my birthday in Weight Training. Pretty sweet, eh?
The rest of the day until that evening, I really didn't do much. I wrote letters, and talked to people in the hall. How cool am I? I just was thinking, "It's my birthday, and I'm not in the mood to actually do anything that requires effort right now (ex: homework)." I actually really like writing letters, which may seem weird.

A downer thing that happened was that my hall mate's friend died the night before, and she was really sad about it... I didn't know what to do, but I told her I could be a friend to lean on.
Later that night my parents, sister and another aunt and uncle of mine went to dinner with me. I always forget how I can never get a word in when around my family... I still love 'em.
My mom being the person she is, got me presents. Even though she said my school clothes were my birthday present... She just likes to buy things, that silly goose. I got this dress from modcloth, wireless headphones and a OSU sweatshirt. Yeah. My mom really wants me to love OSU as much as she does.

After dinner I quickly put things back in my room and headed out to the bonfire. I met up with Danyon and her room mate there, and we just hung out for awhile... then it was time for my "date".
Let me explain. Last night, I remembered that the guy I went cosmic bowling with gave me his number to find a time to hang out or play tennis. We started talking, and then he asked,
"Will you be my date to the magician?"
I don't even usually care for magicians, but who cares?! It was awesome!
Back to last night, I used lessons my mother taught me and simply listened. Guys like to talk, and it was cool to hear about his life. He had brain surgery! Wild.
After walking around and talking to him, I was fading like crazy. I konked out afterwards.

Today I ran 5 miles on a treadmill today! Nice! I also went to the football game with some of my hall mates, and they won! Who knew they could? Now I'm up in Canby again, and I'm gonna go to a haunted house with my cousins. Once again, hard to concentrate, so I'm not getting the best info out yet. I feel like there's so many things that I have to say, but I don't know what. I think I got a decent amount out though. Hope everyone has a lovely evening!

What did you do for your 19th birthday? Was it fun?

Friendship Breakthrough and a Plethora of Letters

I am so ready to get over this cold. Unfortunately, my body someone also thinks it’s a good idea to not let me sleep and wake me up at ungodly hours of the night…

Yesterday something I forgot to mention was that Danyon and I had a breakthrough. We both realized that we felt unwanted around the “locals” (Our Hawaiian friends) and it felt bad. It was a bit of a revelation. We also both realized it’s really hard making new friends, and it’s not just hard for you like you think it is. A strange thing to bond over, but bonding nevertheless.

I received so much mail today! I felt so loved. I got my shirt for my Halloween costume plus 4 letters! Wowza!

Since I can’t run with my headphones in during the half marathon, I ran without my iPod today! On a treadmill, which seems crazy. However, it was great! I felt amazing, even though mentally I was not all there. During the last mile or so, I was full on talking to myself in my mind.

“C’mon girl! You can go faster, can’t you? What?! That’s madness! Perhaps I am mad! Hahaa!”

39 minutes for 4 miles. I’m still sick, but I should have tried to go faster. One thing that felt really good was when I was done, and a girl next to me said something about me being skilled. It was pretty cool.
My room mate is going home for the weekend. Why? Just because. Even though she has class tomorrow… Eh, her loss.

My birthday is tomorrow! I wonder what that'll be like... Woo!

Who do you get letters from? Do you send letters?

The Feeling of My Mind Overflowing

Hm. Odd title, but what are you gonna do?

Today has definately been a hectic day to say the least. I feel like I've been going and going all day, and it's not gonna stop until I go to bed.

This morning was a tired kind of morning. I woke up early automatically which was a good thing because it turns out I forgot to set my 7 alarm and set it for 7:20! Wouldn't have been horrible, but still. Classes!

Individual Health/Fitness
My GOSH this woman went through information way too quickly. It was a bit stressful.

Freshmen Year Experience
Now this is a ridiculous class. Seriously, it felt like I was in bucket list class. Perhaps it was from being sleepy that I was bored by this class, but it's ridiculous. Pretty much one of the assignments is what I'm doing with this blog, saying 28 things I want to do before I graduate college. What grade are we in again?

Literature of the Western World: Greco-Roman
This class seems interesting, but it's gonna be a tough one. There's a lot of reading and the teacher seems very particular though nice.

The homework is now beginning to pile up in the calendar. I'm on time as of now, but soon I'm gonna have to start buckling down and not get distracted. There are other factors that get in the way though...

Remember that tryout that I talked about? Well... I got a callback! That's the reason this entry is so late. Plus, I was busy ya know? Okay, the play. It was so exciting to get a callback. It was crazy though because there are some amazing talents here at WOU. How fun! I missed Glee unfortunately. It will be on Hulu tomorrow though!
Random things... I tried a tofu wrap today in Valsets. It wasn't shabby!



Delicious!

 Another cool thing, I received my first letter at college today! It was from my friend Diana who I haven't talked to in FOREVER. We were both really busy this summer.


Isn't the envelope cute! She's an artsy kid too.

 Well it's time for me to take a shower, rewrite my questions for History so the look nice, and probably go to bed. (Yeah, how cool of a college kid am I? I can't help it, I have to get up early in the morning!)

What is the most ridiculous class you've ever had in college? Did you party hard or study hard?

A Lazy Sort of Day During New Student Week

In my first few days, I’ve noticed something here. There is one guy who is everywhere. He talks to everyone, hangs with everyone, goes to every event. I know this must happen everywhere, but I have discovered our guy like that and his name is Rob. He just appears out of nowhere, and doesn’t have any main group. He is EVERYWHERE. Just a random thought I had.
Jumanji was fun last night. I didn’t realize I’d never really seen it, I’d only seen like 5 minutes before. There was also this racehorse thing which I was way too excited about after awhile. The crazy thing is, I almost didn’t want to stay when I couldn’t find anyone I knew out there. Instead of staying in like a sourpuss, I found some random people and sat with them. Isn’t it so much better when you make an effort to be social? You never know what you’ll miss out on.
We had an activities fair today that told us about things to do around campus. I signed up for a lot of things, but I’m not going to do everything. I just want info on it, you know?
Today has been a slow day. Everyone has become exhausted from all of the activities we’ve been doing and lack of sleep we’ve had.
I’ve written four letters, and I make some pretty sweet lookin’ letters. Check it out:

When I write letters, I write LEGIT letters.

I can't believe it's already Thursday night though.Where does the time go? I'm excited to start classes, but I know that it'll be tiresome. I can't help it!

I've noticed that my blog may seem a bit impersonal without a picture. The real reason I have not added a picture is due to the fact is I haven't found a good one! I'm picky, I know. I'll find a good one now.

What activites do you or did you do while in college? Did you have a guy you see everyone on your campus?

Writing to Say Hello

It may be hump day, but I seem to keep forgetting what day it is. I have to look at the calendar to make sure every five minutes. Anyways, hello!
Today has been one of those slow days. I’m secretly thankful because I’ve been way too busy to get anything done or space to let my brain breathe. I went to a session about clubs and intramurals this morning that taught me nothing. After that, two of my Hall mates and I found where our classes are. Right now I’m technically supposed to be in a mandatory presentation. I am just not in the mood for that right now. Perhaps I may seem bad to not go to it, but I didn’t want to be depressed by another speaker talking about something horrible that can happen. I understand that it’s important to know, but aren’t they supposed to make us excited for school. Besides, I’ve been getting stuff done. Like decorating my wall! (Shut up, it’s important…)

I am still at the age where I still enjoy receiving letters because I don’t get bills. Therefore, I’ve been trying to get addresses to write letters, and have already written one. I wrote it at 1 in the morning last night because that was the only time available to write. It’s pretty therapeutic.
I’ll try not to make this post too long, but I’d like to talk about how some of my goals are going:
2. Not Gain the Dreaded Freshmen Fifteen
Food-wise and exercise-wise things are seriously different. During the summer I ate a ton of little things during the day. Now I’m pretty much only eating the three meals a day thing. I’m trying to read my body signals, but it’s kind of hard. I haven’t gotten much exercise either. It’s been walking around campus and climbing up to my dorm on the 4th floor. I have been avoiding the dessert area, but my room is filled with temptation. My mom bought me a ton of candy for Halloween (already). We’ll see on Sunday!
6. Make Friends
We all know this can be difficult, but I’ve been trying! Currently I think the people I’ve gotten closest too are two of my hall mates and a guy from Landers. My two hall mates are from Wyoming and Hawaii, which is pretty cool. My guy friend from Landers is Andrew, and he’s fun. He’s going to be in my theatre class, so it should be fun.
I’m going to try to close my rambling here, so I can start writing some letters. The plans for tonight are a community meeting and Jumanji on a big drive in screen. Should be fun!
Do you guys like writing letters? Who do you write to?