I Promised Baby Pictures?

Abigail Lee was born to Amey and Cody on May 19th, 2012

But who needs words when there are baby pictures!!!

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The Dress Project

Because of some unfortunate circumstances last Friday involving a science experiment gone horribly awry [or car problems, you choose], for my final week of school I had 2 small bags and one box of clothes to get me through the week.  What did that box contain? Dresses. A dozen dresses.  Naturally, I decided to take it as a challenge... could I make it through the week wearing a dress every day?  Well let's see....

Saturday:

I dressed for the river, ended up at a prairie, and was later invited to go cliffjumping, so I wanted to wear a fun summery dress.  Wore denim shorts under it so I just took the dress off for swimming and wore shorts and the tank top.

Sunday:

I wore my Monet dress, the one I bought for Easter.  Ran lyrics at church, ate lunch, and had a splendidly lazy afternoon.

Monday:

I cheated a bit and wore grey jeans under this one because it was a little short to wear to class by itself.  This is probably my new favorite dress!  My roommate forgot to hide the scissors, so I also sported some self-chopped bangs.  I ended up changing into shorts for the bye bash, but wore this to my last day of classes and to lifegroup.

Tuesday:

It's a personal tradition of mine to dress up for the first day of finals.  I changed last-minute and ended up wearing this lacy 1920's-esque dress!

Wednesday:

Nothing special, I wear this dress a lot, and was in enough of a hurry to not do anything to my hair.  8am finals will do that to ya!

Thursday:

I wore this dress over shorts and a tee shirt on my last day in Bolivar.  I ended the year with a second clifflumping excursion at Stockton lake!  Ended up driving back to KC soaking wet, still in the clothes I went swimming in, but it was worth it!  Had a great end to a great year, even if it involved cheating a tiny bit on the dress thing.

And there you have it: a detailed description of my wardrobe for almost an entire week!  I sure hope this was enjoyable!  Next week: "What I ate for lunch every day for a week"

[actually, I just found out my cousin has gone into labor, so my next post may very well include baby pictures! squeeee!]

Today involved a broken car and an awesome concert...

Scattered around were naps, midnight wal-mart runs, and the sort of messy dinner conversation that uses Disney princesses to segue from an overly amusing menopause discussion to an overly serious Calvinism discussion.

I also happened across a pair of students who were rollerblading/skateboarding down the sidewalk in dressy clothes, carrying a cake.  Sure wish I knew THAT story.

I didn't get to go to KC, but I got to see To The West Coast perform:

and I got some swag:

and then I came back to my dorm and realized just how little stuff I have left here:

Basically, dressing for this next week will be difficult.  I did think to grab a couple of bags of clothes, but I ended up with a LOT of dressy stuff.

I'm thinking this week would be a good time to try to wear a dress every day for a week.  While I didn't think to grab some jeans or a towel, I did end up with 12 dresses.

So maybe today didn't go as planned.  Regardless, God is so very good!

When I'm bored or feeling adventurous, I roam Google maps.  Sometimes I find a place nearby that looks appealing enough from the sky for me to get in my car and try to find it.  It's funny how these silly little towns can mean so much, how the curves and angles of these roads conjure up memories.  Lines equate to friends and spots of green equate to summer evenings spent lounging in a field talking about life and friendship and time travel.  It's also interesting to compare these silly little towns that mean so much.  I didn't realize the one was so much bigger, so much more city-like than the other.  Squares of concrete replace the carefree curving streets, filling in with lines and houses what the other fills in with eighteen years of memories.

What will these images mean to me in 20 years? in 50?

So I made a schedule.... Next fall I'm taking some classes I'm really excited about, and some that I'm really not (I mean, intro to computing would be bad enough by itself, now I have to be at Taylor by 7:35 tues/thurs?!).  This is the first semester I actually have to go to class on Fridays.  It's also the first semester I'll be up before chapel, and the first semester I don't have a class that goes until 4:15.  In other words, I'm buying an espresso machine.

I'll also be spending a lot of time in Taylor.  I don't mind, it is where I'll be spending most of my college career as it is, but it does lead to a few questions..... How much can I get away with?  Should I buy a lazyboy, or will some beanbags be enough?  Should I camp out upstairs, near the history department, so between classes I can make friends with the people who will be grading most of my papers for the next 3 years, or downstairs where I'd have a good view of the business department, whose male students frequently wear suits? And finally, if I have to be there by 7:35 some mornings, should I just consider living there permanently?  Heaven knows it'd be more convenient than having to walk all the way from Leslie, and I'm sure no one would mind.....

On another note, did you notice how I colour-coded my schedule by building?  Taylor is purple because purple is the best color and Taylor is the best building.. and because I knew I'd be seeing the most of it.  Redford is blue because blue is next to purple in the rainbow, and Redford is next to Taylor.  Chapel is orange because I only had 2 really workable colors left.  Jester is red.... on the record, because that's where I'm taking Chinese and red is China's color, and also because it's the farthest on the rainbow, but off the record, because Jester is the devil and it makes me mad and I wish I didn't have to hike down there.  I have nothing against any of the departments in Jester... I just had some bad experiences there last semester. bad. experiences.

Well then.  There's a peep into my madness.  Have fun psychology majors!

[I say psychology majors because if anyone ever reads this insanity, it's more likely to be a college student than an actual psychologist, unless someone gets concerned enough to take this to an actual psychologist, in which case, sorry.]

All semester, I've been keeping track of peculiar and funny moments in my phone.

Some of these are things I might be shot for making public/reminding people of, but since this is a blog that, to my knowledge, has one reader [me], I will clean out my phone here. Enjoy!

Gracie: "I want a pet chicken"

Bailey: "But your favorite food is chicken."

Gracie: "No it's not, it's people!"

JulieS: "I am wearing khaki pants, do you THINK I sell drugs?"

Girl in Mexican restaurant: "Did you know that the holocaust was when Hitler killed the Jews? Isn't that SAD??"

Friend: "Woah! What'd they do?"

GiMR: "Nothing! That's why it's sad!"

Gracie: "Hey Mandi, want a band aid?"

Mandi: "Ewh! Grace, yuck"

Gracie: "No it's ok, it's old, i haven't used it in like... A year!"

Leah: "Maybe that's how I'll get super powers... if malaria and herpes combine"

Abby: "Once, I thought I made up a new word by combining pansy and wussy... then I Tweeted it. I thought I was being funny and clever"

JulieS: "Do you want to go to the feeding trough of Mellers to put food in your bellers?"

Talking about weighted grades:

[person]: "well gym doesn't carry more weight"

Jesse: "I carry more weight because I didn't go to gym!"

Dr. Mrs. Waters: "Have any of you ever done any sculpting before?"

Taylor: "I made a Yoda statue in third grade"

Faith: "Mine's very similar to that, I made a Stormtrooper my senior year"

Gracie: "Hey Bailey, do you like people with dark skin or light skin?"

Bailey: "Um, I like them both."

Gracie: "No, you can only choose one! It's a game!"

Beka: "I would be Pippin... or Legolas... I'd be Pippin and Legolas combined! I'm Pipolas!"

JulieS: "This sounds like the start of a really bad fanfiction."

Madi: "I think this will help the athletic and boy-type people"

Mikaela: "you have a girlish figure"

Jesse: "are you calling me fat?"

JulieM: "Jared, your concubine loves you!"

Faith: "I am NOT his concubine!"

Jared: "Why not? Corey's my concubine."

Faith: "That's disgusting."

Jared: "No, it's a new-covenant thing. We're friends! That's what concubine means!"

Faith: "....that is NOT what concubine means."

Leanna: "There is no other song, under Canada, given among men, by which we may make references."

Taylor: "I've never snorted anything before... except drugs."

Jesse: "If you barbecued a shoe and didn't tell me it was a shoe, I'd probably eat it. So don't trust me on taste."

Mom: "What's the highest number named?"
Bailey: "I'm not sure I think a google"
Mom: "What comes before that?"
Grace: "www dot and then dot com"

Mandi: "People on Facebook keep using too big of words that I don't understand! Like, nostalgia. And Ron Paul."

Jesse: "You could put the ice cream in a bowl."

JulieS: "But then I wouldn't get a cone."

Jesse: "You can put the cone on top! Then it's be an upside-down ice cream cone, and you can post it on Pinterest, and you'd get a like or something"

Gracie: "When a guy wants to be rich, he has to think 'I want to be rich!' then read a book about being rick, and when he grows up, he'll have a lot of money! Also, he has to care about the laaaaaaadies"

While watching Independence Day:

Joe: "We need some jumpsuits, cigars, and a desert."

Taylor: "I can be the desert"

Jesse: "They told us we could eat after the show, so I brought some to-go boxes from my room and took a pound of beef and an entire cake."

JulieS: "I have concluded that Ariel was both Adam and Eve."

Comforting Beth after someone jokingly called her a ho:

Leanna: "...you have pure eyes, and pure hair, and a pure nose, and pure sleeves, and pure cleavage... you have pure cleavage!"

Mandi: "Isn't there a kind of fish that climb trees?"
Grace: "Apples grow on trees."
Mandi: "Fish don't GROW on trees, they just climb them to eat the apples!"

JulieM: "You can't hate God!"

Beka: "Oh yeah I can! Especially when he's black and has weird freckles!"

JulieM: "What if you get to Heaven and Jesus is black and has freckles?"

Beka: "Well He still wouldn't be Morgan Freeman!"

Grace: "Aunie! did you get any A's?"
Me: "Yes, I got some A's"
Grace: "What about B? did you get a B?"
Me: "Yeah, I got a B too"
Grace, with a look of horror on her face and a dramatic gasp: "WHAT?! NO!"

Things that happened this week:

I went swimming at Sunset Bridge with Ellie, Leanna, Mikaela, and Hannah.

I explored the weird depths of the UAC storage room.

I attended 4.5 of my usual 10 classes.

I listened to some Gregorian chants by candlelight.

I saw The Kopecky Family Band in concert [and bought their cd!].

I went to Easter Chapel.

I had a picnic in the woods alone with my Bible.

I walked into class 20 mins late because I had been having a picnic in the woods and reading my Bible.

I bought some new clothes.

I went to The Well, where we concluded the Romance series.

I cleaned my room.

I shared my drive home with Ellie and Hannah.

I surprised my family by showing up a day early.

I watched Doctor Who and had to explain everything that went on to Gracie.

I made brownies.

I dyed Easter eggs.

...and then I blogged!

We'll see what sort of adventures I get myself into this Easter weekend!