...when it comes to updating. My excuse is that my freetime consists mainly of reading. Namely Shakespeare and Jane Austen.

I did have a spectacular weekend, though. So fun that I'll tell you all about it:

Friday was the least exciting day. After classes I did laundry and packed for the weekend and went and worked register until close. Soooooo.....boring! It was the night before a Super Saturday sale so no one was shopping. Went home and read before bed. I learned that, unfortunately, everyone in my family either currently was or had been puking all week. Not cool. Vowed to spend as little time as possible at home all weekend.

Saturday I woke up to my dad sticking his head in my room and saying "Aren't you supposed to work at 8?" to which I replied "Yes, why, what time is it?" to which he replied "8 o'clock" to which I replied "Oh shit". I think I had one of those turn your alarm off before becoming fully conscious moments. Whoops! Anyway, I called in and told Sharon why I wasn't there to help her yet and got ready in under half an hour. Work went ok except some frustration with the pickup right before I left. I was magically short exactly $50 and couldn't figure out why. I'm always worried that it's my fault and I miscounted when it could just as well be whoever was working in the office before me. Who knows. Anyway, after work I called up Holly and Jess, who I had prearranged to meet at Jess's. I really wanted Suanne's bagels, but i was half an hour late, so I picked up some milk and soda for Jess and grabbed some muffins to have with coffee. I chilled with my girls (including Willow) and Ed for the afternoon and we had coffee and muffins and Ed serenaded Willow with his guitar and then we girls watched the new Pride and Prejudice movie, which was excellent. Holly and Willow had to leave before dinner time, but Ed and Jess let me hang around and we watched DVR'd Grey's Anatomy, House, and Mythbusters and had Chinese delivered. It was a great day. And I probably avoided being sick by not being at home.

Sunday I woke up to Laura calling me and telling me she'd be here in about 15 minutes.....apparently had the same alarm troubles. I got my butt out of bed and got dressed (despite needing a shower) and we began our search for open houses. We stopped at Starbucks for some much-needed caffeine and to make a list of where to stop. The nice old guy that I think was the manager told us he'd give us free drinks to celebrate when we found the dream house. Laura and I drove around until around 4:30 (including a late lunch at Culvers) and saw a few great houses and a handful of not so great houses. We went all over the valley and once I even led Lau in a circle back to the same house. I'm still embarassed. In general, though, I wasn't a terrible navigator. I stopped at home for around an hour, packed my stuff, and headed back to GB. At 6:30, for lack of anything better to do, I went with Mindy to a Pure Romance party downstairs. I learned some things, and it was entertaining so I don't feel as though I wasted my time. Around 8 Matt came over, having been in GB all day ice skating, eating pizza, and moving stuff for Mr. Harris with "the karate kids". We made ourselves a 10pm snack and crawled in around 11. Dorm beds can only comfortably accomodate 2 people for a few hours. We were smart and pulled the mattress from Noel's old room and made it up w/ sheets and blankets just in case one of us got really uncomfortable. Around 3am Matt moved to the floor. It was a lot colder without him. How is it that men are so much warmer than women? It's crazy.....crazy great!

Anyway, Monday was fine as far as classes went. Mat left me at 8:45 for running and I woke up half an hour later to get ready for shakespeare at 10. Then I made Matt lunch and brought it to the Sports Center for him and ran to Choir. Prof Plier wasn't there and Janet the super cool accompanist let us leave at 12:30. I think I kept Matt until around 3 then sent him home to work. I read, napped from 5-6:30, went to the Sports Center, and got groceries. Productive, eh?

Today classes weren't really worth mentioning. I talked to my mom on the phone cause she had a doctor's appointment today for her knee (twisted it skiing a few weeks ago). Apparently she completely ruptured her ACL and tore some meniscus (cartilage in the knee). Mum's having surgery next Thursday and will be off of work for a week. If any of y'all in the valley want to visit her I'm sure she'll be getting bored and would welcome the company. My supervisor also called and guilt-tripped me (kind of) into switching shifts this saturday. Plus side: working customer service instead of register. Down side: had to cancel lunch date with Nichole, who I haven't seen in forever and a day. Then I went downstairs to watch Matt and Sarah (one of the Karate Kids) teaching each other ninja things in the big lounge downstairs until Sarah had to leave. Matt and I feasted on spaghetti and meatballs (homemade!) and asparagus and brownies before he left to go do homework. Since then I've watched Idol and read quite a bit of Emma. I'm not tired yet so I think I'm going to start on a major update to the quotes blog. Check it out.