2. I have been pretty occupied this past week because of our most recent PLC project. We were tasked with building a float for the Cherokee Strip parade here in town. I won't lie, we were all pretty perplexed when our sponsors told us this, especially my friend Haley who was unanimously voted committee chair. After lots of thinking on the matter, we settled on an idea. Being that the parade theme was "Where the Wind Comes Sweeping Down the Plains", our float was going to consist of a jet plane pulling a covered wagon. The plane and wagon were made from 2x4 & chicken wire, all thanks to a couple of guys in our group who are handy with tools & construction. After everything was built, we decided to pomp the jet, and cover the wagon with sheets. I could go on with explanations, but I think that pictures could show you just as well, so here they are!
Haley snapped a picture of me pomping the jet...it isn't fun to pomp above you, just so you know.
The framework for the wagon
The jet, in its full glory!
The finished product! I think it looked pretty awesome!
Overall, it was a win on our part!
3. I had mentioned previously that last Wednesday was the Battle of the Schools event at Tevis's church. As promised, it was an awesome time, and I really enjoyed it because I got to have a small leadership role in it. They were in need of an adult sponsor for the Waukomis students, so Tevis volunteered me to pitch in at the last second. I really didn't do that much, but I still had a great time!
4. I had a fun Physics date on Friday with a couple of my friends from class. We were given a take-home quiz that we had all weekend to work on, but were free to work on together, because everyone's quiz was different. (Same questions, but with different values.) We had a great time and were pretty productive, so it was a good deal all around!
5. After a productive Physics Friday, I had an active Land Run Saturday...literally! I started the day by getting up at the crack of dawn to go downtown to run yet another 5K. This time, I wasn't quite so enthusiastic about it, because it was misting, I don't like running in my glasses, and I'm still getting used to my new running technique. Regardless, I "cowgirled up", and pushed through! The course was more hilly than I really cared for, but it wasn't that bad overall. I was about 1 minute slower than my PR, but you can't win them all, so I'm not disappointed! Even better, I recruited Haley to come with me to be my official photographer/person to call someone in case I keeled over. As it so happens, Haley is wanting to break into the 5K scene, so getting to observe this event was exactly up her alley. I may or may not have convinced her to do one in October with me, which will probably be my last race until sometime next year, just because I'm a wimp who doesn't like cold weather running and it will give me time to perhaps adjust to natural running.
My finish line picture, which actually looks pretty cool, in my opinion...I'm a blur!
6. I ended up spending that evening at my dorm, mostly for the fact that I was dead tired from the race/parade earlier in the day. I also had a few visitors through the day, my mom and Emily's crew. It was nice to have some familiar faces around for a while. After taking an epic nap after they left, I had plans with Tonisha and Mary to go bowling. (Yes, that is our most common hangout destination, in case you were wondering.) Like always, we had a great time together!
7. You probably notice an alarming lack of mention of Tevis in most of these happenings. Well, yes, that is so, because he has been pretty tied up with work as of late. Thankfully, he was off on Sunday, so we had a nice little evening together. The highlight of the evening was a rousing session of Rock Band with him and Kamen. Being that that is the one & only video game that I'm actually good at (because I sing), I had an amazing time with that! Tevis even stepped in to sing a few songs and he did a great job! What a great evening with him! :)
8. I took a Physics test yesterday. I was pretty confident going into it because I understood everything we covered in class and I have done just fine on all of our labs & quizzes that we have had thus far. Too bad that confidence didn't carry over when I actually took the test. I'll sum it up in a few words, and for lack of better verbage, it sucked. Plain & simple. I hope that I did better on it than I think I did, but I guess we'll have to see. Yay.
9. Last night I had another round of surprise visitors! Gina and her boys came over bearing gifts of fro-yo & fries from Braum's...Wyatt's favorite! Actually, it is a tastier combination than one would think...must be something with the sweet & salty. Needless to say, they were killing time before Wyatt's first Boy Scout meeting last night. I loved getting to see even more familiar faces! I ended up going with them to the meeting, where I also got to see Emily, Scotty, & Cody. Scotty is the den leader for Cody's group, which is something that I think he is a wonderful man for doing, because I don't think that I could herd about ten 2nd-grade boys for an hour without losing my sanity! After the meeting, Gina, Andrew, and I ran a couple of quick errands before she brought me back. (Jeremy took Wyatt home so he could get to bed since he had school.)
10. I am now coming to an end of a very lazy Tuesday evening. I have to say that I loved it! After the marathon week I had last week, it is great to have an evening that I have no obligations, etc! Here is the gist of what I did: I took a brief nap after getting off work in hopes of alleviating an excrutiating headache I had, I watched some reruns of "Friends", ate some popcorn, ate supper, watched reruns of "Full House" & "The Nanny", did some Calc homework & Physics reading, and now I'm here! What a sigh of relief after all of the madness! I do believe that I will be heading to bed sometime after the news, because tomorrow is yet another of my usual busy days. Oh well, at least I will be able to conquer my day tomorrow in the comfort of my contacts! Hooray!!!
I hope that everyone can find some sort of repose from the grind of life this week, even if it's something small...you deserve it, as did I! Have a great week!!! :)
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