Weekend Recap

I'm hoping that I will have a person to feature for Tell the World Tuesday next week, but instead you get an update on my weekend. It was an amazing and fun weekend!

Friday I laid around in bed for what seemed like all day. Then my friend Samantha came over, and she and I went shopping for some necessary items. We were gone for about 2 hours, and it was a very successful shopping trip! We followed up our shopping with dinner at What-A-Burger (you know it's my favorite), and spent about an hour there talking about life and stuff. We returned to the sorority house and put in the movie Juno, but we both fell asleep during it. I had about an hour and a half nap before I got up and went to work. Then after work it was my friend's 22nd birthday celebration, so I quickly showered and headed out to campus corner. While I was out, I ran into one of the girls in my major, and she was WAY drunk. I spent the remainder of the evening taking care of her.

Saturday, we got up around 10 or so and I finally took her home. She refused to tell me where she lived the night before, so we crashed at my friend's place. I then spent the rest of my Saturday mid-morning to afternoon lying around, and then around 2 I showered to get ready for MY SENIOR DATE PARTY!! A group of 12 of us went to dinner at Ted's Cafe Escondido, and then I returned home to put on my costume and go pick up my date. Like I said before, we went as Judd Nelson and Ally Sheedy from the breakfast club. Unfortunately, I didn't get full-body pictures of what we looked like, but here's a head shot:

I definitely hated having my hair in my face the entire night. But I spent the evening hanging out with my girls, drinking a little bit, and dancing the night away. Then later that night, I got to hang out with my boys. I definitely had too much fun, if that's even possible.

Sunday afternoon I watched the last quarter of the Thunder game (THUNDER UP!), but unfortunately they lost. whomp whomp. Then that evening, we had our senior re-dedication tea, in which the seniors get sort of re-initiated into the sorority, but only as an alum. It was a pretty cool little ceremony. I then attended my LAST chapter meeting as a collegian.

Since then, I have taken a final, written a paper, gone to class, and just finished up practicing for the second part of my piano final. I've got 10 days until I'm graduating, and I hope this weekend brings more fun for my final weekend as an undergrad. It definitely has potential, it is my friend Michael's 24th birthday (old balls).

And just because you know I love pictures, here are some more from Saturday night:

Roommate/Little and I (she's Tron)

Little Josalyn and I (Dirty Dancing)

Jessica and I (80's Rocker Groupie--the bottom half of her outfit was HOTT!!)

Rachel and her boyfriend Jordan (Reagan and Gorbachev tee hee)

4 out of 5 generations: my great-grand little Stacie, my great-great-grand little Brittany (that makes me old balls), my little Josalyn, and I

Hope you all had a great weekend too!

Things Are About to Get Crazy.

I apologize for not posting a Tell the World Tuesday feature yesterday. Because I'm kind of failing at life right now  it's senior week in my sorority I forgot to pester someone through e-mail last week, I had no one to feature for yesterday. I started to write up my answers to the questions and then got busy. The next two weeks are going to be a little bit of a hell. I have my spin class final today at 1:30. Did I tell you guys that the professor is making me make up for the days I missed during my appendix surgery? No? Well she is. And it pisses me off. But whatevs.

I have a capstone test tomorrow. I have to write up the discussion section of our paper, and it's due Tuesday. My capstone is pretty simple and fun, we got into groups of four and conducted a mini-research study. My group's goal was to see if there was any significant effect of a one-day dose of creatine monohydrate on the 1-rep max for bench press, hand grip strength, and number of repetitions to fatigue at 70% of the 1-RM. Did you follow that? Anyways, so we have to write a formal lab report, and it takes time.

Next week is my piano final. We meet both Monday and Wednesday to play different parts of the final. I also have my poster presentation for capstone next week. Then the next week I have 3 finals during finals week.

BUT, our last date party is this weekend, and the theme is "All the best things were made in the 80's" because my pledge class is narcissistic the last pledge class to have every member born in the 80's, we decided on this theme. It can be anything from the era, minus a stereotypical 80's outfit. My date and I are going as Judd Nelson and Ally Sheedy from The Breakfast Club. It's going to be fun.

The club for my major is also hosting a picnic next Friday, so I'll be having a little bit of fun amidst all of the tests and projects.

So please, please bare with me as things may get crazy around here. But I graduate in 16 days!

11 days until my biggest accomplishment to date.

Sooooo I have been a complete SLACKER when it has come to training. Mostly because I feel like I have ZERO time to get a run/jog in. So on Saturday night at about 1 a.m., my little/roommate and I were walking from the fraternity house to the house where my car was so I could retrieve my car (when actually she was driving my car back to the house...I was still intoxicated and I DO NOT believe in drinking and driving. While we were walking, I get the bright idea to take off running. Poor Katy also ran with me to make me happy. So then I say, "Hey I'm doing pretty good, maybe I should just drink before the half." (please forgive how stupid I am when I'm drinking.) She then says "Mallori, I feel like that will end up in injury for you." I then replied: "Yeah that's true. I've just come to terms that I will die in my half. NBD" (That's sorostitute talk for No Big Deal.) Katy's response: "Well in that case we are going for a run every day this week. No excuses.

I do a lot better when I have a partner to run with, and I've had time to run, it's just almost always been late at night. I don't like running super late by myself, so I'm glad Katy gave me a little bit of motivation to get my ass out of my room and hit the pavement. Last night, she and I did a little 1.5 mile ish jog, but I had to walk quite a bit. Today, I ran by myself during daylight hours and got in 2 miles. Tomorrow I am going to attempt the 2 miles again. I want to go to bed soon-ish so that I can get up a little before class and do it. Along with the 2 miles today, I also played basketball and flag football for FIJI Olympics (FIJI Olympics is a 3-day event hosted by one of our fraternities on campus where they have all the sororities compete in different games). So I think my work out routine for today was highly successful.

Next semester will be FANTASTIC because I'm taking a spin class along with a weight training class. Hopefully being there FOUR days a week as opposed to 2 last fall will keep me in the routine of working out on an almost daily basis. I made the mistake of registering for the half when I was running 3-4 times a week, so now I must do it, even though I'm not in the shape I need to be in for it being 11 days away. Wish me luck on my continuous jogging throughout the next 11 days! I'm hoping to finish the half marathon with only walking 6 or fewer miles. I believe I can do this because I ran a 10K this past spring, without walking, and with only having ran 2 consecutive miles before that in my training. I have a lot of will power when it comes to races, it comes in handy.

Sorry if this post was boring, since I only talked about running!

Good night readers!

"Sorry I'm late. It took me forever to get here."

Today was a pretty uneventful day. I went to almost all my classes, completed some homework, and am now attempting to study for my APO final pledge quiz that I must take tomorrow. I will be an initiated member of Alpha Phi Omega on November 14th! I'm very excited, but I'm also nervous that I will not get my service hours done. It's only 25, but I'm about 10 hours short right now. Hopefully this week I'll be able to get some more done since it is National Service Week :)

This week is all kinds of fun stuff, it is also initiation week for Panhellenic sorority. I'm so excited for Sam to become one of my sisters! I love that my fellow Sperry-ite joined and loved my house as much as I have!

After all my classes, I went on the hunt for some ears. This Saturday night is "Pike Fright," a Halloween-themed date party with Pi Kappa Alpha. I'm excited to be going to my first fraternity date party! I really didn't want to wear my flapper costume for the THIRD time, so last night, me and my g-little were brainstorming ideas for a costume, and I'm going as a panda! I'm very excited! Well, I couldn't find any ears, so I decided to make my own ears. I got crafty and made! my own panda ears! Right now, they look like mouse ears, but I'm hoping that with the entire costume, you'll be able to tell that I'm a panda. You better believe I'll be posting pictures later.

Well, I will get off here and try to continue falling asleep by studying and watching Never Been Kissed.

Good night readers :)