aaaaahhhhh.....home.....
Home sweet home...
But not until after a WAAANDERFUL weekend at Augie! Andrew (best friend from Bradley) and I bummed a ride to Augie with my roomie on Friday (it worked out awsome because she lives like, ten minutes away from the campus). So we showed up Friday and spent the evening just hanging out with Cori, we got dinner, grocery shopped, helped her get her big senior presentation ready for a few hours, then went home, made some popcorn and watched X-men! It was the exact mellow evening all three of us needed. Andrew and I were coming off a crazy crazy busy week of lots of work and lots of party...heh...heh...so the recoup time was welcomed, and Cori, as usual has been running herself ragged, so yeah. It was quite the definition of lovely.
Morning was met with home made breakfast by yours truely of garlic potatoes and eggs with feta and spinach. One word: delicious.
Then more hanging out at the theatre, watchin other senior presentations (which were AWSOME for the most part), then, oh possibly the BEST part of the trip....dinner with the Andersons.
Now, Wilder Anderson has been best friends with Cori since their freshman year. He is awsome. But, desite the long and dear friendship, our families have never actually met. So, this being the first time both families would be on campus at the same time, Darcy (Wilder's mom) invited our fam for dinner after Cori and Wilder gave their presentations. Let me tell you a little about the Andersons...Darcy and Steve are hippies. And I use ARE because they STILL are. For example, to this day, they never got married. They have three kids and been together for YEARS, but they just never bothered getting married. They all lived in Communal living for a good portion of Wilder's childhood, meaning they lived in a huge old house with two other families and just shared everything. Wilder as an additional like, four siblings that aren't "really" related, but they were raised as such. Then they moved to Alaska. Alaska people. And from there they moved to the quad cities where the house they are living in now has what is reffered to by all as "The Boom Boom Room" which is basically the main rooms of the basement which in covered entirely by lepard print carpet (ok, the carpet was there when they moved in, but they proudly admit it was a huge selling point for them). Plus they've had Wilder be the designated driver for concerts, and have an entire wall filled with CDs mostly consisting of Greatful Dead live recordings.
Hippies right?
SO! Add those crazy people to MY crazy family and what do you get?
THE BEST DINNER EVER.
Darcy is an amazing cook, so food was unquestionably delicious. We all went through about, eeesh, seven or eight bottles of wine, including this '88 bottle of....something amazing....that was apparently very close to an "ice wine" for those who know things about wine. All I know is that it was old, thick, sweet, and the best wine I have EVER had.
Conversation was just a blast and everyone thuroughly enjoyed themselves. Steve even busted out his guitar for a little bit at the end of the evening and played for us. He sounded quite a bit like Tom Waits, which was awsome.
But, the evening had to come to and end at some point, we had a party to attend at Cori's friends place, so we said our goodbye "Aiiiieeeyyyyyss!!" (meant to be said like a pirate....Darcy is crazy) and drove off.
The theatre party was fun, but a very different kind of party than Andrew and I are used to. Much more mellow. No where near as crazy. But still real fun, there was a lot of Oswego there! Nicole Cealka, Alison Annala (visiting for the night from Whitewater), and of course Squirly. Kyle was home for the weekend, but I got to see her earlier in the day, so huttah!
I had one of those very "my worlds are mixing! ah!" moments later in the night when Andrew and Squirly were becoming fast friends. But really, it was awsome.
and now I am home. I have slept a lot and plan to do some more before my antics in the city tomorrow! I'm home all today, then back thursday night through sunday, so if anybody wants to hang out, ya'll know where to find me.
peace.
But not until after a WAAANDERFUL weekend at Augie! Andrew (best friend from Bradley) and I bummed a ride to Augie with my roomie on Friday (it worked out awsome because she lives like, ten minutes away from the campus). So we showed up Friday and spent the evening just hanging out with Cori, we got dinner, grocery shopped, helped her get her big senior presentation ready for a few hours, then went home, made some popcorn and watched X-men! It was the exact mellow evening all three of us needed. Andrew and I were coming off a crazy crazy busy week of lots of work and lots of party...heh...heh...so the recoup time was welcomed, and Cori, as usual has been running herself ragged, so yeah. It was quite the definition of lovely.
Morning was met with home made breakfast by yours truely of garlic potatoes and eggs with feta and spinach. One word: delicious.
Then more hanging out at the theatre, watchin other senior presentations (which were AWSOME for the most part), then, oh possibly the BEST part of the trip....dinner with the Andersons.
Now, Wilder Anderson has been best friends with Cori since their freshman year. He is awsome. But, desite the long and dear friendship, our families have never actually met. So, this being the first time both families would be on campus at the same time, Darcy (Wilder's mom) invited our fam for dinner after Cori and Wilder gave their presentations. Let me tell you a little about the Andersons...Darcy and Steve are hippies. And I use ARE because they STILL are. For example, to this day, they never got married. They have three kids and been together for YEARS, but they just never bothered getting married. They all lived in Communal living for a good portion of Wilder's childhood, meaning they lived in a huge old house with two other families and just shared everything. Wilder as an additional like, four siblings that aren't "really" related, but they were raised as such. Then they moved to Alaska. Alaska people. And from there they moved to the quad cities where the house they are living in now has what is reffered to by all as "The Boom Boom Room" which is basically the main rooms of the basement which in covered entirely by lepard print carpet (ok, the carpet was there when they moved in, but they proudly admit it was a huge selling point for them). Plus they've had Wilder be the designated driver for concerts, and have an entire wall filled with CDs mostly consisting of Greatful Dead live recordings.
Hippies right?
SO! Add those crazy people to MY crazy family and what do you get?
THE BEST DINNER EVER.
Darcy is an amazing cook, so food was unquestionably delicious. We all went through about, eeesh, seven or eight bottles of wine, including this '88 bottle of....something amazing....that was apparently very close to an "ice wine" for those who know things about wine. All I know is that it was old, thick, sweet, and the best wine I have EVER had.
Conversation was just a blast and everyone thuroughly enjoyed themselves. Steve even busted out his guitar for a little bit at the end of the evening and played for us. He sounded quite a bit like Tom Waits, which was awsome.
But, the evening had to come to and end at some point, we had a party to attend at Cori's friends place, so we said our goodbye "Aiiiieeeyyyyyss!!" (meant to be said like a pirate....Darcy is crazy) and drove off.
The theatre party was fun, but a very different kind of party than Andrew and I are used to. Much more mellow. No where near as crazy. But still real fun, there was a lot of Oswego there! Nicole Cealka, Alison Annala (visiting for the night from Whitewater), and of course Squirly. Kyle was home for the weekend, but I got to see her earlier in the day, so huttah!
I had one of those very "my worlds are mixing! ah!" moments later in the night when Andrew and Squirly were becoming fast friends. But really, it was awsome.
and now I am home. I have slept a lot and plan to do some more before my antics in the city tomorrow! I'm home all today, then back thursday night through sunday, so if anybody wants to hang out, ya'll know where to find me.
peace.
posted by Lovemeugly at 2:07 PM
1 Comments:
OMG, thank god you got a blogger because i can't get onto xanga from school!
when are you coming home so i can play with you,
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