Horribly boring and random...read anyway
Hmm…what to even say now. I’m wasting my life on my computer I think. This laptop’s taking over my life. Oh well. Today for instance..its almost 5 pm and I am still in my pajamas. Yup. It feels so good to be lazy though. Anyway, here’s a completely random update on my life…
Well I last left off around Thanksgiving but I can’t remember all the specific events since then so this shouldn’t be too long. I ended up asking this guy Dylan to be my dance partner for dance appreciation which turned out ok but a little awkward. At this point we had been talking online a ton and whenever we saw each other in person, which was sort of rare, but I randomly asked him online once and he agreed so it was cool. The dancing part wasn’t as awkward as when he had to leave 20 minutes early for a dentist appointment. So picture this scene: Me, standing alone while everyone else in a full class has a dance partner learning partner steps while I pretend to go along with them looking like an idiot by myself. My dance teacher kept glaring at me because I think she thought I just never raised my hand when we were supposed to say we don’t have a partner. Those were definitely the longest 20 minutes of my entire life, let me tell you.
Another random event was the beer run. Its cross country team tradition apparently to do this beer run every year so I did partake in it since everyone else did and it just sounded like it’d make a good funny college story. So Saturday morning I got up at 8:30 am to go do this run with my team. Now everyone had a team of like 3-4 people and we all had to meet at the Mississippi, downhill from all the houses. So I walked down to the race start w/ some friends of mine and we all had our team colors on and got ready to go. Well the one girl on my team didn’t show up so this other guy Sam and I had to join with another 2-person team of 2 other guys. They were all my age and really nice but yea…it definitely sucked being on a team with 3 other really good cross country runner guys. The whole race was to stay together as a team and race the 1 mile stretch between each house together, having more and more alcohol in your system at every mile. So I died with even the first mile where we had nothing in us because everyone else was so crazy fast. So at every house the guys had to drink 2 beers totaling 10 beers and the girls had to drink 1 beer at the 1st house, 2 at the second, 1 at the 3rd, 2 at the 4th and 1 at the 5th. Mind you this was nasty LaCrosse Lager…made straight out of the Mississippi with a little yeast added totaling it to 20 cents a can basically. Nasty. So I hate beer and never drink it to begin with so I was already throwing up at stop number two which is pretty pathetic. It kept me sober though not keeping it down. I also got sick at stop 4. I could never stomach chugging that second beer, it never worked out. But I ended up racing just fine and our team didn’t get last. As stupid as it sounds it was so hilarious. Like everyones just so fun anyway and just the whole concept was funny…plus it was like in the morning. The last house was the best part, everyone was just nuts. And I was not nearly as drunk as anyone else on account of I couldn’t hold it down too well. Then after the last house we all walked back. I was mostly helping my friend Lauren who was really bad but we made it to the dining center where we all decided to eat breakfast right after. Not gonna lie, I don’t remember much but I remember just sitting there eating some pancakes and trying to act really sober. Well apparently there was a food fight involved and we were crazy loud…and we ended up sort of getting in trouble for it. Some R.A. found out about it and told our coaches but they like exaggerated and told them that we get drunk every Saturday before runs which is ridiculous and our coaches knew that wasn’t true. But it was worth it. It was a funny funny time. Then I went back to my dorm pretty sober at this point and just talking to my roommate and neighbors who were making fun of me. Then I went online and talked to some people and Dylan invited me to go play football in the new snow with him and his roommates. So I stupidly agreed and he came to me dorm to bring me outside. I ended up playing tackle football with them in the field right outside my hall and it was so funny. I was actually throwing and catching really well too, it was great. Then I came back to my room and slept. I only ended up sleeping for an hour though because I thought I had to get up and go to this thing for dance appreciation. But once I got up and ready the girl I was going with said it wasn’t that day so I got up for nothing. I was going to go back to bed, but then my roommate Meg was saying she felt horribly sick and needed to go to the doctor. Well, the school health center is closed of course on weekends so I called around and found a place sort of by campus. So me, being dead exhausted and mildly hungover, had to walk my ready to pass out roommate 12 blocks to the hospital to urgent care while it was cold and snowy outside. So we got there, had to wait forever for her to get in and then she finally got in. I was waiting in a hospital lobby for over 3 hours. She found out she had a horrible strep case so we had to go to the Walgreens down the street a little more and pick up a prescription for her. While walking there she seriously asked me to find a ride since she felt so sick she was going to pass out. Not knowing who to call, I ended up calling Dylan and he came and picked us up without question which was really nice. I felt bad though because when I called I didn’t realize we had to wait there for a half hour for the prescription. So he drove us back, I put Meg to bed, then I went out to the post-run party that night for cross country. I went with some friends but I ended up not wanting to even look at beer or alcohol so I didn’t drink at all. The 2 friends I went with ended up drinking a lot but said they were fine and were with some other friends who were ok so I ended up leaving with my friend Katie and this kid Tom who was on my beer run team that day. We ended up just playing in the snow some and then hanging out in Katie’s hall lobby since we couldn’t go in any of our rooms. We just hung out and talked there for a while and then called it a night. It was fun.
So by this point I had asked Dylan like a billion favors…dancing with me for the class, picking us up at the hospital, and I even had to borrow his digital camera video thing for speech class. I returned some favors for him too though, like once he needed a rolling pin so I rented out my dorm one and brought it to his house. But we started getting pretty close like in person at this point, like getting along really well. And he always threw snowballs at my window and stuff whenever he walked past after practice since his house was like a half block from my dorm. He even brought me over milk and cookies once after he and his roommates made some, which I thought was really cute. Then one night I had to help entertain a cross country recruit with some friends and he ended up calling me during it. I thought he was drinking because sometimes I only think he calls when hes drunk but he was actually sober this time which was weird. He was calling to ask me to do something, but since I couldn’t I was like ummm do you want to hang out tomorrow night? And he agreed and said it would be a date. Now I have not been on a date since Tyler 2 years ago sadly so this was so like new to me almost. So that Saturday night we walked down to the rotary lights which is this amazing light display of Christmas lights and reindeer and santa and choirs and music and stuff down by the river. It was so much fun, we just like walked around under the lights and talked and stuff and found out we had a ton in common. Then we walked back to his house and watched the movie the ‘hitchhikers guide to the galaxy’ in his room. It was fine and after I just went back to my dorm. It was just a really cute date overall. Then the next day I was talking to him online and we were talking about random stuff and he invited me over for a 2nd date almost to come make paper snowflakes with him. So I went and it was just funny and we attempted to make cool winter paper things for like 2 hours. It was a fun time. Nothing’s like awkward with him either because he like knows I’m awkward and thinks its funny. Hes even an officer in this random facebook group my friend made about it so he always talks about it, which is like perfect for me.
Then I didn’t see him for a few days and then went over to his house after dinner one night just to hang out. I was super awkward at this point though and I think I literally asked about every single thing in his room to fill the conversation gaps. It was bad. But it worked. Then I saw he had 2 guitars and asked him to teach me something so it was like all cute and from the movies almost and he taught me some chords. He apparently used to be in a band in high school and just plays for fun now. But it was super fun. Then we had our first kiss which was like all shy and awkward but it worked because both of us are that way. But ahhhh I was kinda pumped about it….not gonna lie.
I can’t tell if we’re dating though. Like I haven’t had that conversation with him yet. I think it would work out though if we did because we’re both busy and hes in track for the rest of the year so neither of us would feel obligated to like always be together. And we both have the same views on like everything and neither of us drink a whole lot and he only does it out of season, so hes not really going to do it for the rest of the year and I probably won’t do a lot either since cross country season parties are done and such. It’s like perfect between us right now. But its just weird because we started hanging out a lot right before break and during finals and stuff so it was kind of bad timing seeing as I am home for a month and hes only home until J-term and track practice starts on the 2nd o January. He’s from Drummond, WI which isn’t too far away from here but hes not even home during break so I don’t think we’re hanging out at all until I’m back in La Crosse.
Wow this LJ just started turning totally about Dylan, I’m sorry, how boring. But yea that’s definitely the new thing happening in my life right now, even though I don’t know if we’re even dating. Oh well, I’ll find out sometime.
So anyway…I’m home now which is soooo wonderful! I got back on Wednesday afternoon where I didn’t even call anyone. I ended up staying up the entire night on Tuesday night because I was hanging out with Dylan and some other friends and then decided to pack late and eat breakfast with some people at 7 so yea it was bad. I was dead to the world exhausted on the way home but it was impossible to sleep/I felt bad because I was riding with adam home and he always wants to talk and stuff and I was the only rider so I felt bad. I must’ve been a total zombie for conversation though, but luckily we just listened to some comedians most of the way home. I heard Mitch Hedberg for the first time who is a HILARIOUS comedian. Look him up, everything he says is completely random, its awesome. But yea basically I napped once I got home, then woke up for a while, went xmas shopping with my mom, and then came home and slept until 1 pm the next day. That day I had to work a 4-11 pm shift which SUCKED. It was so long and late and it was insanely busy. Then I worked a 10-5 shift the next day, and an 11-5 shift on Christmas Eve which ended up being hell. We didn’t even leave until almost 6 and only 2 of us were closing and working and it was just so busy and we ran out of EVERYTHING. It was bad.
Christmas was good though. Got some clothes, a down vest I wanted, and the new Allister CD I wanted. It was an alright Christmas overall. A lot of quality family time
Monday I went running with Sierra on the Guardrail trail in Hartley which was a 7 miler in snow…needless to say I twisted my ankle a few times. It felt good though. Then that night I saw people for the first time in a while. I went to Perkins with Rachel, Katelynn, Sara W, and Jenna J. It was a good time and then we went and hung out at zac whites for a bit, minus Jenna who had to finish packing for Germany. Then when we couldn’t figure out what to do we went to Incline and went bowling which was funny. A bunch of random older East people were there too which was weird. But it was fun. Then after we all went home because we were tired. Its so weird, at school I’d be up until 3 am even with a 7:45 class but here I’m tired by like 9. Its so sad.
Tuesday I had a completely random filled day with Sara Russell. We went tanning at AJ’s tanning just for fun, and then went shopping at the mall and target and such. I ended up buying the mean girls dvd and this fleece on sale at target. After shopping we went to Adam Marsh’s house and hung out with a bunch of central guys. It was so random though, and the ages ranged from freshman in high school to freshman in college. Kinda sad. And the marsh parents ordered us all pizza and made us sit at the table and eat it, so sara and greg and I looked at each other and decided we were at a birthday party and were like the parents cuz everyone else was so young. We watched mean girls and then the beauty and the beast play on dvd since I had never seen it. It was funny on dvd, but kinda boring. I love hanging out w/ all those people though. It was fun. Oh yea, and then I was supposed to go to this work party at a hotel on the canal somewhere but I felt too awkward going alone since they were like drinking and I knew like no one there since a lot of people I’ve never worked with before work now. Awkward. So now that I made up some excuse not to go its gonna be weird working when everyone else will be referring to that now. Oh well. I was home before 11. And asleep by 12. How sad. I love seeing everyone here and being lazy but I really really miss La Crosse and can’t wait to go back.
And today I woke up at 1 pm and laid around the house all day and continue to do so now actually. Faaaaaantastic. I’m about to go to the ski team alumni party/ski though which should be sufficiently awkward as well for multiple reasons. Oh well. Good thing we all ski together and I haven’t skied since last year…oops. Well sorry for the horribly long update folks but there it is. Cya.
Well I last left off around Thanksgiving but I can’t remember all the specific events since then so this shouldn’t be too long. I ended up asking this guy Dylan to be my dance partner for dance appreciation which turned out ok but a little awkward. At this point we had been talking online a ton and whenever we saw each other in person, which was sort of rare, but I randomly asked him online once and he agreed so it was cool. The dancing part wasn’t as awkward as when he had to leave 20 minutes early for a dentist appointment. So picture this scene: Me, standing alone while everyone else in a full class has a dance partner learning partner steps while I pretend to go along with them looking like an idiot by myself. My dance teacher kept glaring at me because I think she thought I just never raised my hand when we were supposed to say we don’t have a partner. Those were definitely the longest 20 minutes of my entire life, let me tell you.
Another random event was the beer run. Its cross country team tradition apparently to do this beer run every year so I did partake in it since everyone else did and it just sounded like it’d make a good funny college story. So Saturday morning I got up at 8:30 am to go do this run with my team. Now everyone had a team of like 3-4 people and we all had to meet at the Mississippi, downhill from all the houses. So I walked down to the race start w/ some friends of mine and we all had our team colors on and got ready to go. Well the one girl on my team didn’t show up so this other guy Sam and I had to join with another 2-person team of 2 other guys. They were all my age and really nice but yea…it definitely sucked being on a team with 3 other really good cross country runner guys. The whole race was to stay together as a team and race the 1 mile stretch between each house together, having more and more alcohol in your system at every mile. So I died with even the first mile where we had nothing in us because everyone else was so crazy fast. So at every house the guys had to drink 2 beers totaling 10 beers and the girls had to drink 1 beer at the 1st house, 2 at the second, 1 at the 3rd, 2 at the 4th and 1 at the 5th. Mind you this was nasty LaCrosse Lager…made straight out of the Mississippi with a little yeast added totaling it to 20 cents a can basically. Nasty. So I hate beer and never drink it to begin with so I was already throwing up at stop number two which is pretty pathetic. It kept me sober though not keeping it down. I also got sick at stop 4. I could never stomach chugging that second beer, it never worked out. But I ended up racing just fine and our team didn’t get last. As stupid as it sounds it was so hilarious. Like everyones just so fun anyway and just the whole concept was funny…plus it was like in the morning. The last house was the best part, everyone was just nuts. And I was not nearly as drunk as anyone else on account of I couldn’t hold it down too well. Then after the last house we all walked back. I was mostly helping my friend Lauren who was really bad but we made it to the dining center where we all decided to eat breakfast right after. Not gonna lie, I don’t remember much but I remember just sitting there eating some pancakes and trying to act really sober. Well apparently there was a food fight involved and we were crazy loud…and we ended up sort of getting in trouble for it. Some R.A. found out about it and told our coaches but they like exaggerated and told them that we get drunk every Saturday before runs which is ridiculous and our coaches knew that wasn’t true. But it was worth it. It was a funny funny time. Then I went back to my dorm pretty sober at this point and just talking to my roommate and neighbors who were making fun of me. Then I went online and talked to some people and Dylan invited me to go play football in the new snow with him and his roommates. So I stupidly agreed and he came to me dorm to bring me outside. I ended up playing tackle football with them in the field right outside my hall and it was so funny. I was actually throwing and catching really well too, it was great. Then I came back to my room and slept. I only ended up sleeping for an hour though because I thought I had to get up and go to this thing for dance appreciation. But once I got up and ready the girl I was going with said it wasn’t that day so I got up for nothing. I was going to go back to bed, but then my roommate Meg was saying she felt horribly sick and needed to go to the doctor. Well, the school health center is closed of course on weekends so I called around and found a place sort of by campus. So me, being dead exhausted and mildly hungover, had to walk my ready to pass out roommate 12 blocks to the hospital to urgent care while it was cold and snowy outside. So we got there, had to wait forever for her to get in and then she finally got in. I was waiting in a hospital lobby for over 3 hours. She found out she had a horrible strep case so we had to go to the Walgreens down the street a little more and pick up a prescription for her. While walking there she seriously asked me to find a ride since she felt so sick she was going to pass out. Not knowing who to call, I ended up calling Dylan and he came and picked us up without question which was really nice. I felt bad though because when I called I didn’t realize we had to wait there for a half hour for the prescription. So he drove us back, I put Meg to bed, then I went out to the post-run party that night for cross country. I went with some friends but I ended up not wanting to even look at beer or alcohol so I didn’t drink at all. The 2 friends I went with ended up drinking a lot but said they were fine and were with some other friends who were ok so I ended up leaving with my friend Katie and this kid Tom who was on my beer run team that day. We ended up just playing in the snow some and then hanging out in Katie’s hall lobby since we couldn’t go in any of our rooms. We just hung out and talked there for a while and then called it a night. It was fun.
So by this point I had asked Dylan like a billion favors…dancing with me for the class, picking us up at the hospital, and I even had to borrow his digital camera video thing for speech class. I returned some favors for him too though, like once he needed a rolling pin so I rented out my dorm one and brought it to his house. But we started getting pretty close like in person at this point, like getting along really well. And he always threw snowballs at my window and stuff whenever he walked past after practice since his house was like a half block from my dorm. He even brought me over milk and cookies once after he and his roommates made some, which I thought was really cute. Then one night I had to help entertain a cross country recruit with some friends and he ended up calling me during it. I thought he was drinking because sometimes I only think he calls when hes drunk but he was actually sober this time which was weird. He was calling to ask me to do something, but since I couldn’t I was like ummm do you want to hang out tomorrow night? And he agreed and said it would be a date. Now I have not been on a date since Tyler 2 years ago sadly so this was so like new to me almost. So that Saturday night we walked down to the rotary lights which is this amazing light display of Christmas lights and reindeer and santa and choirs and music and stuff down by the river. It was so much fun, we just like walked around under the lights and talked and stuff and found out we had a ton in common. Then we walked back to his house and watched the movie the ‘hitchhikers guide to the galaxy’ in his room. It was fine and after I just went back to my dorm. It was just a really cute date overall. Then the next day I was talking to him online and we were talking about random stuff and he invited me over for a 2nd date almost to come make paper snowflakes with him. So I went and it was just funny and we attempted to make cool winter paper things for like 2 hours. It was a fun time. Nothing’s like awkward with him either because he like knows I’m awkward and thinks its funny. Hes even an officer in this random facebook group my friend made about it so he always talks about it, which is like perfect for me.
Then I didn’t see him for a few days and then went over to his house after dinner one night just to hang out. I was super awkward at this point though and I think I literally asked about every single thing in his room to fill the conversation gaps. It was bad. But it worked. Then I saw he had 2 guitars and asked him to teach me something so it was like all cute and from the movies almost and he taught me some chords. He apparently used to be in a band in high school and just plays for fun now. But it was super fun. Then we had our first kiss which was like all shy and awkward but it worked because both of us are that way. But ahhhh I was kinda pumped about it….not gonna lie.
I can’t tell if we’re dating though. Like I haven’t had that conversation with him yet. I think it would work out though if we did because we’re both busy and hes in track for the rest of the year so neither of us would feel obligated to like always be together. And we both have the same views on like everything and neither of us drink a whole lot and he only does it out of season, so hes not really going to do it for the rest of the year and I probably won’t do a lot either since cross country season parties are done and such. It’s like perfect between us right now. But its just weird because we started hanging out a lot right before break and during finals and stuff so it was kind of bad timing seeing as I am home for a month and hes only home until J-term and track practice starts on the 2nd o January. He’s from Drummond, WI which isn’t too far away from here but hes not even home during break so I don’t think we’re hanging out at all until I’m back in La Crosse.
Wow this LJ just started turning totally about Dylan, I’m sorry, how boring. But yea that’s definitely the new thing happening in my life right now, even though I don’t know if we’re even dating. Oh well, I’ll find out sometime.
So anyway…I’m home now which is soooo wonderful! I got back on Wednesday afternoon where I didn’t even call anyone. I ended up staying up the entire night on Tuesday night because I was hanging out with Dylan and some other friends and then decided to pack late and eat breakfast with some people at 7 so yea it was bad. I was dead to the world exhausted on the way home but it was impossible to sleep/I felt bad because I was riding with adam home and he always wants to talk and stuff and I was the only rider so I felt bad. I must’ve been a total zombie for conversation though, but luckily we just listened to some comedians most of the way home. I heard Mitch Hedberg for the first time who is a HILARIOUS comedian. Look him up, everything he says is completely random, its awesome. But yea basically I napped once I got home, then woke up for a while, went xmas shopping with my mom, and then came home and slept until 1 pm the next day. That day I had to work a 4-11 pm shift which SUCKED. It was so long and late and it was insanely busy. Then I worked a 10-5 shift the next day, and an 11-5 shift on Christmas Eve which ended up being hell. We didn’t even leave until almost 6 and only 2 of us were closing and working and it was just so busy and we ran out of EVERYTHING. It was bad.
Christmas was good though. Got some clothes, a down vest I wanted, and the new Allister CD I wanted. It was an alright Christmas overall. A lot of quality family time
Monday I went running with Sierra on the Guardrail trail in Hartley which was a 7 miler in snow…needless to say I twisted my ankle a few times. It felt good though. Then that night I saw people for the first time in a while. I went to Perkins with Rachel, Katelynn, Sara W, and Jenna J. It was a good time and then we went and hung out at zac whites for a bit, minus Jenna who had to finish packing for Germany. Then when we couldn’t figure out what to do we went to Incline and went bowling which was funny. A bunch of random older East people were there too which was weird. But it was fun. Then after we all went home because we were tired. Its so weird, at school I’d be up until 3 am even with a 7:45 class but here I’m tired by like 9. Its so sad.
Tuesday I had a completely random filled day with Sara Russell. We went tanning at AJ’s tanning just for fun, and then went shopping at the mall and target and such. I ended up buying the mean girls dvd and this fleece on sale at target. After shopping we went to Adam Marsh’s house and hung out with a bunch of central guys. It was so random though, and the ages ranged from freshman in high school to freshman in college. Kinda sad. And the marsh parents ordered us all pizza and made us sit at the table and eat it, so sara and greg and I looked at each other and decided we were at a birthday party and were like the parents cuz everyone else was so young. We watched mean girls and then the beauty and the beast play on dvd since I had never seen it. It was funny on dvd, but kinda boring. I love hanging out w/ all those people though. It was fun. Oh yea, and then I was supposed to go to this work party at a hotel on the canal somewhere but I felt too awkward going alone since they were like drinking and I knew like no one there since a lot of people I’ve never worked with before work now. Awkward. So now that I made up some excuse not to go its gonna be weird working when everyone else will be referring to that now. Oh well. I was home before 11. And asleep by 12. How sad. I love seeing everyone here and being lazy but I really really miss La Crosse and can’t wait to go back.
And today I woke up at 1 pm and laid around the house all day and continue to do so now actually. Faaaaaantastic. I’m about to go to the ski team alumni party/ski though which should be sufficiently awkward as well for multiple reasons. Oh well. Good thing we all ski together and I haven’t skied since last year…oops. Well sorry for the horribly long update folks but there it is. Cya.