Feels Like Home

So my apartment finally has some homey touches to it. After Kristin moved out, the living room had almost nothing in it. Christina has a bookshelf and a dish chair that she put out there and those were the only things that didn't come with the apartment. It looked so empty. Not anymore!

Marjorie and I went to D.I. to see if we could find anything to spruce it up. We got a DVD player for $15 (she paid) and a t.v for $10 (I paid). Oh, and a wall decoration for two bucks. We didn't find anything to put the t.v. on yet so it currently resides on a plastic tote bin covered with a curtain. We hung Marjorie's curtains and some circle mirrors she had, as well as a few other wall hangings. We got one more cheap one at Big Lots (I bought it) and it looks great in the living room.

It finally feels like a real living room. I'll put up pictures when it's complete (t.v. stand, more wall art, etc).

BYU RUGBY

Today was the last home rugby game and Senior Day. We played the Arizona State I haven't gone to any games this season so I was dying to go to this one. Ally went with me because she's never seen a real rugby game (only in the movie Forever Strong). We got there early enough to get good seats. I forgot how good their music is before the game (and during half time).

They started off with the Haka, which was fun to watch. I din't see them do it at all last year. They got right behind the ASU players and were shouting in their ears. Ally said their uniforms made them look like sailors. I said that would make them the most muscular sailors I'd ever seen.

We played so well, which isn't a surprise. We're undefeated right now. During the first half, we had 40 something points and you could tell ASU was starting to get a little ticked. Let the violence increase! They became more aggressive. During the second half, we even got in a little fight. A player from both teams received a yellow card and had to sit out for 10 minutes (we were happy we didn't get punished alone), which was the rest of the game. The announcer was the best. He told them they had 10 minutes to think about what they'd done. Only at BYU. When one of our players missed a conversion (similar to a field goal), which we'd like to believe he did on purpose out of pity to the other team, he said, "That was embarrassing." The [Polynesian ?] accent made it that much better. Everyone laughed at that.

We won the game 80-0, despite the fact that the female ref had no idea what she was doing. There were a lot of unhappy people who thought she shouldn't be on the field and that she was having a female power trip due to so many bad calls.

The weather was crazy today. It just confirmed my hatred towards Utah weather. It a bit last night so I thought it was going to be cold today. By the time it was time to leave for the game, the sun was out and it had warmed up. It was warm until the game started and then the sun disappeared. During half time, the sun made a brief appearance before becoming MIA again. During the second half, the wind picked up and it started lightly snowing. I was freezing for the last 20 minutes of the game.

One thing I enjoyed at the game was listening to this girl behind me. She had many witty comments and she was just funny. I think they could tell I was eavesdropping because of my laughing. When she started taking pictures she said she felt like the team mom, but she'd rather be dating one of the players. I thought that was pretty funny. And true. There are a few decent looking beefy men on the team. There's also a lot of good looking guys that go watch rugby. Now I know where to go to pick up guys next year (if I don't already have one).

Yesterday was Thursday, Today it is Friday

Well, technically it's now Saturday (If you don't already know the days of the week, Rebecca Black can teach you with one of the worst songs ever written here), but I'm not asleep yet so it's still Friday for me.

So the activity tonight was fun. It was nice to get to know people a little better and refresh names from Monday. We were split into teams based on the color of our name tags. We just did a relay with eight different tasks: water balloon toss across the pool, sing I'm a little teapot with the actions, one item scavenger hunt (draw a slip of paper from a cup with something on it to find), walk like a gorilla around the clubhouse, make a paper airplane and make it into a garbage can, find Hershey kisses buried in flour without using your hands (meaning your face), walk around the pool with an egg on a spoon, and break an item free from ice. My team came in first! Our prize was we got to get dessert first, which was cupcakes and strawberry shortcake. Both were delicious. The funniest part by far was watching people getting covered in flour. After the activity, some people stayed and played S.C.U.M. (you play with a pool table).

What the cupcakes looked like on the stand.

After we cleaned up, a group of us decided we didn't want the fun to end. We came up with getting a movie from Redbox and pizza from Papa Murphy's. We did the family deal (family size pizza, cookie dough, cheesy bread and 2 liter drink), another large pepperoni, and a free medium cheese because one guy has a starving student card. There was seven of us that planned this, plus a few roommates, and some people that came just to eat. We ended up with five pieces of pepperoni (Two of which I plan to eat cold for breakfast. YUM!), two cheese and one slice of cheesy bread. Not bad, huh? It was the guys. We watched How to Train a Dragon (it was the only movie left to rent) Such a good movie. I've seen it a couple times already and I still like it. Thank goodness for peripheral vision, because I saw something moving on the pillow next to me out of the corner of my eye and it turned out to be a spider. I jumped up and ran to the kitchen while one of the guys killed it for me. Needless to say, everyone laughed at me.

Then we sat around talking and Trevor decided to show us a magic trick with cards. After that we each stuck a card on our foreheads and tried to guess which card we had after asking three yes or no questions. One guy, Phil (we were at his apartment and I'm not a huge fan of him...he's funny, but he doesn't know where or when to stop. He's also kind of arrogant.), was asking questions that made it obvious he already knew what he had. We were trying to figure out how. I figured it was the microwave since he was standing across from it. I tried to see if it worked, but I'm short so I could barely see. I already figured that my card was heart. It was already my third guess and from the reflection in the microwave I could tell it was a higher number. I knew it was either a six or an eight so I went with eight. I was right! Everyone was shocked that I got it. I admitted I did cheat a little bit, but not completely since I couldn't clearly see in the microwave.

People still weren't ready to go home so we talked some more and watched some YouTube videos. It was around midnight when the group finally broke up. Today was such a good day, except for the fact that it was SNOWING. Hopefully the weather is a little nicer tomorrow (it could be cold, just without rain or snow) because Ally and I are going to the last Rugby game.