Broadcasting Life

on the weekend

it has been noticed that all of us students (or at least the ones that i have talked to) like to save our big projects and homework for the weekend. problem is, when it comes to the weekend, we don't want to do it then either. so then we save it till absolute last minute on sunday night and it doesn't get done then either. i personally, would rather watch extreme makeover home edition, desperate housewives and then last night at around 11 they had america's ugliest bathrooms on tlc and i completely didn't agree with the bathroom that they choose. just because that couple didn't fit into their shower and they had buttons instead of knobs to turn on water, i don't think that justified it as ugly. their were some pretty hideous ones that they did choose as runner ups that i think would have really qualified for ugly. and the redesign colors weren't even pretty.

but anyways.

friday night was pizza and movie night with kt. papa john's bbq chicken pizza, mt. dew and raising helen was a good combination. then it was late night talk with kt and j. good times. i think i got a total of 5 hours of sleep friday night which wasn't the best option for me.

saturday started out at 5:30 am. waking up and putting on my best scruffy clothes, finding a way to keep my hair back and shoving my feet into my habitat shoes is my favorite way to start an extremely early saturday morning. friday night i had picked up the 15 passenger van and felt like king of the road. my goal was to be at the newman at 6 am but didn't make it their until 6:25. after we found everyone (one girl was there at 6:15 i found out but didn't stay around, we eventually found her before we left) we took off on highway 2 headed for hibbing in the flash flood warning weather. there were a couple times i seriously debated pulling over because i had lost the lines on the road. and it was so dark out! but we pulled through like troopers and eventually the rain died down a bit and the sun started to come up.

when we made it to hibbing, we found out we had no idea where we were supposed to go. we had an address but that didn't help us. so we took a road and followed streets and avenues and then found out that every road existed except for the one that we needed. and then it started to hail in all the confussion. excitement i tell you. we even saw a double stop sign. i stopped twice just for amusement. we eventually found our street and then we saw the house at last minute at which i quickly pulled the van to the side of the road and parked it very askew...no one really noticed until the end of the day.

from there we ran inside of the house in the pouring rain. i almost wiped out in the mud. we signed in and found out we were sheetrocking the house. it was great except for there were a shortage of drills and once they ran out of juice we had even more people sitting around. we got to work with a crank that lifted the sheetrock up to the ceiling so we could drill it on. our birthday girl, sylvia, was the person who was in charge of operating the crank, so she was dubbed cranky. we had so many random moments, too. i was up in the attic at one point, hammering some wood down so we could attach sheetrock to it and all of a sudden one of the peices of sheetrock currently being held up but the crank came crashing part way down. i screamed which amused all of the old guys we were working with. i just wasn't expecting it to all of a sudden fall and then i thought all that were underneath it were going to die. i was also filmed screwing in sheetrock on the ceiling while i was standing on a ladder, backwards and then arching my back over the top. i had brought the camera there to film for my digital video assignment and i think my first film will be a habitat promotional video. hopefully it works!

after a crazy ride home (little sleep) that included brynn trying to keep me awake with radiostation sing alongs and lots of dancing and her screaming, "both hands on the wheel!" good times, i dropped off the habitaters and the 15 seater, i carried my tired body home, crashed on the couch and watched envy, my other rented movie, which i barely made it through. then i crashed into bed really early...at which someone called me on my cell...and i can't remember who it was...but i remember i had a short conversation with them! it wasn't j...or..maybe it was...i think that was when she called to tell me that she was going to stay the night where she was and she didn't need me to come and pick her up.

then the next morning, i woke up and comepletely cleaned house. both bathrooms, kitchen, floors, my bedroom and downstairs were all cleaned. then laura was in town, so i went and picked up her up from the library and brought her to my house and gave her her very much overdue birthday present and the grand tour of the house. and then we went and walked through kmart and target, both of not buying anything. then we went to applebee's and her mom treated us to supper which was really nice. it was great seeing laura and to catch up with her. i may go and see her swim in fargo in a couple of weekends. maybe squeak will go with me?

and all of this brings me to sunday night. at which i just watched tv and no homework was completed over the weekend. great job me...good thing it was nothing due today.

and in the news: my parents made it home safely from boston. no plane crashes, which is always a plus. i'm starting to fear my long plane ride to europe. i'm not afraid...but you just think of all the things that could happen.

and now back to another monday.