Posts tagged college
Jun 15th
Some friends of ours that we haven’t seen in a few months came through town tonight on their way home. We were able to have dinner with them as well as a bunch of our other friends from college that still live in town. It was a nice evening of visiting and laughing. Plus I didn’t have to cook or do the dishes, so that was good news too.
It is interesting to think how things have changed since we all graduated college. People are buying or have already bought houses, and a couple of them are already having kids (I like how I say “already,” even though we are in our late 20s. We aren’t that young). It makes me happy that we still hang out with these people, that even though the things that brought us together (college, pep band) are over, we are still friends. I just wish we all had time to get together more often.
We went camping last weekend and it was great. We had a lot of fun, and the weather was mostly nice. It did rain on Saturday afternoon for a couple of hours, but other than that it was alright. Ryan took a bunch of pictures, and I got him to actually take some of the people that we were camping with, so I’ll try to post some later this week if I have time. It is Grandma’s Marathon in Duluth this weekend, and one of Ryan’s high school friends is running in the marathon and staying with us, so we’ll have a busy weekend. There are usually about 50,000 extra people in town the weekend of the race…we’ll see how it goes this year. I plan on staying in the house as much as possible, other than when we walk down to watch Trent run past. I’ll try to get some photos of the race too.
This is why I haven’t posted in 2 1/2 weeks.
Mar 26th
The Bloggess is pretty much my hero. I’m pretty sure I’m afflicted with the disease as well.
I apologize for the lack of posting. My computer was on the fritz for a while, and my computer chair was buried under a stack of quilts. Last weekend, though, we did a semi-spring cleaning (that’s where you get most of it done but the leftovers sit in your hallway and living room for a week afterward not getting cleaned up). We moved my desk out to the living room, and put the quilts in the closet where they belong. Now I actually use my computer a little! It’s crazy. Of course Ryan thinks that me looking at facebook for 10 minutes is his chance to run off and start playing a computer game that will take at least an hour. Meh. At least I can watch House Hunters and Gossip Girl while he’s doing that. Although I should be finishing up that leftover cleaning. Maybe tomorrow.
It’s Sam’s birthday party this weekend, so there are a ton of friends coming to town, and I am SO EXCITED. Also, we might end up the night at a bar that’s only a couple blocks from our apartment, which is pretty much the best thing ever, because neither of us has to drive! We’ve already stumbled home drunk from that bar once, and considering we don’t drink (a lot) that often and we haven’t even lived here a year that’s the college equivalent of doing it once a week.
Do you guys get super-nostalgic for college? Because that happens to me A LOT. I LOVED college. I loved hanging out with friends, having free time in the middle of the day, working on homework that was challenging sometimes and a total bore others, all of it. I miss all of the friends we have that used to live in Duluth with us that we now only see a few times a year (if that). I even miss having almost all of our weekends taken up with playing in pep band. And I’ve been out of college for 6 years almost. Sometimes I wish I had stretched out college to 5 years instead of graduating in 4. But, as was pointed out to me recently while talking about that, my scholarships would have expired and I would have a LOT more student loan debt. Plus, I wouldn’t have moved to Delaware for a year, and that was one of the best things I ever did. Seriously – Delaware is pretty much awesome.
Well, it’s about time for bed. That’s all I’ve got.
