SATURDAY WITH KYLIE SMILIE

Saturday was a fun day we did:

1) Lunch at Chipolte's

2) Checked out the Library

3) Went back to the apartment and chilled

4) Went to dinner at Harry's Pizza

5) Saw Twilight Eclipse which we had just made right on time and the theater was jam packed.

6) Watched most of the real world episodes from Washington D.C. (drama rama)

Again nothing too exciting. not too many embarrassing stories today.

FRIDAY WITH KYLE

On Friday I spent the entire day with Kyle.

1) Max's Burger with Eric and Dave

2) Back to the apartment

3) Blue Back Square

4) CVS to find an air-mattress (couldn't find one so we found a dreamie original thinking that it was like a cot absolutely not the case kyle wasted 20 bucks. it was the cheapest piece of plastic sheet you will ever encounter. it looked like a space suit.

5) Walked to campus (twice=4 miles walk)

6) Cheesecake Factory KYLE'S FIRST DRINK RED RASPBERRY MARTINI

7) Dear John

Nothing really embarrassing happened other than some weird noises we heard by the pond on campus but it turned out the noises were frogs and of course the dreamie disaster. i ended up paying back kyle for the dreamie. it was a waste.

kyle and Amanda's weekend

Today I am seeing Kyle Brangian for the entire weekend!!!!!!!!!!!! I am soooo excited. We are going to have embarrassing moments, having fun, laughing and it will be posted as each day passes. He is coming at 1:00 PM today. He has been such an awesome friend to me and I wouldn't have it any other way. He is just as excited to see me as I am to see him. We will get to watch fireworks together too!!!!!!!! :) I am definitely looking forward to seeing him this weekend.

I'll keep ya'll posted each day that he and I have together because there are going to be some serious Kylie Smilie and Amanda moments going on today!!!!! GUARANTEED.

alone time

some people might think it's strange that i do a lot of things alone. i take long walks alone, sometimes i'll go to the movies, i will sometimes eat out, and shop alone. i love having me time and feeling more and more independent each day. i used to not think i could ever do things on my own and i have proven myself wrong once again. granted i do get lonely from time to time and i would like the company of others; however, it's difficult because i have moved to a new city and i don't know people in this area. luckily i have a lot of family members who live close and who are able to visit me whenever i feel that i want to be around others. but there is a lot of time where i feel that being independent has its strong suit. i don't have to feel pressured by anyone to hurry up, i feel more comfortable making mistakes knowing that there isn't anyone who is going to criticize me for it and i feel more comfortable with myself in general. i'm learning more and more from my mistakes. i feel good about my life and where i'm headed. life is a journey and i'm enjoying each step that i take.

so last weekend i went back to my small hometown and i have a dog and we were playing around and my nose piece on my glasses fell off. so on saturday i had to go to the eye doctor and see if they could either fix it or replace the nose piece. so the eye doctor sees me and he tells me that he will need to replace them and he said it would cost $1,000. those of you who know me know that i'm the most gullible in the WORLD and so i was wigging out when he left me sitting in the chair for at least 10 minutes. all i kept thinking about was who's going to pay $1,o00 for a nose piece. i don't have that kind of money on me. i do but i mean i also have summer classes to pay for and all of the expenses were swirling around in my head after he told me this. when he came back he said they're all fixed and i tried them on and my glasses were all set. well the first thing that comes out of my mouth after i said thank you was how much do i owe you? he said $1,000 and then he saw my face and said no you owe me nothing. i was so relieved. i was so excited i didn't have to pay anything to have my glasses fixed. i always have problems with my glasses either i get hair spray on the lenses and i think it's like some kind of manufacturing problem with my glasses and then my lenses pop out sometimes because i have thick lenses. my eyes are really bad and now it's a nose piece issue. i have the worst luck with glasses and i'm not allowed to get contacts because the doctor is afraid of infection. so i just laugh at myself when things like this happen to me. life's too short to take things too seriously.

WHEN THE GRADED TEST COMES BACK

I was nervous last Wednesday when I got my Research Methods I test back. First my professor tells me that she can't find my exam and that it may be upstairs and she'll check after class. Then I see everyone else has their test back and then my professor posts A B C on the black board so everyone knows how many received As, Bs and Cs. Then she writes the word other. I'm thinking may be that's my test isn't with the other tests because maybe I'm other. I'm thinking in my head as all of this is going on that I either failed the test or she gave me an other on my test because she couldn't read my essay responses. So now I'm sweating bullets knowing in my head that I can't wait 2 hours after the class to get my exam. Then she goes through another pile of papers and she said, "Amanda I found your test" and I'm like do I even want to see this grade? Is it worthwhile to know what I got? I'm going to have to retake it I just know it. So she hands it back to me and I'm reluctant to see it. I ask my friend who's sitting next to me what she got and she told me a 76 and I'm all oh my God what I wouldn't give to get a passing mark on such a hard test. Now I know I can retake the test if I failed but I don't want to have to do that. So I turn over my test and I see I got a 76!!!!!!!!!!!!! I couldn't believe my eyes. I was shocked that I not only passed the test but that she could read my essay responses. I was soooo relieved. I told the woman sitting next to me in class that I was soooo happy and she was happy for me too. All I wanted to do was pass and not have to take it again because in a few weeks we have to take the final. I couldn't believe how stressed out I was at 8:30 in the morning and as tired as I was from the night before pulling an all nighter to finish an essay for another class. I couldn't believe I had enough energy to be nervous about my exam. I'm just grateful I passed. I just hate that gut wrenching feeling the day a teacher or professor hands you back your tests or essays it's soooo nerve racking espeically when they give you a lecture about how the class could have done better on it. Man I was so proud of myself. It was a hard test. I give anyone credit who got higher than a C and those who received the other grade 1) I feel horrible for them; however, they can always retake it and 2) thank god it isn't me because I don't have time to retake that test again let alone the patience to do so. It was a good day and maybe one day I'll get my PhD.

MY FRIEND KYLE

Kyle and I have been friends for 4 years. Last year was our senior year at Mitchell College and I did a capstone presentation which is like a senior thesis. After my presentation it was time for a lunch break and Kyle was so proud of me he told all the lunch ladies, "AMANDA WOODS DID A CAPSTONE PRESENTATION AND SHE DID A GREAT JOB!!! I was waiting in line to get my ID card swiped and the cafeteria worker named Diane (only Kyle would remember her name) congratulated me and I was like why must the cafeteria workers know how I did on my capstone? They probably don't even know what a capstone is. I was so embarrassed by this and I laughed so hard so I ended up calling Kyle a new nickname "Lunch Lady Boy." He was always talking to the cafeteria workers about the menu, he was always telling them how the food was so good and that he enjoyed being at this college. It was really weird and yet really hilarious. Kyle and I will talk about this sometimes and he tells me he doesn't even know why he talked to them and he looks back on it and he's so embarrassed that he would talk to the cafeteria workers as often as he did. He is a crackup and he's my best friend.