Bonding, Banquet, Movies and Heartache

I'm skipping my Aramaic class mostly because I don't feel like listening to a lecture this morning. I have these huge dark eyes with big bags under them because I had a long weekend and loud voices just aren't very pleasent to the ear right now. How some of you can be mom's and survive? I still haven't figured that one out yet.

My weekend started of with getting ready for the BBC Spring Banquet which was a lot of fun bonding with some old friends over curling irons and makeup brushes, asking one another "Are you sure this looks okay? I'm just not sure, does it make my but look too fat?" The getting ready time ended with a phone call from my friend Carl who was taking me to the banquet telling me he would be about another five minutes. About 3 minutes the phone rang again, expecting it to be Carl i picked it up with enthusasim ready to say that i'm coming out and instead it was my mother. She sounded really sad and very upset and i was afraid she was going to tell me that someone had died. Well, no one died but she was upset because after about 9 months of telling me that her and my grandfather would be coming out for graduation she was calling to tell me that they weren't going to be able to come.

At that point i almost wanted to throw up and i tried as hard as i could to not act like i was really disappointed, after all this kind of stuff as been happening since i was abuot 4 years old with her, i should have known better than to be excited. I proceeded to tell her that i still loved her the same and that i kind of all ready knew because i know that a trip home costs me about 300.00$ and i knew that wasn't the kind of money that they had.

So, my mom and i said goodbye and then Carl showed up. I go outside and he's waiting for me by his car and he went to open my door for me and realized it was locked. So he had to go all the way around unlock the door and then come all the way back and let me in. It was rather a nice bit of comic releif after a dramatic phone call.
Thankfully i wasn't crying but i was upset and I talked it over with Carl some which it was a very helpful thing to do.

We arrive at Banquet and meet my friend Melinda and her boyfriend Ed, we were looking for our friend Nate as well but for some reason he showed up, couldn't find us and then just left. Oh well, what can you do, we can't control other people.

Dinner was fun and i of course can't go anywhere with any type of a man without doing something foolish so I ended up dumping a pitcher of ice all over Carl's food while he was in the restroom...lol, but he didn't seem to mind he just thought that it was sweet that i tried to give him the rest of the water in the pitcher, which was apparently not a lot.

After dinner Scott Kirpayne performed for us but we only stayed for two songs and then we left to go to Wegmans which is a really neat looking super market and the four of (melinda and her boyfriend were with us) had a great time pushing around an empty card and only putting a couple of cards in it. After the Wegmans we went to a carnival next door where i proceeded to gracefully slide down a very fast slide in a spring dress, i also rode a caraousel horse side saddle(highly uncomfortable and strongly not recommended but a lot of fun) and the four of us rode the feris wheel.
After the Carnival, Carl and i drove around Waverly and had some really good conversations before heading back to BBC to call it an evening.

On Saturday, i went to the BaYouCa workday and saw some old, but well missed friends and i helped rake the blue trail (the 2nd longest trail on the camp grounds). I was there for most of the day before retiring at the warners and watching the Chronicles of Narnia with Dan.

Sunday, of course Dan and i went to church and afterwards on the way back Dan wanted me to have a counseling session with him which i strongly refused because the man wants to remain friends and i begin to like somebody way to much when i share too much so we had a rather amussing conversation about why counseling sessions are not good for me...lol. We came back to the Warners, ate some leftovers, watched the movie Gladiator because i have never seen it before and then Dan left and i watched the Village, Boss and Shirly returned home. We went to church again where we had a special musical evening addition which was just amaizing and then afterwards I was finally voted into membership at Faith Baptist Church yeah!!!!

So, i came back to school and called my dear friend Jenny, we had an amaizing encouraging conversation and we prayed with one another which just blessed my heart. Prayer with a good loving friend even just over the phone holds more weight than i think we could ever imagine.

So, i still have dark bags under my tired eyes and i'm thinking i might go take a nap.