Le weekend--backwards

Sunday

This weekend was a flutter of excitement. Kate was away for the weekend, it was St. Patrick's Day on Friday, work went very very well, and Saturday and Sunday were days to nurse my newly established cold. I think it was from walking in the cold yesterday. But it was sunny, so the weather deceived me. I assumed it would be warmer! I slept in this morning because of an unrestful sleep last night. Don't you hate it that you can only breathe out of one nostril when you're sick? I hope my canadian medicines can help that tonight. So far my cold is just in my sinuses, mom, not a chest cold yet. I hope it doesn't get that way either. Pam's had a cold for a long time now, and she's looking forward to going home the weekend of April 1st to go see a doctor and get it taken care of. I'm going to go with her! The first time I leave Chicago since I've been here. I can't say I'm looking forward to it to the point of jumping for excitement, but I would like a Tim Hortons Canadian Maple donut, and also replenish my supply of coffee. Pam and I would also like to try our luck at finding some time to go to Toronto together and maybe meet up with some Redeemer people too. That should be fun. I tried to find feathers for a project at work. No luck with that, so I might have to go again tomorrow to find some. I have some leads to a Joanne's fabrics store that I'll have to call. The project is a Media Kit for various publications to let them know about our new campaign. It will be a very cool thing to add to my portfolio, as well! We don't have class this week wednesday because we have a conference on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. I'll let you know more about that tomorrow. Have a great week ahead, everyone!

Friday

Friday night I was able to borrow an ID and go out to Janelle vdh's party at Funk. She won a party, which means that people who know her get in and don't have to pay the cover charge. It was alright...we stayed there for about an hour and the left. Janelle's guests, Jesse Walhof and Joe Tiersma had made jello shots, which I've never had before, so I tried. They can be tough to swallow...so I took a spoon and enjoyed the jello. Josh deGroot and Justine Vandergrift were also here to visit for the weekend. It was nice to see some other Dordt people for once. And Josh said he already loved the city--after only being here one day.

After that some people went all the way out to Wrigleyville. I didn't want to go that far and risk not getting in anywhere so I stayed behind and played beer pong (but I still don't drink beer) so my objective was just to get the ping pong ball into the cups across the table.

I ended up getting locked out of my room--forgot to bring my keys with me--so I spent the night on a couch. That wasn't so fun, but I didn't want to wake up my roommates who went to bed early.