lend me your eyes- i can change what you see, but your soul you must keep totally free.

Home again, home again, jiggity jig. Home for Easter Weekend. I do love being home, but not the biggest fan of how late Easter is this year... we only have 2 weeks left of being at JMU! I wish I was doing Maymester... Oh and shout out to Nick for telling me to move the picture to the left instead of having it down the middle. Your criticism was greatly appreciated!!!! There's so many statuses going up on Facebook saying how "summer needs to come faster!" or "yay only a few more weeks of school!" Am I the only one who doesn't actually want summer to come?

Recently, an interesting subject has come to mind. Is it possible to fall in love with a group of people? As I see it, yes- it is. And that's what I have found to be the case at JMU. It's interesting because when you're in high school, you often are friends with people mostly just because you are around them for years and years... and years. Of course, you do find those friends that you actually connect with and stay friends with forever. But in college it's so much different. You become friends with people because you want to be friends with them. Usually you meet in things such as clubs or sports or class, but then somehow it grows into a friendship and then BOOM... you have new friends. So maybe that's why I don't want to leave JMU so badly. Why would I want to leave from JMU and therefore leave the friends I love so dearly? Of course, it is always nice to go home and see the family, the dog, and the friends that I have kept and touch with and are still close with.

Well, sadly, I left Harrisonburg Thursday evening around 8and then arrived in DC around 11... after having almost everything go wrong. First off, I was waiting at ISAT for a bus to Stonegate to get my car and had about 20 or 30 lbs of stuff with me. Finally, two buses come, the shopper and route 9. Well the shopper stopped... but the bus to Stonegate didn't. Nope... just kept driving by. So I got all huffy on the phone to my mother and then walked to Stonegate. Not the best walk I have ever had, but hey- it got me there. Got in the car, dealt with the Hell that Harrisonburg traffic, and then failed at getting gas at Sheetz due to the one million people there. Parked at nTelos and went to Festival for dinner with Lee. We dined and that was nice and then walked back to my car so we could pack it up. Well, in Festi, I had dropped my keys so Lee picked them up and put them in his pocket. So upon our arrival at my car, he handed me my keys... but somehow it was only the key faab and my house key. And..... commence panic. So we traced steps back to Festi and thank GOOOOOODNESS the girl at the desk had them. *Sigh of relief.* Well somehow between Hburg and Dupont Circle, I managed to get lost three times. If I hear "recalculating" in an electronic British voice, I might cry.

Today (Friday) was much more interesting, though. Woke up around 730 am (gross) and then had an interview for a job this summer at the Hotel Madera. Hopefully that went well. *Knock on wood...* They teased me a couple times for "being shy," but that was sarcasm. Thursday night, I stayed at The Rouge, which is always fun to stay at. Everything is red. EVERYTHING.

Outside the Front Door

(the kitchen area in the room)

(big red bed)

After the interview, I made an adventure down to Georgetown. Caught the Circulator and traveled on over. On the walk to the bus stop, I passed the National Geographic Museum. On the steps of the museum, there was a family waiting to get in. Among this family was a little ginger boy in a fly baseball cap and while he was waiting... he was dancing... a lot. It was the most adorable thing EVER. He even did that Michael Jackson toe stand thing. I had to stop staring because that would have been creepy... Plus he stopped dancing and got all embarrassed when he realized he was in public and others could see him. Upon arriving in Georgetown, I found this cute little Vespa parked outside of Barnes and Noble. Yes, that was dumb.

This was the epitome of the trip Paper Source and Sprinkles. I took the trip to Urban Outfitters but it just wasn't cutting it. Feelin a big stingy with the wallet and not really in the mood to drop $80 on a dress I fell in love with... ouch. Sadly, there was only an hour or so before I had to be back at the Rouge to leave to go home to avoid traffic.

This was the window display for the PaperSource. Adorable right? I could have spent days in this store. Jamie... you will need to join me in this store ASAP.

Here is just a piece of the insanely large selection they have of AWESOME paper. So many prints... how do you choose!?Here we have an owl bank... really I just want this for my birthday so I put it on here because it looks cool...

MOVING ON.


But here is the highlight of the trip. I mean really... look at who you're reading... I love food. Even more so, I love cake... especially in tiny little shapes... such as a cupcake. Jamie told me she was disappointed in me for not going to Georgetown Cupcakes. I apologize. But this place was JUST AS COOL. It's called Sprinkles Cupcakes. Really cute, really small... but absolutely delicious. So here is the Sprinkles experience... via iTouch pictures...

((Outside Sprinkles))

((Inside Sprinkles and the selection of cupcakes. They had a few flavors- Such as lemon coconut, red velvet, black and white, vanilla, carrot cake, chai latte, etc)((The final product at home.))

((Inside of the box! NOM NOM NOM! In the box includes a red velvet, vanilla, carrot cake, and black&white))

((Inside the bag was Cody's wittle baybay cupcake! Which he consumed in about 1.2 seconds... as seen below.))

The other day when I was watching One Tree Hill, it was Haley's turn to have another baby. Yes, I'm sure that doesn't really make much sense to most of you, but that's alright. The best part was that two new Augustana songs were featured on the show! YA-HOO. They also said a quote that really stuck out to me...

"Every child comes with a message that God is not yet discouraged with us."

And I will leave you with that. Tomorrow: Water for Elephants with the madre! Happy Weekend!

Oh also, if you have ever watched the show Community, then you will understand why the last two minutes of the show is my favorite part. Usually Troy (played by Donald Glover... loveee) and Abed do some sort of short funny piece. Last week's has to be one of my favorites:

Also, Troy and Abed's spanish rap is always a classic:



And finally... Abed's Batman speech. It's not from the last 2 minutes, but still equally hilarious.






And with that... happy halloween.