So this last week kind of sucked... I don't know, I was just a little emo I think, piled along with a few things that just irritated me. But anyway, I was planning on staying here (at college) for Halloween weekend because a lot of stuff was going on, but I ended up calling Lee Friday afternoon and asking him to come pick me up at the Mall of America and then buying bus tickets before I worked that night. I didn't even tell anyone I was leaving... I was such a mess that night, u have no idea. I had so many people come up to me while I was working and asking me if I was okay... up until like 2 in the morning and I'm pretty sure I hadn't cried since like 8. So I just looked like crap lol. But I watched Hitch for the first time and it was gooooooooood... I loved it! And then a few guys came and talked to me... like nice guys on my floor... and one of them bought me a pizza and split it with me! It made me happy. And this drunk guy Charlie (he's a nice guy, he was just REALLY drunk) decided he wanted to ride his bike up and down the halls at 2 in the morning, so I (being the one "in charge"... isn't that funny?) had to try to get him to put the bike back outside, grab his stuff, open the door for him, and he wanted me to tuck him in! And I was like, yah, I've had a crappy night, I think you can do that for yourself. I ended up going to bed at like 3:30, just because I couldn't sleep. And then TIM calls me at SEVEN THIRTY IN THE MORNING and asks me where I am... and I'm like "umm.... SLEEPING!" I guess he thought I was at a choir festival that he was at... but only the guys went. But then I couldn't fall back asleep, so i ended up getting very little sleep. I'm so surprised that I was emotionally stable the next day, considering all that.

But anyway, I met Lee at Mall of America and he hung out with me the rest of the day. I don't know, we went shopping and stuff... and went to four different grocery stores to find the SPECIFIC casserole I was craving! Doesn't anyone else ever get really sick of caf food and fast food?? I just wanted something that was somewhat homemade. But we brought it to Adam's and I was pretty much the only one that ate it. I guess everyone else in the world has a mom that makes REAL casserole and so they didn't care for the frozen kind... :( But oh well, I ate it all... it didn't go to waste lol. And then more people came to Adam's and we played video games and eventually went outside for a short bonfire. A couple of the guys thought it would be fun to shoot off fireworks and Sarah and I were getting a little nervous, so we hid behind a tree together. So Lee takes one and points it right at us... and it explodes like a foot away from our heads!! So I was like ENOUGH! A group of people ended up going to Applebees and I kind of wanted to go, but Rachael and Lee didn't and I was their ride... and it was like 11 and Rachael had to be back home at 12, so I decided I was too tired to run around all over. So we ended up making pancakes, listening to my new David Crowder cds (I am absolutely in LOOOOOOOOOOVE with them now!). And then I dropped off Rachael, came back and we watched Robots. Most of us fell asleep when it was on... but I fell asleep after like 15 minutes. It was pathetic.

Sunday morning I was on my way to church, and Sarah called me and asked me to tell everyone to come to the youth group event that night. And I was like, "Why can't you?" And I guess her parents took away her car, so I went and picked her up and we ended up being a half an hour late for church. But I really didn't care. After church, I went to the mall and bought new pajamas, went home and put my laundry in and slept ALL afternoon. I'm not even exaggerating. I woke up when my family came home from Wisconsin at 6:30, folded my laundry and then my dad drove me back to college. I was a little nervous, because my dad isn't the nicest person in the world to me, but we had a really good conversation. And he told me that he'd dropped out of the U of M after his first quarter... which I'd never known. And if he could have gone back he would have stayed, altho he's glad he ended up going to Bethel because he met my mom. But it was the first time I think that I've had a conversation with him where he hasn't talked down to me. Now that I'm in college, it seems like my parents are becoming more and more like friends than authorities... now that I'm "grown up"... And it was nice that he could empathize with me on that level... like disliking college.

In all, this weekend wasn't the greatest, but it made me feel better about the rest of the week. So it was good. :D