You know, when I woke up this morning, I didn’t expect to forego class in order to have my neighbor catch me standing in the kitchen in underwear and a hoodie, holding a cake and eating it with a fork. But sometimes you just gotta play with the cards you are dealt.

A V-Day for the books.

+ FitFactor
+ Watching “Psycho” via YouTube
+ Pooping out a paper - “pooping out” is, unfortunately, my new word to describe times when I put little effort into something.
+ Film/Lit - Ryan snuck his Valentine’s Day gift to Sam to give to me <3 <3 <3
+ Designing a cover for “Soak It Up” by Houses for Skwishy
+ Going to Norris to pick up my mom’s Valentine’s Day package for me!!!!! Chocolate covered strawberries (and hot dog flavored water) WHAT
+ Skwishy
+ Runnin’ around Evanston doin’ errands, happy as a clam
+ Classic Tuesday Bat with Ryan so we won’t be lonely!!!!!!
+ Hip hop dance class with Guz at Foster Dance - wearing a sweater thinking that would trendy and oops it was an actual workout
+ RUF - EVERY ONE OF THE GUYS dressing up in suits, greeting each girl at the door with FLOWERS and then having refreshments afterwards. Unbelievable. Cream of the CROP.

Song of the Day: Houses - “Soak it Up”

An event for “Body Appreciation Week” - lol oops I went - lol oops I took several fortune cookies with body affirmations inside

+ Editing the FitFactor video slash waiting for it to render for literal hours
+ Just like… doin’ things for a few hours
+ Taking pictures of that Body Appreciation thing as a “News Feature” for Photojournalism - realizing that I’m not going to make uninteresting events interesting. Boring reactions say more than boring actions.
+ Intramural basketball! Dominatin’.
+ Going to Norris to read Poe and write my Film/Lit paper
+ Coming home, watching “Psycho” for the first time

Lan Song of the Week: (Grammy Award Winning!!!) Justin Vernon - “Sweet, Sweet Magdalene”
Song of the Day: GroupLove - “Tongue Tied”

Richard Slimmons “makes a healthy alternative dinner”!

+ Taking the early van back with Dave, Peeps, Steve, Jody, and Aij
+ Paner lunch with Ryan, hotmail accounts, Valentine’s cookies
+ Filming the Elliptical Controversy video
+ Hoopin’ it up with Jack - Around the World, 1 on 1, Knockout, etc. etc. etc.
+ Watching The Grammys in its entirety with Ryan, Ty, and Jack
+ Dreaming of making a healthy dinner, ordering Mexican food instead
+ Just like straight up livin’ for the Grammys

Song of the Day/Year: Adele - “Rolling in the Deep”

+ Continental breakfast, y’allllllllll
+ Some goooooood singin’
+ General rejuvenatin’ & retreat lovin’
+ Fundraising a Buy-Hillary-a-Coke-Zero event
+ Running on a treadmill for the first time in my life
+ WHITNEY HOUSTON DYING. A LITERAL HEARTBREAK HOTEL ENSUING.
+ SKATE STATION, realizing that roller skating is another thing that I really really want to be good at but alas and alack, I SUCK.
+ Buying Peeps a song dedication and silk rose
+ Stuart Sermon
+ Annual dance party - I somehow organized everyone into a circle and we turned off the lights, embraced, and BLASTED “I Will Always Love You”. RIP.

Song of the Day: Whitney Houston - “I Will Always Love You”

RUF Winter Retreat. Stockton, IL. 4th year.

+ Sleeping ten hours <3333333333333
+ Letter writin’
+ Having lunch with Jack for maybe the first time ever; being unkempt due to the snow and “off-putting” by the way in which I lunch
+ Post-officing
+ Workin’ out a little
+ Showering, packing
+ Getting in a van for an RUF retreat for the FINAL TIME. My first last thing!
+ Kelsey, Kathryn, Jackie, Adam - a lot of traffic and some snow = 4 hour drivesies
+ Arriving in Stockton, singing, listening to Stuart
+ Having a whisper heart-to-heart with Peeps until 2:30am

Song of the Day: Whitley - “Cheap Clothes”

MY BEDDDDDD. Straight up longing for it all day.
(Since this pic, I have received a duvet as an early birthday present, and it’s a gamechanger)

+ FitFactor; leaving Ryan and watching him run to Evanston Place to catch up; the girls being limited to 6 reps, me bein’ all pissed.
+ Being oddly invested in my Film/Lit class FOR ONCE.
+ Chattin’ with Ryan, Sam, and Emily by the libes entrance
+ Going to Norris with Ryan to help him ~gget loOoOOOsE!~ before his interview; oops fightin’
+ Naaaaaaaping tooooooo lonnnng
+ Chili’s w/ Ry
+ Bonding with Alonso about art
+ Sittin’ and (vaguely) workin’ on the Lighthouse couch; oops watching an episode of The Voice for a second time
+ Attempting to read Moby Dick, falling asleep by page 4/midnight

Song of the Day: Lady Gaga - “Marry the Night”

That would be an employee nterrupting the casual blaring Christian prog rock of JJ Java to ask the patrons to say “ZOOOOOOOOOO!” “like Cheers”.

+ A shocking 7am workout on an offday; The Elliptical Controversy of 2012.
+ Photojournalism
+ Sittin’ in the libes organzing and backing up all my photos; reading the BEALE LINEUP. WIZ AND FLO!
+ Meeting with Bob
+ Work, falling asleep on the desk
+ Wildcard Wednesday at Giordano’s with Ilana and Ryan; “Drenched.”
+ Being particularly college-y at JJ Java’s for Blog Wednesdays; talking to Jade

Song of the Day: Sleeping at Last - “Careful Hands”