Stop! It's Seder Time!

Tonight at Newman while rob was gallivanting around for the newspaper, my suite mate tony and i attend the Seder meal. This meal is a traditional Jewish celebration of the passover. We always do this at home, which i guess is pretty rare and i was even questioned if my family was under the stone Jews, which we are not, but anypoo. So it was super fun. We did everything pretty much the same except this meal was more developed to be like what a Jewish family would do now, unlike the one at home where we attempt to copy the practices of our ancestors on that passover night. So whatever and then some, the moral of the story is that tony and i have a super fun time we sang in Hebrew and got to eat delicious food. The catch.... we were forced to eat horseradish, straight up.

Pic of the Day:

oh the simple life

Precious Moment With Suite Mate Rob Today: Rob really took a big step out of our lives today. I tried to play the dot game with him in Econ today to pass the frozen time, but he said he was trying to pay attention. I wept.

Number of Times We Had A Hilarious Speaker On Drugs Tonight: 1

Number of Times i Was Super Impressed At His Knowledge of Drug History: 23

Number of Times i'm Just Gunna Mention He's A Professor and Councillor On Campus So My Mom Doesn't Freak: 1

Number of Times My Suite Mate tony Went On A Run At Eleven PM: 1

p.s. "How many drugs could you try before you die?"

Tony Plays Guitar With His Mouth Open

Oh im sorry people, if your still there, i didn't blog yesterday and my rule of thumb is once the comp is closed for the night it isn't reopened. Keeps be from staying on faceboook all night. HA! So anyways rob's really been doing some hardcore (pun, you'll see in a sec) abs in his bed before sleeping lately. I think it just looks funny. So yesterday, tony and i were in the cube wars event.... know your roommate. Intense stuff. So we were dominating, knowing each other like the bottom of rob's foot until one terrible stupid question. What brand name does roommate "B" have? Now im roommate B and i immediate cry out in pain. I know we are done for. What backpack brand do i have, well its Mountain Smith. I dunno either man.

Tonight was the Iron Chef event. Eric really stepped up and brought it all, well all that we needed for third place. He hollowed out some oranges and filled them with ice cream and put shredded orange peel and caramel on top with orange and banana slices around the plate. Looked real good, but came up short. Oh well were still up by ten. We got this in the bag.

Pic of the Day:

just me and the suites eating watermelon in some land where human pigment is gone

Precious Moment With Suite Mate Rob Today Before He Leaves Us For Madison: Today rob and i went frisbee golfing but the entire island was covered in water from the mississippi. Being able to get rob's frisbee when it went into the water because i had my flip flops on was the best way i could think of repaying him for our friendship.

Number of Times My Flip Flop Got Stuck In A Large Puddle Today: 7

Number of Times i Stayed Late To Give Someone Their Pizza At The Front Desk:1

Number of Times i Beat Soup At Cribbage Tonight:1

Number of Muffins Tony Gave Be Tonight:2

Number i Ate: 1

Number of Times i Beat Zach In Ping Pong In A Row Today:2

p.s. "can we bring a big beefy metallic shot gun"

Work Aholic

Better than an Al.... man am i funny. Yeah so i worked a lot this weekend considering i hadn't really signed up for that many hours. I covered two on friday after work 12-3 that morning, and then worked 9-12 sat night and 3-6 tonight. Sooo what is that... like eleven or somethings, plus i cleaned this really nasty pizza oven for another hour in there soo, yeah money in the pocket... slash out the other pocket into UWL's pocket. Darn colleges. Most expensive thing of my life soo far, and sadly probably not the last.

Today was nice out. The sun shined and college basketball disappointed. I really wanted Baylor to win and Tennessee well that was just another disappointed. Oh cuss, my mind just hit the wall and now i can't remember anything about my day except these few words. Palms, basketball, work, pizza oven, chain reaction, family.

Pic of the Day:

american storm troopers

Precious Moment With Suite Mate Rob Today Before He Leaves Us For Madison: Rob sang along with his computer tonight and provided us with entertainment. His stupid happiness made me weep.

Number of Times My Thumb Was Covered In Solid Pizza Grease After My Glover Tore: 2

Number of Times i really Want A Pizza Right Now: ! (get it)

Number of Headaches i Have From Leaning Against the Wall: 1

Number of Times i Lost Connection While Skyping My Fam: 11

p.s. "ocean, cruise, control, volume, high, score, tied"

El Salvador

We're watching a very old western dubbed and all and its awesome. The music also doesn't make any sense for the movie too, it's like a weird eights elevator music genre. I'm enjoying it very much. Today was a good day and this is a good end. I didn't do too much today. I was awakened by lauren because she forgot she was an hour ahead when she's up at her cabin....on break. And i just kinda sat around until one before i headed to the gym to shoot around and lift with tony. After all that i watched Butler reach the final four and then played ping pong while watching my championship team lose. Oh well. Finally after another round of basketball with my friends i returned here eating a pizza and drink Mountain Dew.

Pic of the Day:

i like this

Precious Moment With Suite Mate Rob Today Before He Leaves Us For Madison: This morning rob and i ganged up on our suite mate tony and bullied him because he never had an older brother and we feel he needs the exposure to be a man. This team work makes me weep.

Number of Times i Missed Game Winning Three But Kept Shooting Today: 7

Number of Times i Almost Threw A Basketball Into Josh's Leg Brace Today: 2

Number of Times i Say 'Hi' To Random People Because Work Has Put Me In The Habit: 32

p.s. "the general may show his back to the enemy, but never in his underwear"

And The Dreams End

Another year of Cinderella Stories comes to an end as the dreams of players and fans fall in defeat. St. Mary's one dimensional game was figured out and Baylor crushed them. UNI gave it there best effort, but fell short to a well coached MSU. Why they didn't shoot a three with 19.6 seconds to go when down by six im not sure, but what's done is done. I enjoyed the runs and dreams even though they totally ruined any chance i had at winning money or even respect. So i will dream of marches to come.

Today was great. I only have one class on fridays and in that class, chemistry, we just learned out solar panels... sorry Mr. Kurkowski, but your panel only runs with 12-15% efficiency. Anypoo after that goodness i watched a stupid 80's movie enriching my knowledge of other times in America, and then rob, Soup, and i hit the greens for a tour of the back nine at Petibone. It was real wet but we managed out way around without losing any discs and after a plus five first hole my shoulder warmed up and i didn't do too bad.

Pic of the Day:

beet and goat cheese on bread

Precious Moment With Suite Mate Rob Today Before He Leaves For Madison: Rob and i stayed up real late playing cards with some of our friends. Knowing we are running out of hours together i tried to get him to stay up and play more but he didn't want to so now im crying.

Number of Times i Won Cribbage Today: 2

Number of Times i Just Remembered i Went To Class Today But It Seemed Like It Was Forever Ago: 1

Number of Hours i Worked Today: 4 and a half

Number of Times My Fish Was Bad Today: 1

p.s. "i respect you for that"

Why, it's Candyland!

My wonderful suite mate tony stayed up late with me tonight playing games as i worked until three in the morning. What a guy, is all i have to say. But before all that goodness i had a day, a day you all tuned in to hear about. Well it was pretty good. Started out with my waking up at ten, good start i know, but then i fell back asleep and woke up two minutes before my class. Oh cuss, but don't worry mom im not paying thousands of dollars to skip classes so i jumped from my bed literally and got on my bike and sped over there arriving only three minutes late. Not bad. I marched right in front of class to my seat in the front. It was good except my body pulsating the first ten minutes from my heart which was in shock from the morning events. But after all that the day was good. Classes were short and i learned i got a A/B on my Econ test. Cool.

Pic of the Day:

Almost Summer

Precious Moment With Suite Mate Rob Today Before He Leaves Us For Madison: Today rob was catching a lot of really rare pokemon and it reminded me of how rare our friendship was, and well you can guess the rest.

Number of Times tony Beat Me At Cribbage Tonight: 2

Number of Times i Beat Him At Candyland: 4

Number of Times tony And i Wore Matching Shirts Today: 1

Number of Comments We Got From High People: 1

Number of Times tony Just Twitched Really Bad And Scared Me: 1

p.s. "if you've got a hot body that glows..."

Her Uncle Ray Is Baptist

Yeah, that's right Ray Lauren's Uncle is a baptist. No, dad you aren't confused that had nothing to do with anything, but perhaps the fact that i didn't blog yesterday and you are thinking you missed something. No nothing was missed. But yesterday i beat zach at ping pong for the first time this semester. Yeah sad i know, but really i beat him quite a lot last semester, but lately i've been on a small tear beating tony 9 times recently and only losing like 4 or 5. So im pretty happy about that, its a good time. But oh yeah yesterday i reached man hood... now im guessing most of you are thinking, but pete the long beard you've had since kindergarten marked your man hood, but really i've just reached it in the weight room. I put up 225 with ease, but needed at tap on 235, so pretty much i go over two plates. Nice.

Today i had an econ test, and i think i did well, but every time i think that i end up doing poorly, soooooo im hoping not. Anypoo today was a bit cooler than yesterday but i just slipped into a complete sweat suit outfit and enjoyed my day. Umm on and tonight there was Eucharistic Adoration at the Newman Center, and it was great. Tony and i went and bathed in incense and just loved Jesus.

Pic of the Day:

if that guy doesn't die of heart failure i think ill win

Precious Moment With Suite Mate Rob Today Before He Leaves Us For Madison: I was able to get rob a sub today, but i told the lady she didn't need to salt his because i was going to spread my tears on it

Number of Times i Argued With Amena About The Same Thing Yesterday: 1

Number of Times We Didn't Know We Were Arguing the Same Thing: 1

Number of Times i Have Seen Two Unattractive People With Shirts Off Already This Year: 2

Number of Times i Will See Lots More At The Beach This Summer: lots?

p.s. "so i think its about time we had a talk about the birds and the bees"

Signing My Life Away

Tonight was the contract signing night for all the RA of next year where you can literally feel your life being poured through a pen and rolled onto a piece of tree on a tiny ball. It was fun though. I finally met with the new staff and they seem like a bunch of fun and the hall director seems great. Plus i have the bonus of working with Josh who lives next to us now. Overall im pretty much all the way excited and nervous, but mostly excited.

Today was great because it was soo warm. Well maybe not soo but i told tony it was 35 degrees out because the internet told me and its always right, but really it was probably already 45 and later i was told through rob that tony hates me.

Pic of the Day:

yes that would be our new staff

Precious Moment With Suite Mate Rob Today Before He Left For Madison:

Number of Times Zach Yelled At Me Tonight: 3

Number of Times i Listened: 1

Number of Chain Reaction i Did Tonight: 4

Number of Times Things Are Looking Up For Eric: 3

p.s. "and my car just got a nice green paint job"

Oh Cuss It Wasn't A Bad Dream

So i was hoping for the last few days that my reoccurring dream that i had to return to school was not true.... but it was. So here i am again, stuck at school. But there is one cool thing.... new bubbler. It's the coolest bubbler ever. So its a regular bubbler in the lower region, but the back and top are beyond. Along the backside is a sensor, and when you put your bottle up against it and press the button, a purified stream of water fall and fills it up. There is even a little screen that tell you how many bottles have been filled total. It's soo cool!

Madness is an understatement for the tourney thus far. It's just out of control and i love it. Sure my brackets are suffering, but i love it anyways!!! You know you live the life when your watching a game on tv and two love of your computer and they are all nail biters.

Pic of the Day:

unable to go to florida for spring break tony stuck it the man by holding his spring break beach party in lake michigan

Precious Moment With Suite Mate Rob Today Before He Leaves Us For Madison: Rob and i watched a really demented movie on spike today as we did our homework. He said i could cuddle with him if i get scared tonight.

Number of Times i've Watched Man Versus Food Tonight: 3

Number of Pounds of Meat In The World Record Burger: 190

Number of Times We Have A New Giant Hole On Campus: 1

p.s. "if tony comes in here with a mask im gunna stick this pencil in his heart, if he attacks me"

SPRING BREAK!!!

Hey everyone, sorry about the last couple days i just didn't blog, and you may be thinking, 'no kidding stupid idiot' and well that's your opinion, i'm just here to say im sorry and i will explain myself. Soo anyways after the haircuts everything just got wack. That night all of the hair in the trash bin in the bathroom crawled into our suite and started attacking us and fried out the wiring on my computer, so i haven't been able to blog and now that im home i have the family computer to explain why.

So yeah i got home last night and well it only took five hours..... rob thought we should take a little detour up to eau claire first and over.... it had nothing to do with missing the exit for hwy 21 and not noticing till we were 30 miles past it.... hmm my eyes were closed so i wasn't able to yell out in disapproval of his idea, but at least we did it on purpose.... So anypoo we got home about two hours later than expected but no biggie, to make up for the lost time the smith family did what every good american family would do, gather in the basement and watch the men lift weights, and then watch Zorro.

Pic of the Day:

and a partridge in a pear tree

Precious Moment With Suite Mate Rob The Other Day Before Me Leaves Us For Madison: Rob skipped the hwy 21 exit to make sure he got all the time he could with us. Oh and that wasn't fog on the way home that was the moisture from all my tears evaporating.

Number of Times My Bike Tire Is Flat: 1

Number of Times We're Eating Steak Tonight: i dont know if a number fits here

Number of Times March Madness Is Right Around The Corner: Soo Many!

p.s. "i told you, you should have check your pants"

Haircuts All Around!

I take after my mother, i give hair cuts. Yeah i cut my hair, tony's hair, and rob's hair. Tony's and mine were just buzzes but rob's was a real cut. I think it looks good and he's a good enough friend that he'll lie to me even if it looks bad. So if you're reading this rob, we can buzz it off if you don't like it. Anypoo we had a lot of fun playing barber, and only tony lost an ear so, we came out on top.

Yeah so it's been raining everyday this week, but the thing is i have not seen it actually raining, i just walk outside and it's wet again. It's very odd, and i don't particularly like it. So tonight i went to a speed reading program so i can read real fast. It was a good time, but i noticed it hasn't increased my ability to blog faster soo im beginning to think it was a waste of time, but here are some tips:

Sit up straight

Hold the paper 12-14" away

Eliminate all physical movements especially vocal cords

Look slightly above the line and group words

Read lines in chunks and move your eyes to a rhythm

Don't look back, if you missed something keep goin if it's important it will show up again

Pic of the Day:

not only did i give tony a haircut but plastic surgery too

Precious Moment With Suite Mate Rob Today Before He Leaves Us For Madison: As you all know by now i gave rob a haircut today, but as you don't know i kept all the clippings so i would never forget him.

Number of Times i Have Forgotten To Write Suite Mate in The Section Above And Have Had To Go Back And Rewrite It This Year: 47

Number of Times tony Was Hearing Things This Morning Because i Tickled His Foot Last Night And He Hit His Head On The Ceiling: 5

Number of Times Zach Had To Go To The ER Yesterday: 1

Number of Times i Remembered i Never Blogged Yesterday: 1

Number of Times We Lost In The Playoffs Yesterday: 1

Number of Times That Is Directly Related To The Shaving Of Heads And Joining A Cult: 1

p.s. "bagel, what the other way to say it.... big wheel....big willy?"

Soon And Very Soon

Spring break is coming and we're all peeing in our pants with excitement. I just wish it started tomorrow because i really don't wanna be learning things. My brain is really shot and i hope this week off will be rejuvenating for me. But for now we are stuck in this little place surrounded by bluffs and fog. The fog is for affect.

Classes were ....well boring to say the least. Economics used to be really funny because Amena is nuts, but now its just really bothering me. Class takes sooo long and the things we learn probably don't work in real life because of the millions of factors we leave out in our perfect little situations that she makes us do. Today she was looking for a volunteer and after literally five minutes of blank stares she tricked rob into going up to the board. Silly rob tricks are for Amena.

Pic of the Day:

if we were only mice and blind...

Precious Moment With Suite Mate Rob Today Before He Leaves Us For Madison: Tonight i watched a tv show with rob. Laughing together at stupid american humor would have been great but i kept choking up thinking of our future.

Number of Times Suite Mate tony Skyped With Sam Today: 75....there was a bad connection

Number of Times i Was A Big Brother To tony Today And He Didn't Like It: 7

Number of Pounds i Benched Today: 205

p.s."but we're smarting that aliens because we figured out how to talk to a square"

Just Another Ordinary Day

I think that's a song. Maybe not. Anypoo today was a nothing day. I did mostly that. Well not exactly. I finished a paper, balanced my check book, read thirty pages, and worked three hours. So i guess i had my handful for the day, just most of it took place in my room, which is a nice room, but after a while can drive you kinda nuts. Oh well we're moving ever so close to the break of spring and well im forced to wait because i need to ace a couple tests this week. Chem and theater appreciation. I hope i do well.

Pic of the Day:

must be a spanish bee

Precious Moment With Suite Mate Rob Today Before He Leaves Us For Madison: Today rob came out and visited tony and i at the front desk. He was eating marshmallow mateys. I feel bad though because all of his tears must have made the marshmallows really soggy and salty.

Number of Times The Music Rob Had Right Now Is Making Me Happy: 31

Number of Surprises i'm Working On Right Now For Lauren: 1

Number of Time Machines Suite Mate tony Made Today: 1

p.s. "lets take your shirt off and then staple it to your chest and we'll video tape it"

Just Checkin In

Hey all of you faithful followers and all of you not so faithful followers and even you just stopping by for a visit. It's real late right now but as my token of commitment to you i write. Today was beautiful. I didn't do too much outside, just walking around, but just that was great. I played basketball for a couple hours winning a good handful of games. After that i laid in my sweat and watched Lost. What a weird show by the way. And then i showered and watched more. After all that confusion i worked the front desk and was a servant to all that came to me. Finally i topped off the night with my friends watching "Where The Wild Things Are," which by the way was crazy odd but strangely good.

Pic of the Day:

must have eaten at Whitney too much

Precious Moment With Suite Mate Rob Today Before He Leaves Us For Madison: I just spent the last twenty three seconds explaining the picture above to rob. The thought of never being able to talk to rob again is starting to make tear up.

Number of Times Rob Does The Rubik's Cube Before Bed: 1-100

Number of Times My Feet Feel Weird in Mu Shoes: 2

Number of Times i Unsure Why i Have Shoes On: 3

Number of Cribbage Victories Today: 2

p.s. "nut clusters just sound gross"

Soo College Right Now!

Let me just paint you a picture right. Tony's on the ground, jeans bare foot playing guitar on his back and sporting the long hair. Rob is skyping with his woman friend sporting a pink hat and plaid oxford. I'm in a crew neck denim hat and shorts blogging. Can life be more college. Yes it's nearing one o'clock. Wow, mom you were right moments like these really make your beard grow.

Today was great. First off, my RA Zach comes storming in the room at 8:45 in the morning, i dont have class till 11:00. He wakes me and says dude our letters are here. These letters are for RA positions next year. He goes want me to get it for you, im super excited. Im like, sure man. He comes back with a purple envelope....its from aunt sandy and uncle floyd. So im getting ready to go back to sleep and bam he's in again, "there here for real now but i have to go to class." So at this point im like, cuss, i better go do this i wont sleep anymore anyways, so all and all i get to be an RA in Wentz Hall.

Pic of the Day:

he must have had many great college moments

Precious Moment With Suite Mate Rob Today Before He Leaves Us For Madison: Today rob was telling kelly about the new conditioner he got today. I couldn't help crying knowing that the last drop of feminism is leaving our suite.

Number of Degrees Today Was: 43

Number of Degrees It Felt Like Today: 76

Number of Degrees Off i Was: 33

Number of Times My Nostril Isn't Working Right Now: Cuss

p.s. "who's gunna stop me, i just pooped twice"

I Didn't Feel Like It

Yesterday i may have let a lot of people down, but i was happy about it. I didn't tell you about my day and i never will. I've spent the last 48 hours thinking about all of this and well i don't really care that you don't know and you probably don't care not knowing. So really everything evens out, but let's both be honest we'd all be lost without knowing about today.

So today was nothing much. Class was good, i learned about how the present i got when i was six years old living on Garland street was all a lie. Pocahontas didn't really have this fling thing with John Smith it was more business like and interest in cultures and then that tramp goes off and marries another john, but i wont hold it against her all those stupid white europeans look the same anyways and well he's named john too so how was she supposed to know. But after all that great disappointment i indulged in a double bag lunch before going to ESS and chem lab.

Tonight i went to the musical "Into the woods", it was good until my sister wasn't in a tree singing. But really it was quite well, and then i didn't get to go to the intramural game, but Soup filled in for me and so well....

Pic of the Day:

just me and the suites rhinoing around

Precious Moment With Suite Mate Rob Today Before Leaving Us For Madison: Rob started to tell a joke today, "So a man walked into a bar..." but he choked up and couldn't finish because he remember no one in madison will think he's funny like we do

Number of Times Suite Mate tony Dunked After The Game Today: 2

Number of Times The Wolf Costume Of The Play Had Genitalia And It Really Bothered Me: 24

Number of Times i Will Be Forever Puzzled About That Costume: 1....it's forever

Number of Times i Beat Tony In Ping Pong Yesterday In A Row: 4

p.s. "Agony!"

Up Late and Getting Crazy

No, not at all. Although it may be past midnight, here at college i guess that isn't late at all. In fact the entire 4C cube is ordering chinese right now. No big deal. You see here at college, we can do what we want. If i want to drink soda after eight i can. If tony wants to wear his pj pants to Whitney for food even though they clash with his orange flannel, he can. If rob wants to spend all day playing Worms 3D, he can. Nothing can stop us, except for the undeniably great consciouses our mothers have instilled in us.

Today was pretty good except i got at least two wrong on my ESS test. It was one of those stupid multiple answer tests where there are four answers then options of half or all or none of them to be right. Ugh, those should be outlawed. But besides that i think the day was fine. I think i aced another chem quiz hopefully and sociology we just watched more movies. So far i have learned that stupid white people ruin everything and i should probably apologize to all minorities i meet.

Pic of the Day:

that's right little one, you'll be dead soon

Precious Moment With Suite Mate Rob Today Before He Leaves Us For Madison: Rob was skyping with Kelly today and the joy in his eyes made me weep. There wont be any joy next year.

Number of Times My Suite Mate tony Just Went To Bed With All His Clothes On: 1

Number of Time He Has Done That This Year: 121

Number of Clothings Rob And i Prefer To Wear To Bed: 0

Number of People That Just Thought Eww When They Read That: 8,283,912

Number of People That Actually Even Read This: 7... on a good day

p.s. "tomatoes, lettuce, onions"

Worms Champ!!!

Soo today rob and i faced off in a battle of wits, muscles, and worms. It was an all out battle in 3D Worms!!! It all came down to the sudden death ending of the rubber match in which i had a miraculous come back down one worm to rob's four. But let me just say this, it probably wasn't just coincidence that my last worm's name was Tony. Just another symbol of the future that awaits us with rob. Except we won't be shooting missiles at him.... hopefully.

Today was pretty good. Rob and i realized that even though we didn't ace the test in econ we still have A's right now and hopefully that will bode true for the semester. Also today was the start of another week. So that's cool i guess.

Pic of the Day:

yeah mom i really meant worms

Precious Moment With Suite Mate Rob Today Before He Leaves Us For Madison: I blew him up.

Number of Times i Get Excited To Go To Theater Appreciate Just To See How Long My Teachers Beard Is getting: 7

Number of Times i Fear My Love Of Facial Hair Might Be A Disease: 3

Number of Times My Disease Is Forcing Me To Grow My Nasty Mustache For The Next Two Weeks: 1

Number of Times Eric Beunning Was Mentioned In Today's Blog And Possibly Spelled Wrong: 1

p.s. "i don't even know what i was dreaming but i twitched"