Reunion :)

Well, everything went perfectly with my dinner. And maybe it is because it's young love that he's so impressed - haha, but that's fine with me! The good thing about cooking for him is that he's easily impressed and he thinks I'm amazing. But the bad thing about cooking Daniel a meal is the fact that I have to send him out of the kitchen or make sure he's distracted by his computer or a movie because he hovers around me and scrutinizes my every move. He kept asking me if I was sure this is how to do everything and adjusting the temperatures on the stove. My personal favorite was when he instructed me to keep the chicken in the oven for ten more minutes, even though I was the one who had been checking it and slicing it open to see if it was done and he had not looked at it once since it had gone in the oven.



So I was nice enough let him do the dishes so that he could control one aspect of the dinner.


My friend Katie made her way down from Kentucky to visit this weekend, and we had a really great time! I had not seen her since Fall semester last year, and it was great to catch up on everything and reminisce about memories. We remembered all of the silly things we used to do as Freshman, like dressing up in 80's clothes for no reason other than walking around our hall and taking pictures; coming up with codenames for guys that we liked and pointing out all the cute ones in the cafeteria; interviewing people in Walmart for an English project we had to do and accidentally asking a blind person who we had to read the whole survey to outloud; going to Applebee's after 10pm for half-priced appetizers; and just laughing at anything and everything. It was so great to see her again and it really made me wish she still came to Lee. :(


I didn't really get any good pics from her visit, but here we are at her hotel while we were hanging out until the early hours of the morning. (Hence the fatigued looks and lack of makeup) -

We took this one on accident, but I liked it.

Our 3 "Monthiversary"

Today is mine and Daniel's 3-month anniversary!

I know, I know...3 months doesn't sound like a huge deal. But I choose to look at it as though it's a quarter of a year. And a year is a long time. So, that means that 3 months is pretty good.

I asked Daniel last night if he knew what tomorrow was, and he got that sort of worried look on his face, and then calmly replied, "Yeah - it's our monthiversary." He's weird in that he comes up with words and uses them nonchalantly. I'm weird in that it always makes me laugh and I think he's just that much cuter.

I'm cooking his favorite meal for him at his apartment tonight. And when I say favorite meal, I just mean his favorite out of the 3 or 4 meals I've ever made for him. It's super easy, but he thinks I'm a culinary genius, so I make it and act like it's no big deal so that he stays impressed with me and thinks that I'm really good in the kitchen. I'll let you know how it turns out.

xoxo

I Love Fall

I'm officially a junior in college. It seems really weird to think that way. I feel like I just started college, and now I'm over half-way done with it. Time is really flying by...



This year has been great so far. I'm living in an on-campus apartment with three other girls who I had never met before move-in day. Luckily, they're all really fun and sweet and it has been a nice change. This is the first time that I haven't known my roommates beforehand, and so far everything is going really smoothly. Being in an apartment = living room and kitchen, which has been amazing! I haven't been to the cafeteria once this semester, and I'm really hoping to keep it that way!



This is also the first time that I have had a boyfriend that goes to the same college as me, and that has been wonderful! Daniel and I have had some really fun times, and I'm SO glad he decided to come back this year. A couple weekends ago, he surprised me after classes and we went on a nice drive into the country. We went pretty far up a mountain, and it was just beautiful. There was a huge lake and lookout points all along the way. Apparently, there's a mile-long walk that leads to a waterfall somewhere in there, and I'm going to make Daniel take me there one of these weekends coming up.

Speaking of Daniel, his mother was in town this weekend for a visit from Ohio. It was really great to see her again, and I was as sweet and lovely as I could be to keep up her good impression of me. haha...

Here's Daniel and I after dinner on Saturday...

What else is new? My friend Katie is coming down this weekend for a visit from Kentucky. She lived on my hall the first semester of Freshman year, and we became really good friends. She moved back home after the first year, but we've stayed in contact and I'm really excited to see her and have a fun weekend catching up on everything!

Here is a really bad/old picture of my group of close friends from Freshman year. This was our Christmas gift exchange at Tres Hermanos. Yay for mexican food!...hopefully we will take some good ones this weekend to refresh my collection! (Katie is on the far right.)