Illinois State School Trip

This weekend was so much fun! Friday night I ended up staying in Dubuque because of the weather! Did homework most of the night and then headed over to a friends house! Ended up I was the only girl there with a few of my guy friends! I was bored cuz they were watching some stupid movie that I missed 3/4 of and just didn't care to figure out at all! Anyways, Alison called me so I ended up heading out with her. Brad got super pissed of at me. Said i ditched him, when I said you guys were boring and when i asked what they were doing they said nothing! So she called me to pick me up, so I left to go out with her! The second i get in the car Brad has already sent me the first of several text messages: Why didn't you invite me? Miss you hun! *Gag* Anyways, Alison and I went over to East Dubuque to the Arena for $1 pitchers which is amazing!!! :) So we had a blast drinking, dancing, and socializing with tons of people! Anyways, Arena wasn't opened long so I spent most of the night in the Collesum! It was fun! This guy named Ben who's Zach's younger brother came up to me and is like you're beautiful and kissed me on the cheek! Anyways, ended up chatting with him and dancing this him half the night when I wasn't being mauled by Aaron who was trying to get back with me again. Wow, the guy can't take a hint some times I think! Anyways I pushed some other girl on him, anyways by the end of the night he ended up going home with her! Had a great time drinking and dancing with my friends and met some new people! Was a good time! Anyways to sum up the rest of the text messages I got that night pretty much were like I wish I was with you, I want you, please find me when you head back to Dubuque i want to see you tonight, etc. A little after 2AM, Brad and a few of the guys I was with earlier end up at the Colluseum and so he jumped a ride home with Alison, Aaron, Britney, and me. That was an interesting car ride home across the bridge! Anyways, I hung out with Brad for awhile and chatted about a lot of stuff! Anyways, he made me well aware how he still felt about me. But I'm just not interested in him, I haven't been as long as I;ve know him! He's really liked me since he met me but really started to pursue me until November, but I just don't see him more than just a good friend! Anyways, him and I will remain good friends. I don't want to date him! I like to spend time with him, we got out to dinner at least once or twice a week with his roommates, one of who is my best friend and then another one of my good friends! :) And then I chill at their place a lot since they all live together!

Saturday morning, got up after falling alseep at almost 6AM and was on the road just before 11AM to start my drive to my Uncle's house because it was his birthday and to see my two little cousins too! Anyways, the roads were a mess! 61 was just icey and snowy everywhere! I saw two large herds of deer running across and parallel to the interstate! Was really cool to see them running, minus that the one herd put some cars in a ditch! It was an amazing sight to see nevertheless! Rest of the trip was horrendous trying to drive down! Cars were in ditches everywhere! My uncle ended up sending me down to the middle of no where to get to his house and I ended up getting lost because the snow was piled up covering street signs and I had never went the backway into his house since I was coming from the opposite direction that I always go to his house from! Anyways, so I'm lost on this street which turns out to be the street i'm supposed to be on....anyways, its the tiny, not very well kept, typical narrow country road and there's snow drifts such that you cannot drive in your lane! So I had to drive in the other lane and pull over in open areas where it is possible to be for a few cars I met along the way! The roads are icey and between the snow drifts and the wind, you can't see a majority of the patches of ice. Well, I was going around a turn slowly and ended up car just kept sliding and ididn't want to end up in the left hand ditch, so I gently steered right, but ended up hitting a bit of a too high snow dift and another patch of ice and before I know it, I ended up with my car half on the road on the right hand side and half in the ditch. So I tried to get out, nope no luck! Start shoveling myself out, nope no luck! 15 minutes passes by no one is around, there's nothing near where i am! I'm not sure where I am, I can't get a hold of my uncle and I dunno what street i'm even on! Not gonna lie, started freaking out a bit! Luckily I decided to try again and two guys showed up in a van and had a shovel and helped me dig out, but our efforts failed and my car slide completely into the ditch, stupid ice! About another 15-20 minutes passes and luckily a truck drives back who has a tow chain. So he pulls me out in literally two seconds! It was amazing and I'm so greatful! There was no damage on the car luckily! :) I didn't freak out driving when it happened to that helps! So it turns out I was literally less than 3 minutes away from his house! All i had to do was finish up the turn and go over the rise, turn left and go down 3 blocks to his house! CRAZY!!!! Five hours after leaving Dubuque, I finally arrive in White Heath, Illinois!

I had a great time hanging out with my little cousins! They are so adorable! The eldest is a bit whinny though, hate that! But what can I saw, they are spoiled little brats! I spent half of my night there with them! It was fun and my Uncle's birthday...47, he's getting old! lol! Then I left to head over to University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana to Arene's place! 72 wasn't too but 74 was ridiculous! It was icey as all get out and people were flipped over and in ditches etc, it was crazy! Every couple of hundreds of yards or so was nother car pulled off and abandoned! It was ridiculous! Finally reaching Arlene's house, I couldn't get into her drive way! Took me 3 attempts and shovel to get into her driveway! Went over to her house, chilled for awhile and changed clothes for the party! Was feeling really tired and lazy, I didn't even put on any make-up...normally I'd wear a bit for a party! Eye liner, concelear, lip gloss, but nope nothing.

Arlene and I had fun walking over to Tian's house. Were ther for awhile chilling and playing Wii!! I want one so bad still!!! They are so much fun to play!!! Evenutally everyone started to show up we were waiting on and we walked a few more blocks over to Melissa's place. Had a lot of fun there playing flippy cup, cards, chatting, hanging out, dancing, etc.! Over all, the party was a lot of fun! It was nice to see everyone again! At first it was weird, but then it just wasn't anymore! It was nice to see a few people in particular! Definately blushed when a certain guy put his arm around me. I was looking at the pictures of me and him and they look so comfortable. It was really comfortable to be around him even though our last encounter was an interesting one...i'll leave it at that! Overall the party was so much fun!

Apparently I suck at posting and saved this as a draft! This is from two weekends ago! opps!!!