Bitter(ball)sweet Week

Soooo...last week was definately not normal! Bitter Ball '07 was a smash- about 20 girls all gathered together to watch Grey's Anatomy, eat awesome food, and have pomegranate martinis. I am still waiting to get pictures from some of the girls there, but I took a few, so will go ahead and post them.
Friday, Tom and I had planned to go to the circus with Jennifer and Justin, but they ended up surprising us by having a surprise engagement party for us instead! Tom and I thought we were going to eat with them beforehand, but when we arrived at Loca Luna (a restaurant I have been DYING to go to for YEARS now) we saw one of my roommates, Kendra, sitting with one of my old roommates, Melissa, and her boyfriend, Lee, one of my close friends since freshman year. Tom and I were totally confused until they explained their trick on us, and then appeared Claire, Nate, Jason, Rex, Jose, and Alejandra! I was totally thrown off-guard! If I had known we were going to have an engagement party, I would have invited some more people, so I am sorry if you were not invited and knew nothing about it...it wasn't personal, and I didn't make the guest list. Some of the people that Jennifer invited but didn't know personally were invited because she had written down names of people that I had mentioned for a wedding shower later, so it was a really random guest list. And some of the people that were invited and I thought would be there and could have been just didn't come, which was kind of weird. But it was REALLY fun, and I had such a good time. We went back to Justin's apartment with some of those people afterwards and had food and a drink and hung out. They had cleaned it up and decorated it for us, and it was really so thoughtful!!
On Saturday, Tom and I had planned to eat together, his treat, for Valentine's Day. We had talked earlier about how we didn't really need to do gifts, so I was thinking that since he was doing dinner, I would give him a small present. I got him a picture frame, and I printed out some of our best recent pictures together so he could pick one for the frame, but the one I put in the frame was more of a joke...it's his current facebook picture. Tom always photoshops pictures for his facebook profile, so I took the one he had done of us making goofy faces that were glued on Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker, and I put that one in the frame so that when he pulled it out of the gift bag, that is what he would see! hahaha He thought it was pretty funny, so I was happy with that.
But I was in for a big surprise. Tom made a great steak dinner, but that wasn't all...he handed me a card that read "Roses are red, Violets are blue, Pearls are white, and these are for You." I was so confused...I mean, that's not how the rhyme goes, and he wasn't supposed to get me anything...then I looked at him and he was grinning...he placed a box on the table, and when I opened it, there was a beautiful pearl bracelet inside. It's double strands with tiny silver beads between the pearls. It's only the second thing I've ever owned of real pearls, so I am so excited to have it. I also LOVE surprises, so I thought it was so sweet of him to pull off something like that. I kind of felt bad that I hadn't gotten him a better present, but he said that he didn't want me to, so that's why the bracelet had been such a surprise. He then took me to Café Intermezzo for dessert and coffee, but we were both so full that we both just had coffee (really, really, amazingly good specialty coffee!) and talked. Then we came back to the apartment and played Texas Hold 'Em with Robert Lee, Daniel, and Jessica. It was really fun, and it lasted for hours. Jessica got a straight flush at one point, which was pretty cool, and Tom ended up winning overall!
The next day, I got to play Super Mario World on Tom's Nintendo Wii. He bought it from the Wii Shop online, and I can't put into words how excited I am. He let me be the Mario B player, mainly because he had already started to play on the first one and didn't want me to mess it up, haha, and so I am working my way through the game...independently. Which means I won't let anyone help me, so it's going to take me ages to defeat it because I was definately better at video games when I was a little kid than I am now. And it's also kind of making me wish I had a Nintendo Wii. Seriously, I kind of want one now. I mean...Tom and I won't be married for over a year, and I don't want wait that long to be able to play all those games...especially when I graduate...I'll get home from work, and I'll want to play it and won't be able to. boooooooo
Ok, well that is basically it....I just wanted to update. Enjoy the pictures!
Love,
Megs

Happy Virulence Day!!

See definitions 2 and 3 below....
vir·u·lent (vîr'yə-lənt, vîr'ə-) Pronunciation Key
adj.

1. 1. Extremely infectious, malignant, or poisonous. Used of a disease or toxin.
   2. Capable of causing disease by breaking down protective mechanisms of the host. Used of a pathogen.
2. Bitterly hostile or antagonistic; hateful: virulent criticism. See Synonyms at poisonous.
3. Intensely irritating, obnoxious, or harsh.
   

OK. So last year, I wrote a blog basically saying that I think people overreact to valentines day and that they should chill out and do something fun with the people in their lives they love/have fun with/appreciate rather than whine about not having a girlfriend or boyfriend. That's what I do since I can't ever see Tom on Valentines Day. And I was thoroughly chewed out for posting my opinion on my blog, since I have a significant other. SO, this year, I decided to go the opposite direction...even though I kind of still feel the same way, I can see how a day dedicated to cupid can make someone a little queasy...I mean it is probably the cheesiest holiday of the year.

Anyway, you will be pleased (you people know who you are) to know that my roommates and I are holding a party tomorrow and have named it "Bitter Ball." We are having a bunch of girls over tomorrow to watch Grey's Anatomy...we do that every week...of course I can't do that usually because I am babysitting most Thursdays, but when I'm not, I join in and watch with all these girls. Well, we've invited a few extra people, and we are having a heart shaped red velvet cake, decorated with an icing crack down the middle, we are having pink martinis, lots of yummy food, and are decorating with black streamers and dead roses. We are also giving away twisty straws with hearts on them as favors, and we are using valentines themed candles, chocolates, tins to hold the chocolates, and valentine day themed plates and napkins. All of this as a joke to make fun of the holiday. Just thought yall would find that amusing.

Ok...so for the people that don't gag upon hearing the "v" word, on Friday, Tom and Justin are taking Jennifer and me to the circus in Atlanta for valentines day! I'm really excited. And since that is a double date, Tom and I are also going to go out to eat, just the two of us, the next night. I don't know where, and he won't tell me, but I am pretty excited about it....because it involves to of my favorite things-Tom and Food. Love it. I love to hang out with him, and I love to eat. I'm set.

Yeah....well, I'll try to take some Bitter Ball '07 Pictures and post them online to give yall a feel of what it's like to have 20 college girls hanging out to watch Grey's Anatomy and make fun of Valentine's Day.

Happy Virulence Day!
Love,
Meghan

The Fruits of Labor....Hopefully Aren't Rotten.

Soooo. I got my test grade for my Psych Exam, and I made a 90, so that's good...but I haven't gotten back my grades on my Spanish Quiz yet.

Basically, my Spanish class is a week or a week and a half behind because my teacher miscalculated how long it would take to lecture certain topics....or I should say subtopics, because Che Guevara is THE topic of this course. Anyway, so my quiz got pushed from Thursday to Tuesday. Then it got pushed from Tuesday to Thursday. Then it was a snow day that Thursday, so we took it this Tuesday, and it was AWFUL! It was a page, front and back and then the front of another page. It was confusing and incredibly detailed on some parts and only skimmed the stuff that I really knew that I could have written a ton about. I really thought I had studied EVERYTHING for that quiz, but apparently he found it really fun to pick quotes out from the 200 or so pages of reading we've already had, and he wanted us to identify what author wrote it, why it was important, even to fill in the blanks on some quotes. IN SPANISH.

On Thursday, we were supposed to get the quizzes back, but only half the class did, and the rest of us get ours back on Tuesday. From the expressions, sighs, and groans of the class....plus the tons of red ink going down the page with -10, -2, -5, -3, etc per page, I'm thinking that it didn't go so well, so I probably didn't do well either. ugh. I heard someone say that they don't think anyone passed, which I hope isn't true, but at least if I fail, I won't be the only one, right? This is awful.

Ok, well on to better things. I'm currently planning to go to Charleston, SC. I'm SO EXCITED!!! It's the Theta Xi Formal Weekend up there, and it's going to be a blast, I'm sure. My amazing girlfriend Alejandra is going to be a blind formal date for one of Tom's brothers, Nate, and we're all riding up this evening. Tomorrow is the Formal, then we head home on Sunday. I'm going to have to bring my books though, because I have yet another Spanish quiz on Tuesday over The Motorcylce Diaries...or Diarios de Motocicleta. Yay.

Yall have a great weekend...
Love,
Meghan