It's been awhile...

Wow, it has been awhile since I have posted anything! I have just been busy as usual, class, homework, tests, friends, TV, going home, Texas Football, and food!

First thing is first, Texas BEAT OU, thus proving that OU sucks. During OU weekend, I played 4 hours of frisbee, woke up early enough to watch the game, then did homework. I went to Wendy's with Jimmy and Alex after the ridiculous amount of frisbee, here is a pic of them!

After that long long weekend, I had awesome school. Well not that awesome, I don't really remember doing anything special... OH WELL.

The following weekend I went home for my Dad's birthday and homecoming! I was so happy to wish my dad a happy birthday on his actual birthday, and give him his awesome new UT burnt orange fishing fancy shirt! I also was able to help Jennifer get all dolled up for homecoming. It only took over an hour to get her hair all curled, but it was worth getting to see her off and be hands on a part of her life!

I also got to see my beautiful best friends! The biffles: Marissa, Sarah, and Abbi reunited in Magnolia at the football game and had a great sleepover and then waffles at Marissa's with even more friends! I missed everyone so much and it was great finally getting to see them all in person! Only a few more weeks until Thanksgiving, when I will see them all again!

I had to get back to campus pretty early on Sunday, because ASME is building a chariot to race in the Red Bull Chariot Race Competition, and I will be the one in the chariot! We are building a killer bunny, pictures to come :)

This past week of school has been pretty chill, it feels like every other day I have to do a lot of homework, but Thursday and today (Friday) I don't have much! Next week will be more hectic, I have an Mech E sketch quiz on Tuesday and Math test on Friday! Woohoo!

 This weekend has already started off on a great note! I watched Slumdog Millionaire on Thursday evening, and today after classes, Eric Andrew and I decided to go on an adventure! We began with Geocaching on campus! We found this super relaxed nice place near the alumni center, but unfortunately we could not find the geocache. Our adventure continued by catching a bus down to Sixth Street! We were looking for a cool mural, but once again could not find it! So we walked from W 6th St. (Dirty 6th) past South Congress to E 6th St. for some delicious Amy's Ice Cream! I was lucky enough to witness an awesome event. The worker at Amy's took a young boy outside, gave him a bowl, the guy walked to the other side of the street, and flung the ice cream to perfectly land in the bowl! It was AMAZING!

Side note, I just got a new camera lens and SD card for my mom's old camera, so I have a tonnn of photos. But the adventure was not over. Andrew was thirsty for a geocache and decided to search for another. We found this little park next to a small creek and began the hunt. Eric and I gave up pretty quick and decided to climb a tree instead. No worries Mom or Dad, I was only 4 feet off the ground haha! After about an hour at this small park, Andrew finally figured out where the geocache was! 48/51 people had logged online that they found the geocache, so we were glad to add to the success rate. After finding that one, of course Andrew had to go and find another! 

BUT, the adventure isn't over yet! We were no where near a bus, so we just had to start walking, and we decided to not use out phone GPS to get back to campus. Eventually we ended up seeing the Capitol and heading towards that! But we couldn't just walk by the capitol, so OF COURSE we went inside! Andrew has never even been inside the capitol, so it was quite an event! We found some janky ice scoopers in the basement, cartwheeled (unsuccessfully) everywhere, and generally goofed off!

 Formatting is super janky on here, sorry for the weird picture layout! Anyways, I am going to head out for some non cafeteria food dinner, then frisbee! Fun!

-Katie

Going Home!

No, I am not leaving college, but I did go home this past weekend! Many of my friends were going home, and after doing half of my math test, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to go home and relax!

Friday!

I drove home after lunch (couldn't miss out on J2), and arrived in enough time to go to Magnolia's football game! I hung out with my long time best friend Marshall, and I got to watch my oboe -buddy Brooke and Marsh's little sister Baylee perform in the band! It was really nice seeing everyone again and knowing they are doing great! 

Marshall being goofy!

My oboe buddy Brooke! She did great conducting the band for a portion of the marching show!

Little BG all grown up!!!

Saturday, I did a ton of homework and hung out with my friend Emily! She goes to that other school ;) jk A&M is O-K I guess! I always saw the play my sister had put a lot of work into, Inherit the Wind. She was publicity crew head, and I thought the play was great!

Now on to Sunday! I hung around the house, trying to relax as much as possible, knowing I won't get to do that very much this week. I was able to see my BIFFLE Sar-Bear, and we pigged out on delicious Double Dragon 2! She told me about some of the friends she had made and about how classes are going! Sarah looked super cute as well, but unfortunately we didn't take a pic together :( next time! I then drove to Rice to hang out with my other Biffle ABBI :) I swear, she knows EVERYONE at Rice, I met at least 20 people in the two hours I was there! She showed me around her dorm and campus, and we had some awesome coffee drinks at the local coffee shop! 

Abs and I :)

It was awesome hearing about all of her college experiences in person! I can't wait until Sarah and Abbi are able to come up and experience the UT life, but in the meantime, I will be back in Magnolia for homecoming, in less than two weeks! 

Oh, and the drive home to ATX was HORRIBLE! Traffic wasn't bad, but the Chinese and coffee wasn't a good combo, so I felt like I was going to throw up AND the sun was in my eyes most of the time. Luckily when I got back, my friends Eric and Andrew were super nice and made me feel a lot better! I also got to eat some weird poppyseed cake!

Last thing: OU weekend!! Ahhhh, texas is going to lose... But oh well! That's all for now! Wish me luck on my chemistry test on Thursday! -Katie

Chugging Along...

Whew! I finished my first college test! I reached my goal, and I know what I need to improve on, so I am happy. I also turned in a draft of a paper for speech, presented my Star Trek speech in my speech class, and now I am prepping for my first math test! I played a ton of frisbee this weekend, ate Indian, Taiwanese, Amy's Ice Cream, and Mediterranean food!

(Indian food)

I also did a Color Run wih Juliana and Eric! The essence is to run/walk a 5K while getting covered in Holi Powder (basically a dyed powder). IT WAS AWESOME! I ran about half of it and walked the rest, it was 9am so I was tired! I look forward to doing it again!

Before

After!

I think I have mentioned it before, but J2 food is delicious. The other day, the desserts at J2 were just all so good, that I had to take a picture. 

Chocolate chip cookie, cake, Rice Krispie with M&M, and chocolate ice cream! FRESHMAN 40 HERE I COME!

Lastly, every week Sephra, Eric and I draw a picture on this whiteboard, so I wanted to share it with you! Last week was pirate ship themed, this week it's MERICA!

Enjoy!

-Katie