5 dryers full

Well so much for daily writing...there has actually been a ton going on, however, almost too much so that finding time to write down everything became a problem. And then i wasn't feeling well so typing was low on my to-do list. However, I am feeling wonderful now, my to-do list consists of laundry (which is currently washing...5 loads. thats right, 5) and homework, and so I figured taking a few minutes on here wouldn't be too bad. At least I'm getting something productive done at the same time. And it's the weekend- who does homework at 7 on a friday night. Alright so LAST weekend, on Sunday night, we had 2 people over, one being my cousin Steven and the other is one of Chad's good friends Peter. Chelsie said she was coming over later but the 4 of us hung out until then. I was trying my hand at cooking again - this time with poppy seed chicken which Chad mentioned he loved. Now not only had I never cooked poppy seed chicken before, I don't think I have ever actually had any. The only thing I knew about it was that you could get in trouble with the cops if you had to take a test after eating poppy seeds...but why the cops would give you a urine test if you didn't even seem remotely tipsy is beyond me. Anyways it seemed like it was going well but the recipe called for 8-10 chicken breasts. Now, if we had 14 people over, maybe. But we had 4. 4 people eating 10 breasts of chicken is ridiculous. So i decided to cut that waaay down but being the genius i am, had already mixed together the regular amount of cream of chicken and cream of mushroom soup. SO i just added chicken until it looked decent (not really knowing what it was suppose to look like in the first place) and then poured it in the 9x13 pan....and it barely covered the bottom. So my expert cooking knowledge told me this wasn't right so i put it in an 8x8 instead...where it was very thick. I just didn't care anymore but then made the "topping" of smashed Ritz crackers, butter, and poppy seeds which didn't cover all of the 8x8 even so i was just thoroughly confused. Of course this was the night people were actually judging my cooking abilities for the first time, of course. OH well, it cooked and i was frantically mixing up the garlic cheese biscuits and sticking them in an over that was about 100 degrees cooler than they were suppose to cook in but couldn't do anything about it because i even had the toaster oven occupied with our baked potatoes (first time for that as well). Whew. Anyways it came out of the oven and was rather soupy at first but set up a little bit, but we served it in bowls since it was runny. And guess what, everyone loved it, the cheese biscuits were gone and they were asking if there were any more. Yess. I thought it was a little salty but everyone else loved it, had seconds, and made compliments! So i guess it was a good night overall. :) After that we went out in our "backyard" which is HUGE, but technically not "ours" because its shared by the entire apartment complexes and Harding intramural fields...but it looks like its ours! So we went out in the back and played bocce in teams - Steven and me, Chad and Peter. Steven and I won of course, ha. [OH and just for those of you who know my mosquito problem...before we went out i COMPLETELY doused myself in bug spray....i received 3 bug bites that night. Unbelievable.] We came in and then taught Steven how to play Settlers which ended up being pretty fun....I won :) Chelsie came in towards the beginning and brought dessert! It was sugar cookie crust with cream cheese and strawberries, bananas, and blueberries on top. SOOO good! So she watched as we played the rest of the game and then afterwards we played this card game called Swap. Basically we coined this game as "uno for dumb people". It's the same as uno except only colors...no numbers. So we all felt like we were in the first grade again and it was hilarious because we were just cracking up at how dumb we felt playing the game....which therefore made us laugh and have fun in the process. So its been an inside joke to keep asking people if they want to come over and play swap. Whew...that was sunday night. Monday is my long day - 2 horrible classes and then art at 4:30 for two hours which has the most uninteresting teacher ever. So after that adventure I came home and then around 7 people started coming over for our second "smovie" night with Steven, Peter, Chelsie and one of her roomates and then one of Chad's roomates Barrett and the girl he's dating Shay. Full house. This time Chad wrote out a menu that had 3 smoothies on it to choose from and then one joke smoothie that had garlic, canola oil and some other stuff in it. He named it after one of the girls there which went over real well haha. So all the smoothies were made and drank and then we decided on the movie Clue and yes, we watched all 3 endings. It was good, nothing i'd beg to see every weekend but it was good. Then people left randomly but everyone was gone around 11:45. Tuesday I made this really good chocolate fudge cake which turned out great but its one of those that you just add water so I want to try it again with milk instead so it tastes a little better. Chelsie hung out at night to keep the streak alive of seeing her haha but then Wednesday is when I wasn't feeling well so no one came over then. But yesterday Chelsie came back over when Chad was at work and fixed me dinner! It was so sweet :) we had chicken fingers and this 4 cheese rice that was really good. She also fixed croissants and we just hung out and ate and talked and then I had a bunch of homework to do so she left and then a little while later Chad came home. Not much besides that has gone on besides all that and school/work. I've been job hunting - applied to 3 places so far so tomorrow I'll be going to more places. Thursday in financial aid we went over this project that we have to do for next week. It consists of budgeting out EVERYTHING...finding out your income (including loans, checks, savings, etc) and all these things to pay with food and school and insurances and cars and every single tiny thing...and we both just sat there overwhelmed and thats the day I was set on finding a job asap. I've been knowing I need to get one, but had a lot of stuff going on to keep my mind off of it - but that sure got me back on track. Hopefully something works out!