So I'm here on break in Johnstown. So far I've done a lot of homework and eaten a lot of new kinds of food.
Dr. Kriley thought he would be cute and give us our next Chemistry exam on Monday morning - that's right, the Monday we come back from break - so that explains the studying.
And the Mowerys' love of seafood explains the new kinds of food. Plus we went to this place downtown that kind of reminds me of Taki's where I had this sandwich that they have only in Johnstown called a Sundowner. It's a little burger patty with a fried egg, cheese, chili, and onions on top. Sounds bizarre, but it's actually a pretty delicious combination.
Stephen and I have gotten to do some fun things too, though. Yesterday we went to a pet store for fun and played with some kittens. And then we went to the best store I've ever been in in my entire life - it's an old warehouse that's now a wholesale candy store. A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. Tonight we carved pumpkins and made pumpkin seeds for his parents. Also tonight we went to a Mexican restaurant to celebrate Stephen's birthday, which is next Saturday. And I've been sleeping a lot and watching a lot of movies.
Tomorrow I think we're going to visit Stephen's grandma and Mr. Mowery wants us to rake all the leaves in the backyard. Right now I'm doing homework for a little while longer and then we're going to watch Dodgeball, which I haven't seen but I've heard is really funny.
Till later...
Friday, October 24, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
weekend.
So this weekend we did some cool stuff. Friday night we went to Pete's house. (Pete is Stephen's roommate. He's a funny guy. And by funny I don't always mean ha-ha, I mean touched. He's a funny guy. He's a starter on the football team and he's vice president of the swing dancing club on campus and he's a biochem major. So he's a smart, swing-dancing football player. Who knew?) Anyway, we went to Pete's house on Friday. We = me, Stephen, Pete, Jordan, Jackie, Becca and Phil. And Pete's sister, Paige, was there too. Pete lives in Hermatige, which I've never been to before, and it's actually a lot bigger than I thought it would be. (I'm learning a lot about south-central Pennsylvania through my friends.)
We got to Pete's house and were greeted by a really excited dog (great, a dog) and his parents, who I've met before at a football game. I like them. Everytime I see them, they give me food. Mrs. Polesnak kind of reminds me of Aunt Pammy. Actually, their whole family kind of reminds me of the Stus. I think they'd get along well. Anyway, we got there and she made us all sit down on the couch and asked us questions about school and sports and our grades and what we were going to do over fall break (she was very motherly) and then she tried to make us eat some pasta (even though we told her we'd had dinner at school before we came) and then she appealed to the boys' lack of manliness (apparently not being able to eat at the drop of a hat signifies a lack of manliness) and they all got offended and had to eat or they'd feel less manly I guess.
Everybody but Stephen and I went to this really scary haunted house thingie. I'm really not into haunted houses or the dark, and I get pretty nasty when I'm scared so I figured that it wouldn't actually be much fun for anybody involved if I came along and Stephen didn't seem to care so he and I went out to Hermatige lake for a while and sat on a bench there and looked at stars. (Stars I like. Haunted houses, not so much.) Pete got a huge kick out of the fact that we went to the lake. In fact, every time he said "went to the lake" he used quotation marks and winked a lot. Then Jordan would start laughing and then I'd threaten him and he'd threaten Stephen.
(There's usually a triangle of violence like that. Jordan will do something stupid or mean and I'll threaten to - say - stab him with a fork. Jordan knows he can't hit a girl, so then he'll threaten Stephen instead, because Stephen is the next closest thing to me. It usually goes something like this:
Jordan: *mumbles incoherantly something that's probably inappropriate*
Me: Shut up Jordan! You're dumb! I'm going to kick you in the knee!
Jordan: No! Don't! If you do, I'm punching Steve in the throat.
And so it goes. We really love each other.)
Anyway, we all met back at Pete's house where they'd built a fire in the backyard and everybody was roasting marshmallows (YES!) and cheese-filled brats and toasting buns too (that was Jordan's idea. He's good for some things.). And we all sat around and talked and made fun of each other till midnightish when we went home. It was a good night.
Saturday morning I slept in late (Jenn was in D.C. again all weekend) and by the time I got up it was like 10:00 and Stephen called to remind me that we were going to the orchard this morning for fresh apple fritter day. So I met him and Darrius outside and we hopped in the Jeep and headed out to the orchard nearby. (All the orchards are nearby here. I live in the boonies.) I've never had an apple fritter before, but it turned out to be one of the most delicious things I've ever tasted. It's like a funnel cake, only more dense, and it has pieces of apple in it and powdered sugar on top. We also got little pumpkin-shaped jugs of cidar (equally good) and Darrius bought an entire apple pie. It was still warm and it smelled so good on the way home that once we got back, we found a picnic table and got some forks and we ate half that pie right then and there. So good.
Then in the afternoon I went to watch some of my friend Kristin's tennis match. I'd never seen a tennis match before and I was afraid I wouldn't know what was going on until I saw that her parents were there.
I actually have to go meet Kristin for dinner now, so that's all the stories I've got for now.
We got to Pete's house and were greeted by a really excited dog (great, a dog) and his parents, who I've met before at a football game. I like them. Everytime I see them, they give me food. Mrs. Polesnak kind of reminds me of Aunt Pammy. Actually, their whole family kind of reminds me of the Stus. I think they'd get along well. Anyway, we got there and she made us all sit down on the couch and asked us questions about school and sports and our grades and what we were going to do over fall break (she was very motherly) and then she tried to make us eat some pasta (even though we told her we'd had dinner at school before we came) and then she appealed to the boys' lack of manliness (apparently not being able to eat at the drop of a hat signifies a lack of manliness) and they all got offended and had to eat or they'd feel less manly I guess.
Everybody but Stephen and I went to this really scary haunted house thingie. I'm really not into haunted houses or the dark, and I get pretty nasty when I'm scared so I figured that it wouldn't actually be much fun for anybody involved if I came along and Stephen didn't seem to care so he and I went out to Hermatige lake for a while and sat on a bench there and looked at stars. (Stars I like. Haunted houses, not so much.) Pete got a huge kick out of the fact that we went to the lake. In fact, every time he said "went to the lake" he used quotation marks and winked a lot. Then Jordan would start laughing and then I'd threaten him and he'd threaten Stephen.
(There's usually a triangle of violence like that. Jordan will do something stupid or mean and I'll threaten to - say - stab him with a fork. Jordan knows he can't hit a girl, so then he'll threaten Stephen instead, because Stephen is the next closest thing to me. It usually goes something like this:
Jordan: *mumbles incoherantly something that's probably inappropriate*
Me: Shut up Jordan! You're dumb! I'm going to kick you in the knee!
Jordan: No! Don't! If you do, I'm punching Steve in the throat.
And so it goes. We really love each other.)
Anyway, we all met back at Pete's house where they'd built a fire in the backyard and everybody was roasting marshmallows (YES!) and cheese-filled brats and toasting buns too (that was Jordan's idea. He's good for some things.). And we all sat around and talked and made fun of each other till midnightish when we went home. It was a good night.
Saturday morning I slept in late (Jenn was in D.C. again all weekend) and by the time I got up it was like 10:00 and Stephen called to remind me that we were going to the orchard this morning for fresh apple fritter day. So I met him and Darrius outside and we hopped in the Jeep and headed out to the orchard nearby. (All the orchards are nearby here. I live in the boonies.) I've never had an apple fritter before, but it turned out to be one of the most delicious things I've ever tasted. It's like a funnel cake, only more dense, and it has pieces of apple in it and powdered sugar on top. We also got little pumpkin-shaped jugs of cidar (equally good) and Darrius bought an entire apple pie. It was still warm and it smelled so good on the way home that once we got back, we found a picnic table and got some forks and we ate half that pie right then and there. So good.
Then in the afternoon I went to watch some of my friend Kristin's tennis match. I'd never seen a tennis match before and I was afraid I wouldn't know what was going on until I saw that her parents were there.
I actually have to go meet Kristin for dinner now, so that's all the stories I've got for now.
Friday, October 10, 2008
picnic
So a couple of weeks ago we went on a picnic. We went to a state park nearby and took really un-cookout-type foods like corn dogs and bar-b-q chicken fingers. And - without charcoal - we built a fire and cooked out our non-cookout foods.
It turned out there was some sort of fall fest going on at the same time and people there were dressed up really strangely so we got a picture with two of our favorites.
There should be two pictures from this event in the picture folder titled Fall 2008.
It turned out there was some sort of fall fest going on at the same time and people there were dressed up really strangely so we got a picture with two of our favorites.
There should be two pictures from this event in the picture folder titled Fall 2008.
Sunday, October 5, 2008
pumpkin day.
Hey, check out my pictures of our pumpkin-carving afternoon today. I posted them under the heading "pumpkin day" on my picture site.
It was pretty sweet.
It was pretty sweet.
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