Soo Birthday Week

Tuesday's event was Birthday Breakfast. We had breakfast casserole that Amanda and I made that actually turned out (we were a little unsure of what it meant to make a breakfast casserole. Pulled it off though, OJ, coffee, choc chip muffins and bumble pancakes, of course! Along with the roommates, Tyler Ediger, Whit, Geoff, and Joel came. Pretty good turn out for 7 am :) I also found out that evening that I got a 100% on my first Chemistry exam. Thank you birthday week miracles.
Wednesday's event of Ultimate Frisbee didn't work out so hot, because turns out at in February, it gets dark and cold at 6:30. It wasn't a very good day (I was really tired from having a 7:30 am recitation), so I think Kerri gave me my present earlier than she planned. This beautiful bible! I
Thursday it snowed a ton and I took my first physics exam. I don't know my score yet, but I fear I didn't do as well as I did on my first test of the week. But it's over. That night Andre and I perfomed in Dancing with the Kstate Stars! You can watch our video here. You should check out the rest of the videos from the show too, the whole thing was really awesome.
Friday was Classy Dinner on the town. We chose Olive Garden, it doesn't get much classier than over eating the appetizers and drinking endless amounts of peach tea!
Saturday Amanda dyed Deidre's and my hair, kind of on a whim. It's only semi-permanent though. Something different, gotta keep things interesting. We had ice cream cake, went two-steppin, and then I turned 23!

...and then I stayed up til 5:30 a.m. posting things about birthday week all over the internet.(I think it might be because of the sudafed I had to start taking AGAIN because I might be getting sick AGAIN.) To see the rest of the pictures from the week, go see the Facebook album.

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And all that Jazz

Time has really started going fast. Recently I've...
Celebrated Nicole's birthday
Gone to London's West End with Alex to see Chicago, choreographed by Anne Reinking.
Gone back into London the next day to see Stomp
Saw more of London, this was the Southern part. Probably my favorite.
Picnicked a few times with Alex since it's FINALLY been sunny and warm all at the same time!

Gone to Sheffield to see Cirque du Soleil with some of my flatmates

And finally got to see Keagan for myself! She is so cute, it's going to be a bit cute mess once we get her and Cass together, I can't WAIT!!

I think Shannon tries to hide how cute they are together.
She looks like a baby doll!

Tonight is the last Bonk at the Forum, tomorrow is my last exam, and then Alex and I leave for a tour of Scotland!

It's like licking a stamp

(which has less than one calorie)
I don't like when people pronounce mature "Matoor". It's one of those things I guess...

Yesterday was Simon's birthday and while we tried to go to the Forum, for some reason the line was sooo long for the first time in months! Sucked. So we came back to the flat and hung out which was so much fun, I love my flat mates. We played hot potato with a REAL potato! That's Simon's idea of "living on the edge".
Then the flat mate we never see, Greg,'s girlfriend got really made at me because I wrote on my hand that I didn't like her. So she did the wide-eyed-excuse-me-are-you-lecturing-me-in-my-own-home thing for about 15 minutes while I sat there and told her to leave if she had a problem. It was....yeah. Pretty funny. The only annoying thing was that it killed the party. Oh well, we had a good run at the night! Happy Birthday Rodd!

(And bless him, he brought the Australia Day hat out again!)

Mid-March

Last week I...

...went to a "football" game of Watford v. Ipswich with Simon, Vella, Vella's old man, Sarah, and Hannah. Ipswich (who we were going for) ended up losing 2-1, but the game was great! We sat in the away stands since it was at Watford, and they were packed with fans singing for the Town to come marching in :)
...went out with my flatmates the next night for one of our own, Zoe's, birthday.
It was also just fun to finally do something with the girls in my flat outside of it. (They never wear coats here! Luda) Meera, Robin (in the back), Zoe, Me, and Katy. Aww <3 The boys went too, adding Craig for the first time, but these girls are prettier.
This week I...

...put off writing a paper all weekend (actively), then ending up writing it with ease in less than 3 hours Sunday night. Not quality, but all we need is a D3..

...got played by the bus to Potter's Bar where my chiropractor appointment was. He saw me stand up when he drove around the corner, then we made eye contact the whole time he drove right on past me. What a knob. Going for try 2 tomorrow, hopefully with better luck.

...spent alot of time booking hostels in Europe for various trips, and will be leaving for Amsterdam Thursday!

22s son!

I turned 22 this last Saturday! Here's how birthday week went:

Monday: As you may recall, class got canceled due to less than an inch of snow.
Tuesday: I was working out and Friends came on.
Wednesday: Went bowling with Hanna, Nicole, Sarah, and her flatmates. (I got second in our lane both games :)
Thursday: Not much
Friday: Went to St. Albans all by myself to do a little shopping, it's a nice way to center myself. And to get sweet birthday deals at H&M <3


Saturday the girls met me outside my flat and Nicole gave me gifts of a blueberry cupcake and a housecoat! (I'd been wanting one since I got here)







We then went to see Stonehenge:
And then to the city of Bath. Such a gorgeous city!

It's where the Roman Baths are housed. That water has never been changed...

We also listened to the choir sing in the Bath Abbey, it was really awesome. (This was part of the architecture on the outside of the church, the angels were climbing up a ladder that lead to heaven)
And then. Then it was time to get down for the double deuce. Yeah Birthdays!! Aww friends :)

Links to: Stonehenge/Bath trip (Windsor pictures as well) and Birthday at the Forum

Happy 21 KerrBates!

She drank less than half of a spiked iced tea at Famous Dave's, then turned in for the evening. But she looked pretty doing it!


Plus I got to make my very first solo pie for her--peach, her fav! Although we haven't gotten to eat any of it yet...

Nette's birthday

Netter turned 25 a couple days ago, and Chris was the third party to sing to her--and obviously the best.

Alumni Game

First of all, it was Chris' birthday last Thursday, but my camera died before I could take pictures of him eating ColdStone cake. So this is the card I made for him:
We had the K-State Roller Hockey Alumni Game today, not a super great turn out (Shannon, Nicole, and Rhonda couldn't make it up on account of stupid winter storm...along with a few other alum I'm sure). Netter played though, it was Miah's last game for us and it was a good game! I don't remember the final score but it was something like 13-10 us (the current team).
All the graduating seniors (Nick Sterlacci, Michael Meier, Kevin Hargadon, and Jeremiah Wood) got plaques, as did Dany Majard for Most Improved, and Clavin for MVP. I believe Jerry made good decisions.
So it was a great time, then we went out to Milford lake and had ourselves a little cookout. And of course, a few shenanigans were had.

Birthday Weekend pt. 2: Hockey!

We had playoffs this weekend, so we left early Saturday morning at 6. It would have been 5:15 if it weren't for another birthday weekend miracle: Western Illinois forfeited both of our last games of the season against each other, so we won that one and didn't have to be to St.L til 2. However, it was supposed to be bad weather the whole way up (and it was) so we still had to allow for time to go 45 on the interstate for a while. So we got there to play the first playoff game against Southern Illinois, and it was looking pretty good for us. They were up I think 2 on us but the boys kept their heads up and scored. So then we were tied 2-2 for a while, and we eventually ended up losing it 3-5. BUT it was really awesome to see our guys play the whole game and not get down once we started to fall behind. It was a very good game.

So once the games were over for the entire weekend at 3, it was party time! We went to a nice Italian restaurant on "The Hill" of St.L called Zia's, where I ordered and shared my first bottle of wine with one of our goalies, Nick Sterlacci. (It was a Riesling, and it wasn't very good :S ) Fun that I could do it in any case.

Sunday was going to be Geoff's birthday so while he was hanging out with his family we hopped over to the grocery store behind the hotel and got him an Andes Mint ice cream cake!

And from there on the party ensued like it really was the last weekend of the season and we had no games the next morning.
From somewhat of a dance party, singalong-ish type thing we had going, it evolved into wrestling to tap out madness. Seriously, like some of these guys were at it so long they looked like they had just got done playing a hockey game. It got pretty intense at times.
However, Scott kept his own dance party alive behind the scenes the whooole time.
Happy end of hockey/birthday Geoff! Crap, that was a fun trip. Best birthday weekend Ever!

(More photos here)

Birthday Weekend pt. 1: Birthday Prom!

This was such a great birthday! I usually have all these expectations, then one little thing goes wrong and I'm crushed. However, everything seemed to more than fall into place for the big 2-1!
*I ditched my only lecture at 8:30 am, that ended up being canceled anyway
*Julie's baby, Jack Pentz Dunn, was born at 12:30 am (5 weeks early!) and with only a little trouble breathing, he's doing great!
*Our tap gig at the elementary school was fun
*Netter and Chris took me to a late lunch at So Long, then brought me an Oreo Blizzard..mmm...
*And then it was prom! Lots of guest appearances, including Stana Banana and her new boyfriend Hector,

Josh Sauer and Jon Urban, Adam from Kerri's hometown, Nette and Chris, Willton, one of the neighbors (Dave Hale) friends from the hockey team and their room/frat mates, girls from the dance dept and their dates, some more OG's of Garden City, kids from my japanese class, and of course the roommates! It was a great great time and even better dance party! (For the few of us that actually did--I was exhausted come 2 am). Blew my mind.
And not only did people come dressed up...
And bring dates...
But some people even came dressed up matching their dates! (Annie brought me a corsage :)

It's like the entire evening was a birthday miracle! Accompanied with the cupid shuffle :)

(More pictures here

Prom!

I'm having Prom for my 21st birthday in our Manhattan apt. Everyone is welcome!! Dresses and suits/blazers are requested but not required. Let's dance away A Night in Paris We Will Always Remember Under the Moonlight with the Stars on Broadway! *February 27th is the big day*

No Sleep Til Brooklyn!

Did you WATCH the SuperBowl?! Only two things could have happened to make it the very best it could be: Arizona could have won (Thank you Kurt, Larry, Dockett, Hightower, and the rest of the non dread-bearing gang for all your fantastic efforts),
and we could have NOT ate so many darn cookies.

Other than that, GREAT game! We watched it at Irene's house in Wichita with a lot of the family plus Andy!
It was also Jayme's 25th birthday, so Nicole made her a stadium cake that the dogs ate half of!
If I could go have lunch with two people in the world right now, I would choose Larry Fitzgerald and...probably just a lunch with him again the next day. And we are not bandwagon people. Did you know the Cardinals moved to AZ the year I was born? It's fate. Nay, destiny. And no one thought we'd even make it this far. I'm going to write him a letter! In fourth grade I wrote Leonardo DiCaprio a letter...this isn't the same.

Pleazzzzze

I forgot to mention the hoards of bumblebees there were for this Halloween. Like, retarded amounts. Y'all freakin wish, I did it two years ago. And it's over girls. Hey, how about next year you go as Japanese pop stars?

Ps. It's our old roommate Erin's brithday!! Kerri and I had a montage of Erin quotes today in honor of it. H to the ILLarious.