Hello LG, Puddles!!, Goodbye Blockbuster, Hat's are hot(t), and febreeze as a breath freshner....

Okay it has been a long while, ang I promise I have my reasons for not updating this.
My list of excuses:
-I had no internet for the first 3 weeks in LG
-When I did have internet I had no router, and I didn't want to sit on the tv to write my blog
-Now that I have both I have been super busy, you know full time student, working 30 hours a week, social life (lol, we all know that is a lie), blah blah blah
-My fingers hurt
-There's better things to watch on TV
-I bought a new movie
-The rain in Spain....have you heard it stays mainly on the plains?

Okay well let's start at the very beginning (that's a very good place to start..when we read we begin with abc...)

Hello LG!
I am back in La Grande!!!! And I can honestly say now that I love it. Do I miss my home...no...do I miss my family? Yes!!! But I have worked through the homesickness (it was touch and go for awhile) and now I am okay with being away from them and being here. I forgot how much I love LG, it is so pretty and friendly.
I have an awesome new roomie. She cracks me up. She's crazy and cooky and makes delicious breakfast burritos for dinner...yummm tasty. My apartment is adorable, tiny, but very adorable. I refer to it as the rabbit whole, because it is underground and tiny. I love it! It has a giant bathroom that you could host parties in...maybe someday. ;) 

Puddles!!
So my first Sunday here it was a beautiful fall day, and it rained and it was cloudy and there were pretty yellow leaves on the trees. Just my kind of day :). Anyways by the time we got out of church, and finished watching Mary Poppins there were a ton of puddles....big puddles! So the logical choice was to go puddle jumping. So Amanda and I dawned our finest attire (um old tennies and sweatshirts..) and headed out to the wetness. We founded Lake Comanda, a puddle right outside our aptartment. It was amazing. We found a few more friends and had a blast jumping in all the puddles and acting like 5-year-olds. Amazing!

Goodbye Blockbuster....
Okay I have to admit I do not miss blockbuster being open, I can not say that I ever went in there let alone actually rented something there, but I still think it is sad that the only movie rental place in La Grande was closed down. Instead they now have redboxes, and a blockbuster machine at the Safeway. Now at first I had no problem with this. I am cheap and antisocial so redbox is awesome. It's $1.99 and I don't have to deal with people I don't know and the awkwardness I create around them. But it hit me the other day that the world is changing. Most people I know don't go into the bank ever (me included...remember anti-social?), they either ATM it or have direct deposit and bank online, no interaction necessary. More and more diners are disappearing, in their place come fast food. While you do have to interact a bit to order through the drive threw, it still is less personable. you shout an order at a speaker and then get rushed through and your food thrown at you threw a window (fun right?). I can think of hundereds (maybe that is an exaggeration) of other examples of this, and I think it is kind of sad. I also think it is sad that I am part of the problem. And weirdly enough the thing that started this whole train of thought was watching an episode of friends ( I think...some 90's tv show) and they were picking out a movie at a rental place. And I thought wow that is so obsolete anymore, and they made it look fun. Like trying to find a good book in a Library. Drifting down the isles picking at things here and there until you find something that just calls to you (I know, I am pretty intense about my library experiences.) It just seemed like a nice thing to do. So much for that....

Hat's are hot(t)
So the first week of school I found a job, an answer to my prayers and a confirmation of sorts to a larger prayer. Anyways I work on campus (which is awesome because I get weekends and Holidays off so I can go see my family!) at a little store/food place for lack of a better description. Now I cannot say this is my dream job, I never wanted to work in food, and as anyone who knows me knows I hate retail type jobs, but here I am again taking diseased money and listening to customers whine (well not to often, they are mostly really cool people.) I love most of the people I work with, and the rest are starting to grow on me. My boss is amazing and hilarious. It is always interesting when we get to work with her. Oh and by we I mean me and Katelynn, whom I work with everyday. She freaking rocks. So what does this all have to do with hats and their hot(t) factor? Well my biggest complaint of this job it that i have to wear a hat. My head gets so stinkin hot. And if I want to do anything after work I have to redo my hair, which is annoying. And none of this is hott. 

Febreze as a breath freshner....
So one of my really good friends drank some febreze tonight. At first I was pretty darn concerned....suicide by febreze, well that seems idiotic at best. Luckily it was on accident, and it was just a spray in the mouth, he will live. But I think it is freaking funny, I love him but he is a crazy some days. His biggest complaint is that he can still taste it....lol. He called me and I googled it, febreze, just in case you wanted to know, is pretty much non-life threatening. The worst case scenario is vomiting and diarrhea (a word I never thought would be in any blog I ever wrote.)That's all about that though. 


Okay so that is all folks. I will try to get on more regularly so I don't have these mega blogs, we'll see how that goes though.

Peace and blessings, peace and blessing.

-CJ