Memories

My friend Jaclyn, commonly referred to Jacky the Fatty, or just Fatty [don't worry the name-calling is mutual], wrote a blog post about all of the memories [or most of them] she made in college. Right now I am thinking about [since she signed off of Facebook while I was talking to her] some the memories I have made since being in college. Here are a few for the friends in Mobile....

Sophomore year I wake up to move down here to Mobile from Goose Creek and my car has been tagged by some friends. They over did it for sure! They put Vaseline on the car and forks and put them in the yard, put glitter on the car, toilet paper............yeah. So I was delayed two hours leaving the house. When we take off the radio stopped working and hasn't worked since then. GREAT way to start off college!

I got involved in BCM on campus and the Meteorology Club, and met some GREAT friends. If you know me at all then you know that I am pretty shy and take a while to warm up to people. I will never forget the first friends I met at Picklefish [a pizza joint for those not from Mobile].....Frederick Schmidt & Miranda Hayes. Fred asked me where I was from and I said SC and that started the whole NC vs. SC debate! Miranda is from NC and promises that NC is better than SC......I of course disagreed. So I start to hang out with Fred and Miranda and soon learn that Miranda is a work-aholic! I talked to Fred about music, went to his orchestra concert, and joined the DWBC orchestra with him. A friendship was born with Fred, Miranda, and Jaclyn, a friendship that will never be broken.

As for the BCM, it didn't kick off that easy. I joined a FiSH group [bible study for freshmen and transfer students] and my leaders were BJ & Stephen. Yea you should see where this is going........I didn't talk much or hang out with much. We went to Foosackley's every bible study b/c I was the only one that showed up. Foosackley's I thought was stupid because they only had 6 options! Side note: I love that place now thanks to their ranch! Right, back to the BCM....but I started to warm up to them and joke around. One night after Merge we went to BWW and BJ asked me "hey do you want to watch Heroes Monday night?" Umm.....yeah heck yes! So our great friendship was born right there!

Just to recap: friends at the BCM & MET Club.....great start! Several events popped up like the Fall Festivals at church where some of us dressed up as the Scooby Doo gang! I totally rocked Shaggy! Then a surprise birthday party for Fred that I totally rocked with Jaclyn! He had no idea.....this was the first time one of my plans actually worked out! BJ and me continued to hang out and get wrapped up in Heroes. We spent hours talking and getting to know each other.

Want a timeline?? Good because so do I! We are currently on Spring Semester 2009! It started off with Jaclyn's birthday in which Miranda and me decorated her car. We put flower pedals from a local tree and wrote on her windows. Second coolest thing that happened was that Zach Trost gave me a box of Dinosaur Oatmeal! Totally wicked!!! SeCAPS 2009 came around and I was supposed to get an award for helping out but because I was not an AMS member I couldn't get it....lame. I was later named a co-coordinator for SeCAPS 2010, working under Jaclyn. That was Spring 2009.....I lived in CHS for Summer 2009. Now onto Fall 2010!!!

For Fall I moved into the Grove (blah!) with Fred and Colin (woohoo!). Season 4 was getting started for Heroes. BJ and me found out that Miranda's bf liked Heroes too! We invited him over and watched the premiere and had a little party! It now once again Halloween time and I found this cool cake on the Hershey's web-site [insert fatty joke from Jaclyn, Miranda, and Ashley] titled "Cemetery Cake." It featured my favorite chocolate bar: HERSHEY COOKIES & CREAM! I sent it to BJ and we baked it! To let you know how it was, lets just say it was a square of goodness and it looked well-decorated! It was so popular that we were asked to make another for the BCM "Halloween" party! At this party I dressed up as THING 2 and Miranda was THING 1! I scared some people for sure! This was also the first year for South's football team so there were festivities all over the place! I also joined Jerrod Brown in the kitchen cooking BCM lunches every Wednesday......yea me in a kitchen is not a good thing but I survived!

Now onto Spring 2010! It was the year of firsts for sure! I got my first official job at the USA Bookstore in the softgoods department. It snowed in Mobile and a few of us went up to BJ's house to play in the snow....good times! Went to my first Mardi Gras parade and got a bunch of beads [get your mind of the gutter!], I didn't have to do anything to get them. They were throwing them everywhere! Then it was time for SeCAPS 2010 and Jaclyn, Rachael, and me did a great job....of course! We had a fun time planning it dealing with some crazy people, putting that program together......oh goodness. Then it was the release of JUST DANCE on the wii and the madness began! Fast forward to a sad time....the graduation of Fred & Jaclyn. We all went out to eat to say bye at Tropical Smoothie [their favorite place and the only place I could get them to go]. Shrek & Fiona were moving on :(

Now to Fall 2010 [almost to the present]! I moved in with BJ into the Betas. So yea football games again except this time I was being paid to work at them instead of volunteering....pretty nice. Also was the start of my Synoptic class career with Lab 2! I must say that Lab 2 has some crazy people and I am one of them! Good times talking about dying cold fronts, mocking Dallas, not humming b/c it makes Rachael upset, etc. Now we are at Halloween time again [weird that there is a memory at Halloween every year] with The Carnival event at the BCM that I planned! It turned out great! The greatest costume goes to BJ for sure as he dressed up as the Joker and freaked me out when I walked into the room! gosh.....he was legit. That ends the Fall semester, I don't have big social life thanks to Synoptic. It ended on a great note with Josh asking Miranda to marry him!! Her closest friends were there which was nice and was great to see! Glad for them!

As for Spring 2011, it is not over and is just getting started! Pretty eventful thus far though! Went to Disney World with the family and raced back to make it to Synoptic Lab just in time. Planning SeCAPS 2011 which is next weekend! Oh boy! Also putting in my two week notice at the Bookstore and hoping that the Disney Store will hire me! Great start thus far....

Great memories and great friends! Thanks Jaclyn for the idea!