Now is as good a time as any to write an entry, seeing as my sister and her fiancé are still sleeping (and I'm the weirdo that woke up early) at the moment, and don't seem like they'll be getting up anytime really soon.
On Friday, before they arrived, I went out to the pub with members of the department. Two professors were there, which was awesome because it gave us a chance to talk to them more (they're really badass and funny too), though only three members - including me - of my cohort were there. That was surprising to me, though the three of us seem to be the favourites now, so I'm not going to complain all that much.
So my sister and her fiancé arrived after I got home, and on Friday we just went to Applebee's for drinks and half-price appetizers. My roommate...kind of invited himself, which was annoying, but that is an entry for another day. After that we went back to my apartment, watched youtube videos for a while, and eventually got to bed rather early. Since starting classes I've been going to sleep usually before midnight or just around then, which is unusual for me. (The older students also told me that that pattern of sleeping early and getting a lot of hours will stop soon, which I find sad, but not surprising. I feel like I'm stockpiling hours of sleep while I can get it. If only it worked that way.)
Yesterday we went out and were on a mission to play with puppies. There was supposed to be a national adoption event at every Petsmart nationwide, but when we got there, the agencies were not there yet, and when we asked someone who worked there, she said that she thought it was only going to be kitties that day. Which is fine, but not what we were looking for. So we hit up the humane society, which was a little sad, because we couldn't take the dogs out and play with them; we could only look at them and everything. There were a few puppers that we all wished we could have taken home, but our circumstances bar us from being able to own dogs, unfortunately. We did get to go for a walk with one of the volunteers when she took one out, which was nice!
After that we decided to hit a large, locally owned pet store. Now, I would never buy a dog, as I would always want to adopt one, but I wanted to see if they had any that we could play with. Sure enough, we finally we able to! Some guy had a German Shepard out playing with a golden lab puppy that he said his friend was thinking about getting, so we decided (after leaving, going to a Coconuts, which I didn't realize was around, and returning), to use our other sister as an excuse to play with an English Bulldog puppy. Since only people who were "really interested" in buying were able to play with the dogs, we said that she had been looking for an English Bulldog for a while, since that is the type of dog her husband wants. In reality, she probably would not want to buy one either, but luckily, the salesperson did not know that! So we were able to play with the puppy and oh my god she was so cute. I wanted to steal her. She kept biting the sleeves of my jacket and my jeans and stuff which was funny and adorable and something she'll stop doing with training and time.
Once a certain time hit, we had to leave, since we decided to go to the movies and see Finding Nemo in 3D! I hadn't watched it in a while, and it was as perfect as always. Plus, they realized I was not joking about the seats and the intensity of the theatre.
We tried going to the place across the street for mini-golf, but there was some tournament going on. Thus, we could not play, unfortunately. We're going to try again today and see! If we can't, then maybe we'll just go bowling before they have to leave or something like that!
My apartment had been suffering from a fly-invasion, so we ran to Target for some bug killing stuff and other things (Halloween oreoes, a wrench to put up my new showerhead, and a red handtowel because I wanted one to match my shower curtain and rugs). When I came back, I sprayed areas I thought they were coming in from, and then throughout the night, was on a mission to massacre all the flies in the apartment with the fly swatter. I'm pretty sure I got all of them. I wish I kept count, because it was more than it should have been. Originally I tried to get them to just go out the back door so I wouldn't have to kill them, but they wouldn't. Oh well. Hopefully with the bug stuff sprayed, we won't have an invasion again.
Dinner consisted of cookies, which might not have been a good idea in retrospect since I got a little sick later on, but it was delicious at the time. We had oreoes and then baked chocolate chip ones (the stuff I used to bake them always makes too many unless I have at least 5 people or something) and watched some Eddie Izzard and South Park and Mythbusters. It was fun!
Went to bed watching the Star Trek movie, and today should be fun also! Luckily, my roommate left for the holiday yesterday, so I have the apartment to myself until Tuesday. Which is so damn sweet. I might have people over on Monday.
And next week I get to see Karen. I'm pretty stoked.
[Edit] - Oh, and one of my prints finally arrived! Which means my other one should on Monday or Tuesday, and which also means I won't feel bad about ordering more. Because I want more. Not going to Otakon to get prints this year has made me just want to get a bunch on the internet.
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