I'm old!

It is official..I am 22 years old!  I am so old here compared to everyone else..well some of the people that I have met and started becoming friends with!  But oh well!

My bfffffff came to Iowa for the weekend!  Hey Kel!  I am SO excited to have her here with me for the weekend.  Haha, we are having a lazy day!  This morning we went to go and grab something to eat at the dining hall, Seasons, and then we went and took a walk around campus.  I showed her where some of my classes are and one of my lecture halls that is huge, but apparently she had already seen it, but I didn't remember that.  We saw a wedding being set up in central campus, so sweet, but puke, at the same time!

Last night I went out with some of the new friends that I have made!  I had so much fun..and tonight Kelly and I are going out to have a little fun!

Nothing much to report on the school front.  This week was a busy week, but other than that the homework has been in a lull for now.  Which is a good thing and I am not complaining!

Well, we've watched a movie already and now we're starting Justin Bieber!  One of the amazing birthday presents from her!  She spoiled me! Below is a picture of what she got me!

I have the best bffff in the world!

We Beat Iowa!

 Today was a fabulous day!  Iowa State beat University of Iowa for the first time in 4 years..and I was there!  I was a great game to watch!  The score was 44-41 and we won it in triple overtime, what a big deal!  So besides winning we got there early to find good seats on the lawn, which was a good thing because the stadium eventually held 56, 085 people for the game.  Nuts!  Football is a big deal here, like I've said before, but this game was bigger than Green Bay vs. Bears.  More like the Superbowl when two rival teams are in it..in fact it kinda was the Superbowl, but for Iowa alone.  Anyway, you all can enjoy the pictures!  I'll tell what each one is..just so you know.  The first one above is a picture of the girls and I waiting to get into the stadium.

The picture above is of the scoreboard showing that we in fact did win!  This picture is not mine, it's Maleah's.  But I stole it! :)

All of the Cyclone fans storming the field just after we won the game!!  This picture is also a picture that Maleah took.

This is Maleah!  Haha, she lives across the hallway from me..sadly I'm moving from that room today..more on that later!

The football team right before the game.

So, as you can see, it was an eventful day!  Only bad thing was that we were sitting outside all day..so none the less we all got sunburned.  My nose is crispy red!  And there is a faint I on my face from my face paint..Maleahs I is much much more distinct!

So anyway, I talked about moving from my room.  Everything got worked out eventually and now I've got a room.  I still wish that it was on 3rd floor..but I will survive.  I will probably end up spending my time now in the den..that used to be my room on 3rd floor where the nice new leather couches will eventually be..haha kind of an inside joke.  But anyway it all should be good!

Now it's time to write my two papers..and then start the move two floors down!

It's Moving Time.

Get it? The song..it goes like "it's closing time.." etc..I don't really know that words to it and I know that it is not from the band Three Doors Down..I just remember hearing it in the Friends With Benefits movie and for some reason it decided to pop into my head..and now of course it wont leave.  Hahaha I think Kelly is the only one who is going to understand what in the world I am talking about.

Anyway, about moving time.  It's official.  I finally have a permanent place to live on campus.  Housing options opened up for those in interim housing today, at 6am.  So I was up at 6 to get a room!  Unlucky for me though I have to move by Sunday. I have so many things to do though before Sunday with work and school work!  However I got very lucky and I am only moving two floors down and staying in the same building. I am grateful for that since I have now made friends here and am now on the executive board for the dorm as a whole.  But it is closer to the laundry room so I don't have to carry heavy clothes up like 6 or 7 flights of stairs..that's how many it is to actually get into the basement where all the machines are, redonk!

The only thing that really stinks is that now I am finally all settled in with a routine and what not and I have pictures up on the wall, that I just hung up..that now all have to come down and get re hung up..Okay well I took a break from writing and now things are going downhill with this rooming situation..I will have to update later..

Football!

Today's the first football game...and it's pouring.  Somehow I do not see how this is going to work out or how my attitude is going to stay positive while sitting out there.  But I am going to try and make the best of it!  Football seems to be a big thing here at ISU..sports in general actually.

I am grateful to have a day off on Monday!  I've got A LOT of things that I need to get done.  The to-do list seems to just keep growing and growing.  It consists mostly of uneventful things, like homework and papers that need to be completed for this week.  I am really enjoying my Children's Literature class..it will probably end up being one of my favorites.  I get to read children's books all day..how bad could it be?!  Of course there's papers and book reviews to go along with them..but it's not difficult.  Math will be the death of me this semester. I feel so dumb in that class..It is definitely not just me that doesn't understand it...to the tutor I go.  Well  not yet..I am going to start out with the Math help room and then if I still don't get it hen I'll get a tutor.

Speaking of tutoring..and mentoring.  Work is going much better!  We had an employee meeting Thursday afternoon to find out the basics of what the advisors want and how they want things to be organized..and it's going to be more work in the beginning but will start to taper off..and then basketball season starts and I'll be working with those guys and it starts all over again.  As long as my guys are doing their work I can sit there and study and do my own homework.  Which hey, the way that I see it is that I am getting paid to babysit them, keep them on task, and do my own homework.  Of course it doesn't hurt that there's a few good looking guys thrown in the mix..I should stop now, haha.  My mom is going to start calling me a jersey chaser now.

Well, the girls and I are going to watch Something Borrowed now!  I am so buying this movie when I get a chance.

Stressssssss.

I've realized that I am not very good at this whole blog thing.  I love reading other peoples' writing, but my own not so much.

Let us just get down into the nitty gritty right away.  I HATE DOCTORS OFFICES.  I feel like 1) I am playing phone tag with them..which is a little ridiculous, 2) this pulmonologist office that I am dealing with is non-sense.  There are 6 different doctors in the practice and I have to wait and wait for one to come back into the office in order to get anything accomplished.  Maybe if the receptionist took my message down right the first time we would not be going through this.  From the CT Scan that I took before I left town they say that I still have "abnormalities" in my left lung.  The doctor believes that it is still pneumonia.  Okay fine.  He didn't give me another antibiotic, but he wants me to repeat another CT Scan in early September.  Okay, give me a date.  But he didn't.  Seriously.  I don't understand how this pneumonia is going to go away on its own, especially because you are not giving me another antibiotic and want me to repeat a scar for the 3rd time.  Hopefully there are some much more competent people working here in Ames.  But its NBD (no big deal) because hey, it's not your money paying for another scan.

Moving on. Today was NUTS.  Absolutely nuts.  It is kind of like all the professors came together this weekend and decided to pile a ton of work on us.  I wouldn't say that I am "stressed" yet..but maybe a little scatter brained from being thrown back into the university life and trying to keep my life in order at the same time. I was either at school or doing homework or mentoring from 8-5 today..just like a full time job.  I'm used to that..but not when I am doing Math that is supposedly for elementary students and it feels like it is way above my head even.  There is no way that this math is for them.  Just sayin'.

This weekend I stayed in a mostly did a ton of homework..but I knew I would need to in order to stay ahead of the game for this week.  Especially with work starting.  I officially had my first day as a mentor.  I ended up just being a mentor unlike I originally thought, tutoring starts in a couple days. But let me tell you, my first day of mentoring was very overwhelming.  Picture this, Iowa State, Division 1 school, 30-40 BIG..and I mean BIG  scary looking men in one room..with small little me.  I mean I am not the tiniest thing out there..but compared to them, they would be able to squash me like a bug if I did or said something they didn't like.  Moving along..mentoring is going to be interesting.  It is going to be a lot of work in the beginning, just trying to get their schedules down and all of their things organized...and then there are the things like the talking back and looking at me funny.  I can be mean.  And I will be mean if I have to be, and they do not want to see that side of me.  I have got a group of 4 football guys work with and so far, they're doing alright.  If they do the work they are supposed to we'll have a goo semester working together!  We'll see what tomorrow night brings after that mentoring session, with another group of 4 football guys.

I went on another mind clearing walk in the park tonight.  It was not a very pretty sunset tonight, but you can tell that it is definitely starting to get darker sooner.  Fall is right around the corner!  I'm pretty excited for it.  That just means it's a little bit cooler and I can actually sleep with my blankets!  Right now it is just way too hot a muggy to sleep with them all on!

So now I think that I need to start on some more homework that is due on Wednesday..got tomorrows stuff done over the weekend, thank goodness.  My mind is way to tired to start on anything that takes a lot of thought and effort.  Unfortunately I have also caught the college bug again of staying up late and getting little to no sleep.  Opps.  I'll have to work on this.  Sorry for the scattering of this post..i'm tired!

Things will be alirght...

Today was the first day of classes here at Iowa State! Just like every other school started today, but today was good for me!  I'm starting to learn that I just need to take a leap of faith and get out there and meet people..and just be that bubbly Libby that they would eventually get to know.  I don't know what it is with me and being shy..who taught me to be like that?  My mother is the social butterfly..well whatever it is, I am learning to get over it.

So like I said classes started today..and as of 2pm my schedule was FINALLY finalized.  What a whirlwind couple of days with that.  Now I have learned to definitely not wait until the last few days before class to register. 

I went on an amazing, mind clearing walk tonight after dinner with a girl that lives next to me.  We ran into such a beautiful sunset..I will share:

I'm glad that she asked me to go with...got to know her a little bit more and it got my mind off of missing home!  I know I will be fine here..I'll make more best friends and we'll be friends for a lifetime!

I guess its back to the reality of homework now..ON THE FIRST DAY! Oh well, it feels good to jump back into a routine.

Until next time..

Oh the Adventures.

I decided that making a blog may come into good use while I am here at Iowa State.  Possibly a good reflection tool or a venting mechanism.  I didn't make this blog to tell all my problems to the world but if you want to read about my life, well then you're in the right place.

I'll do some more posting soon.