Wow. I kind of dropped off the planet for a bit there. I'm not actually convinced anyone's reading this AND I have reached my photo limit for the month, so I stopped writing. But here's a quick update on my EXCITING life.
Last weekend, my fellow RD friends Kelli and Tim and I bartended at the Westside Mocktail Party in my building. It was a great time. We spent 3 hours blending alcohol-free beverages for about 150-200 students from my buildling and Kelli's buildings. The students did a great job of planning and we had a ton of fun. I'll post a pic from that.
Then, this past week was VA-CA-TION! woohoo! Bill and Joy Stahley came up from Vancouver, WA, for the holidays, and we spent Thanksgiving day at Brad's home (which is actually the Coleman's home). It was a great "low key" day. We cooked and ate and talked about what we are thankful for and just chatted the day away. Kelli came in the evening just as we had begun playing games and, for the second year in a row, we played the great game of Life! We watched Will & Grace and the Apprentice, too, of course. And we had our annual photos. I'll post those as well.
Friday (day after T-day) was craft day for Ann, Joy, and Brad. We spent the first half of the day getting ready for craft day and then by about 4:00 we started making candles and crocheting. We ended up at Nicole's cozy home and crocheted and watched The Elf and Love Actually.
Saturday, I headed back to hang with Brad for the night for more movie watching and crocheting. It was that night that tragedy struck our scarf making. We realized our scarves were getting narrower and narrower (and looked terrible) and we had to rip them apart and start over. :( It was kind of funny, in the way things are funny when you are so sad that you laugh. But now I've got half my scarf made again and I'm back on track.
Right now, I am most thankful for friends and vacations.
Monday, November 29, 2004
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
Hair Show!
I had the funniest experience yesterday. I went to a Hair Show with my friends Brad, Kevin, and Ann. Ann's stylist was competing for the "All-Around" so we went to see him. It was crazy! The first competition that they had was in was the area of make-up. The professional stylists had like 20 minutes to do the make-up on their model; the students had 30. When they were done, the models had to put these frames on their heads so that all the judges could see was their faces. Ann's stylist, who I thought was best, had a frame shaped like cleopatra or something and the make-up job he did fit that theme. The next competitions were hair cutting--womens and mens. Timed haircuts. How funny is that? There was this really cool cut that was a blunt-cut bob. It was layered so the bottom layer of hair was black, the next layer was bleached yellow-ish, and the top layer was black again. It was cool. There was even a woman with a mullet, but it was kind of classy (is that possible?). We left in the middle of the mens haircutting competition, so I'm not sure if Ann's stylist won. How funny, eh? It was so worth the 5 bucks. I'm gonna rent "Blow Dry" now because it's about a Hair Show and it will teach me about my people...my haircutting competition people.
Thursday, November 11, 2004
Karaoke
We made a real impression at this conference for a lot of reasons besides the odd van and getting lost. Karaoke was another of my favorite memories and we (actually, Alan) made a real impression on people. This is a pic of Alan, Lesley-Anne, and Tim singing a great rendition of "If I had a Million Dollars", which is a more exciting photo than the one of Alan singing "Ice Ice Baby" by himself. He didn't even need to look at the words. If I figure out how to do it and I've got enough memory left, I will post the video I took of him. He's good. The only picture I didn't get was of us scrunching Tim's hair because he wouldn't let us. Just you wait, Tim, just you wait..... :)
Get Lost
Imagine a group of 8 in an odd-looking Dodge Sprinter van. City kids, most of us. Driving from Bozeman, MT, looking for the Broken Heart Ranch. Now, you'd think the ranch, being in the middle of nowhere, would have a sign labeling it to welcome guests. You'd also think the people driving shuttle buses to the event would know where the BHR is. But, no. So, we in our odd-looking van "took one for the team" so the bus driver wouldn't have to drive around looking, and we tried to find the place. We didn't realize that the place we stopped when the bus driver said "do you know where this place is?" was actually the place we were looking for! No, we drove and drove and we almost made it to Yellowstone (if you count "62 miles to Yellowstone "almost"), that's how far we drove. We turned around about 30 times (in a van that BEEPS when you are in reverse, I might add! I think Alan just liked to make the van go "beep"). Kelli and Lesley-Anne walked through the dark wilderness to a lumberyard/hunters lodge to ask for directions (isn't that the first scene in most horror films?). We eventually walked into dinner 45 minutes late. This is a picture of a mailbox at the lumberyard place as a memory of that unforgettable night. The whole ordeal was so funny that I laughed until I was weeping.
Silliness
Well, the AIMHO conference was great and here's one of my pictures from it. While we spent the day in some great sessions learning how to better serve students and be more effective Res. Life professionals, the nights and in-between times were a great time to bond as a team. Here's one of the moments when Lesley-Anne laughed uncontrolably (prompted here by Nicole).
Saturday, November 06, 2004
Going away!
Well, I'm off to a conference in Bozeman, MT, from Sunday to Wednesday with the Res. Life team. They are so cool, so it'll be nice to hang with them. It's kind of a crazy time to go, but I am sure we'll be so glad to be away as soon as we hit the Idaho border. Pray for good weather Sunday and Wednesday in the Passes while we drive through them. You never quite know how much snow there will be. Happy day to everyone!
Dave and Lisa wet their pants...almost
So, at the retreat, we were playing the Name Game round when you can only give a one word clue, and Michelle said "TV. Go!" for the clue. Since that's a REALLY specific clue (note the sarcasm), Dave and Lisa laughed until they nearly wet themselves. It made my entire week. I have never seen Dave laugh that hard in my life, and I love when Lisa laughs that much. I asked them to reenact the moment for a photo and they didn't think they could, but all they had to do was remember the moment! I love my leadership team!!
More Name Game!
Another Name Game pic, the rival team. Check out Ben and Elizabeth intently guessing. This team didn't scream the answers like ours did. :) You'll notice Michelle is getting ready to say the funniest clue of the night. I love playing this game with Michelle!
The Name Game!
I went on a retreat with my Leadership Team last night and we had such a great time. We went to the slightly creepy and oh-so-cool Knox Presbyterian Church and played, laughed, and had great conversation. This is a picture of some of my Name Game teammates intently listening to the other team: Ben, Jessica, Ellie, and Michael. Hey, Michael, you should've said "Mocking" or "Boo". :)
Stress Relief
Here's my cute mentoring group for this year: Meg, Ange, and Erin. If we look a little crazy-sexy-cool it's either the stress we were all having that day or the alcohol. Maybe both. At least we're cute!
Smoke and mirrors
See previous post, lesson #2. This is one of the many moments with dry ice during Halloween night.
Halloween
Here are Aiden and Brad dressed as "2 am" and "Midnight" (yep, the times). I dressed in my witch "costume" from Spring Leadership training, including the paper plate/poster board cheepy hat I made. Lessons learned on Halloween: 1) there are not a lot of trick-or-treaters at the Coleman-McKerihan household, 2) Aiden likes dry ice, 3) tiny kids in costume are very very cute.
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