Fifty

Reasons why I love being roommates with Elayna!

1. She knows the words to every Taylor Swift song and when listening to it in our room, we switch off lines of lyrics and it's perfect.
2. Sometimes when the room is quiet except some music playing, we break into song at the exact same moment, then crack up.
3. We make cookies together all the time.
4. She is passionate about Crossfit and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
5. Her family is reading a Christian book together and have a weekly Google Hangout where they talk about their thoughts and feelings about what they read. (so so cute)
6. She loves her sister's son so much (and insists on showing me every snapchat of him that her mom or sister send her)
7. She has the urge to pee JUST as I'm getting in the shower ALL THE TIME.
8. She takes school seriously, but not too much.
9. She loves cats and I love cats and she has the most adorable cat ever and I want to steal Mia.
10. We are both equally capable of distracting each other from homework via funny videos, pictures, songs, ect.
11. Whenever I complain about class or homework, Elayna says "Don't do it!" or "Don't go!" which always convinces me to go it/go.
12. We equally value privacy.
13. We both go to bed early.
14. She reads good books and makes me read them (Ex: The Fault in Our Stars).
15. She knows she doesn't need make-up or laboriously styled hair to be beautiful.
16. She loves God and is committed to living that love out! (She just got baptized this year!)
17. We can communicate our thoughts and feelings to each other with whines and whimpers.
18. Her laugh is freaking contagious. And she laughs a lot. My abs hurt often.
19. Neither of us speak English very well.
20. We both sing in the shower.
21. We both sleep with teddy bears and aren't embarrassed of the fact!
22. We both pee in the shower, and are unashamed.
23. Recently we've been saying the same thing at the same time and it's weird. Like, we smelled food and at the same time looked up and said, "Food."
24. She's really good at matching outfits.
25. She has awesome socks.
26. She is really good at making her hair cute.
27. She doesn't feed my ego.
28. We speak the same flavor of sarcasm.
29. I can't tell when she's kidding. I believe her no matter how ridiculous what she's telling me.
30. I'm slowly turning her towards country music. Slowly but surely.
31. We have a similar desire for a MAN, not a boy.
32. We have similar dating horror stories. I think we dated the same idiot.
33. Neither of us have had Gwinnicorns/Unicorns/Gwinn Crushes (or at least, admitted to it).
34. She enjoys torturing me with bell peppers in the room.
35. We always offer each other some of our food, even (or perhaps especially) when we know the other doesn't like it.
36. We would both rather stay in on a Friday night and watch a chick flick while painting out nails than go partying.
37. She has good hygiene.
38. She is super considerate when one of us wants to make a call or skype.
39. She is used to and accepts me even though I burp and fart like no other.
40. She turned me into the sort of person who makes their bed EVERY MORNING.
41. She buys the toilet paper we both prefer (even though our school provides free toilet paper) (their toilet paper is more like sand paper).
42. We both have a healthy appreciation for J.Biebs.
43. She has created a man-collage about my bed, so I am constantly looking at random men from magazines.
44. We always ask about borrowing things, even though we know the answer is yes.
45. She doesn't judge me for singing female empowerment songs really loudly. Cause honestly, we all gotta do it sometimes.
46. When she's gone overnight I am sad. The room turns creepy when she's not here.
47. We share the chore load equally, and sometimes do each other's dishes just to be nice.
48. We both write a lot of letters. And both love stickers and stamps.
49. She knows me and still loves me.
50. I have a lot of blackmail on her. But she trusts me to never use it. ;)

Well, that was 50 reasons, but it was just a tiny window into how much I love Elayna <3
Thanks for being such a bro.

Keep it classy, folks.

"I've heard it said
That people come into our lives for a reason
Bringing something we must learn
And we are led
To those who help us most to grow
If we let them
And we help them in return." - Glinda ("Wicked")

I'm Back! And With New Classes!

Hey!

I'm back in Seattle and figured now was a good time to write a new blog post, so here we are!

Let's see. I'm taking three classes and two pseudo-classes. Here are short descriptions of them so far:

University Core 1000: Arts & Christian Community (although I think Art and Faith would have been a better title). My professor is Suzanne Wolfe and here are a couple words that describe her: sassy, British, old, radical, coarse (in reference to her tendency to swear like a pirate). So far I like her as a person, but her lecture style is unstructured and confusing, so I dislike that. But our homework is mostly to read modern literature/art and ponder it, so that's cool.

British Literature: Restoration - Victorian. Pretty much a heavy-reading class with dense literature (right now we're reading Pope and Rochester). I like the professor - Christine Chaney - she's very funny and keeps boring stuff interesting. I think this is going to be my toughest class because we cover so much.

The Sentence. This is a writing style class taught by Professor April Middeljans who I would describe as looking like a mother. She's kinda awkward and has a 90's haircut, but she's very sweet and interesting. I don't think I've been bored in this class yet, which is good. I thought I was going to be taking a grammar class, but I think I'm going to enjoy building my own style further. :)

Gospel Choir. Professor Stephen Newby teaches this class that only meets once a week (Tuesday in the evening). Although I joined mid-year and don't know how to sight-read sheet music AT ALL, I think I'm going to enjoy this class at all. It's not stressful at all, and I get to spend and hour and a half praising God, what more could I want?!

Newspaper. Overseen by Rick Jackson, Newspaper is sorta chaos. Even before all of the photographers except me left and our photo-editor left, the photographers had the short end of the stick, but now with me being the only photographer (and not having my heart in it), I think this semester is going to stink. Edit: there's a new girl joining as a photographer so I'm not COMPLETELY alone!

So those are my classes! I hope I love them all!

"Wonderful, they called me wonderful,
So I said, "Wonderful, if you insist.
I Will Be Wonderful" and they said, "Wonderful!"
Believe me, it's hard to resist!" - The Great and Powerful Wizard of OZ ("Wicked")