Dear God! Have I really not updated my Blog since the beginning of September!?!?

Well! THAT'S a problem. Sorry my blog has become one of the ones that you get news feed about but don't bother checking because A. It sucks, or B. Nothing is ever new! I apologize for being a boring blogger!

Anyways, the reason behind my pitiful page is that I am in college...where I play tennis, study as a nursing major, and have work-study. The only free time during the week I get I am sleeping, studying, or eating. Hopefully this will change when the season ends...since instead of working at the health and counseling center I will most likely end up there needing SERIOUS therapy or have stress-related illness!

Speaking of tennis....we have a new coach this year who taught for 20 years at a D1 college....we aren't D1. He is having a difficult time wrapping his around the fact that our school doesn't PAY us to be playing this sport, in fact we pay a TON just to take classes here...so forgive me if I choose to study over WATCHING the match I am not playing in until 11PM at night which was the only time it could be rescheduled. Tennis is something that I love to do, and nursing is what I PLAN to do for THE REST OF MY LIFE, that's what needs to be priority 1. Thanks though!

I mean I CAN manage my time and make it to as much tennis as I can, and I do, but this past Saturday I took off of studying for my own mental well-being which was probably why I needed all of Monday night to review. That weekend was alumni weekend though so my boyfriend was obviously up (since he is alumni...see my "student with parent" blog in case you forgot that he is 4 1/2 years older than me). So I was so excited to see all of our friends that graduated last spring and we had a good night. His was better than mine though...I remembered for him!

The night started off out to dinner with a bunch of people who graduated with drinks, insane stories I never wanted to hear about his Freshman year, and more drinks. After that we went to a house party where rugby "initiation" was occurring (he played rugby at school...which is why we were there). This basically consisted of kids throwing up in the living room, peeing their pants, or passing out on the lawn...needless to say I made him take me back to school after about 5 minutes. Luckily for us we left since cops showed up to bust the party after an astray player managed to roam the streets alone, pee on a cruiser, and be tasered down after an attempted/successful assault of an officer....lovely. Dear Rugby team, think twice about initiation next year...now that you've finished cleaning bodily fluids off your carpet and bailed everyone out of jail.

After that horrific scene, we went to another house on campus and had a good time, again, C more than me since I maintained my sobriety for practically the whole night (not exactly by choice but by the time I wanted a drink I checked our once overflowing backpack which was now empty compliments of the boy.

I looked at him and go "we have no more beer, or vodka, we should leave."

He looks around the kitchen, finds an unattended backpack, opens it and pulls out a budlight. He then replies with "here Baby, I even sprung for the bottle! You can thank me later..."

Haha! Or I can just thank the kid who it belonged to.

Alumni....

I'm hoping to have more stories later, but since I have matches Friday, Saturday, and Sunday this weekend I'm thinking you will have to wait until next weekend.

That's all for now.

xoxo,

K

Together Again

This weekend the entire family was home! Everything was pretty typical, you know, happy hour, drinks...lots of drinks, shopping, home-cooked food...it was pretty great. It's also my Dad's 50th tomorrow so we took advantage of the opportunity to come home when we were all able to on a non-holiday weekend, which is about as frequent as a blue moon these days. And since none of us have any money since we are all either in college, graduate programs, or still paying off student loans, we decided to write my Dad a poem about the four of us with him growing up in lieu of a gift. Of course he loved it, since writing poems has always been a T family tradition, I'm not quite sure why, my Nana (his mother) was a teacher and always loved English, so maybe that's where we get it. So instead of just giving him the poem we decided it would be a good idea to read it out loud to him, while our mother flip videoed us. Obviously we all cried trying to read it aloud and sister #3 couldn't even get through her verse and sister #2 had to finish for her! Next time we will know better than to apply mascara and eyeliner 5 minutes beforehand.

xoxo,

K

Back to School

So I just moved into my room at school for tennis preseason and my boyfriend, being the stand-up guy he is, drove down with me (since all my stuff didn't fit into one car....even though I have an SUV!) and helped me move in! He went to the same school I do (which is how we met) and he has created quite the reputation for himself here....and most people know who he is, staff included, which makes it easy for him to get stuff done. We got into my room and saw that I had the old furniture...ugh! Luckily, it took him all of 5 minutes to get someone to switch out all my furniture and get me the new stuff (love him). But when he asked the maintenance guy, he had to call someone else on the walkie-talkie to make sure it was OK first. While he was calling in we heard him say "uh yeah 316? I have a PARENT and a student here moving in with a question, can you meet us at 028?" HAHA! I mean he IS 4 1/2 years older than I am but....I didn't think he looked old enough to have a child in college.....and I didn't think I looked young enough for him to BE my parent....but I guess so. So after that we did not hold hands or kiss until the maintenance crew had left.

xoxo,

K

little bit of an update

I am still in VT and don't have to be at school until Friday...and I am soaking up every last minute of freedom before the tennis matches, clinicals, and exams officially take over my life! Don't feel too bad though, I have basically been unemployed all summer and have been poolside (with a drink), lakeside(with a drink), or oceanside(with a drink) all freakin' summer!

xoxo,

K

Arachnophobia

As I was just sitting here innocently blogging...sister #3 and her boyfriend came in to hangout and boyfriend #3 caught a spider in our family room...(ick).  It's such a boy thing to have to pick up bugs!  It's ALSO a boy thing to have to dangle it in front of his girlfriend's face and piss her off! But it was a daddy-long-leg and kinda small so whatever...and then he thought it would be equally as funny to do it to me too!  It wasn't.  I just turned away so I wouldn't see it and then I heard sister #3 scream and yell "OMG T!  PICK IT UP!" Uhhh I'm sorry?  PICK it up?  It isn't UP already!?  Where the hell is it!?  Ohhh that's right....currently crawling on my shirt!!!  And since I was sitting here innocently blogging and holding my laptop I couldn't exactly jump up and throw my macbook so I could fling it off me!  T eventually got it off me...but it was the longest 3 seconds of my life!

When they say the best way to get over a fear is to face it...I DON'T think they meant you should literally have it on your face.

xoxo,

K

Summer is almost over...

I have started organizing all my stuff for college...since I will be leaving lovely VT and heading *slightly* more south for the school year.  Tennis preseason starts in a couple weeks but the good thing about THIS year is that I will get to move my stuff into my actual room instead of having a temp room for the 2 1/2 weeks of training....who ever thought of THAT idea has clearly never moved anything into a dorm room...since no one who HAS would ever think doing it TWICE in one month would be acceptable.  However I will be living with my bff B next year which promises to be crazy, funny, and so much fun (you'll hear all about it).  We're living in the newest dorms with walk-in closests and with the amount of clothes the two of us have combined....those are much more a necessity than they are a luxury!  The rooms are still dorms which means they're pretty small...and our beds do not loft (that I know of)....any suggestions for using space??  Anything I definitely should buy?

xoxo,

K

It's been FOREVER!

I  apologize for the absence of my blog updates for like the past two weeks!  I have been on vacation and it was pretty much a blast! I had the BEST two weeks....so really, sorry but I'm not sorry!  So I spent the last two weeks in CT, NYC, and York Beach with my sisters, my parents, the boy, and others!  The weather was absolutely perfect and as always we stayed at the beach too long, drank too much, and sang too loudly....but no one was complaining.  And of course we are going to do it all again next year!  

More stories later, I have to go watch the movie Twilight...I just finished the book and fell in love....and I shamelessly admit to being a "Twilighter" 

xoxo,

K