My Battle Scars

This quarter I joined the intramural volleyball league. My team is co-ed and it is extremely fun. However the team we played last night was way beyond this league that my team had to step up our game. Unfortunately that meant diving. Well because I used to play volleyball the diving was no problem for me, but for my knees it's another story.

Diving + no knee pads =



These pictures don't do justice to what it actually looks like. My camera isn't picking up all the bruising, just the worst of it.

Also, the other team had awesome serves which meant bruising on the arms as well. Though this isn't near as bad as my knee, it still hurts.


Once again the camera isn't catching all the bruising, but you still the basic idea.

My Own Little Touch of Home

As everyone who will read this knows, my mom is known to decorate the house for every holiday. And though yes, that was supposed to get a chuckle from you, this isn't to bash my mother at all. Quite the opposite however. I learned from growing up that decorating for holidays was just something you did. So naturally because I'm not home for Halloween, I tried to bring what little festivities I could to my new home. Though I can't do a lot because I have a roommate, I did what I could get away with.







I would have loved to get more decorations into my room, but this is what I could get away with. Even though it isn't near as much as I know my real home has, at least this makes me feel somewhat like I'm there.

A couple things i forgot...

I forgot to mention a couple things about Alex's and mine date to Harvestfest. The first is I recorded the turkeys and the sounds they were making and I forgot to post it. I think it is pretty funny.

Second, Alex won a free pumpkin. They were doing this thing where you guessed how much the pumpkin weighted and if you got it right you got the pumpkin. Alex and this little girl tied and so they had to guess the weight of a second pumpkin and whoever was closer to that one won. Alex lost the second pumpkin guessing (but part of me thinks he did it on purpose so the girl could win). However, he did get to keep the second pumpkin....which was super ugly and kind of moldy. Still cool though.

Anniversary Number Two

This weekend Alex came up to visit me for our second year anniversary. Our first date was to a corn maze and so every year we go to a corn maze to re-live that date. This year however, we couldn't go to the corn maze we've gone to the last two years because I'm up at Central. So we used to Google and found one in Ellensburg to explore, called Harvestfest.

Our day was filled with much more than just a corn maze. We happened to go on family day and so the farm was filled with little kids, and little kids activities. This also meant all adults got in for free and so had an almost free date.

One of the activities they offered was face painting. I know I'm 18, but there is nothing better than acting like a kid.



There were scarecrows all over the farm. We had fun taking pictures of them because they were all creative.


One of the things that also happened every half hour was a potato-sack race. It was so fun watching the little kids having a ball and just being kids.


There were also signs all over the place and some of them where funny.








Finally we got to the corn maze. Compared to the corn maze in Kent this one was kind of whimpy. The corn stocks were short and the path was tiny, but it was still nice to be able to go on out date.









There was also a petting zoo! They had some two turkeys, a goat, and two baby chickens.



The baby chicken started crawling into Alex's shirt. It was super funny.





There were a couple picture boards in the park as well, and so naturally we did those as well...





We stopped by the gift shop to buy our pumpkins and I found this cute little plastic pumpkin. It reminds me of something out of Nightmare Before Christmas.



The presents:

This year Alex gave me the sweetest presents in the world. He bought me the first season of Modern Family and the spider nano bug. However, he also made me a comic book about the first time we met, our first date, how he asked me out, and about the first time we kissed. It was the best gift ever because the whole thing was done by hand.



My gift to Alex wasn't as grand. I got him a Zen Garden from the thrift store. But I also ordered him a pair of boxers. The back of them says, "Property of Jessi Cheney" and the front has our hand heart. I also ordered myself a pair of underwear that says "Property of Alex Sheets" with the hand heart of the front. Sadly, they didn't get here in time. However when they do I will post a picture of them.

Oh How I Hate To Study

So, what comes with school is studying. However the amount of time I spend on homework is ridicules. Everyday I go to my classes, get lunch, do homework until dinner, and then keep doing homework until bed.

Right now the class that is taking up most of my time is Grammar. Currently we are learning Old English. For some reason my teacher thinks its crucial for the class to learn a dead language. And I'm not talking about just touching on the language to better understand modern English, which would make since to me. My teacher is making us learn how to read and write Old English. I feel like I'm in Spanish all over again! It's terrible. My dad though (who is totally awesome) spent a half hour on the phone with me to help me understand prepositions so that trying to find them in a dead language would be a little easier.

My other two classes are both pretty easy. I'm talking Studies of English Literature and Poetry. So far I haven't done much in either classes. In my lit class we are reading The Great Gatsby...it's terrible. And in Poetry we just read poems and talk about them, with the occasional test online.

And that is my school life at the moment. Terribly exciting I know.

Staying Connected

One of the hardest things about being at college is not being able to see Alex. Thankfully the world of smart people created a fancy little thing called Skype. Being able to talk to Alex via Skype is amazing because it's the closest thing the being together. Though it will never come close to actually being with one another, it helps ease the pain of being two hours away from each other. At least this way we get to see each others faces and feel closer to each other. So other than texting when we aren't at our computers, this is our main way of staying connected until I come home.

Game Day!

Saturday was the first home game of the season, so naturally Kylee and I went. The team played against Simon Fraser from Canada. Before the game Kylee and I went and got team spirit by getting our faces painted!


Kylee got war strips in the school colors and I got a black paw on my check.

And of course with all college football games, the school mascot, Wellington P. Wildcat, made an appearance.


And of course, we got a picture with him.

Before the game the school's marching band played. They were actually pretty good, though i still hold to the fact that i would never! play in one. ..sorry Amy.



Kylee and I left at half time because we were completely frozen. When we left the score was
31 wildcats and 3 Fraser. The score at the end was 37-17, so wildcats won! Woot Woot!