good weekend

I debated whether or not I would really go up to school this weekend. I had planned on going up to school to see everyone a few weeks ago, when I made my schedule after I decided not to go skiing. So I was pumped that I'd have a whole weekend with Tea Timers. Little did I know that this is their spring break. So I asked who'd still be around, and there were like 3 of them that said they would be. I went back and forth between wanting to go and not wanting to go. Then Thursday night when I coded my first patient, I was exhausted (emotionally) and physically after working 3 12's in a row. I just kind of wanted to be alone and relax all weekend. But I forced myself to stay true to my word, so I decided after sleeping Friday morning that I'd still go.

The first night I met Josh, Manny and Melissa at Manny's. We watched a movie, and one of the other tea timers who I haven't gotten to know at all, Jeremy, came. He was always really quiet at Tea Time, and usually I was too during discussion because I was absorbing every word of wisdom that everyone else had to say. But it turns out that he's hilarious. We were cracking jokes all night during the movie we watched. I stayed at Melissa's, since Aaron and Alysha were gone.

That night I slept horribly. I think it was a combination of a) not being used to sleeping at night, b) still thinking about what happened the night before at work, c) the room was a little stuffy, compared to how I normally sleep, and d) the unfamiliar noises. I'm generally a very light sleeper anyway, so none of this is new to me, sleeping somewhere unfamiliar. I fell asleep at like 9 am until 10:40 when we got up (I slept randomly off and on). It didn't help that the air mattress had a slow leak so my butt was on the hard wood floor. Haha.

That day was pretty low key though. The four of us were at Manny's just watching TV and a couple of movies (they didn't like Lars, which was disappointing to me :-( ). Jeremy and his friend Marcus joined for another movie before we went bowling. I lost interest on and off during the movie, I think just because I was tired. When it was over, Brooke and her boyfriend showed up, and we went to Applebee's for dinner. Justin and Teresa met us there. Dinner was awesome. I was kind of nervous about it, just having such a big group and who would I sit by? People I didn't know or people I knew really well. It turned out being a ton of fun. I sat by Justin and Melissa. And we all know that when Justin and I get together it is a guaranteed hilarious time. After dinner we went bowling, which I've been looking forward to for like a week now, since I first suggested it. Everyone had a lot of fun. It's always hilarious watching the Kenyans do anything American. haha. ohhh man.

Saturday night I slept quite a while. haha. We went to bed probably close to 2, I'd say. I planned on getting up at 8:45 so I could drive up to Justin's church. I think because of my lack of sleep the night before, I slept in. I did set my alarm and when it went off I debated whether or not to get up. Melissa got up, so I decided to let her shower first. Then I just fell back asleep. She woke me up before she left to go to her sister's church up north (we weren't planning on going to the same one, so she could stay and visit with her sister, and I could leave and come back to springfield). I said goodbye to her, in my half sleep, and I just passed back out. I slept Sunday until 3 pm!!! Haha. I needed that. it put me back on my sleep schedule, almost. And I got a lot of sleep. I could have slept even longer but I made myself get up so I could come back and get some stuff done.

I'm really glad I went this weekend. It was soooooo good to spend time with Melissa and catch up. Gosh, she's so wonderful. And the Kenyans. I adore them :-) Probably just because their reactions to things are hilarious. Manny's so goofy. And I met a couple of people, so that was good too. :-)

Brooke, Melissa, and me. Oh man, we have so much fun together.

Justin with the Kenyans, Josh (back) and Manny

Marcus and Jeremy. These two are hilarious. I wish the spotlight would have been more on Marcus that night because he seriously will have you in stitches.