Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday? - The Over the Hills and Through the Woods Addition

As in...Over the hills and through the woods to Grandmother's house we go....YEA!

I'm currently in Chicago. It's awesome. Today is Friday, but because I couldn't get the internet to work yesterday because I majored in Psychology instead of Computer Science (DAMN IT) I just posted the last part of the camping story so I am going to save this particular post for Saturday. Content's not cheap, people, it takes effort. So while today is Friday, for you today is Saturday. It's like I've time traveled to the future to talk to you...except nothing like that really.

Why am I at my Grandma's? And why, especially, was I at my Grandma's on a Thursday? Well, that's because I told my advisor to take this job and...no, not really. I did tell him that I wanted a break and he was very understanding. He's come to the realization that everyone who has known me for more than 2 months has - A Happy Rose is a Good Rose. A Happy Rose is a valuable commodity- because just like momma- if Rose isn't happy ain't nobody happy. So I took off yesterday and today and Zach and I drove out to Grandma's. 235 miles of pure bliss and music. We listened to various music the entire time. It was a nice trip out here. I was soooooooo happy to be going Zach only got yelled at once. That's pretty good. He was happy too, thus proving the above point.

When we arrived yesterday Grandma was hard at work baking fresh bread. She loves to bake it for me, and I'm not going to lie to you, I love eating it. Fantastic. We had warm rolls with olive oil and salt and pepper and the some with lunch meat. Why am I detailing the food? I don't know either. Then we hung out for a bit. And then last night I went bowling with Grandma in the church basement. They have a 4 lane bowling alley there we didn't just break in and start chucking balls at things. It's funny. They have a bar, tvs, 4 lanes, bowling ball racks. And it's all in the Catholic church's school building. How awesome is that? We bowled three games. I got to bowl because 1 woman was absent. I did alright, certainly not recording breaking. 115, 89 and 110 in case you were wondering. I hurt my thumb because the ball didn't really fit and was sort of rough, so I got a blister, but it was worth it. It was really funny too because Grandma was yelling at me to, "throw the ball in front of you, you're throwing it to the side." I was sort of thrown off by that. I'm kinda glad I didn't play sports as a child with my Grandma there because she would have scared the hell out of me. She's all about the tough love.

Today- Friday- I went with my Aunt Marybeth to lunch, Target and Walgreens. My favorite places. It was a lot of fun. Zach did a bunch of chores for my Grandma because she likes nothing more than to have a boy to boss around the house. Whatever, I told him he could come to lunch and hang out and he opted out. I don't think he minded too much. Poor bastard.

Tonight we made pumpkin seeds, watched the Dog Whisperer and now I'm going to bed. If you've seen the Dog Whisperer than it might amuse you to know that Zach is trying Cesar's techniques on me. It doesn't amuse me, but I'm guessing that other people sympathize with him and think it's an awesome idea. Good for you all. Just keep repeating the mantra, "A Happy Rose is a Happy _______ (fill in your own name here)."

In other news - Big Congratulations go out to one Sara Lance - who should now be addressed as Dr. Lance.