2 big projects. One day til they are due....

So you may ask....bethany, how far along are you with your projects? Are you going to pull an all nighter? And to all of you I say....I am almost done and it is 6 at night. Does everyone realize what has happened here? I am a convert. A convert into the world of starting things early, so that I 1) feel better about my finished product 2) I know what I hand in is actually my best work and lets see 3) i don't have to stay up all night putting it together. I would say those are healthy outcomes. Also, isn't there some saying where if you keep doing the same thing over and over again with the same negative results that is insanity? well I am no longer insane then. Because I have changed my ways. so this week I got molly into stumbleupon.com. It is this thing where you put in what you are interested and it will stumble upon different websites around the world that you never would know about otherwise. Kinda sweet. In super important news: I made an avocado/ lime pie today in class. I thought it was going to be super sick, but no it wasn't. Really. i am not just saying that because I am the one who made it. It did not have long enough to set, but it still tasted tasty. yummers. Okay let's see what else? Not much. My eyes feel all funny. Too much reading and stuff, but it will be done tomorrow. then onto the next thing, but killing two bigs with one stone is super nice. Oh also, I think my group is changing the direction we are going for the business class. It just appears that we have a super good idea, but not for the confines of the class. With everything the teachers want it basically has to be either an event, a service or a product. That can be terminated after 4 months. So we are probably going to do a paintball tournament. I don't know much about paintball. But I guess a lot of boys in our group do. A group from the monday class is doing a race. I wish we could do a race! :( But can't copy. anyways tell me your thoughts on that. It is sad that we had to cut our losses of time and energy and start fresh, but I think we hit a wall we could not manage to break through in our current situation. Anyways more news to come! peace
B

I'm Joining In!!!

Hi Family and Friends!
This is Mary! So Bethany and I decided it would be hecka sweet if I wrote on her blogspot too... that way I can write to you guys too and keep in touch too!!!! So today is kind of a rainy day. It has been raining all stinkin week! But that is okay! I like rain. Just stinks when you make your hair nice and straight and then you walk outside and... poof... it is curly! Right now I am in the library just finished a paper. yucky. But glad I got it done! Today there is no practice! We are tapering this week so we are barely running at practice. Super weird. I have so much energy! I feel like an ADHD kids and I just want to be doing something all the time!!! Conference is this weekend... really nervous. But a good type of nervous! The kind where you know once you get done with the race i will feel soooooo good and so proud that i accomplished this cross country season! And hopefully get to go to regionals! That would be AMAZING! The season has definitely been so fun/challenging/a growing experience for me! But it makes me think of all the disappointments that I experienced in highschool and how much those experiences have helped me with my xc season this year. Weird how God uses past things to help you with present situations. I'm going to the pumpkin patch today! My first pumpkin patch! Ryan is taking me there and then we are going to carve them! He has never carved a pumpkin so i get to show him all i know! My favorite part is taking out the guts! They feel so cool! I decided that i love all the seasonal candies! like candy corn! yummy... I love candy canes too when they come around! But i still do not like valentine hearts. Bethany and I are cooking our recipes in cooking class today. She is making an avocado pie and i am making a chinese eggplant dish. We had to pick a fruit or veggie and make something with it. I don't really know why I chose eggplant. Maybe because it is purple. I don't really know why I chose it though! I don't think i even like it. HA! Thanks Luke for sending me a text this week! And Grandma I need to call you back!!! it is so hard to find quiet time to talk with people on the phone! Plus my dorm has horrible reception for some reason... it is odd. Well I am going to get some lunchy lunch! Peace~Mary

Busy Day

Let's see....today is Sunday already. WOW!! I got your message grandpa! Sorry i have not called back yet. I am the worst at that. Church was super good this morning. It was about God's extravagant love towards us. And the man gave an example of getting two random letters in the mail from separate people and they had the same theme and everything. I am doing a horrible job of explaining it. But all in all it was about the way God shows his love for us in personal ways because we are in a relationship with him. So it was refreshing and a great reminder that the God I love and serve connects with me on a personal level every day and in every way. Good stuff. Kaley and I went to that and then came home and made lunch, which consisted of us making random sandwich creations. But they were tasty, so i was happy. And we cleaned the entire kitchen! Good job us. We went to grandma and grandpa camps last night to say hi and I guess goodbye to sontaya. Kaley, Mary and I went out there. We took Ryans car and mary and I had some trouble with it at first. It stopped in the middle of the road when we first started and kept dying. And then when we went to get gas mary went the wrong way to go to my house because she was more worried about not stopping, so the car would not stall. but we somehow made it there and back again without much of a problem after getting gas and filling the tire. Oh yeah grandpa ronnie came into the house after we had been there about 30 minutes and told us ryans right front tire was going flat. What did we do? went to a service station at gas station. And I never knew they had those. AND we dealt with the situation once we were there by getting out of the car and staring blankly at the air pump and then man just popped out of the gas station headquarters and helped us out. what a nice man. And he filled it and we were on our way. Lucky for ryan grandpa r is so observant. After that we ate AMAZING food, but grandma g of course said there were a number of things wrong with the meal. I always think everything tastes perfect. She is one of the best cooks. and I am starved of home cooked meals....so that could be a contributing factor. Georgia and Cole were there and us three played with them all night. We played simon says, london bridge, ring around the rosy etc. fun fun fun. They are about as cute as they come. And i am not just saying that. Georgia is hilarious. It was great to be around kids. When I landed awkwardly one time on ring around the rosy, cole looked at me and said "you shook the whole house." we were in the dining room area. So for all of you that know it shakes quite a bit. I could not stop laughing....thanks cole. And then when we were playing simon says, georgia was simon and she says, "Simon says...touch the big boy" and goes over and touches darrels arm. SOOOOO funny. I think kaley enjoyed coming too. Hopefully! :) Molly gets back tonight from Seattle where she met Joeys fam for the first time, so I am curious how that all went! Today i also worked again. lots of hours. Bringing the money in! I videoed the soccer game and it was chilly willy. yep chilly willy. For some reason there is not much else to say. I need to leave room for mary to tell some stories too. sorry mares. But I have to get her to start writing!
Off to bed I go. At 10. I am some wild and crazy college student. whoop whoop. :) night.
B

Trying this out

I signed mary up to be an author, so now she can write too. Now I just have to tell her about it. I talked to her tonight and we agreed it would be easiest to do it this way!! So now you get both of us!!! And the masses scream....HURRAY!!! :) right?
peace
B

I have decided we will now close are letters with "M" and "B" respectively.

Sorry

Sorry my posts are always so long.

B

SATURDAY!!!!

It is kind of nice having a Saturday where the run is on your own and you can just kind of get things done. I cleaned my room super well yesterday. It had not been done in I think 3 weeks. It just kept getting worse and worse. Finally it feels like a nice place to be again!! Today I went to the Alumni board meeting because I got a scholarship. It was actually a good time. It just takes a second every time I go to events where I have to talk to people other than college kids. It is different. But I love to be with all ages. I miss it. I met a woman who knew our entire family. Her husband went to school with grandpa bob out here at western evangelical seminary. I never knew you went out here grandpa bob! I don't know why I never knew that!!!! Now I do! Her name was betty......and I really tried hard to remember her last name and now I cannot. But she said they have stayed with you in billings grandma and grandpa. And her husband worked at Fox when it first started I think she said and he did a job where he went all over for awhile and then she also said he pastored a church for about 15 years. Anything ringing a bell? She said to say hi to you. It is crazy how the strutz name just automatically has an in. weird. Someone else asked me if I was a chandler-strutz. Nope i am steve's kid. And someone else was 2 years older than brittanie and knew her. They asked us our names and majors and a little bit about ourselves. I was going to say and track and cross country and res life, but then all the sudden I was basically saying how blessed I feel to be at fox and that I was only going to come for my freshman year and how this scholarship has helped a lot. So there ya go! Guess that is what I was supposed to say. It has helped a lot. I mean $1,000 two years in a row is phenomonal. Great experience overall.
I was just talking to my friend merideth from Cody, WY and we were discussing what we are going to do after college and she is going to get her drafting associates down there at the community college. So we discussed some things. So there is another thing in the think tank. I do really like to draft. but have never had the opportunity to hone the skill because it always comes along side something else. But just an option like I said. And cody is only an hour and a half away. But then I have to look at cost benefits and so on. It would not be that expensive at all. but it would be weird to live there, but merideth is super cool and I could live with her.
So here are all the possible ways I could go:
First off we will look at both areas I would potentially live in:
Portland area and Billings.
PORTLAND:
Internship/Job
MBA program
Live and work
Be a bum

BILLINGS/CODY:
Internship/ Job
Intern as a youth helper person at church
I don't know what programs are there, but maybe do schooling in billings/bozeman
Live and work and get by (pay off loans)
Cody: get my drafting associates degree (takes 1 year)
Mooch off of parents......hahahahaha like that would ever happen.

Man when I write it out there are of options. So that is why I am writing them out. Oh my a baby story is on right now!!! Too bad abbie is not here. We like to watch it and cry. I need to go on a run sometime. but when? who knows! only 30 minutes though.
Mary's hip has been bothering her, but she keeps trying to tough it out. And yes I know you read this mary! :) But be praying her hip would heal up before conference so that she can rock it!!!! Only one week from today!!! I can't believe it is already here!
Alright I better go ahead and start my research paper. I just gotta do it!! I have an outline, so it should be really easy actually. Hopefully.
I love you all and thanks for reading. I am so glad I got this blog. That way everyone knows what is going on! Because I forget who I tell what to! I am going to post some pics of our pumpkin carvving and such! And Maybe do a slide show tomorrow when I work. I am working now. Sarah needed me to and I needed hours. Win win. OOOOKAY!! bye for now.

My fist presentation this year

It was my first presentation today for business Capstone. I presented on our marketing plan and it went awesome! I practiced the night before and worked hard on knowing what I was talking about inside and out, so that I would not ramble or not know what to say. It was a small victory, but a victory none the less!! I am realizing I have the right tools to utilize in order to be a good speaker....I just have to work on practicing them. I was just excited about it and wanted to tell all of you!!!!! Things are looking up today. I wrote an email to the other three women who are going to conference with me (yes one is Mary) and tried to refocus where we are going the next two weeks. I felt like we were all over the place and needed to come back to what we are here for. We are all tired and feel like we have nothing left to give to XC, but it is an honor to go to Conference and we need to all see it that way and show up to perform like we know we can. I was writing the email as much for myself as for them. I opened the door this morning to go outside and there was the hugest spider....ever. not ever, but it was like one with a gigantic body and those hairy legs. I am glad I looked or I would have walked right through it!!!!! :( yuck. So I opened the door and got it inside and squished it. Which is probably "unoregonian hippie" of me... :) But ya know it was gross and i just was mad that it surpised me and let's be honest I cannot remember the last time I actually took out a piece of paper and put the spider on it and took it outside to save its life. Yep never happened. It may have had no intention of hurting me to anything....I just was not in the mood to let it live. Good thing God is not like that huh? Did I tell you that Mary and Ryan took me to pizza on Sunday night? They did!!!! It was so nice of them. they meant to take me to Chinese food at Panda express, but it turned out my meeting went too long and then the place closed...bummer city. My fault. So then we went to pizza, but by 9:15 we were all running low on blood sugar and let me tell you.....that makes for some funny conversation. We were ready for some food!!! So thank you mares and ry! :) Okay i better get going to chapel. Love you. B

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Why does everything have to mount so quickly? One minute I am helping out my friends with their stuff and then the next minute I realize i have neglected to figure out things in my own. Ugh. I got bad news about my finances and that just put a damper on things. The womens cross country team is dwindling. i think there will only be 3 of us girls who race at conference and I can feel myself starting to get tired and worn out from trying to give one hundred percent to everything. It feels like I try to really focus on 2 of the things and then the other one starts slipping, then i switch and the cycle continues. I am just discouraged is all. I don't know if I am cut out for the real world and I sometimes just want to quit. But I won't. I never do. Nothing is that bad. I am just having one of those days. But I have been working on my projects early and trying to get them done. So that's good. Joey is really nervous about our business project. As we get farther along it is easier to see how it could epically fail. i choose to see it as somewhere in between. No one may buy into it, but then again some might and so lets try to roll with the punches and figure out how it can be a learning experience and maybe we will make a profit.......really really hope we do. Am I in over my head? I don't know. I am a wreck. But you wanna know what is hard about being a wreck when you are never a wreck? Just that. You are never a wreck, so I feel weird being like that and I am sure when people see the red teary eyed face they feel awkward because I am being awkward. Oh my oh my. Sorry this is such a debbie downer post as well as being extremely oversharerish. I just had to write it all somewhere. And this is where I am at for today. No lying. And Kaley is doing a ton better. thank you all for praying for her! there has been a lot of clarity brought into her life and some good news about her being an aunt!!!!! Her sister in law is pregnant. And the news came at the perfect time. Molly is still doing clinicals. She worked last night and then tonight and tomorrow. So as always pray that she does not get too tired and go off the road or anything. That scares me. Okay thanks ya'll for reading. Love you. B

Why is technology such a Pain?????

So you know how I decided to sharpie my compy? well heres the deal. the front part is rad and I have already been complimented on it. But I did the part below the keys and now it is rubbing off all over the bottom of my hand. dumb. And today has been a crazy one. Well not really, but just the past 2 and a half hours I have been working on this scrapbooky thing that abbie told me about....only NOW I can't quit figure out a few things and I am very frustated. Or in socially acceptable hysterics as I just told abbie on facebook chat. Only she has not answered me back. I am just mad that I did that instead of reading my consumer behavior. Its okay i will do that tonight. It is hard for me to concentrate in here anyways. I had a not so great race yesterday. BUT Mary had a great race. Maybe her time wasn't what she wanted, but she put in the hard effort, which I wish i could say I did. No excuses....it was just an off day! But that is okay I will reboot and get ready for conference in about 2 weeks. Less than that now. Our coach was sick, it was a rediculously rainy day, the course was all sloshy mud after 6 races had gone before us and it was just chaos it seemed. But ya know it was a hilarious experience. There was this huge puddle that we went by three times and I ran right through it each time. The first was because I had to and then I decided I was muddy anyways and if you ever want to feel hardcore....just run through a deep huge giant mud puddle. You will feel as though you are in a Nike ad and need your own theme song. At least for about 3 seconds. Then you realize you are still racing and it is still rainy. But overall I decided it was a good reminder that I need to get my rear in gear. Wanna know something odd? Of course you do. That was my last cross country 5k. Kinda really really sad. But I am trying not to see it in a negative light. Just that I enjoy each thing this year as it comes, but I can't try to hold on to being in college forever. Life moves on and I will have to as well. Easier said than done!!! It just goes by fast is all. I got to talk to Zoë on the phone today when she was crying and she calmed down when I talked to her. Whether it was just because a weird sound was coming out of the phone...or because it was my voice....it still made my day!!! And I will just choose to have it be the latter of the two choices. Church was great this morning. Sean talked about loving your enemies and how to do that by taking the plank out of your own eye....forgiving the other etc. Kaley, Mo and I went to the Volleyball game last night. It was too bad because our team was number 2 in the conference and they were playing the number one team last night and they lost. :( so that was sad, but it was a good game for some of it! Kaley and I went to our friend Chris' apartment and they were having a pumpkin extravaganza. They had pumpkin pie and muffins and pumpkins. We did not carve one, but we picked out all the pumpkin seeds! And they let us keep a bunch. That reminds me....I need to bake those tonight. They will make a yummy little snack later. The weekend went by extremely fast this week, but that is okay. I have all my homework done for next week.....but I have to get a lot of big things done early for next week. I cannot procrastinate!!!!!!! :) That would just be a load of stress I do not need! and can avoid. Only about 20 minutes left of work. Woot woot. Peace.

I dunno....

There is always the post where i try to get out there what is going on and then I suddenly realize how much I like to write on my blog, so I want to write another. Like the book when you give a pig a pancake, but kind of not like that at all. Also in case any of you have noticed I don't erase things. i write as I am thinking and then I say....well they know me and they can just read all of my random things. It has been a great week. because it hasn't snowed here.....unlike another place I know of. We still have fall. We still have the beautiful red and orange and yellow leaves that are the reason I love this season sooo much. But I do feel bad for all of you in billings because the snow took away the leaves I am assuming. :( I should have cleaned my room today, but alas mo was trying to sleep downstairs today after her night shift and I figured she would not appreciate me banging around up here trying to clean. even though I would not really be stomping around...that is just how it sounds in this house. We tried to come with names for our business this week...AND....drum roll please,.....they may be taking my suggestion. But even if they don't it was a great suggestion. one of the kids...aaron strutz....who is not related, but we decided we are somehow because he has family in ND. anyways....he came up with Virgil. And ya know we could maybe make it work, but most people who gave me feedback said it sounded like virgin or they thought of an old man and a lame product. so not what we are aiming for ya know? so I looked on dictionary.com and such things and I found the word nexus, which means to connect or link two entities, I believe it is from chemistry. But there are already websites with that name, so we would have to do something like... wearenexus.com or thenexus.com or it could be net on either one. And then we were thinking of doing a periodic table of the places once they get to the sight, since we are a catylyst. I don't think I ever explained what our business actually is did I? We are an internet marketing firm that seeks to connect the george fox community with the local businesses through information on our sight. The companies would pay us for advertisement and we would market to the students and get them to use the sight. That sounds kind of confusing, but I don't erase. But anyways we have a lot of work to do. We had a focus group the other day that was extremely helpful, only people cannot get it out of their heads that we are not a coupon sight. Everyone thinks advertising means coupons. It doesn't. It just means that they would have their hours and their menu maybe and then update the deals that are already existing. It is a time saver mechanism so that people can scope out what they want or if the place they want to go to is even open before they leave home. It is like mybigsky.com, which abbie pointed out to me awhile back. Only we would not link back to their website. It would all be on ours and help let students know what is in the area. there are many kinks we have to work out and even as I am typing this my stomach kind of hurts thinking about all it. But it is exciting too. At least we are doing something different. We just have to get the businesses to buy into our baby company. But we are not asking for an exorbatant (sp?/ not right usage?) amount of money. Probably about $200 start up per business. And they would have it up for 4 months. Considering an ad in the paper for these places is 200 dollars a day about. my group is getting along and we have great ideas for marketing to the students. I hope I am on that marketing team when we split up the seven into two...one who markets to the businesses and one to the students. But I have a feeling everyone will want to do that one. I just don't want the business to fail!!! We must make a profit!!! :) okay gotta call abbie. and if any of you have names that you think are relavent. by all means tell me. Or any ideas for marketing or how to approach the businesses or anything. or questions. Love to get feedback in any way possible! Love all of you! peace.

Sharpying my computer....yes it is happening as we speak!!!!

Yeah it is true folks. I was getting tired of carrying around my gross looking computer shell that I was forced to get freshman year after my other computer screen got smashed. So I have this one, which is fine only every time people look at it I can tell they are like....what in the heck did you do to your computer to make it look that dingy brown color? And I have to explain the whole story from broken computer screen to either paying a lot and a half for a new compy or use my hard drive and use this nasty shell that some gross boy (I imagine) who used it while eating too many of something like lets say doritos or pizza or something and then I assume for it all over this thing and now I have to explain it away and also look at it every day. That was a run on sentence if I have ever seen one and probably grammatically incorrect, but I do not care. this is blogging. not english class. I just was helping liz figure out an outfit to go to the salsa dance tonight on campus. I wish I could go, but I know that I have a race tomorrow and the thing is that I could not control myself and would be bouncing and dancin around and then would inevitably be exhausted tomorrow. These are the facts. I can't help it that I like to have fun at George Fox events. SOOOOO went to Tillamook last week. Had a grand ol' time. What did I do? Well the long and short of it is that Kales and i decided to have a relaxed weekend. Where we would just chill and not worry about the fact that we were chilling maybe too much. We watched four movies on friday and hot tubbed and I of course had to run all the days we were there. We went to some mexican restaurant that native tillamookans love. She always is talking about it. And I must say it was excellent. We went to see Julie and Julia in the little movie theater there and I actually really liked it! The lets see......saturday her mom wanted to hang out so we went to the blue heron and then came back to the house for tea. Her moms two friends came over to practice for church the next day because she leads a lot. and one of the womans granddaughter, Ashlynn, came over too. So Kaley and I watched the barbie muskateer movie. And we thoroughly enjoyed that of course! I mean how could we not. Actually secretly I like watching those movies sometimes, especially with little kids because it reminds me of something I would have loved as a little girl! Then we went to Lincoln City with Kaley, here mom and her sister in Law. It was a blast. We just went to the outlet mall and then kaleys mom took us out to dinner. yum. I have to brag about my amazing purchase. I was telling all of them how it is not shopping that gives me a high it is finding out of this world good deals on stuff that you really need. I have been looking for a raincoat for probably 3 years now, but they are always so expensive. We went to columbia and guess what? I got a coat for 10, 12 and one for 14. grand total 40 dollars about. And the whole full priced total for all three? anyone? anyone? no because it is too good to be true.... 240 dollars. That is a savings of 200 dollars. People who say you can't dress cute and affordable just are too lazy to look for the deals. mother you have taught me well. So there you have it. It is one of those little blessings and I am glad it happened because it rained and rained this week for a couple of days. Thus why it was so dang muggy today. Okay I wonder why I don't write on my blog more. It is because I am a writing chatter box. Anyways back to the three day weekend. So we did that and came home and kales and I went to bed and we seriously talked about africa for about 2 hours. just going through so many things. It was incredible to reminise about it all. I just was so out of it when i got back I feel like I still haven't taken everything in. I feel like it will be a trip that I unravel for years to come and over my lifetime. I mean we experienced an insane amount of stuff in 3 weeks. We went to church and sunday school on sunday and then we went to the cheesecake factory!!! And it was a beautiful weekend! we did not go to the beach, but that is okay. Kales was pretty tired and I needed to have a super overly relaxed weekend as well! So there ya go. I will write some more about this week and how things are going. i am the only one home right now. weird. mo is at clinicals til 7 tomorrow morning and kaley is at the homecoming game for the school she interns at and liz is salsaing and I don't keep track of steph. Okay peace. Glad I could write something for my masses of fans. Cool cool. Over and out.

Wednesday installment

Hey again! It is wednesday and here I am getting ready to do homework for most of the night!!! WOO HOO!!! This week has been great. I think I was fighting a little bug in my system yesterday. It felt like my body was not quite all there in the immune system area. But nothing a good nights sleep and a lot of water can't take care of! Our practice yesterday was exhausting! I got very upset after one of the mile repeats because I did not hit my time I was supposed to, mary had blacked out and I was just really fatigued for some reason. But that is okay we move on and I worked through them! Molly starts clinicals tonight. So she will have 3 night shifts in a row at OHSU. Joey is going to take her on Thursday night and then pick her up Friday morning. Which I am happy for because that was going to be the scariest day I think. Because she has classes on thursday!!! She will make it through. It is only a month. hmmm.....what else. I get to leave for Tillamook tomorrow night hopefully!!!! But we will see. I guess I signed myself up to be a ball roller on friday night and I completely spaced it so hopefully someone can take that shift for me!!! Mary already took the one other girl who would probably help me out. So I dunno what is going to happen. Kaley somehow got her scarf stuck in her fan last night and woke up to an awful sound and then tried to pull it out wothout getting out of her bed, but her bed kind of goes up when you do that and then her roommate steph sat up and squeled. And then immediately went back to bed. Without Stephs squewl kales could have toppled out of bed!! There room is the coldest because they have a door thing that always opens to outside and no vent. :( I got to skype the other night with mom, abbie and zoë!!!! IT was so fun. And it's hilarious because kaley has made some references to zoë since hearing us skype. Just about the wormie and the little songs we sang!! I am sooooooo glad that you woke her up abbie! It was great to see her! And you two of course! I just like seeing peoples faces! anyways. I better get back to homework fun. I have not really had much so I should not complain. Off I go! Oh we made a bunch of yummy things in cooking class today. i just lied. Most were gross. But that is just the nature of having her give us more exotic things to try. BUt some were okay. I am getting better!!! So who knows.....by christmas I could be making all sorts of things. Okay for reals. peace

Do not fear....fall is here! :)

It has been a super fun weekend. Kind of busy, but great. So I just got done with work. Mo is going to call me soon to go to dinner. SO I have a bit of time to write on here. On Friday night one of my roommates, Steph, hosted a bachelorette party for her friend Corina who is getting married in a week. Steph has been stressing about it for weeks, so it was nice to see it all come together and be a beautiful night. It was sweet of Corina to invite Mo, Kales and I who were on her floor freshman year! We did not know many people, but always have a good time with the little pictionary games and just lightening the mood because I think most of the other girls did not know each other too. I am glad we could help steph out a lot. Okay now it is Monday morning.....well 10:30 and I am just up in my room with a pumpkin candle burning. YUM!!! It makes it smell so homey in here. In our super cold house. I guess our power bill is pretty high, so we are trying to figure out what we can do around here. We are going to get small space heaters from costco that are only 40 dollars. So then we can have those in our rooms. We will be putting plasticy stuff over all of our windows so that heat will stay in! We cannot pay to have our house heated all the time! Just hopefully it won't be a crazy cold winter! I heard that it was snowing in billings today! That is so weird, but there usually is snow at some point in the fall! Anyways on Saturday we raced at Willamette. It is a relatively fast course, but we were in a race with D1 D2 and then D3. But it was a huge race. I got 30 seconds faster than last year when I ran there. So woot woot. Mary was only about 30 seconds behind me. And another girl was about 5 seconds behind me. So that is such a positive!!!! :) Get a few more up with us and we could have a legit team! After that we went to red robin and then back to fox. I went to the soccer game and then home. I was supposed to go to an RA reunion, but it turned out that bek could not make it back from portland in time. But it all worked out because mo and kaley came back early. Kaley and I bundled up and took a walk down to the cemetery that is 2 and a half blocks away. It was starting to get dark, but there was a full moon. So it was absolutely beautiful in the cemetery. we walked around and looked at the tombstones and tried to think of all the things they would have lived through. there was one woman who had lived from 1838 to 1911. That woman lived through soooo many things! It was interesting and educational! :) It was such a wonderful fall day, we had no choice but to make something with Pumpkin. Kaley had to work some things out with her boyfriend who lives in Indianapolis and that phone call lasted a long time. Which left Mo and I making the muffins. AND they turned out amazing. Moist and pumpkiny and Yummy!!!!! then sisterhood of the traveling pants 2! And it always seems whenever we want to go to bed we end up sitting on the kitchen counters talking til late. Kaley needed to talk and so we all ate pumpkin muffins and had milk in the fancy glasses from the bachelorette thing. On sunday we went to church and then rushed over to old navy because kaley said they were having a good sale. It was nice to get out of newberg and go shopping on a sunday. Sundays are for target. but I guess old navy is okay! :) I guess mares and I could go, but then we get sad because mom and abbie and zoë are not with us. The service was excellent yesterday morning. with the series being on love. he went through how we love others. Let's see. what else. I worked. We had another business group meeting last night and we had dinner and stuff. I just really like my group and we get things done and I love our idea. I think it could really take off! At least from a senior business project standpoint. I may be going to Tillimook next weekend. Well i am going it just depends on when. Alright cannot think of much more! Peace