it all started with dinner...

last night was a blast without even try to make it so. ash and i went to Green Tea for chinese and were gonna go get a movie, but i decided we needed to meander around our little downtown and admire the sights. we hit up some stores, tried on hilarious and wonderful sunglasses, purchased sunglasses, ate giant gumballs, smelled perfume, doused me in perfume that smelled exactly like old lady (mind you we didn't realize it smelled like old lady before spraying it on me) and then proceeded to eat more giant gumballs. after we had exhausted our funds, we headed back to my car to go back to campus, but randomly decided to drive the course of the SHAFFR run that we had signed up to do last night, but then backed out of. so ash used her incredible memory to guide me along the route she ran last year. we drove 9 of the 10 miles of the loop and saw no runners to our great disappointment. so... i turned around and started to drive the loop backwards. by this time it's about 8:20 and dark out. once the decision to find the runners was set in place however... things went slightly crazy. i had to work at 9, so clearly we were on a time restraint, but finding the SHAFFR runners was of utmost importance. who cares if gas is $2.90 a gallon.... ahem, so anyway we started the loop backwards, heading into the wild blue yonder that is the outskirts of stevens point and woods of central wisconsin. there was one large mistake made however... in our initial loop with our zeal to find the runners and ashley randomly pointing out roads that she thought looked familiar, we neglected to ever once look at the road names. so we made it about halfway through the loop and totally missed whatever road we needed to turn on since we clearly didn't know the names, passed some random asian grocery store and were like, hmm, yeah, we're lost. so i whipped us around and we chose a random dark road and lucky us, it just happened to be right. throughout this whole thing, we were acting like crazy SHAFFR stalkers, with our new dark sunglasses sitting haphazardly on our heads and giant wads of gum in our mouths. we cared not one bit that we got lost... like 4 times. finally, after many random turns and random road choosings, we saw a flashing light and white dots bobbing up and down. woohoo we had found our runners. it was a moment of incredible jubilation. we proceeded to take a wrong turn one more time, but stuck it out anyway and the road led us back to stevens point. we got back at 8:50, i went to desk 5 minutes later and ash came to keep me company. from 9-12 we sang, took pictures, played the game of life, listened to music, drew pictures, hula hooped, i became a model for ash's drawing and it was a lovely evening.

today went went to the portage county cultural festival which was freaking awesome. it was like the world had exploded inside SPASH. i haven't got a clue how many cultures were represented there and that school is so freaking huge that i couldn't even begin to put on size on anything. to my great happiness, we watched some very adorable girls do irish dancing and clogging for about a half hour. oh goodness how i loved it. i wanna be irish. and talented. anyway, by orders of my mother i'm now on some lovely cough medicine to clear out my lungs before i get a secondary infection, if that's not already the case. my lungs feel weird right now... i dislike it and will probably start coughing shortly. such pleasant stuff i know. i'm done now. ta ta

we may have somwhat resembled this during our stalking, if you add in a car with me driving.

but don't worry, we can look normal too... sometimes.