Tobin and Erin

Wow, how quickly things change. I remember in high school wondering how I would feel when this started happening, only nothing could have prepared me for it to start so soon.

My vball buddy Ashly is engaged. Whoa. Her ring is beautiful, and I was really excited for her, but tons of doubts and questions began rolling around in the back of my mind as soon as she told me. Does she have any idea what she is getting into? How can she be ready for such a big step already? I guess some people just are, but it still worries me. At least she did make the comment that they weren’t going to get married for a long while yet. Good to hear. I really hope things work out for her.

My first day of classes for the second quarter is officially over! (and there are 25 days until Christmas!!) It was an interesting day. I was in a horrible mood most of the day, then at the end we had our first IM bball game and I was in a great mood after that. We lost pretty badly, but it was our all-girl team playing an all-boy team, and let’s just say they had lots of height and a bit of talent on us. We played hard though (several girls had not played before and they did SO well) and the final score wasn’t that far apart: fifty-something to twenty-something. We are going to switch to the co-ed league where we get a point handicap: for every field goal and three point shot made, we get three points. We also get three free-throw attempts for every shooting foul. It should help us out a bit.

Classes…they are alright. I know I am going to get into a debate with my psychology professor sometime. There is a bunch of evolution crap in the stuff he says and he puts down Christianity as well. Grrr. I like my calc prof, though, and physics I have the same prof in. That’s not good except for the fact that he gives out only a little homework. My computer applications class should be interesting. The prof (my first female one) is a little weird, but the class seems fun, and we have a big project thing at the end of the quarter. Makes me somewhat nervous, but also excited.

One aMAzing thing about my comp apps class is that on the first exam, if I score a C or higher, I do not have to come to class for the next week. Woohoo! That week is used to catch up the students who really aren’t understanding the course material. I am SO getting a good grade on that test!

Well, I had better get to work…granted, there is nothing to do, but I will try to entertain myself. Yay for Christmas break in three weeks!!

Why do I get so excited about stuff? I should know by now that showing any exterior signs of happiness calls down unwanted attention on yourself.

Story: I finish my final, the last one, and head to my room, totally psyched about hitting the road to go home – especially because I am headed immediately from my home to see my brand new niece, Grace Elizabeth. Woohoo!

I pack up and leave. I get home three LONG hours later to stop briefly by my house, say hi and bye to my dad, and drive on up two MORE hours to see Grace. That’s when things get a little messy. Fog starts creeping in. At first I am like, “Oo, that’s pretty, kinda fun…” Until I cannot see more than ten feet in front of me. FYI, stopping distance going from 70 mph to a dead stop takes longer than ten feet. At first I try to keep going, thinking I can tough it out. Then I realize I have never driven myself alone to my sister’s college…what if I pass it in the fog? So I see a rest stop and pull off there. I call my mom, who calls my sister, who calls her boyfriend, and what follows is me waiting an hour and a half as my sister drives sixty miles out of her way to the wrong exit, then finally finds me at the exit I am actually at.

Yeah, it was horrible. There was a guy that sat there about forty-five minutes next to me and kept staring at me…aahhh!! The silent fog at night was totally creepy as well. I was glad to get out of there, but by the time I did it was midnight and too late to go see the baby. So I went to Emily’s apartment and slept there.

But when I finally did see Grace…she is SO beautiful!! What a perfect baby. Boy can she cry, but mostly she slept or was pretty quiet. Currently she has dark hair and blue eyes, but I think her eyes are going to change to brown (both Luke and Lacey’s are). I guess she’s big for a newborn (9 lbs 12 oz, 23 in long), but she seems so tiny!! I can’t wait to see her again, and I technically have not even left yet. I hate the fact that I live so far away. She won’t even remember me next time I see her, and she’ll forget again after I leave.

Well folks, its time to start enjoying my vacation!! Yup, that means twelve hours of sleep per night, lots of good home cooked food, and tons of lounging around mixed in for good measure!! Happy Thanksgiving!!