Stuck.

Today is Sunday. I was supposed to be home two nights ago. But when I woke up Friday morning, my front yard looked like this out the sliding glass door in my living room.



Unfortunately, our plane was delayed until today. At 3:13 pm. But when I woke up this morning, my from yard looked like this out the sliding glass door in my living room.


Of course, the airport's online server is down, so you can't see flight statuses coming and going from Grand Rapids. And Carina and I were calling all day to see what we should do once we saw that our flight was canceled. Finally, I got a hold of a nice woman at Continental's costumer service. She was very helpful and very friendly, but the best she could find us was a flight into Portland's airport on Christmas day. So I got that, and then bought tickets from Portland to Eugene, because weather is bad on the west coast too.

Let's just hope my front yard looks a little cleaner on Christmas morning.

January 14th, I get to go see Sean Watkins (Nickel Creek) and John Foreman (Switchfoot) together, as Fiction Family, at Calvin! Come out and see them with me :)

Today I auditioned for the Women's Chorale, and was so happy when Dr. Shangkuan told me I had made it right then and there. It means that I'll get to head back out to the Pacific Northwest for our spring break tour, home! I'll be in Portland, performing in mid-march. I'll keep you posted on the details.

Ah, the joys of having one's own kitchen.

http://www.bake-share-eat-repeat.blogspot.com/

And by the way, after much thought and reflection of my eating habits and beliefs about the meat industry, I've decided to become a vegetarian. It may be hard (considering how meat just tastes so good sometimes) but I think I will be much happier knowing that my lifestyle reflects my values.

Back in GR

Wednesday evening around 6:30 my plane finally touched down in the Gerald R. Ford International Airport. I'm back. Carina's former room mate Amy was there to pick us up, and take us back to her place. We freshened up, then headed out again to go see more friends. We drove over to Colin's place (and Mitch's place, and Johnny's place, and ben, tony, kevin, ben, nathaniel, etc) and were greeted with hugs and a delicious meal out on the front porch. Later Emma Slager and Oliver stopped by, as well as Asa and Mag. So many friends the first evening back, it was great!

Thursday morning I didn't wake up until noon. But that's 9:00 am west coast time, so it's not as terrible as it sounds. Amy, Carina and I went swimming, grocery shopping, and made a delicious curry dinner which we shared with Donnie (best friend of Amy, and fun guy). After dinner we went out to the movies which was fun, even though Wanted was a slightly disappointing movie.

Friday Amy and Donnie headed off to Texas to visit Donnie's family. Amy kindly left her car here for Carina and I to use. We packed up our things and headed over to Colin's house to spend the next two nights. We also did a little shopping for a few things we'll need in our new place. But not too much. Most of our shopping will have to wait until we get into our apartment (tonight!).

Yesterday (Saturday), I got a lot of reading done. As well as some exploring of the neighborhood. In the later afternoon, we walked down to gas light village with Colin, and napped in the shade by Reed's Lake. Then grabbed some delicious ice cream for the walk back.

Tonight, Carina and I will be able to move into our new apartment. I'm excited to finally get settled in my own space. I start working on tuesday, meet with the head of academic services on wednesday (to talk about my plan now that I've changed majors), work on thursday and friday, celebrate ana's birthday on thursday night, and pick up Carsten and Dathan from the airport friday evening. Classes start the 8th.

(and no, I haven't actually been to see the Calder - bir red sculpture, and symbol of Grand Rapids - yet, but I'm sure I'll see it soon)