Posted on Sunday 20 July 2008

These past few weeks have been pretty hectic.
My cousin Jake got married to my friend Kim (I went to school with her but she’s a couple years older than me) after dating for 7 years. =O (since Kim was in 9th grade) I was part of the wedding in that I sang a verse from “Be Thou My Vision” while they lit the unity candle. I got to go to the rehearsal dinner and everything afterwards since I was there for the rehearsal. ^.^ It was a lovely dinner at the Icehouse on the 4th of July. They got married on the 5th and so we were there for most of the day. Everything went great.
Then this past weekend I went to Houghton for the alumni weekend since my dad was Houghton class of ‘83 and my mom was a super senior so she graduated class of ‘84. I met a lot of my parents’ old classmates and some of their kids and just had a great time over all. We got to stay on the entire top floor of one of the Randall Townhouses which was neat because I had always wanted to go explore one of those. I was actually a little disappointed at the layout of the townhouse in general and the fact that it’s going to be even harder to decorate the room than it is to decorate one of the dorms. I’m considering sticking around a third year in the dorms but we’ll see what happens next year. Maybe some of my friends and I could rent out an apartment or something in town. That would be neat. My parents did it, after all.
So anyway, this past week was Gaiaonline’s unofficial “Spirit Week”. I forgot to participate the first couple days but I participated in the last 4 days of the event. They had fun days though and the people were flipping amazing and so much fun. Everybody was enthusiastic and probably most enthusiastic on “Cosplay Day” of course. People are so creative! The guy that won most spirited for Cosplay day was dressed as Tuxedo Mask from Sailor Moon. His outfit was great but the runners-up couldn’t even compare. My sister said the guy dressed as Edward Scissorhands didn’t even make it to runner-up. And THAT was a freaking awesome cosplay.
Other days of spirit week were, “Nighty Night Gaia Day”, “Rainbow Day”, “Dress Like a Whore Day” (this is the first day I participated in…whee xD It was really awesome though…lol), “Flaunt Your Wealth Day” (I’ve been on Gaia since 2004 so this was pretty fun =P), and “Class Color Day” (in which people dressed in a certain color according to the year they joined Gaia). I was orange so that’s why there’s the little animation at the top, lol. In case anybody was actually wondering. =x
It was pretty amazing. I was reminded why I loved being on Gaia so much. It’s awesome when people don’t sit there and flame you 24/7 like on so many other sites. You get the occasional person who thinks they’re hardcore and flames n00bs just to eat them for breakfast…but you learn to ignore those people. xD
In other news, I’m officially employed part-time for Jeremy’s company. =) I’m something they call a “Data Input Specialist”…which is just a fancy way of saying I type stuff up that the client wants typed up and put it into the computer as chunks so that everybody knows what has been done and what still needs to be done on the project.
Whee. =3
Other random news. My roomate for this semester is officially dating my cousin now. o.O That now makes 2 for 2 with my other friend Andrea (one of my wifeys <3) dating my OTHER cousin. xD Now if they both RANDOMLY happened to get married or something, that would make them both Rudds…which would be even scarier and even more weird. O.O I love it though. My Sunday school teacher made the observation that everyone in class is pairing off. It’s true though…Andrea & Levi and Lauren & Zach paired off so now there are like…2 single people in the class. xD Maybe a little more but it’s still funny. I wonder who’s next. =P
Haha, and Lauren if you ever read this I think it’s awesome that you two are dating. ^_^ I love both of you so squishin’ you two together just makes it easier to love you at the same time! =O Two birds with one stone. Lol. Just kidding. That makes no sense anyway. =P









