Nick ‘n’ Heather

First gotta get this out cause I am bitter about it. On Thursday night we had a test for TKD. The last part of the test was breaking and the break was a 540 backspin. Difficult break but most had already broken it, even the small guys. I was given a board and held it for what has always been a practice or set up. Before you go for real, you yell to alert your holder that this is a try and to hold the board securely. I was holding loose so my arms did not get tired and all of the sudden, a jr. black belt no less, comes flying around and misses the board but got my right hand. I was a little shocked and taken aback because there was no yell. I held the board again, this time he yelled, and he broke it the second time. When I gave the board back I noticed my hand was throbbing. I looked down and saw that my pinky was twisted at an interesting angle. I tried to choke back my tears until the test was over and we bowed out. After, I grabbed my stuff and headed for the door. My parents took me to Innovis and they discovered that the joint was fractured and referred me to a specialist. Today, I went to see him. He told me that, “there was nothing we can do.” Apparently, my finger will now always be twisted. Yeah. A little pissed and very upset. Here is a picture of what it looks like:

Now that I have covered that, this last weekend was a generally good time; other than my splinted finger. I got to the cities late afternoon and we went to the grocery store and tested out the Red Box. Not bad, a movie for $1 a night. We went to bed early after playing some Mario.

Saturday we woke up early and went with Tim to help him teach TKD. What we expected was going to be a quick morning with one class turned out to be 4 hours. Little did we know he had split the one class into four: little ninjas, youth beginner, youth advanced, and a sparring sport class. It was a pretty good time and the ninjas are adorable. Later, we went to Albertville and Tim and I got new shoes. Then, as customary, we hit up Old Country Buffet. Good times. It was pretty good and the area director was there and he remembered me from stories my dad has told him. He is a really nice guy so it was enjoyable. Tim left and Nick and I just relaxed before going to bed.

Sunday was a lounge day. We hit up the MOA for a t-shirt I had been meaning to get then I left. Oh yeah, my mom and I are addicted to Hostess 100 Calorie Cakes and they do not sell them in Fargo-Moorhead. Every time I go to the cities, I bring back multiple boxes. Recently, it was discovered that they also make muffins. Sure enough we discovered them at Cub. Nick is happy because he feels like he has muffin power and my mom has to go through him. Ha! So other than a muffin-power boyfriend, the weekend was pretty laid back. Not always a bad thing.

This is the week before spring break so school is a little hectic. I just finished a mid-term and have another one tomorrow. On Thursday I have an 8 page paper due, which I just found out about on Monday, and I have to make a presentation in my other class. Ick. This weekend is the Northwest TKD tournament in Alex. Obviously I will not be competing in sparring anymore. Kinda bummed about that. Baby Addison is also coming to town so we are meeting up with her at Champs on Sunday! On Monday I have an informational interview with the recruiting manager at Magenic and then early Tuesday morning I leave for Arizona! Busy next couple of days!

This weekend, Nick and I made cookies. It was a lot of fun and more fun to eat them. I bought a kit to make Christmas cookies at the grocery store on Saturday morning. It said it had the dough rolled out and 2 packets of icing included. The image on the front had pictures of stars, trees and stockings so I ASSUMED that there were cookie cutters inside or they were pre-cut. Oh how I was wrong! Well, Nick does not have any cookie cutters and decided to be boring and make circle cookies with a water glass. I, being the creative one, decided to make actual Christmas cookies and preceded to make my own designs by carving them out with a butter knife. In the end, because I took that extra step of love, mine were so much better and tasted wonderful! If you want to see the creations we made, go here:{wp-gallery-remote: gallery=0; rootalbum=227; showalbumtitle=true; showimagesheader=true;}

This week is not cool at all. Currently, I am sitting in the computer lab on campus. I have been here since 9 this morning working on a a take-home final. For one of the questions, you have to describe three views of rhetoric as epistemological and identify theorists in these areas. What is rhetoric as epistemological you say? Well, I am not sure either! Supposedly, it basically means knowledge. But that is up to your discretion because everything is viewed as you see it. Wait, that doesn’t make sense. We just learned all semester about different theories to examine artifacts on, yet everything we learned is up to interpretation. So exactly what did I learn? How to skew the truth!

Urgh…what a week. Finals start on Thursday so it has been an EXTREMELY fun week… not really. So here is the deal. Last year, the department decided that the writing of the graduating seniors was not up to par. Thanks to that, we have had to write an average of 6 papers in each class! Let’s see… I have 6 classes… so that is about A LOT of papers. No fun. I am looking forward to getting done with my 19 credit semester and on the the last semester of my college career! WOOOOOOO! Bring it on.

Fun side note, I am being inducted into the Lambda Pi Eta honor society on Thursday afternoon. There are 10 comm studies seniors getting the honors and we are the first class to do this. Should be a good time and a good resume booster.

On a somewhat sad side, I told my boss today that I would not be able to continue being a supervisor next semester due to my class schedule. I have put it off for about a month now. I really love running the site and I am really attached to all of the kids. It is going to be really hard to say goodbye to them when I cannot work next semester. I will still be working in the morning because I need to make money somehow, even when I have to get up at the ass crack of dawn. On the bright side, not having to work in the afternoon will leave me some time to enjoy the last half of my senior year.

So much to catch up on. It has been snowing all week and this has got me super excited to go snowboarding! I called Tim on my way down to Minneapolis this afternoon and we are going to go tomorrow evening. I am stoked! Plus, Nick even wants me to teach him. Bunny Hill, here we come!

Tonight, I got to Nick’s apartment and took a nap while I waited for him to get home. We were guided by the almighty GPS to TGI Fridays, of course, and were expecting the three course menu to be there. It was advertised on the website but when we asked the waiter we were sadly disappointed. So when he left to give us a few minutes, we dipped like rock stars. That’s what you get for taking the good stuff off the menu! No Nick and Heather. Supper was at Fudrockers instead. After that, we moseyed on back to the apartment, took a dip in the tub of hotness, and then watched an episode of Kid Nation. Those crazy kids. So that about sums it up I think.