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This is my P.O. box at Manchester. Send me mail!

There's something wrong with my hamburger phone. Maybe it doesn't get good reception in the cafeteria?

Gabby eating. Corn??

Our lovely cafeteria.

A tree that reminded me of Sailor Moon's wand for some reason.

The squirrels are angry buggers here!

There were adult-sized tricycles here earlier! But they went missing when I came back...:(

Our SOL (Student Orientation Leader) groups visited the President's house today.

Our signatures in the Room of Signing. (Not sure what it's really called, but it has names from the 70's!)

My new friend Taryn.

There was a crazy improve session about rape. (No means no!) Ms. Hines would've done a lot of brown-bagging.

Ok, get this. I'm taking a picture of me on my phone with my phone. Craziness.

More tomorrow!

~Ashley

Move-In Day!!!

We got off to a late start this morning.
And for once, it was not because of me.
I was up at 5:00 a.m., trying to convince Dad to wake up.
And he slept for another hour!
Many of my friends know Dad as "Sargent Wagner." He comes and wakes us up at unholy hours.
And we needed to dissassemble our loft beds just to get them in the truck!

We did finally get there. (About an hour and a half late. Dad's distrust of GPS's didn't help.)
It took a lot of effort (and a few strong college guys) to get the work done.
But we did it. Well, ok, mostly Dad.
Gabby went nuts with her OCD vacumming.
Mom did her part mostly by bossing me around. :)

Dad finally took a breather.

And after a meal and a short speech, they were gone.

As Mom and Dad teared up to say their goodbyes, I finally realized that this was it.

I was on my own.

Ok, enough with the sentimentality.

Here's my area.

I'm pretty much amazing with my minifridge and lava lamp. And, of course, the air popcorn popper.

Pretty storage.

And here's Gabby's lair.

It's so dark and secretive!

And something suspicious happened to her lip.

I suspect vampires. ;)

What?! I have a clean, organized closet?? No way!

I'm pretty sure Link and the hamburger phone make the room about 10,000 times cooler.

Our supercomputer station. (I'm here right now!)

Our extensive DVD colletion.

And, of course, Mr. Grumpy Gills! (He says goodnight.)

The Last Day of Summer

Dad and I went out to visit Dan and Marietta today. (I don't have any pictures of them because they're Amish and don't appreciate pictures.)

They wanted to visit Grandma.

But they didn't want us to take her to our house to visit.

They wanted to see her in the nursing home.

Dad was originally against taking her to the nursing home, for obvious reasons.

But eventually Grandma took a liking to walking.

Around town.

At night.

Dad was afraid that she would go walking.

And possibly not come back.
Dan and Marietta, who have been Grandma's friends for 20 years, were concerned about the level of care that Grandma was receiving, so they wanted to see her in the environment that she's been living in.

And I have to admit, it's kind of scary.

Since she's a flight risk, she has to live in the Intensive unit.

They don't do many activities.

They don't go many places.

People scream and cry.

Noone talks.

But we did have a nice conversation with Grandma today.

When she was talking, there was a spark in her eyes.

Maybe she remembers.

I hope so.

After leaving the nursing home, we asked Dan and Marietta if they wanted to go anywhere.

We decided to go to Dairy Queen to grab something to eat, and then we went to Wal-Mart. (Which is a big trip for them because they only use a cart and buggy to get around.)

I saw Audie there! (Aka. The best cousin ever.) She was probably exausted from work.

After a lengthy discussion about the weirdness of boys, we left.

Then we took Dan and Marietta home.

I finally gave Buffy her cinnamon roll.

I bought it at the Barkery in Stratford, Ontario.

She pretty much scarfed the whole thing down in 30 minutes.

Well, tomorrow's my move-in day at Manchester.

Wish me luck.

Beds and Bubbles

Ok, so we completely finished painting our beds today. (I hope.)

I love the color!

This is our amazing bookshelf.

And here are the effects of creating all of this. (Aka. Me being a smurf.)

Gabby gave me a Bubbles doll today! Definately my favorite Powerpuff Girl.

Ok, now I'm off to eat fish. Have fun.

Beds, Dressers, and Smurfs. Oh my!

I feel accomplished.

Gabby and I painted our beds today. And a bookshelf. (I'll post pictures tomorrow.)

Hers bed is black, and mine is turquoise.

Of course, now I look like a smurf.

My bedding's all blue and green, and I'm going to put some purple fabric on the ends of mine. This is because, well, I love cool colors.

Let's just hope the fouton fits underneath. (Thank you, Aunt Jamie!)

Gabby, however is choosing to go with a black and red theme. It's going to look pretty awesome.

I also went to the Kendallville Library today to print out my resume for a position in the crew at Cordier Auditorium. (Wish me luck!)

I saw Katie, my Stratford roommate, there. She's amazing.

Still freaking out about college.

Freshman. Again.

So I'm getting really excited for college.

But at the same time, I'm completely terrified.

I said goodbye to Kris on Tuesday, and I'm still fairly upset.

Hopefully it gets easier?

On a completely different note, is anyone else excited for "Fame" to come out? (That's me in the sweaterdress.)