oh praise the Lord! i turned on my laptop today in my hotel room to write up a blog and save it to post when i go to the computer lab tonight, and TA-DA! i got a beautiful little message on my screen saying "wireless network detected"!!!!!!!!!!!! the girls told me there wasn't internet here, but there sure is! it's $3.99 for access and it's a one time fee for your entire stay - definitely worth it.
SO...as you probably gathered by now, i'm back in a hotel room. i can see the north campus of LU outside my window, which is cool i guess. and it's a really short drive to class :) we're staying here 'til friday and then moving. to where? well...we don't really know right now :) our house is "supposed" to be ready on Friday for us to move into. so hopefully that will be our destination. if it's not ready, we'll move into an apartment or house to rent for a month because even if we're just there a few days (or more, for that matter), the rent for a month will be cheaper than having 2 rooms at this hotel for even 1 week.
so since i just "happened" upon the internet here, maybe i should go walking around and maybe i'll "happen" upon a pool...with palm trees and a wave pool with free surfboards to use.
man, thank you guys so much for the encouraging comments :) whenever i'm sitting in my room and start feeling down and about to lose my mind, things you guys said pop into my mind and it helps me keep a better perspective on things.
this is going to be just an update post on what i've been up to since i haven't been able to keep up on the posting. i'm still working thru the Velvet Elvis book and have a lot of thoughts to put down. which'll be so much easier with this newly discovered internet access :D even though blogging is common these days, i still feel stupid for pulling up my blog in the computer lab and typing up a post with everyone around :)
saturday we got up at 6am to go to virginia beach for ECSC (east coast surfing championship). we checked the weather and thunderstorms were forecasted so we didn't know whether to go or not. we decided to go back to sleep and get up at 9 and see if the ECSC website had been updated to let us know if the contest was still on. it wasn't updated, but we all wanted to go so bad that we ended up leaving at 10am and got there around 2:45pm. just in time to catch the last couple hours of surfing!! it didn't rain at all while we were there, but it was overcast so we didn't get much (if any) color. that's okay, it was so much fun!
then sunday we went to roanoke after church to go shopping with a ton of girls from our hall last year. SO much fun!!!! it was so great to be back with so many of the girls. we had a special hall last year, and it feels like a family reunion when we're together :) last year was great 'cause there was like...no drama whatsoever on our hall - just the way i like it. ;)
we're getting some remanants of the hurricane (katrina) today. maybe just dark clouds, but it finally stormed for a tiny bit about an hour ago. then the sun broke thru and i thought it was going to clear out, but it's dark again. crazy weather.
becky - this len overton guy must be really bored at work - he keeps calling me and asking me when you'll return his belongings to him. (inside joke)
well i'm so excited to be on the internet, so i'm going to go read YOUR guys' blogs and surf the web a little. then it's off to hip-hop dance aerobics class at 8! rock on :)
deeper thoughts coming soon.
keep it real.
~jen~
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