A weekend in Cook Minnesota

5 girls who are all 21+, 2 cars, one small town. Sounds like a good time eh everyone? You bet! Anna, Carrie, Beth, Tresa and I all went to Cook Minnesota to spend a weekend at Carrie's house. I wish I could just stop there but no, something else happend that weekend, something that changed everyones outlook on life. We went to see a Chippendales show. That's right, Chip n' Dale! Men who wear nothing but a banana boat g-string, cuffs and a bowtie. I decided to get myself a little tipsy before the show actually started, downing the Coors Light like nobodys buisness. I did see one guy in the audience, but other than that there were people my age, women in their 50's, Grandmas and 2 pregenant women. We had great seats, a couple feet from the huge speakers, so we lost our hearing half way through the show. Then the show started, a total of 7 guys danced and showed off their bodies on stage, yipee.

Then it happend, I forgot that these dancers can come out to the audience. To my advantage I was sorta in the middle of a row so I was in good shape. I never did get a male lap dance, and I'm glad I didn't, but what I saw was horrible. Apparently women love to get their head humped. There was a grandma that was forced up on stage, and had to bend over and get a nice ol' hump from a huge African American guy, the sad thing is that I think she was enjoying it. My dear, dear, dear friend Carrie almost got humped, but she resisted and fought back for her freedom, he just messed up her hair so that sorta pissed her off. It was quite a site to see, a bunch of drunk women screaming their heads off to some guy who stuffs a sock in his banana boat. All I can say is that i've been there, done that, thanks Mr. Coors Light!

Great, Grand, Wonderful

(This post I wrote while attending college, most of my friends who were involved in this activity enjoyed my responces, so I decided to keep this one and inserted it to this new blog)

Every now and then I get a little reminder of how "awesome" it is to live in the dorms, with an R.A. We are forced to go to monthly meetings with our floor where all we hear are complaints about hair in the showers, toothpaste in the sinks, crumbs on the stove and the sluts at the end of the hall who decides to ruin everyone’s joyful experience of living in the dorms. With all that aside, we must do floor activities where we force ourselves to put a smile on our face and be as happy as a clam. The best of all is "lets get to know everyone" games. You all have been through them even if you don't live in the dorms.

It must have been two weeks of being in school when we all were summoned to go down to the funky room as a floor and play games with one another. No one knew each other, other than the returnees (like me and a few of my friends) so our R.A. found a great way to break the ice. Lets each send out a piece of paper and everyone must write something nice about each other. No one knew anyone’s name, no one knew what they are like and no one knew anyone! What kind of game is that? Anyway, the papers went around a complete circle and when we got our own back, we had to fold it up and give it to our
R. A. And of course she had the bright idea of using thick felt markers to write on little pieces of paper so I couldn’t read any of it anyway. Two months later she put them in our mailboxes, I opened mine up and this is what it said.

1. You keep me sane in lit class (I’ve know this girl for 4yrs so this one is ok)
2. You are the best roommate EVER!(yup crazy Anna)
3. You seem like a cool person (popular response when you don't know them)
4. I like your door decorations (who doesn't?)
5. You seem to really care, and be a real leader (care? yes, a leader? no, not really)
6. Hysterically Entertaining (I think one of my friends said that, I should check on that)
7. Your food always smells good from the kitchen (phew, and I thought the food that I eat smells terrible.. hmmm)
8. Thank you for letting me follow you here (I don't think this counts as a complement)
9. I wish my hair was wavy like yours (yah I’m just growing it out, I hate it actually, but good luck)
10. You’re very open/cool ( I really like the /cool part)
11. Funny (smelling?.... looking?.. yah I have no clue either)
12. I like your enthusiasm (interesting.. didn't think I had one)
13. I like your stuffed animal (that was too easy, I had a stuffed frog there)
14. I guess I like looking at door deco, and you have some cool stuff on it (My door is more popular than me, is there a door fetish out there in the world? I especially like the
“I guess” part, the uncertainty is just oozing out of ya!)
15. You're a great yatch-y friend you always know who to make me laugh and smile (oh Carrie (heart), you had me at hello)

I know some of my responses to these so-called compliments seem a bit harsh but being a senior, I was just fed up with these stupid games.

So you can see, not a great activity for an icebreaker. I practically wrote the same thing on everyone else’s so I don't feel so bad anymore.

Some Great "How To" Pages

All you BSU students who are reading my blog right now, do you want to be able to create your own website? Or see how to make a website great? I suggest you take Introduction to Web Design and Content Writing, with our pal Morgan. Earlier in the semester we made "How To" pages, basically a instruction website on how to do various tasks. My roommate and I, who are in the class, decided to make our How To Page unique. I think they are both hilarious and I wanted to share them with you.
Here is my roommates How To Page: How to Deal With Your Awkwardness

Here is my How To Page: How to Annoy Your Roommate

JP's Halloween at the dorms

Yesterday was the favorite holiday for anyone who likes tons of candy. It was also the worst day for Dentists. It was also one of the busiest days of this year for me so far, wait maybe the 2nd busiest day.

A week ago you may have seen signs or heard some people talk about the famous Mocktails in Maple Hall. It is a dance in the second floor of Maple Hall for national alcohol awareness week. We serve “mock” tails instead of real cocktails, we got a FM90 DJ to play music and have a Halloween costume dance. It is put on by Maple Hall Council, one of the best Hall Councils on campus, and I’m not on it, but 3 of my closets friends are. There are 5 members, and 2 of 5 were on campus that weekend, one of them was my roommate, and the other was our close friend. It was obvious that they needed some help so I thought I would help them decorate the lounge. They were very appreciated of me volunteering, why not I really had nothing else to do, (except for blogging but I was done for that week :P ) We started around noon on that Saturday and ended at 1am. Nothing like seeing young freshman girls rubbing on other freshman girls as they danced in a circle of freshman guys, how sad is that? As long as they were having fun I guess, that’s all that matters.

On Halloween, we started maybe a month ago of planning what we wanted to do for the hall decorating contest. I’m not sure but I believe the winners get money for their hall account to spend on floor activities, or a pizza party. I have competed, along with my floor, for 3 Halloweens prior to this one and we have never won. It was time for us to win damnit! We all came up with a theme, Candy Land. Our R.A. went out and bought the game. Each section of the floor will be a part of the game board, Lollipop Woods, Peanut Acres, Chocolate Swamp and etc. My room was a part of Snow Flake Lake, where Princess Frostine skates all day long. We etched and colored each character of the game. My roommate and I colored around 4 characters the size of our doors, with crayons. All of these had to be secret so we had secret meetings and secret rooms to plan activities. We didn’t put anything up till October 31st but everything had to be done at 3pm for judging. I got up at 10 that morning and worked non-stop till 3. The members of Oak Hall Council were our judges

Once they went through our hall twice, they left and an hour later, we got the results, we won the best kid friendly hall. I was happy but sad because we were the only kid friendly floor, but who cares we still won. We had an hour to get ready for the trick or treaters, the real reason why we decorated the hall, not just for the judging but for the kids. Then bam at 5pm the kids came, the ooh’s and aah’s could be heard a mile away, the kids really loved our decorations, and so did the parents. I remember one parent say that he played Candy Land 3 times the night before. The kids would yell out the characters name with excitement.

There were ninjas, teenage mutant turtles, and baby lion cubs, Dora the explorer and her pal boots, princesses, devils and so on with empty bags ready for the handfuls of candy. All I kept thinking was my month old nephew and how I wish I could see him in his Chile Pepper costume. Around 7pm, the floor was dead again. I was tired and so were the rest of my friends, so we decided to take everything down. In 30 minutes it looked like our old floor again, which surprised everyone since it took us 5 hours to put all the decorations up. I took off my Mario costume, and put on my Pajama weekend outfit, turned on the T.V. and went to NFL.com to see how my Vikings did today. I was glad I didn’t see them lose horribly to the Giants, and couldn’t wait to see my bad score on Fantasy Football the next day, being that I had Culpepper and Moore on my team. Halloween was done and over with and I was excited, all I need now is the elections to be over with and all will be well in JP’s life again, or until Christmas decorations start, “sigh”

Click here to go see some pictures of me and my friends on Halloween 2004 on our floor!