Thankful Thursdays!

Those people I live with.

As part of my whole weekly posts 'n stuff, I want to do Thankful Thursdays! I think it would help everyone feel happier if they just took a moment to reflect on the good things that happening to them. It makes you more aware, ya know? Count your blessings!

So, ya, Thankful Thursdays. (This is not really a reference to Thanksgiving, and how it is always on a Thursday, but I am silly making a stab at alliteration.) This week I wanted to focus on my roommates!

We are all such hot babes, why don't guys notice this!?

These last two weeks have been very stressful, but I think my roommates have made them pretty fun, too. First, some background. I live in a apartment/dorm with three bedrooms and 4 1/2 other girls (I say 1/2, because the girl who I share a room with is never reeeeally here...ya...) At the beginning of the year, I felt a little lonely, really. Two of my roommates are cousins, two of them have been best friends since, like, birth or something - and then there is me. I came in here by myself and I have a hard time putting myself out there enough to really connect with new people. If I meet you, it will usually take me like a year to really connect and become good friends, it's just one of the weird things about me! Also, my family lives really close by, so between that and my lack of connection, I would just go home every weekend ASAP. I spent most of my time in my room, and just kind of kept to myself.

I am not really sure when, but at some point last semester, we just all clicked. The casual acquaints turned into real friends. Maybe because I am living with these people, the whole friendship process just kind of sped up. But, ya, now we are all super good friends and will actually hang out with each other, rather than just live with each other. (how often does this really happen with roommates?...seriously, I have no idea.) 

It's really cool, 'cuz I also feel like I can connect with them all on different things. We can talk about really random bits of information that, like, no one really cares about, but somehow we both know about them, and enjoy learning knew things. We can make super stupid joke and make fun food together. We can be super rude and sassy to each other, and have really good comeback. And we can just talk to each other, about like pretty deep stuff. But above all, they think I am just soooooo funny. Seriously, they all worship me, 'cuz I am literally the most hilarious person they have ever met. (am I right, guys? You know I am right ;)

So how this all pertains to this past week, well, we just had fun. So last week, one of my roommates was expecting her mission call to come in the mail, and we were all dying waiting for it! Everyday we would check the mail, and it still wasn't showing up. Until on friday, I was home alone, when I got a text from her telling someone to go check the mail (just how she'd texted us every day) Realizes I was the only one there, I ran to get the key for the mailbox. I opened it with a silent prayer, 'cuz at this point we had learned enough patience. And . . . it still wasn't there.

Jk! It totally was! After, I momentary happy dance, I tried being all funny by sending her a picture and posting it on Facebook, but she didn't even see the picture until after she got home. But that day we opened her call, and it was the sweetest thing ever! She is going Brazil, how great is that!? She was a little nervous it was going to be state-side because the package was so thin (like, Provo Utah! Woohoo...) but I am really glad she is happy, and I know she will be amazing.

That Sunday was also her birthday, so on Saturday we all went bowling. The first game we played was Skittles Bowling, were before each turn we picked a different skittle, and the color determined how we would roll the ball. It was way fun, but waaaay hard, and I lost. They next game we played was just normal, and I got second! (I had to let the birth girl win, didm't I?)

After bowling, we walking about fifteen minutes and got pizza - cuz when you live on a university campus, with no car, you go to extremes just to get away. While waiting for pizza, two of us walked an extra half mile to a red box, just so we could watch the Giver! - and it was all worth it.

Anyway, my roommates are just super wonderful people. I still go home a lot on the weekends (my parents have TV, so...) but we, like, hang and do random stuff. Right now, we are sitting around, listening to ABBA, and eating some crazy Mexican food. I am thankful for these months I have spent with them, and the friendships I have made, hopeful it will last long past our college years.

Fair-faring, friends!