Blue and Gold Days

It is currently 4:00 on a dreary Sunday afternoon mid-way through November and I am working and hoping that I restrain myself from any irritation when customers come in to pick up their medications while I am in the middle of a sentence. :) The afternoon is seeming to drag on forever because I am dreaming about taking a nap or talking to friends that I miss, or even of doing homework because Lord knows working here is not allowing me to get a whole lot of that done.

My fourth and final Blue and Gold Days (well as a Mount Marty student anyway...) has come and gone. It was another busy and very enjoyable weekend. As luck would have it, my Thursday night class was cancelled this past week, so I was able to switch my night at work from Friday to Thursday so that I could travel to the Dome in Vermillion with my good friend Briana on Friday night to watch her little brother and his Dell Rapids St. Mary's football team play for the state championship. Holy Toledo was it an exciting game!!!! The second half was by far one of the best halves of high school football I have ever watched. Dell Rapids staged a two touchdown come-from-behind run to take the lead. The exciting turnaround was highlighted by the coolest on-side kick I have ever witnessed (and it went off perfectly!) and of course stellar play by Briana's brother, Andrew (the only kid on either team I even remotely knew). But, despite the excitement, with two minutes left in the game, the opposing team staged a ridiculous drive and scored with somewhere around 30 seconds left to win the game. It was heartbreaking and I almost cried for the Dell Rapids players (remember, I didn't even know them!). I think I made a pretty decent stand-in fan though - I rounded up a T-shirt, cheek tattoos, tattoos on my hands (courtesy of Briana's mom), and even yelled and screamed and jumped up and down like I had been a cardinal all my life. :P

My Saturday began here at the pharmacy at 8:30 a.m. I worked until 1:00 and then left to actually join in the Blue and Gold Days festivities. I watched the Lancer women defeat Jamestown (I've heard they were before we defeated them, the #6 team in the nation???) in a rather impressive performance on the basketball court, headed straight over to Gregory Hall to sing with the choir for our Vespers Sneak Peak performance, trekked to the other side of Yankton to enjoy a supper at Arby's, came back and enjoyed the production of the Fall Play, and then bowled with a group of great friends and even the family of the year. :)

The Fall play was like nothing I'd ever seen before. It was definitely worth a few laughs. It made me want to bust out my Clue board game and solve some mysteries. The whole cast and crew did a great job of putting together a fun play for family weekend. And bowling....well....I don't believe I ever broke 100. I through a few too many gutter balls and had sketchy form. BUT, I was able to somehow through the ball so that it jumped out of the gutter and back onto the lane to knock over a pin or two at the last minute (this happened to me twice!). The Stahl family (family of the year :) !!!!) made for a great cheering squad and threw a few classy strikes as well. All in all, it was great afternoon and evening and nice to have all of our wonderful families here to enjoy it with us.

And that brings me to today. I sang again this morning with the Chamber Choir at a beautiful mass in the Chapel and then headed straight over here. I am super ready to leave and head back to Mount Marty. Tonight's agenda = homework, food, laundry, beginning of the Busy Person's retreat (I'll have to remember to elaborate on that one in my next post) and SLEEP!!!! Have a great week!!

P.S. Less than a month left of 1st semester of my senior year!!!!! AHHHHH!!
P.P.S. I have a new piano book - a Christmas song one!!! YAY!!! I played Silent Night before Church this morning and it made my morning!