Day 1

The flight was surprisingly smoother until we reached the top of Lake Michigan. As we started to descend it got bumpy because we started into the clouds, which sucked. I hate to fly really anyways and I expect the shitty turbulence, but I still hate it. I got into O’Hare at around 12:30, grabbed my luggage and went over to the bus station and caught the 1:30 bus to Rockford. I played my DS the entire way practically except when there was a thunderstorm. My nose was glued to the window watching the cloud to ground lightning. Ajemi sent me a text message telling me that there was a tornado 10 minutes away from where she was picking me up. It was awesome! We didn’t see it unfortunately, but we did go to Panera Bread, stuff ourselves silly and then went to her softball game. After that we drove up to her parents house and called it a night.

Day 2

Saturday was Ajemi’s bridal shower and bachelorette party. It was hotter than the hinges of hell and the building where we held the shower had no air conditioning. The food was fantastic and we played games. I think people were slightly miserable because it was so hot but overall I think they had fun. Brandie, Loni, Ajemi and I did, and I think that’s all that matters! She got a lot of great gifts and afterwards Ajemi looked at me and said ‘I never thought I’d see the day where I’d be excited to get gifts I can use to cook.’ Oh the joys of being a grownup. After the shower, we went back to her parent’s house and got ready for the party. We met at the bar at around 7, had a drink and then got on the bus and went bar hopping. We all had a great time, bar hopping, drinking on the bus and playing games. It was a great day, and we got home around 4am.

Day 3

Brandie, Ajemi and I went into Rockford to try and find bridesmaid dresses for Saturday. After about 2 stores we found some in JC Penney. The dresses are beautiful, and they’re red. We didn’t have to compromise anything, which is good because Ajemi was willing to settle, and you don’t settle when it’s your wedding. After the mall, we went to Panera Bread and then to Coldstone for ice cream. Brandie had never had Coldstone before so it was a treat! When we got back to her parent’s house we loaded up the car and just as we were about leave, the skies unleashed their fury. There were tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings all over the county. There was a funnel cloud spotted 3 miles south of the town and then another spotted right outside their town, so we waited it out for a bit and then left. We were on the lookout for funnel clouds/tornadoes all the way home but once we hit Rockford, it seemed to die down completely. I really wanted to see a tornado, or at least a funnel cloud.

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Saturday was my actual Graduation ceremony and John Kerry was the speaker. He was hilarious, which I wasn’t expecting but was pleasantly surprised. I was dreading sitting through this, but I went anyways for my parents. As we were standing in the parking lot, in lines, waiting to walk into the arena, it started to downpour. My friend looked at me and said this is probably worst case scenario. It was pretty bad but it probably could’ve been a lot worse. Anyways, it’s done and I’m done forever!

This has been a huge week, and thank god it’s almost over because once it’s over, that means I’m in Illinois! I’m heading to a friend’s house for dinner tonight, last night we played Ultimate Frisbee, which is also what we’ll be doing tomorrow. Ask me when I’m going to sneak time in for packing because I work during the day. It’s a jumbled mess on the floor right now. Oh well, it’ll get done before Friday.

There’s nothing else to report. It’s a blah day.

In a week from tomorrow I will be with one of the greatest, most important people in my life. I absolutely cannot wait. It’ll be nice to be able to run away from Boston for a while. I was at the drug store this morning picking up some stuff and I bought some travel sizes and she asked me if I was going someplace warm and I laughed and said ‘no, Illinois.’ She looked at me like I had two heads. Illinois CAN be warm in June, last time I was there was March and it was WARM. It reached up to 70 degrees! In MARCH, I know, I think I bring the warm weather! It’s tornado season and I’m going to try and convince Ajemi to go storm chasing with me if there’s one around. I’d die of excitement.

Yesterday I went to my friends new apartment and I was shocked by how amazing it was. She downplayed it entirely so when I walked through the front door, my jaw dropped. All new appliances in the kitchen, brand new painted walls, brand new carpeting, windows everywhere. It was so nice, and they got it super cheap. I’m so jealous, I can’t wait to move out, but right now, my plan is to stay home for as long as I can because I know my parents will never charge me rent and that way I can build up my funds.

I went movie CRAZY yesterday at Blockbuster. They didn’t have two movies that I actually wanted on the Previously Viewed yet so to make up for it, I bought 5 or 6 movies. Zodiac, Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix, Into the Wild, Across The Universe, Pirates 3, 1408, Sleepy Hollow and the day before that I bought Under the Tuscan Sun and Rain Man at Target. I love movies. I’m patiently waiting for Juno, and August Rush to go to Previously Viewed but no luck yet. I’m impatient.

Everyone needs to read Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer. They are unbelievable and so addicting. I read all three books in about 2 days, and they’re not small books. They are each around 600 pages each. I love vampire stories and I have such a crush on Edward Cullen. The movie for Twilight comes out in December and I’m DYING to see it now. They just finished filming the movie in the beginning of May.

The Red Sox need to step up their away games. They don’t seem to have a problem winning at Fenway but when they travel, they seem to lose and I don’t know WHY. Defense and Offense haven’t changed. I try not to let it bother me but it consumes me.