Muddy Buddies and Glowstick Shenanigans

Before I get on with this post, I must apologize for the last one. It sounded a bit Debbie Downer of me, like the semester was going just the opposite of how I wanted it to and nothing was going right. Well, despite another jump in schoolwork to wrap up the end of the semester, the past two weeks have once again proven to be one of my favorite times of year in college. Sure there's a lot of work, but with it comes December, with December comes Christmas, and with Christmas comes FUN!!!!

I guess technically speaking I shouldn't be writing this post right now and should instead working on one of the three papers I have due within the next week. But I guess that shows what kind of a time this always proves to be...we always make more time for fun at Christmas. Last Saturday we made sure to do just that, me and my wonderful roommates - just my roommates - for a wonderful girls night in. Maura and I had already been planning our traditional "Love Actually" night, but luckily our other three roommates were able to join in as well.

We made the ritual batch of rummy bears before starting the movie, and this year, introduced a new tradition of the peanut butter/chocolatey goodness that is muddy buddies. Let's just say the muddy buddies - a recipe that calls for 9 cups of chex - did not last a full 24 hours. Then we all curled up in our living room and watched one of our favorite Christmas movies for the first time of the season, going "aw" and getting way too excited all the way through. Somehow we all wound up with crazy hairdos toward the end of the movie (Maura - funny bun at the front of her head; Heather - dweezle; Gab - Princess Leah hair; KB - pigtails; KP - ponytail with crazy clips/feather hair). We truly made it a night to remember...but it didn't end there.

Now that we had crazy hairdos, we had to actually act crazy...it just wouldn't be a girls night without it. And honestly, I'm not sure the rest of you could handle it. So here is a list, a brief summary if you will, of our awesome activities of the night...
1. Locking KP in the bathroom
2. Screaming out the window at random people walking down the street
3. Setting off Jim's car alarm to said walking people
4. GLOW STICKS!!!
5. Kati Bel getting glow stick stuff in her mouth
6. Realizing we can't hide from the people we're screaming at if we have glow sticks in our hair
7. Making up an impromptu, in-the-dark, glow stick not-so-choreographed dance to "Fireflies"
8. Tea time
9. Dance party!! (on video)
10. Scaring Joe when he knocked on the door.

And now you see where the "Glowstick Shenanigans" part of the title comes in. I apologize for not going into more detail about all the fun we had, but let's be honest...when I tell too much of stories it gets boring after a while. And I'm sorta out of my blog-writing groove, so you get what you get. Besides, I think all you may want is a general idea anyways...you may have wound up with a glow-stick to the face if you were actually here :P

This is how we locked KP in the bathroom...