Having a Dream's Never Stupid

Drama and a Turtle!

Lost a suitemate today. There was quite the blow-up and apparently no one can handle toughing it for four more weeks, so we helped move one of our suitemates up to her new room on the second floor. There has been drama for quite a while over this, but it finally cam to a head this week. It's really retarded actually and I am frustrated with the inability of some to get along with people. But that's cool.

On a lighter note...we have a red turtle living in the small pond at Rose! He's completely scarlet on his back and he has little red markings on his head and little legs. SO cute! I've never seen such a pretty turtle before. We also have a gigantic one in the bigger pond that scares me a bit since I've jumped in several times with KT before and aagh it could have bitten my toe off! Yargh.

Going to see The Sentinel soon; not with all 3 roomies as was the plan before. Sigh. Oh well, I'll figure it out later. And this summer...PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN II!!!! I hope you are all practicing your "gaarrs" and washing your bandanas, cause there's no way I'm missing it and YOU'RE COMING WITH ME!!! So get used to it.

Sumuppance

Part I

Holy package! A huge box of randomness arrived from the Weideman's here at Rose...WOW! It was full of great stuff; I am amazed by their generosity. Thanks Weideman's!!!

Part II

Attack of the Goose

Rose has been plagued by an egg-guarding, ginormous bird that camps out on the sidewalk and...best part of all...attacks unsuspecting Rose nerds on their way to class. Ah, but this bird is not picky in who he chooses to hiss and charge at; no, even the innocent campus tours find theselves dodging his snapping bill. He's taken to leaping on students' backs and going for the neck. Makes great dinner entertainment when you sit by the window in the ARA, though. hehe


Part III

Vball Scrimmage and a Concert

We played DePauw on Sunday - 5 games and we won 2. Yay! Also, on Saturday the Rose Chorus was the final act in the 2-and-a-half-hour production of Engineers in Concert. Wow, some of those acts were amazing!! Haha, I think my favorite was the 4-person band made up of professors and their wives; the "drummer" played his synthesized instrument on a keyboard; oh man, he was groovin', tapping with both index fingers on a maximum of four or five different notes. Yeah...that's how we get down!



check out these gorgeous altos!! owow!!
(from left: Susannah Yoder, Brittany McGowan, Sami Dick, Charli Dvoracek, Erin Rumley)

Part IV

Congrats to Jaymi! Welcome back, darlin' Jori!! Betsey makes me laugh. Congrats to Matt! And...I officially want school to be OVER. Four more weeks...and finals...and I am done! See you all later.

Rose Undergraduate Women

There we all are (well, almost. my roomie wasn't there, among a few others). This is the 10th year that women have been allowed at Rose. You may have trouble finding me...I'm exactly in the middle, the second row from the front. Look for the glow of pasty white skin. Yeah, that one's me.

Yay, Rose girls!!

Beautiful Spring Break '06

Well, folks, I had a pretty much amazing break.

It all started with a weekend trip to Niagara Falls and Toronto in Canada. Betsey and I went up alone...we camped on Friday night at Niagara and stayed in a hostel Saturday night in Toronto, then headed home by way of Lansing on Sunday. If you would like more details as to that trip, just talk to me; a lot happened, including a COLD/bathroomless night, a man in a kilt, an outdoor concert, and a ride up the tallest building in the world. There were interesting people too; it was just a blast!

In Lansing, we discovered that Emily was engaged...YAY!! We are very excited about wedding plans. Congrats to Em and Dan!

We got back to Grace Sunday night and I went to a class with Betsey on Monday and got some of our pictures developed. Then I headed home...aahh, my beautiful big bed!! I love queen sized beds; even the extended twins at Rose don't do the trick in comparison to my lovely bed at the NWI domicile.

The week at home was so relaxing and enjoyable. I read a book ("Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen - and Mr. Bennet is my official favorite character) and watched Season 2 of 24 and rode bikes with Zach to the library twice and generally made an indolent bum of myself. I got to see the newly engaged couple on the weekend as they came down to look for wedding locations.

Then, on Saturday, my wonderful sister took me with her to Chicago to see Wicked. WOW!!! That was an experience beyond what I was expecting. I love live performances, but I had never seen a musical; this was a great way to break the ice! The Hills are my heroes. We also spent some time in Chicago with about eleven of Betsey's Grace friends...I am so glad they let a complete stranger like me hang out with them!

That night, we were all extremely tired but decided to head out to DC's for some line dancing on Saturday night anyways. It is such a blast every time we go there! I always see people I know; this time it was Dana Cornelius and Josh D'Azzena and Ashley Barajas. And the dancing was aMAZing!! The burgers were not as good this time, but that's ok. I still had a blast!

Then I headed back to Rose today (Sunday). I think break just makes me want summer more. Oh, and here is a picture of me and my gorgeous mother!

See you all later! Have a great day.

"Goin' To the Chapel..."

CONGRATULATIONS to my dearest older sister and her brand-new fiance!! That's right, Emily and Dan finally decided to tie the knot! I am SO excited! Planning a wedding is going to be a blast! Dresses and invitations and the ceremony and the flowers and all the wonderful, hair-pulling franticness that is a wedding...it's gonna be great!

The date is not entirely decided yet, but as soon as Em can find out when the location is available, the date will be finalized. It's going to be soon though, probably about 5 months. That's the way to do it; a long dating/getting-to-know-each-other period and a SHORT engagement.

So, congrats to Emily! YAY!

T-Minus 6 hours (and 18 minutes) and counting...

Road trip:
-Grace to get Betsey
-Niagara campground or bust!
-Niagara Falls
-Toronto
-hostel
-Toronto
-Lansing with Emily!!
-Grace to crash
-a day with Buzz
-home

SOOOOOOO FUN! I'll catch all y'all in the NW of IN lata!! I'll be there for positive on Tuesday. Augh. This is gonna be GREAT!! Smiles all around.

Nephew!!

Here is a beautiful boy! That is the happy parents you see in the picture.








Caleb Aaron being held by his aunt, Melissa, who also happens to be pregnant again! We like our kids.











Another picture of the brand new baby (Aunts Melissa and Alonna are both in this one).












Lookee! It's me doing my dangdest to nurture that motherly instinct. It's pretty easy when all our babies are so durn cute. I didn't even drop him once!
















Couldn't resist putting up a picture of the new big sister! Soooo adorable...Grace is sixteen months old now! Where did that blond hair come from?











Well there's more but I think Blogger will start yelling if I try to add more pictures. Plus, those of you with dial-up will be 85 before you see these few anyways. Later, folks!

And Then There Were Eleven

WELCOME TO THE FAMILY, CALEB AARON RUMLEY!!!!

Our April Fool's baby was born at some obscenely early hour (5 or 6 or 7, something unearthly like that) on April 1st, 2006!! He is 21 1/2 inches long and weighs a robust 9 lbs, 13 oz. That's right, that's how we grow 'em in the Rumley family.

He may have been a tad overdone (that's what happens when you're in the oven 9 days longer than expected), because his skin is very dry, but otherwise he seems to be as healthy as can be. On par with my previous experiences with the younger generation, he puked while in my arms; ah, yes, children feel a natural connection with me. It's got to be a sixth sense.

I proceeded to panic and hand the baby off to his parents. But he is an adorable kid! A kid after my own heart...when they were drawing blood from his feet, he didn't even wake up. In fact, he hadn't been awake since soon after the delivery. That's my nephew. I think Lacey said she hadn't even seen his eyes yet. Well, all the way open anywho. He makes these little noises in his sleep though...kinda whines I guess, but it's super cute. And he does something funky with his lower lip and chin.

Pictures to come as soon as I get them off of my roomie's camera!!