Broke.

Today I realized what it means to be a college kid (apparently that is not a proper word, but oh well). If you thought that being a college kid meant you would grow intellectually, study until your eyes fall out, never sleep, eat dirt, and have a whole lot of fun while doing it, well you are wrong. Why are you wrong? Glad you asked! The real meaning of being a college kid is being flat broke. Growing up I always thought this was a funny term, but as of today I discovered that the term isn’t really that funny at all. When I checked on my account today, the balance read zero. I thought for a long time about what I could do to get some extra cash and then it finally hit me, "April, you are of age, buy a lottery ticket!" I know that you are probably thinking that I am insane, but wait until I am finished to pass your judgments. So I walked into the store and bought 2 lottery tickets. I was sure that today was going to be a lucky day because I had picked up a penny (heads up) earlier that morning. I scratched the funky silver stuff off with my lucky penny and then was amazed. The first one said that I won $5.00. Now, I know that isn’t much, but to a starving college kid, $5.00 can go along way! Get this; on the second one I didn’t win $5.00, but $50.00. Ya, I know, I’m pretty much amazing! The rest is history after that.




Okay, so I made up that entire story. I just thought that it went well with the picture. Well, most of the story is false, but the part about being flat broke is true. I honestly have a bank account of zero.

***Quick Facts:
CASCADE DOES NOT PROMOTE GAMBLING.

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Laundry, Decorating, and Food...

I haven’t seen my mom since I moved up here and she came up last week and stayed. It was way fun and I’m pretty sure that if she or my Dad didn’t have hardcore jobs in Texas they would move up here!

Another cool thing about being a college kid is, when your mom comes to visit, she will take care of you. I’m not saying that you should use your mom to make her do all of your chores, but take what she offers. In my case, my mom offered to do all of my laundry, buy some groceries, and help Danelle and I decorate our room some more. I think she even helped the other girls on our floor decorate their rooms as well!

We can’t forget the most important thing though, which would be another area of the food department...she took me to eat at actual restaurants as opposed to the cafeteria! It was amazing! I have to say that my mom is pretty cool and I think I will keep her.




I apologize for the picture. I don’t have any good pictures from when my mom was here, so I thought that this would serve as a replacement!

Pumpkin time

The Coolest Things Ever:
1. Pumpkins
2. Pumpkins
3. Pumpkins

Pumpkins are so cool. The other weekend a group of us decided to go to WinCo and buy some pumpkins. I know you’re thinking that it’s a little immature for college kids to carve pumpkins. Well, you are wrong because carving pumpkins is just about the coolest thing you could do while in college. Think about it, a pumpkin can transform into so many things. It could be a jack-o-lantern, a pumpkin pie, a golden carriage, or even just a pumpkin with cool things carved out of it.
We thought about what to do with our pumpkins and figured that while driving a golden carriage through Portland was probably one of the greatest things EVER, we didn’t want anyone to be jealous. Instead we decided to carve out whatever our hearts desired.
















Matt (a fellow pumpkin carver) desired a Jedi.





















Sarah (the kidnapped one from dinner)….well, we won’t talk about her pumpkin.





















Nathaniel kept it traditional with the standard jack-o-lantern face.





















And Laura just ate hers.

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