Mappy Hanukmis!

Ahhhh.... break has been, as Tony the Tiger would say, guuuuurrrr-RATE! Yes, I just quoted Tony the Tiger, home has defiantly rubbed its self off on me (the Post and Kellogg factory are based in my home town). Anywho, an update on Trine University as all of us students have been away:

>Our All-American thunder football player, Eric Watt, was named the winner of the 2010 Gagliardi Trophy, which is awarded annually to the most outstanding football player in NCAA Division III. It was presented to Eric in Salem, Virginia, and the Gagliardi Trophy is sponsored by Jostens and the J-Club of Saint John’s University of Minnesota. Pretty CHAWSOME that our quaterback, Eric Watt, won! Out of all the other Div III contestants, the Trine University quaterback won!! WOOT WOOT! Congrats Eric, you totally deserved it. :D

What an awesome gift just before Christmas, a 2010 Gagliardi Trophy, wow. Well, for me, being around family is enough, yeah may sound cheesy, but hey it's soooo true. Goodness, I can be as crazy or, what I think is my "normal" around them and they'd still hang out with me the next day. haha :P

There's been just enough snow on the ground to sled on, enough hot cocoa to heat up WITH cool whip on top, enough fire wood to warm the air, enough wrapping paper to prepare the presents, and enough laughter to fill the Christmas spirit! god, I love this time of year! And, my birthday is only 3 weeks away so hello 20 here I come, no more teenage years haha

Ah, well I better bid you guys a Peace Out so that you can get back to family and I can get back to shopping for the last few presents I need to get for my secret santa. Happy Holidays, Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, and soon, a Happy New Year (start getting your New Years resolution figured) :D

~Annie

Operation: "A" or Neigh

Yep, I've officially called finals week, Operation: "A" or Neigh. haha :P And so far, I've accomplished my goal for Microecon and Literature Class to finish with an A, don't know about my final Chinese grade yet, but my 10 minute interview yesterday went swell :) Yes, I had a few slip ups, but I'm just overall glad it's over and... surprisingly I can't wait to get back into Chinese after break :D The language is a challenge, though not as challenging as I thought it'd be, I mean, yeah you have to devote at least 2 hours everyday to study it, but it's a lot of fun so all the hard work defiantly pays off! And, Air Force ROTC is paying me to take the class, $150 bucks now, and next semester it'll be $250 since I'll be in Chinese II :) I love dah moolah haha

Then today I had my World Civ II exam, and my professor was so nice to let me borrow his World Civ book to study. I didn't buy a single book this semester for a number of reasons:
>My roommate and friends were in a lot of my classes already so I just borrowed them
>My Air Force book $ didn't kick in till a month after school started (that's the government for ya)
>And, I could find a lot of the Literature stories online and I just took really good notes in class that a book was just not necessary
But for my World Civ final, one of my friends has the book, but of course she was studying for the same final and I didn't want to bother her with asking for it, so I asked my World Civ professor if he has a text book I could borrow just to give me a reference in my notes if I don't understand something. He was shocked I asked him so late in the semester and told me if I ever needed a text book to not hesitate and ask, because he would have let me borrow the text book for the whole semester if need be! What a great guy :) That's one big thing I love about Trine, the professors are here to help you succeed and to make a connection, not to make you suffer and resent going to class. So I studied last night for about 5 or so hours. Took the exam today and it went perdy well. I hate it when you take a final and you don't know the answer to the first question! It's like really?!?!? COME ON! haha but I figured it out soon enough, all good ;)

Tomorrow is my last final! WOOT WOOT! And, it's Criminal Law. Love that class :D Prof. Milliken is one of the best professors I've had yet. He makes everything interesting! He lectures, but then he gives us numerous cases and asks us what we would do, what side would you take, what's the actus reus/mens rea? Just a bunch of fun stuff. It's a lot of fun and that exam is gonna be the easiest one I think. :) Let's hope.

OH! The moonlight breakfast on Monday was delicious. Ate with my friend, Damon, and boy did we chow down on some hash browns, scrambled eggs, bacon, and sausage! What the best part was, the teachers were the ones serving us! haha it was great. they even would come around and take any plates that needed to be thrown out. It was fun :) Afterwards Damon and I got a picture with.... SANTA CLAUS! It was a well rounded night with laughter, full bellies, and relaxed minds from studying. ahhhhh....
Then, last night was the free wings and long necks (Jones Soda). I wasn't in the mood for the wings but they did look really good and I was able to nab myself the recommended flavor: blue jones soda :) I haven't had pop in the longest time, let alone a Jones Soda, so it tasted weird but hey it was free, why not?

AHHHH!!! I really cannot wait till tomorrow! After the Criminal Law final it's Home or Bust! My sister, who goes to school in Florida, just flew up this past weekend and will be picking me up. She has yet to see the tiny campus of Trine and I can't wait to show her it :) Then, after getting home it's off to the Relient K Christmas Concert!! Woot Woot!!

Whew, well, I better head off, I've given my brain a breather and now it's time to go back and study theft and kidnapping and all that jazz :)
Peace Out dudes

~Annie

AHHHHHH!!!!!

mustttttt-BREATHE!!! Okay, so yep, finals week is just around the corner and well, my mind is going to be suffocated by all the information I either need to dig up or shove in, so wish me luck to make it through this week in one piece :P haha I don't think it'll be that bad, I have a relatively light load this semester, only 16 credits and 5 exams to study for that are all somewhat easy, Chinese I is really the only one I'm totally freaking out about :P Ni hao ma? Wo hen hao, zie zie! Ni ne? Hen hao. and a bunch of other stuff. :P The Chinese I exam is a 10 minute interview, I have to dress up as if I'm being interviewed for a job and my teacher will be the interviewer. 8:15 on Tuesday morning. whew it's gonna be tough but once I get through my two exams on monday and that chinese exam on tues then it's only two more - one on wed and one on thurs - and then after that.... HOME SWEET HOME! My sister, who's flying home from florida today, will be picking me up and then all us girls (my twin, sis and i) and my bro will be heading out to the Relient K Christmas Concert which is gonna rock my socks!! :DDD i just hope I get home in time to make it to the concert on time.... :O but I think it'll all work out so no worries :)

Yesterday was an epic fail on studying for exams. Thank you Damon! grrrrrr.... haha naw, it's all good. My friend, Damon, came over to study in my room since his floor distracts him too much, so I let him in, and well, I planned on getting my Lit paper done and have my Lit and Criminal Law study guide finished and lets just say i dont think it's Damon's floor that distracts him, but himself :P haha. Because I totally did not do what I planned!! haha Got the paper done, but the others, not so much haha. Somewhere in between studying, we went to Angola Sports and ordered some shirts (cross you fingers they'll be done before i head home thursday!) rented and then later watch 88 Minutes (AWESOME!) and Inception (FREAKEN AWESOME) and then later that night went and saw The Chronicles of Narnia Voyage of the Dawn Treader (SA-WEETNESS!) and well, all in all, I started working on my Lit study guide at midnight and got all the vocab done at 2am. hehe So today it's all Lit and Econ studying shabam!

Throughout this crazy finals week Trine offers some nice, calming activities to keep all their students sane haha Tomorrow there's going to be a Moonlight Breakfast from 10pm-Midnight, then on tuesday there will be free wings and long necks (Jones Sodas) offered to the hard working students ;) and just a bunch of other stuff throughout this crazy week so I'm looking forward to some of that.

Well, I think I procrastinated enough.... :P hehe I'll bid you all a peace out, and will keep you in the loop of things as this week unfolds :D

~Annie

PS @ track practice the other day we had a timed 800m, and dudes, I totally killed it!!! Shocked the heck outta coach and myself when I finished!! haha I ran by myself, i mean there were guys running too, but they're already freaken waaaaaayyy ahead of me so they didn't really do anything for me, so anyway, I'm running and BAM! finished with a 2min 33sec! I havent ran that fast since my senior year in high school! I was so happy and totally cannot wait for the meets to begin.

Snow Globe!!

Trine, i've figured out, is a snow globe. It's been snowing since December 1st and always when you think the snow has stopped and settled, Trine University is given a little shake and then BAM! a ton of snow falls from the sky! And, it's not like we're getting tremendous amounts of snow, even though it's been snowing for like 8 days straight, so it must be a snow globe, the snow just gets tossed right back up in the sky to only fall to the ground and complete the cycle again with the next shake of the Trine University snow globe!

So, I've officially successfully completed 3 semesters of Air Force ROTC, with this being my 1st semester as an AS200 (Sophomore/2nd year cadet). Only one more to go guys and soon to be 2 more female cadets! We can make it ;) I'm really looking forward to the new semester after break and have a lot of things I already want to start on, so be ready for some crazy action this next semester! We had our Dinning In Ceremony last night at AFROTC where, in LLAB, all of us cadets get together to eat, reflect on the semester, Grog fellow cadets (I'll explain that in a moment), and finally, listen to our guest speak who was Major Hart of the USMC.
Okay, so the Grog. What that is, well, picture this:
A Punch Bowl
- Now, pour 1/2 of a 2 liter Sprite
- Add in 2 Red Bulls
> Then the flight's get to come up and pour in their own ingedients such as:
> Pasta Sauce
> Mentos
> Caramel Topping Sauce
> Smarties
> A Protein Shake mix
> Coca Cola
> Monsters
> Pepper
.... and that's about all I can remember. So why the heck are we doing this?? Well, to Grog people! If you know any cadet that might have worn their uniform wrong, came to class late, forgot to salute, anything that they did wrong you can Grog them for that by making up a limerick which is a 5 line poem: AABBA. If they rebuttal, they must recite a limerick to rebuttal the grog and instead make the person who initiated the call to be the one to drink. Though, rebuttals are very rare since most cadets don't know if they are to be Groged or not, so everyone is antsy when someone calls out a limerick. I came out clean this semester, but that doesn't mean I'm out of the woods! Got 2 more years to cover my back! haha
So after the grog (no one puked, surprisingly) Major Hart gave a speech about the 10 things a leader must be. It was very inspirational, almost so much so, if he had a sign-up sheet to join the Marines right then and there, I might have picked up the pen, but.... my heart is with the Air Force and I can say, I'd rather be no where else :) I'm glad they got me when they did! But again, Major Hart was a great speaker, defiantly a Marine at heart. 26 years and counting he's been in the service, with 12 of them enlisted which made me look even more up to the guy. He was great and wow, I can't even begin to explain what he opened my eyes to, but one thing i can say that he did, was ignite this spark inside me, so next semester, I'm going all out. Yeyah!

Alrighty, so I think I'm starting to get carpal tunnel in my arm from typing so many essays and blogs this week, so adios! zai jian! auf wiedersehen! and finally, peace out :)

~Annie

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow :)

So, I went to the annual Trine Christmas Concert last night, and could it have been more perfect!?! Snow was falling by the buckets, fabulously decorated Christmas trees lined the UC halls and the choir and orchestra/band played timeless holiday carols that warmed my soul. :) ahhhhhh AND that's not all, afterward, my roommate graciously brewed me a cup of hot cocoa yummm!!! Yep yep. it's defiantly that time of season.
The concert was great, a friend of mine was in the concert and they sang like angels, the community orchestra and band brought back memories of my childhood playing the violin and how I've always wanted to learn the string bass. I was captivated by it all, and the concert just flew by! Before I knew it, an hour and 1/2 passed and it was all over. Though, the christmas spirit lived on!

The Air Force ROTC program put together a Christmas Tree for the Project Help Tree Extravaganza and with about 20 or more other programs that decorated their own tree, they will be voted on and donated to a Project Help family that is in need of their very own Christmas Tree. It was a fun thing to do with all the cadets and I hope to make it annual thing. Here's a final picture of our creation:
 

Awesome right? VOTE FOR AF ROTC!!! :D haha

Well, I better get going. Bundle up out there! It's fa-REEZING!!!! With the wind chill, it feels like -1F, crazy right? haha
-Peace Out-

~Annie

Gobble Gobble

gobble up my time from writing a post that's fo sho! It's been over a week since I last wrote, and to think of everything to gather and write down is just wayyyy too much, so I'll cut it short ;)
Thanksgiving was great! Only two relatives and my family ate so that meant more food to eat, less dishes to wash, and just an overal chill thanksgiving :) it was fun and I can say, i was just about sick of turkey from eating all the leftovers the days following haha but it was great and I can only hope for a fun, happy, and warm thanksgiving to all of you! what am I thankful for? A great family that is there for me whenever anything hits the fan and just goes to kaput, the men and women that wear the uniform of our country proudly, friends that keep my sanity in tack, and finally I am thankful for being able to breath in this world of adventure and love that continually proves to me that nothing is impossible. :)

Track has been kicking my gluteus maximus but I don't think it's my body that's holding me back, but myself and I wish I just had a better mental attitude. I mean, I ran better in High School and my workouts were not as hard as they are now, but I had a team I knew inside and out in high school, and I miss that kind of camaraderie. Though, since I've been warming up and cooling down with the sprinters, they are an awesome bunch of people that may be one of the reasons why I even go to practice. Me as a runner, you can make me run mile after mile and I can still do the worst in a race if I don't have a supportive team behind me. In my mind I've got nothing to gain then. A team to me is better than any plaque or medal. I'd rather have a team hug me after loss than to win a race without any cheers. In my mind, there is no point. I might as well run on my own then if I am just going to be to running by myself in races for pete's sake! But, after a few weeks, I'm slowly getting more involved with the team and trying to build up... something between them and me, even if it is just the sprinters, heck! i used to be one so why not? haha I don't want to blow another year away, I want to be the best runner I know I can be, and right now I'm just not seeing it.

Air Force has been stressing me out. We had our 2nd Drill Lab on this past Tuesday and it actually wasn't that bad. We just had to march them through an obstacle course, making all the right calls on the correct foot, timing was really critical, but I made it through and it worked out well. The atmosphere was really tense though since, well, that's really how all Drill Labs are, everyone is stressed and anxious to get it over with. I brought two recruits up with us too so that they could get a first had look at what they're about to get themselves into. I hope they learned a few things and aren't... I don't know, discouraged to join us next semester. But I know if I were in their place I'd like to sit in on a day and see how everything works. I wasn't given that luxury when I first joined last year, but I don't regret joining for a second. Sure, you have those days when you wonder is this the right path? And, it's those days I really sit down and think about it all. My life from beginning to now. I've always wanted to fight for my country and the AFROTC program couldn't have been a better match for me. It's a different world, ROTC, I mean when I put on that uniform yes my first and last name are the same, but I'm a Cadet and a soon to be officer in the Air Force. My outlook on the world and everything is changed. I have a serious purpose to accomplish when I'm in my uniform, and nothing will stop me from completing the job. It's like putting on a superhero suit. You fight the fight till the villain is done. There's no break, no time to fix the hair, it's all just the fight and the ultimate goal of completing the mission. If I was given another chance to go back in my life my senior year of high school, I wouldn't have changed a thing. I would have still put in my application for the AFROTC Scholarship, would have talked with the Army recruit, I would have still done all of that, because I want to be that hero, that soldier of our country till my very last breath.

Whew, well I said I'd cut it short, so I'll end it here :)
Again, I hope all had a splendid Thanksgiving and Christmas is only around the corner woot woot!
-Peace Out-

~Annie

Nǐ Hǎo!!!!

even though chinese has kicked my boot-tay a few times these past few weeks, I seem to always have fun with it, and here I am, saying hello to you in chinese, woot woot! haha
anywho, so I guess Trine Football has also been kicking boot-tay against the #3 ranking competitor DePauw (we're ranked #6, so we had our work cut out for us)! Final score: Trine 45 DePauw 35 ye-YAH! I was unable to go on the 3 some hour trip down there, but Trine did provide a bus to the students for just 10 bucks a seat, but saddly im a stingy college student that won't coff up the dough, so I had my inside source *cough* damon *cough* to keep me updated with score. And, from what he was texting me, it seemed like a pretty heated and exicting game! Trine held the lead for most of the game, but DePauw didn't show any backing down and gained up on us, but hey, we're THUNDER so we stormed them and came out with a win in the end. :) awesome job dudes! now on to the second round of fun!!! woooohoooo! and who knows, maybe I'll fork out a few bucks to see that game... hehe :P this is only the second year we've gone past the first round, so we'll make history if we survive the 2nd round and i have huge faith for these guys, cause it looks like we're unstoppable!! nothing scares THUNDER!

whew, so yeah! that leaves the rest of my saturday filled with running and homework, oh and how i can i forget the Billy the Exterminator marthon that's been going on like all day!! (which has made my homework slow going haha), For tomorrow, I plan on going to the Trine Jazz Band concert. The people involved have worked hard at getting this performance prepared and I cannot wait to hear them play. I used to play the violin and a bit of the string bass, so whenever i can get close to live music, I take full advantage of it.

As far as my overal week went, perdy slooooooooooowwwww going oh my goodness, i thought this week was never gonna end! thursday was the longest day of my life!! i think it's because i'm looking so forward to thanksgiving break starting, that i just became impatient with everything, but hey! it's saturday, nearly sunday, so i got till tuesday till i head on back home to just chill, fill my belly up with the best home-cooking and SLEEP IN!!!! :DDDD

well, speaking of sleep, I better head off myself, or at least get my homework done before I do. I got 7.5 miles to run tomorrow (yep, kill me) so i better be energized and ready for this... huh not really :P
Peace Out

~Annie

3x MIAA CHAMPS!

BOOOOOOO YAAAAAA........... :DDDD

Trine 58 Albion 16! Not even close ;) There were some awesome interceptions, countless touch downs and heck! 2 point conversions too! It was great. Albion even provided transportation for their students to cheer on their team, but I guess our spirit was just way too awesome for them :P And we couldn't have asked for a better day for a championship game! it was cool and breezy out with a hint of sunlight so just about perfect :)
Us ROTC cadets with the American Legion marched on the field during the pregame show to present the colors and to commemorate this past veterans day. It went well and the American Legion guys were great and it defiantly was an honor to march with them. I mean, a couple of these guys fought in WWII, so to be able to march by them was one of the greatest honors I have ever received.

Hmmm what else, nothing crazy went on this past week. Pretty laid back here at good ole Trine. :) OH! Indoor track practice officially started this week! Surprisingly I'm not that sore! Crazy right?? haha We did repeat 1000m, 5 of those with only a minute rest in between Thursday and that totally sucked! But I know the pain and loss of breath will all pay off so it's totally worth it ;) God do I love track season! <3

Well speaking of track, I gotta go run 4 miles, ugggg not looking forward to it! I hope the xc girls get on indoor track soon so I can have a running buddy! i hate running these miles alone :/
Peace Out dudes!

~Annie

Mr Freeze :O

Yep yep, the snow has fallen on Trine University to ignite the winter season a wee bit early, (about 2 months early hehe) :P but it's totally what I needed. I mean, when you have snow, that automatically grants you the ability to snuggle up in a blanket with a cup of hot cocoa while watching a movie (i'm feeling Moulin Rouge tonight!) and heck! let's throw in a couple sugar cookies in there too! Ahhhhh.... this weekend looks like it's gonna turn out all right. ;)

This week has defiantly flown by! It feels like yesterday I was at AFROTC getting ready for the Army ROTC Leadership Lab. OH! Speaking of which, oh my god, that Lab was AWESOME! Okay, not as awesome as meeting Stan Lee, but it's up there.
What we did was, in our ABU's (Airmen Battle Uniform aka Camoflauge) we headed over to some fields after class to where the Army ROTC was hosting our Leadership Lab. We all were forewarned to not be offended if an Army Cadet raises their voice to you, so I'm like "HECK YES!!! I'm gonna be yelled at and called a Maggot and what not!" serious dudes, I was excited for this! (crazy i know) So we get there, split up in our flights (Go Echo Flight!) and then headed to our appropriate station to begin training. Our first station: Army Crawl! yaaaaaah!!! My partner and I Army Crawled under the obstacle course and then ran to the combat zone where we had to cover and run. My partner and I would lay in the prone postition and then when I was ready to run I'd yell, "COVER ME WHILE I MOVE!" then she'd yell "GOTCHA COVERED" and I'd yell, "MOVING!" and roll left or right then get up and run for not more than 3 seconds to only drive back down to the ground in the prone position and yell "DOWN!". Then my partner would yell out the same commands as I did while I covered her and dudes, that was AWESOME!! I wish Leadership Lab was more like that always! So anywho, after that we all were allowed to try the Low Crawl which is like the Army Crawl only you're flat on your stomach, face in the ground, and you literally crawl by grabbing the grass as far in front of you and pulling yourself to it. I was about to go, but one of the Cadet's has I guess chronic shoulder dislocation and ended up, well, dislocating her shoulder in the middle of the course so all the rest of us weren't allowed to go through. Sucks, I really wanted to try it, ah well, next time!
After that we went off to the Operations and Objective station where we learned how to attack and sweep an objective with your artillery and support teams. This was pretty cool, setting up a strike and then putting it in action. There was a lot of strategy there!
Then, we headed off to the EPW Take Down Station (I'm making up all these names for the stations i just can't remember their real ones, just a fyi :P haha) where we were taught how to take out an Enemy Prisoner of War. Pretty much, this was my favorite station. They showed us what commands to make and what actions to take if an enemy is near. So, when we were given the chance to encounter an EPW I, well.... ended up "killing" the guy. Haha, not literally killing him, just role playing. I commanded him to put his gun down and he refused to, so I told him again to and he charged at me, so I charged back and he still didn't stop so I "fired" a warning shot (the guns we used were fake) and he still resisted so, I "shot" him. haha :P Hey, he had it coming!! Then I had to check the "dead" body and make sure he didn't have any explosives on him or anything, it was a lot of fun dudes!
Then finally the last station we had was the Hand Signals Stations, where they taught us how to make commands in a stealth environment, meaning only using your hands, not your voice to make commands. I learned a ton! Like the command for Wedge Formation is like making a hand telephone, freeze of course is a fist, hault is an open palm and just a bunch of others! It was so much fun! What wasn't fun was having to run back to the Detachment after that 2-hour Leadership Lab in boots and full camo. Gosh was I tired!

Besides that my week has been pretty laid back. I had a micro-econ test yesterday and found out my score today: 31 out of 30. Crazy right!?!?! haha Chinese was fun too, it always is! Learn something new everyday, like the song Old McDonald had a Farm, well I guess in China they have their own version of it! Small world. :P

Well alrighty peeps, I'm gonna head out and see if there's any flakes still floating outside! and REMEMBER Sunday is Daylight Savings Time, we move back an hour, so be happy for an extra hour of sleep on Sunday night!!! :DDDD
-Peace Out-

~Annie

Stan DA Man

So, I'm going to refrain from using too many CAPS in this entry, but OMFG THIS WEEKEND WAS THE BEST WEEKEND EVAHHHHH!!!!!!

But first, I want to update you quickly on Tuesday's Drill Lab I was freaking out over. So, well I survived! yesss.... :P It was as difficult as I expected to be, but I was able to call all 10 commands in the given time so, thank god!!! :DDD Yes, I messed up, I marched outside the the boundaries, made a few wrong calls, but ya know what??? it was my first drill lab, so I think I did perdy well considering it was my first time calling. so yep! an overall success :))))

Alrighty, so on to this weekend... The Detroit Fanfare was AWESOME!!!! So again, I dressed up as Ms Marvel and here's a picture of me with the man of the hour: STAN LEE!!!



It was 70 bucks to just get a picture with the man, but my cousin and I split the cost, so really it was only 35 bucks, and come on, the guy isn't gonna live for much longer (he's 88!!!) and it's just really awesome to get a picture with the guy!!! :DDDD totally worth it, I dont regret it for one second. So yep as you can tell I dressed up and boy oh boy were the cameras going off!!! People left and right asked if they could take a picture of me, it was weird at first and I was like, "Ummm, sure!" and I'd like strike a pose and hope to god I don't look like a retard, but as the day went on, I just got used to it and it was fun posing to the cameras, being macho haha.
So after the picture and being chased by paparazzi fans, I headed off to the autograph line to get my comic book signed by him (cost 40 bucks for this, but again, totally worth it!!!).... my book of choice??? Captain America Vol 5 Issue #600. Yeah, I know that's nothing special, he didn't create Captain America though he did help write issues back in the day, but it's not an oldie comic of his that's already worth a pretty penny and with having a signature on it would spark the value greatly, nope it's not a comic like that, but it's special to me. Captain America is my absolute favorite hero of all time and to have Stan the Man sign a comic book of a hero that's a symbol of this country, then, that's totally worth it to me. It's not about the value of the comic or how much more valuable it will be, naw, not to me at least. As a matter of fact, I already have a comic signed by him. But this comic, issue #600, symbolizes the strength and evolution of the comic world, and Captain America. Gosh, there's just sooo much meaning to him signing that issue, I can't even get it all down, gosh!!! it was just incredible!! I couldn't even say anything to him when I got up there!!! haha I always read that in stories how people just freeze up and can't say anything and now I'm like, "Yep, totally know how that feels like." haha But luckily my mother was there (she dressed up as Wonder Woman, totally pulled it off too!! haha) to say my words for me, "Stan, thank you for giving my daughter a dream to live for." Stan Lee looks up from writing his signature and blows us a kiss and waves us goodbye, and he called me "Dear" ahhhhH!!!!! *nearly faints* I can hardly believe it right now that that totally happened!!!! OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG!!!!! :OOOOOOO And I'm not even done!!! Here's a picture of it:

 

So, after clutching on to my signature autographed comic book, and almost fainting several times, my mother and I head up to the second floor to meet up with my twin, Rebecca - dressed up as BatGirl, and my roommate, Elle - she went as Poison Ivy, to.... give blood!! come on, we're heroes here, gotta save lives!! so yep, we all gave blood and by doing so we were allowed to pick 50 comic books from the 30,000 comics donated there!! oh my goodness I could've been there all week and still wouldn't have been fully satisfied with my selection, but I only had an hour or so to work with so I had to act quick. :P Well, at least half were all Captain America, then I nabbed as many Ms Marvel comics I could  find and a few others. I was happy with them all! and, as I was doing allllll of that, people were taking pictures of me looking at the comics!!! ca-razyness!!! haha.

Ahhhhhh.... that was a guuuuur-RATE day :) My roommate, twin, and mother all had a fabulous time too, even though they are not huge comic fans like me, it was great to see that they were enjoying it all just as much as me, so that really made the day all the better seeing them laugh and have a fun time :) We all got tons of pictures with people too. Iron Man, War Machine, Spiderman, Nick Fury, and soooo many more people were there that we got to take awesome pictures with.



It's something I totally will do again in a heartbeat!! :D I just remember, when we first pulled up to the place, we couldn't see anyone in costume and my twin was just freaking out, thinking we'd be the only ones dressed up. pffff.... come on, it's a comic convention!!! there were so many people dressed up as heroes, villains, zombies, anything! it was great.

Whoa, I better call this post good, even though it only scrapes the top layer of the entire day, so much happened, gah!!! if I try to type everything out, it'd be a novel so I'll save your eyes the exercise and say Detroit Fanfare = BEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED TO ME :D

So Yep, my Halloween weekend was a HUGE success and I can only hope yours is too!!! :)))
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

AfterShock! :O

Oh my goodness, this weekend has been exciting!! Just one amazing thing after another!! :DDD
Well, first things first, Cedar Point was AWESOME!!! It was halloweekend so it was super busy, the average time to wait in line for one ride was 2 hours!! Crazy right? But it's like once you get on the ride that maybe will last 15 seconds, it's totally worth it!! Maverick was defiantly my favorite! Myself and my friends rode that one first. I've been to Cedar Point twice before, but my friend, Damon, never has so that was an experience within itself to see his life flash before his eyes countless times throughout the night, haha. We also went on Top Thrilled Dragster!!! YAAAA!!!! 120mph in 3 seconds shot up 420ft in the air, in total darkness since by then it was already 9pm by the time we made it to the actual seat of the ride. Oh my goodness that was awesome! haha I think my gut is still somewhere back there. :P it was a bit over a 2 hour wait for a 17second ride, and I may sound crazy for saying this, but it was worth every minute of it. :) We wanted to hit up Millennium Force, but that line was INSANE, like insane enough that for me that was too long of a wait. So instead, since it was halloweekend, there were scare walks all around the park so we headed off to those and oh my goodness those were so much fun!! They had hundreds of fogs machines going, leaving you totally disoriented and confused on where you were and then lasers or random spotlights would be a ways away to draw you to it, and then BAM a freaky looking face would pop up in front of you and scare the ba-jeebens outta you! haha it was soo much fun. I chewed out Damon for letting me go astray and not fighting off all the ghouls for me, but he was so funny with the freaky people because he'd just walk up to them and try to strike up a conversation, smooth Damon, very smooth haha.
So yep, Cedar Point was the Shiz!!! We arrived there at around 2:30pm, rode a total of 3 coasters (Maverick, Magnum, and Top Thrill Dragster), ate din-din at the diner by 9:30pm, swung on Max Air, and walked 3 scare walks, and after getting back together with the rest of the Trine folk by midnight to head back to the bus, then fall sound asleep, we got back to campus at about 3:00am. I wish we had more time to kill there but ah well, next year I hope to go back with just friends with our own car and have the whole day to waste without a time crunch, but for 20 bucks, totally the best deal i've ever paid for ;)

On top of allllllllll that, my bestest friend from Canada got proposed to (and she said yes!!!!), I finally received my Halloween costume from China (heck yes, Ms Marvel!), and I got news that all ROTC cadets are eligible for a scholarship to study abroad this summer to receive 8 or more credits worth of a language with all expenses covered! So....... Jordan/ Tunisia/ Morocco/ or where ever!! I hope to gain a few credits this summer learning Arabic so keep your fingers crossed :D

Ahhhhh such a grand weekend, only to get me pumped and ready for the upcoming week, so.... BRING IT ON!!! Tuesday I have Drill Lab for AFROTC, and.... I'm fa-REAKING OUT! :OOOOO It's where, I'll be given a card with several commands on it that I will have to call in the correct order for the flight to execute WITH several extra commands that are NOT on the card but are needed before I can even call some of the commands on the card AND all under a timelimit and the watchful eyes of my inspector. AHHHHHHHH!!!! sounds confusing right??? :P but since I had such an AH-mazing weekend, I feel like I'm ready for anything.
Thank you Trine University for igniting the fabuluos weekend with Cedar Point ;) I couldn't have asked for anything better!!! :)))

Alrighty dudes, I'm outta here, gotta study for Chinese, god I love that class!
Peace Out!

~Annie

In T-4 hours....

I'll be chill'n with some of my Trine peeps at CEDAR POINT!! Woot Woot!! :D It only cost 20 bucks for the ticket and the bus trip there!!! But Trine Unv. could only offer so many tickets to students so it was first come first serve for whom ever had their money right then and there (Thank you Damon for spotting me 20 bucks! i paid ya back ;] ) so yep it's gonna be an exciting weekend of screams, laughter, and excitement!! I am gonna race to the Maverick, that roller coaster is the SHIZ!! So I'll update you once I get back and settled, we'll be back on campus around 2:30 in the morning on Sunday, can't wait!!! :DDDDD

This week has been a goooooood week :) CCH (Christian Campus House) had a pumpkin carving party and I totally took part in that! Here's the picture of Charles Tim Davis:

There was bobbing for apples, card games, DELICIOUS Halloween cookies and just overal fun with everyone! The game spoons was going on, and i'm serious dudes, spoons were-a-flying!! haha it was a lot of fun and Charles Tim is happy to be here :P haha
There was a hypnotist on campus at the same time, but I decided to stay within my own state of mind and crave a pumpkin ;P but I heard he was really good so a well, there's always stuff going around Trine so I'm sure something else exciting will be back before you know it!
So, OH! Before I head out to get some food in my gut before we depart for.... CEDAR POINT, i just wanna say, Case 39 the movie I saw on Monday was actually good! It was creepy but not toooo creepy, so it was bearable but really messed with your head! I'd recommend it to anyone who likes creepy movies ;) 4 out of 5 stars!
Alrighty folks, I'll be a heading out now. Wish me luck that I survive these wicked coasters and I'll be sure to tell you of my adventure asap. Stay awesome everyone and I'll chat soon.
Peace Out

~Annie

MONdays....

*yawn* ah, still haven't woken up on this chilly Monday, and i mean chilly! Yet there are still people who wear shorts and flip flops as if it's 80 degrees out! It's in the 50s dudes, bundle up ;) haha

Well, this weekend was fairly productive, two great games to see. We of course kicked butt in football, Trine 38 Alma 0! Woot woot! Lot's of close calls and sa-weet interceptions! At the girls soccer game we came up short, Trine 0 Alma 2, but they put up an awesome fight and the team overall has improved greatly this year!! Cross-country has improved this year too! They ran at Manchester on Saturday, sorry I couldn't be there, but great job you guys!

Let's see what else did I do..... OH! Trine Air Force ROTC went well on Sunday flight practice (marching training). We haven't been able to march color guard during the football games this year because we don't actually own the color guard gear so we have to rent them and we just can't get our hands on any!! But flight practice was fine, just calling out the commands and the freshmen are really holding up well. I'm still the only girl, but none of the cadets treat me any differently and I appreciate that GREATLY! but i've been working on a few girls this year so, I'm crossing my fingers!!!

My roommate and I watched Killers this weekend and sorry but I have to give it a 2 out of 5 stars. Ashton Kutcher just is not the "James Bond" type and come on, no woman finds their man that quick!!! :P and the storyline was really easy to foresee, but Katherine Heigl was hilarious! It's good maybe for a one-time only rental just to fill up your weekend, but not a buy.

Well peeps, I better call this one good. The weekend was very chill, just a nice breather from the hectic mid-terms week before so sleeping was a HUGE part of the weekend. haha And oh how I'd love to grab a few more hours of sleep but I better get ready for practice ;) yay running! I'm so sore from lifting yesterday, ugh... probably shouldn't have done that ;P but hey I gotta get ready for my Halloween costume (I'm gonna be Ms Marvel, look her up if you don't know her, which is probably everyone haha but she's awesome and my costume was shipped last week from China, so I hope to God it gets here in time, *bites nails*) so i'm buffing myself up :P
OH! and don't forget! It's Free Movie Monday!!! Either Case 39 or Let Me In, both scary movies. Case 39 is about this social worker that adopts a beaten girl after the parents are sent to prison for abuse charges but some evil entity seems to be trying to get to the girl or something. And Let Me In I've seen from previews is about this little vampire/evil girl (i guess she was in the movie Kick ummm.... Gluts!) that like eats people or something haha
I plan on seeing Case 39 so yep, hope it's good!
Alrighty, Peace Out!

~Annie

I SURVIVED MIDTERMS WEEK!

I'mmmmmm aaaaaaaaLIVE!!!!! :D yes everyone, I'm doing fine and dandy. It was quite a battle, writing essays, making study guides, studying for midterms, and going to track conditioning and pt (physical training) but somehow I pulled through! Winner! And no I did not pull any all nighters, the latest I stayed up surprisingly was 12:30am, haha. I did miss mandatory pt for Air Force ROTC on Wednesday morning however, thanks to my alarm clock that refused to do its duty!! grrrr... But hey, I'm breathing and I have a chill weekend of barely any homework and two awesome Trine Thunder games to go to and watch on Saturday: Football & Soccer! or... is it Football and Futbol?? :P anywho, in football we play at home against Alma, I hope for some more competition because last week's game at homecoming we won... 51-7, but, sorry, it was a little boring to watch. It's more suspenseful watching a game tied up in the last quarter. So Alma, put up a good fight please, even though Trine will and always DOMINATE! woot woot! In futbol the lady thunder team is gonna battle it out with Alma too. So I guess Alma is the team to play tomorrow. I wish both GOOD LUCK! And finally, before I run off to track condition, ummm.... wow I lost my thought, maybe my brain did explode from all the studying this week.... OH! now I remember, I want to thank anyone who's eyes, even for a split second, wonder across my blog. I'm a rambler and hopefully I won't bore you to death in my writings, but just know that this is only the beginning of something great. ;) I sure like to think of it that way, so be prepared for some really awesome blogs, okay maybe not that awesome, but ya know, awesome enough to please the eye and well, I don't know, maybe a laugh here and there. I guess we'll see!
So have a great day and please go outside (it is a bit chilly so I would highly recommend a sweater), stop reading this blog for just a moment and breath in some fresh October air! Wow, I'm like so in the mood for some hot apple cider, so Peace Out everyone and I'll check back in soon as I brew up a batch before my run. ;)

~Annie