Happy Fall!

I haven't blogged for a few days so I just wanted to update everyone on what's been up in the riveting life of Amelia. For the last couple days I've been very busy with crew dealings since we have two regattas in the next two weeks and numerous new rowers to accommodate. My inbox is like a sea of rowing emails (or a river or lake if you want to make a rowing pun). So I haven't been blogging much.
Crew is going spectaculary well! We had our first set Varsity 4 practice last night, with me as stroke, and it felt fast and strong. I'm really excited to see what happens this weekend in Des Moines. We tried to practice yesterday morning but the fog on the lake was so dense, even Rudolph couldn't see through it. We would have launched and not been able to find the dock, it was that bad. So we held off until last night. Practices with the novice are getting better and better each day, with the new rowers picking up new skills very quickly.
School has been going well. My first two tests of the semester went really well and I got A's on both. Let's just see if I keep up with this super student facade I've been putting on the last couple weeks. I've actually been reading for my classes which is completely out of the norm for me...
To update my last post, I found a bean bag chair for my sister for $15!!! It was like it was meant to be. They marketed the chairs as "Game Day" chairs so that's why they had the sale. It's like the corporate headquarters of Wal-Mart read my blog and decided to accommodate my need. I'm pretty excited for her birthday party on Friday since my mom will probably make some uber delicious dish and my other sister is coming home from North Dakota. The only thing that sucks is that the next morning I have to wake up at 3 am!!!!! in order to get to school by 3:30 to drive to the Des Moines regatta. I'll be feeling the cake and ice cream the next morning...
My money situation is pretty bleak because I haven't been able to work as much at Chang's, so I'm not making tip money and all of my last work study check went to bills and gas. What is in my fridge right now? The water jug, Light margarine, milk, and alcohol. I guess that's all you need in life! I had oatmeal for lunch the other day! haha
Once I do go grocery shopping, I'm going to buy like 5 cans of pumpkin. Fall is my FAVORITE time of baking (even more so than Christmas because Christmas baking is just such a daunting task) I love pumpkin flavored things so I'm planning to make pumpkin bread, muffins, bars, and perhaps a vegan pumpkin spice cake recipe I found. I have to gripe, though, that this Halloween I can't celebrate because we will be in the vans headed to the Witchita regatta. I absolutely ADORE Halloween, but maybe I'll make little treat bags for my team...
This has been incredibly long so I will stop for today! Here's a thought: If you had a lot of money to spend on a Halloween costume, and you had an awesome party to go to, who/what would you be? I would go all out on an Uhura from Star Trek costume complete with big hair, go go boots, and lavish eyeliner. Yes, I am a Star Trek nerd, get over it!

The hunt for the bean bag chair

It is so hard to find affordable bean bag chairs in this town! Grr. A while ago Shopko had a sale for 19.99 bean bag chairs. I went the FIRST day of the sale in the MORNING and there were none left AKA they probably only had 5 to start out with. Their devious plan worked because I did proceed to shop around and bought some shirts there but that's beside the point! I want to get my sister a chair for her birthday this weekend (I hope she doesn't read this, didn't think about that...) and even Walmart's are kind of expensive. Tips were not that good this weekend but if push comes to shove, I will shell out the big bucks because I think she deserves it.
Even though I have homework to do tonight, I think I'll go hit up another store before closing time. My older sister's birthday is coming up too and I have NO idea what to get her. She's the type of person who has everything and doesn't really have any special interests (i.e. she doesn't collect Precious Moments things or even have a DVD collection). Does anyone have any suggestions for a woman in her late twenties that has everything? I know she's my sister, and you don't know her like I do, but I'm stuck. Help!
On another note, my Violence in America class freaked me out today. We talked about serial killers and recent homicides in Omaha. Needless to say, I walked to my car after class (around 7:30 pm) with one eye looking behind me and the other looking forward. It was extremely interesting, that's for sure, but I'm alone in my apartment till Heather gets home from work. EEK!