Mornings and Dates!

I hate getting up in the morning. Which is exactly what I had to do today! I got up at the crack of dawn (6:30)! It's horrifying! And then I had to be able to comprehend stuff too! I had to take a writing proficiency exam (the WPE). It's basically write an essay in 75 minutes about a topic they give you. Luckily it was a topic I was able to write about - something that I had been worrying about. The part I wasn't worried about was my writing skills as I've always been a decent writer, and I'm not sure I did a very good job on it. Oh well...if I fail I'll just have to retake it and study a bit harder, though there's only so much I think you can do to study for it.

As not-worried as I was about it, (:P) it was very exhausting and I napped the afternoon away. I napped partially because I was tired and partially because I had become ravenous and knew I'd eat a whole bunch that I shouldn't if I didn't find something to get it off my mind...sleeping was as good a choice as any. After I woke up I took a shower to get ready for my date!

My second date ever (in my 21 years) was a lot of fun. We had a group date with Brett and Kellie (B&K), Dustin and Chiemi (D&C), and Adam Bickford and Kellie's sister Kasey. My date for the evening was Brandon Ready. We met at B&K's apartment and then walked over to Pacific Burger just down the street. They have pretty good food actually. I enjoyed it a lot. The only thing I had ever had from there is their fries once and that was years ago when I was in high school. I wouldn't mind going back there sometime. Funny thing happened, Kasey and Adam ordered and when he went to pay he realized he didn't have any cash on him and it was "Cash Only" so Kasey had to pay for the both of them! It was hilarious! Then we sat down...B&K and A&K in one booth and the rest of us in another. One table was really, really noisy and rambunctious and the other was fairly quiet...guess which was which. :P Brandon also decided we needed to pray on the food and Chiemi was like..What? Really?...I was thinking...he's both a Ready (highly spiritual) and a RM. It's probably ingrained in him at this point to pray wherever he is, even in restaurants.

After dinner we went back to the apartment and played a few games. They are the kind of games that are hard to describe without you being there but if played right can lead to the most fun you have ever had. They are good for groups like that. They make you laugh so HARD!! I got so hot but by the time I would have taken my jacket off it was getting later and I didn't want to start getting settled in or anything. D&C managed to bow out to relieve their babysitter, Vicki, of her duties so she could go home. I couldn't find a nice way to bow out as I couldn't have said that I needed to get home to sleep as that is blatantly untrue for anyone who knows me. I am a complete night owl and don't generally go to bed before midnight most nights. But whatever. I had fun and I'm home now, that's all that matters.