Friday, July 27, 2012

What a week!! Whew!! Hoping the next two or three weeks slows down. This whole summer has flown by, fast and furious!

Made a quick trip to Stillwater yesterday evening. It was time to move Morgan out of her summer dorm, and into her fall dorm. Her last exam was on Thursday. Thursday evening, we packed, loaded both trucks, and checked out of IBA. We then drove approximately TWO blocks, checked into the fall dorm, unloaded both trucks, and commenced to carrying tons of boxes and bags of "stuff" up to Morgan's new dorm room on the second floor. There was no convenience of an elevator in this building. This building is actually fairly new, but, no elevator. IBA had an elevator....old, delapidated, out-dated, community bathroom IBA, had a wonderfull elevator. This "new" dorm, does not. Needless to say, we made many trips up and down the ugly flight of stairs. My thighs are NOT happy. Nor will they be happy for quite some time, I'm sure. I stayed up after that for several hours unpacking and putting things away for Morgan. She will be working full time again, since her class is over, and I'm sure will not have time to get everything organized and put away. So, I had fun doing it for her, late last night. At some unknown hour this morning, I went to bed aching all over (darn stairs).

I got up before Morgan, took my shower, then, left shortly after she left for work at 6:45ish a.m. I walked a couple of blocks to get my temporary parking permit for campus parking, in order to avoid a $35.00 - $40.00 ticket. Morgan had told me this place opened at 7:00 a.m., and they start patrolling the parking lots and giving out tickets by 8:00 a.m. I got there a little early, as they don't actually open until 7:30 a.m.

After obtaining this golden parking permit, I returned to Morgan's new dorm and put a couple of turkey legs in the oven for lunch. Even though I wanted to finish the organizing and unpacking, I pretty much crashed and decided to take a nap. The lack of at least eight hours of good, sound sleep finally got to me. When I got up, I fixed some veggies to go with our turkey legs, then, enjoyed a nice lunch with Morgan when she came home around noon. Her boss let her take the rest of the day off, since it was so hot. We decided to finish unpacking and organizing the rest of her belongings. We got everything put away except maybe two totes/boxes. Then, it was way past time for me to head home. I was in Stillwater approximately twenty-four hours, and we got a lot done in that short amount of time.

Her new "dorm room" is more like an apartment. There are four nice-sized bedrooms, containing a full-size bed, desk, small dresser, bookshelf, and small closet. There is a nice, spacious livingroom, kitchen, and laundry room situated between each pair of bedrooms. There are two full bathrooms, to be shared among the four girls. Now, the funny, quirky part of this whole story? Two of Morgan's new roomates are named Meghan. The third roomate is another Morgan. So, two Meghans and two Morgans, in one apartment/dorm room! What are the chances of that happening? Will be interesting to see if the girl in the bedroom on Morgan's end of the apartment is a Meghan or a Morgan. I think the person setting this all up, behind the scenes, must have a wickedly, twisted sense of humor. This could get confusing.