Mārtiņš is bipolar, and I want an orange shag rug carpet

Oct 11
Oh, Lithuanian. How I love you so. My midterm went better than expected, but we will see what the grade says. Happy Columbus Day everyone! Glad you have no school and I do!

Oct 12

“Give me freedom and give me internet. These are both basic, essential human rights” – Mārtiņš and Derek. So true guys. So, so true. The internet has still been acting up, and for the most part, I do not have internet in my room for the vast majority of the day. I spend more time trying to fix my internet connection than I would normally spend wasting time on Facebook if I could! But come on, when I’m trying not to study here, what else am I supposed to distract myself with besides Facebook?! …Save me…

Everyone around me is bipolar. And when I say everyone, I really only mean Mārtiņš. I went downstairs to give Merunas his Soc notes back, but apparently I missed him by about 20 seconds. Mārtiņš was attempting to write a paper, but he couldn’t think of a good thesis, so I sat down at the table to kinda sorta but not really study for Soc and mock him about how he couldn’t think of a good thesis. Absolutely loving his other works, he insisted that I read this one as well. As I tried to help him come up with a thesis, Merunas comes in and distracts me from helping Mārtiņš anymore. Mārtiņš starts freaking out on Merunas, telling him to stop distracting me so I can finish writing his paper. Ugh, I was NOT writing his paper!! But neither Merunas nor Mike believed me, and poor Adomas probably thinks I’m completely nuts. But then again, remembering who his roommates are.. I think I’m safe. Anyway, I finally came up with a decent enough thesis for Mārtiņš to work with, and eventually he subtly yet very blatantly tells me to leave. After being told that I’m not wanted anymore, I obviously go to leave and both he and Merunas yell at me not to go! I sink down into a chair, totally confused, and allowed Mārtiņš to convince me to stay and watch him cook potatoes. Oh joy. Well, it was either that or study for my Soc exam tomorrow, I’m pretty sure you know which option won. I got a knife and started peeling potatoes, to only be doing that wrong too. Mārtiņš and Merunas both offer me some of the potatoes, and when I refused they absolutely insisted on making me try some. So I said, “Fine, if you really want me to eat the potatoes, I will” and then they both refused to give me any of their food! WHY IS EVERYONE BIPOLAR?! Ugh.. boys….

Oct 13
Happy Birthday Lauren!! Forget about Soc exams, I want a fiesta! (Lauren is part Mexican). Braving the darkness to walk over to LCC on my own in order to make it to this wonderful party was well worth it. There were tacos and chips and beans and all other sorts of fun fiesta food. There was even a homemade Merunas original piñata! I was more than glad to let Lauren have all the fun with the piñata, there was a reason why I quit softball :)

Oct 15

Since SOMEONE (ahem Gabby!!!) decided to cancel on me, chili night was changed from Tuesday to today. And it wasn’t even in Karklu anymore, since the Neumann people completely outnumber me. Gabby had some meat since Monday, and it looked/smelled kinda iffy, but I decided to still give it a shot, but after cooking it and comparing it to the other meat, we decided to be on the safe side and not use it. But wow, the food was so good that it was all gone, except for one small helping. Definitely will be cooking chili again in the near future.

Then off to Memelis- it was one of those you-had-to-be-there moments to understand it :)

Oct 16

I wish I could tell you how productive of a day I had today, but I can’t. Stayed in bed til around 12, then Calvin canceled our plans to go to the thrift store, and then got convinced by Mārtiņš to go distract him. Or distract myself by distracting him really, because I have a 5 min Lithuanian presentation on my family on Monday! Yay me :) Well, that’s what Sunday is for, right? Of course… Mārtiņš forced me to watch Robin Hood, but it was in Russian. I’m practically fluent now ;). Later I there was an awesome get together at Vaiva’s house that included awesome food, amazing music, and even better people. Plus, I found a new cooking buddy. What a wonderful night. I really don’t want this weekend to end!

Oct 17

Must be productive… I must be productive… Yeah, no, didn’t work too well. Though I know I should be working on my presentation, I’m sitting here writing this post. Hmm.. I think there’s something wrong with that. But oh well, I needed to be distracted for a while. This week is going to be annoying, but then Saturday we head off to Russia!

Then off to be re-Americanized. Allison, my study abroad recruiter, came back from a recent trip from the States, and brought back some goodies. There were kit kats, peanut butter, oreos, Reese’s, peanut butter cookies, Autumn-in-a-cup tea and other yummy goodies. And then she surprised us further by putting in “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown”. It was so nice to have a comfortable and familiar American setting. And I got to share my dream of my fun room. I will try to make a picture of what I want, but for now here is a description:

Orange shag carpet; red entrance rug; different color blue sheets, with a crazy deep blue pattern comforter; dark purple curtains; matching opposite walls- one wall will be black with bright pink zebra stripes, and then the opposite wall will be bright pink with black zebra stripes, and the other two walls will be deep green with bright yellow leopard spots, and the opposite wall will be bright yellow with deep green leopard spots; the ceiling will be a mix of all the colors, very softly mixing with each other; the furniture will be an off-white or cream color; and finally, a black fuzzy butterfly chair.

To my future husband: Honey, I will have this room somewhere in our house, and you will like it. Love, me :)