Where has the time gone?

I can not believe it is already the first of October! Where has time gone? I can’t believe I haven’t updated this blog in almost a month! I will say that life on the road makes time fly by! I am working in a new place every four days, so every four days I get to see new things, meet new people and do new things! I love it!

Since I last wrote I’ve done a lot! I left Purdue and headed to Wright State College in Dayton, Ohio. I rented a car and drove there from Indianapolis. Normally I fly everywhere, which I don’t mind, but I really enjoy driving! At Wright State, I met with all of the officers. They are really great women, and I really enjoyed working with them. After a few days at Wright State, I loaded up the rental car and headed to Ohio University, in Athens, Ohio, for their first weekend of recruitment. From Ohio University, I once again loaded up the rental and headed to West Liberty College in West Virginia. Ohio and West Virginia are such beautiful places! (It probably wasn’t the safest idea, but I was taking pictures out my window the whole time!) West Liberty is a beautiful little school up in the mountains. It was great to be there and help them out. I also had my teeth cleaned, because one of the women in the chapter is a Dental Hygiene major and she needed a patient at the last minute, so that was kind of cool! After a few days at West Liberty, I drove back to Ohio University for their second weekend of recruitment. They did a great job and they worked very hard! I have really enjoyed working with all of these chapters and in the next few months I will go back and visit them all again!

On Monday, September 22, I turned 22 years old. I also loaded up my rental car one last time, and drove almost five hours back to Indianapolis so that I could go to Purdue. When I got to Purdue I found that I had birthday cards from my family and a few of the girls in the chapter. That was very cool. I had a meeting with a few of the officers. At about 10:00 PM, Heather and Laura drove all the way from the Illinois, so I could spend my birthday with them. They brought me a card and balloons! We got a little lost in the country, so we headed back and went to Taco Bell and then a coffee shop for dessert! It was great to be able to see them! I spent the rest of the week assisting the chapter with CORing and meeting with the officers.

On Friday, I headed back to Omaha for a few days of vacation. I had a busy weekend, but it was great because I got to see a lot of people I’ve really missed! My dad picked me up from the airport at 10:00 AM and we rushed home so that I could get to my 11:00 AM haircut appointment. From there I went to my Grandma Padilla’s house so we could go out to lunch and go birthday shopping (something that we always used to do when we were little kids and now we’ve started doing it again!). I had a great time! Grandma and I had a lot of fun picking out outfits and walking around the mall. After that I met up with Kim, my boss at the Cooper Y (and life mentor and AXiD sister) for the last three years, so we could catch up on life. We ended up going to Stein Mart to do a little shopping, and we ended up buying matching jackets! It was so great to see her and hang out with her! Heck, I saw Kim almost everyday for the last few years, so it was good to catch up! Then on Friday night my friends Liz, Beth and Anita came in from Lincoln and we spent a few hours at Old Chicago hanging out and catching up. On Saturday, Beth and I got up really early and went to Lincoln for the Husker game. We hung out with some of her friends and tailgated, then we went to my family’s tailgate. We had a blast! It was just like the old days. Helen, Adam Hansen, Gilroy, Paul H, Sara, Ryan & Bryan all came to hang out. My Grandpa, Uncle Doug, my parents, the Katchems and a bunch of other family friends were all there. It was so great to spend the whole afternoon getting ready for the game. There was actually a mechanical Bull station next door to the tailgate. When Beth, Helen and I first arrived at the Krysl tailgate I said, I should ride that bull. After a few hours I finally worked up enough courage to ride the bull! I didn’t last very long, but I did it and it was fun. Soon after Beth decided she would ride it, then my sister, Stef, gave it a try, then Gilory and Hansen both rode the bull. It was pretty awesome!Even though the Huskers lost the game, my Stef and I had so much fun watching it and hanging out together during the game. It was weird for me because that was my first game as anAlum, meaning I was not standing the entire game in the student section. It kind of made me a little sad. But I still had a great time. After the game I went out with Helen, Beth and some of the guys who will be in Josh and Helen’s wedding (Beth and I are also in the wedding). We had a great time. Sunday was just as busy as the rest of the weekend! I sang at church. Then my mom and I met up with Andrea, Molly, Cathy and Linda for lunch. It was so great to see them all again and spend a few hours talking about life! Then I met up with my friend Shaun for coffee. We worked together as counselors at the Y four years ago, but we still always manage to keep in touch and talk about life. After hanging out with Shaun, I went home for a family party, to celebrate my Grandma’s 81st birthday, my cousin Jayme’s 12th birthday and my 22nd birthday. It was so nice to be able to hang out with almost all of my family!! Then Grandma Krysl, Grandma Padilla, my mom, Stef and I watched the season premier of Desperate Housewives and Brothers and Sisters. I haven’t been able to do that in a long time, so it was nice to be able to do that. I had so much fun being home and seeing everyone!

Right now I am at the University of Central Oklahoma. This is where my good friend and fellow ELC, Winter, is from. It is so cool to be staying at her chapter and getting to work with her chapter sisters. These women have been so nice! I’ve been meeting with the officers and helping them with a little “pomping” for the homecoming float. (Pomping is when you take tissue paper and stick it through the holes of chicken wire, just so you know in case you didn’t.) I leave tomorrow and head to the University of Iowa. I will be helping them with their sisterhood retreat, which I am so pumped about! I love sisterhood retreats!

That’s about it for now! I will try to keep up with this more, so it doesn’t have to be so long the next time! I love you and miss you all!