Friends like these...a long update filled with excuses

I'm sorry, blog. I didn't post yesterday, though I started to last night.

Here's what I wrote:

I'm writing a fast post.
My brain is funtioning on little sleep.
Yesterday night I watched the five hour version of Pride and Prejudice. I love that movie. I think I almost have it memorized. I also got to have some friend time, and we continued our tradition of trying on ugly prom dresses. (SEE THIS POST FOR WHAT HAPPENED LAST YEAR. It's good, I promise. Sorry to shout.)

I think we shall have to do this every year.
And, since I'm not planning on going to prom, and she is not planning on prom, we are going to do something perfectly ingenious to make up for the lack of "normal teenagerness"

I have a feeling our adventure will be silly and marvelous.
Prom dresses will be involved.

(...and I stopped. Because I couldn't think straight enough to even use proper grammar. It started to go into the land of asdfjkl;ehrw)

But I'll continue the thought.

Emphasis on the Eternal

Wow. What a weekend! 

It felt like it was so much longer than three days. 

It was nice to be away from “it all”. 

Away from the distractions of daily life. 

Away from Physics homework. 

Away from the little details of life that bog me down. 

It was about getting closer.

Closer to God. Closer to friends. Getting to know myself better. 

There was rain, there was sun. There were octopuses (octopi?)

There was squelching in the mud and lots of laughter. 

There was running like a maniac to win the scavenger hunt, getting terribly lost in the blindfolded maze, conquering fears and jumping off of a 40 foot pole onto a trapeze.