This morning I woke up at 6:45 to get ready for the ELCA women's retreat, and there was a layer of fluffy white stuff covering the outside world. Yup, snow. In April. This is definitely Minnesota. Can't make up her damn mind whether it's winter or spring, can she? The retreat was here in Mankato at Grace Lutheran. My mom picked me up at about 7:45 and we met up with the rest of the ladies from Our Savior's at the church. Pastor Elaine was there; she was doing the devotions for the morning and representing Crossroads. We also had a worship band called "Body & Soul" (or something like that) and a speaker from Kids Against Hunger. They fed us delicious cinnamon rolls and all the coffee we cared to drink (which in my case, you know was a lot). Then later, for brunch, we got egg bake and fruit and muffins, and if we wanted we could sample the packaged food Kids Against Hunger sends to starving people around the world. It tastes like a cross between chicken-flavored ramen and Ricearoni. I didn't care for it, but if I was starving it would probably be like ambrosia. After the retreat was over (around 12:30), my mom and I went shopping at the mall and Kohl's, but we didn't buy anything. I considered some clothes, but the only thing I did was use my free panty coupon at Victoria's Secret. I'm such a sucker for pretty lingerie. Then we came back to the dorm and moved quite a bit of my stuff out to take home. It seems like half of it, but it's probably more like a third of it. I kinda wish I was going home with my stuff today, that the semester was over and all. I can't wait, but I'm okay with it for now. I'm resigned to the fact that I've got two more weeks. I got some dinner from Chet's Place and sat down to write my paper. No sooner had I finished my sandwich and put pen to paper did my phone ring. It was Cassandra, and she was going shopping at Wal-Mart but didn't want to go alone. Anything to procrastinate writing my paper, right? She picked me up, and we had oodles of fun getting super-distracted by pretty much everything in the store. I ended up buying a pair of underwear off the clearance rack, same as she did, so now we'll match. She's a lingerie girl too. :) Neil called while we were shopping, but I couldn't really talk, and he was going to bed. Sad day. After Wal-Mart (we finally got out of there at about 23:00), Cassandra was hungry so we stopped at McDonald's and ordered off the dollar menu. I discovered we share a love of iced tea and country music. How cool is that? I like Cassandra more each time we hang out, which is a refreshing change from what has been happening with my "friends" lately. Ugh. I'm pissed at Amy because she's trying to use Juwon to break up me and Neil, simply because she hates Neil. It's just so frustrating because friends don't do that to friends, but I'm more indifferent than I would be if it were anyone else. I've been meaning to call Brian. But not now. It's bedtime. I've got the room to myself this weekend. I should get up early tomorrow, maybe skip morning church at Bethel. This paper isn't going to write itself.