3rd Annual OUWAFC Thanksgiving Extravaganza

Its that time of year again-- the holiday season where fun things happen one after another. First up, Thanksgiving with another iteration of our traditional football team Thanksgiving dinner at my house. Once again, I was in charge of the turkeys, and once again, I found myself injured on Thanksgiving (although thankfully no crutches this time, just a knee the size of a cantaloupe).

Everyone brought a side dish and there was enough food to feed a small army. Which is a good thing because our team can eat like a small army!! There were about 20-25 people crammed into my living room but the food was amazing and the company even better.

I am going to miss the football girls (and Tommy and Nath) like crazy when I leave so it was great to have the chance to have everyone together again before I leave.

Up next, the OUWAFC Christmas Party next week. Looking forward to that!!

In other news, I have finished my thesis and am just waiting on my supervisors to give me the thumbs up to submit. I feel like I should be working and don't quite know what to do with myself....

Song Challenge Day 9

A song you can dance to: Dynamite by Taio Cruz.

My friends know I'm not a huge dancer. Like, at all. However, this song will always remind my of the Varsity Rugby Ball last year because it played at least 3 times. I had such an awesome night hanging out and dancing with Bonnie, Danny, Tommy, Leon, Matt, Jack, etc that I will always be able to dance to this song.

Song Challenge 6,7,8

Figures I'm falling behind with this. Anyways, here are 3 days worth.

 A song that reminds you of somewhere: Angel by Shaggy. I know it seems a stretch but this song reminds me of Israel. One of the summers we were there this song was on ALL THE TIME!! This video is absolutely horrible... the suits? Really??

A song that reminds you of a certain event: Shewolf by Shakira. This song reminds me of the Cup Final by 1st year in Oxford. This was on our pumpup CD for every game and it did the job needed: got us to the final and we won! I'm pretty sure several of our cheers at halftime were actually just the howl from this song...

A song you know all the words to: We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel. Love this song!!

 

Song Challenge Day 5

A song that reminds you of someone: Big Girls Don't Cry by Fergie.

This song reminds me of Kristen and Kimothy. We were all at the Academy 2nd summer period before our 2 degree year and this song was on the radio all the time. The number of drives to Chick-fil-A spent listening to this song was more than we could possibly count. Makes me think of them any time I hear it.

Song Challenge Day 4

A song that makes me sad: Hatishma Coli (Hear My Voice or Will You Hear My Voice)

This song was played as one of the wakeup calls onboard STS-107, selected for astronaut Ilan Ramon by his wife. If you've read my blog posted on February 1st last year you'll know how much this mission means to me and the impact it had on my life. A line from this song is engraved on Ilan Ramon's tombstone and this song makes me sad everytime I hear it.

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-107/wave/fd04red.wav

Song Challenge Day 3

A song that makes you happy:
I've Just Seen A Face by the Beatles (from Across the Universe).

You try and watch this video without ending up with a smile on your face! I bet you a can't and every time I hear this song, especially this version of it, I get super happy.

Song Challenge Day 2

Your least favourite song:
While I don't have a "least favourite" song and am usually someone who likes just about any style of music, there are some songs that just drive me up a wall. This is one of them. Sorry Cheryl Cole, I just can't listen to this song all the way through....

30 days left, time for a challenge!

So, in 30 days time I will be leaving this fine country and returning to a finer one. There is a lot of stuff that needs to happen between now and then and I will summarize some of it here:

24 November- 3rd Annual OUWAFC Thanksgiving Extravaganza. The past 2 years I have hosted a Thanksgiving Dinner at my house for the women's football club. This year will be the final iteration of said dinner (although I have handed the turkey duties over to Kim because I have too much engineering work to do). I'm really excited for this chance to spend time with the football girls and have a little taste of America.

25 November- Liz's promotion party. The Army deems it appropriate to promote from 2nd LT to 1st LT 18 months after pinning on and so Liz is getting promoted! We're gonna celebrate (not quite the celebration I had for mine) but should be fun.

3 December- THESIS SUBMISSION DAY! I have given myself the deadline of the end of term to submit my thesis and then I'll be done with this ridiculous working schedule and will be able to have fun!!

4 December- Last Manny Road game (and therefore the last time I get to play 11v11 football for the foreseeable future). If all goes as planned (ie we win the week before) then we will have already won the league by this point but I will need to keep up my goalscoring record in order to beat Danny in the friendly competition we have going.

8 December- Varsity Rugby!! I loved this last year and I barely knew all the guys I went with. This year will be even better and I can't wait! Game at Twickenham, ball at a club in Chelsea area, it will be a blast! Britta is joining this year as well and it's going to be awesome.

10 December- Manny Road Christmas party. Great chance to hang out with all my awesome football friends (men's and women's teams) and get into the Christmas spirit.

13 December- My going away party. What a bittersweet event this is going to be! I'm really excited by all the RSVP's I've gotten (around 40!!) and I know it will be awesome to have all my England friends in one place at one time, I'm just gonna have to try super hard not to cry all night long!

17 December- Flight back to the states!! Yikes, its coming up SOOOO fast!!


Anyways, since I have 30 days until I come back I figured I'd mark each one with a 30 day song challenge that I gave to Michal and am now stealing back from her.

Day 1: Your favourite song. There is no way I could possibly choose a favourite song! However, this song happens to be my most played on iTunes, from one of my favourite bands, and on one of my favourite cds so it will pass as my "favourite" song here. Plus the music video involves football so thats always a plus. Must Have Done Something Right by Relient K.