The potentially lonely and boring weekend...

So as i begin to settle down for the night Friday (by settle down i mean try and come up with something to do seeing how it wasn't even 9 yet.) i receive a phone call. I had been looking forward (and by looking forward i mean looking forward because it was in the future, not because i was actually excited) to a night of striving to find something to do. two of my roommates went home, and some other friends were going on a camping trip. So i figured i would probably end up getting stuck in front of a television out of sheer boredom. When * i'm blue, da ba di da bi die, bi dab a di dob i die bod a dee dob ih die* starts playing. (this would also be known as my ring tone) I answer it, supressing the urge to go "Jack's mortuary. You whack 'em we pack 'em." (the only way i really answer the phone when my mom calls.) And my good friend Mike is on the other end of the phone. "Hey Mandy, i can't remember, did you want to go camping with us?" Me "i didn't know i was invited." Story behind that real quick, he had mentioned it the day before to Chris as we were going to Wing Wednesday. (yes Wing Wednesday is on Thursday. I'll explain some other time.) Again, he had mentioned it while i was there but had really only extended the invitation to Chris, thus I didn't know that i was also invited. So after this had been established via phone between us he goes "Can you be ready in five minutes?" me "i can try" Him "well we're on our way right now."
This is Mandy's cue to run into her bedroom and get ready for camping probably faster than she ever has in the history of her life. And i would like to submit not only was i packed by the time they got there, i had also changed into an entirely new outfit that was more camping appropriate. (in other words, clothes i didn't care if ended up a little dirty and smelling like smoke. ) I am honestly a little proud of the fact i was able to do that in five minutes. I think i kept them waiting maybe a minute...possibly two. So Mike comes and i meet his two friends Tessa (who i actually met the day before) and Amanda. (probably a good thing i go by Mandy) We pile back into Mikes car and head up the Canyon.
I LOVE Logan canyon, i just would like the world to know that.
So we get to the campsite, i sort of help mike park so he doesn't run into a big rock. And i go over and meet everyone else. And the Chris and Sayler emerge from a tent (yes, Sayler is his real name. No i don't know if i spelled it right) them i knew. And then we sit by a campfire. We roast marshmallows, i hear a lot of people talk about their missions and other things. Mike goes off and flirts with three girls. We attempt to start playing yatzee later except the whole time we've been out by the fire it has been raining off and on. so we start trying to play and lo and behold it starts raining. So we set up another tent because we know we'll probably be up talking for a while and we don't want to wake up Chris and Sayler. Also, i have now seen someone bake cookies over a fire. How cool is that?
So now we all start going into the tent to sleep. Mike goes back over to the tent with Chris and Sayler, because he kinda wants to go to sleep. So four of us start settling into the tent, close quarters a little, but thats sometimes half the fun.
Around 6:30am i hear a voice going "mandy" but is it processing in my head that i'm hearing my name? of course not. finally Amanda next to me goes, "i think Mike is trying to talk to you." then it clicks 'oh, i should probably answer' so i go "what?" still lying down in my sleeping bag. He doesn't hear. So i sit up and unzip the window of the tent still trying to remember my own name. He goes "do you remember how to get to the Wind Caves?" (where we were planning on going on a hike to after breakfast." You can't ask me a question like that when i've just woken up. So i have to think on that for a second and i go "kinda" i actually do know basically how to get there. I just couldn't remember if we had past them the night before or not. It gets established between us in some for or coherent-ness that i could get people to the wind cave. And mike was leaving with Chris and Sayler. Someone behind me asks "what time is it?" mike goes "about 6:30" three groans come from behind me. Mike wasn't giving any sympathy, he had been pup since five. Not out fault your a morning person Mike. ;)
So naturally after this knowledge of the time what do all of us do?...we go right back to sleep for another hour or two. I don't even remember how long. eventually we get up, they are all very nice and shared food with me. ( in the five minutes that i had to get ready food slipped my mind a little bit.) then we pack up camp and head out. We get out of the Canyon and I have a voicemail and a text message. My grandpa had tried to call me (I'm meeting him in Salt Lake on Monday) And my mom had sent me a text that basically said she likes my blog. Thanks mom. :)
So i get home, get changed. And head to Mickey D's to pick up my pay check so i can go buy food. Because i haven't been grocery shopping for about two weeks. I needed bread and milk and i wanted produce. I've been looking forward to having a salad for lunch for at least a week. So I go, get the pay check, head to Lee's, where inside is located a Chase branch. I put my money in the account and go grocery shopping. Where i am so excited to have so much produce in my cart. I get to the check out line, make casual conversation with the cashier and go to swipe my card...declined...try it again...declined...try it on credit...declined. I go over to the bank to see what is wrong with my card. Because it was a check it won't appear in my account for at least one buisness day...LAME AND DUMB!!!!! just so everyone knows how i feel about that. In other words I can't buy food or gas until Tuesday. I call my mom to tell her about it (mostly just to vent a little bit) and the kind loving mother she is puts money on my Bank of Texas card for a fan and my seminary graduation present (yes...it's a little late...) a brand new CTR ring. And she says, "go buy some food and other things you need with that and when your money shows up in your account go buy a fan and your ring." However, there were other things i needed that money for, so instead of just food. So I don't get to buy all the food i wanted (and now i'm missing some of the sales. :( oh well.) So instead of a wonderful salad i am now currently eating my lunch of a bagle and a peach. Which is still wonderful i would like to add, just not the wonderful i originally planned. And now i think i will bid you adue. i still haven't showered and smell like campfire and i would like to get a hold of a guitar playing friend and get some new strings for mine. ( i need someone to point me in the right direction. I don't know where to get guitar strings or what kind to get.) So until later, that is the story of what was my potentially lonely and boring weekend.