Thursday, February 16th 2012

My Tuesday/Thursday class schedule is a 9:30 class, a 1:00 class, and a 3:00 class. But this Thursday my morning history class was cancelled. I did not have to be at school until one in the afternoon! With that in mind I turned off my alarm Wednesday night and let myself sleep in. It was the only high point in a rather hectic and depressing couple of days. Unfortunately, I was awoken at eight to the sound of my roommate vigorously scrubbing the bathtub. Clearly curious I inquired as to why. Apparently there was a cleaning check that night at six that Kyla had kindly forgot to tell me about. Seriously...?!? So that ruined my morning and I spent it cleaning and getting ready.


Classes were fine, whatever. But by the time I got home I was miserable. I still had to finish cleaning and doing homework but I was just overwhelmed and exhausted and I needed a break badly. The cleaning check went off without a hitch and I settled in for a long night of homework and hopefully going to bed early. Kyla got home at like 7:30 and declared that we should get ice cream. Uh.. no. I brushed it off and went back to staring at walls and feeling generally done with the day. Around eight or eight fifteen Kenzi barged through the front door yelling, "roommate date!!!" Apparently last semester they would randomly go on roommate dates and get food together. I seriously was not in the mood. I tried every excuse. I'm busy. Too much homework. I don't have any money. And none of it worked. They knew that I needed a break and they were determined to get me out! So we went to Sonic. I actually had a really good time. :) My roommates are so weird and funny and we're all so different but I really do like them a lot. We just talked and laughed and enjoyed ice cream on a freezing February night. I got back at 8:45. 


Once we walked in Kyla went into our room and yelled, "Treu..??" So I went over to our room and ... balloons? There were at least twenty balloons piled high on my bed. Balloons!!! I started laughing and jumped up on there to get them off and to discover the cause of my balloon assault. As I threw them onto the ground I noticed that they all had notes inside of them! Little scraps of paper!

One side of the scraps of paper had sweet little compliments,

I love your smile

I love your laugh

I love your spirit

I love your determination

Sweet little things like that!!! And the flip side all had a letter on it. A, W, X, I, L, O, I, L, A, A, Y, etc. "It must be a puzzle!" I thought. Indeed I was correct. :) I decided to organize the letters into piles of the color the letters were. There were 6 different colors. Squealing and giggling I quickly deciphered the code.

"I will always love you -Alex"

That's about when the screaming started. The whole time I was popping balloons and cracking the code Kenzi was groaning and saying, "oh my gosh, this is so cheesy." {just like Mom would! It felt like home. ;) } Once it was all figured out she got up and left, rolling her eyes and making gagging sounds, hahhaa. I squealed and screamed like a little child while texting him to say "thank you so much! you are so sweet! oh my gosh! blah blah blah!" or whatever. You see, I thought that he had assigned Kyla to set the balloons up. After all, she had spent an awful lot of time in our room before we got ice cream. I thought he had just paid her to do this all, hahaha. But once I texted him he responded, "Congratulations! You have solved the riddle! You have earned a special prize! Come outside for it, I'm here! No, really, I'm at the bottom of your stairwell. Love you!" Hahhaha. As I ran outside squealing my bloody head off Kenzi goes, "well no one's asleep any more, nice job Mackenzie." Whatever, it was only nine, everybody would just have to get over it. ;) I bounded down the steps, giddy as a chipmunk with an acorn, and there was my dear, sweet Alex grinning almost as wide as I was. I elatedly jumped into his arms and spent the next three hours hugging him as tightly as possible.

I am a spoiled little girl. :)

I love that kind of crap! The stupid, adorable, thoughtful nonsense that silly people like me would do! It was so sweet! Even if you groan and roll your eyes you have to admit that it was very thoughtful. He put a lot of effort into that and I was genuinely, seriously surprised. He said later that it was what he had wanted to do for Valentine's day but didn't have time to put it together so it was a little late. But I liked it like that way because it felt less like, "I'm doing this for a holiday," and more like, "I'm doing this for no reason other than I love you and want you to know it." Ya know? So much cuter!!!

I have been beaming ever since last night. After such a weird and tiring day it was the best possible surprise to end my night on. I feel so happy still. He treats me so well and is so good to me. He thinks I'm beautiful and the most amazing girl to have ever walked this earth. He wants me to be happy and does everything in his power to make it so. He looks at me like he could never love anyone else. He's ridiculously incredible. :)