BINGO!

Day two? Check. Today was rather mild, actually. After waking up from the longest nights sleep I've had since I was four, I dyed my hair! Why? Because I was notified that it isn't natural to have a random blonde streak in your black hair if you look to be Mexican/African-American/Greek/Middle-Eastern/Polynesian/whatever-the-heck-people-guess-I-am. But I agree, so it's all good! After dying my hair to make it look more natural (ironically) I got ready for the day and caught a bus to a housing welcome meeting. Here in Orlando, they have four different apartment complexes for the cast members. About half of one of those complexes is full of BYU students from all three schools, which is so fun! That meeting lasted about two hours, during which I sat front and center. Being my father's daughter, as soon as I counted the people in line and the open seats and realized I would be in prime "volunteer" territory, I looked for a way out of it but nothing came quick enough. So I sat through the whole meeting keeping a very friendly, but not too comfortable smile on my face and making a polite, but not exciting amount of eye contact with our presenters. I escaped with only being the subject of three different situations during which I was massacred with a fake axe, accused of smoking marijuana, and accused of stealing my roommates fancy party skirt. Not too bad... I did learn that there are exactly 7,226 students in the college program right now and at least 500 of them are expected to be terminated for various violations. Some of these may include drug possession, smuggling people into the apartment complex in the trunk of my car, stealing my roommates food, or carrying more than 2 ounces of pepper spray. Cross your fingers that I won't get caught ;)
I then came home, ate a snack, and caught a bus for Grocery Bingo at the next complex over! Don't judge me yet... I haven't aged 50 years already. Grocery Bingo is... well, kind of what it sounds like. So go ahead and judge me. I heard it's very popular so I arrived about half an hour early and was in line behind about 100 people. When they finally opened the doors at seven (and about 300 more people were in line behind me) I was shocked. They had a live DJ, strobe and colored lights and lasers, fog machines, and projectors. Seriously? Coolest thing ever. The fit 300 or so people in the room for the first round where 20 people won two huge bags of groceries! It's a college student's dream! If there was a tie, we had a dance-off and we had random sing-along songs too. After an hour, they emptied the room and allowed the remaining hundreds of students cram in to press their luck. It was sweet to say the least. I went grocery shopping last night but all I got was oatmeal, a jumbo box of spaghetti noodles, two cans of tomato sauce, frozen vegetables, three boxes of macaroni and cheese, ritz crackers, and three boxes of rice-a-roni (I know, I forgot milk, butter, salt, and pepper. So I can't even make the mac and cheese, rice-a-roni, or have any flavor in my food. Don't remind me). And the total comes to... $20. Mom, you taught me well. So here I am, new-grocery-less and eating my late dinner of spaghetti and tomato sauce with frozen vegetables. But don't worry, there's always next time for Grocery Bingo.