My “Sorority Life”

Clint recently made the comment to me that I’m playing the Facebook game “Sorority Life,” but in real-life. Hunny, I was playing it long before there was a flash animation game on Facebook and MySpace.

I am in a sorority. My sorority’s name is Alpha Xi Delta Women’s Fraternity. Yes, we are also considered a fraternity, but I’m not typing up that story right now.

I have the privilege and honor of not only being a sister, but also a founding member of the Iota Mu chapter. As a founder, we got to participate in the tons and tons of glorious paperwork required to establish a new colony and have it become a chapter. We went through New Member Orientation, the beautiful ceremonies, and finally…we got our gold Quills pinned on us in a whirlwind gala event with the National President in attendance!

Now that I’ve graduated, I’ve stayed in touch and watched my small family tree turn into one with a Great Grand Little, Great Great Grand Little, and Great Great Great Grand Little! It’s easy, of course, because I work at my alma mater.

Recently, Jan (our Advisor and my close friend) had heart surgery. This is part of why I’ve been away. There has been a lot of visiting her in the hospital and keeping her updated with the sorority while she’s at home. In her absence, I’m getting to take a much more active and new role – unofficial Advisor. Every day, I remember how much I enjoyed the sisterhood activities and bonding.

As Jan recuperates, I look forward to taking on yet another role: Alumna NMOC (New Member Orientation Chair) Advisor for the the Chapter!

On a final note, my sisters did a flash mob in the cafeteria yesterday and it went brilliantly! Here goes!

To the Gold! To the Blue! To the Quill, We Hold So True! To All the Things We Do!

Happy Birthday Little!

Happy Birthday to my Little JB!

Some Great Memories!!

To my cherished sisters

As promised, here is our song “The Rose”…and it ALWAYS makes me cry!

And group photos…first, there’s the alumni!

And the whole group of us–current Alpha Xi’s and Alumni’s!

HOCO Weekend 2009

Homecoming has come and gone and I’m glad it will be another year before all that excitement. Seriously, I have NO IDEA how I used to drink so much and socialize my freshman and sophomore year of college. One night was enough to give me a hangover all day Sunday.

Although I do miss seeing everyone almost every day. I miss my sisters terribly. I love my current sisters, especially G-Littles Erika, Krista, and Juliann! <3 Gannon family Love <3 But all the memories from starting the chapter and late night recruitment events, new member orientation meetings, twin reveal, big/little reveal, formal…I could go on and on!!!

I was so happy to see my twin Shannon and both of my Littles JB and Jesse!!! I can’t believe how big our family has gotten since those early days. (I’ll have to do a family tree on here at some point.)

Saturday we worked on painting the house–not the beautiful brick–but the ugly front porch. I don’t like the color combo, it’s too dark and bold, the blue and gray don’t match the house. So after 5 hours of work on Saturday, we’re going back to Lowe’s and STARTING AGAIN…grrr

I missed Eddie’s visit on Sunday because someone (aka Eddie) didn’t tell me he was passing by Williamsport on Saturday and then I was too hungover on Sunday to hang out with. Plus he was over an hour away at Mel’s that afternoon and had to leave first thing today.

Did I mention I drug my husband to another sorority event (that poor man, lol!)? Yeah, he came and took photos at our Mocktails (non-alcoholic cocktails) event, took some wonderful group shots (with a fancy expensive camera his lovel wife bought him ), and video’d one of our songs.