If you don’t know Jenny Hendrix, you are definitely missing out. She is sure to skip into your life and immediately put a smile on your face. A Lansing native who has recently become a student teacher in Okemos, we are so excited to come back to East Lansing to visit her and Jenny Korn. With her childish demeanor it is hard not to absolutely adore her. Here is her view on the Nest:
My life at 214:
This is not your traditional college house. I actually don’t think you will find anything quite like this group of 14 girls. But this has been my home for the past 11 months and I wouldn’t trade one second of it. There have been times I laughed so hard I fell to the floor or laid on the couch for so long I felt so worthless. I have spent summers subleasing at the nest but even those could not prepare me for my crazy senior year of college. It’s not the house that makes my time there so special, it’s the people who make me leave the attic and run around East Lansing until the wee hours of the morning Wednesday through Sunday.
It all started on that cold night when it was someone’s bright idea to pick partners, put all 14 names in a hat and pick rooms. No one could have seen it coming. It seemed like a joke but when I looked back at that night I wouldn’t want it any other way. Ill sacrifice my privacy because let’s be honest I spend most of my time in the living room anyways. That couch is indented with my booty, pancake and all, with most likely Ashley’s body print right next to mine. Moving all that stuff up three flights was a disaster but once I was set up I fell in love with the little cave I had created. Even though it was small there have been some very interesting times in the cave. The balcony in room 12 serves as a retreat from East Lansing and the crazy world below. Some might call it a very small landing that is pretty unstable but I beg to differ. I have spent lots of times just staring at the back of the Marriot contemplating various things. Some of my most relaxing times came out there by myself in the middle of the night staring at the big trees that enclose East Lansing. But it’s not about my room or the little home I made from a room the size of a walk in closet with 45 degree slanted walls that make it seem even smaller. But like I said, I’m not paying $535 dollars a month to live in the cave. I’m paying to spend every waking moment with the best people in East Lansing.
I thought it might be similar to living at Sigma Kappa. But take a house mom out the picture and things get wild on our own. First came the fiesta. No other way to start the fall off than to celebrate the birth of Carolyn with catering from Qdoba thanks to MC, piñatas, and sombreros. Then came football season way too fast. Parent tailgate took the fall memory with moms and dads engulfing our house to see what their daughters are really doing on those Saturdays mornings at 7am. Then the snow came and basketball season started. Christmas break was filled with a large road trip in the “Burb”. We traveled the East coast in style rolling around Philly, NYC and Atlantic City all with the thule on top. February was the month of birthday celebrations and the true realization that we were turning 22 this year. Yikes! Spring came again too fast and slowly spring break approached. Working out daily to get in that top shape for the bikini contest no one thought we could lose. But unfortunately did to a bride and a hooters waitress. As that week of rain and cold came to an end we returned to the mitten for what seemed like the fastest weeks ever. And as it comes closer to that fateful day of May 10,2010, 214 will always be our home. Other people might pay the rent but we are the ones who painted the walls in neon hand prints, wrote on the side of the house in chalk, burned every single light bulb out but never replaced them, named the trash garden, danced to 90s party mix on the TV until 4am, used paper towel as TP and ate enough Georgio’s to feed Africa. But that’s just who we are. I’ll miss everything about living in this house as we graduate and move our clothes and beds home. But our futures just beginning with exciting events. Jobs, weddings, kids, trips all over the place, graduation parties, weekend visits, family functions, or even just a plain jane phone call. 214 isn’t special because it’s a big brown house with a very nice porch and the ugliest bush in all of East Lansing. It’s the people who are my best friends and have picked me up off the ground, put me to bed, who have laughed with me and at me, cried with me, but most of all just spent the best year of my life being there to comfort me whenever I needed a friend to be near. I’ll always love you and it might be cheesy but I am cheesy you should know that by now. I can’t wait to establish another 214 in a some other city because lets me honest we can’t stand be apart more than a month. When that happens we will start another blog, don’t you worry.
Fun Facts:
Favorite room: Living room
Favorite bed: Carolyn’s
Favorite cupboard (pronounced cup-board) or drawer to steal food from: Ashley
Favorite activity in the summer at the house: beer pong on the porch
Favorite activity in the winter at the house: trying to stay warm
Favorite season: porch season
Favorite closet to steal clothes from: all of them (I have so much stuff in my room from other people)
Favorite parking spot: Driveway in the pull out position
Favorite pet: Trevor
Favorite TV show: Law and Order SVU (you the man Dick Wolfe)
Secret hiding place: attic balcony
Most likely to fall down the stairs: Ashley
First one out the door the bar: Dana
Hangover cure: Sny Phi
Favorite go to meal: salsa chicken or ramen with frozen veggies
Best playlists: Dana
Most violent: Horns
Who threw up the most: Horns or Allie
Favorite drink: $3 wine from CVS
Most studious: Jenny Hill
Best hair at any time of the day: Allie G
Accident prone: Ashley
Belch queen: Jenny Korn
Best tailgate: Parent tailgate
Best visitor: Timmy D
Most helphful: Mike Heiberline
Busiest: Lizzy
Most likely to have a manfriend: Aviva
Most likely to get married first: Triccs
Most likely to have a kid first: Dana
Most grown up: Alicia
Most likely to sit Indian-style: Kfay
Most resourceful: Ryanne
Pickiest Eater: Mo
Sleeps the most: Alicia
Biggest Appetite: 214
Afterparty queens: 214
Favorite sing along: Free Fallin
Favorite cruiser: Oscar
