What were your best memories of living in your house?

[LoggerTheta]

It really is the little things! I lived in my chapter house for three years (Sophomore, Junior, and Senior), and I miss it SO much.


* Tooth brushing parties in the morning (I was a lab science major, and so was a large contingent of my house, so we frequently had early [read: 8:00 am] morning classes *ew*)

* Piling into the living room to watch Gray's Anatomy every week.

* Stopping to talk to someone in the hall, and all of a sudden there are 5 of us.

* Not having to go anywhere for chapter!

* Singing Theta songs while showering... with other showering Thetas.

* Having a place to go home to.

[KSUViolet06]

*Having a bad day, coming home, and having 15 other people to complain to as soon as you walk in the door.

*When you REALLY need to talk to somebody (bad breakup, family problem), there's someone right upstairs with open ears.

*Getting ready to go out and playing "go out" music in the lounge while everyone's in the bathroom doing their hair.

*Always being the first people in the chapter to know stuff because we lived in the house.

*Not having to go anywhere for chapter meeting.

*Sitting around the kitchen and talking about EVERYTHING. We always said that if the kitchen could talk, we'd all be bribing it to keep quiet.

*If I wanted to go to Starbucks but didn't want to go alone, all I had to do is yell upstairs "Anybody wanna go to Starbucks?" and I had a car full of people to go with me.

*Around Big/Little time, sitting around all night working on gifts for our Littles.

[FSUZeta]

when the fraterities would come serenading.

singing songs at dinner.

always having someone to hang out with.

watching "the wizard of oz" with all the other house sisters crammed into our lanai-where the house t.v. was.

finding interesting and unexpected things on our sun deck-from boys trying to "raid" the house, to the head of the roasted pig from fiji islander.

[violetpretty]

*General activity level---I don't like quiet
*Borrowing/lending clothes
*Getting 15 opinions on what shoes/top/etc to wear
*Doing your sisters' makeup/hair or getting yours done
*Going to the kitchen to get a cup of water and ending up talking to a sister for an hour
*Impromptu dance parties in my room
*Having a "soundtrack" with your roomie
*Singing in the shower (mostly Disney songs)
*My grandlittle giving me a hug every night before bed
*Witnessing hilarious drunk scenes when sober/having drunk sisters visit you while sober
*Coming home from the bar and making easy mac
*Developing slang exclusive to your end of the hall
*Heart to hearts
*Gushing about the guys in your life
*Always having someone to vent stupid boy drama to, and knowing your sisters will be behind you
*Fraternity serenades
*Staying up til 2 am watching food network and family guy reruns with my roomie
*Getting to know sisters that you might not be close with otherwise
*Being around when new members come to visit
*Playing silly pranks
*Facebooking with sisters for hours
*I like a little bit of drama in my life

[WVU alpha phi]

Originally Posted by violetpretty

*Witnessing hilarious drunk scenes when sober/having drunk sisters visit you while sober
*Facebooking with sisters for hours

I definitely loved the drunk scenes when you're sober. Two REALLY stand out for me- once I was in my room on a Wednesday (a bar did karaoke Wednesday nights and it was really popular) when a sister came crawling into my room asking for "half an angel wing" because she has borrowed and broken an angel wing necklace from her roommate. Another would be my roommate coming home from Sig Ep jail party (dates are anonymous and have to drink a lot to find out who invited them!).. took her about 20 minutes of stumbling down 2 blocks to finally make it to the house, where she proceeded to do somersaults on our marble floors, tell a cop "I dont have a father" (?? not true!), and a lot more.

I perfected facebook stalking while living in the house.

[CarolinaCutie]

Originally Posted by LoggerTheta

* Singing Theta songs while showering... with other showering Thetas.

I forgot this! We used to call ourselves the All-Nude Phi Mu Revue...

[rufio]

pranks-- one time we boarded up a brothers room with dry wall and plaster. there's a video floating around facebook somewhere.

getting together to watch greek, nip tuck or lost.

having random people/sororities girls come over just to hang out.

and sunday movie night.

[LaneSig]

Sitting in the porch swing at 2 am, talking with a couple of brothers.

Climbing out on the roof to hang out.

Trying to figure out why Jim and Eric's room smelled so bad.

[Kansas City]

Originally Posted by rufio

pranks-- one time we boarded up a brothers room with dry wall and plaster. there's a video floating around facebook somewhere.

Oh yeah, I forgot about the pranks! Again, in an all sorority suite style dorm, My roommate and I would sneak into our suite-mates room, steal all of her underwear and freeze it in her refrigerator. She would then wonder aloud to us why all of her panties were missing and complain that she had to do laundry every three days.

[LucyKKG]

Originally Posted by CarolinaCutie

I forgot this! We used to call ourselves the All-Nude Phi Mu Revue...

Hahah that made me crack up! That definitely sounds like something we'd do if we had a house...

We sang camp songs at Norwegian camp when we showered! Lol

[LoggerTheta]

Originally Posted by LucyKKG

Hahah that made me crack up! That definitely sounds like something we'd do if we had a house...

We sang camp songs at Norwegian camp when we showered! Lol

Hijak:

Funny story tangentially related to this. I worked at a Girl Scout camp for years, and one thing about being a counselor is that you only get to take showers on your days off, early in the morning, or late at night. So one of our staff members was from Iceland, and she chose to shower at night. She'd frequently sing Icelandic songs in the shower, until one week a camper came up to her and told her she thought the camp was haunted because she heard "weird singing" from the bath house at night.

/Hijak

[Ghostwriter]

-Keg Bowling - This requires 10 empty kegs a riding lawn mower and a football helmet. You can guess the rest.
-$ .50/drink open liquor parties.
-A 2 kegger turning into a 9 kegger.
-PJ parties.
-Toga, toga, toga!
-The drunk tank and the surprise visitors to it/in it.
-Halloween Party.
-The day after.
-Saturday movies to help clear the hangover.
-Finding old memorabilia and trying to figure out how and why it got there.