Adios futon...

Currently listening to: Michael by Franz Ferdinand
Currently reading: Family Trust by Amanda Brown ...I'm about halfway done now

I wish that I wasn't taking Community Health. It is by far the most boring class I have ever experienced. And I don't even need it now. Whatever, I can still get an A in it and it'll boost my GPA. Okay, so I think I have a sleeping problem. No matter what time I go to bed, I can't wake up before ten a.m., even if I've gone to sleep around midnight, I still can't wake up. Hmm. Well, I don't mind now, but it's gonna get to me when I start working at the Village again. You know, 5:30 mornings as opposed to 10:00... not my thing.

I've been listening to Pop by NSync almost all day long, I finally switched to some Franz Ferdinand and Fallout Boy before my brain started to fry from the excessive boy band music. I never got into the whole boy band thing. But when I was in middle school, I was listening to Elton John, Boy George, No Doubt, Joni Mitchell and various other musicians that my mom listened to.

So, I've recently found out that we have to have everything that takes two people to move, including carpet and such, out of our dorms 2 weekends before exams. How crappy is that? Now I have to talk mom & dad into coming up here to retrieve my futon. I'm pretty much going to give them everything I own and survive with only my computer, my electric kettle and a bowl. That's it. Ok... maybe a pencil or two. And some highlighters. So I'll keep my alarm clock and bike too. And some books. OK, I'm done. I don't like this kicking us out weeks before we have to leave thing. Not my bag, baby.

Maybe tonight I'll get some homework done before I have to practice for el drag show. Hmm... or I won't. Just not sure. I know I'm gonna get some Spanish done though, I just want to get that out of the way before the weekend, since I'll be practically living at Maplewood this weekend so as to get my hours finished. I'm still stuck around 40. Ugh. But if I do this right, I can get about 4 done inbetween classes tomorrow, about 5 on Friday before the show, 9 on Saturday and 9 on Sunday. Thats 27 hours, which leaves me with only 13 or so left. That's sweet, and it leaves me with only about 1 more weekend of torture. I mean sitting around Maplewood while the oldies sleep. Fun times.

Ok, time for my favorite class. Woot.

I'm an idiot...

Currently listening to: Pop by NSync
Currently reading: Family Trust by Amanda Brown

So I'm pretty sure I did something that I'm going to regret very soon. I was going to be late for Spanish this morning because I got up around 12:20, so I decided to ride my bike. Enter rain and snow. And to make matters worse, I decided to go to the SAC because I had an insane urge to run. Now I'm sick. Fucking A. ... I guess it's nothing a little chai tea and dad's chicken soup can't fix. Let me just say that I am getting so much use out of that little illegal electric kettle thing. I love it. I use it just about every day. Woot. Wow, I'm gulping down this tea like it's my job.

Ugh... I'm gonna go take a nice hot shower now.

The sheep are dancing in circles around my head instead of letting me count them...

Currently listening to: nothing
Currently reading: nothing

I'm getting very angry, it's 3:27am and my brain will not shut off. I'm laying in bed trying to sleep and I've got nothing. And I'm cold as sin. I just put on a fleecie. Oh, I was reminded that my Community Health class is not meeting today, so that gives me about 3 hours of free time... I'll probably go to the SAC. I want to go to sleep. In my non sleep, I've come up with a few fun room layouts for the dorm next semester. Hmm... what the mind wraps itself around when I'm tired.

Maybe if I start thinking about gerontology, I'll lull myself into a deep sleep. Maybe.

Counter culture overload...

Currently listening to: the delicate hum of my computer
Currently reading: Family Trust by Amanda Brown

So, I really want to be selected for the free Conan O'Brien tickets. And I want to see the musical Wicked, now that I've read the amazing book. I think everyone should read that book, it puts an entirely different spin on The Wizard of Oz. I loved it. I might just read it again, you know, after I go back and read the entire Harry Potter series. I'm serious too, that's what's frightening.

Right now, I'm sitting at my desk and realizing how disorganized it is. I like to think that I'm a somewhat organized person. Except for my desk, that's where my inner crazy comes out, as Cat can probably attest to. It looks like a murder scene, minus the blood. There are about 5 different papers laying on it, a book or two, a few newspaper clippings, markers, scissors, 2 hair ties, 3 different CD cases, pictures, wires, a nail file, the sweet button that Cooper sent me, along with the Union Jack keychain and a coffee mug that I just drank chai tea out of. And you should see the inside of the desk. That's where my truly secret inner crazy person comes out. It's a tragedy really. Sometimes I get an idea about cleaning out my desk. Then I realize that I need each and every item in it for some reason. Eh, I'm ok with being mildly screwed.

This week I think I'm gonna have a counter culture overload. The international film festival is finally here, so I think I'm gonna go see 5 movies, that way I can split the cost of a 10 ticket pack with someone and save some cash. I've decided on: Watermelon Woman, Mardi Gras: Made In China, Good Night and Good Luck, Memoirs of a Geisha and My Summer of Love. Although there are a few others I'd like to see in there...

Ok, I think it's time to go to bed and read now. I'm out.

So... I'm doing what I said I wouldn't do...

Currently listening to: Nothing
Currently reading: Nothing

I signed up for 2 classes this summer @ Macomb. I decided to take the art class that I was gonna take, then I wasn't, then I was, then I couldn't get in, now I'm signed up for it. The other one is a 3 week political science course. Both of these non-related classes are going to satisfy some University Program classes that I have to take, so that's lovely. All together I'm paying $475 for 7 credit hours... which is about equal to taking 2 credit hours @ CMU. Woot. I'm pumped. Ok, I'm signing off. Laters.

I wanna watch The N

Currently watching: Six Feet Under
Currently reading: Mother Earth News - An organic/green lifestyle magazine

So, I've been burning DVD's for my parents like it's my job. But I get all the DVD-r's I could possibly use for it. Today I got Season 5 of Six Feet Under done. I'm pumped. I am totally in love with that show. I think the next project I'll do is Sex & The City.

"If we get a girl, you better hope she's obese, I don't want no twelve year old hottie runnin' around Sunset Boulevard with her ass crack showing." - Keith from Six Feet Under, on adopting children

Today I went to the Rec to finalize my job for the summer and it looks like it's a go for being a counselor, as well as teaching ASL & possibly another language, yet to be determined. Heck yes. That's about 30 hours a week, give or take, plus my job at the Village. Oh, something shitty did happen today, my dad did my taxes & I barely get any money back. That's pretty sad. But something else balanced out the equation, I got my car all fixed up! Heck yes again. So now I've got it for the rest of the school year, even though I don't really plan on using it.

So back to teaching ASL this summer. I am so excited about that. I've already started coming up with a lesson plan for it. Woot. Obviously I can't get too involved, but I can do fun stuff with the kids, like finger spelling, introductions, questions, family, numbers & animals. I think that should be a good start, but for now, I don't know how long the class is going to run. Oh oh oh! I'm way to excited about this. I'm not sure what I'm going to do for another class, Kasy suggested French or Spanish, I think I'd definitely be more comfortable with French, as I am partially fluent in it. I'm not sure at all what the lesson plan will be for that class, but it should parallel the ASL class, since they're both language classes. Hmm. Well that's all I've got for now. Later.

HBO is killing me...

Currently listening to: Pop by NSync
Currently reading: Geography Club by Brent Hartinger

Today was nice, I got up quite leisurely at 10:15am and got all packed up to go home. Then I went to the music building to give Ben Phil's book, Geography Club. It was a pretty good book. Then I went to ASL & learned more about signing personalities. At 2:00, Cat's aunt picked us up to go home. We arrived home at about 5:00 and I went & got my check from work. $160 for 2 workdays. How sweet is that? I went back home & hung out with my parents for a few hours and we watched Six Feet Under. Around 8:00 I went out to World's Finest Custard with Scott & Dana from work. Fun times. We went on the swings and ate ice cream. Dana left & Scott and I stayed for another 20 minutes or so, laughing like idiots, as always.

So now I'm watching The Laramie Project right now. It's really sad. I don't wanna finish it. But I must. It's about the Matthew Sheppard murder case, which is unbelievably sad. I'm gonna finish the movie now. Tomorrow I think I'm gonna be burning dvds for my mum and go visit Kasy. Laters.

I'm the devil on your shoulder...

Currently listening to: Under The Tracks by Creeper Lagoon
Currently reading: Wicked by Gregory Maguire (I'm almost done now, I swear)

H'ok, so... I had three really effed up dreams last night. The first one was just stupid, but someone cut all the nails on my right hand, all the while I've been trying to grow them out. The second one was very involved, I swear, it had a plot curve & character archs & whatnot. So apparently I had to drive Cooper back home, to CANADA, one day, which probably took about an hour & a half. By the way, if you move to Canada, do not expect me to drive you home. Anyways, I drove her home, then I had to figure out how to get home. Now asking for directions was obviously below me. No, I had to be dramatic. I pulled the fire alarm on the side of someones house. Yes, I know they don't really come on the side of peoples houses. So then the police came & took everything out of my car, including my futon & some huge water jugs. I don't know how my futon fit in my car, but I hope I can have this dream again & figure out how I managed that one. Anyways, they tried to take my car too, but I talked them out of all my stuff & they showed me how to get home. I don't remember much of the third dream, but it had something to do with my parents owning a Dodge Shadow & us moving to northern California. Sweet. Too bad that one wasn't true.

I'm going home this weekend & then I have to go back up to Birch Run on Saturday night to help with an Alternative Breaks fundraiser. Ugh. I should be home all Friday morning/afternoon if anyone wants to hang out, but other than that, I'm all booked up. Hopefully I can get my car back this weekend, I hate having to depend on people for rides.

Oh, at the Alternative Breaks meeting last night, I was in charge of bringing the snacks, so I bought Twizlers & Sixlets... and no one ate anything, so I have a menagerie of sweets in my room. Please come eat them. Oh, and a sidenote: If you have ANYTHING negative or the least bit judgemental to say about my family and feel like saying it to me, don't. That is probably the rudest thing I can think of someone doing, and yet it happened to me just last night. Fucking A. See, now it feels like daddy slapped mommy at the dinner table and now no one wants to eat. Great.

Anways, have a great day & thank you for reading.

I'm awake...?

Currently listening to: Bye, Bye, Bye by NSync (just shut up)
Currently reading: Wicked by Gregory Maguire (I'm almost done!)

So I rolled out of bed a few minutes ago to go pee, then I checked my computer because it made a funny noise and my mum had im-ed me four minutes previous. So... I talked to her for a few minutes, then decided I couldn't sleep. Big shocker. I'm really excited about a few things coming up.

First, I'm going home this weekend & I'll probably get to hang out with a few people, maybe Saturday night while my mom is playing euchre with the girls.

Second, the Central Michigan International Film Festival is coming all next week! I am pumped. There's just something about foreign films that I LOVE. I truly am a drama nerd. Now all I need to do is join a theatre troupe and I'll be all set. Bahaha. Anyhoo, Memoirs of a Geisha is coming & I might go see that again, because it kicked ass... although it was a domestic film. Eh, whatever. I'm also really interested in The Constant Gardner, The Wedding Banquet & Mad Hot Ballroom. Sadly, I won't be able to see Mad Hot Ballroom, because I'll probably still be home when it plays... Unless I get back to CMU by 3:30 pm, that is!

Oh, the third thing I'm excited about is the drag show, coming up on April 7. Should be a lot of fun. Not saying any more there. Ok, I really need to go to bed. Like now.

I'm being sucked in...

Currently listening to: For You I Will by Teddy Geiger
Currently reading: Wicked by Gregory Maguire

So, right now I feel like I'm gonna barf. No joke, I feel like absolute shit. But I will try to forget about that, as it is a beautiful day outside today, can't be less than 50 degrees. You should see the flurry of flip flops and gauchos. I refuse to wear shoes and socks unless I am forced to against my will (unless it gets cold again, like it does so often in Michigan).

This weekend was crazy at worst, awesome at best. I went to Maplewood on Thursday, Friday & Saturday. Had a Spanish exam on Thursday that I'm pretty sure I kicked ass on. Thursday night I put these little lights on my bicycle, on the cap of the tire, so that I wouldn't be totally invisible while riding at night. Au contraire, not only was I invisible because the stupid lights didn't work, I also got a flat tire. So I rode to the nearest gas station, where of course, I found that their air compressor was broken. Then I went about a 1/2 mile down the road to another gas station, which did not have free air. I talked the guy at the counter out of $.75 so that I could get some air in that tire. Then it started snowing, of course, why wouldn't it snow while I'm on my bike. So I stopped at the library on my way back to Larzy to get a Chai Tea Latte for my troubles.

Friday I went to Maplewood for the day, then it started hailing on my way home. Maybe this is Mother Nature's way of saying "stop riding your bike". Whatever. I did some grocery shopping and went for dinner at Jimmy John's. I've decided that their subs are a lot better if they have been sitting for about a half hour so that it can soak up its juices right. They're kinda strange when they're fresh... or maybe its just me.

Saturday I did some Maplewood, then I hung out with Phil, Aaron, Ben & Robert. We went to dinner, then back upstairs to play with Phil's new juicer. The group of us smuggled 20 fruits out of the dining commons without any trouble at all, thanks to Robert's amazing jacket, which fit 8 fruits easily & mine that fit about 6. The juice had a little bite to it. Later, I went and hung out with Phil while he worked at the desk for 2 hours and I came up with an idea for a "My Humps" parody: There should be a video with a camel singing about their humps... it would be absolutely ridiculous. I went home at about 11:30 and watched the movie Lords of Dogtown. It was pretty good.

Sunday was a crazy day. I did all of my laundry in under 2 hours, which has got to be a record for me. Then I went to the National Theater for the Deaf performance at Alma, which was an Alice in Wonderland-esque experience. It was really cool though. We rode in Kim's car, which I have decided that I love and I want one. I think its a Tracker or something like that. We went to Pizza Hut for dinner and got back around 5:50, so Cat and I promptly left for Rose Arena to help set up for the Dierks Bently show. It was pretty good, for country music anyways. I'm being sucked into liking country music, but it's something I can only listen to when it is nice outside for some reason. Winter & country don't mix. Anyhoo, we got these cool badges to wear, which I lost at the end of the night, so Trixxxie is bringing me one at the meeting tomorrow night and I'm gonna try to get another one off of her if I can. I didn't get to go to the meet & greet with Mr. Bentley, however I spoke to him when I was on the bus guarding shift, before his show started. He seems like a nice guy. The other performer, Eric Church, was pretty cool too, I talked to him while I was on dressing room duty. He's extremely tall and has a penchant for Jack Daniels. Dierks played a song, something along the lines of "I'd Love To Lay You Down"... and I loved it, it was a really good song. We didn't have that long of a night either, we got out of there around 11:00 and I was in bed by 11:45, but I didn't fall asleep 'til about 12:40 because I opted to read some more of Wicked before I drifted off. I'm loving that book.

Finally, I'm on to today: Well, Cat woke me up around 10:30 so I could schedule for classes, as both of us sorta forgot about it, we were allowed to schedule at 9:57. I got all of the classes that I wanted and the HEV 418 class that I had to go to the registrar's office to get, should be fine as well, although I had to jump through some hoops to get into it. I lazily got ready for class, then ran into none other than Donny on my way to Spanish. As strange as he is, I love him. No, I do not love him, freaks, I've just known him forever and a day. And it makes me really happy that he can recite my mother's former job description "Susan Thomas DASH Underwood, former nighttime activities director for the city of New Baltimore Recreation Department", in one breath, without missing a beat. Oh! After typing for a while, I've forgotten about feeling like crap and now feel just fine, funny how things work out like that. Ok, I'm off to Community Health to do my twice weekly Sudoku puzzle. Somehow I still manage to kick ass on those tests... maybe the Sudoku focuses my concentration. Or maybe I'm a savant. A genuis savant that is. Could this post be any longer?

I got my scanner to work!!! Woot.

So, I have an exam in Spanish in roughly 3 hours... I don't really know what its about, per se. I believe clothing and colors and a bunch of verbs that I don't really know all that well. But whatever, it'll be sweet. I'm gonna be living at Maplewood tomorrow and Saturday... but today I'm giving myself a break before I go crazy. I only have about 63 more hours to complete, and my teacher said that she might count the hours I spent at the Village at home, so thats like 34 hours. Which would be super sweet, because I'd be left with just under 30 hours to complete, but regardless, I'll be done with time to spare. I plan on doing about 18 or 20 hours this weekend, and I'm gonna go there tonight after Spanish to help with bingo and not take all of their money this time. Real quick, I feel that I must recount a memory to you all, as I look at a picture of Pike Lake that I scanned the other day:


So, let me set the scene for you. Trevor and I are up north with dad last summer, end of August, like always. We are mildly obsessed with being in the water whenever possible while we're up there. Also of note, there is a very small island just to the right of the edge of the photo. Anyhoo, we decided that it would be a good idea to swim over to the island, its probably a good 500 meters, and both being good swimmers, it wasn't that hard to do. Before I finish, I must let you all in on a little secret. I am deathly afraid of seaweed and dark water, because you don't know what is touching you, blah blah blah. Anyways, I'm scared shitless of seaweed in dark water because it brushes up against you all fluidy. We swim out there and I'm not really freaking out much, because I'm totally not looking where I am, just looking at my destination, the island. So we swim for a good 7 or 8 minutes before we get there, then once we are there, we chill out on the far side of the island, because its a nice sandy bottom and its really shallow for a long time. I don't beleive that we actually went onto the island, because it really is a very boring place, not a whole lot to look at, just a few trails to follow, for about 5 minutes total, because the island is so damn small. So we decided that we should probably head back, as dad can't see us on that side of the island and he tends to freak out if we're MIA in the water for long periods of time. So swimming back, I made Trevor go first, because he's not afraid of seaweed or anything good like that. Then it hit me... seaweed touched my leg. I can't tell you how fast I swam back to the shore of our campsite, but Trevor got back about 3 minutes after I did. I cut through that water like I was Moses parting the Red Sea. But anyways, look at that gorgeous lake, we took that picture at sunset one year. Who wouldn't want to go there?

Ok, time to go study for Spanish, then off to Maplewood for some fierce competition, I mean... no bingo.

Bouts of insomnia never hurt anyone...

I can't sleep. Damnit. Well, here's a recap on the last few days.

Thursday:
I went to class for a while, then I went to Maplewood to volunteer, then I went to Spanish for 5 minutes to take a quiz, then I went back to Maplewood to help with bingo. I love bingo. My elderly pal Dorothy convinced me to play some bingo, but I needed $.25 to play. Fortunately I had a dollar in my pocket, so I shared it with Lia and we got to play. It costs $.25 per game and there are 12 games, so I had enough for precisely 2 games. Until I kicked some elderly ass. I won the first game of bingo, which got me like 11 quarters, then I won another game a little while later, then I won a third game! I ended up with about $5 in quarters, which I will use for my laundry. And no, I am never playing again because I feel like a bad person, taking money from old people. But it was worth it :). I'm going straight to hell.

Friday:
Lia & I went to Maplewood again, as we need to do approximately 120 hours there and have only completed about 28 so far. We helped serve lunch, played some Cribbage and did a puzzle, then helped serve dinner, then more Cribbage. Cribbage is an interesting game, to say the least, but it is fun. We decided that we were gonna have a sleepover back at the dorm, so Lia spent the night. And we ended up having a battle of epic proportions... Dr. Mario style. We were hard core, we even had brackets made. I believe we played for four hours. It was sweet. Of course Cat won, but that's because she's been playing that game since she was born. I'm definitely as skilled as Lia in it though, which I'm not sure is a great thing, but whatever ;). We went to bed approximately really late.

Saturday:
I'm not gonna lie, I had a hard time waking up. We went to Maplewood again, did stuff and left. My parents came over from Benzie County, where our property is, with the idea of getting a hotel room for the night. Alas, the plans were foiled by a stupid hockey tournament. No hotel rooms within 20 miles of Mt. P. Damn. So we went to Mountain Town Station for dinner. Absolutely delicious. Then we went to Cold Stone for dessert. More delicous, and my parents got Cat & Lia some ice cream too because they felt like bad quasi parents for not bringing them to dinner, but they are just too poor for that. Oh, and they brought me my beloved bicycle! Woot. The 'rents left at about 6:30 I'd assume. Around 9, Lia drove me over to the Towers, as I was gonna hang out with Phil for an hour or two. It turned into six hours of movies and mayhem, with not only Phil, but Dave, Ben and Aaron. I'm pretty sure that there will be video of me circulating on the internet, attempting to eat a Listerine breath strip, but it got caught underneath my tongue and burned the fuck out of me. It was a priceless video though. I got back to my own bed around 3:30 am.

Sunday:
Maplewood & shit. Nuff said. Grey's Anatomy was interesting, the good guy didn't die, the stupid girl did. Oh, and Lia & I started a sadistic puzzle. All of the pieces look the same and they are all practically the same shape, so it is extremely hard to tell if which ones fit each other and which ones don't. Now I'm gonna go to bed. Bah.

The urge to merge...

So this guy came to the meeting tonight, he was around 40 or 50 years old... and he was talking about STDs and such and he definitely said to get tested before we get the "urge to merge". It was sweet. I don't think that I've actually ever heard that particular phrase before. Oh! I got a free book tonight, I was at the library with Ben & they were giving out free copies of Fahrenheit 451! I've always wanted to read that book, which is an added bonus! Now I can, now I can. I went to GSA for the first time in a while & it was good to be back, I just had way to much life to deal with for the past month, but I hope no one holds that against me. I'm mildly excited right now, my mum & dad are coming up for at least Friday night, so we're gonna go to Mountain Town Station for dinner. They have delicious asiago chicken fettuccini, not gonna lie. I didn't realize that fettuccini was spelled that way... Hmm...

Oh, important message! I'm putting the comment thingie back up, but I'm gonna remove it if no one comments :( *tear*... So not to sound needy and pathetic, but I'm going to sound needy and pathetic... COMMENT, BITCHES! I love you :)

I forgot to enlighten you with the story of the crazy lady!

I cannot believe that I forgot to tell you all about the mishaps on the train ride to Rochester! Ok, so it was early in the morning, about 6 or 7 am and we were stopped in Buffalo to pick up more lucky travelers. Well, this lady (who I thought was a man at first glance) was hauling ass up the train to get to the dining car, apparently she needed her coffee. Anyways, there's this lady, who is about 65, just minding her own business walking back to her seat, presumably from the dining car as well, and the crazy lady ran into her, on purpose! Then, as if that wasn't enough for an old lady to withstand, she pushed her ferociously out of her way! Holy hell. I had just woken up, so I thought that I may have hallucinated this in my stupor, but I was proven incorrect, this did actually happen. So, about 20 seconds later, crazy lady (who will now be refered to as CL) is hauling it, trying to get through the divider between cars, but alas, there are two people in there. Shit. First she wrestles an old man with a santa beard, then she gets to a girl who was probably 25 at the oldest and covers her face and pulls her hair. That girl made quite a noise, believe you me. Everyone in that car was tres confused. To make things worse, a bunch of people entered the train and were now standing in the aisle way, waiting to get to a seat. CL was on her way back at about this time. Oh no. So she was behind all of these people waiting to get a seat and she started losing her damn mind. I think she may have had Tourrettes, because she was blinking and winking like mad. It was a little bit frightening. Then she started yelling at people to hurry up or she was gonna "push them down". If I recall, this is 2006 and she is 40 at youngest, who honestly still pushes people down? Whoa. Anyhoo, she kicked someone's luggage and was thrown off the train about 10 minutes later. Oh, and a Mexican guy got taken off the train by immigration. Sad. I think that's it for the epic train stories.

Now I'm just chillin in the health professions building waiting for class to begin. Fortunately this is my last class of the day. Woot. Ok, I'm off.

Have you ever smelled the inside of a glowstick?

It smells exactly like hell would. And I would know that because I got the hair brained idea last night to break one open with my swiss army knife. Well I couldn't do it, but Cooper did. And it smelled like hell. And our hands smelled like hell. So, about New York...

I had an awesome time! Woot! Ok, so Coop picked me up from the train station around 8 am (can I just say that I was in the Toledo train station for 3 hours...) and we went out to brekkie. And in my quasi drunken stupor, I crashed the juice cup into my face and juice went a little bit everywhere. I couldn't stop laughing all through the meal. Then we went to the field house and watched robot basketball? Yes, it is a tech school... I just don't ask. Then we went back to her dorm and watched a comedy thing. Needless to say I was asleep in minutes. I don't really remember what else we did that day until nighttime. We went to a club called Muthers and it was a drag show. Fucking awesome. Oh and it was ladies night and I'm pretty sure that there were like 4 straight people there (and yes, I was one of them ;) ). That was probably one of the funniest things I've come across in my life. HOLLER. The main drag performer was Samantha Vega... almost convincing as a woman. She/He had really nice legs though.

I woke up around 1:00 pm on Friday and around three we went to a place called Henrietta Hots with Rich & Dayna, some pretty cool friends of Coop's. And I was forced to get a meal called the "garbage plate". It came in one of those styrofoam takeaway boxes and it was huge. Half of the box was filled with potatoes, the other half with macaroni salad and on top of these piles were two grilled cheese sandwiches. Needless to say I didn't finish my meal. We did make a ketchup cake though, it was about 5 pieces of white bread, held together with ketchup, with ketchup on the top, covered in ketchup and salt and pepper. Fun times... until the crazy old man asked us what we were laughing at and if we had food in our box. The rest of the day we chilled... I think we watched Rent (or maybe that was Wednesday...) and we re-watched the Ron White comedy special. "Coupins!" Later we went out to Denny's and had milkshakes, although someone ordered a milkshake and a banana split. Not gonna name any names...

Saturday had the beginnings to be a lazy day, but we went out and ran errands with Kaylie (sp?) for a few hours, then went back to the dorm so that I could pack up. After that, we went over to Kaylie's to get some dinner and get ready for the hockey game w/ the Rochester "Amerks" and the Manitoba "Moose"... Sidenote: I don't like that the word moose is both singular and plural. Anyhoo, the game was great, I saw quite a few fights. And we got free mini HOCKEY STICKS!!! So I'll never use it, but its cool anyways. This is where the glowstick mishap happened... Then they drove me to the trainstation and we said goodbye :(. Sadness. But I had such a good time... just sucks that I can't see all my friends whenever I want... yes, I'm greedy.

The fucking train back sucked, let me tell you. There were MEXICAN BABIES crying and screaming in Mexican... errr... Spanish, until about three a.m. Then I decided to watch Rent on the laptop because there was no way I was going to get to sleep. I arrived in Toledo around 5:30 and got on the bus around 6:30. Got to Dearborn at about 8:30 and I've been awake ever since. Oh! I went out earlier today and saw Maggie! That was fun, even though we only hung out for about twenty minutes, it was good to spend some quality Starbucks time with her. And I saw Hazel Johnson, who is always pleasant. So... off to school in about an hour. Yuck.

Spring Break...

So, this is gonna be one heluva post. I'm feeling a long one coming on. So I got home for spring break last Thursday night and I'm pretty sure I just went to bed. Friday I hung out at home for a while, then I went up to the Village because I had to go to work. Can I just say that I love Scott? That kid is great. We should not be allowed to work together, we cause way too much trouble. Then I had to work on Saturday, which was delightful. It's sad to say that I really do enjoy my job too much. I think its just the people that are there, residents and co-workers. Then on my way out I ran in to Scott, so we went up to Timmy's (Timmy Ho's?) for a little bit and gossiped about everything. Sweet. Then I went home I think. That day is kinda foggy.

Sunday I decided to take the day off and Trevor and I hung out, as I haven't seen that boy in a very long time. We went out to Taco Bell and then we went bowling. He kicked my ass of course, as I am the worst bowler that I know. I'm pretty sure I've never gotten above 110 points. Then we went home and watched Dogma and dad made dinner. Delicious as always. The I drove the boy home and went to bed, just to wake up again the next morning for more work. Hmmm.... I sense a trend. Monday I was supposed to train Vanessa on porter, however Amy really wanted to apparently, so I went on hot tray. Good times. Then I went out to dinner with Andy to Panera. It was so much fun, it's been forever since I've seen him as well. Then we went bowling. I've filled my bowling quota for the year, so if you're thinking about asking me to go bowling, DON'T.

So yesterday I went to work in the morning and trained on porter. Easiest god damn thing in the world if you ask me. Then I decided to stay on for a double, since I hadn't done any work all day anyways. I also trained that night on station waitress. And I worked with Scott. Once again, we should not be allowed to work together. Let's just say we've managed to frighten every single person that we work with. All in all, working 14 hours only felt like a few, since I didn't do a damn thing all day. Although, the boiler is broken at the Village right now, so I did go in the dishroom a lot to help with the pots and pans, since we had to do a 3 sink thingie. Good times.

Today I woke up and took a nice bath, then I went out to lunch with Scott at Panera. We had a lot of fun, like always. I absolutely love the Turkey Artichoke sandwich and the Broccoli Cheddar soup. It's splendid. Somehow that kid & I never run out of things to talk about. It helps that both of us talk... a lot. I've realized that I really do not shut up. Ever. Then my car started to make frightening noises. God damn piece of shit, that car is. My dad is gonna fix the noise and then we are reverting back to the old idea of selling it. Sorry Coop, no stick shift this summer :(. But I'm cool with that, I don't necesarily need a car, the village is 2.2 miles away from home, the Rec is blocks away and Lia drives back and forth from school, so I can ride with her once in a while. And whatever we get from my car is probably going right into the school fund, unless I find a good car for no money... Eh, I'll get some use out of my bike this summer, that's for sure. And when I need my car, my dad pretty much sets his hours so we can work around that, so I can do classes at Macomb & stuff like that.

So, today I leave for New York to see my favorite hockey player! Woot! I'm so excited. My train leaves tonight around 8:00 from Dearborn. Later!

Rabbit Rabbit! Bahaha.

Yeah, so everyone got me this morning. Sad. I can still get my dad though. Lia called me at 2:54am, my mom left a message on my phone, then Cat made a sign and affixed it to my bed so that it would be the first thing I saw when I got up. It's ok, I'm used to having bad luck. Bahaha. I'm waiting to go to Community Health so I can get it over with, that class is so boring, good thing I have a sudoku puzzle & a crossword to do while I'm in there, otherwise I'd go insane. OH! Cat French braided my hair today and it looks really cute. I love having my hair French braided, I really need to learn how to do that myself. I haven't decided if I'm going to go to Spanish tomorrow night. I would feel bad skipping, but do I want to wait 5 hours to go home for a 50 minute class. If I go, it does erase one absence though... I'll prolly end up going I guess, it'd be really nice to have one absence removed, as I have 3. Hmmm... then I could burn some more dvds and possibly be done w/ Roswell so I can move onto Will & Grace for Lia. I'm already done with the first 2 seasons! Woot. Hmmmm..... Ponder ponder ponder.

Can I start by saying that my subconscious speaks perfect Spanish? I had a dream and all of it was in Spanish. Then I woke up because some one in my dream said "despierte, perezoso" which means "wake up, lazy". I know, I'm awesome.

Oh, and a huge THANK YOU to Aunt Jill, Uncle Bill (Unka P) and the Larzelere Community Service Organization for donating to The 3 Day! Woot!

Hmm... I forgot, Nana was going to get me my passport for Christmas... I wonder if I should have her get it or not?

So... I've had quite a weekend

This weekend officially started on Wednesday night, as Lia & I had a sleepover and watched RENT. I think I've converted another. :) Sadly, I had to go to a few classes on Thursday, but whatever.

It was Sibs Weekend up here @ CMU. It was pretty fun. I picked up the chitlins (Rachel & Taylor) at Birch Run from my mumma on Thursday night. Friday was pretty cool, first we had Big Apple Bagels for breakfast, then we had to make a quick detour to the Down Under Foodcourt so I could do an interview for the Alternative Break to Florida this summer. I'll be rescuing sea turtles!! I'm so pumped for this summer, by the way. On to Sibs:

We signed in @ Finch around 2:00, where they had a bunch of fun stuff for the sibs to do, including face painting & balloon animals. We went back to the dorm after a while and played Mario & such, then went back for the comedy/juggling show and the magic show. The Jugglers (Team Rootberry) were quite entertaining, they definitely knew how to juggle a million times better than the average person. Then Ben (illegitimate cousin) called because he had brought his sister Sophie up for the weekend, which is Rachel & Taylor's actual cousin. He definitely called and said "Hey Sam, this is Ben, your almost cousin thing." Then we had the magic show, performed by Mike Super. He is pretty much magician crossed with Dane Cook. Fantastic.

Saturday we had breakfast in the commons, where Taylor saw another one of her cousins. Geez. Then we went to the carnival and they had a billion inflatable thingies, including a velcro wall and a bungee run. I personally enjoyed the bungee run a lot. It was sweet. Then around 5:00 we went back to Finch and helped set up for the Epic Hero / Everclear concert. I picked up the Epic Hero cd & shirt because they were really good (Um yeah, we've been myspace buddies for weeks ;) ). And because the shirt is cool. I think the chitlins had a good time at the concert, it was pretty cool. I wasn't too impressed with Everclear, but they were still ok, just a little bit full of themselves, and when I say they, I mean the aging lead singer. But I won't say no to an autograph or 2. Then I took them out for ice cream at Cold Stone at 11:02 pm. Becuase I'm a bad illegitimate cousin. Let's just say it was delicious, no point in making you guys jealous. Then we went back and went to sleep. Sunday we went to Big Apple Bagels for breakfast then headed off back to Birch Run to drop them off with Patty, Rachel's mom. She gave me a scarf. It's pretty cool.

To recover from the absurdity that was sibs weekend, I went back to the dorm and played Mario for approximately 4 hours. Then I went online. REAL PRODUCTIVE.

Today I'm gonna go to Maplewood & volunteer for an hour, then time for the SAC. Woot. Oh, and if anyone at all is interested in James Blunt ticket(s) let me know, if I don't find another unsuspecting James Blunt fan in the next week, my mother is making me sell the tickets because she doesn't want to go to the concert. Which I'm sad about, but I'm not that worried about it, it's not like I don't get to go to concerts.

So, I get home & a double murder occurs...? No, I didn't do it...

So, last night around 5:30, police in New Baltimore found a husband and wife that had been murdered in their home on Lempke street. Yeah, that's less than a mile from my house. Freaky, no? The last murder to occur was that of Justin Mello, about 6 years ago, then one happened 30 years before that. Whoa. But I couldn't have done it, I got home around 9:00 pm, so I'm not responsible, I swear. But yeah, I'm a little freaked out, as they haven't caught the suspects yet... I had to go outside about 20 minutes ago and I was totally scared shitless. I ran SO fast to get back into the house. But it's all good now, the doors are locked... I think. Damn, now I have to go check. But yeah, my parents didn't know about it until today when my mom & I were driving down Front street and we saw the channel 2, 4, & 7 news vans. Needless to say, my mom stopped and asked what happened.

Today I had quite a day, got up around 9 and mom & I went to breakfast at Country Inn. And guess who was there? Nana! Haha. She's great. Then we went to the mall to get some drapery. I'm not sure what else we did, but I got home really tired. Then I went up to the Rec to get some chairs & a card table for Euchre tomorrow night. Then I stopped by Middles School south to see Mr. Pagel... where I ran into... Cat? Yeah, she was there. That was strange. Then I went to see coach, then FINALLY, I went home. Now I'm just putsing around the house trying to avoid cleaning.

I adopted a hedgehog...

...on my myspace. He's pink & his name is Juan. I love him. H'ok, so... I'm super busy lately, but I love it. For the 3-Day, Lia & I have been going to the SAC & walking 3 miles. It's not that bad when you are talking to someone, it seems to go buy pretty fast. We'll probably go up about one half mile per week, so by the time we go we'll be very ready. We've already started fundraising, so we'll be sweet.

Oh oh oh oh! So I had a comprehensive hearing test this morning & for now, my hearing is normal. They said I need some other tests done, but I should be fine for a while. Although I am at the bad end of the spectrum of good hearing, so I have to keep tabs on it. But whatev, I'm so not deaf! Woot!

If anyone wants to go to a James Blunt concert on Friday, March 24 @7:00pm at the State Theater, let me know, I have one extra ticket. Oh, and if anyone wants to hang out this weekend, I'll be home so just gimme a call. I must be off to Community Health now, then we're off to the SAC, then dinner... then I go to GSA for our Valentines Day party, you know, we pass out Valentines from like 3rd grade... it should be sweet. Oh, then we're going to the Community Service committee tonight to see if they will give us their money. Sounds hot. Ok, class time.
Later my lovers.

Looking forward to...

Being finished with my Spanish homework.
Going to Greentree to get some organic stuff.
Being outta class for the weekend in approximately 18 hours.
Going to the Vagina Monologues in approximately 18 hours and 5 minutes.
Getting my hearing test over with.
John Corvino/Glenn Stanton Debate to be over with.
Getting my taxes done.
Sibs weekend with my illegitimate cousins.
Everclear concert.
Meeting Everclear.
Spring Break.
Working over Spring Break.
Going to RIT to see my favorite Canadian.
Going to RIT with my favorite quasi-Georgian.
Selling my car.
Putting said car money in the bank.
Going to the James Blunt concert.
Getting my tax return.
Looking at my tax return check for approximately 2 minutes before putting it towards school.
Drag show.
Yellowcard concert.
Meeting Yellowcard.
Finals week.
Moving back home.
Starting summer semester at Macomb Community College.
Going to work up at the Rec.
Working with my fellow Villagers.
Teaching my sign language class.
Summer.
Alternative Breaks to Florida to help little seaturtles.

I'm an old lady

Yeah, so my effing back is dead. I don't know what the hell to do, it hurts so bad. I went to the Chiropractor on Friday afternoon and it felt better for a day, but now its back to hurting like a bitch. I'm almost ready to go get a handicap sticker at Foust, but that would be bad. Lia & I went to the SAC today and worked out for a bit, ran a mile, worked out a little, then ran on the track for a lil bit. It was nice. Although now it feels like there is a battle of epic proportions going on in my back. Damn.

Oh! Last night's Grey's Anatomy left us on the edge of our seats. Those whores gave us a cliffhanger. CODE BLACK. There was a bomb in some guy's BODY CAVITY. Weird. Anyways, I'm in the Health Professions Computer Lab and the guy who is sitting next to me looks like a shorter Alex Karev. Too bad Cat isn't here, she'd probably jump his bones.

I advise everyone to read the book Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen. It is gonna be good. This lady gets pushed off of a cruise ship by her pathetic excuse for a husband and then she stays with the guy that found her to feign death. Apparently she's gonna royally screw with her husband. It should be sweet.

Ok, so I've gotta go read the news paper.

It's only been a week since my last post, why do I feel guilty?

So last night, Lia helped me spruce up my four year plan and now it kicks ass. I have some lofty goals for the summer though, let me tell you. First off, I've decided that it would be best if I sold my car at the beginning of summer, as the farthest I will have to go to work is the Village and that is 2.2 miles away, an easy distance on a bike. I don't think that I'll be needing a car otherwise and if I do, good 'ole mom & dad have two cars... Second, I'm gonna be taking classes at Macomb this summer, as it will save me a whole lotta money in the long run. Anyway, I only have to take these classes because they're UPs, which are University Program. They are dumb. But it should save me a few thousand dollars. All the while, I'll be working at the Rec, either as head lifeguard or as a counselor and contingent at the Village. Either way its gonna be awesome. Oh, and Kasy said I could teach a sign language class once a week, which would take nothing & it would be good fun. So, if I live through the summer, life will be good... but I thrive on being busy, so it should all work out. Aight, I've gotta get ready to go, Lia & I are on our way to the SAC.

She could see by my face, that I was FUCKING HIGH...

So, can I just clue all of you in to the fact that I am completely obsessed with James Blunt right now. He is brilliant. I've had You're Beautiful on repeat for like 2 weeks. Damn you Lia, for making me listen to that song. I'm actually listening to it right now.

I am reading the absolute saddest book that I've ever come across right now, so sad that I practically cried myself to sleep last night and I had to stop reading it today because I was crying in public. It's called The Whole World Was Watching by Romaine Patterson, a close friend of Matthew Sheppard. Its fucking SAD, but I can't put it down. Let me just tell you, DO NOT READ THIS BOOK. Fucking a.

I wish I knew how to loop music on my blog, you guys would be so sick of my music within a day. But it'd be worth it, because it is awesome.

I'm definitely breaking a computer lab rule right now, I have my piping hot tea sitting next to the computer. Whoops. At least I'm not drinking it, its safely situated behind my backpack so that it will ruin a few hundred dollars worth of books instead of one of these shitty computer lab computers.

I think I'm going to start going to the ASL Club conversation hour at Kaya, I think I'll learn a lot. That could be helpful, since I'm gonna go out to RIT for part of spring break this year. Maggie & I are trekking out there, that's gonna be one hell of a road trip, we both have the same sort of fucked up sense of humor. Oh, speaking of ASL, Lia and I are going to a 'Signing Hands, Dancing Feet' performance on Wednesday at about 6:30, it should be really good, I'm excited. Alright, I'm done for now, I have to go back to my pathetically sad book before I go to Community Health to be bored out of my mind. Later.

I Ain't No Hollaback Girl...

Okay, so I've been listening to Gwen Stefani obviously. Let's see, I woke up at exactly 12:45 this afternoon. I can't figure that out, it's really late. I was only up until about 2:00am this morning, & I got eleven hours to cover that. Ugh. So my back is still killing me and I don't know why, damn curved spine.

Oh, mom! Guess what we forgot to buy that I didn't realize that I needed! Yeah, you got it. So, I'm gonna have to go shopping today and get some shit. Maybe I'll get myself a new fleece. I should do that. I need one. Bad. Hmm... Must take a shower first though. Then go shopping. Shower, shopping, shower, shopping, shower, shopping. Maybe I'll go get mum a prize at Green Tree, the local organic grocer. Love it. They have organic things! Woot. And "No Pudge" brownies, which I couldn't find anywhere. Sweet.

Aight, I'm gonna head into the shower. Ugh, we need to organize this damn room.

I love myspace :)

I have a serious problem with myspace, I can't get off of it. I'm obsessed with it. I post the most random shit on there. But it's addicting. Ok. So, James Blunt is coming to Detroit on March 24. And I'm going to see him fucking LIVE. And Cooper is jealous. But yeah, Lia and I are going, it's gonna be hot, and for only $23.

I just heard the funniest thing on Celebrity Fit Club. "Nuclear patients flush twice." Apparently their urine is a tad bit radioactive. Since when do I watch Celebrity Fit Club? Eh, it's not a bad show.

Best quote ever: "You are a lesbian!"

I think I'm gonna take a nap now. I'll post some more later tonight-ish.

So, my back is killing me...

Fuckin A, I wanna go to the chiropractor. 'Nuff said. I'm listening to quite an array of music right now, a nice mix of Los Lonely Boys, John Lennon, Franz Ferdinand, Weezer, & Green Day. Nice and hot. Umm, well today should be fun, as soon as my mom shows up, she should be here around 9:00 or so. It's gonna be sweet! Oh, I legally downloaded a song off of Sony's download store for free because I'm awesome, it's Madonna's Hung Up. Sweet Song.

Oh God. So I'm thoroughly obsessed with myspace... it's really sad. I love it though. Alright, I should probably go. I have some myspace-ing to do.

I come to you LIVE from the Health Professions Building!!

As with most Monday's & Wednesday's, I am in the Health Professions computer lab, waiting for class to start. Although today, I am very excited, my mp3 player should be arriving, in fact, it should be in the dorm right now... So, I'm trying to figure out what to do for Sibs weekend, if Trevor doesn't come up, I'll see about Rachel & Taylor, because I think that's something that they would enjoy a lot, and it would end up being a blast. So, I think that today is my easy day for classes, besides Wednesday, of course, since I only have 2 classes on Wed. Today I have class from 1:00 to 1:50, 3:30 to 4:45, and 5:00 to 5:50, so I'm in and out in about six hours, which is a lot nicer in the afternoon than it is in the morning, I cannot deal with waking up apparently, since I didn't wake until about 11:30 today. Blame Cat, we stayed up talking and laughing until about 3:30 am, since we hadn't really talked for a few days.

Alas, I must look over my notes before I go to class. I shall blog later or tomorrow, just depends on when I have something interesting to say. OH! Here's what the mp3 player looks like, IT'S PINK!!!


SOO EXCITED!!! Oh, I'll have to put a picture of the rasterbated wall on eventually as well.

Hoorah!

I learned how to play the famed game 'Hoorah!' last night and now I'm hooked. It is so much fun. It was first described to me as solitare football... that description sorta works. Umm... I'll be on later to update, right now I must straighten my hair and go to class. Laters.

I've found a new word...

Okay, so I think I've finally found the word that would describe my relation to all the Ruhlman kids, like Rachel & Taylor and so on: Illegitimate cousins. I like it. It works. So I got to talk to my girls last night, its been a long time. I was on the phone while my mom was at her euchre thing out at Jessica's house & suddenly I'm being passed around the party like a cheap whore. But it was good fun.

I guess I'm on a FRIENDS bender right now, I've been watching that show since last night & it was the first thing I turned on this morning. I cannot do this to myself, I'll be watching it for like 4 weeks straight... Bad Sam. So, I'm only gonna watch season 10, I swear. Damnit, I have laundry to do today. Fucking fucker! I don't want to. I really should though... I want to wear my hot pink scrubs again.

I'm having a real hard time trying to figure out if I want to change my housing request form for next year, I do want to live in Larzelere with Cat, but I want more space also... kind of a tough one, since we will be in the same room as we are now, and let me tell you, it's not that large. I don't know, I really wanna live in the new Towers or something, but whatever, it's already signed, so I guess that's what its gonna be. It'll still be good, I just want my own room, I hate keeping people awake :). Kinda looks like that smiley face has a birthmark... Okay, I think I'm going to go down to brunch... Later amigos.

Okay, I think I've decided on a blog background...

I'm OCD, so I think I've finally found a blog background that I can deal with, at least for now. I love pink & black, especially together. Umm... I'm just gonna chill in my room today, I don't want to leave, its too cold to go outside and too nice in here to leave.

Mount Pleasant needs to rethink their city planning. They need to think about their audience, if they had a mall and a Barnes & Noble... and maybe some laser tag... it would be wonderful. Anyhoo, today I plan on staying in sweatpants all day long. Its gonna be hot. I'm so excited for the day to go on.

Hola friends

Alright, take this quote, chew on it:

How can you be homesick if you've never felt at home? I heard it today and it sounded quite prolific, although it does not apply to me at all.

Mmmm..

Well, I changed around the blog a little bit, it's gonna be constantly under renovation for a lil bit, but it should turn out well. I really like the crazy British flag going on there, I made it, then I rasterbated it. Marvelous. The rasterbator sounds naughty, but in reality, it's freakin' awesome. It makes pictures into pixellated dotty things. I looove it. I'm rasterbating everything in sight... Diiirty. Okay, gotta go for now, organic foodstore and 'Brokeback Mountain' up next.

I ain't no hollaback girl, how many times I gotta tell you?

H'ok so... I believe that everyone needs to experience the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Give it a chance before you stop reading, as it shows the ridiculousness of the United States. Remember that thing called separation of church and state... somehow we forgot that "intelligent design" or "creationism" as some may call it, is an idea that is only accepted by one type of religion and thus should not be taught in schools alongside the theory of evolution. The only plausible way to teach creationism or intelligent design, would be to teach every single possible believe of how the world and/or humans were made, developed or otherwise implanted onto this earth. If creationism is taught, then I believe that it is only fair to teach the ways of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and his noodly appendage.

Anyhoo, now that that is over, I can talk about the rest of my day. It was alright. I went to dinner with Phil, Aaron & Ben, then we hung out in the Kulhavi computer lab for an hour or so until the GSA meeting. It was an interesting meeting, but it seemed so long. I want to be on the executive counsil really bad, it seems like it would be the way to get into the vice president position a little easier. But anyhoo, I'm just waiting for this DVD to burn, then I can go to bed. Ahh... 2 more minutes... that means I can go slip into my pajamas and go to sleep. Lovely. Goodnight lovers.

Sitting, Waiting... for class to start

So, I'm just sitting in the Health Professions Building computer lab, waiting for Community Health to start. I'm kinda looking forward to that class, but I'd rather that it was over right now, I'm getting rather bored of waiting. Let's see... I need to get my car tomorrow to take care of some clandestine business, good times. I'm so sad that sign language was cancelled yesterday, I feel that there is a gaping sign language hole in my chest. That was über melodramatic. Eh, what ever, I reserve the right to be melodramatic. H'ok.. so I guess I should probably go to class now. Later mis amigos.

I need Sudoku and I need it now...

Okay, in the last minute, I explained Sudoko to Cat and now I feel as though I must explain it to the world of my readers (last count, 5 people). I have a link to a Sudoku website on my link field, but it is a really easy game: Within the large box, there are nine smaller boxes with nine spaces within them. You must have each number in each box, then you must make sure that the number does not repeat in any of the rows or columns in the entire large box. Go play it.

This week has been horrible at the Village, we have lost 3 residents, which has got to be a new record in one week. Holy hell. And thanks to my informant, Scott, I do not go back to the
Village looking for people that are not there, because I have gone back asking where so and so was and then I am told that they passed. Shitty.

I went a little crazy with my Target giftcard and ordered a new mp3 player with it. I'm so excited, its pink and it holds like 512 mb worth of music. But I figured that I could use a new one, since my last one didn't even have a display and the only earphones you can use with it are very damaging to sensitive ears... and it was Christmas money, so I was expected to buy myself something I would use. See how I rationalize things? I learn from the best.

Sign language class got cancelled today, damnit. Of all the classes that could've been cancelled, she cancelled my favorite one. I wouldn't have minded if my Recreation for Senior Citizen's class was cancelled, or Spanish, but no, my favorite class. That did give me approximately three hours time to do what ever I wanted with. So... I ate lunch, then I sorta straightened my stuff... A little. But its not that messy. Just a little disorganized.

Okay, I"m gonna play a quick game of Sudoku. Then I'm off to Rec for Senior Citizens & Spanish... Then Program Board. I'll be back around 10.

It all comes back to milk...

H'ok so, my mother and I just had an entire conversation that culminated in her strange aversion to containers that have previously contained, could contain or will in the future contain milk products. My mom has a milk thing, where she can't touch anything that has had both milk products and saliva touching. It's weird, but I must have inherited that, because I can't drink milk after people, nor can I drink milk that has been sitting for more that a minute. Anyhoo, we were talking and I pulled a 10.1 oz Dasani water bottle out of my purse. The conversation went from pleasant to frightening in less time than it takes to slap a tick, let me tell you. She saw it and rage filled her weary eyes. (She just got off of work, weary seems to work in this situation). Long story short, my dad had one of the same bottles for about three weeks that he wanted to put his milk in for lunchtime at work and inadvertently forcing my mom to wash after he had drank milk out of it. The bottle in question was stolen from my car, by the way. On with the story... both of us were reduced to giggles at my dad's idiosyncratic need to have things, such as this water bottle, as his own, which people may not throw out. So whenever my mom sees bottles like this, she gets an unexplainable anger in her eyes and everyone must watch out. And you all think she's normal? Fuckin' right.

Ohh! It's 12:34 right now, how cool. I worked at 6:15am both Saturday and Sunday and I'm spent, I seem to be unable to keep my eyes open, but I will say that the aforementioned milk incident shows my parents oddities, but let me just tell you, they had an all out fight about CHER, of all things, people or places. Who honestly fights about Cher? Whoa. Could this family be anymore ridiculous? I think not.

So, tomorrow is the big trek back up to Mount Pleasant. Yay. I'll let you in on what an obsessive compulsive dork I am: I printed out roughly one ream of paper full of notes for 2 of my classes on Thursday, however due to time constraints, I was not able to organize them into their respective binders. Guess what has been plaguing my mind ever since I left. "I can't wait to put those papers into their binders." Oh oh oh oh. I think I'm gonna get a webcam, how can I not? They are too much fun, and besides, I'll be able to sign over the vast thingie we call the internet. Woot.

Sidenote: AIM is turning into my life, how scary? I actually talk to people from work... online. Only the good ones though. But seriously, how hot would it be to sign over the internet, in real time? Fuckin' right, it would be awesome. Sooo excited.

Hectic first week back, I'm lovin' it -

H'ok, so... I love four of my six classes so far, they're awesome! Nutrition, Community Health, ASL & Spanish are awesome, I could do without Gerontology and Recreation for Senior Citizens, however, they could turn out to be intersting. I think that once I'm in the swing of things back to classes and such, I'll be blogging more regularly, because I know I've been slacking in that department lately. SORRY! Anyhoo, I love being back at school, even though I'm home for this four day weekend, I don't plan to come home that often anymore, its just not my thing. Don't get me wrong, I love going home, but I think I need to get used to being a big kid and start living my weekends without my parents so much.

I don't know if I've mentioned it or not, but I absolutely love my Spanish class, it rocks. I think I'm gonna be loving Spanish. Its such a sexy language. Oh, and my mom has decided that scrub shopping is her new passion, I've gotten two pairs of scrubs for work and one pair of hot pink scrub pants in the last week or so. Hot stuff.

I'm really excited to get into my Gerontology service learning hours, I hope I get a fun job for the next 120 service hours! Okay, I really have to go to bed, I have to work in 6 hours and I haven't gone to sleep yet. Btw, the earliest class I have all week is Tues. & Thurs. @ 11:00. Gotta love that schedule, that means the absolute earliest I have to go to bed is about 2:00am... even though I'm usually out like a light around 12 or so. Goooooooooodnight.

Someone Save Me..

My mother is yelling at the TV... and when I called her on it, she was like "IT'S THE ROSE BOWL"... She's such a freak.

H'ok... so... I'm going to Toronto, eh?

I get to wake up tomorrow mornin' at 4:00 so that we can go to the big Toronto tomorrow. Fucking A. A family member died, Olympio Scaini, so me and the Trev man are representin' the family. Should be fun, I haven't seen Anastasio in about 4 years. I got a new funeral outfit though, so its not all bad news. Anyhoo, we're watching Nick Games & Sports. Gotta love that channel.

My mom is snoring so loud that I can hear her through the walls... and she sounds like a vibrating cell phone. Weird. By the way, I can sign the entire "Hi my name is Joe, I have a wife and three kids and I work in a button factory, one day my boss said to me, he said Joe, are you busy? I said no. He said turn the buttons with your right hand..." song. No one knows that song unless they went to Anchor Bay for elementary school and had the same Music teacher that I had. But yes, I am obsessed with signing. Love it.

So... we have this weird chip clip that is in the shape of an ear, trust me, its gruesome detail... anyhoo, Trevor is clipping it to parts of his face and lookin' kinda freaky. H'ok, so I have to get offline, I'm being rude. Laters.

Just keep working working working... What do we do we work...

H'ok, so... as the title says, I've been a-workin' a lot, but it paid off a wee bit, made about $300 in a week. Saweeeeeeeeet. As far as black monday went, I went shopping early, I was one of the first people in Target, however, the early-ness made me a dumbass. I found some really good smellin' Method handsoap/candel gift sets for about $2 each and I only bought 1. I do not know what I was thinking. But the scent is soooo delightful, it smells exactly like the old TicTacs they used to have that were bigger than the regular ones, anyhoo, the scent is peppermint vanilla. I love Method, by the way, they have the best smelling stuff, I mean, what company has grapefruit flavored handsoap? I bought some other random stuff, including a new scarf and gloves (they are soft AND pink, come on) and they were on sale. I had to work @ 4:30, which was alright, since I was working with Court & Scott. I had to work Tuesday as well, I almost killed everyone that day, I was in a pissy mood because they would not shut the hell up. Wednesday I had a slumber party with my girls, it was good times. We watched some old school Nickelodeon, I'm talking GUTS and Legends of the Hidden Temple. Sweet stuff. Then we watched Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. All in all, it was a pretty fun night. Got some X-mas presents from Cat & Cooper, a nice little kit with all I would ever need if I ever went anywhere toiletry set from Cat, but I'm told she knit/"crotcheted" something for me too :). I got a crazy little voodoo doll, a cute keychain and a Starbucks gift card. The next day Cooper stayed until... fucking 4:00, but we had fun. Then I just chilled at my house for the rest of the day. Friday I went to work at 6:30, then realized that I didn't have to work, so I did what any sane person would do and went shopping. I got some more work scrubs, then I went to Meijer's and bought myself a sweet coat for $65 dollars on clearance. It's flippin' sweet. Then I went to work around 4:00. Went out to Starbucks last night. Hotness. The I went to work this mornin'. Shitty. Then I came home and took a bath because my feet stunk. Sorry for sharing, but damn. I played some poker with the parents, Texas Hold 'Em. I won... but I'm sure I cheated somewhere in there.... I have to go to bed before next year, damn, I want to watch the ball drop agonizingly slow.

I love Christmas

I had a loooooooong day today, but it was worth it I think. I worked at the Village from 6:15am to 3:30pm, did a little over time on top of time & a half! Love it. So, I love Christmas again, the family didn't rip eachother's heads off too much this year... well, a little, but what ev'. So, I got a diamond & sapphire ring from Jill and Jennifer... I have to get it resized for my stumpy little fingers :) , but it is AWESOME!!! I LOVE IT. I got a $20 Target giftcard from Trevor, $50 from Nana... I think that's it. But don't yell at me if I'm wrong because it's late and I've been awake for a million hours. Tired now, going to sleep to prepare for "Black Monday" power shopping.

So yeah...

I haven't posted in about 9 days, I been busy. I drove home on Friday. Sweet. I've worked since last Saturday, 50 hours total. But it's worth it, thats about $450! Woot. So, I don't remember what I've done in the last week, but it's mostly been about pureed foods. And washing dishes. I vaguely remember going shopping and making cookies with Cooper and going to Trevor's band concert.

Anyways, today we had our little Christmas get together with Jason & Becky on my break from work. Donna, my supervisor, gave me an extra half hour on my break, which was awesome. And I still got done with all of my work early, just because I'm special. I am getting sick of the residents from Capman hall, they are all ornery and rude. But hey, they're old... what ev'. I got a buncha cool presents; mom & dad gave me some Magno (25.5 oz. of delicious Spanish soap), a 1.7 oz. bottle of Obession, some cereal (weird, I know) & $75 Target gift card. Jake got me some interesting Gingerbread smellin' soap, a hot pink loofah, Christmas flavored Jelly Bellies, a $25 Applebees giftcard, a cute little stuffed animal & his old palm pilot. I also got a really cool scarf/hat/glove set from Becky, wild colored stripes, just my style... & $25 from Ms. Bauer. I'm excited about tomorrow, I get to see the family after I get offa work, I go from 6:30am to 3:00pm, I'll get to hang with Trev! Woot! I'll prolly get to see Jill & Jenny too. Then I'm going super shopping on the day after Christmas, until I have to go to work @ 4:30. Later for now, I gotta go to bed so I can get up for work in the mornin'. Oh oh oh! I passed all of my classes with a B or better, not too great, but I can bring it up in the following semesters.

I hate Mount Pleasant in the snow...

Argh... I hate Michigan, I hate snow, I hate Mount Pleasant, but most of all, I hate being in Mount Pleasant when I don't have to be. I can't drive home today because there is going to be a snow storm approximately when I'll be driving home. Sooooooooooo... I get to stay in the big MP tonight and hopefully leave tomorrow. Fucking fuck. It hate the snow. Did I mention that yet? I think I need to create a new background for this blog, I really like the green, but its very generic, just a template that I picked up. I think I'll try to make a cool one, maybe I'll just modify this one. But right now I have to go move my car before my meter runs out. Saluti!

No more exams-ish

Yay! I'm finito with exams, except my performance exam in ASL, which will be tres simple. I have not been on my computer since Sunday night when I last blogged. That is a new record, if I do say so myself. I noticed that I've had such an effed up sleeping schedule lately.

Monday:
Studied French from 6:30 to about 11:00 on Sunday, then I went to bed around 2 or 3, to wake up around 9:00 for my French exam. Then I studied for my Psychology exam and took it at 2:00. That one wasn't too bad, I don't think. Then I went to the library at about 4 and didn't leave until 1 am. It was major studying time with Benjamin. Then I fell asleep around 2 am.

Tuesday:
Woke up around 7:00 am and ate breakfast, whilst studying for my Economics final. Finished that final, went back to my dorm & took a shower, then I went to sleep from about 10:30 to about 3:30. At about 5, Ben and I went to Phil & Aarons to meet them, as well as Jenny & Dave. We at dinner and hung out there until around 11:00, then Dave, Jenny, Ben & I went to Nick & Jenny's. We met Shamoan (I can't spell that cat's name to save my life). Us, along with Nick, went back to Phil & Aaron's and started watching the Ellen DeGeneres stand up thing. Then they started drinking some alcoholic beverage and the minors (aka Ben & I) left. Got home around 1:15 and surprisingly Cat was still awake, so we talked for about an hour, then she fell asleep and I read Jenny's book and The Week. Fell asleep around 3:30.

Wednesday!!:
I woke up at 10:30 when my mom called me, then I ate brekkie and watched the new Charlie & The Chocolate Factory movie. CREEPY. Willy Wonka is a crazy bitch in this movie. 'Nuff said. Then I went back to my room and cleaned up random stuff, then Cat & I went with Lia on a little road trip to KFC and Target. Good fun. It is now 5:28 pm and I am so nauseous, it's not even funny. Okay, it's a little funny. I may eat dinner, I may not. Tonight I'm going to see RENT! I'm so excited. I love that movie.

Oh, so the aforementioned book that Jenny gave me to read is called Straight Women, Gay Men. It was very funny. I gotto go for now though.. Later.

I CAN'T STUDY ANY MORE

I am suffering from serious ADD at the moment, I cannot study. I keep looking at facebook and checking my email. I did realize something funny though, since I've been @ CMU, I've met more famous people than I have in my entire life combined: Bowling For Soup, Anna Nalick, Jim Gaffigan, CT & David from random Real World seasons, Bill Nye the Science Guy & Larry Joe Campbell. I don't think that I've met anyone else famous before CMU... Oh no, I met a random member of the Detroit Shock Basketball team & I almost met Michael Phelps... I will marry that boy. Not that famous people are better than regular people, just weirder. Bowling For Soup was drunk, as were CT & David & Bill Nye was an ASSHOLE.

I'm on a Mancala bender... you know that game where you move the marbles... okay, you probably don't, but its addicting. As are Tang and Fresca, together or apart.

I typed that sentence, then went and played Mancala for an hour. I have to study now.

I have to start studying again...

I don't wanna! I don't wanna study! So, I went to bed at 4:00 am this morning and I was up by 10:30, I think that's pretty good. I am going to fail the French exam like no other, that's just a fact of life apparently. I think I'm gonna have to switch from French to Psychology and back again... It's all so boring. Ugh. Okay, I'm done for now.

Eh.. 2 am should be considered part of the previous day

Today was quite interesting. I decided around 2 o'clock that I would do my laundry, only the necessities of course. So I put the stuff in the wash, then I fall asleep ten minutes before the load was to be done in the wash, luckily I woke up. After I finished my laundry, I went to Merril to get Ben so we could go get his white elephant gift for the gift exchange that was about seven hours ago. We went to various stores and bought stuff, including some hair dye for him so that we could dye it before the party. We arrived fashionably late at 7:36. His hair looks really good, by the way, although it is "mahogany" so it is a little redder than we intended. Neither of us caught the word mahogany whilst chosing the dye. Anyways, the party was fun, I ended up with the gift of Choxie chocolates, which are delicious. Then we played a variation of the game "I never". It was good fun, I learned stuff about my friends that I really don't think I needed to know, but it was damn funny. Let's just say more than one of my friends have participated in an orgy of five or more people. Kinky ;).

Around 10 o'clock, we left and went to my dorm to watch Kinsey, which is a really good movie, its kinda like the psychology of sex... Yes, I know, WEIRD. But it is very interesting. I had to drive him back to his dorm around 1:40 ish. I looked like a crazy bag lady, let me tell you. I had on my capri pajama pants and a coat and boots and crazy lady hair and my glasses on. And I had to check myself in to the dorm via the front entrance, so everyone saw my crazy bag lady impersonation. That was a one time showing, by the way.

Upon examination of my arms, I have decided that I have uber amounts of hair growing on them, its like dog hair growing out of a human. How sad. Eh, I'll get over it.

I think I want to open up a gift wrapping store, screw Health Administration, I love wrapping presents way more, I could do it all day every day, for the rest of my life. But I won't. Shit. I think its time for bed, I only come up with hair brained schemes when I'm over tired, and since I've had five hours of sleep in the past fourty-two hours, that seems like a wonderful idea. Sweet dreams my lovers.

Fucking fuck

I have bronchitis again. God damn mother fucking fuck. Okay, no more swearing. Let's see, this week was a long damn week. I don't remember much from Monday or Tuesday though, because my brain is too full of studying. Ha. Oh, Tuesday night I had my medical terminology exam and I got an A!!! Because I kick ass.

Wednesday:
Went to class and stuff and I didn't get to do my presentation in French because some people took a really long time. Then I went to my last Intro to Psych class. Not all that exciting, I hope the rest of my psychology classes are a bunch more fun than that one was. Then I went and met with my major advisor and signed my Health Administration major. Woot! Then I stopped by the GSA office and hung out for a minute. I went to the UC to attend a lecture, then I realized I didn't want to attend it at all. Walked back to the office and Benjamin and I went back to my dorm to hang out and eat dinner. Craziness ensued. We ended up in his dorm room, trying to plot ways to freak out his roommates. We thought of good ways after leaving the dorm. It coulda been good. Then at the GSA meeting, we played a game called Mafia. Its splendid, although I cannot really remember the rules, but I do remember one thing. KY jelly kills people.

Thursday:
Woke up and realized that I had bronchitis. Sexy stuff. Then me and my sexy phlegm had to give a French presentation, I sounded like a frog. It was hot. Then I went to ASL for our receptive exam, which was pretty good. But the best part of the day was most definitely the Anna Nalick/Rob Thomas concert. It was soooo cool. We got to meet Anna Nalick and I got her CD autographed. It was good times.

After the concert, I went to Phil's with Jenny & Dave and a few other people, it was good fun. We watched 2 episodes of Desperate Housewives, which was delightful. Then we pretty much sat there and giggled for an hour, then around 4 am, we left and I went to bed. It was a long day.

Today:
I woke up this morning to Cat talking to Lia with my phone. It was strange. And it was early. Well, it was 9:30. Anyways, Lia took me to go get my car, which was hot, because I hate walking to it. My door, however, was frozen shut. Took a few minutes to pry it open, but I'm sweet like that, so it worked. Then we went to Gerontology, which was boring as ever, thankfully it was the last one for the semester. After class, I went back to my dorm and ate breakfast (12 pm) and Cat and Lia left. So this weekend should be very interesting, indeed.

Loooooooooong weekend

Okay, so this weekend totally kicked ass. By the way, this weekend started on Thursday night. Thursday night, Cat, Lia & I decided to have a girls night and watch movies... I'm sure we fell asleep early, I know I did. I think we watched Love Actually. I love that movie.

So, let's see. Friday we woke up and remembered that we had to go to the Midland Mall to get my contants. We made a damn day of it. But let's not forget that the roads were kinda crappy where I decided to drive. I definitely rear ended an elderly Native American guy, but it was so totally not my fault, I did everything you're supposed to do with icy roads, I went slow, pumped my breaks and nothing worked, but I have absolutely no damage on my car at all. The old man was driving a van, so the bumper was lower, his car got a little dent or two, but I was going no more than a few miles per hour. I'm happy that didn't set the tone for the rest of the day though, it was awesome. So, at the mall, I decided that I would only be communicating in sign language, because I could, since Lia is in my class and Cat hangs out with us enought to pick it up. It was so cool to do, I didn't speak for at least four hours, minus the few minutes that I had to be in DOC to take care of my contacts. But yeah, it was sweet. I did get a lot of looks though, which was annoying, but to be expected. I got presents for Trev & Auntie M, as well as Nana and Unka P. And I got some sexy ass buttons. It was definitely a good day. Then we did drove back to Mount Pleasant and stopped at the sex shop, primarily because we could. We did the slumber party thing again on Friday night and watched some of the movie Kinsey. I love that movie, its so obscure. We also dyed Lia's hair, well, it was more of a red tint, but it looks awesome.

Saturday morning, I woke up bright and early at 11:00... HAHA! Okay, so I woke up and got a shower and stuff, then Tami straightened my hair. It was sexy. Then I went to Somerset with Kyle, Ben, Jenny, Sam & Jayme. It was a blast. Kyle drove Ben and I and we listened to the RENT soundtrack, among other things. We got to the mall. It was humongous. Absolutely humongous. I want to live in the Crate & Barrel and the Williams Sonoma stores. They are magnificent. Anyways, Ben and I walked around for about 5 hours, then Jayme joined us because Kyle and Sam were leaving. I ended up buying an awesome purse from Pac Sun. Then we rode back with Jenny. That was possibly the most hilarious car ride of my life, it was non-stop laughter. And Benjamin is a pervert, nuff said. Then we went to Lil Chef with Phil & Aaron, which was fun. After Lil Chef, we went to Phil's house to watch a movie. Ben and I were asleep within 5 minutes. But it was Gremlins, not like we were missing anything. Then around 5 am, I went back to my dorm and went to bed. Catherine was awake when I got there... weird. That was my long ass day.

Umm... Sunday I'm pretty sure Lia & Cat and I went Christmas shopping again, I'm done with everyone except my parents and some of my friends. I will finish, I swear.

Rabbit Rabbit!

Today has been a long and tiring day, but I'm wearing my red ribbon, so there. I'm in the office right now because I am awesome. And hi to mom and dad, who like to be mentioned in the blog.

I'm totally ADD right now, it's past 1:00

I'm super awake and I have class at 8:00 am... it's past one o'clock already. I'm screwed. I got rainbow this week again because my people love me. Yay. So, I figured out my class schedule for next semester, 18 credit hours of bliss, it's delightful:

Monday:
3:30 - 4:45 -- Community Health
5:00 - 5:50 -- Service Learning In Gerontology

Tuesday:
11:00 - 12:15 -- Nutrition
12:30 - 1:45 -- American Sign Language
2:00 - 3:15 -- Developmental Psychology
3:30 - 6:20 -- Recreation For Senior Citizens

Wednesday:
3:30 - 4:45 -- Community Health

Thursday:
11:00 - 12:15 -- Nutrition
12:30 - 1:45 -- American Sign Language
2:00 - 3:15 -- Developmental Psychology

Friday:
No Classes !!

This means that if I wanted to, I could go home on Thursday afternoon & go to work, then come back to school on Monday morning. I love this schedule more than life itself.

I've decided to live on campus next year, it's too much hassle not to at the moment. I wanna figure out how to get a parking permit for North Campus now, since I'll be a sophomore next semester anyways.

Oh, I've become a loser: I dropped out of Alternative Breaks for the year, I realized finally that I'm putting way too much on my plate and expecting to be perfect. Not gonna happen. On a better note, I'm going to see the movie Rent tomorrow-TODAY. I'm excited, primarily because it's freeeeeeeee! I love free things, therefore I love Rent. Sadly, the concert Program Board was supposed to have on Friday is now moved back to February, though we are having a smaller free concert in it's place, which I'll still help with. Good news though, Everclear will be free in February, for Sibs Weekend. Sweet, although I personally wanted Rufus Wainwright or Franz Ferdinand. Eh, shit happens.

Oh oh oh! Lia and I have our presentation written for ASL and it's awesome! We practically have it memorized. Because we're awesome. As of now, I only have 2 humongus things to worry about before studying for exam week: French presentation and Gerontology final paper. And I'm screwed. I also have to learn all the rest of med terms before next Tuesday, when I take my final. If I do better on my French final than I did in the class overall, that means that I get the grade on my final for my grade in the class... isn't that wonderful? I thought so. Okay, seeing as how I'm not going to get any sleep, I'm going to go study Med Terms. Damn nap in the middle of the day confused my sleep habits. RABBIT RABBIT.

...strung up by it's hind end...

Okay, super traumatic event last night! We were on our way back to school & we were on US 10, held up by an auto accident. We were sitting there for approximately 45 minutes and moved about 40 feet. Then traffic began to move. Then we saw it. A horse trailer had been rear-ended. And the door was all concave. The horse definitely died in the accident and it was strung up on a tow truck by it's back legs. It was so upsetting. I'm not entirely sure why I wasn't crying, because it was so sad, but I held strong. Yeah, I be you're all proud of me for not crying for once.

On to better news. I came into contact with the IKEA catalog. I want to live in IKEA land. And everything will be wonderful. I love IKEA, I can't wait until the one in Canton opens up... I smell a field trip! At this precise moment, while I'm supposed to be doing homework and studying, I am creating my very own IKEA kitchen.

I'm in such a weird music mood lately. I've been listening to Blackeyed Peas, Gwen Stefani, Franz Ferdinand, Rufus Wainwright, Black Sabbath & The Killers. Strange, I know. I'm listening to "My Humps" by Blackeyed Peas. It's hilarious.

My finals shouldn't be too bad, I don't have one in Gerontology and my Med Terms one is next week. Then on the following Monday, I have French & Psych, then Economics on Tuesday, & ASL on Thursday afternoon. Damn ASL, I would be home by Tuesday afternoon otherwise.

Now I must... study for med terms & read the week & write a story for GSA & write 4, 1 page papers for Alternative Breaks & write my life history for gerontology & find a class in place of French. It should be good times. But right now, I'm going to see a reformed Neo-Nazi because our school is trying to form a Neo-Nazi club. Fucking Idiots.

I'll get back to blogging regularly... if you're lucky

Okay, so yeah, slap me on the wrists, I haven't blogged in like 2 weeks, I'll try to stay regular now, give my blog a little fiber if need be. I can't even remember what's happened in the last few weeks, so I'll just do the past week. Well... Cooper came home on Friday, and we decided that she was gonna go up to Central with me for a few days. It was crazy fun. Sunday I had the GSA potluck dinner, so I made stuffed shells, they were delicious. And Cooper did her best to make everyone there think we were a couple, but she failed. Haha. I learned some naughty sign language. I heart ASL. The three of us just hung out for a few days, it was quite a blast. Then on Wednesday night, I went out for coffee with Maggie & Cooper. Tried Chai Tea. Love it. It's pure heaven in a cup.

I'm trying to learn how to copy dvd's, but I suck at that sorta thing. I'm learning, I swear. I have all the programs, just have to make them work.

Thanksgiving was actually a nice family gathering this year, instead of the hell feast that it always has the potential to be. The family started showing up around 11 and everyone was gone around 4. The food was fantastic, thanks to dad. He want's me to learn how to cook Thanksgiving Dinner. Damnit. Oh oh oh! Unka Price gave me my Christmas present early this year, its a poster of the L stops in Chicago, sounds dorky, but its REALLY COOL. It's the envy of the entire family, an heirloom really. I <3 Chicago. Then I worked at the Village on Friday, 6 am until 8 pm. Whoa Nelly. It was a long ass day, then I worked again Saturday morning, but I refused to work a double, although, thinking about it now, I could have. But whatever, I got to chill, I took a three-ish hour nap. I love naps. I fell asleep right after eating the lasagne that Bean made. Now that is some delicious Italian food, you know its good when it knocks you out, it's like she put Benadryl in it or something.

Today has been a lazy day so far. I went to Nana's and set up her phone for her, then I went to Starbucks, my mom wanted to try a Chantico, or as I like to call it, Sex In A Cup. Then I came home and now I'm blogging. I'm leaving for school in like 75 minutes. Damn. I don't wanna drive, how can I make Cat drive? Hmm...

Oh, I think I want to make a myspace, it looks like good clean fun and its something else to waste my time on besides facebook and homework.

EVERCLEAR CONCERT FRIDAY NIGHT! Y'all best be there. Okay, I have life to do.

I know, I know... I haven't blogged in forever

Okay, so I haven't blogged in about two weeks, I promise I'll try to do better. Umm... Last night I met Bill Nye!! He was kinda persnickety... but it was all good. The show went off pretty well, it was completely packed and a lot of people had to stand up as well. And there were a lot of non-students there as well. Umm... I went home this weekend and I was supposed to go to the HRC dinner, but I was a wee bit too sick to go. I ended up not being able to go to sleep for a very long time on Saturday night because my jaw and head were aching like no other. Oh, and my class on Friday was cancelled, so I came home Thursday evening. Then on Friday, I went out to the mall area and got myself a new fleecie and had Panera and then I stopped by Jill's for a while and chilled with my favorite aunts. Then I went home and hung out with my dad and we may have watched a movie, but I was schleepy. Then Saturday came and I went to the mall again with my mom and got me some winter boots. Good times.

This week has been alright, but I'm sick at the moment, so its not so great. I have a mid term in med terms today, shouldn't be too hard. I gotta go for now.

Oh what I night... I've got Franki Valli stuck in my head

So... It's been a few days... I've been taking med terms tests like no other, there's so many to do. Umm... I've been busy? A little, I got a USAA investment account! I'm so excited, I can finaly (hopefully) make money on my money. I've been hanging out a lot in the GSA office because that's where the cool kids are. Oh oh oh oh ! At last night's GSA meeting, I was awarded the "rainbow triangle diva, jr. our out, proud, bisexual, gender queer dog." Because I guess I've been doing a good job in GSA. Anyways, what a long name that puppy has.

Tuesday I went and worked out and skipped the Program Board meeting in part because I had a fucking asthma attack. I hate asthma, make it go away. Wednesday, I went to the SAC with Amanda, Courtney & Cat and swam/sat in the hot tub. It was good, then I went to GSA smelling like a pool with wet hair and wet sandals... I'm sure it was cute. Today I went to class and felt like shit, shock me, I've got a cold that's kicking my ass. I went to dinner with Ben, not breakfast Ben, another Ben. Anyways, we went to Hunan's Chinese Buffet. It was okay, but the sweet and sour sauce was pig's blood red. We had good dinner conversation, seems that we have a lot of the same ideas, I heart like minded people. Then I went to Timmy's with Lia and she let me download some music.

I'm totally in love with Rufus Wainwright. Gonna kill Ben for that one. His voice is so soothing. Oh, mom & Jill, I downloaded the Joss Stone/Melissa Etheridge song, its awesome. I'll make a copy and bring it home this weekend if I remember. Now I'm up here chillin at my computer, trying to procrastinate taking a shower... but I really shouldn't procrastinate too long, I'm tired.

Oh.... Hooray for Cooper's first hockey game this weekend!!!! Good luck. And happy birthday to Aaron Philips, which facebook kindly reminded me of. Night night.