Donna, the bottle and the useless left hand

I love having sleepovers with my cousins. Last night we watched Eagle Eye, Mama Mia, The Dutchess and after the last one we were so depressed from Kiera Knightley's sadening character, that we watched the office for a while until we we'd laughed enough to sleep soundly. Unfortunately we didn't go to bed until 4:30...This was not fun especially since on Monday night I went to bed at 5:30 am. Yeah... not a good idea. So- I am not runnin on much besides OJ and an asiago bagel. Hopefully I will make it through tonight and it's insane partying. I am pretty sure that I am going to Studio 600 and the redbull ladies will be there, so that's good! How fun would that be to just club hop and give out free red bull? Plus you get to drive a sweet car, actually I would not be caught dead driving this, but it's still cool lookin.
I went shopping with Christine on Monday, and oh gosh it was hilarious. We parked and were talking as we walked. We walked and walked and went up stairs and without ever establishing where our destination was, both ended up at Urban Outfitters. You better believe that our brainwaves are just that talented. :D We had some fun at express and hopefully stine will put the pictures up on facebook soon, but she is still recovering from her surgery so i'll cut her some slack :)

RANDOM FACT: One of my biggest pet peeves is when people use more than one exclamation point. Please don't do this.

Okay so whenever something happens that is blog-worthy I have to write it down in my phone's drafts. So here are some notes:

Brian introduced me to my new flavor of gatorade: FIERCE MELON (oh my goodness, it's pretty fierce if you ask me. )

My dad used to be obsessed with Slurpees and he would get them all the time. Then he got a kidney stone, maybe that's what changed him? Zan asked dad the other day why he doesn't get Slurpees anymore. And he replied that there they are loaded with sugar and are a "child's snack." Well if that's true I am still very much a child. I remember July 11th this past summer Kenz and Rosie went to like all the 7-11's in the valley for free slurpees! I only went to a few of them but twas' a party!

I was quite tempted to buy some high school musical underwear the other day. I swear every time I drive past east there is someone getting their picture taken in front of east. I remember when they were filming it and there were so many mom's with their kids waiting on the south side of the school just hoping to see a glimpse of Vanessa or Zac. I will never forget that day in choir when Lauren Parker came screaming into choir shouting, "OMG! Zac Efron is in the hallway!" It was seriously a stampede outside into the hallway, I'll admit I did want to see him because I had heard from a ton of people who had seen him, that he was really short. So sure enough we go out into the hall and he turned around and gave us a wave, he was really short! haha. Anyway, I am glad that I don't go there anymore because filming was really obnoxious. Even though I went to the "most famous high school on earth."

I went shopping yesterday and Olivia had many adventures, all of which I will tell you. the first thing she saw when she entered target was a pink sparkly bowling hat in the $1 bin. She put it on and told us she was purchasing it for new years tonight. I told her that it was hideous and that I would disown her if she bought it. I wish I had stopped her. After we checked out we were sitting in the car and Olivia said, "...And my hat was the only one left of it's color!" I smugglishly replied, "pshhh well good thing you didn't buy it...haha" she angrily replied, "i did...." We all got a laugh after that. Especially because for the rest of the day, due to her proud purchase, she had a line of glitter across her forehead.

Olivia also purchased a wallet at hot topic with like like 15 superheros on it. After she got to the car and unveiled it, I said, "so Olivia.. why did you buy this? I mean can you name more than 2 of these characters?" She said, "yeah of course I can!....batman.......uh....oh here's superman.... ummmm.." I said, "yeah.....only 2"

-The sad part is that I only knew 3 of them.

Back to Target- Alexandra Olivia and I were taking a stroll down the barbie aisle and reminiscing about our childhood. I miss playing Barbies. So I am going to break them out one day and reunite Barbie and Ken, I am sure they have missed each other dearly after all these years in a dusty box! How old are Barbie and Ken supposed to be anyway? Can anyone answer that? (I just wikepedia'd there is so much stuff I didn't know about on here!) Did you know that "in 1993, a version was released called Earring Magic Ken. The style of the doll resembled fashions among some segments of the gay community, and the doll attained a cult following." Who knew looking up the it and I couldn't find that but check this out, "The unrealistic physiques of Barbie and Ken caused comment. Psychologist, Kelly Brownell, (Yale University) observed that to size up to what Barbie looks for in a mate, "a man would have to grow 20 inches taller and add nearly 8 inches to his neck circumference, 11 inches to his chest and 10 inches to his waist to resemble the muscular Ken." Sheesh! Who knew that bio's of plastic dolls would be so interesting.
This is what amazed me the most, "One of the most common criticisms of Barbie is that she promotes an unrealistic idea of body image for a young woman, leading to a risk that women who attempt to emulate her will become anorexic. A standard Barbie doll is 11.5 inches tall, giving a height of 5 feet 9 inches at 1/6 scale. Barbie's vital statistics have been estimated at 36 inches (chest), 18 inches (waist) and 33 inches (hips). According to research by the University Central Hospital in Helsinki, Finland she would lack the 17 to 22 percent body fat required for a woman to menstruate. In 1965 Slumber Party Barbie came with a book entitled How to Lose Weight which advised: "Don't eat." The doll also came with pink bathroom scales reading 110lb, which would be around 35lbs underweight for a woman 5 feet 9 inches tall. In 1997 Barbie's body mold was redesigned and given a wider waist, with Mattel saying that this would make the doll better suited to contemporary fashion designs." -- Can you believe that? It's pretty crazy how stupid Mattel would have had to be to advise young girls to "Not Eat" that's ridiculous. I like to think that my Barbies are nice. Girls- I don't know about your Barbies but I know that my Barbie, Ken, Tommy and Stacey would never do anything to hurt my self-esteem! :) my Barbies are the best... not to brag or anything haha

Anyway, back to the point of this post- Olivia's final adventure inside target took place in the toy section along side the sesame street characters. With singing elmo as a witness, Olivia saw a baby bottle that resembled the ones that we had when we would play dolls as kids. Olivia rushed over and said, "this is the coolest bottle!" Olivia picked it up and dumped it upside down. To her surprise, some baby's misplaced snack spilled out onto her hand. Of course she freaked out, because she whole-heartedly believed that this bottle belonged to THIS DOLL, (or one like similar)- When in reality, this bottle contained a greenish hue, which my mother, upon hearing this tragic ordeal, informed us was indeed, some stranger's breast milk. I like to think that this mother looked something like this....

her name:
Donna or Patricia perhaps? And the baby? Who knows... Without her bottle, maybe she/he didn't make it out of the store alive. I'll look in the newspaper.

When we returned back to the vehicle. Olivia was still in shock from her misfortune with the breast milk. She covered her hand in hand sanitiser and informed us that she is never going to use her left hand again. I'll let you know how that goes...

the christmas music is still blaring

wow. It's been a while huh? Sorry! I just haven't really felt like blogging for some reason. I hope that everyone is enjoying the break!

I rediscovered this song when I watched "A Lot Like Love." My new favorite movie. Watch it. It's good. Thanks Stine!

Look What You've Done - Jet

• I am sad to see the Anthony Chronicles die. Anton- I hope that you reconsider because I know I am not alone when I say that your blog is missed.

• Holy madness, there is a lot of snow! I am pretty sure that it snowed like at least a foot this week. I heard that the slopes are insane! Sucks for all the skiers who decided to boycott Utah because of prop 8. (Which is ridiculous by the way) Oh well, more room for us on the slopes!

• I REALLY want to see The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Like really badly.
  

• I saw Bolt with the family, it was surprisingly pretty good, except the entire time I was thinking about stupid Miley Cyrus and how she was the voice of the little girl. That is my only complaint. That and the stupid "Cars" short film at the beginning. It was horrible.

• My favorite gift that I got for Christmas was our home theater! The only person who was surprised was Sophia, she had no idea that my parents were having it done. I however, knew perfectly well after being woken up every morning with the workers chatting and blasting their radios at 7 in the morning. All in all, I am glad that it is done, and now I can actually have a place for my friends and I to hang out. It will be a challenge because this theater is right next to my room in the basement and I am pretty sure that I will be kept awake many a night, due to our new insane hair-raising sub woofer.

A Few Random Quotes and Stories

Kristin, came up with the brilliant idea to get Austin, who is currently serving an LDS mission in Honolulu Hawaii, a build-a-bear for Christmas. AND since we live in utah, there is of course a missionary outfit that you can buy for your "cuddly friend." A few things happened on this trip to Gateway Mall that I thought were funny.

1.) Kristin unveiled to me a secret parking garage that I had NO previous knowledge of. It pretty much blew my mind. Like the kind of mind blowing that happens when you realize you've been singing the wrong words to a song for years and years. That happens to me all the time. You know that mazda kid that says "zoom zoom" and all the commercials? Yeah up until like 3 years ago I thought he was saying, "sumpn's up" you know like somethings up? Yeah I still feel like an idiot for that one. Here is the commercial so I can hopefully get some backing on this one.

2.) We were riding up in another new discovery, a glass elevator that I never knew existed, makes sense since it takes you up from the mind-blowing secret parking garage. Anyway, we pushed the button to go up but we started going down. So we just figure that someone had pushed the button below us, so we went down a level but no one was there. So I said, "some one button ditched the doorbell." What I meant to say was someone doorbell ditched the button. Everyone in the elevator looked at me like an idiot, but luckily I had Kristin and Victoria with me, who both know that I am an idiot and have a very discombobulated tongue.
Example B: Simon and Garfuckle.

3.) We passed by two women smoking outside of Barnes and Nobel, and without asking Victoria and Kristin for their input, asked the women if they would take a picture of us in front of the lights. I quickly said, "Will you take a picture of us?" At this point, usually the person asking, hands the stranger a camera, but since I hadn't discussed this with Kristin and her camera, my hands were empty, so the women just looked at us but didn't say anything. So I asked again, "Will you take our picture please?" thinking that: a.) the woman had a hearing impairment, or b.) her cigarette smoke had finally gotten the best of her. So finally she said, "oh... sure, do you have a camera? cuz... I sure don't." We all just started laughing SO hard. I mean put yourself in this woman's place, three smiley girls come up to you with NO camera in hand and ask you to take a picture of them. I would have thought they thought they looked so cute they wanted everyone's scrapbook and facebook to benefit from their adorable smiles and christmas cheer!? haha. Anyway, Kristin got her camera and gave it to the woman and voila!

• I had a really good night on Monday! I went over to Hana's house, and Kramer, Katie and Mael were there. I love Hana and I love her house. It's like everyone's house really. If you ever need somewhere to go to sleep Hana will always offer her bed, her clothes her food everything. She is one of the least selfish people I know. Not to mention one of the happiest. We just sat around watching Katie and Hana wrap gifts. Hana had forgotten where she put a few DVD's that she still had to wrap so she frantically looked at me and said, "Where are my DVD's?" Off the top of my head I said, "UNDER YOUR BED!" She said, "go find them!" I had no idea where they were, and Hana's room is... well Hana's room. If you've been there, you know. But I went into her room and sure enough they were under the bed. I felt SO cool. And it made me realize how awesome it would be to have super powers! We talked at Hana's until like four in the morning. We talked about everything. Postsecret, scary movies, ghosts, crazy stories, the butterfly effect, and just creepy stuff. I didn't want to go home because I was so jumpy and freaked out so after an iHop run I slept over at Hana's. We talked until like 7:30. I love just talking. It was a much needed break from the ordinary, and I learned a lot about everyone there. Talking in the wee hours of the morning is something that you can't get anywhere else. And finally, monday night taught me that it's not what you do that matters, it's who you are with that makes the difference.
  

Thanks for reading! It's good to be back, I hope everyone had a fantabulous holiday, and is getting excited for New Years!

my closet addiction

Random Fact: Thanks to my adorable 3 year-old neighbor, I am currently a closet addict to a children's television show called "Charlie and Lola". Yes, I know I am 18. Thank you for reminding me that I am a nerd. My family (who is falling into this addiction with me) thinks that I should put Lola as my Facebook picture because apparently when I was a small tot, I looked exactly like her. Anyway, this is an adorable show, and this episode is about exactly how I've been feeling this week. So ENJOY! (Sorry it's stretched all weird!) And please leave a note about what you think. I know I am a geek, but lola's little voice is so cute I just can't get enough. I may just have to put her as my blogger photo.

the random facts and humbling thoughts that you've missed out on

argh... I seriously just want to go curl up by the fire and wake up when everything is fixed and over with. I decided that I'd rather have the stomach flu than a cold. At least then when you throw up you feel better. You see my logic?

For my final paper in my writing class my teacher pretty much told us we could do anything from a collage, to an argument paper. So... I decided that I am going to write about music and where I would be without it. The past few months would have been really hard, had I not had music as an emotional outlet. I really am so grateful for it. When I finish this post I am going to go write it on my gratitude wall :) I totally just remembered that I suck at doing my random facts, and what I'm thankful for... so sorry. I'll make up for it right now.

Here is one of the songs that's helped me out along this bumpy ride-

Random Fact: I cry at everything. NO joke. If someone starts crying I will start crying. It's a genetic curse and I hate it.

Random Fact: I've cried in every single grey's anatomy this season. You see (^) I'm not kidding!

Random Fact: I love camping with my family. My uncle and cousins always get drunk around the campfire and tell the craziest stories. I love it. And I love the smell of campfire. If it were socially acceptable for me to wear perfume that smelled like campfire, i totally would. Plus it reminds me of havasupai, which I miss like crazy.

Random Fact: I think showering is a waste of time. Yeah it feels good but it's such a pain to have to deal with wet hair, because my arm always gets too tired when I blow dry my hair.

Random Fact: I just waited for an hour and a half for a bishops interview.
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I am thankful for: really good hugs when you're feeling down

I am grateful for: never being friend-less.

I am grateful for: music lyrics that speak to me

I am grateful for: people you've never met before but who give you the advice you've been waiting to hear




Goodnight kids

Awww man, I was so excited to blog about my shampoo bottle typo...

a song--- enjoy

does anyone even listen to my song, just curious because sometimes I don't listen to peoples songs, I know I'm kinda a hypocrite... don't hate. Anyway, just let me know because I'm curious!

oh man so..... here are a few things that are on my mind:


*I was going to go shopping this morning, but I woke up to an empty driveway, it kinda pissed me off! Oh well.

*You're probably wondering what happened to the kid in psych, right?
-I ended up taking Gails advice and playing a prank on his friend Doug, so I came into class and didn't make eye contact with them, but I have never felt so many eyes glued to me before, they were watching me like a hawk as a found my seat. And as soon as I sat down I heard them whispering. It took everything I had to not laugh. But when class was over I walked up the isle, they were all looking at me and as I walked past them this huge smile came over my face and I shook my head and laughed as I said Hi" Braden looked so shock because he totally thought Doug was pulling his leg when I didn't sit by them. It was more fun that way. I still don't get why they just didn't say hi to me the first day, instead they waited until the last day of the semester. Oh well!

*k don't laugh at me but I am seriously obsessed with the Jonas Brothers song "Love Bug" and the music video is so cute.

*I was taking a shower the other day and I always read the back of my shampoo bottles while I wait for my conditioner to set, and I was so delirious that I totally thought that I had found a typo on my conditioner and I seriously was SO excited to tell you guys on my blog.... yeah, turns out my brain was not playing tricks on me so I finally realized that "finally is not spelled f-i-n-i-a-l-l-y. But that was seriously so exciting.
- Do you guys read the bottles of shampoo ever? They-should make the back of beauty product bottles as interesting as the back of Vitamin Water! I think that would seriously be the funnest job, if you don't know that I'm talking about or have never had Vitamin Water then that is your weekend assignment to go pick one out at a grocery store, or gas station, or whatever and read the label. You better report back to me on your findings... I 'll be anxiously waiting. BUT if you DO know what I'm talking about, then seriously I want to meet the person whose job that is.

*I really want to get a new swimsuit. Only, there isn't really anywhere to buy a cute bikini in December... and I don't trust online shopping.

*I watched Shallow Hal last night, I love that movie so much. If you haven't seen it you're missing out.

*I think I laughed more this week then I have in a really long time. I'm not really sure but It's a good thing! I am just so excited for everything to be over! It's funny because I am really stressed but I feel really happy, so hey, bonus points! My addiction to laughing returned after reading jeff's blog. Check it out This post made me laugh for like 5 minutes straight. Oh gosh, so since then I have laughed a lot more, Christine always makes me laugh out loud in her texts... oh how I love that girl. She's going to be here in like 4 hours! eeeekk! And the other night I was driving Sophia to dance and Beyonce's "If I Were a Boy" was on the radio and at the fade out of the song, the dj says out of nowhere in this really creepy voice, "I'm not a boy.... i'm a mannn.." and I seriously almost drove off the side of the road. Oh goodness.

* I adore the smell of fresh christmas trees!

*My math karaoke is TOTALLY going to be on youtube. I will let you know the URL when it's posted. Get excited people.

The Unwinding Cable Car

I NEVER do these but I am bored and braindead right now.

1. Put your iPod or other music player on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer. The Name of the song is your answer!
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS!
4. Tag 15 friends who might enjoy doing this as well as the person you got this from.

1.IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
The Good Fight

2.WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
That don't impress me much

3.WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
On The Radio

4.WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Brick

5.WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Son's Gonna Rise

6.WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Hey Jude

7.WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Life is Beautiful

8.WHAT IS 2+2?
I don't trust myself

9.WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Rise

10.WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Everything's Magic

11.WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Horse and I

12.WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Feelings Show

13.WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most

14.WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
shhh

15.WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
When You're Gone

16.WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
One

17.WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Misery Business

18.WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
Going Nowhere

19.WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Be Be Your Love

20.WHAT'S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
Don't Confess This Thing That Breaks My Heart

21.HOW WILL YOU DIE?
Liz on Top of the World

22.WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
Harbor

23.WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
Cigarettes

24.WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
Cold Missouri Waters

25.WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
For the Best

26.WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
Naked

27.DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
Hard to Love You

28.IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
My Medea

29.WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
Mine's Not a High Horse

30.WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
The Unwinding Cable Car

My favorites by far are 26,27, 23, 20, 7 and 14

Who is this kid, and why he is calling me, "girl"

Okay, First of all, Thanks to everyone who wished me luck on my paper and everything else. I think that I'm going to get it done. It definitely won't be perfect but hey it's better than the supposedly awful paper that I had before, eh? Anyway, yesterday was SUCH a good day! I was totally dreading it but it turned out to be hilarious. Goodness... this is going to be a really confusing post I think, but I will try to explain it the best that I can.

I rediscovered my love for Augustana. I saw them live in March and it was an AMAZING concert. This is one of my favorite songs. check it...

So after talking to Kristin for a while in the Union, Hana and Kramer came over and we chatted about our awesome plans for the break! I am seriously stoked for all the sledding and skiing and awesome hangouts and just catching up with friends that have been away. After I got home Christine called me and we talking for a while. She comes home on Saturday! :) And then Alec called, it was good to talk to him, since it had been like a week since we'd last spoke. So after chatting and baking with my sister, I sat down at my computer for like 4 hours straight just working on my paper. I was sad because Tyson and Bryan invited me to go to the Basketball game with them but I couldn't because I had an interview because I am being made the pledge officer for Beta! I am really excited. Anyway, I went to my interview. And then to the live nativity. And Glass- this is much much better than the drive-thru nativity, I'm sure of it.
It's held in the Bonneville Gully by my house and it's such a neat thing there are several denominations that help put it on so there are hundred and hundreds of people that go through it. Everyone in charge is dressed up in clothes from the time of christ's birth, and welcome you to Bethlehem. They have tents set up with hot chocolate, a choir singing hymns, and luminary bags with candles lit all around the path ways. It really is gorgeous. They have a recording of a narrator telling the story from luke, along with people dressed as wisemen, shepards and they have all the newborn babies in the neighborhood take a turn being jesus while their parents as mary and jospeh. It is such a gorgeous setting, it really feels like you've gone back in time. They even have a bunch of sheep grazing on the big hill, goats next to the manger and even a huge camel. I wish I had taken pictures! It was amazing.
After I came home Tyson called and told me he was totally lost and since he was in my neck of the woods asked if I could help him out because they were late for their indoor soccer game. So after I helped him out, Thomas texted me and asked me if I wanted to play a prank on his frat brother Braden. All I had to do was text him and tell him that Doug (a kid I have never met) had given me Braden's number, flirt with him and make it seem like I'm totally into him but that I don't know really know him. So I texted Braden and said,

"Hey is this Braden?"
-"Sure is, who is this?"
"Oh Doug told me that he gave you my number, but this is Jocelyn"
A REALLY LONG BREAK IN THE CONVERSATION
-" haha, how funny! Do you remember me, I brought you your phone when you left it in psychology? I didn't know your name was Jocelyn but Doug told me! What you doin' girl?"

okay, first of all. Just the fact that this kid was calling me "girl" was kinda creepy since I thought I had never met him before. So I am sure you are confused, but believe me, so was I! Here I was thinking that I was texting some random kid that I had never met, so I was really confused and didn't really want to continue flirting with this kid since he was someone who knew who I was. But then I remembered that I had left my phone in class one day and this kid who sat behind me a few rows ran out of the building to give it to me. I was SO relieved that he had found it because I hadn't even realized that I had dropped it. In fact, I remember texting Kristin telling her, "holy cow, I totally almost lost my phone but this kid from my psych class just gave it back to me. I seriously almost gave him a huge hug." So at this point the pieces where falling together and I texted thomas and asked him if he wasn't sure that the prank was on ME! He called me and explained that the plot had been that everyday in psychology this kid Braden would comment to Doug on how pretty he thought I was, but Braden never had the guts to come talk to me. So..... Doug was looking at Thomas' facebook the other day and saw a picture of me with thomas and he was like... "whoa... hold up! You know this chick?!" So like the whole frat plotted to have me text Braden since Braden is too shy to approach me. But now Braden thinks that I got his number from Doug and I sure as heck hope that he doesn't think that I like him because I certainly was not texting him for any reason beyond playing a prank on a random kid. But it turned out that the trick was on ME instead.
So Braden said, "so just so I know this really is Jocelyn and not some of my trickster friends, will you come sit by us in class on Friday?" AH! So, I guess I will be sitting by these two guys tomorrow. Wish me luck. The worst part is that Braden doesn't know that it's a joke. I hope he doesn't like ask me on a date. Oh well... I hope that you guys understand that story, sorry it's so long! Oh yeah and I'm really glad that I didn't give him a hug when he gave my phone back... that would've been a little too weird hugging my "unbenouced to me," psychology stalker.

it's a monday, I don't know what else I expected...

I think it just hit me how stressed I really am for the next two weeks. I can barely even think... This weekend I was working on a draft for my final argument paper and I sent it to nate and jason to peer edit. Today they came to class and told me my paper was shit... yeah I know it was a pretty bad draft, but what draft isn't bad? So I took no offense. I am starting all over. New argument, new stance, new quotes, more research, and more time spent typing away when I should be studying for my math final. My professor has been really helpful and she's given me a lot of ideas and even told me that I can have an extension if need one. But honestly I don't think that would help. I just need to sit down and do it. Anyway, that's my rant. Thanks for listening. I'll do a real post when I get a minute to breathe.... I'm off to the math lab.

Shoddy dishwashers, dog walking- minus the dog, and THE voice

Listening to: Starlight-Muse

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So, I was doing my math homework when Olivia came home from dance at like 10. I took this disruption as an excuse to give my severely math challenged brain a break... so I watched her mosey on over to the kitchen cabinet and grab a cereal bowl. However, I knew full well that she was going to be quite upset when she found her bowl to be not quite fit to eat from... you see my dish washer is lame and does a really shoddy awful job at cleaning the dishes... There really is no point to putting them in the wash, because most of the time they end up being even more nasty than before. So I smiled when my poor exhausted and hungry sister realized that her bowl was not clean enough to support her cap'n crunch. She looked at me with very sad, yet irritated puppy eyes and said, "Why are none of our dishes dished?" I laughed, but really did feel sorry for her. So much so that I almost picked her up and carried her to bed. It was just so pitifully cute haha. After laughing at her mixed up statement, I commanded the overdue ballerina to go to bed because she was not thinking straight. She went but not before finding a clean bowl.

I hate it when I mix up words in my sentence! Here are a few that I can remember happening... some from me, others from friends.

Rosie was trying to describe to me that on our California trip, Ali had been wearing a polka dotted bra and apparently on the mummy ride at universal studios had lived up her shirt and said, "look, my bra glows!" So in telling me this story, Rosie was trying to say that ali had the best bra. Instead she said, "And Ali won the breast bra award!" aww man.... I miss that trip. Good times...

I will never live this next one down, I was at Sam's house like freshman year I think... And I was trying to say Simon and Garfunkle. Instead I missed the "n" and said "Simon and Garfuckle" I will never think of Simon and Garfuckle's music in the same way...

This one isn't really in the same category but it's still funny... My dad just bought a new Hybrid Prius. Before- he had a zippy red mid-life crisis sports car. And compared to the sports car this Prius has much less trunk space. So my mother says to me one day, "I don't know why he is getting a car with a trunk that small!...He has so much junk in his trunk"
^this incident reminds me that parents, no matter how many times they are told, will never remember that thongs and flip-flops are not the same thing...

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I really want to just go on a walk outside... But I can't go by myself for a few reasons--
1.) I'd look like an idiot.

2.) all my neighbors would talk to me and I hate when they ask me about school, plans for the future, majors and ask "How college is going.", or say "oh and congratulate your dad for me, I voted for him!*wink*"

3.) my iPod is broken.

4.) I don't have a dog. I really want a dog, I miss emma, having a dog gives me an excuse to go on walks!

All I want for Christmas:

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Okay, so you never really think about the voices that you hear on commercials or on movie trailers but I was thinking about it the other day and they are given very little credit... I mean if you're in a restaurant and the you hear someone ordering, you don't think... "hey I know that voice! ....He's the movie trailer guy!" Anyway the movie god died in September... so I thought I'd post this video about him! He did 750,000 television spots, 5,000 movie trailers, ladies and gentleman Don LaFontaine.

Just watch the first part if anything, it's pretty funny.
The second video is awesome, it made me laugh. I don't think it's the same guy but I dunno!

"Well at least you know the vampires won't come after you."

Listening to: War on Sound-
I seriously love this song so much.
It makes me SO happy whenever I listen to it.
"Hey, It'll be alright." --What a lovely motto.
Anyway, I thought I'd post it for ya!

I'm not feelin' too hot today- I'm not going to lie. But here are a few things that are going on in my life as of now...
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-Last night I had a english assignment with a ton of reading to do. So, I got my book, lined paper, my literature review and sat down in front of the fire. I read like one sentence in this stupid book, and realized that I didn't have a pen. I seriously sat there for like 30 minutes watching the fire. I didn't want the pen, however, in order to even begin the assignment I needed it. For your information, I never got the pen, and ended up falling asleep next to fire and woke up after my mom told me to get up or I would roast to death. This was true. The entire left side of my body was extremely hot. (If you ever need to fake a fever, this is the way to go!) Anyway, I realized that Alec wasn't going to call me back, so I texted him and went to bed.
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-(Since many of you commented on how much you enjoyed my math buddies section... I thought I'd throw in some more haha) Missy and I are doing a lipsync in my math class. It's the only way to get bonus points on the final exam. (Which we both are in desperate need of.) Tyler is too cool to do it apparently... my friend Meghan is writing the words to the song and I guess her roommate is doing choreography? That wasn't in the rubric for the assignment, but hey if you're going to make a fool of yourself in front of 150 people, why not GO BIG? Knowing Missy I can totally see us doing a rendition of the "Jingle Bell Rock" from Mean Girls... gah, I think I'd die. As long as we don't have cleavage pushing leather dresses, I think I'll be fine.

Our teacher also mentioned the words, "video camera man" and "youtube" in the same sentence. This frightens me. I'll let you know how it goes...
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-My writing class buddy Lyndsay broke up with her boyfriend over the break... How do I know this? the answer is f a c e b o o k. (aka The awful destroyer of peoples private lives.) I know that she and Rory were like WAY close and I don't know what happened exactly, but I do know that she is NOT okay. But, I don't want to bring it up. Everyday I ask her if she is okay, and she says, "yeah, I'm fine." ummm.... "Lyndsay, I know you're not fine! Talk to me about Rory" These are the words I wish I could say... But, I guess she'll tell me if she wants to.
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-So remember how I made dinner the other night? Well in my chicken I put garlic. Not a lot, but a fair amount. As I am sitting in my institute class on tuesday morning, I could have sworn someone was cooking spaghetti sauce in the next room or something. And then I smell my hands and they reeked of garlic. Good thing I like garlic, but I don't like wearing it as one of the 10 scents that I posted about the other day... even more of a reason not to wear perfume. (oh and I found some of that organic deodorant in my sisters room and I used it. It totally works, so thanks anastasia and allison!) So I have washed my hands like a million times since Monday night and I still smell like garlic... I told my writing buddies about it and they just laughed at me. I used some of Cassie's lotion so that helped. But my favorite was Justin's comment, "Well at least you know the vampires won't come after you." true. very true.
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-I'm sick of playing phone tag with Alec. We've been calling each other on and off, for 4 days...most of the time barely missing the other persons call. We are just both so busy with finals and studying, plus the time difference isn't really helpful either. You know the office episode when Jim and Pam are calling each other and can never find time to talk, and then they both call each other at the same time and leave voice mails for each other while the other one is leaving a voice mail? Yeah, that's how I feel.
I'm pretty sure that I had a dream last night that I really needed to talk to him and I came upstairs and he had come home and was sitting in my living room waiting for me so we could go talk about everything. It's really scary how real dreams seem sometimes.. maybe you faithful readers remember this post. I was in North Carolina with my family, and Alec was leaving for USC. I was a mess. I've seriously blocked out August and September from my memory. No joke. Anyway, I thought I'd link you to this post because I talk about dreams and illusions and crazy stuff that my mind was doing to me.

Anthony, Anastasia and Kramer have all written about dreams in their blogs, check out the linked entries. But it's true that dreams really are haunting. It's pretty crazy that I can still remember horrifying dreams that I had when I was like eight or nine. The human mind really is amazing... but sometimes I hate the things it makes you see, or makes things you think you see.
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Anyway, sorry this was really random. Have a good Wednesday!

Folks- It's time for an uprising

Listening to: The TV. Sophia is blasting "Full House" in the living room, but hey I can't complain John Stamos is sexy. {For those of you who were deprived of the nineties, perhaps due to your birthday, or upbringing... John Stamos played uncle Jesse on this 90's tv series. I think I would die if my uncle was this good-looking.} My mooood: I finally got up the nerve to call up Tyson and ask him to my sorority's winter formal... too bad he didn't answer the phone. In consequence of him not answering my call, I made a blubbering fool of myself on his answering machine. I am such a dork.

- I am now listening to the Won Twenties new album. It makes me miss those days sitting in the studio with Alec and the boys. It was so fun watching them create this album. I am excited for Alec to come home from USC for Christmas, so I can hear his new songs!

- I decided that I am going to start cooking more often. It should be an adventure... I am going to cook Chicken Saute! (the doorbell just rang and it was my neighbor and she had just made some AMAZING gingerbread cookies... I am in heaven) anyway, I decided that I want to cook more, so I am starting tonight, I don't know how long this is going to go since finals are coming up but I needed a new hobby. It may prove challenging since two of my sisters are vegetarian. But Olivia dances like 14 hours a week and Alexandra lives in the dorms. But we'll figure something out... even if Sophia and I have to eat the all the chicken ourselves while we watch re-runs of "Full House" and bask in John Stamos' brilliance.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Okay so here is the problem... everyday I use:

• body wash
• shaving gel
• shampoo and conditioner
• curl cream (occasionally)
• hair spray (occasionally)
• bedhead's after party cream (which i highly recommend)
• face wash
• lotion
• deodorant
  
• AND perfume.

Do you realize how many different smells that is? ten. 1 0. deiz. So everyday, my perfume mixes with my body wash, shaving gel, hairspray, shampoo, deodorant, ect. ect. ect. So what is even the point of wearing perfume?

In avoidance of this problem, I have begun to buy unscented products which still does not fix the problem, due to the fact that these companies LIE... dove *cough cough*
So- I have officially given up on the people who create this large "smell good" union. Maybe each perfume line should come out with their own line of shampoo, deodorant and hairspray? Or maybe I will just boycott washing my hair, and using deodorant all together.

Who's with me?