Weekend rewind

On Saturday, Stace Face and I finally got to go on our friend adventure.  I wanted to go pre-birthday shopping, so we headed to Idaho Falls.  Can I just brag about the amount of self control I showed by not buying everything I wanted at Target?  I mean seriously, considering the fact that I would gladly take one of everything they've got.  While we were there, I fell in love with a perfume.  They had this little stand with testers and I just happened to spray one on.  Then I made Stace go back with me so I could spray more and find out the name.  They didn't have any, but holy for luckiness we found some at Wal-Mart.  Which, by the way, is the most gigantic Wal-Mart I've ever been in.  We may have gotten lost a little bit.  But we both had awesome experiences with good karma

[I didn't yell at some grouchy lady and let a multitude of pedestrians cross and was rewarded with the front most parking spot possible, Stace picked up stuff someone had knocked over and we were rewarded with some lady letting us go ahead of her at the checker.  What goes around, comes around, right?]

Overall, it was a great day.  We got to get away from Rexburg and school and other such nonsense for the day, I got to buy things for my birthday [you'll have to wait til my actual birthday to see], and we got to hang out together.  Doesn't get much better than that.

Day 2:  A photo of something you ate today



Subway 6-inch turkey on honey oat, pepper jack cheese, honey mustard, spinach, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, olives, banana peppers, and jalapenos.  Heaven, in sandwich form. Notice how I'd already bitten into it?  Yum.

Okay, so I didn't actually eat this today, but since I'm doing a weekend rewind I choose to go back to Saturday and show you something I ate then.  Mostly because its my favorite food ever.  And because its what I took a picture of and planned on blogging about the other day.  And because its my blog and I do what I want.  Ha.

Fave rave

It's Friday.
You know what that means, right?
Yep, Favorite Things Fridays!
Here's my favorite thing(s) from each day this week.


Monday:
FHE missionary blitz...we got in groups and went around to tell people who are "qualified", as I so awkwardly put it, to come to our local singles ward.  Lets just say we had a lot of people looking at us like we were complete crazies.  I haven't laughed that hard in a LONG time.  

And I maybe accidentally kindasorta

started driving off while one of the girls

with me was still halfway out of the car.

Yeah, not living that one down anytime soon.

Tuesday:
Got a 100% on case study numero dos.  Ridiculously ridiculous, but at least we had better luck figuring this one out.  And we won't have another case study all semester.  Hallelujah.


Wednesday:
Went to a Relief Society activity night where we learned about the importance of reading to children.  Honestly, I thought it might end up being bogus but I wanted to be supportive and went.  It.  Was.  Amazing.  
A:  We got 3 children's books read to us.
B:  I actually learned a ton about reading to children and how it affects development.
C:  They had cookies.  Enough said, right?  

Plus, since Melissa was leaving the next

day, we had a movie night with Audrey.

Tea for Two.  Love me some Doris Day.

Thursday:
My long, loong, looong day at work ended and I came home to a super nice compliment.  Also, I read my friend's blog and was reminded of just how awesome she is.  

Shout out to Nique:

You are most definitely REDhot[squared].

Red-hot high heels X red-hot redhead.

And I'm glad we're friends.

Friday:
Remember my snorting boss friend?  Yeah, she used the money we won in one of our weird contests we're always doing and bought us all snacks for the back room.  She specifically bought me my very own half gallon of chocolate milk.  Its beyond hilarious.

Honorable mentions:

The nephew wanting me to play "I'm gonna catch you!" every second of every day.

My eye doctor literally laughing at how blind I am.

My new purple boots!

Getting my hair fixed, and having it smell like lavender all day long.

Talking to The Mom like pretty much every day this week.

Seeing Finn Hudson on some late night show, and realizing he's just as goofy in real life.

I ♥ him.

Anyone else care to share?

Vic-Torrie

First off, can I just say I kindasorta have a love/hate relationship with the word "victory"?

The love part comes from me being so full of myself that I love any word with my name in it.

Seriously, growing up I was obsessed with the word "mandatory" because it was my best friend's name (Amanda) and my name put together.  Pure genius in word form, right?

The hate part comes from the fact that my name almost means victory. 

Well, technically I haven't ever found "Torrie" straight up spelled exactly my way in any baby name or name meaning book.  Ever.  Jerks. 

But when I do find some form of my name, it always has the same meaning:  Shortened form of Victoria. 
And Victoria's name meaning?  Victory. 

So, I'm short of a victory?  Dude, I feel jipped. 

But, I got 100% on my case study (Victory!)

And I made a new header (Victory!)

And its almost the weekend (Victory!)

And, once again, I don't work this Saturday (VICTORY!)

On a sadder note, one of my favorite friends had to move home.  She didn't really say much about it, other than it was for family reasons.  I drove past her house four times today (to and from work guys, not like I was creepin' her out) and wanted to cry each time!  Have you ever just made a friend so easily that you can't even really remember how you became friends?  Seriously, someone just asked us the other day how we met and the best answer we could come up with was:

Umm, well, we just started talking one day and now here we are?

So, in honor of Melissa, our friendship, our love of Glee (and Finn Hudson), and the concrete jungle that took her away from Rexburg:

Day 1

Day 1-A photo of yourself and a description of how your day was.

Hey look, its me!  So I went searching for a picture of me and realized that I really pretty much don't have any.  Well, there is this one of me from Thanksgiving...in my sweats...holding my niece in her little kangaroo pouch carrier thing...I decided to spare anyone who might look at my blog from that one.  Although, I could probably make myself look bomb.com with picnik.com.  Holy for coolness, that site is amazing (and maybe a little teensyweensy bit addicting).

Just an FYI, this picture is from almost a year ago

(told you there are no pictures of me anywhere!)

I had a weekend to myself and decided

to do my hair all cute

and get dressed all cute

...and go to WalMart.

Because thats how cool and exciting I am.

And now for part two of today's assignment.  Umm, well, today was pretty much a regular day for me.  Here's a breakdown of what was going on at different times throughout the day: 

7:00 alarm is going off

7:05 alarm is going off again

7:10 and again

7:15 and again

7:35 running on the treadster, watching the Fresh Prince

8:45 eating yummy yummy cereal for breakfast

9:00 showering, but not washing my hair

9:20 doing my unwashed hair and make-uping my face

9:55 walking to class

10:05 sitting in my usual back row seat, listening to the weirdo girls sitting in front of me, making awkward eye contact with my pretend boyfriend

10:15 pretending to listen to my teacher while actually sudokuing

11:15 walking home

12:00 retrieving the nephew from his nap while listening to the niece throw her 8th tantrum of the day

12:30 making PB&J cracker sandwiches for the kiddos and microwaving a gut bomb for myself

1:15 cursing the DMV lady for telling me they can't check my eyes for my mail-in license renewal form

1:30 calling local optometrists to see if they can check my eyeballs

1:45 sending the screaming nephew to his room for a nap

2:00 convincing the niece its time for her nap

2:30 still convincing the niece its time for her nap

3:00 realizing she finally fell asleep and (quietly) shouting hallelujah

3:15 getting sidetracked by freecell

3:30 playing with picasa and picnik.com

4:00 annoying the heck out of any readers by giving them a play-by-play of my boring day

5:00-ish playing with the niece and the nephew

6:00-ish eating dinner

7:00-ish learning how to read to children (is it really that hard?) at Relief Society activity night

8:00-ish laughing at my friends and myself while trying to country dance

And really, thats about as far ahead as I can think.  Today was pretty much just school, kids, and making phone calls, with a dash of socializing, served with a heaping helping of laughter on the side.

Check it, yo

Remember when MySpace was oh so cool?
Remember those fun little surveys that would get passed around?
You know, the ones that asked exactly the same questions every time but in a different order so you thought it was new when really it wasn't?
Yeah, I was kindasorta addicted to those bad boys.
Truth be told, those little buggers are what brought around my first little bloggy thoughts.  As I was filling them out I would think to myself,

Man, I wish there was somewhere I could go and write down all these weird thoughts constantly rolling around my already overly cluttered brain...

Well, whaddya know--there is!
And now here I am with a blogger version of those bomb.com surveys.  I'm in heaven.
I found this little beaut on one of my many blogstalking adventures.  I think that was the exact moment that I knew I was destined for blogging.

No, seriously guys, it was a life-changing moment.

Torr's 30ish Day Blog Challenge:

Day 1 – A photo of yourself and a description of how your day was.

Day 2 – A photo of something you ate today.

Day 3 – Your idea of the perfect first date.

Day 4 – Your favorite photograph of your best friend.

Day 5 – A photo of yourself two years ago.

Day 6 – A photo of an animal you’d love to keep as a pet.

Day 7 – Your dream wedding.

Day 8 – A song to match your mood.

Day 9 – A photo of the item you last purchased.

Day 10 – A photo of your favorite place to eat.

Day 11 – What’s in your makeup bag?

Day 12 – A photograph of the town you live in.

Day 13 – Your favorite musician and why?

Day 14 – A TV show you’re currently addicted to.

Day 15 – Something you don’t leave the house without.

Day 16 – Your celebrity crush.

Day 17 – A photo of you and your family.

Day 18 – Something you crave a lot.

Day 19 – Another picture of yourself.

Day 20 – The meaning behind your blog name.

Day 21 – A photo of something that makes you happy.

Day 22 – A letter to someone who has hurt you recently.

Day 23 – 15 facts about you.

Day 24 – A photo of something that means a lot to you.

Day 25 – What’s in your purse?

Day 26 – A photo of somewhere you’ve been to.

Day 27 – A picture of you last year and now and how have you changed since then?

Day 28 – Your favorite movie.

Day 29 – Something you could never get tired of doing.

Day 30 – A photograph of yourself today + three good things that have happened in the past.

So the idea behind this is to follow the schedule and do a post a day for a month...but I don't like rules and I really don't like following rules.  So instead I'm just going to do this at my leisure.  That way I can still keep everyone updated on my oh-so-fabulous life without having to make like two posts a day.  I may be a weirdo overachiever, but not even I'm that set on achieving achievement.  And now that I've typed some form of "achieve" four times in the past two sentences, I've dubbed it the weirdest word ever.  

Seriously, say it.

Achievement.

Ha.

Ketchup

I hate having to play catch up.  On anything.  I'm one of those people who forgets 75% of what just happened within 3 seconds of it happening.  Its a curse.  But I figure what I do remember is the coolest of cool stuff that happened to me, so it all works out...right? 

Lets just pretend it does and smile.

So let me see...ah yes, Friday night is where it starts.  A friend of mine just broke up with her boyfriend last week, so we planned a girl's night.  I picked Subway for dinner, then my two friends picked Cocoa Bean for dessert.  Up until that point in my life I'd only ever had one Cocoa Bean cupcake in my life, and I'd never had any of their "specialty" hot chocolate.

It was lamesauce.

My vanilla cocoa didn't even taste vanilla-y and my Better Than Whatever cupcake was just...well...whatever.  I was beyond disappointed because I've only ever heard awesome things about them, but apparently everyone's been lying to me (and themselves) about the supposed amazingness of Cocoa Bean. 

They did have a really cute I ♥ Cupcakes shirt that I want for my birthday though!  So I guess they still get points for that...I guess.

Then we hit the redbox and went home to watch some cheesey, girly movies.

I fell asleep.

Someday I'm gonna go back and re-watch every single movie I've ever fallen asleep in.

On second thought, that would probably take at least 7 years to do so I'd better not.

Saturday, I was supposed to go shopping with Stace Face, but Satan got in the way

No, literally, we nicknamed one of her teachers Satan because...well...she's mean and it fits.

Anyways, The Face had to do some ridiculous satanic homework and couldn't go.

So instead, I went with the sister and company to do some grocery shopping.

It was torturous.

Not being with them, the grocery shopping.

We had to go to Sam's Club AND Winco.

Ew, eww, ewww.

There were so many crazed people running around, not caring who they ran over and cutting me off left and right.  Winco was by far the worse of the two.  At one point I finally just said,

Whoever cuts me off next is gonna find themselves run over!!

Then I realized I'd said it kindasorta loud and people were looking at me like I was the crazy.  Rude.

Sunday.  Oh Sunday.  Remember how I already told you Sunday was hilariously pointless? 

Work killed my life.

People not buying things killed my life.

Grumpy parents who wanted things we clearly didn't have in stock killed my life.

People not coming in for an hour and then strolling on in without a care in the world at 3 minutes 'til closing killed my life.

Sweeping out years of crap from beneath the racks killed my life

...actually that was kind of fun so never mind.

So thats my weekend, in a nutshell.  I forgot my camera (again) so I don't even have fun pictures of all the fun-ness I had.  Ehhhh.
p.s. Be proud of me.  I just figured out how to make the little heart up there.  I'm so smart!

Round two

I have another case study due tomorrow.



That should really sum it up as to why I've been absent.  Tomorrow I should be able to update you on my weekend.

(should being the key word there)

Plans ended up changing and friend time/shopping was postponed, but I still had fun and enjoyed the mere fact that I wasn't working!

p.s. I had to work yesterday.

I was there for almost six hours.

One person made a purchase,

for a grand total of $34.98 in sales.

They had to pay me more than that just to be there.

Pointless much?

For now, though, I'd better get back to learning about whatever is tweaking out Mary Keeper's endocrine system and listening to the free samples of the Glee soundtracks...because I'm too cheap to buy them.

Don't judge.

FTF on TFT

In case you need a little bit of help, that stands for:

Favorite Things Fridays

on

Torr's Favorite Things.

For some reason, its kindasorta my favorite that I refer to it as that in my head.
Strangely, its also my favorite that I can remember NKOTBSB off the top of my head (that one's New Kids on the Block/Back Street Boys...so maybe I'm in love...don't judge).

Hey, so remember how I only had one little teeny weeny baby hour of class today?  And the rest of the day was completely FREE to do whatever the hey I wanted?  Yeah, its kinda awesomesauce. 

(p.s. don't worry, I'm not trying to copy BBL
I legit said that before I heard awesomespice
...its a hometown kinda thing)

Well, without further ado here's my list of favs from the week:

1.These quotes:

--Haven't you ever done sphincter exercises?  I can show you how.

Thanks but no thanks, weirdo classmate

--He signed his initials so weird, it was almost satanic looking.  Or maybe I meant Japanese.

Oh, there's a difference?  I kid, I kid

2. Yesterday at work, I scored two lip glosses for less than the regular price of one.  Gotta love BOGO and $2 off coupons.

3. Homemade pizza.  I could probably eat that stuff breakfast, lunch, and dinner straight.  Man am I glad the pregnant sister was craving it this week!

4. The niece decided she really likes me this week.  Like REALLY likes me.  Like she keeps telling me, "You're my best friend Aunt Torr!"  And right now I'm typing one-handed because she's holding the other.

5. Watching the bro in law play Mario Kart.  Dude gets waaay into it.

6. Finding out I only missed 2.5 points on that death lab I was talking about the other day.  And I have a feeling it was probably for the one question I just straight up gave up on and refused to answer.

7. Remember my hoot owl PJs?  They showed up in the mail today.  Happy face X 1000.

8. Talking to one of my BFFs on the phone.  And how her phone keep spazzing out and dying.  And how we both would be right in the middle of a story each time that happened.  And how each time we wouldn't realize that it had died until oh about 3 minutes later.  Yeah, we're both pretty cool like that.

9. The awesome start to my morning.  I went to get in the shower and realized that it was 9:45.  I usually leave for class at about 9:50.  See the problem?  I had to make a split-second decision between just getting dressed and leaving for class (smelling like a boy's locker room) or showering and getting ready REAL fast.  I went with the shower.  And got to enjoy the amazing sensation of my hair freezing to my head as I speed walked to class.  And got some awesomely incredulous looks from the people I passed by.  I could just see them saying in their heads, "Doesn't she realize its like 2 degrees out here?  What is she thinking?!"  Um yes, I did realize thank you very much.  And my favorite part of it all?  The one boy in my class I think is cute-ish decided today would be the best day to sit in the back row...
rightnexttome.
Did I mention that on a scale of one to homeless, I was looking beyond homeless today?
Murphy's law, much?

10. Remember how this is my Freedom Weekend?  Girl's night tonight and friend shopping date tomorrow?  Plus Subway and ice cream?
Yeah, can't really get higher on the favorites list than that.
Kinda ironic that its the last thing on the list then, eh?  Thats just cuz I do what I want.

Thursdays are so weird

Holyforawesomeness, once I'm done with my one hour of class tomorrow I'm home free for the weekend

Well, except for Sunday.  I'll be working.

But lets be honest, at my job working on a Sunday isn't really even working.

Especially since we're all done with shipment for the week.

I mean, unless you count sitting in the back room with my feet up,

reading my boss's severely outdated magazines as working.

I'm talking like the most recent thing back there is a copy of People from '06.

Angelina only had like half her kids, and maxi dresses were just starting to be cool.

Definitely some quality entertainment right there.

Irregardless, I've got big plans for my freedom weekend.

Number one is have lots of fun.

Number two is take lots of pictures.

And beyond that my plans are pretty much non-existant, but you get the idea.

And thats all I have to say about that.

Sometimes I think too much

I've been thinking a lot lately...

About what makes people who they are

About how other people view things

About why people act they way they do

About why people think they're better than others

About what "cool" actually really means

About why people care so much

About what really matters

About fitting in

About standing out

About the little things

About doing the right thing

About what I'm doing with my life

About figuring out who I am

About what defines me

About being a good person

About sharing happiness and smiles

About the power of positive thinking

About the power of being positive, period

About pride and humility

About life in general.

Definitely expect more in-depth postings on some of these topics.  Isn't it funny how one person can say one thing and that one thing gets your mind rolling and you start thinking about other things and then your poor little brain is so tied up with thinking about things that it has a hard time processing every day life?

Or am I the only one who knows how that feels?

Whaddaya mean its only Tuesday?!

Oh man, sorry for my absence.  This has been the weirdest week of my life, and its only Tuesday.  Its probably just weird because for today's lab we were assigned a case study.  This case study is usually given to students in their first year of pharmacology school.

A.  I'm not currently going to pharmacology school

B.  I don't ever plan on going to pharmacology school

C.  So why in the hey did we have to do this horrendous case study?

Guys, it was bad.  As in some of the words on it were:
Acetylcholinesterase
Adrenergic
Muscarinic
Nicotinic
Sympathomimetic
Cholinomimetic
Catecholamine
Mydriasis (which is the clinical term for pupil dilation...I think I'll use that one)

I stayed up until 1:00 a.m. working on it, went to lab at 7:45 a.m., spent the next two hours slaving away over it with my lab partner, took a break while she went to class, met back up at 11:15 to work on it again, and then finally took it in to my teacher at 12:15 and spent another 25 minutes going over it.  And then, after about an 8 minute walk home, I had exactly 4 minutes to get something for lunch and head to work.  Yeah, I'm real glad I'm done with that case study.

Speaking of which, I just remembered I'm supposed to be typing my lab up and emailing it to my teacher.

Blast.  

Is it Friday yet?

Also on top of that, I found out that one of my new co-workers took it upon herself to tell my boss how much I hate my job.  

Which is false

(mostly...but lets be honest, who really loves retail?)

And caused my boss to go into a panic attack  

Which was actually a little funny

And pretty nice to hear her say how much she likes me

I just don't understand why this co-worker felt the need to cause drama.  Yuck.

But on a brighter note, I ran at a 7.5 on the treadster for half a mile today.  That may sound slow to some people, but holy heifer is that fast for me!  And can I just say, WOW are my hammies and calfers on FIRE!  Here's to long and slow tomorrow.

Love at the D.I.?

Have you ever been to the D.I. in Rexburg at 4 o'clock on a Saturday afternoon?  As of today I have.  And let me tell you, its the happenin' place to be.  

You see, I had the day off (which is very exciting of course...its not too often that my snorting boss doesn't make me work for at least 7 hours on a Saturday).  So I slept in until 8, went for a leisurely run on the tready, spent some time reading my book (Little Women, in case you were wondering...its definitely top 10 favorite status, in case you were wondering), took a little nap, finished up my letter for my missionary friend, spent some time texting my funny cousin, and then the boredom hit.  

I tried to take another nap and couldn't.  
I tried to read more of my book and couldn't.  
I'd already checked my Facebook 
and blogs 
and emails 
and read all of the "news" stories on Yahoo.  
I had no desire to look at my homework for this next week.  
The sister, niece, and nephew were all taking naps 
and the brother in law had his face buried in Potter #7.  

So I decided to take a little adventure...and naturally D.I. was the ideal destination.  Can I just say the D.I. has a very distinct smell to it.  At first I was hoping it was magic, but then I realized it was just the smell of stale, old clothes.  What a letdown, huh?  I tried to look through the clothes, I really did, but for whatever reason the idea of wearing someone else's old clothes just freaks me out a bit.  I don't even like borrowing clothes from friends (unless its something really cute, there are always exceptions).  So instead I made my way over to the books, where I found a few gems but nothing so amazing that I felt the need to spend a whole fifty cents on it.
Well, except for The Art of Microwave Cooking.  I prob should have gotten that one.
But lets be honest, I mostly just stayed in the book section because of Mr. Hottie McHotterpants.  He was checking out all of the religion books.  And he called his roommate to tell him he'd found one he'd been interested in and wanted to see if he still wanted it.  How nice of him, right?  We made eye contact for a whole 0.237 seconds.  Pure magic.  I thought I heard the hallelujah chorus kick in, and then I realized it was just some kid screaming over by the furniture.
But then he went to the checkout
and I left the store
and our short-lived imaginary D.I. romance came to an end.
It may take some time, but I think I'll be able to move on.
If not, I'll send my story in to T. Swift and see if she can write a song about it for me.

Some other randoms from the day:
I ordered myself some PJs for my birthday.  Yes PJs.  What kind of person has new hoot owl pajammies in the number one spot on their birthday wish list?  Oh yeah, me.
I got these new Starbursts.  They're Fiesta Fruit flavored.  Its literally a fiesta in your mouth.
My sister just sent me a sound text of my baby niece laughing.  Holy for precious.
I finally painted my nails.  I went a whole two days without any color on them.  Thats the longest I've gone without painted nails since February 13th of '10.  Don't judge.

Frienday

Today was a good day.

Actually, good may not cover it.  More like today was a superfreakingfantasticawesomeamazingwonderfulbomb.com day.  

Yeah, it was that good.  

And all because of--you guessed it--FRIENDS!!!

As in, I made a new friend in class today, wrote a letter to my friend on a mission, went and visited one of my two bestest friends (and her adorable baby who loves me the most!), saw old awkwardish "friends" while at work, made my boss friend snort laugh lots and lots, and then went and hung out with my old roomfriend and her friend and her friend's friend.  Amazazing, right?  So yeah, it was a very friendly day overall.  And my car may have gotten stuck in the treacherous snow and I may have had to push it out (with the roomfriend's help, of course).  You should probably be impressed.

Here's what's on the menu for my "Favorite Things Fridays" this week:

Stace Face:

Guitar's Unplugged 2008...I think.

this is the roomfriend I was talking about.  Holy heifer this girl is a hoot and a half!  And we definitely make a good team--especially when convincing her friend to go visit her (male) friend.

It worked out perfectly.

He was excited to see her.

Definite win for Team Torr & Stace

Also, we're going to open a cupcake shop together.  I'm in charge of sprinkles.

G's Dairy:  

Gavin's Mess.  Chocolate ice cream + caramel swirl + oreos = 'nuff said.

Health:

I ended up only being sick for oh about 8 hours.  If even.

Being a kid:

Sometimes I feel like I'm supposed to be a grown up, but I don't exactly know how to.  And then I read a post on Busy Bee Lauren the other day about what "growing up" means and it reminded me of something I'd heard before--whatever age you are is a combination of all the ages you've already been.  So therefore its perfectly acceptable if I choose to act any age from 23 on down.  And lately its been about 19.

Breaking curfew:

So I normally do like to follow rules...mostly...but tonight I didn't even pay attention to what time it was as we were visiting this roomfriend's friend's (male) friend's apartment.  And then his self-proclaimed "rule sticker to-er" roommate kicked us out and said it was after one!  Bah!  I've always wanted to get kicked out of somewhere for breaking curfew.  Mission accomplished.

We also basically got kicked out of Wal-Mart

Who knew it closes at 11 on a Friday night?  

Irregardless, another point for Team Torr & Stace

People who get my humor:

So, I kindasorta LOVE making people laugh.  This one time I got my grandpa to laugh so hard he cried. Twice.  Usually I feel like people just don't get me though and my humor feels wasted.  But this week something happened and I've had 'em in stitches!  I could get used to this...

Buns in the oven:

So many people I know are pregnant.  Dos of my sisters, dos of my good friends, and a few randoms here and there.  And so far I've predicted about half of them.  I know, I'm good.  Now we'll just have to wait and see how my gender predictions hold up.  

Speaking of buns:

My middle-aged, never married, childless co-worker decided to share this advice with me the other day..."What you need to do is find yourself a hot tamale and start poppin' out some babies."  I've never uttered a more nervously awkward laugh in my life.

Friends:

I think I may have already made my point, and to avoid unnecessary redundancies I'll leave it at that.  But man oh man it was a friendly week.

P.S. I hope you like my addition of the picture.

I guess now that I've figured it out,

I'm going to have to do it more often.

Blast.

Blame it on the Nyquil

My alarm went off this morning right at 5:30.  Usually, I doze for about another 15 minutes and then get up and ready to go work out. 

But not today. 

Instead of rolling out of bed at 5:45, I reset my alarm for 6:30. 

And then I reset it again for 7:30. 

And then I just turned it off completely. 

Finally at about 8:15, the niece came and crawled into bed with me.  I would have stayed there longer but she decided to start singing "the bear went over the mountain" while climbing over me, jumping down, and then running back around my bed to climb up over me again. 

I'm blaming the 1/3 of a dose of Nyquil I took last night.  Ironically, I only took 1/3 of a dose because I didn't want this very thing to happen.  But I can't say its because I'm sick because then I'd have to admit that I actually, quite possibly, could very well be sick.  Yuck. 

Its really no surprise to me seeing as how my whole family has been sick this past week.  And I was feelin' fine until about the middle of my shift at work last night.  Maybe I can blame it on my new co-worker?  Maybe I put so much concentrated effort into being nice to her and not kicking her in the knee that I let my guard down just long enough and some little germies crawled in?  I think its a definite possibility. 

At least I just feel groggy and have a cough compared to a double ear infection and full body aches.  Scratch that, def got some achiness going on.  Looks like its chicken noodle soup & cough drops for me for the next couple days. 

Aweeeesoooomeee.

On a side note, I don't have any classes today.

So once I finally dragged myself out of bed,

down to the treadmill,

and back up to the shower,

I put my pjs back on.

And thats where they're stayin til I head in to work.

Today I made a header

Today I had a simple goal.  I wanted to further my blogucation (blog + education) and learn how to put a picture in my post.  Its probably nowhere near hard, but I still have no idea how to do it.  Probably because I spent the majority of my free time today cookin' up that little number

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  (Here's where you check out my homemade header.  I know, I know--so cute, right?)  

I got an idea today for my header,  found a cute little owl picture,  inserted some text, and it came out pretty much how I planned...which is kind of a first for me.  I didn't even have to use my best friend google for help.  And I just found the button you click to put pictures in your post.  Holy heifer.  Maybe I'm getting this blog thing down better  than I thought?
  

Sidenote: depending on when this is read, my header may be fixed (hopefully)

...or it may still be skewed to the left.  

My computer decided it wanted to over heat and then lose any connection to the internet.

And now its taking its dear sweet time (as in well over 10 minutes) installing 5 updates.  Jerk.

Oh well, you get the idea.  

Mundane-day

Monday is seriously the barfiest day ever...and you really didn't need me to tell you that.  Everyone knows that Monday is THE WORST.  Sometimes I actually feel sorry for Monday.  It can't help the fact that its what comes up to ruin the weekend.  It can't help that its the beginning of the looong stretch until Friday.  It can't help that everything about it just sucks.  Overall I guess my Monday wasn't THAT bad.  Mostly I was just annoyed by it.  And the dumb girl in my class who actually asked for the teacher to write out the answers for our study guide and post them online for us...really?  And then there was that one student who tries just a little too hard and ended up taking control of the class while the teacher just stared at him, completely baffled.  And to top it all of, the aforementioned teacher decides to make us do our entire lab assignment...

before

we

go

to

lab 

Why yes, I do believe I can learn everything I need to know by doing these activities without any proper instruction whatsoever.  I'll need a tuning fork for this one?  Oh perfect, I just picked one up at the store this morning.  And I'll need to write an essay about my thoughts on echolocation?  Fabulous, I've been dreaming of doing that exact thing all my life! 

Please excuse my sarcasm.  Its been a long day.

Oh well.  My homework is now (mostly) done.  I decided to be a rebellious kid and save some of it to do during lab tomorrow.  I mean, I've already done the entire lab...what else am I going to do for those 2 miserable hours? 

p.s. Today really wasn't as bad as I make it sound.

  The niece and I "watched" about 27 movies

...on her invisible t.v. in her bedroom. 

What could be better than that?

Birthday Shout Out

Today is my mom's birthday.  
And since she's currently one of my only (if not THEE only) followers, I definitely think she deserves a double shout out!  

This birthday is one of the big ones...I won't say which big one it is, but its kind of a big deal.  

Like it took her five decades to work up to this day kind of big.  Yeah.  

And I've been lucky enough to know her for almost half of that time.  Jealous?  You should be.  My mom is a pretty special lady.  I love that as I get older, I'm able to relate to her more and we can actually have real adult conversations instead of the awkward mother/daughter mini chats that were typical during my teen years.  Our phone calls always crack me up because one of us will say we need to go and then bring up some other random topic that gets us off on a tangent for another 10 minutes or so.  And not only does she give some solid advice, she is also fully open to any advice I send her way.  I don't really know of many parents who don't pull the "I'm older, I know best" trump card when their kids try to offer insight.  Not my momma.  She's not afraid to ask my opinion and really listen to what I have to say.  But I do believe one of my mom's best qualities is how much she encourages me.  Maybe I need it, maybe I don't, either way she tells me how awesome I am.  She makes sure to keep things realistic, but no matter what she lets me know how proud she is of me and that she knows if I set my mind to something I'll git 'er done.  

So because of all that,
 and because I love you, 
Happy Birthday Mom!