Tired.

Tired again....

Had some serious technical difficulties with my website at school tonight...

At least I have Tuesday off next week before exams.  Ima need a break before that.

THEN NO MORE SCHOOL!

I started DDR today.  I'm going to record measurements and weight loss to prove that it works wonders.

I did it this morning and burned 150 calories, and then again tonight when I got home and burned another 150.

I don't have all the songs unlocked, so that sucks.  But i'll work on it.

Or just wait until the new one comes out for the 360.

Busy.

Very much so.

And haven't had any time to do some proper updates here.

This week has exhausted me, and I haven't had time to workout....>___>

I'm getting my dad to move my tv into the loft though so I can play DDR again....

I lost about 15 pounds when I first got it years back....

Can't wait to do that again.

CAN'T WAIT UNTIL THE NEWWWW DDR COMES OUT! (in May)

Then we can play it downstairs on the HD tv!  Very awesome.

I've been thinking a lot more lately how material everything is.

But I can't let that stop me from enjoying the nice things in life either.

I think that there is a fine balance between all of it.

Maybe I'll figure it out one day.

Next week is the last week of school....exams. Bleh.

Then I have a break for a little while until Maymester which will be just me and Taylor...then JAPAN

In less than 40 days.

I would count exactly, but I'm too tired to deal with numbers right now.

The day approaches...

I can't believe that I'll be in Japan in 45 days.

It's seriously crunch time.

(no pun intended.)

Today wasn't bad at all....compared to yesterday.

I stayed over at my cousin's house and slept on the couch (like I really prefer) and had some difficulty sleeping when her roommate came in with Mr. Boyfriend and decided it would be smart to turn on all of the lights with someone asleep on the couch and to then stay in the kitchen for about 10 minutes mixing up some drinks.

They then went into her room and kept opening and closing the doors of her room and the bathroom for a while until they finally shut the heck up and went to sleep.

At least I think.

And then I woke up at about 7/7:30 to the sounds of him leaving the apartment.

So he had stayed over...which is kind of sketch when you have someone else staying over especially.

My cousin didn't have to go into work until 11 this morning so we got to get up and ready at our leisure with no added confusion.

I left around 9:45 to meet Banana=face at the Student Union for coffee and catching up.

We ended up eventually sitting outside in the amazing weather that was all over today.

It was perfect, again.

Later we met up with Dustin and then Banana had a test so me and Dustin hung out in the cafeteria (where I got a cat nap), and then moved to some seats in the main part of the union by the stairs (where I got another nap).

He was exhausted from crappy sleep, stressful preparation for a presentation, the presentation itself, and I'm sure the impending workload and rehearsal dinner ahead.

You're a trooper (and the only one that reads this.)

This is your shout out, yo.

Anyways, 

After Japanese Dustin went home and I had made plans to meet Banana at the mall so that we could shop around for a bit.

We got some delicious pretzels (because we hadn't really eaten at all) and then went into some stores looking for cute dresses.

Nothing was really catching my eye (partly because my money blinders were up due to lack of extra funding on my part) but Banana found some cute things.

I headed home later around 4 ish and decided that half of an order of mini pretzels was not exactly a full lunch so I stopped by Krystal (which I NEVER get since the one in Thomasville closed...)

and they were magnificent.

I miss Krystal burgers.

When I got home, I finally had my first cup of coffee for the entire day, and surprisingly enough I didn't have a headache.

It might be because I had some of Dustin's coke from the Loop....

I got to hang out with my mom some and we watched the shows that I had missed last night.

I have discovered that I LOVE strawberries as long as they are covered in sugar.

I never could handle tart/sour things.....

Today sucked.....

Big time.

I'm done with it, and I don't even want to talk about it.

I'm exhausted.

Tomorrow is a new day, 

and hopefully this weekend will be better.

Wow, has it really been 5 days since I updated last??

That's unlike me.

Ah, well.

Busy busy busy lately!

Last week was pretty good, it got progressively less good toward the weekend, but it was never really bad.

Saturday....hmm....I honestly can't remember what I did on Saturday.  I think I went over to the guys' house for something...

but maybe that was Friday.....

I know that I went Sunday, and tonight...

geez.

I do remember my class for Friday was cancelled and I got to come home Thursday night.  The sunset was amazing on the way back:

I took about a bajillion pics....

I won't upload all of them though.

I'll save that for a rainy day.

Or a bad one.

On Saturday night I had made up my mind to go shopping on Sunday to let off some of the stress that has been building up again.

After a quick workout, I got ready and went by myself.  I stopped in Best Buy to (FINALLY) get the Shin-Chan Season 2 Parts 1 and 2 DVD sets that I have been waiting to get, but always forget my gift card when I go.

They didn't have them.

They stopped carrying them and the guy that helped me try to find it put it perfectly:

"We've just started carrying a lot of mainstream crap, nothing particularly good."

Thank you.

So I bought a movie called "Tokyo Zombie" that looked awesome.

I took a picture in the car after I bought it and sent it to Dustin telling him that we needed to watch it one night at the guys' house when we had another game/movie night.

He notified me that he already had it.

So that was $15 not so well spent, but I'm just hoping that it turns out to be an amazing movie that I will not regret having bought.

After Best Buy I went to the mall (that apparently doesn't open until 12 on Sundays....) and only ended up going into Forever 21 and Hottopic (for two t-shirts that I was looking for).

I tried on about 5 things in Forever 21, all of which I really liked and would have loved to buy, but none of them were really on a good enough sale....but then I found this amazing red dress:

I got a size 6 and thought that might be small enough,

but when I tried it on, it was too big!!!

I called my mom after thinking about it for a while and asked her to look at it online.

She loved it as well, and we decided on getting it as a Christmas present.

I like buying/ordering Christmas presents early on in the year so that I will forget about them by the time Christmas comes around...

Anyways, so I went back to try on the smaller size before we ordered it,

and the size 4 fit like a glove!!!

I was so happy!

If my darn hips would just match the rest of my body...

I am a S, sometimes XS in tops and the tops of dresses, but when it comes to my hips....God help me.

Anyways, I am totally excited about this amazing red dress with the giant bow on it, as you can imagine.

While I was waiting on the pictures of the dress to send to my mom's phone I got myself some lunch:

DELICIOUS MANGO MAGIC SMOOTHIE!

They are my love.

I went into Hottopic to buy the Vampire Geisha and the Zombie Shakespeare shirts that I had been eyeing in Valdosta.....

They didn't have Vampire Geisha u___u;;

But I did get Zombie Shakespeare!

When I got back home I ate dinner with my parents and, as usual, Shika was freaking out about the cat in the nook, who was freaking out about the fact that there was chicken and she wasn't getting any.

(chicken is her favorite <3)

My dog is insane.

But adorable.

After that, I went over to the guys' house and me, Dustin, Kristen and Moss watched Ponyo.  I had never seen it before and it blew my mind with cuteness.

We also had delicious muffins.

Today, today was busy.

Worked out, got ready, left for school, 

DID school, (JAPN was stressful because we had a sub...can you tell I get stressed easily?), went to Cont. Art History (which is constantly a joke), and then came back home, quickly got ready, and went over to the guys' house again for steak night in celebration of Moss's job success.

Dustin had some Jack Daniel's Whiskey out and gave it to me to sniff.

It was incredibly strong...

he poured me a very small shot and I sipped it, then complaining that my throat was on fire.

It tasted great, I'm just not accustomed to FIRE THROAT.

He then told me to just down it.

I was hesitant and said "nonono it would kill me."

And then promptly did it once he walked out of the room.

When he turned around to come back into the kitchen he saw me standing, holding the empty shot glass, with a look like this on my face:

Q p Q

Something like....teary eyes and my tongue sticking half-way out, I believe.

It burned.

Bad.

He said he couldn't believe I actually did it, and that he would never do that.

I later read...

"A Sippin' Whiskey" on the back of the bottle."

Oops.

I seasoned by own steak and man, was it the best steak I have ever had, or what??

Dustin made this outstanding Gorgonzola Butter, and it really made the steak.

It was a very nice evening with myself (the only girl........or should I say 35 year old dude), Beardy, Cracker Jap, Moss, Free-Cheese, and J-Pope.

None of these nicknames are valid.

They are to protect the identities of the people...that...

I dunno.

No one reads this except for Cracker Jap anyways.

After dinner (I had asked my mom to buys a pound cake and some strawberries with Cool WHip), we had delicious dessert, that was made partially by Free-Cheese.

He mixed up some Jack Daniels with sugar and put it in the strawberries.

IT WAS AMAZING.

I love steak.

ステキ

　だいすき！

And here, as proof,

is a bona fide DOCTOR.

He is mixing up:

Cool WHip

Sugar

and

JACK DANIELS

and then telling us to get a large spoonful of it.

Best doctor ever?

Maybe.

I am NOT looking forward to this week.

Maybe that means that it will end really well,

because last week I was really looking forward to it, and the weekend wasn't anything spectacular.

おやすみなさい

Short post .....

Another AWESOME DAY!!!

HOW IS THIS HAPPENING?!!?

I worked out again today and went to school.

There was a lot of drama with my skirt, because I had asked my mom if it was windy and she said no....so I wore the skirt that I did.

The first thing that happened when I got out of my car at school?

MY SKIRT FLIES UP AND REVEALS MY UNMENTIONABLES TO THE WORLD.

At least they were my really cute ones.

But God.

And no one was around...

or at least I didn't think there was.

There's always someone.

So this is pretty much my day in a nutshell:

After class, Dustin and I went to Quizno's and then to Marble Slab to treat ourselves to delicious ice cream.

This time I got the same thing (Rainbownanza), but I got it in the kid's size!

It was exactly enough ice cream for a treat and to fill me up!

DERRICIOUS!

After that I headed back to the UC for my CAH class and let me just say...

that was quite entertaining.

The guy that kind of befriended me, Jason, presented his artist today.

He is freaking hilarious.

Some selected quotes about his rather sketchy artist:

(She paints very expressionistic erotic images of women)

"It's not porn because I'm not aroused."

"The lady on the right is spread eagle wide-open, but you can't sneak a peak because she's lookin' right at you."

"That's not what's in the foreground. ……….Vagina's in the foreground."

"Why is this lady thrusting her sexual organs in my face?"

I was laughing so hard I cried.

That was the best CAH session EVAH.

When I got home, I saw a bunny run across the rock driveway into the bushes and sit there for a bit.

I looked at him for about 5 minutes before I remembered that I had my camera right next to me....

See him??

He was so perfectly camouflaged...

Sweet liddle bunny.

I wuv heyum.

As soon as I got done paparazzi-ing the bunny, my dad pulled in the gate and we drove down to the house.

As soon as I got in I loaded the pictures and got ready to LEAVE again...

we went to dinner at Applebee's and then to Lowe's to pick out a vanity, countertop, shower head, and faucet for the house's remodeling.

The dishwasher came in today!!

I can't wait until the kitchen is done...

It's way overdue for an upgrade.

Half of the appliances are broken and our countertops are...not pretty.

So after Lowe's we went by DQ.

I had ever intention of getting a Peanut Buster Bar.

But I got a small Diet Dr. Pepper instead.

I AM SO PROUD AND SO ANGRY AT THE SAME TIME.

I did have ice cream at lunch today though....

so I didn't need it tonight.

I'm just glad that I had the will power to resist....

I actually made a poster-board moquette of my "sack lunch" design for a lunch box...

I hope that he likes it so that I can get started on it tomorrow....

Geez.

OH YEAH!

NO SCHOOL FRIDAY!!

That was awesome and came at the perfect time.

I was already trying to talk my mom out of making me go friday....

Then Sugako-sensei cancelled!

She is awesome.

That's all for tonight...

After tomorrow...I am a FREE WOMAN!

Yey.

おやすみなさい