First Post of '09

Sorry for not posting for awhile - life caught up with me over the last few weeks, and it doesn't help that my hard drive decided to fry itself just before Christmas. My only option left is to use the computer at work (which is what I'm doing right now), but yanno... sitting at this desk drains all my inspiration because of how much time I've served here. I don't have any insightful thoughts or funny stories to share at the moment, but I figured I need to at least throw out the highlights from the last few weeks.

I started out the new year at my brothers house surrounded by [drunk] friends and [drunk]family at my older brother's house. What a blast! We carried the karaoke on through the wee hours of the night/morning until someone decided it was time to start calling the taxis. Within minutes I was wiped out in the guest bed, only to awake 6 hours later to find my nice curls had gone crazy overnight and my eyes resembled those of a raccoon from leftover mascara smears. I hoped no one on the road would notice how freakish I looked as I made the drive home.

The following Tuesday (woulda been Monday, but had a snow day) I started classes again. The roster this quarter is Math 132, Journalism 125, and Digital Photography. Today marks the end of week 1, and I'm already exhausted. No surprise here, but math has already woke me up every morning this week feeling like I was punched in the face. It's like the never-ending stress factor that snatches my sleep time away by forcing me to study throughout the night.

On a side note, I've realized that the more there is on my to-do list, the less I will actually get done. Just knowing that I have math to study, articles to write, and photos to take makes me want to lay in bed and watch an entire season of House on dvd instead... (I've actually spent way too much time doing just that).

I already know that the best part about this quarter will be journalism. The class just kinda throws you into being the staff for the school paper while letting me choose my own story topics. Yesterday I got free press passes to go see The Unborn before it was released to the public and it was great! Well the movie SUCKED (I'll be posting my review soon), but the experience was great. I know this is lame, but we (my fav sidekick Angelica and I) felt pretty cool. There was a line of people who had gotten free tickets from radio shows and whatnot, but we got to pass that whole line after telling the usher that we are "with the press" lol, and he showed us to the VIP press section. Man, I could get used to this.

In other news, Jena and Gabby moved out of the house. No time to mourn though because we already shuffled some renters in off craigslist. Things are going great with them so far! It's a woman named Ellen who is mom's age, and her 24-year old daughter Kristi. It couldn't have worked out any better and I'm lovin' the living situation now. Oh yea, and I finally moved into the big bedroom that Jena seized from me back in the summer time, and then just to spite her, I painted it purple and orange hahaha. I think the colors are fabulous, but when Ellen first peeked through my doorway, she said:

"Oh... my... god...

(surveying the room without moving her head, just shifting her eyes back and forth while her mouth hangs open)

... ARE YOU COLOR BLIND?? You better tell YOUR MOM you're color blind!!!"

I jokingly tell her that my mom will love my "porn palace", and just wait until I hang the mirrors over the bed. haha.

It has since come together rather nicely and all the inhabitants of the house agreed that it looks nice.

Moral of the story: don't ever let anyone tell you that orange and purple don't go together... lol.

I hope everyone else is enjoying the new year!