End of the month-I DID IT!!

I once again managed to blog every day of the month! I'm proud of myself. It's more a miracle that I actually had something to post about everyday. I'm not going to lie, some days were boring, I agree. Not my best material, but I tried to make it interesting. Thanks to all the readers, especially those new ones coming to me after searching for things via Google, more specifically for the lyrics for "The 12 Days After Christmas" (go here if that's what you were looking for). Apparently everyone wants to know those lyrics and just about every hit to my blog from Google are for the lyrics to that song. I didn't realize how popular that was. But thanks again and leave me comments on my posts, I do enjoy having comments so much.

SOAKED

Once again proving that weatherpeople lie, it rained today. They had mentioned rain before, but said that if we get any, it wouldn't be coming until Saturday. Yet I wake up this morning and ta-da, it's raining. So I reluctantly get out of bed, get dressed get my umbrella and walk to school. Some middle aged guy decided walk in front of me as he started walking towards school as I was crossing the street from my apartment (almost slipping on the painted red curb might I add...Those things get slippery). Anyway he was walking too slow for my liking, yet he was walking in the middle of the sidewalk, but would haphazardly move back and forth from the sides..I don't think all was quite right with him. So I felt I should just stay behind him even though it was serious snail pace for me considering my usual walkiing speed. Finally I crossed the middle of the street by the dorms so that I was no longer behind him. He was going to campus, though he didn't have anything with him, so maybe he decided that he needed to take a walk in the rain to take a bus or trolley somewhere. I personally wouldn't of done that. Rain=dark skies=dark room=stay in bed in my book. So I went to my classes. My Ocean teacher said that his toddler was scared of the rain because she had no idea what it was. Cayla and I spent our break in the library hiding out from the wet and cold. After Econ, I ended up with Cayla and Jillian under my umbrella and at the moment when the rain got harder, a huge gust of wind also came up and pulled my umbrella up and inside out. We screamed. Our pants and feet were soaked. It wasn't fun. Afer Math, Jillian and I made the trek to our apartments, getting more wet as we went because the rain was blowing the rain in our directions. Things could of just been topped off if a car had driven by and splashed us, but that didn't happen. As soon as I got in my apartment the wet jeans, shoes and socks came off and the pjs came on. If it wasn't going to cost me money, I would of considered walking down the hall to throw my pjs in the dryer to warm them up before putting them on. As I write this, I am in my pjs, laying on the couch with a pillow and my purple fuzzy blanket. If only I had a kitty with me...

Dull Day

That is what my day has been. Rather dull. Didn't do anything other than watch tv before class, go to class, doze off in class...yeah. I should of known no good would come when I went to take a shower and despite it being at the spot it always is, it was ice cold. I turned the knob all the way over on the hot side and it barely had a hint of heat. I don't do cold showers unless it is hot out and I am sweaty and gross. And I was trying to take a shower to warm up, yet I came out just as cold as I was going in. I guess by noon the hot water is all used on the floor or something. Usually I shower at 11am and it's nice and hot and steamy and I get nice and warm, but just an hour later today and I get cold. LAME. Ok, well not much else to say. Tomorrow is the last day of blog month, should I keep going and blog every day or just go back to blogging sporadically?

Sociology of Surfing

What is the sociology of surfing? I can't really say, but if you are really curious, come on down to SDSU and take it as a class! Yes, that's right, Sociology of Surfing is a new class being offered for the first time ever next semester.

Some guy came to tell us this in our Econ lecture. He said there would be readings and you'd be studying the cult following surfing has, watch surf movies and listen to surf music.

My friend Ashley said, "This sounds like the stupidest class ever, yet I want to take it." Haha. So what do you think? Back up class in case I don't get anything else?

Endings

So tonight appears to be about endings for me. Our TA told us that next week is both the last lab and the last time we will see him, as he will be leaving for a conference and won't be back until after finals. Also in my Finance class, she told us Thursday we are going over our midterms and Chapter 23, and then next week we will finish the book. Three weeks (that includes finals) of school left. It's weird. Seems so far away, but it's really not. Already this week is almost half way through. In the final innning, the final quarter, final...um round? I don't know. I'm not very informed on sports so I don't know anything other than innings in baseball and quarters in football...What is it in hockey and basketball? Is basketball quarters too? Wow that was a really random tangent..Anyway back to where I was going next.

Then when "Real Housewives of Orange County" was over, I was flipping channels, confused that "Sex and the City" wasn't on at 11pm (stupid TBS was showing that "Frank TV" show...so had to wait til 11:30pm until both TBS and CW show an episode), and found "The Story of Us" on so I watched, but it was at the end. So I know how the movie ends, but have no clue what happens in the rest of it. The same goes for "Meet Me in St. Louis" which I went to after "Story of Us" ended. It was a little before the part seen in "The Family Stone" where Judy Garland is at the dance and tells her grandfather that "it's our last dance in St. Louis and I think I'm going to cry," so I have watched from that point on (it's still on now), but am confused as to what's going on and the proposal and everything. All I know about "Meet Me in St. Louis" is that it's Christmastime and I love Christmas and it is my favorite time of year. Maybe I should watch these movies in their entirety, rather than just the end. They'd make more sense if I watched them the conventional way.

2000th Visitor!

I see that I am nearing my 2000th visitor to this page. If it turns out to be you, leave a comment and get the recognition you deserve for being such a milestone visitor. Without you and the other 1999 hits to the site, I would probably lack any motivation to keep the blog going.

McDreamy & Me posters

My friend sent me this site where you can upload a picture of yourself and they put it on the "Made of Honor" (aka new McDreamy movie coming out May 2008) poster. So it's you, McDreamy and flowers. AWESOME! I made two. I think that we make a nice looking couple. Here are the posters I made:





To put yourself with McDreamy too, go here

And in case you are wondering, no I am not a crazy, psycho celeb. stalker. Far from it. He's just so hot how can you resist?

Not much to say today

Nothing much for today. Went to church, helped them clean and decorate for the faux wedding we are having tomorrow to take pictures for a wedding brochure, came back down to San Diego, did homework. Mom called me later when they got home to let me know my grandpa (Dad's dad) had passed away this evening. He hasn't been well these last few weeks, so we kind of knew it was coming, but that doesn't really change much. Dad is going back for funeral, not sure if brothers are or anything, but yeah. That's all for now.

Movie Reviews!

Last night I saw two great movies, "August Rush" and "Enchanted", with my friends.

First, we saw "August Rush."

We saw a few good previews of thing we can see during winter break and then the movie started. I thought it was very good. I cried, or at least got teary, for just about all of the movie. Keri Russell is beautiful, Freddie Highmore is cute as always, and Jonathan Rhys Meyers looks good singing a song he wrote for Keri Russell's character. The story, I suppose one would say is incredibly unlikely, but it's nice to believe something like that could happen. Myself and my two friends thought it was a great movie.

After that was over, we saw "Enchanted."

First of all, it has McDreamy (aka Patrick Dempsey), so that pretty much guaranteed I would enjoy it, even if I only liked it because I got to stare at him on a huge screen for about 2 hours. It was very cute. The part cartoon, part live action worked. The story is cute, and being Disney, you get references to other Disney movies. The music is cute, the story is good, Disney did a great job.

Both movies were great and I would go see them again. I just want people to experience the greatness of these movies that brought me an evening of fun.

Sooo Lazy

Today was awesome, I didn't get out of my pjs til around 3:00 pm. I watched tv and took a nap on the couch. Does it get any better than that? I think the highlight was going to the grocery store. Yep, vacation rocks.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Hope you are having a great holiday with friends and family. I also hope that your Thanksgiving doesn't end the way all of ours do-with Bradley and I fighting. Last year on Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, we ended up slapping each other. Why? Just because.

Last Thanksgiving's End

Will this year be another "slapsgiving" for us? Guess we'll find out in a few hours.

And just because this is funny, a clip from the Thanksgiving episode of "How I Met Your Mother" that was on Monday.

Finally Home

So I'm home finally. I guess traffic wasn't too bad. It was an improvement from last year when it took Bradley and I about 4 1/2 hours to get from San Diego to Alhambra. This year it took 3 hours. That hour and a half makes a difference. This year my parents came and got me and we took the 15 freeway rather than the 5.

As predicted by me, school was generally pointless. In Oceanography, we had a "pop quiz for participation" in which there was only one question: Spell 'oil.' That was it. I guess it's good I went, because any points I get in there are good. Once that class was over, I had 3 hours to kill until Accounting. I headed to the library to find a computer to do my Econ experiment on. That was a challenge as they had closed off half of the computer lab and just about all the computers were taken. I wandered around a bit and waited and finally found one. I did my prep for the experiment, read some news and checked traffic before the experiment started at 12pm. That finished around 12:40, so I headed off and got a quesadilla at Rubio's. After lunch, I sat for a little longer in East Commons area then wandered down by the pond and visited the turtles, who were chilling out on the rock in the middle of the pond. I walked through West Commons (just trying to kill some time) and went around by Nasatir Hall, grabbed a copy of The Daily Aztec, and found a bench to sit and read it. In Accounting, we turned in homework, had a presentation on identity theft, did a survey for extra credit and listened to a lecture. She also went over the answers for Chapter 10 homework, which most of us haven't even looked at yet since it is not due until next Wednesday. Whatever, free answers. Plus, most of the time she doesn't go over answers, so we don't know if we did the homework right or not. This way I have the answers written so I can read the questions and do them and check to make sure I have the idea right.

As for now, I am glad to be home. I was greeted by my kitty, meowing, and my dog jumping all over me, licking my face and running around making attempts at playing with a tennis ball. They spent about 20 minutes chasing each other away from me before finally settling down. As I write this, my cat is next to me on the loveseat and the dog is curled up in a blanket on the couch.

This month...

Seems to be going on forever. I am like seriously lacking ideas to blog about. I don't think it was this hard last year when I posted every day for the month of November. In fact, last year there were days when I posted twice. Now I lack ideas. Maybe because last year I had 3 roommates so we had more going on and the apartment complex was open, therefore could see more going on, be it in the alley/empty lot behind us, or guys would just walk in because they forgot where they lived.

Apparently people have already started putting out Christmas decorations. Cyndi sent me a picture message of a house that is totally lit up with inflatable things and lots of lights near them. Mom also called me to let me know she saw a house all decorated on her way home from work. Apparently we know what they did this past weekend, maybe even sooner. Kind of crazy. And KOST 103.5 has started their 24/7 Christmas music. I can understand being into Christmas, I know I get into Christmas and LOVE LOVE LOVE Christmas season and all things Christmas, but the music the week before Thanksgiving is a little much. That reminds me, "A Charlie Brown Christmas" is on next Tuesday at 8pm on ABC...My favorite Christmas special and I have to miss it due to lab. At least I caught "Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" today because lab ended early.

I guess this is enough randomness for today. Tomorrow I can tell you all about the great drive home...Stupid holiday traffic.

I'm over it

Yep. I'm over school. Classes are seeming to drag. The end is in sight, but still too far away. This always happens in the last part of the semester. Apparently I have been this way since forever. Easter/spring break would hit and I would be ready for summer, counting the weeks until it came. Now in college, I find that as Veteran's Day and Thanksgiving hit, I'm over school. Just seriously ready for it to be over and my 5 weeks of winter vacation to start. And then the cycle will begin again when I have to go back to school and have no 3 day weekends at all during second semester. Yes, SDSU does not believe in giving us Lincoln's Birthday or President's Day off, which is lame because that means 10 weeks of uninterupted school, then 6 weeks, and then we are done. At least first semester we have Labor day and Veteran's Day and Thanksgiving to make the semester seem not as long. Of course that's if I get classes at all. I kid. I'll get some. They will most likely be more random. I should just take some online courses from San Diego City College. I got a catalog of courses in the mail. But I don't really know or get how online school works. Can anyone enlighten me as to how you would take tests and such? Because can't you just cheat off your notes and stuff because no one is around to tell you not to? Just wondering. Well this was just a random post. Hope everyone had a good Monday, though that's kind of unlikely because everyone gets a case of the Mondays. I know I do. Whatever. Two more days. I can make it....

Company!

Last night looked like it was going to be yet another boring night at the apartment. Nothing was even really going on here. It was surprisingly quiet for a Saturday night. Then an IM window opened, and it was Celine. She asked what I was up to, and I said nothing and asked her what she was doing, and she replied "VISITING YOU!!!!!!!" I honestly thought she was kidding. But she wasn't, and a few hours later she and Jen showed up. It was really great to see them and hang out, since it has been about a year since I saw Jen and a few months since I have seen Celine. We didn't do anything other than sit around and watch tv and talked, but it was fun. They were amazed at the size of my place, which probably seems bigger because I lack furniture. If it was packed with furniture it might not seem as big.

Here's a picture of it when I was moving in (I am standing just in the kitchen area). You can decide for yourself if that's big in general or because of a lack of furniture. Everyone thinks just big in general, But I really think if we had a table and chairs in the dining room area, people wouldn't be exclaiming "THIS ROOM IS HUGE!!!!!!!" when the walked in.



We have since put my desk up on the right wall (where my computer is on the floor), put a different lamp by the window, got 2 fans and a loveseat and 2 folding chairs (one is my desk chair, the other just sits there), moved the coffee table in front of the tv stand and the rocker at an angle next to the loveseat (which is by the window).

Funny Animals

My friend sent me this first video a few days ago and I just think it's funny. It's a whole bunch of puppies and their interest in a cat that is just sitting there meowing.




This next one is one that was on the side as a related video. It's a cat coming off sedation after a trip to the vet. Need I say more?



That's all for today. Maybe tomorrow will bring a more interesting post, as I am having company this evening. Hope you all are having a great Saturday!

LAME!

Today had its moments, like when I got an 85 on my calculus test (I've been consistent on those math tests, first one=84, second=88, now an 85) or when I went to the Birch Aquarium with my friend and we were attempting to do 46 questions in an hour and a half (it couldn't be done..we had to leave because they were having some event there tonight). However, I do have two things to rant about.

1. Las Vegas Trip
They had been thinking the second weekend of spring break. Leave on like Thursday or Friday and come back on Sunday early and then school's the next day. However, because of a survey they did, more people seem to want it the first weekend of spring break. What's the problem you ask? It is March 29th-March 31st. My cousin is getting married in New York on March 29th. I was going to go to that, then come back, get some last minute laundry done and then go back to San Diego to meet up and go on the trip to Vegas. Now I have to decide which I want to go on more. With New York, I haven't been there since I was like 11. I wanted to go and see that side of the family. Then with Las Vegas, I'm on the planning committee. It's a good opportunity to be on that committee. But if I'm not even going to get to go, then what would be the point?

2. Registration for classes
Because SDSU has sophomores as last priority for registering for classes, for this past fall registration, I had second to last day before registration closed in the morning. They sent out times for spring registration. I got the day before registration closes in the afternoon. Yeah if I barely got classes this semester, spring is going to be even worse. Especially for smaller classes, like IDS 290 with several sections of 30 people. I was going to try and take that with Cayla and Jillian because my roommate is taking it now and between what she said and what I have read on ratemyprofessors.com, there is a big group paper. It would be nice to have someone in my class that I know to do said paper with that I know would be responsible and work and get things done. But that might be more unlikely because of the great registration time I have. Also I am wondering if that means I can kiss my HTM 223 class goodbye for next semester, which would really suck because I am not sure if I can be signed into my major without taking that class. Oh, I should mention the reason I am thinking I am going to have to kiss the class goodbye is because there is only one section of the class, for 55 people. But, um, yeah it's just a huge frustration. Probably a ploy of SDSU to keep me in longer! How dare they!

In other news, I am watching "Titanic" as I write this. I have not seen it in the longest time. I found myself crying when the musicians were playing "Nearer My God to Thee" as the ship was going down. Also when Jack died. I guess that's what happens when you haven't seen a movie for a really loong time and you cried the first time and maybe the second and third time. It just gets you again when you don't think it will.

Oh and I hate people that run down the hall, hitting doorbells along the way. It's annoying. Stupid doorbells outside apartment.

Lacking inspiration

Yes, today I am drawing a blank as to what to post about. Plus I'm thinking about my midterm in Oceanography tomorrow. First test, I didn't study as much as I could, yet I did better than when I studied like crazy into the night for the second midterm. Actually, after he regraded them by hand because the scantron machine messed up, I ended up with about the same grade as the first one, just 2 points less. So I honestly have no idea what the best method of study is for me. Apparently whether or not I study means nothing, because I end up in the same place.

Another dilemna I have right now is whether or not I should go to class next Wednesday or not. At noon I have to be able to be at a computer to do an Aplia experiment for Econ. because the other 2 times she scheduled (based on what the class voted for) are Tuesday from 4-5 (I'll be in class because I have a case brief due that day) and Tuesday 7-8 (I'll be in lab), so I have to do the Wednesday at class time one. However since I don't have to be on campus to do that, just at a computer, I could not be in San Diego at all. But two classes haven't cancelled-Oceanography and Accounting. My classes at 10am and 2pm. Pretty big gap. Long time on campus...I could skip Oceanography. I don't think I'd miss much. So I'm left with Accounting. She told us someone was coming to talk to us about being in that major or something or was it on identity theft? Not sure. One of those. But we'd have to take a survey and she would count said survey as extra credit. She also said we'd get extra credit just for being there. There's the incentive to go. I would like any chance of extra credit I can get just because I did really bad on the last test (same day as the oceans test...it was just a bad day for taking tests. It was Halloween..Perhaps ghosts made me do bad. I should try and explain that to my teachers..) so for the reason of extra credit, I would go to class. And sit there with like, oh probably 4 people in there that are from the area and are thus not going to have to deal with hours of traffic to get out of San Diego.

What do you think? Should I stay or should I peace out after lab on Tuesday night?

Today in accounting class...

We watched an episode of "The Simpsons"...What was the relevance to accounting? The first 5 minutes or so. Then it was just because my teacher is sick and didn't feel like teaching us anything.

Which one was it? Season 8, Episode 17, "The Canine Mutiny"
In this episode, Marge lets Bart have the junk mail, so he applies for a credit card under the dog's name. He gets lots of stuff, but has no money to pay for it all, so the repo men come and take Santa's Little Helper away because Bart said he was the $1200 dog, so that he could keep Laddie, the superdog. But in the end Bart misses Santa's Little Helper and goes on a quest to find him after giving Laddie away.

Connection to class: Credit card fraud and how people apply for credit cards under names of newborns, dogs, dead people, etc. and steal their identities. The rest of the episode? Just because she didn't feel like teaching because she had a fever. So class was as long as a commercial free episode of "The Simpsons"...what a waste of time. But whatever gets me out of there faster is good.

My day...

In case you didn't know, I don't have class until 4pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays. So this whole 3 day weekend thing threw me off. I woke up this morning thinking "Oh crap I missed my first class", but soon remembered "Oh wait. It's Tuesday. I don't have anything to do until 3:20ish when I have to leave." This is the rundown of my day:

10am: woke up, watched The View
11am: got dressed, watched Tyra Banks Show (It was useful. She was teaching girls how
to date smart with guys that try to pick them up at restaurants and bars and
mistakes girls make that get them raped/killed)
12pm: found "Legally Blonde: The Musical" on MTV, watched it for the 3rd time
1pm: see above, also checked "As the World Turns"
2pm: sort of paid attention to "Guiding Light", checked email
3pm: brushed hair, teeth, put on makeup, went to class

Eventful, huh? And I didn't have my Ocean lab tonight so I was actually back at the apartment by 5:30ish and walked home when there was still a tiny bit of light out. So that's nice.

And for your viewing pleasure, a clip of "Legally Blonde: The Musical"

Welcome!

I have a sitemeter on here just to see how many hits I get on my blog and from where. It's exciting to see that while the majority is coming from Whittier and Santa Ana and Los Angeles (the family), other cities, states and countries are reading as well. So welcome readers from:

Pomona, California
Glendale, California
Marysville, California
Eugene, Oregon
Rock Hill, South Carolina
El Paso, Texas
Dallas, Texas
Wichita, Kansas
Canada
Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles

So thanks for reading. Hope it is slightly interesting and you keep reading!

Random nights are the best

Last night I was just hanging out in the apartment and it was like 11:30pm and my phone rings. I check the caller ID and I don't know the number, but it has the same area code. So I figured I'd answer so that even if it is a wrong number they'd know. I answer and the voice on the other end is like "Amy?" and I'm like, "Uh yeah" and it turned out to be a guy I used to eat lunch with, Andrew. I didn't remember giving him my number, but then he was in my brother club in high school, so we tried to have numbers for a few people in the club just in case. But yeah he said he was in San Diego and was supposed to hang out with someone else from AHS, another Key member, Angela, but he couldn't get ahold of her. So I told him my address and he and 2 other AHS guys (one I had in a class or two, the other was older than us) and the girlfriend of one of them that goes to CSU San Marcos came over.

When the got a parking spot, we walked up the street to Senor Pancho's that they had passed on the way and looked like it was "where the fun was", but that fun was actually just a really long line we stood in for 10 minutes and then they closed. So we walked back, passing some drunks along the way, and ended up back at the apartment just hanging out and talking. They stayed until like 3:30am. It was fun just talking and hanging out. I just think that it's funny that people I didn't talk to as much are the first people from home to see my apartment rather than friends that actually live down here all the time. Whatever. I'm just saying.

Trivia Time!

Not much has happened to me today, but what do you expect when you don't get up until 12:40pm (don't judge me. I was tired). Anyway, what I did do today was watch movies. So as that as my inspiration, today's post is trivia from movies. Enjoy!
(Note, trivia comes to us via www.imdb.com )

"Steel Magnolias"
~Winona Ryder was offered the role of Shelby. Later Meg Ryan was contracted to play Shelby, but was let out of her contract to play Sally in "When Harry Met Sally..."

"The Family Stone"
~Billy Crudup and Johnny Knoxville were expected to play Everett and Ben Stone, but the roles eventually went to Dermot Mulroney and Luke Wilson.

"Sleepless in Seattle"
~In the scene where "Stand By Your Man" starts, there is a shot of a flower/candy store window display. The silhouette of the couple on the box of chocolates is of Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
~Julia Roberts was initially offered the role of Annie.

"Gone with the Wind"
~There's only one scene in the entire film where all four stars appear together - when Rhett Butler informs the anxious group as the whereabouts of Scarlett's husband after the KKK run-in with the law.
~Vincent Price tested for the part of Ashley.
~Prominent Atlanta preacher Martin Luther King, Sr. was invited to the cotillion ball held in honor of the premiere. He was urged to boycott by other community leaders because none of the black actors in the film were allowed to attend. A forward thinker, King attended because he was invited, and he brought his son, Martin Luther King, with him.

"She's All That"
~Zach doesn't want to go to his Dad's alma mater, Dartmouth. His dad is played by 'Matheson, Tim' who starred in Animal House (1978), which was partly inspired by one of its writers time at Dartmouth. At the end of Animal House, Matheson is said to move to California and become a Doctor... which he is in She's All That.
~The film contains several hidden references to the pop group Hanson, aisde from the photograph during Taylor's campaign. The two main characters are named Taylor and Zac - two of the members of Hanson. Mackenzie, and Jesse - two minor characters, were younger members of the Hanson family.

"The Parent Trap"
~Actress Joanna Barnes played the "wicked girlfriend" in The Parent Trap (1961) and plays the mother of the wicked girlfriend in this version. Both characters are named Vicky.

"It Takes Two"
~This movie could of consisted of 'Full House' cast members. Lori Loughlin (Aunt Becky) was offered the role of Diane. Bob Saget was offered the role of Roger Callaway. John Stamos was offered the role of Harry Butkis.

"My Best Friend's Wedding"
~'Julia Roberts' hand-picked both Dermot Mulroney and Cameron Diaz for this film.
~In the original ending, after watching Michael and Kimberly leave the wedding reception, Julianne meets a man (played by 'John Corbet (I)' ). This ending did not test well and audiences wanted to see more of George, so a new ending was filmed

Just some trivia for you. Interesting stuff. I love movie trivia. My 6th period senior year was my TA period. Myself and my fellow TAs would often go online, pick random movies and look up trivia about movies. Oh the things you can learn about movies.

Saturday Wrap Up

Today just flew by, which is pretty nice I guess considering I want it to hurry up and be Thanksgiving break so I can go home. But then it does suck that the day went fast because it means being closer to another week of classes.

My day started at 12pm when I woke up. I had woken up at 10:30am, but thought "Oh, a few more minutes of sleep won't hurt me" and those few minutes turned into an hour and 30 minutes. Whatever. I went to bed really late. I immediately got into a nice hot shower.

After getting out, I found "Sleepless in Seattle" on TBS, so watched that and had a little lunch. Around 2:15ish, a girl from my Oceanography class and lab came and picked me up and we headed to La Jolla to Scripps Pier to meet up with our teacher and classmates for our field trip. We got there a little late, but only by a few minutes.

We observed the amount of mussels and barnacles on the pier pilings as you got closer to the water and then walked along the beach up to the tide pools. Along the beach there was a lot of black stuff, which our teacher explained was ash from the fires that settled on the beach. We got to the tide pools and he said we could go off and observe on our own. I stayed close to him and some of my other classmates because he would point things out to us and tell us what things were. He found a small hermit crab and pulled it out so we could see it up close. After poking around and looking for about an hour, my ride and I decided to head back.

It was very rocky, obviously, and it was scary to be walking on these rocks. They were slippery sometimes, not firm on the ground other times. I did kind of fall on the rocks. I, like missed a step or lost my balance when I was climbing and kind of fell forward. It hurt a bit, but nothing broke. I'm just going to have some bruises on my legs and my pinky finger on my left hand is bruised at the base because when I fell, that was the arm and hand I put out with my notebook in it so if my head hit the rock, it would hit my notebook. And to think, I was kind of confused as to why we had to sign release forms when we got there with an emergency contact. Just an FYI, Mom, if I had seriously injured myself, they would of called the house and asked for you.

Since getting back to the apartment, I've just been chatting online with friends, had some dinner in my pjs, fell asleep. Good times. Hope everyone else had a nice Saturday!

What I'm doing right now

So both TBS and TNT are showing "The Wizard of Oz" right now and it's been awhile since I have seen it in its entirity so I am switching between that and Food Network where they are kicking off their "Let's Talk Turkey" weekend. I'm learning how to make a Thanksgiving meal in an hour from Rachael Ray. I'm sure the stuff she is making is good, but if I ever make Thanksgiving dinner (not that I see that happening because I have called dibs on Christmas Eve dinner when it's up to my brothers and myself to host holiday meals) I think I'll stick with the all day stuff that my grandmother does. That's just the way it works. All day cooking and getting the table together and all that. I could say football watching, but I don't watch football, so that's an unimportant detail of Thanksgiving. I mean I know guys like it and some girls do too, but it's not my thing. I'll stick to watching parades if I'm up. Anyway back to Thanksgiving food, RR's stuffing looks good. She made pumpkin stuffing, using pumpkin muffins and veggies in it. Now it's Paula Deen cooking Thanksgiving food. She's deep frying everything. Shocking.

Oh yeah back to "The Wizard of Oz". The thing about it is, I saw "Wicked" this summer while it was in LA. So now I know the backstory of the supposed Wicked Witch of the West. And I know how it really ends. And how the Tin Man became the Tin Man and how the Scarecrow became the Scarecrow and where those flying monkeys came from. So basically that's making me look at the movie a bit differently, thinking "Oh yeah. The Scarecrow used to be _____ and he got that way because _______"...I didn't spoil anything for anyone that is going to see it in the future because I'm nice like that. And if you were going to go through life and not see it, I think you should reconsider because it was an AMAZING show.

So that's what I'm up to this Friday night. Kind of sad, but whatever. I have a field trip tomorrow afternoon so hopefully that will give me something interesting to write about. Oh and just in case you needed a boost of Christmas spirit, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" (the cartoon) will be on tomorrow evening on TBS at 7:30pm. I know how excited everyone is that it's going to be on. That's Exhibit H in my proof that Christmas is coming (Exhibit G was yesterday's post of having Chrismas music being played at Starbucks).

Chocolate+Mint=BEST COMBO EVER!!!!!!

If you do not know the amazing combination that is chocolate mint, then what hole do you live in? Really, please tell me. As far as I'm concerned, it is the best combination ever.

There is a chance that I might have OD'ed on chocolate mint things today. You can be the judge.

1. A box arrives for me from my grandmother containing 2 bags of candy. One bag contains chocolate mint 3 Musketeers minis and another containing milk/dark/white chocolate mint mini Hershey's bars. Opened the Hersheys and ate 2.

2. Got a peppermint mocha latte at Starbucks before going to a Real Life meeting with Alyssa.

3. Got back from apartment and had 2 more mini Hersheys bars and a bite or two of mint chip ice cream.

So yeah that's probably a bit excessive, but soo good.

In other news, I have more proof that Christmas is coming:
Starbucks was playing Christmas music tonight while I was getting my coffee. It made me happy. Put me in a good mood. And everyone was ordering peppermint mochas or peppermint hot chocolote or peppermint white chocolate mocha lattes. So everyone is getting in the Christmas mood.

Sunday=Sad-day on tv

For anyone that doesn't know me, I cry at tv. Often for things that some may not deem cry-worthy. Like when tv couples I like break up, or commercials. Yes even commercials. I'm sorry but Pedigree was mean earlier this year. Already I was crying over a death on a soap opera (don't judge me) and commercial break came and there was these sad dogs in a pound looking through the bars and a voiceover was speaking as if they were the dog going "I'm a good dog. Why am I locked up?" and it was telling you to buy Pedigree food because they donate and support animal shelters. It more made me want to go adopt an animal from a local shelter.

Anyway, so this past Sunday was a tough one. ABC really hit me hard with their shows. First up, "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" which I challenge you to watch and not cry or get a lump in your throat or feel some sadness for these families. I can't watch that show without crying. Ever.

Next up, was "Desperate Housewives" which normally doesn't make me cry. But there were 2 particular moments that I was wiping tears away. Firt is this moment:

Bree has been faking a pregnancy so that when her daughter, Danielle gave birth, Bree and her husband would take it and raise it as their own. Previously in the episode Bree told Danielle that it might be hard to give the baby up once it was born. And then he was born later in the episode. This was the moment they shared. It's sad because you feel bad for both of them because it's hard for both of them. Note that this moment on is discussed by OHNO () as being a sad moment that made people cry so it's not just me.

The second part in this episode that was sad I couldn't find a clip of. But Lynette has been battling cancer since late last season. In this episode she learned whether or not she was cancer-free and after she gets the news, she goes out into the yard and sees an opossum that she killed. She had been comparing her quest for getting this opossum with her battle with cancer and how both invaded the home and their lives. And this moment on the lawn she is crying and you just want to cry with her.

Finally, the evening ended with "Brothers & Sisters" which I haven't watched much of this season. But I watched the last 2 weeks, so I guess I'm going to be back on it. Again having to do with babies, only this time, it was a miscarriage. Kitty was trying to throw together a quick wedding for her and McCallister because of the fact she was pregnant and they needed to get married to prevent too much scandal for his campaign. However at her first ultrasound, she learns that there is no heartbeat and is thus a "missed miscarriage". You feel bad for her for losing the baby she was so happy about, and then you learn that her husband to be doesn't even want another child after he just told her that they could try again. Jerk!

So don't judge me for crying at tv...It happens. Also, I'm lacking inspiration this week on what to blog about. Leave me any ideas you have for me!

Christmas is coming!

Christmas is coming people! How excited are you?

Wait, what? What do you mean it's over a month away. That can't be right. The signs are everywhere.

Exhibit A: October 3, 2007
Macy's at Mission Valley has Christmas area set up with dishes, ornaments, trees and other various decorations

Exhibit B: October 4, 2007
Pix message from Cyndi at her local Target. They have a Christmas display up of wrapping paper, stockings, cards, etc.

Exhibit C: October 27, 2007
Cost Plus has Christmas oraments, Christmas themed chocolates and other food/drink items.

Exhibit D: October 29, 2007
Saw first commercial advertising the holiday and looking your best.

Exhibit E: November 4, 2007
Went to Grossmont Center in their Macy's. Holiday wrethes are up (at least by cosmetics). Also at Grossmont's Pier 1, Christmas ornaments and at Cost Plus, Christmas themed chocolates and treats.

Exhibit F: November 6, 2007
SDSU Bookstore has lit up tree near entrance all lit up that I saw when walking past it.

These ads keep appearing on tv. More and more each day, slowly it will be all Christmas commercials all the time. Probably before Thanksgiving. Also, sales at places like Big Lots and Michael's getting their Christmas stuff out-fake trees, lights, etc.

So you may think "It's only November 6th. Too far away for Christmas." Because from my research, it's coming sooner than you think.

Things to do if you are having a bad day

1. Cry (usually a good choice)
2. Lay in bed with the covers over your head waiting for it to be over
3. Sit down with a pint of Ben & Jerry's (or whatever kind of ice cream you prefer) and veg out in front of the tv.
4. Take a vacation from your problems (I suggest sailing at Lake Winnipesaukee)
5. Revert back to childhood when things were simplier in life.

Today I chose the last choice. I came back to the apartment after a long day and was tired so I threw my stuff down on the floor and went and turned on my computer. While it warmed up, I made myself a snack of things I'm sure we've all had at some point as a snack/lunch growing up-Graham Crackers, an apple and Capri-Sun. Good stuff.

Since then I have vegged in front of my computer, microwaved leftovers for dinner and did some calculus homework. And I get to go study for my lab practical tomorrow night, which is a 5 or 6 question (or so he says) quiz on the concepts we have gone over the first 4 labs. Meaning I have to read the lab readings as well as the lab itself and hope I understand the concepts of them for a handful of questions. Considering the fabulous (*note this is sarcastic. I make note only because sarcasm is hard to convey in words) job I'm doing in this class on tests despite all efforts, who knows what a stupid short quiz is going bring for me.

Oh, and just as a side note, Accounting SUCKS! As does Econ...and Oceanography only for the reason that I try so hard on those tests yet still do poorly on them. Those labs that I'm only getting 1, maybe 2 points off of are basically what's going to bring my grade up right now.

Random thoughts floating aimlessly in my head..

There's always lots of thoughts randomly going through my head. I just have a few things that I wanted to throw out there for consideration. Comment on your thoughts on things too whether I know you or not or whether you have a blog or not. You can leave me your thoughts on things too. I like to know what other people think of things.

There is something I don't understand. How is it that despite all the good people there are in this world, there are so many bad ones as well? 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" makes me consider this stuff a lot. One family in need brings out entire communities to help. The donate their time to help build safer, healthier homes for people who, they may not have ever met before. Another thing was the community response in wake of the California wildfires. Here in San Diego, students and others spent time at Qualcomm helping serve food and get supplies to evacuated people. Back at home, the Red Cross held a money drive to raise funds to donate to victims of the fires. A woman at my church who works for the Red Cross told of her personal experience working at that money drive that tightened my throat. A family came and brought a bottle of coins, saying that had been their savings for 2 years and they were there to donate it to help. Without a second thought of possibly needing the money for themselves, this family did what they could to help those they didn't know. Good things all of them.

But then you think about why we had some of those fires-arson. Someone intentionally lit fire in brush to do damage. People lost their homes, were injured physically, emotionally from fire, psychological effects and personally when homes were looted after people were evacuated. Makes you wonder, does the person or people that did this feel any remorse about this? Are they feeling guilt for doing this to people? It makes me sick and sad to think of all those in the world that steal, set fires, abuse others and kill others just for the hell of it. Do they regret any of it later? Do they care?

I wish we could hear more stories on the news of people doing good things. A break from all the bad. Sometimes I just need to be reminded of the good in the world in the midst of all the bad, I guess.

This is a bad, sitcom moment in my life...

"OH. MY. GOD." to quote Janice on 'Friends'. That is my feeling on things at this very moment.

My toilet decided to be evil tonight and give me problems. Simple plunge right? NO! So Paul told me how to fix it and said I had to be quick. So I go to flush and plunge and then stop if it gets too high. Except there are two lever things in there and I apparently was messing with the wrong one and so it overflowed. Luckily nothing was in the water, so it was clear water, but still. So I'm like "AHHHHHH! WHAT DO I DO?" I finally get it to stop but now I have all this water on my floor. I used paper towels on the edges by the door, mopping up too. However I don't have floor cleaner..well I do, but not like liquid and pour it in with water and mop. I have Fantastik or something like that, which I will put some on the floor once (if I ever get it) dry. But I definitely need to go walk to Ralph's later and get some cleaning stuff. Paul says that it's clean water, so I shouldn't be afraid of it, but whatever. I can't get the idea that it isn't gross out of my head. I obviously can't sleep tonight though, which kind of sucks. But I refuse to go to bed with feet that have touched that water in my bed. I need to get in the shower and wash off. Fear of contamination of my bed doesn't set well with me.

I wish this water would dry faster...If I turned the hair dryer on and let the air blow on the floor, would that help speed it up? I swear I am going to be like the first customer of the day at Ralph's. Or if I do sleep, it will have to be on the living room floor...This is so sad. But can't you see the sitcom moment when the clueless girl is attempting to deal with plumbing? It's like that episode of 'Saved by the Bell' where they break the pipe in the bathroom so that Mr. Testaverde will have to rush in and fix it and Mr. Belding will read the questions on the test because if Mr. Testaverde did it, it would be so fast you wouldn't get the question right. So they broke they pipe and water was everywhere and they were trying to figure out what to do with the excess water...Comical episode. But that is basically me at the moment.

Hmm this is definitely one of those times I wished I had some guy around to fix this for me during these off hours of the office and such. Just saying...or even if one of my girl friends knew what the heck was going on and what to do.

Think the water's dry yet?

Sweet..

Awesome. 2 of my classes are cancelled on the day before Thanksgiving. Come on now other 2 teachers...It's not hard. Just say it. "No class on Wednesday before Thanksgiving." I mean seriously no one is going to be there that day anyway. Case in point: last year my classes had only handfuls of people...a lecture that normally would have about 250 people or so, was down to like 20 or 30. Just give up and face the fact that no one wants to be there and wants to try and leave early and attempt to beat some traffic that day or make their flights. My humanities professor last year said they were considering giving us the whole week off. Again, may as well. Well still a few weeks to cancel. Let's hope it happens.

Thought I was going to lose already, huh?

You probably thought the whole blog a day thing had already slipped my mind and I was going to fail right away. Oh how wrong you were. Sure, I could of posted earlier before class when I was on, but at that point I lacked inspiration as to what to post about. But now as my day is almost over, I found clarity on what to write about.

Taxes are dumb.

I'm not talking about paying them, though I'm sure that totally sucks too. I'm talking about learning about them. They are confusing. What does a tax on buyers do to supply and demand curves? What does a tax on sellers do? If the effect screws them both over, why both making and distinction? And more importantly, if the tax makes something go up, say $5, then why would the amount being paid go up or down somewhere between $0-$5?

These are the ponderances we had tonight as Cayla, Jillian and I sat around my computer reading questions about taxes in an attempt to study for our midterm in Econ tomorrow. In the end, we came out still confused. Example:

The City of San Diego is considering charging hotels a tax of $30 per room. What would you expect to see happen?

A.The price of hotel rooms will go up by $30
B.Hotel revenue will go down by $30 per room
C.The price of hotel rooms will go up but by less than $30
D.There isn't enough information given to answer this question

Answer: C.
Why? Not totally sure. Wouldn't you think that it would go up $30 at least so that the hotel doesn't lose any income because of the tax?

Whatever. I don't even care anymore. I just want it to be over and it to be the weekend and not have to worry about another midterm until my Finance 240 (business law for all those who never checked out my blog on my class schedule. see post down more on the page) that's next Thursday.

Oh and in other news, I went into Starbucks to grab some coffee before this study sess as I was dozing in my class (why I don't know...I didn't get up til 10am and class is at 4pm) and on their chalkboard, I saw that peppermint mochas are back. I was pretty excited and therefore ordered that. I could order it any time of the year, but when I ask for a shot of peppermint in my mocha, they make it seem like it's an odd request and sometimes do it and sometimes don't. On times they do, it's not much and times they don't, I'm usually grabbing it during a brief break and need to go to class after the huge line I have endured and am far away and too lazy to go back and be like "You messsed up." So I was surprised to see it available on the first of November since they still have pumpkin spice lattes and fraps. but whatever. These next 2 months I can have them all I want and it will be right!