Rules for life.

This is one of mine.
If you don't have 50 pairs of shoes to match every outfit you own, buy red shoes so you can match none.

Wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles!

Last night I received two, perfectly lovely emails, stating that two of my classes for the day were canceled! Hip-hip hooray! All I had today was one period of earth science. So not only was I allowed to sleep in, but I also accomplished much. Books were read for a class that I never read for, simply because I never have time to read all that he assigns. Seriously, I have two books that I don't think I've yet picked up. Oops.
So that started off the day in a grand way. After earth science, Stalin and I had decided to hike up the mountain. It was pretty smoggy, so the view wasn't that great, but it was great talking to him nevertheless. We even were able to see a deer! Pretty cool stuff. Anyways, that took about 3 hours, and I managed to sneak into the cafe right before 6:30 (closing time!) and grab some food. Dinner was relaxed and casual- just the usual talk and fun stuff. I only had 30 minutes, though. At 7 I met with my RD to go out for coffee- which was the first time we'd done that, and it was really nice to catch up. But I'm pretty sure my drink wasn't decaf, and so I might be up alllll night tonight. :(


Oh, and just as a side note. A senior from last year (brother to a current student, and fiancé to another student) was on his way home last night, when his car battery died and his car flipped. He was in the hospital, and for a long time we didn't know what was going on. It was so neat, though. There were about 25 of us standing in our quad praying. Freshmen- who didn't know him came out, and it was just an awesome thing to see. The support that people provide in times of crisis is amazing. Chad is fine- he's out of the hospital with a neck brace and very sore, but ok! Praise God.

October Dress.

Cold, rainy day where all I wanted was jeans a big sweatshirt.




Nice and hot this day- all that was needed was a tank top

I've never..... 2

To continue on with the list.
#3- blow-dried a dress dry.
Wearing a dress so frequently means you're going to have to wash the dress frequently. Well. I don't exactly want to spend $.75 to wash it and $.75 to dry it. So instead, I hand washed it in the sink, and laid it out on a towel to dry over night. I figured 9 hours would be plenty of time. Guess not. This morning it was still damp, but again, I refused to pay $.75, when all it needed was 5-10 minutes in the drier! So I stood there with my blow-drier on high. :)
#4- stand fully clothed in a hot shower to warm up.
The weather has changed drastically from last week to this. From 113 degrees to in the 60s! Craziness. But anyways, normally I would be wearing jeans and a big sweatshirt. But since I'm wearing a dress, I'm freezing! So I decided to try to warm up by sticking my feet in the shower- I'm too lazy to actually take one. Plus! I took one 5 hours ago- there is SO such a thing as being too clean.

I've never....

Wearing a dress for a whole month is going to bring along some "I never" moments. Not that they'll be outrageous necessarily, but I figured I'd record them- just to see what they were.

So here are number 1 and 2.
#1-Bbqing
#2- washing cars

Oh! And another thing... What do you guys think about accepting free oil changes from random customers at the gas station? If it weren't for the fact that my car isn't due for a change until November, I might have taken him up on it.

And so it begins.

Today is October 1st. Day one of the game. For all of October, I, my whole quad (7 other girls), and a few others will attempt to wear the same dress for the month. I think it'll actually be quite fun. We only wear one dress, but of course you're allowed to do with it what you want: jeans, sweaters, t-shirts underneath- you just have to be wearing the dress! For some it's an exercise in simplicity. Since for me this is ideal, it's more of a practice in creativity. I'll try to take pictures of a few different outfits I can come up with.
Let the challenge begin.

The simple, bare necessities!

Someone discovered this "game" which involves the "one month dress." Here are the rules: you are allowed to wear one dress, all week long, for four weeks- excluding Sundays. Sundays you are allowed to change, but just for the day.
You are allowed to 'alter' this dress in different ways, however. Scarves, pants, leggings, jackets, earrings, etc. All can change, but the fundamentals remain unchanged. My roommates and a few other girls just left to go thrift store shopping with this in mind. Isn't it wonderful? Granted they all have the extra accessories so they won't just be walking around looking the same everyday, but I love it! I didn't have time to go tonight, due to a preponderance amount of papers, quizzes, readings, projects, and tests coming up (not to mention I'm missing class for three days to go on an earth science trip!) but I am still thinking about participating.

zzzZZzzzZzzz.....O.O

The year has just begun, but the adventures just keep on a coming.
My sleeping pattern has been very much disrupted this week. Typically, I enjoy 8 hours. Going to bed at midnight, waking at 8- or 9 on Wednesday and Friday. Due to the fact that the Canadians, Stalin, and I went out star gazing Monday night, I was a little late getting to bed. It was around 12:30, and I was rushing a bit. I was in the bathroom with Ev, when I feel a splashing on my feet. My first thought, was, Wow! She brushes her teeth vigorously. Then I realized the back of our sinks were spewing forth water. Not one sink- all three. Our bathroom floor now has an extra shiny coating of water. First I ran upstairs to get the RA on duty. She of course has no idea about plumbing, though, so she went to get Dave- the RD. He was just about as clueless. The water had stopped meantime, though. We decided to leave it until morning when we would file a maintenance report. So that's what we did. We had it into the office by noon. Spasmodically throughout the day, we would hear the sinks gushing..... No one was even IN the bathroom! Ridiculous. I ran to get the maintenance so that they could see the problem. The guy 'in charge' came and saw, but it was after dinner, and everyone had gone home already. He decided to leave it until morning (Great.). Around 12 the sinks are going off again, and this time, BAD! We are now wearing sandals to pee. And it smelled like gross plumbing! But I was going to bed. I was so close to sleep when my phone rings. I hate that! I was so close to sleep. I rolled over, and was so so close yet again. This time, I hear men voices in the hall. It's closed hours, what could they possibly be doing? Well. They were mopping our bathroom. Apparently the water had leaked down into the guys rooms below us (oops!). Anyways, Sleep was pretty much shot for me until 2 am. And the maintenance FINALLY decided to fix the problem.... at like 7:40! Gee thanks. It's important in the morning when I'm trying to sleep but not yesterday at noon when I told you about the problem.

Chinese Food?

Candace and I were hanging out in Deb's room Wednesday night "doing homework." Well, as usually happens, not so much was getting done. Deb, as RA , had rounds to make (which of course as a good friend, I couldn't let her do alone, right??), and we made hot chocolate/tea, and things were just generally hilarious that night. So what better way to "do homework" than not do it? Dave, the guy's RD came knocking on the window with his brother, and Ruby (the girl's RD), asking if he could persuade anyone to come out to Chinese food- Michael was buying! Free food? Heck yes. Not much persuasion needed. We collected Ev along the way, and piled (illegally) into Dave's car. This night was so much fun. I got stuck between Micheal and Ruby. Ruby was great, but Michael drinks....a lot (just water- don't worry). But let's just say by the end of the night I so did not know who's cup I was drinking out of. He stole any one's glass within reach that had water in it. Plus it was just nice to get off campus with random people.
After the (DELICIOUS!) food, we went back to studying. And this time we really did. We finished homework around midnight (successfully avoiding the guy's movie trap that they tried to induce us to watch). THEN, (dun, dun, dun)midnight rolls around, I've just changed into my pjs, and am closing down the computer for the night. I start to receive random texts from Dave. Hilarious texts. And I did so want to go. When he finally brought out the fact that he had rocky road ice cream, Ev and I were sold. We put sweatshirts on (over pjs)and went. We ended up turning off their movie and putting Everybody Loves Raymond in, while playing Jango. And eating salted unsalted peanuts by downing them like you would shots (Apparently- I wouldn't know, of course.). Playing games with guys is always an experience. Playing a game when the two guys are brothers is even more of a competitive experience. Anyways, we eventually escaped and made it to bed around 1:30. Truly was a great night, though!!

"Life is a Highway"

First of all, let me just say that I love that song.
And second, do you ever feel that life is just whizzing along? Sometimes taking you along, and other times leaving you on the edge, needing your gas tank refilled or tire changed?
Summer ended and school began. So many changes came flooding in with this one simple, seemingly ordinary, occurrence. Being on a new campus has been wonderful, as well as posed its own set of problems. Things are just so much louder here. I can here the people above me, the people below me, the people in the parking lot, the people who share my quad, and the guy who loves to blast his music one floor down and a quad over! Combine this with heat and our lack of air conditioning, and you have one overly stressed ME! Problems which should be fairly simple expand beyond all proportion.
But things have begun to get better. A volleyball court was set up on campus. And as trivial as that sounds, it makes a huge difference. No longer do we sit in our rooms wondering where everybody is (since we are such a small school on a large campus), we have a meeting spot where we know we will find PCC people! It's a great way to get to know freshmen. The weather has broken, and for the first time I haven't woken up feeling sick from heat. So little things have been helping, and the pendulum has begun to slide back into normality.


As far as adventures go, I've managed to fit a couple in.
Friday night we had a campus movie: Cinderella Man, which was fun. Always interesting to squeeze what is practically your whole campus into one room. Afterwards, Stalin and I gathered a group (which kept expanding!) to attempt to discover a mountain. This is actually much harder than one would think. We had three cars at one point, but they dropped out, until it was just Sarah, James, Stalin, and I cruising up streets that dead ended or were much too populated to yield any results. We ended up walking down Colorado Blvd around 2am. It was good to hang out, though being followed by some creeper asking for money, was an experience.
Saturday a group of us went down to Venice beach. Can you tell we're taking full advantage of not yet having papers to write?? Venice is just an interesting place. We talked to a couple Salvation Army drivers at a stoplight, saw LAPD on horses, and a huge bus "painted hippy" stopped in the road, throwing chips to passersby (I regret to say that we did not get any: despite honking horn and me flailing my arms out the window!). It's been great to be back with school people, and as we find more places to congregate, I'm sure things will only continue to improve.

A long, long time ago- that I can still remember

This blog was begun nearly 4 years ago. CRAZY! I feel like we were just standing in the hall in front of our lockers, when Danielle told us about this new 'fad thing' that was going around. Anyways= I believe this is the only thing remotely resembling a journal that I have kept for more than 2 days. Success! :)

From the mouth of 'babes'

Durring the course of the day, Aiden poured for himself two generous glasses of chocolate milk. While I prompted him with a few questions, I am not manipulating what he said.
"I'm a drinker." "I love to drink. I can't stop drinking them."
Too funny.