Somewhere in a meadow

So taking a short break from studying I wanted to share something with you. Now first a disclaimer: If you like Thomas Kinkade's works and think that he is an "artist" please stop reading.

In the attempt to look up if the rumor that there was a "Thomas Kinkade community" that you could live in I came across this disturbing news...

There is a film being made about Thomas Kinkade's life!! I swear! True STORY!! Don't believe me? Here's the link to their website:
http://www.thomaskinkadecompany.com/general_pages.asp?id=30001&NewsId=227&hideC=yes

Seriously?!?!?! What does Hollywood not have any better ideas?!?!?! This is just sad.

But I guess I could make it all better if I go to live in my own cottage by a brook somewhere in a meadow...

TV Shows

So I don't know what's come over me lately but there are some TV shows that I can't seem to get enough of. The first one is How I met Your Mother. It's funny and amazing and you should all be watching it. I'm going to go ahead and say it's the funniest show on TV! And of course you've got Neil Patrick Harris.. so it's gotta be good! Check it out. CBS on Monday's at 8pm.
And then there are the shows that prove that I'm 14 inside. I absolutely love watching the Hills and My Super Sweet 16. Have you seen these shows? Wow people really live like this! My super sweet 16 is crazy. One girl had a wait-for-it-$300,000 budget!!! What?!?!? How do parents think that this is ok to spend on their children's birthday party. What are their weddings going to look like? Yikes! Anyway.. I just can't stop watching. And the Hills...why their drama makes me want to watch, I will never know...but again.. can't stop watching. I was confessing this crazy obsession with these crazy shows to my sister and she confessed that she owns the Hills on DVD! Sweet! I'm not so crazy.

Jersey Boys

I have been so tired lately. I don't know why. I think last week killed me, so I'm recovering.

And I'm hungry. I think I'm going downstairs to go get food.

K, much better! So not much going on here right now, just watching an old Gene Kelly movie that I haven't seen before. It's Gene Kelly month on TCM! So that rules! Right now the Pirate is on. So far so good.

Ok I'll talk to you later. Oh wait! I'm so excited. I get to see Jersey Boys in 2 months!! I am so excited!
It's probably one of the best musicals ever! YEA!!!

Ok Bye!

Soy milk in my hair!

I love coffee....coffee coffee coffee. Coffee has a great taste and it keeps you up so you can study...I've only had seven shots of espresso today.. LA LA LA LA.

PS--Pollyanna is one of the best movies of all time. It's up there with Mary Poppins, if you know what I mean!!!!! There really is nothing like good ol' Disney movies.

So today I opened at Starbucks, and it was ok. I have a lead that likes to tell me what to do A LOT. Can we say "power trip?" It's all good because it's part of the job and I just smile and move on...that is until someone spills soy milk in my hair... not cool! Oh well, I guess that's why God invented Shampoo.

Speaking of hair. I got the best haircut EVER!!! I GOT BANGS! So cute!

Tonight there is a Not Quite Midnight at church. It's a fun event with the Jr. Highers and we call it Not Quite Midnight because they go until 11:30pm :) Anyways, all the leaders are dressing up in disguise and the kids have to find us at Fashion Island. It's going to be SO MUCH FUN!!!! I'm about ready to leave so I will talk to you all later.. and yes if you're counting that means that I opened at Starbucks at 4:15am and will be working until 11:30pm tonight. Did I mention I've had seven shots of espresso so far? I love coffee...coffee coffee coffee!

Like Christmas Morning Excited

K so I am so excited right now. Not just any kind of excited but like Christmas Morning excited. I have been studying for a week now for this midterm tomorrow (today) and 30% of the midterm is a take home essay... anyway it's done. YEAH! I finished. In the words of Marshall from How I met your Mother, "Makin' a responsible choice for my futcha!" I know it's 2:22 AM and I should be so exhausted and sleep but I'm just to darn thrilled for myself. 14 hours away from the hardest midterm ever!!!! Who could sleep at a time like this?!?! I can tell you that I'm not and Sydney's not. (just got off the phone with him :)

So I'm going to tell you a secret, and I figure that on a public website is the best place to tell secrets... anyway... The best way for me to fall asleep is to put on a movie and crawl into bed. So I netflixed Pollyanna and I thought I'd put it on to sleep to, well let me tell you! Before the movie begins on the DVD, they show a short, not just any short, "Nifty Nineties." I love this one. Almost worth buying the DVD for! It's the one where Mickey and Minnie are in the 1890's.. you know the picture:
Yeah, that's awesome.

Wow 7 minutes into the movie and I'm already laughing out loud.

Ok well now I shall attempt to get to sleep so that I can be well rested for my test tomorrow, but if all else fails and I get totally engulfed in the movie, there is always coffee....mmmmm.

Goodnight.

Stupid Haircuts

K so after only 3 and a half hours of sleep, I've been working all day at Starbucks (thank the LORD in Heaven for coffee) and before I go back to studying for the midterm of death, I just gotta get this off my chest.

Brit and Kfed, please do us all a favor and go live in a cave in Antartica so for crying out loud we don't have to hear about you, your kids, and your stupid haircuts... and please, for both your sakes...move on! DO NOT GET BACK TOGETHER!!!!

K... much better now.

On to the studying... and coffee.

Even He asked for something to drink

So First of all, big shout out to the two best guys in a girls life....Nick! I love you and thank you for allowing me to wake you up tonight when I was sad and being willing to stay up with me during my craziness(see story below). And to Sydney for always being the friend I can call at 12midnight with my major dilemas :) You're de Best!

Ok so y'all want to know why I'm up at 2:28am on Monday morning?!?!?! OK I'll tell you... I should be going to bed, but this is just too good and I hope you can all learn from this tragic mistake.

I have a midterm on Tuesday... not just any mid-term, no the hardest one of my life thus far (and this is 27 years of experience). This midterm is worth 45% of my grade! (yeah, you read that right). 45% !!!!!! The good news is that it only covers American History from Jamestown to the Civil war... just a tidbit of info!

I have 21 terms that I need to know their definition, AND what decade or decades they cover AND the cultural signifigance that they played in those decades.. will I be tested on all 21, you ask? Oh no, just 5. But I don't know which 5 so I have to know all of them.

I'm not going to bore you with the other details of this test, because for this story you don't need to know them.

I had started working on them earlier this week and had emailed my progress to myself so that I wouldn't have to start over. I then opened the file (first mistake) and started typing away, periodically saving (second mistake) as I was working. When shutting down the document so that I could email it back to myself after 3 hours of work on it, I realized that I hadn't specified where it was saved on my computer (3rd mistake). So I did a search...nothing. Searched for key words... nothing. Started to worry so I called Sydney. After about 20 minutes of searching we came to the conclusion that since I opened the document instead of saving it, I was working in a temp file, and since I was working in a temp file, I was saving to a temp file and when I closed the file, the computer thought I was done, so it deleted the temp file. (I'm starting to cry just remembering the feeling).

I hung up with Syd, thanking him through the tears for his effort and rushed upstairs to Nick and started crying on his shoulder about what happened. He tried to convince me to go to sleep, but I couldn't waste such valuable hours on something so unimportant as sleep. I cried my way back downstairs and decided that this was an emergency and went to the fridge and grabbed...wait for it... a Diet Coke! (For those of you who don't know the severity of that statement, it's because I gave up soda for lent! I think I'm ok though because in Jesus' agony on the Cross, even he asked for something to drink) I then stumbled back to the computer tried one more search, downloaded the document from my email and SAVED it this time and started again.

So here I am at 2:40AM and just now re-finishing my study guides and ready to crash on the couch.

Thank you for reading and I will try to post more often for you, my two devoted readers....

All I have to say is, FREAKEN TIME CHANGE!!!!