i hate when you have to gag down that...you know.

I've been putting off blogging because I don't do anything worthwhile. Ever. Seriously. My life is so boring, but here's a ridiculously brief update on what I've been doing lately.

06/30: Field trip to the Clark Planetarium! We watched Born to Be Wild 3D at the IMAX and then had lunch by the fountains. The kids were told to be careful not to get soaked but of course that meant they should stand directly over the fountains, right?

06/30-07/04: Stayed in Ogden with Chelsi and Michael. The first night, we played Monster Cards again. Shown here are "The sweet scent of your mom's rotting placenta and gasoline on your dad's morning wood;" "Zombie octopi with gonorrhea tentacles giving Mitch the ol' reacharound;" and "Jesus Christ laughing hysterically at a homeless bum doing heroin in his anus."

Quotes from Independence weekend!

Chelsi: Imagine Merv with dicks as eyes.

Someone: Oh I totally can.

Chelsi: They're erect, totally erect!

Chelsi: Any time Merv is involved its hysterical

Michael(?): Plus he has dick eyes!

Chelsi: Beerwithamustache.com

Me: That beer would sell.

Chelsi: Just imagine all the hipsters buying it!

Chelsi: I love when R2 does that. It's like he shits his pants, ejaculates, and then pukes on himself. And then he sneezes and cries at the same time.

Mitch (about Hagrid's parents): How does that work, a wizard and a giant?

Chelsi: ....magic.

Chelsi: You had girls rubbing your crotch and making out with your ears?

Chelsi: I'll tell you, if I was an elder I would masturbate all the time and never tell my bishop.

(If you can't already tell, I think Chelsi is HILARIOUS! Everything she says cracks me up)

07/05: Paul and I had a small, lame party in our apartment. Stuart claimed to be drunk off of one beer and one shot, got the drunkchies, and then passed out.. only to be dry humped and cuddled by Mitch. Awkward.

 07/05-07/11: This little girl Lah Le Paw and her sister Htoo Htoo have been making me a ton of rings, necklaces, bracelets and crowns out of flowers during recess. It's so freaking cute.

07/09: It's very likely that Mitch acquired mono... so on Saturday, I (being the lovely little saint that I am!) drove all the way to Ogden to spend a relaxing day with him. We finished Star Wars episode I, watched part of HP2, and then saw Cars 2 with his family. At the theatre they had a Wonka vending machine! It was $3 for two tiny scoops of candy but still! A Wonka vending machine! How cool is that!

07/11: Paul and I went to multiple 7-11's after I got home from work but EVERY SINGLE ONE WE WENT TO WAS OUT OF FREE SLURPEE CUPS. It was so sad. I've never had a Slurpee before and I was really looking forward to this day. :( But our day improved just a bit when we got home and our black neighbors were willing to communicate with us through the walls again.

cody the coyote, he's a roadie, he's our roadie...

This week has been miserable. High 90s and humid and straight-up unbearable.

I've spent the majority of my free time inside baking and cooking. We got a new oven on Monday and its amazing. So far I've made double chocolate muffins, naan, porkchops for my grandma (I don't eat pork), and chipotle peach salsa that I later made into peach quesadillas. 

Everything turned out perfectly. My parents weren't very large fans of the salsa/quesadillas but Rose and I thought they tasted fine. They said that the inch of ginger I shredded into the salsa was about an inch too much. lol. I agree that it would have tasted better without but it was still okay.

Last night Scott and I went to Christian's house, where he showed us these awesome balls he picked up at Coachella. They light up in sync with bass beats.

Then we headed out to the lake. Scott has been hammering me to go swimming with him but I refuse because that lake is soooo disgusting. There are man-eating turtles in there and I'm pretty sure that Megan took a shit off the main dock once. So instead of swimming, the three of us laid out on the dock and watched the stars and made up some pretty ridiculous constellations. It made me really excited for the astronomy class I'm taking in the fall.

this is definitely where i parked my car!

Am I really so immature that I take pictures of the number 69 every time I see it at the grocery store?

Of course I am.

I was supposed to go camping with Scott, Christian and Rose on Thursday but it rained early in the day and Christian was too hungover to hang out. Rose and I had dinner at El Nopal then went back to my place and watched The People I've Slept With and the beginning of The Other Guys.

We spent the majority of Friday at the high school for Relay for Life. 

If you're not familiar with Relay for Life, its a 12-hour fundraiser for the American Cancer Society. There are multiple teams and the idea is to have someone from each team walking throughout the entire night. Each lap your team walks earns money for the ACS, along with whatever items your team sells - some have food, while others have games to play and souvenirs to buy. There are bags all around the track in memory of people who died from cancer and also for survivors. The names of all of these people are announced during the Luminaria and as your name/your family member's name has been called, you light the candle that is inside the bag. 

  

Besides that I guess I've watched a lot of movies during the last week... Sunshine Cleaning, Fish Out of Water, The Shining, An Education, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Love in the Afternoon, Charade, Sabrina, Elizabethtown, Eurotrip... I am such an old woman.

As such, here's a video of Rose playing with Smudge...

Aaaand a super adorable picture of my little brother Nick who would not stop harassing me to wear his sunglasses today.

new layout, new missouri-hate

Yesterday was a very productive day. Rose and I completely cleaned my room, rearranged a bit, and moved a bunch of things out to my car. We also took about a thousand magazines to the recycling center and put all of my clothes to donate into trashbags.

The things in the corner under the mirror are things that do not belong in my room but my parents refuse to put them anywhere else or let me donate them. That TV is a piece of shit and we already have a newer TV in every room in the house, so what's the point of keeping it? Idk. My parents are packrats and it drives me nuts.

For dinner Rose and I made lemon ricotta pasta from Budget Bytes. If you haven't heard of Budget Bytes yet, it's basically the best recipe website I've found for poor college students. It has quick, simple recipes that require very little money. Tomorrow Rose's boyfriend is coming in to town and we are going to make pesto stuffed shells and garlic bread. We're all really excited to see how the shells come out. I discovered last night that I'm really not a fan of ricotta and the shells' stuffing is made out of ricotta.. so it should be interesting. 

After I dropped Rose off last night, I walked my dog Simon around the walking trail in town until I ran into Scott and Christian. We went over to Sonic, where Christian fed Simon a bunch of cheesy tots and Simon licked the bottom of my straw and grossed everyone out. ha.

As you can tell, I changed the layout and I really dig it. When I was uploading it and changing the coding around I wasn't a fan at all. But now that I've spent a good amount of time messing with everything, I think it looks good. How do you guys feel about it? The only thing that bothers me is in my profile on the sidebar, when I lowered the font size of the description, it also changed the size of all of my name and city.. and I can't figure out how to get them back to their original size. But it still looks okay with them small, so whatever. I'll deal.

As for the Missouri-hate in the title... My parents are driving me nuts. Every day I have been loading and unloading the dishwasher, washing dishes that can't go in it, doing laundry, and cleaning anything that happens to be dirty (floors, cabinets, toilet, etc). But any time my parents come home, all they can do is complain. If the dishwasher isn't unloaded yet, they start yelling at me to unload it so they can reload it... If my clothes are still in the dryer or I just put a load in to wash, I'm instantly yelled at because now my grandma can't wash her work clothes... If I accidentally leave the soap on the sink after I use it, I'm yelled at... I'm getting so pissed off. I do all of this work around the house and no one even cares, all they can do is yell at me and make me feel in the wrong. 

Last night I straight up lost it and started screaming back about how I'm the only one doing any work, how I clean up after everyone's messes, and how my parents refuse to do anything I ask of them. For example, a basket of clothes to donate has been sitting in the living room since the day I moved back. My mom wouldn't let me take them to the thrift store because she wanted to go through to see if she wanted to keep anything and make sure I'm not throwing out anything that doesn't need be. The basket was still sitting there yesterday when I came downstairs with the 3 bags full of clothes to donate. Both of my parents started in on how I don't need to throw out that much, how they always buy me clothes and I never wear them, etc. etc. I simply told them that if all of the bags need to be gone through by Wednesday morning because I'm taking them to the donation center then, no matter what they say.

I'm just sick of not being appreciated for all of this work I do. At the dorms at least Corinne would acknowledge if I cleaned the bathroom up or our dishes. No one cares here and it hurts. I would stop doing anything but then I know the house would turn into a sty and my parents would complain even more.

dave and buster's

Earlier in the week, Rosie Toes and I made dinner for my family. We made broccoli bites and sesame breaded chicken.

It was delicious.

At some point we also went to El Nopal. It was also very tasty. The queso was much better than Qdoba's.

Last night, Rose, Scott and I went to Dave and Buster's in Kansas City for Brinton's birthday party. It was my first time going to any type of arcade where you got tickets and prizes. I had such a blast. We ended up winning 931 tickets, which bought us 2 vodka shooters, 3 finger traps, and a "crazy cup" that Rose chose over a candy corn colored slinky.

As we were eating, I could not stop laughing at the things Brinton's friend Jeff was saying. Par exemple:

"Shit's disgusting what I can do with these fingers. I make Jesus nervous!"

It probably doesn't look very funny in writing. But trust me, it was. 

As we were leaving Legends, Scott thought it would be fun to slide down the railings..

summer beginnings

Let me start off by showing you my dorm room before we started packing anything away.

 Hallway.

 Calendars + three-hole punches.

 Coat collection.

 My side of the room.

My side of the room, pt II.

Corinne's side of the room.

Now look at these pictures I took the night before I moved out.

Such a difference. The room was so lonely after Corinne moved out and I had most of my stuff in the car. I spent a lot of time between Tuesday and Friday either in Starbucks or in the lounge because the room was too empty and echo-y.

Rose flew in Thursday night to drive back with me on Saturday. On Friday, I showed her around the campus and then we went to the Hogle Zoo, the cupcake store on Foothill, and the Gateway.

 We had a competition to see who could dress like Diego the best.

Rose won, but only because I look too cute and she has more of that grungy appeal.

We got Carl’s Jr. for dinner.. Rose’s meal was delicious but mine wasn’t very tasty, so I decided to order something else off of the Green Burrito side of the menu. It was also disgusting. Ah well.

As we were leaving, I mentioned that we should take a few pictures of the Blanche overload at the abandoned restaurant next to Carl’s. Because the loaner phone I have totally sucks, my pictures through the fence didn’t come out very well.. so Rose decided to hop the fence and get a good picture for me. She got a bit scuffed by the fence on the way back out, but the mission was a major success.

There was also a Blanche barely hanging on to the building that she was able to grab for me. :)

On Saturday, we drove 9 hours to Denver. Our hotel was in downtown Denver, so any time that we wanted to walk outside it was extremely sketch. But I managed to buy a new necklace and a couple of Ganesh pictures. We hurried back to the hotel before it got dark so we wouldn't get raped/mugged/killed/etc., only to find out that we bought new bathing suits for no reason. Hotels.com lied to us and the Ramada we stayed at did not have an indoor pool. :( So we got schwasty, watched Bring It On, and jumped on our comfy, king-sized bed.

Oh! Also, we had lunch at Qdoba. It was our first time. Corinne complained quite often that there were no Qdoba's in close proximity to the SLC and I couldn't see why it was such a big deal.. but their food is pretty delicious. The queso isn't as good as what Corinne made it out to be (she obviously hasn't had the goat cheese at El Nopal) but my chicken quesadilla was scrumptious. mmm.

We arrived in Trenton at a pretty decent hour on Sunday. I started unpacking but that didn't last very long. Instead, I read the introduction to the Bhagavad-Gita As It Is. It's incredible and so interesting.

I spent the majority of today (Tuesday, ignore the header's date) unpacking. I must say, my room looks pretty dank with all of the paintings and things I acquired in Utah. It's going to suck packing everything pack up in a few months. I'll bust out the wide-angled lens later and take a few shots of the room. I just love it. I've been up here basically all day. I've only left twice: to go running and to walk the dogs. After I was done unpacking, I watched Toy Story 3. A bit later, I finished the second half of Wake Up Sid (which I highly recommend to everyone, it's on Netflix here), and then started The Last Song. To sum things up, I've been productive but also very lazy. Hm.

birthday weekend

Friday started off like any other Friday. I skipped all of my classes, had Noodles for lunch and then went swimming at work. When I got home, Corinne went to Werner's birthday dinner (I wasn't invited), so I started watching the first season of Glee on Netflix. Paul Kim said he would invite me to his birthday dinner but forgot about me so I made spaghetti for myself. So to sum up the majority of my Friday night, I had dinner alone, watched Glee alone, and got schwasty alone.

This is my spaghetti in the making. It was delicious.

Then I was finally invited to Stu and Paul's birthday party. I guess I had a good time. We watched Family Guy, listened to classic Disney soundtracks on youtube, and then went to bed... That sounds really lame, but I promise it was fun.

Stuart being attacked by Paul and Sean

Paul refusing to have his picture taken.

Paul's crotch and my vampire legs.

Tired birthday boy!

So on Saturday, Corinne and I went to the Village Inn. I basically ate $30 worth of food on my own... What can I say, I'm a sucker for omelettes, bacon and pie when I don't have to make them. 

Corinne posing with our Fresh Strawberry pie.

Then we went to Sugarhouse to visit DI. We ended up shopping at Michael's, Nordstrom Rack, and  Toys"R"Us before we made it down to the DI. Corinne bought a bunch of card making supplies at Michael's for Scott's birthday and I bought plaster cat magnets and a cat bobblehead that I'm in the process of painting as a belated birthday gift for Paul Kim. At Nordstrom, I bought a new pair of Vans and a ring and Corinne got some cute black flats. She bought yet another Nerf gun at Toys"R"Us and tried to make me buy six more for her.. If only I wasn't dirt poor. Then she got some oversized sweaters from the DI to wear with leggings. 

Then I did 8 loads of laundry. This was the end result:

Ridiculous.

I hadn't done laundry since.. before Spring Break.. so probably around the beginning of March. That means that the clothes I wore to the Festival of Colors still hadn't been washed. There was cornstarch all over my dirty laundry. I tried to beat the color out of my clothes before washing them... 

The wall opposite looked the same way, as did the ceiling.

I also cleaned up and organized my side of the room. Finally.

For dinner, Corinne and I joined Sean, Stu, Paul and Zack at the Pie. Coco and I ordered a pizza pull-a-part and a 12-inch pizza. We had to leave early so Corinne could go watch Your Highness with Scott.. so once again I left alone in our room on a weekend night. 

Corinne and our pizza.

So I Skyped and drank with Christian and Scott for multiple hours! We had  competition to see who could draw the best cat, Christian kept drawing on his free Starbucks "mugs," and we had a group video chat with their Korean friend Harris who was impressed with my collection of Korean food! I kept trying to take screenshots of our conversation but Christian would never hold still long enough for me to remember which keys to press. 

That's all I have. Christian was trying to show me how he wrote "BLOW ME" on the bottom of his cup. 

Ummm, what did I do next? Oh yeah. I went over to Stuart's to drink more and play one game of Monopoly that lasted for three hours. Holy. Crap. It was so boring. I had more money than anyone else, but I also only owned three properties.

See.

My spots were landed on a lot, but they only gave me $100 each time. Lame. Stuart ended up winning. Also lame. Sean was a crack up throughout the game though. Proof:

Out of nowhere he started singing..

Then he played "Nail" with Paul. I always love seeing Paul in pain.

Overall, its been a pretty good weekend.