december depression

I seem to have come down with a bout of December Depression. Basically it's this idea that Skipper has about why he always gets depressed in December. It's not quite winter, the weather is real gross and it's just, you know, the worst. I don't know. He's told me about it multiple times but I always seem to tune out cause I never believed in it... UNTIL NOW.

I found it really hard to leave my room until Wednesday. That means I was stuck in my apartment for four days... watching How I Met Your Mother... crying in the shower... and being overall pathetic. On both Monday and Tuesday I told myself I should get up, get ready, Trax down to the library, and then sit at Starbucks all day reading my newly acquired book. But I couldn't do it for some reason. Instead, I'd get in the shower and stay there for a good 40-60 minutes. I wasn't even productive. I'd stand under the water with my head against the wall either chipping my fingernail polish off or just... standing there... Then I'd get out, throw on the same pajamas I wore the day before, and then watch an entire season of HIMYM and be asleep by 9:30. Seriously. It was bad. Finally I made myself leave though. On Wednesday.

What better depression-killer is there than shopping!? I went to the Gateway, popped in to all of my favorite stores, and somehow managed to only spend $70! Whoa!

Forever21: Black cami, Speckled Pointelle Top, Boxy Colorblock Top; Victoria's Secret: Lounge Bralettes.

This morning my good friend Natalie asked me to come visit her at work in Park City. She went off to California for the fall semester to help out with Invisible Children and just got back a week or so ago. At first I was really pumped to see her and then stop by the Outlets and pick up some gifts for my family. But then I remembered the Outlets in Branson had the Disney store, not Park City. So I decided not to go. BUT THEN I remembered how terrible I felt Sunday-Wednesday when all I did was sit on my bed watching Netflix, so I ended up going. :P

Natalie works at this super cute shop called Dolly's Bookstore, where the owner lets her two cats run around and be loved on by strangers. They were seriously so fluffy and soft and amazing and made me miss Kanye (he's living in Ogden for the moment). I bought a couple of PC postcards and a book, loved on Nat and the cats, and then walked up and down Main Street for a bit. AND GUESS WHAT I HAPPENED UPON, GUYS!

WHAT? BANKSY IN PARK SHITTY? NO WAY, RIGHT? Yes way. I heard about him tagging a few places in PC when he was here for Sundance but I thought the policia had removed all of it. 

I did end up going to the Outlets after visiting with Natalie. I bought a shirt, 2 cardigans and a hoodie from American Eagle; lots of soap and lotion from Bath and Body Works; and cookie sheets, a spatula, knives, tongs, and some dish towels from Kitchen Collection. Pretty stoked about my haul, not gonna lie. :)

missoura

This trip to Missouri was much more family-oriented than I had imagined. I had planned on being at my house for meals but spending a lot of my time with friends I hadn't seen since June. But instead, I only hung out with people twice and for very short amounts of time. 

Monday: Landed in Kansas City around 2:30pm, bought a new coat and gloves, ate at the Golden Corral. Rose came over and we watched The Lion King with Nick. Admittedly, I was so exhausted that I slept through most of it and left Rose to hang out with Nick.

Tuesday: My grandma and I made vegetable soup for lunch and after dinner Scott, Rose and I went to Walmart cause everything in Trenton closes at 10pm and we needed something to do.

Wednesday: We had a roast with the works for lunch and then mom and I made caramel macchiato cookies. I spent a couple of hours trying to find Tangled on dvd in town since the internet connection at my parents' house sucks balls and netflix wouldn't work.

Thursday: The whole family came over for Thanksgiving. Mom and I went to Walmart for Black Friday shopping. We bought a 51" TV for one of her friends in Iraq, a Wii for me, and some other random shit. This lady had SIX crockpots, two vacuums and a lot of Wiis in her two carts... Black Friday shoppers are crazy.

We took Wayne (my mom's friend in Iraq)'s truck down since the TV wouldn't fit in mom's trailblazer... but we were afraid of it falling over in the bed without being tied down... so I had to sit in the backseat with my arm out the window holding onto the TV the whole time. lol.

Friday: Spent the morning chilling with the family before I had to fly back to Salt Lake. Just look at how adorable my brother is. Holy cute.

And that's about it. Extremely unexciting. I watched the Shrek series and The Lion King so many times that I lost count. My mom turns Shrek on in her room and The Lion King on in his room and he goes back and forth. It's cute. :)

the candle warmer

 Just look at it... Isn't it a beauty? Just look at the way it warms candles...

That's pure liquid. 

I bought this candle warmer for five bucks at Walmart a few months ago cause my room smelled realllly bad. Terrible, even. We're not allowed to light candles at the dorms so I figured a candle warmer would be the best option to get the stank out. Turns out no one gives a fuck if you light candles here - we do it in the kitchen and living room all the time - but I love this little thing.

forever 21 please.

I've been trying for the past couple of days to convince my mom to give me her credit card so I can go on a shopping spree at Forever 21. My reasoning is that I need nicer tops to impress my friends in Utah and make them like me more. She's like, "your friends must be really shallow if they don't like you in your current clothes." No mom, I'm the shallow one. I want to look nicer. Once I showed her that most of the items I want are less than $15 she seemed to cave a bit.. so I'm hoping that by next week I'll be in Kansas City buying all of these things:

Kitten w/ Glasses Top $12.90

Tribal Stripe Top $15.80

Striped Burnout Top $8.90 

 Audrey Graphic Tank $14.80

 Tribal Tank w/ Crochet Yoke $15.80

Exposed Shoulder Top $14.80 

 Crochet Back Tribal Top $15.80

Slub Knit Trapeze Top $9.90 

 Bevy of Bows Lace Bib Dress $19.80

Knit Button Up Top $15.80

My trip also depends greatly on how the weather is next week. Ever since Friday, tornadoes have been ripping the Midwest apart. Joplin was completely wiped out on Saturday, along with a few places in Michigan and Oklahoma. Today a tornado touched down in Sedalia (only 2 hours from here) and then sirens went off in Chillicothe, the city 20 miles from here where my mama works, and freaked everyone here out.

I want to go back to Utah. :(

shopping and studying... my favorites

On Monday, Corinne and I drove to Murray to go shopping. She really wanted some BareMinerals by BareEssentials makeup cause the foundation we've been using tends to make us look orange. It's annoying. The first store we went into was Nordstroms...

Corinne was in love with this pair of Jimmy Choo's:

And I'll admit, they are a pretty sexy pair of shoes. But guess how much they cost...

Holy shit, right?

We also found a couple pairs of BC shoes that were super cute.

What was interesting about them was their name. Most shoes have women's names, like Katharine or Clara. I've always wondered why. "Can I get Clara in a 9?" It sounds weird. But I guess its easier to accept than...

"Can I get Grilled Cheese in a 9?"

I guess that's why they use women's names.. it sounds better than "grilled cheese." 

So then we went to the BareEssentials store and I watched Corinne get her makeup done. It was pretty boring and the lady doing her face looked so angry with her life. I guess its understandable though, because people probably come in every day and get their makeup done then don't buy anything. 

Then we went to Zupas. I got a grilled cheese (delicious) and tomato soup with basil (disgusting). Corinne got a turkey cranberry sandwich. Yummmm. Then we went over to 8th & 8th to this consignment store called EmilieJayne. It was so ridiculously cute. The store was jam packed full of shit but managed to look classy. And everything was sorted by color, which was cool.

Then we went back to the dorms where I finished Glee season 1 and the PBRs in my fridge and Corinne went to Scott's. I also played Never Have I Ever on Skype with Scott Mayfield and totally dominated. I am such a badass.

Tuesday was boring. Corinne and I watched Chloe after lunch (which I highly recommend, its such a strange movie and you see Amanda Seyfried's and Julianne Moore's boobs) and then took naps. I didn't wake up until right before 6:30 and I thought Paul's wind ensemble concert started at 7 so I powerwalked like a boss all the way down to the bottom of campus. I got there in 20 minutes, all sweaty and unattractive, only to find out the show didn't start until 7:30. Yeah. If only I knew how to read concert tickets...

After the show, Paul, Corinne and I went to Noodles. We were going to go to the Pie but Paul had it the night before and it was suuuuper packed so we didn't think we'd be able to get a table. Paul and I were all for getting Pizza Hut instead but Corinne thinks its really greasy and disgusting so she wouldn't let us. Yeah, its basically more grease than pizza, but thats what makes it delicious! And the pan crust. You can never go wrong with pan crust. My mouth is watering now just thinking about it. Anyway, we had Noodles. Then we went back to my room and watched Daybreakers. It's a really terrible vampire movie. I mean, seriously terrible. Any time the vampires see sun or get stabbed anywhere, they explode. The idea for the movie is a good one, in my opinion, but how they went about it was dumb.

Wednesday was even less exciting than Tuesday. Corinne and I slept through all of our classes (for the third time in the past week) and then spent 1pm-6:30pm at the library studying. We only left because she had to go to her last sorority thing of the semester, so I made dinner and watched Glee season 2 for about an hour, then went back to studying from about 8pm-1am. And the annoying thing is that I feel like I barely accomplished anything. I'm studying for my history final next Friday. My professor put up 3 potential exam questions, but each question has seven questions inside of it. It's freaking ridiculous. So yesterday I read 52 pages and took 14 pages of notes... and I didn't answer a single question. I have 3 chapters left to read and take notes on, which will probably take me the next 3 days. I have other finals to study for and a project for French due on Monday I need to work on. This stupid history class is taking up all of my time. Gr.

This blog post is too long. I guess I'll go back to studying. But I'd like to leave you with a picture of the super cool Fanta I got yesterday in the library café.

I had to search all over the bottom level of the library for someone who could hook me up with a bottle opener because the stupid bottle wouldn't twist open... but the drink was delectable.

UPDATE
Corinne, Paul and I are in the library again. The table beside us has been here as long as we have and they are.. interesting to listen to. The girl only wants to do sports for the rest of her life, so college is a bore for her, but at the same time she loves learning. One guy really likes learning too but he also likes his classes. And the guy who just showed up, the girl was making fun of him for spelling "cheek" as "chick." Then she asked him "Why was 6 afraid of 7?" and he said "Because of 8." Hahaha, apparently he's not the brightest. I love it.

crimson nights

So on Thursday, Corinne and I were driving to the gas station to get drinks when my car hit 123456 miles!

But I took the picture right as it changed to 123457.

Later that night Paul Kim made me dinner again...

Made me drive him to sushi again...

Then made brownies in my kitchen until 2 am again...

Yesterday at work we did a bunch of Easter-related activities. We set up three stations outside for the kids to go to. Mine had sack races and three-legged races; Majik had a tug-o-war rope set up; and Beckie and Laura did a race where the kids had to carry a spoon in their mouths and balance an egg. Then we had an egg hunt around the school. It was really cute and fun. I got a sunburn from the two hours we spent in the sun.

Three-legged race: Mirian and Kristy take the lead as Juan and Eli struggle to get back up.

After work, Corinne and I met up at the Gateway to find me an outfit for Crimson Nights. If you're not familiar with Crimson Nights, it's this huge party ASUU throws in the Union every couple of months to bring the students together. There are carnival rides, henna tattooing, free food, and a dance in the ballroom that's basically just a big drunk orgy.

This guy was running around the Gateway showing off his nice booty.

This was the shirt I bought at F21 to wear to Crimson Nights.

I wore it over the first black dress shown in this post along with some leggings and black vans.

Now Stuart, Paul, Ryan and I are sitting in the library studying.. kind of. I've been blogging for the last hour, Paul's been reading every newspaper he can find, and Stuart is.. I'm not sure what's he doing. Mostly he's been staring at me. Ryan's the only one doing any actually work. I'm trying to convince Corinne to come down to the library and study Islam with me but she keeps rejecting me. Story of my life.

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.