So I just figured out this whole reviews part of xanga...cool!

I love thanksgiving! Here's my whole family and friends dressed up, as is our new tradition! We didn't celebrate thanksgiving until Friday because we were waiting for the Farmers from san angelo to get here...it so didn't have any difference though - my family doesn't watch the parades or games, so really we could celebrate thanksgiving on all saints day and it wouldn't make a big diff.

Last night was a total christmas night though: Noel with susan sarandon, paul walker (mmm), penelope cruz, and robin williams. http://www.tnt.tv/Title/Display/0,5918,534839,00.html totally cute...very sweet....and there was a christmas carol with kelsey grammer and jennifer love hewitt and the guy from law and order...it was good too...yeah christmas is here!

bottom line: 26 days till christmas!

http://uk.download.yahoo.com/ne/fu/oa/eurcncs185030.mpg

Dude...just go there. it's the funniest thing I've seen in a while (and it's been a very sad few days...so it must be really funny).

You will find, when you die, that that part of yourself
which you gave to others does not die with you.
                                              -- Lee Lowery

So oh my gosh! I went horseback riding yesterday at my friend's parent's house, and this time I rode the wilder horse. (Last time I was on the slower, older horse who's like really tired and it's a lot of work to canter)...anyway it was sooo much fun! He reared up only a few inches, but we were riding in the dark (it was only like 5pm...sad). Fun!

Then today I rode her again and while we were riding she was antagonizing her baby (now a full grown huge male) so my friends were like 'she has to be punished or she'll keep doing it'...yeah so i kicked her like they said and then it turned out she had ants on her feet, she wasn't trying to bug the baby....within 5 minutes she decided i had to pay for kicking her so she reared up quite a few time and threw her head forward and it was crazy! I loved it, and i stayed on no problem....then she did it again but more ferociously, so my friend's sister took her to punish her, cuz i wasn't going to kick her again...

anyway this left the old horse, but he didn't have a saddle at the time, so i rode bareback! I hung onto his hair and today he really wanted to canter (gallop)! so i was on a horse bareback and he was going like totally fast! It was awesome!

Happy Ending: I went horseriding today and yesterday and a horse tried reallly hard to throw me off, but i stayed on, and i rode another horse bareback...i feel like such a texan!

Isn't Minnie Mo so cute!?? This is long, but kinda funny....read!

Ok Preface to the entry: I consider myself a nonconfrontational person (when i'm upset or anygry with someone, I don't normally tell them.). - if this is contrary to what is true, like the time I said I thought I was a quiet person, please let me know! With this said you can read on.

So I was thinking about the only quote unquote (haha i wrote that out.) fight I've ever really been in (no there was no hair pulling or wet tshirts or pillows involved). I was sitting in the library (one of 4 times my college career) and I heard one of my new freshmen friends (cute fish my roommate and i adopted and took to the mall and dinner and stuff) who (sidenote) was also on the dance team.

Anyway, I heard her talking shit about my sorority loudly in the library one day (which while that's not cool, I decided people are entitled to their opinions.) Then she started saying crap about me, and while that's also not cool, I have enough restraint to turn the other cheek. THEN she started talking shit on my 2 best friends (one was my roommate and the other was captain of the dance team she was on). That was definately not cool.

Sidenote: To set the scene, she was talking loudly enough to a room full of people that on the other side of the library, I clearly heard her (she didn't see me or know i was there, and i thought we were friends).

So I walk up to her, told her what a f*$&-hole I thought she was and why. Oh and that she better make some friends quickly because after tonight she lost quite a few. The whole thing (her talking shit to my confrontation) was only 5 min, but it was literally the most exhilerating time of my life. I felt so good standing up for my friends, but it makes me question 2 things:

1. Why was it that I had no problem putting her in her place for saying things about my friends, but I would never approach her about her saying crap about me?

Answer: it should be b/c christian values tell me to 'turn the other cheek' but then I shouldn't have ever told her off because God would judge her for what she said and I shouldn't, so the answer isn't Christian based....hmmm

2. Why did it feel (and still does to this day) so good?

Response: Don't worry, I don't intend to go off on people forever, I mean, this happened 2 years ago and I haven't done a single confrontational thing since, but I do feel guilty not so much for saying what I did, but for how it made me feel (your thoughts are appreciated to answer either question).

Bottom Line: Misery love comradery (JD on 'Scrubs')...no that's not it. If you're feeling down, yelling at people who say shit on your friends drastically improves your mood! :)

Guess What! OH MY GOSH!!! We got a puppy! Well my parents did, but it was while I was home for the weekend. Her name is Moe (we're changing that...) and she's a 1 yr old spitz (American Eskimo). She's totally cute and already potty trained and hyper but still a lap dog.....she looks just like Candy, too (our 2nd dog who we had to give away). Oh and randomly, she's a purebread...we always have mutts, she has papers and everything...it's crazy! She looks just like the picture, but she has a really happy dumb look, not quite so sophistocated.

The other crazy thing that happened while we were home is I was helping my dad paint the trim on our house...now if you've seen my house you'll understand how terrified I was to be at the top of the ladder painting the tip of the peak, where my 6ft 200lb father was too scared to paint. Granted, he has a fear of heights, so I went up to keep him from doing it, b/c it had to be done. The scary part wasn't the wind that hit you cuz you were so high up, or the fact that my legs were spasming at the very top while holding the huge paint can and holding the ladder and painting at the same time, no actually it was the fact that in Dynamics class we just learned about how a beam oscillates, i.e., while climbing 1/2 way up the ladder, it started to vibrate and shake like on tv (EVERYTIME!!! and I knew the physics behind it and the fact that it would only get worse if i didn't move!) and while climbing, i was of course carrying the paint up with me...everytime. So scary! I had to go back and forth like 4 times because there's 2 peaks and 2 different paints for each peak. AHh!

Bottom Line: We got a really cute puppy that I want to call Schmoe...haha. and my house (the tallest point) is only 30 ft high, funny how on a ladder that's shaking the whole time you're painting and trying to hold the ladder brush and the paint can at the same time it feel like so very much higher :)

So I haven't talked to one of my high school friends in years, literally, and I decided to email her the other day to see how she's doing .... 'i'm in college station now...i got a bunny....yeah'. Her response letter, 'i'm in barcelona studying humanities, going to madrid and ireland next week.....' and her letter continued with other super cool facts....I felt so dinky about my lettter....how cool is it that she's in barcelona! (if you can't tell i'm totally jealous, she's there for a whole year! wow!) Anywho, just thought everyone would like to know that Becca's in Spain, living up college...and I just found out Preston's getting married.....when did my high school friends turn into such independant adults with such cool exciting news!??!

So I was sick all weekend...it sucked...kinda a cold/flu thing...basically i was lazy and had no energy. i hate that feeling...like you have no problem with life moving on without you and your biggest concern is the number of times you've had to get out of bed to go pee.

ok i wasn't THAT lazy, i did make my lime green/puce hideously colored bike (that I had to steel the wheels from for my real bike that some idiot woman in san antonio hit!) so anyway i have this extra bike frame now, and i didn't want it to go to waste, so for about $20 i turned it into a stationary bike. i made a stand for the back tires and used the brakes to create tension on the gears so that it's actually a workout to pedal....i'm kinda excited...i feel like i achieved something....granted it took all weekend because i kept taking naps between each minor accomplishment (rotate a screw twice, nap, screw, nap....long process).

on sunday i went to the renessaince festival. my friend kept asking me cuz i think she felt bad that it was initially a couple thing and she kept talking about it in front of me while never inviting me, so as soon as it wasn't a couple thing, she invited me...constantly. i dunno....i had fun. i was tired though and we were there allll day. i feel like if i don't do things like that i'll miss out, but this time, i think i wish i didn't go....i spent $50 on admission, food, and cute wax roses, (majority went to admission though). i guess the best part was the ridiculously huge strawberry daquari...in one of those long plastic beakers - that was cool....i never had one of those.

Basically: I saw the incredibles the day it came out. (it was an adorable adult action/comedy....monsters inc is still my favorite). (ha....that had nothing to do with the rest of this submission...haha)

So my bunny was spayed yesterday....she's so sad today...clearly misses her ovaries or whatever they took out of her, and she's totally shaved. Her whole stomach is bare...and her arm where they gave her the IV has a bunch of hair missing :( But the crazy part is they  gave her anesthia and so it would have cost $345 if i didn't take her to a teaching college, this is markably the first moment i love a&m...i only paid $106. Thank God for A&M's small animal clinic...i couldn't have her unspayed (humping everything 2 days out of every 2 weeks) and could have bought a ticket to somewhere fun for what i should have paid!

Bottom Line: my baby is back to being a baby...there's no more adult female in her! :(

Ok...so I'm not sure why, but people who are way into sports annoy me...no. they don't annoy me, their possessive-ness annoys me. I realize the sports industry is there to get people involved and excited and wants to have fans, but really people, how is it "your" team if all you do is watch the game?  For example, as a newly created Aggie, any negative actions I take could negatively affect the view of aggies in general...but the aggie football team has no connection to me whatsoever....if the football team does something wrong, it would only affect my image as an aggie because they are other aggies. if i do something bad, it doesn't hurt the football team....thus i am no more connected to the football team as i am to the president of the university.

I only bring this up because of the whole Baylor thing...so the football team lost...i have a feeling we've lost many times before, why does this loss bring a fit of laughter to every longhorn? as i recall, ut lost to ou a bit ago when the aggies beat them....while i wasn't here, i'm pretty sure hillarium wasn't the feeling aggies had when ut lost to ou again.

Bottom (annoyed) Line: If people interested in following something they have absolutely no influence on, feel like sharing their thoughts on current events (that their influence is not felt)....share it with others so interested...please don't throw it in my face and talk about "your" team's victory blah blah blah. Your team...hahaha. I've now decided to start cheering for the weather....I'm for the sun....i hate all people who are for the clouds and will now make fun of them...they suck.