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.

I spent the weekend being entirely productive! (and extremely lazy too...) I fixed my garage door, finally fixed my bike, made a really slutty dress into an adorable nice skirt, hemmed my pants, got my palm pilot to play mp3's, got it to connect to the wireless internet too, and and and...um sure much more important things....the only thing left to do is my research and homework (haha)...oh oh oh most importantly!

There's this shirt from Victoria Secrets I've wanted for years (literally like 3) and could never rationalize spending so much for it...then I realized hello! it's still there and i've wanted it for this long...what's $30??! (of course once I got online i ended up spending like 90....oh oh oh and you remember those shoes that the stupid airlines lost that i absolutely adored? my ginder rodgers shoes? I couldn't find them anywhere, and thanks to ebay i found them brand new and for only $26 including shipping....life is soooo good! (and i just bought $15 of candy for trick or treaters...and if none come, hmmm it's all mine!) now i'm off to make cupcakes. I love halloween! I'm watching hocus pocus and it's just the cutest movie and the first time i saw it was with aunt esther :) there's so many famous people in it!

Bottom line: i was extremely busy this weekend while practically never leaving bed, and bought the shirt and shoes that have been missing from my life. ahh my life is complete!

'One fine day....you'll look at meeee.' I love that song...i think the movie's just too cute too! So i've been watching more chick flicks than normal and listening to girl music...and getting entirelly idealistic. I like being single, i really do - i love the freedom with my schedule and i kinda like not being in the middle of a crush, because my mind is clear - i'm not thinking about a certain you-know-who constantly....and while i think it would be nice to be dating someone, it's not something i need right now in life.

This has only surfaced as a problem these last few days - the cute songs and movies make me feel like i'm missing something. Shedaisy's song 'every kiss, before this was nothing but a waste of breathe, and every i love you was just a whoop dee doo, never knew what i missed, before this' is so undeniably cute that it makes me want to run out and date....but only for a song! here in grad school about 1/2 of the semi-desirables are married and the rest are in relationships. i know i'm kinda young compared to them, but to have so many married!

We went dancing in austin last weekend (my friend from college station and a few from austin) and had an absolute blast. There were all these semi-cute guys with nice bodies that kept trying to dance with us...my friend resorted to pretending she had a wedding ring to get them away. Sometimes when you just want a girl's night, why are all guys so insistent that it shouldn't happen? I'm not saying i never want to dance with guys, but why doesn't 'no thanks' mean what it says? Is there something wrong with just wanting to dance with your friends or just be single? I know a good many americans are currently single, but my guess is that they hide in the woodworks, avoiding all the couple-y places.

Listen up world:  I'm single. Not only is that a choice I made (not something imposed on me), but I'm happy with my decision... so live with it!