Ok so the real story: Yes Kim and Manda came over on Thursday night and we played monopoly and catch phrase and sorta the friends game and pigged out and had a real sleepover (we watched a really bad movie called 'sleepover', hehe). then the next morning we were discussing what to do and we were in my living room and I was facing my hideously 80's wall that the people left, and I was just saying I'm going to paint this eventually,, what do you think of light blue and they were like, that's what we can do! so i said...ok....are you sure?? I feel bad, and they're like, no we want to, so either they were lying to me or to their xanga...hmmm. But they did and great job and looked totally cute in my mom's hospital scrubs and i gave them dinner as their reward, haha. no it really was fun, even if i had to watch like 12 hours of sports. oh and the manda hair cutting thing: we both have short hair, i know how to cut short hair, and it came out pretty good...yea manda??

anywho after they left on sat i went and got some more stuff done then made these pillows to match my new wall. aren't they cute!?? And i added a pic of the wall the girls improved:

                           

(The pillows are powder blue and dark blue, some with chords around the pillow.) (The wall is a really nice powder blue).

Bottom line: manda and kim lie...i'm not a slave driver, i just expect my guests to earn their dinner :)

This semester's goals, because I know you all want to know this, but I'm mostly writing it because it's been on my to-do list for much too long, and there seems no permanent appropriate place to write it:

1. Work 20hrs per week at school (last semester I managed about 5, and i just felt guilty getting paid for doing almost nothing). I have a schedule so i should be at school everyday by 11am.

2. Eat healthier (save money by not eating out, and have lots of fruit and veggies). This means going to the grocery store more than once a month, but it can be done! Along with this I think I'm including minimize the drinking, not that I drank a lot over the last semester, just a few concentrated days that were bad, or rather the next day was very bad. Ok it gets its own goal

3. Don't drink.

4. Exercise 3 times a week - I feel really good when i exercise so this is good. To ensure I achieve this I plan to park in the last row of the parking lot every day so that's at least walking 0.25 mi to class and back....i'll measure tongiht.

5. Meet more people. I like to have a healthy social life and considering the most people I meet is at my first grade ccd class, that's just sad. I want to know more people that I can call when I'm bored, so the goal is actually: 'find more people who will let me store their number in my phone and answer when i occasionally call'.

Ok that's all I guess. I thought there was more. This is good, because I can totally do this. Notice there's nothing about getting better grades or pay more attention in class or anything, haha. Ok well. Like I care. Ok I have to run to class now. Yippee! (that's genuine excitement, I assure you!)

Bottom line: Eat healthier, drink less, exercise, meet people, and go to work mon-fri. wow, it looks like the only thing I won't be changing is my wardrobe.

At church tonight, I saw one of the kids from my first grade class for the first time! It was Ross, and he's a totally cute kid and waved really big when he saw me. It was so cute! I love how simple life in first grade was. One kid in class yells 'poop' and the whole class giggles...hehe. One girl in my class cries every time we do a fill in the blank because it's too hard. Man, the number of times I was doing homework last semester and wanted to do just that.

I think i'm in a rut. I dunno. I don't really enjoy my research. i don't dislike it, it's just that i don't care about it at all either. Classes are okay. the only thing keeping me in school and motivated is that I have a house that would be too much work to sell and if i did leave school i would have to get a real job and work 40 hours a week. It feels like i'm in the best of the worst situations I want to be in.

Hmm on second thought, maybe it's just that I've spent the last week in my room barely leaving, trying to avoid work. I miss first grade when it was so easy to make friends.  Everyone says moving is crappy because you have to make all new friends - in first grade that was no problem. Now, it's actually hard. In grad school everyone is married or a dork, or well I guess, me.  There's a college age group that meets at church that insists it's not a singles thing. I think I'll go. I can't wait for next wed to solve my next problems on a first grade level.

bottom line: based on first grade psychology, i think i'm in a rut, or maybe i just need to make more friends. I'll ask my first graders what they think this week (to which i'm sure the answer will be 'jesus' or 'poop')

Yeah! My room's done! I just bought all that furniture and my room was a mess cuz i hadn't unpacked or anything, but now it looks awesome! I'm so excited! I no longer have a dorm room, I finally have an adult looking room! yeah! Oh meanwhile I haven't done 5 minutes of work....whoops. Ok...now this bores me. I don't even want to put a bottom line, so sorry suckers. back to family guy :)

We got a dog! I forgot to tel you! her name is Joy and she's a champion show dog, but she has diabetes, so she's retired. She's totally funny because she doesn't understand what petting is, and has no idea how to play. ok not funny, it's sad. it shows how much of a monster her past owners were. she's gorgeous though. picture to come! :) I decided she needed her own entry even though the last entry was written like 10 min ago. Oh ps she's an american eskimo just like minnie and candy :) she doesn't look much like them though.

P.S. (post-script): joy is s a totally pretty 3 yr old eskie, and she's totally cute!

so i'm back at college. sorta. i got my new furniture this morning...it was more than i could afford, but then what else are college loans for!? you'll have to come visit it and see it. My room looks totally different now, well mostly because it's a mess b/c i'm completely redecorating it. soon though...

skiing was awesome. linds and i took lessons for the first time in a while and found out what we were doing wrong. it turns out we're decent skiiers now...a level 6 or 7 on a scale of 9. yea! the teacher said we could go teach kids how to ski if we wanted. mmm....new dream. screw the masters prog and go ski for a few years.  :)

seeing my family in idaho was way fun. my cousins are cool .... they've reached my maturity level...(they're 15 and 12). hehe what does that say? my grandpa was way cool too. we got a pic with him and his eagle from where he volunteers.

then i went to colorado springs to visit my sorority sisters, and celebrate a marraige (that was in alaska over christmas). it was fun. i got to see my 3rd cousin at the air force academy - i now really appreciate how privelaged  and free my college life was. Oh and i got to drive a golf cart (a first) without having to go golfing! and i drove my friend's mom's mustang. yeah!

ok so i'm back here...and i'm ready for a brand new semester. I really hope manda and kim come see me tomorrow. I barely saw anyone over christmas. Plus if i clean up tonight it would really suck if they don't cuz i could have spent that time working. (come!). ok back to work!

one liner: christmas was so great, i'm going to quit school and be a ski instructor, as soon as i pay off my new furniture.

Wow....that was awesome Harpreet...read his comment on his last entry. I think we should all email him to get funny things like that said on a somewhat daily basis for our amusement. Harpreet should definately write a xanga....dun dun dunnn.....dooo it..

So Christmas has been a blast. My family played games for 3 days straight, interuppted by a few fights as every Christmas needs (and would be expected for 4 people confined to a table for 72 hours).

On a somewhat related note, I love giveing presents, but never know how to receive them. What is the believable amount of interest and appreciation for something you're not sure you want or don't really think is pretty. Should I just suck it up and say thank you then never wear it, or pretend at the time, and ask for a receipt at a later time. I would hope people would tell me....damn that's ugly liberachi. why did you ever get it for me? what were you thinking!? Ok mayble not that harshly, but I think i'd want to know. Along those lines, i got my mom a banana hammock cuz it's just funny and she said a while ago that they were the stuipdest invention she'd ever seen. It was cheap and only a gag, and it was from santa, so she got really nice really cool presents from me too. she didn't think it was as funny as lindsey and i did. does no one get our/my humor??

Chels and tina and tiff and liz and some boy came over last night and we played turbo cranium. It was wicked fun. It's funny though, I think I can be totally not competetive when someone else brings the game (like I don't think I was too bad playing that game about rules etc) but then we played Catch Phrase (my game) and it killed me that people were breaking the rules. Why??? I could let it slide for someone else's game, but insisted for my game it had to be played correctly. interesting. coltrol maybe....but that doesn't make sense. i dunno! Happy boxing day (dec 26th) and umm i'm going shopping now! bye!