I got my haircut today-at an Aveda beauty school. It took 3 hours!! Yikes! But it was free (can't beat that price), and it actually turned out pretty cute. Shorter than I was planning on, but it will be easier and cooler for the summer weather.

Our friends are apartment managers and they offered me a job cleaning apartments, since they know we're poor and need moolah. So I cleaned an apartment this afternoon. My first, and my last. It was hellacious. Everything has to be spotless. SPOTLESS. There's even this stuff called Stainless Steel Magic to make sure your sink has no spots. It took over 5 hours. And the place was already clean! The whole time I'm thinking, "I don't clean MY house this good, why should I clean someone else's????" Even if I AM mexican, I don't like cleaning houses!!!

Tomorrow we're going to Chicago. Derrick's brother is in town for a work conference so we're going to go hang out with him before he flies out tomorrow night. He's taking us to Wildfire, which he swears has the best steaks in the country. We'll see. And by a stroke of coincidence, my high school boyfriend, Tommy, is going to be in Chicago this weekend as well. So we are going to meet up with him tomorrow after dinner. I haven't seen him in about 4 years. I'm sure there will be awkwardness between him and Derrick, but I've met his exes before, so what's the big deal? Besides, we're still friends, why should we stop just because I'm married?

Anyway, we're leaving early, so I should get to bed. Later gators!

Withdrawals

Today was traumatic for me. Apparently my ISP, who happens to be AT&T, was experiencing a 5-state internet outage, and would not be up and running until 7pm tonite. It was during this outage that I realized just exactly how addicted I am to the internet. Really quite disturbing. I'm surprised I didn't break out into a cold sweat and get the shakes. Honestly, it was this side of 10 years that I was using encyclopedias for research, calling the airline up to book a flight, and either looking for a phone booth or waiting to get home to make a call. What the heck happened?i Technology happened, that's what. And you know what?? I love it. I love seeing people on their cell phones walking around campus. I love seeing little white earbuds in 75% of the population's ears. I think I'm a pretty techno-suave person. I mean, I'm no programming geekazoid, but I can troubleshoot with the best of them.

But today I was concerned for myself. Can you imagine if I were some high up business exec?? I'd never talk face to face with anyone if I didn't have to!! I can see it now. Me IM'ing my kids from the computer in the kitchen telling them to come down to dinner. Calling them on their cell phones when they're in the backyard on the trampoline telling them it's time for bed.

Oh geez.

Good news: Kelly Pickler got voted off! Hooray! She was endearing in the beginning, but dang if she just didn't turn out to be THE most annoying person the face of the Earth. Plus, she's not cute. And she wears WAAAAAY too much makeup. I'm pretty sure she uses a putty knife to put it on. Blech.

Ok, I have a patho exam tomorrow. I really should be studying....But hey, I have a lot of sufing to make up for...

What up yo. Another week gone. Ho hum, ho hum. Nothing too exciting happening. I did get As on my last two tests, so that's good.

Went to a Brewer's Game tonite. They lost. But it was still fun. Dollar dogs and drinks. Hooray! And my hot dog won the Weiner Race, so bonus.

I seem to go thru this funk every spring. Without going into too much detail that needn't be shared, I always have to have this inner battle with myself and convince myself of certain things that I can't really change. It sucks, really. I really want to live my life without regrets, but honestly, I have some. And it blows. But I have to live with what's what, and that's that. It makes me sad sometimes.

You know what else makes me sad? Britney dropping her baby. Can't I have Ooops-I-Did-It-Again-Britney? She was my favorte. I don't like the new White-Trash-Britney.

What doesn't make me sad, tho, is that we booked our tickets to NYC last night! Yay! Now we just have to figure out what show we want to see while we're there. I want to see Beauty and the Beast, but Derrick's seen it like 3 times and says it wasn't that good anyway. I want to see Rent--we'll see if I can convince Derrick of that...

You know who sucks? Jade on America's Next Top Model. She's a biatch. And she's ugly.

Who know who doesn't suck? Elliot Yamin on American Idol. He's the best. I vote for him every week. What a stud. I'd post pictures, but I'm just too lazy right now.

Perhaps I shall have something more interesting to share next time. Happy weekend!

Next!

So screw the Friday Features. They will never flourish. Dead before they are even born.

This past weekend we went down to Champaign-Urbana to visit friends. It was nice to catch up with them, but it was sooooooooooo boring. They have an 11 month old girl, who still does not sleep through the night because mom runs to her at her EVERY PEEP. Crap, if I knew I was going to get held is I rolled over, I wouldn't sleep either! And when she's down, everyone has to be SILENT. We tried watching Narnia, which I have wanted to see forever, but it was sooo quiet I could't hear a damn thing and I got pissed and fell asleep. These friends have lived there for a year, but she has never been on campus, nor has she left the town once. They do not know the area, the good places to eat, anything interesting to see. I would go absolutely MAD if I didn't know how to get around my city or know what there was to see, do, and eat. Maybe because when I was growing up we lived in so many places and my dad was really into seeing everything about the place. The city, the rest of the state. We never flew anywhere, we always drove. "We live in a great country, and I want you kids to see as much of it as you can", he would always say. I appreciate that now. Especially since Derrick grew up wiping his butt with 50 dollars bills, and his entire family of 10 would fly to vegas from LA on a whim. Sure he's been all over the world, but I've got him beat on State Counts! So we got there Friday night, and needless to say, by Saturday we were already bored silly. So Sunday morning we decided to get the heck out and drive down to Springfield and check out the capitol and all of the Lincoln Historical Sites. It was actually pretty cool. We toured his home and his tomb, which is MASSIVE. Took lots of pictures. The 3 hours we spent in Springfield were more fun than the 36 we spent in Champaign. I think it's good to be around friends with kids, because it always gives me ideas of things I do and don't want to do.

Monday I started the Special K diet. Which means I have a bowl of Special K for breakfast and lunch, and all the fruits and veggies I want, and then eat a normal dinner. I'm supposed to lose 6 pounds in 2 weeks. Not that I'm looking to lose weight really, but I need to tone up my gut if I want to look semi-decent in my bikini at the beach. We've been walking outside this week to get our blood pumping, and I think it's working. I just needed some kind of jump start. Besides, Special K with Strawberries is freaking GOOD.

Only 4 more weeks of school. Hallelujia. I'm already half checking out mentally. I did get a 94% on my last Patho test. Go me.

It's been gorgeous weather lately. I hope it stays that way. No more snow, weather gods!!!

Time for lunch!

I am a culinary disgrace

Last night I was making dinner, just like every other night. I made homemade mac 'n' cheese--YUM!--and was trying a new chicken recipe--Ranch Roasted Chicken. It was just like any other night. Well, I put the chicken on my Pampered Chef stoneware baking sheet and popped it into my 425 degree oven, just like the recipe said. Well, Derrick and I were cleaning up the kitchen a bit, taking out trash, putting dishes away, and we heard a sound like something falling. I thought it was just the trash bag settling or something. Didn't really think anything of it. Well, I peek on the chicken to see how it's doing, and the stoneware had a HUGE CRACK right down the middle!!! It was now in 3 pieces, 2 major halves and a little triangle from one of the halves. We just stared at it! In the meantime, chicken juices and oily marinade are dripping onto my oven floor. So I grab a metal cookie sheet and put it on the rack under the other one and close the oven to look for something I can transfer my chicken to. Well, I find something and open the oven only to find FLAMES ON THE BOTTOM OF MY OVEN!!! My oven was on FIRE!!! I freaked out! I had no idea what to do! I didn't know if I could throw water on it, since it was oily. I couldn't pat it out with the racks in the way. I was a complete idiot just standing there and screaming that there's a fire in my oven! And the smoke detector starts going off, which makes things more chaotic. Well, Derrick just grabs a cup of water and nonchalantly tosses it on the fire and it goes out. I have never caught anything in my kitchen on fire before! Well, I guess except for the time I microwaved a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in it's foily package and it sparked and caught fire and made the inside completely black and blistered....but that was in college..that doesn't count, right?? Anyway, it's not really my fault the stone cracked, is it? It's the Pampered Chef's fault! Now if I only knew an active consultant to get a new stone....

I'm so glad it's Thursday--the end of my week! Hooray! I just took a Patho test, which I feel pretty good about. That's always a good feeling.

Tomorrow I think I'm going to start a new Friday Feature. Seeing as how the Friday Quizzes didn't turn out too well, we'll see how long THIS one lasts.

Pure Genius

First, I shall start by basking in my win:



Isn't that nice. :)

It has been quite miraculous lately--the sun is out! It's shining and the sky is blue and it's sooo nice! When I get in my car, it's hot! HOT! I truly cannot believe it. Nor can I believe that it will last. :(

So thanks to my connection I have to the beauty products industry, I have in my possesion a supply of Hylexin which I am super excited to try. So far I've only used it for a day, so I can't really tell if it's working or not. But I've only read rave reviews about it, so hopefully I'm on my way to dark circle free eyes! (Although I secretly hope it doesn't, because I really don't want to shell out a hundred bucks for it!)

I've decided that I don't much like me as a person right now. So I'm going to start being a better, nicer, person. I think I can do it. Hopefully I can. Because right now, I sorta suck.

We're going to Illinois this weekend to visit friends. Hopefully it's fun. I know the guy, but I'm not super good friends with the wife. And they have a kid, so that's one less thing we have in common. See, there I go again. I need to focus on the things we DO have in common. I've become much too negative lately. I think it's going to school that's doing it. I'm letting those punk UWM kids get me down. I need to rise above it and be the nice person everyone likes. Not that people don't like me, but I just want to be known as that really nice girl. Who doesn't want that?

Anyway, I have lots of studying and homework to do. Test on Thursday, paper due Thursday. Lots to do until the end of the semester. Oh, and if you want free yummy food, go to Noodles & Co. and sign up for their noodlegrams. You can get the yummiest mac 'n' cheese for free! Hooray!