daughter, girlfriend, cowgirl!

Thanksgiving was a blast. I was able to go to my house with my family (bad brother who didnt show up and his wife.. grrrr) and we ate and talked and ate some more. That was a fun afternoon. Then, D and I went back to the dorms with the others and we hung around and talked. Friday morning, we went shopping real quick - I got some good deals on presents (altho mom went shopping and got herself what i bought for her christmas present :P) and then we headed for D's parent's house.

There, we made food like crazy. She had a basket with all the different things we could do to get ready for dinner and as you finished one, you started another. We were able to get dinner done by about 2pm and had a lot of fun in the meantime. I made another pie and cranberries (love them like that - the fresh kind) and then helped decorate the table. We ate and enjoyed the desert and then played cards all night. Then we watched movies....

/side rant inc!

I hated the christmas movie.. The Polar Express. That was creepy, boring and just plain ugly. I was bored about twenty minutes into it and slowly became disturbed by some of the creepy elements and the animations - made everything feel like a plastic sheet covered everyones faces and smoothed out too much and was undead... so to speak. Never will watch that again! Ever.

... we watched movies and then went to bed late. The next day, Saturday, we made yet another big meal with chicken rice soup and some leftover turkey dinner makings and then went tramping all over their land and forest to find the perfect christmas tree for their friends. The first one we saw actually turned out to be the best one, so after walking about and crunching through snow for an hour, we came back and cut it down. Bingo, their dog, was hilarious and wanted to pee on every branch we passed and flounced through all the snowy caps. I got whipped by one too many bare branches but had a fun time throwing snow at D. We then played cards some more, ate a bit more and then watched a bit 'o TV. I went to bed at 11pm and got up at 11am hehe. Don't know.. maybe it was the long walk... but i was enjoying the long sleep.
When we were sitting in the living room we all of a sudden noticed a bunch of their cows meandering across the road. We threw on our outside clothes and ran out there. Some in a truck ended up herding them back our way, I took a corner and made them turn left and then D made them turn into the fence on their right. It was awesome - id never seen anthing like that before.

Then we ate lunch and headed home, drove slow on account of the ice and then ended up at my moms house - she ordered take out and we set up her christmas tree. I had to work so we left and now ive been sitting here since six pm. Gah - working on my paperwork for my PHD applications. I'm surprised they dont want a pint of blood and my genealogy to make sure i will be admitted. /sigh And two want the subject GRE and another doesn't have the program I need... so basically 2 seem to be it...

what am I gonna do???!

What a night

Harry Potter was had - and all rejoiced /yaaaay

A Happy Birthday to Aspen - who is all kinds of Awesomeness! . . . and we all rejoiced /yaay

And, the bed beckons to me with soft cushiness and snuggley dreaminess . .. and I rejoiced /yaaaazzzzzzzzzzz'''''

My to do

• Work on my OWN work for once
• Ignore some people who expect too much
• Redo my Statement of Purpose
• Finish up my rough draft of dragon essay
• Make a list of colleges and the list of people for recommendations
• Ask for recommendations tomorrow
• go to lunch in the union at 11am tomorrow with D and get this taken care of
• pick up aspen at 3:30 for Harry Potter Tickets
• Find something
• Throw up my hands in reaction to some stuff going on /ignore on
• Talk to others about Mondays meeting
• Water my plant - it's lookin a bit limp
• Wash dishes
• get my moms things back to her this weekend
• Go to Applebees for Aspens Bday
• Talk to Alan about Thanksgiving
• Check out bills
• put up Christmas decorations
• Find some time for myself again - i loved the fact that I finished my purple/black crochet blanket and watched Moonlighting until class. What a nice break that was.

Too much sugar! - I think my intelligence went down to a 12 yr old - who says im turning 27 in 4 months? BAH

Aya- Library-Midnight says:

RAAAwwwweeeerrrrrrr I am the ghost of Library coldness,,, feel my wrath GRAAAAWWWR

Aya- Library-Midnight says:

<---ate too much chocolate

J- says:

haha

Aya- Library-Midnight says:

bored bored bored cold cold cold bleh bleh bleh harry potter harry potter raaaawr

J- says:

hehe i cant wait to see, not sure if i should go thursday since i work late then have to be back up early....ugg but i want to see

Aya- Library-Midnight says:

harry potter is the schnizzle it has the love of a fizzle i wanna eat it and love it all day but gimme a thick fluffy sweater before i get tooo colday

Jeremy- says:

lol

Aya- Library-Midnight says:

yah yah see harry potter

J- says:

could rearange all the library books based on which ones you like best and make a aya section

Aya- Library-Midnight says:

omg stoopid choco caffiene

Aya- Library-Midnight says:

oooOOOooo

Aya- Library-Midnight says:

i *was* doing something.. i was writing an essay on DRAGONS

Aya- Library-Midnight says:

wheeeeeee wyrms, worms, drakes, dragons... yupyup, scaley, soft bellied, fire breathing, slithery, web footed dragons

Aya- Library-Midnight says:

oh oh and dont forget eeeeeeeevil

Aya- Library-Midnight says:

oh and listening to christmas music

Aya- Library-Midnight says:

HEHEHE

Aya- Library-Midnight says:

did i scare you, you gone!

Aya- Library-Midnight says:

raaawr

I have a real life pause button!

hmm 400th post! hehe whoot?

OH, BTW, happy 400th post to Aspen too!

Craziness subsided and not so insane atm. I was so frustrated earlier that all I could do was make you a nice picture to show what my mind looked like at that moment.

Everything better now.

I cleaned my room from top to bottom... except my closets and under bed - but those would take an extra hour. I turned on my Christmas music on Launch and instantly felt better as I opened my windows wide and started putting things away and organizing again. I actually have a desk counter!

I missed eating lunch with my friends - but I ended up going up to DE's office and we talked about my thesis and what I needed to add. Sorry guys!

I then stopped at the Student Affairs office and was basically told that they didn't usually get a Literature test packet and wouldn't have a fair chance of getting to take the test. /sigh

GRRRR

My Station

Featuring: Massive Attack, Enigma, Enya, The Prodigy, The Crystal Method, DJ Micro, London Symphony Orchestra, Orbital, Télépopmusik, Sneaker Pimps, Moby...

I guess this is my most recent list of favorites that I listen to constantly. :-)

Manic Monday - I'm gonna take the red pill

Yep, starting my craaaazzzy Monday a bit later than others.

Worked on German for 6 hours last night at work - YIPES. This is why I can't take it next semester. This has to be it. On the way home from work last night I drove by Maple Hall and some little freshman bas***ds shined a really bright light (spotlight?) into the front windows of my car and another behind me as we were driving through the parking lot. Do they not KNOW that there are people walking about and to try and not hit anyone, we need to be able to SEE? /RANT

Today I have a few things I need to do:

• Dry my hair - hehe
• Go to Wally's for lunch
• E-Mail Iris about Dec. 1
• Finish up my German Worksheets
• Leave room by 2pm
• Stop by Sanford to ask about Subject GRE (stand-by)
• Stop by Deanna's office with my rough draft of thesis proposal
• Hunt down my list of people I'd like Letter of Recommendations from
• go to German
• Come home
• Eat dinner with D
• Talk to Aspen about Harry Potter
• Wash clothes
• Make agenda for my OHC meeting tonight
• Wash clothes more
• Work on Grad paperwork
• 8:30pm - OHC meeting
• Work some more on paperwork

What a nice Sunday

First off, went through my fav. comics on the right side-bar and this is some of my favorites atm: Snuggliness and Beautiful Fat by Mows.

I have yet another to do list for tonight while I work:

• German Bericht uber Max und Moritz
• German weisses Blatt
• German 6. Aufsatz
• Revisit my Thesis Proposal and Bibliography
  
• Look into an intro to my essay for Tolkien
• Clean up my folders and notebook
• Look at essays for my University Admissions
  

A long weekend

Ah, the drizzlyness of the weekend was a good topper - I loved it.

Thursday night I worked until midnight and then came home and passed out pretty quickly. Friday morning I got up, showered and headed straight for H's house. I picked her up and we went shopping for spackle, paint, fabrics, screws, staples, etc. It was crazy. Then, at 3pm we got back and we fixed the walls and began painting her walls a dark dark tinted primer. D came over for a bit and helped us patch some larger sections of wall before that.

Then, when that dried, we then painted the dark red paint on it and we left to let that dry. We went to my moms house after measuring her 2 closet doors, window and doorway and sewed up 7 large panels - a flowy white. We were done with that by 10:30pm and got back to her place and we then did touch ups on paint and then prepped the floor. We swept and scrubbed until it was clean and then cracked open a box of her tiles. Beautiful - they were the easiestt to lay on the floor and all I did was the sides and corners as the other girls, H and A (H and her friend) placed the large one pieces. We kept working until 3am and then H and I came to my room and passed out until 10.

We then went back to her house, cleaned up a bit and finished painting any little spots. The girls put up the white panels we sewed the night before and we (I and Aspen) began stapling the black shiny fabric to the ceiling. That turned out awesome - but H needs to go buy some kind of fringe or ribbon to cover up the staples.

Then, we cleaned up and began to put all of her decorations up - she had boxes full of things that she had collected over the years.

calmed down *slightly*

Check this baby out:

• Go to Sanford - beg and plead to sign up and be put on a waiting list or something for GRE Subject Test
• Go to Sanford - spend another $130 for the GRE General Test before Nov. 4th
• Make sure I send all the scores to the right colleges
• Find out what the right colleges are within 2 days or by next monday
• Talk to ppl about Letters of Recommendation
• Send for Transcripts from UNT (spend more money I dont have) -/cry
  
• Order Transcripts from BSU (another wad of cash)
• Choose some writing samples from the past to send to Universities
• Make contact with the colleges - by cell-phone - buy some minutes!
• Write my thesis proposal
  
• get together my bibliography (wow, what brilliant use of grammar whoot)

Oh, the most important thing: PHD materials are due on December 20th!!!

omg, bad bad bad bad bad aya

Yep, totally freaking out

BAD BAD

cannot believe I waited
OMG it's horrible - please please please all work out

/cringes in mortal pain in the stomach - im going to get an ulcer I can tell

ARGH

basically, I wanna go hide under my bed for a few minutes, come out and find out it is last year at this time


I can't believe I did this to myself /sigh

Energy - Igotsmesomewings!

WellIamtotallyhyperactiveandwanna
gettoworkandheadovertothelibrary
andgetthatdonerightnowandhaveit
betomorrowandfridayalready.

todolist:

• Organizemythesisfolder
• printoutcopiesofmyemails
• ReadthroughBurntNjalandwriteinnotes

ahhh - enjoying the scent from my flowers i bought at the store the other day. They smell like weeds buttheyarepurpleandgorgeous!

• workthroughsomeGerman
• readsomemoreofmyLordoftheRings

A short weekend

Well, for starts - this weekend was short but fun.

Friday night, couple friends, I and D went to MacBeth. Even after I have studied and read this tragedy, *I* couldn't understand half of it hehe. I got the gist of the whole play, but was quickly lost during all of the speeches. The students did a wonderful job and I always enjoy a great performance. As a Beowulf fan, I loved the severed head being tossed toward the crowd and the loud *thump* accompanied.

On Saturday we all got up at 6:30 (D at 7am) and got into Aspens car and headed to the cities. That was a fun trip between all of us. We were then fed a huge Turkey dinner by my aunt. Fabulous! Then we all talked and got ready for the play "Grease" that my cousin was in. She did a wonderful job and we enjoyed the music. We then stayed up a bit late and chatted and then passed out from the lack of "college sleep" - the 9+ hours we like to get.

Yesterday, we spent some time at my Aunt and Uncles place while the men folk went hunting. They would walk in with their long underwear and we'd all start laughing. That stuff is hilarious. We left at noon and headed home. Got here at 4pmish - even when we stopped at Treasure City!

I'm leaving you with my usual to do list:

• Put away clothes
• Check bills
• German Homework
• Hall Council Agenda
• Shower and get dressed
• Eat @ Wallys
• Look at Grad School info and file it
• Work on the Thesis Proposal

Ms. BrightSide

Halloween

That was crazy! I hope to put pictures up (Aspen took some during the night) and to find any articles on it.

Basically I was going on 4 hours of sleep, Pizza and Mt. Dew. We still made the whole thing in time and it went as smoothly as possible. We had one injury involving a slamming door and my boss' finger - but she is OK and has gone in to see a doctor. She didn't even stop giving tours - she kept going!

Everybody was wonderful and fun to work with!

I, personally, just fell off a short ladder and cut my right hand and now it's just sore. But, it wasn't bad! I think we are all sore today, though. That was a long 4+ hours of actual haunted house and then 50+ setting up.

We made a lot of money to replace what we spent, to save money for next year and then to give a lot to charity. Yay! Met and surpassed our goal.

Now - I am working on thesis, German, Tolkien and going to that iceland exchange program.

My to do list:

1. E-mail former members of OHC
2. E-Mail Iceland Professor
3. Write up a short intro to Galadriel
4. Work on German some
5. Go through the Tolkien Essay I need to write
6. Work on my thesis proposal again