alex and i made the paper! yaaay.

if you haven’t already, VOTE! i cast my vote several weeks ago.

go obama! it’s time to take back america and set things right again!

…especially yesterday, has been REALLY busy, but very fun. i had a great time working the haunted house at the library. my costume (i was mrs. lovett from sweeney todd) gave me an excuse to use a cockney accent…i loved it. i got a lot of compliments on my costume…i think i did a really good job putting it all together. i’m quite proud of myself. as for the haunted house, it turned out GREAT! suzy and i worked pretty hard putting it together the past few weeks, and we made about 5 kids cry (one of whom kept stubbornly insisting that it was “all fake” inside and that she wasn’t scared of anything) and lots of them scream. it was so fun, we could’ve had our own small business for sale just working on haunted houses this time of year!

ryan, bethany, alex, and i went to winn dixie shortly after that to get all the ingredients for hunch punch. we ended up having a LOT of punch left over, but a lot of people canceled on me at the last minute. maybe next time, i’ll just take up donations in advance before i spend money on wasted liquor. =/

after that, bethany and alex had fun carving pumpkins. annie came back from albany and brought with her 3 new fish for me! i was pretty excited since all the fish i’ve ever had have kicked the bucket somehow…yes, p-diddy, my lovely puffer, passed away last week. anyway, after all that, we ate at wooden nickel for dinner, and then everyone came back to my apartment to do whatever and drink. my wii enjoyed some much-needed playtime. i’m surprised the batteries in my camera aren’t dead, i took so many pictures!

i’m very grateful to everyone who came by, called, texted, left facebook/myspace messages, etc. for me yesterday. thank you all so much for the birthday wishes! i’m also glad annie and bethany drove all the way from atlanta to valdosta for the festivities! i have some extraordinary people in my life; my friends are great at making me feel loved and appreciated. all in all, it was a good 23rd birthday. =)

everyday, i’m hustlin’!

and got the following response from alex:

Are you in a good mood right now?
i’m alright, but i’ll be happier when i get off.

That’s what she said!!!

hahahaha.

i cleared out some of my memory cards and looked through all the sister hazel pictures i took the other night. some of them are really good, especially once beka and i managed to make our way through to the front of the stage.

the assignments i have due within the next few weeks for my reference class are rather overwhelming. i have 2 groupmates, and one of them is all gung-ho about getting this first portion of the project done ASAP when it’s due monday. i don’t mind somebody taking the leader position in a group, but her fellow groupmates are still quite confused over what the professor wants of us in the assignment. the good thing is that the professor is awesome, so she’s holding a live classroom session tomorrow night to explain the whole project…which my groupie and i both need. so little miss group leader needs to just chill the eff out for the time being. =P

my birthday is saturday. it’s going to be a busy, busy day…from volunteering at the haunted house at work that morning to seeing my parents when they come to town that afternoon to a party that night….ahh! but overall, i’m pretty excited. i just hope i’m not exhausted once it’s time to party.

finally, i took a really big step today towards setting my life right. i’m pretty proud of myself for that.

i actually heard it in old navy and fell in love with it, lol. it’s called “the world should revolve around me” and it’s by little jackie. the beat’s infectious and it’s a great girl power anthem.

in other news, i think i did poorly on my test today…but i have A’s in everything else, so i should be okay.

“wear it out the way a three-year-old would do. melt it down; you’re gonna have to eventually, anyway.”

i saw sister hazel in concert tonight on the lawn at VSU. they were really, really good. i got a setlist and got it autographed, too. it’s awesome. they played my favorite songs by them– “your winter” and “thank you.” i felt kind of silly not knowing the lyrics to most of the songs, though (i hate it when that happens), but i still enjoyed them. the band that opened for sister hazel was called ocean street. they were really, really good. i got to talk to the drummer and rhythm guitarist…they are both hot…the drummer, especially. alex said he was giving me the eye, but i totally think she was just saying that to make me feel nice. anyway, look them up on myspace. you won’t regret it.

i’ve got to go to macon this weekend. i have lots of homework to do in my off-time and lots to do before i sleep tonight…so why am i blogging? i have to be up in 5 1/2 hours.

i’m really glad carli’s calmed down since she got fixed. she loves me again, and i love her. for the first time since she was a kitten, i love her again. that sounds bad, but there’s a sliver of truth to it. she was driving me fucking bananas.

i will be glad once monday is over…then i have a temporary break from classwork…and that’s a great big “temporary.”

i got my tattoos touched up on thursday. they look really, really good. that’s been one of the best things about this week.

i turn 23 one week from today.

and that’s really about it in the life of me lately.

this past weekend, my family and i joined some family friends for a vacation in bryson city, north carolina. we rented a HUGE cabin and stayed from friday through monday. saturday, we spent time riding the great smoky mountains train around the mountains. while i enjoyed myself, i was rather disappointed that the train only went back the way it came rather than around the mountain…but i guess the folks who built the railroad in the 1800s did what they had to do. sunday, the younger bunch of us all went to pigeon forge, but i stayed with the “older” people and rode the scenic parkway. i was glad i went riding that instead of shopping! the sights were way too gorgeous. after that, we went to cherokee and i went to a casino for the first time. cherokee is no las vegas nevada by any means, but a casino is a casino. haha. it was…interesting, to say the least. there were lots of little old ladies toting their cash, a drink, cigarettes, and their oxygen tank from slot machine to slot machine…no kidding. i could certainly see how this stuff is addictive, though. i ended up blowing $15. i accumulated $13 or so from slots but spent it again on slot machines! ahh. anyway, it was still fun.

by the time monday morning rolled around, i was ready to head back to civilization. no, seriously…our cabin was gorgeous and huge and amazing and secluded right in the seat of the mountains, but that sort of seclusion from civilization creeps me out to an extent. besides, i was ready to get back to my apartment to see carli (who gets her stitches out tomorrow). i have a LOT of school work to do (i did some mild textbook reading during our vacation, but nothing that amounted to anything of real importance, unfortunately). this weekend is macon weekend…i think i’m going to skip out on visiting atlanta this time around and use my free time to work on school stuff. i’m doing pretty well so far; i just don’t want to fall drastically behind. speaking of, while beka cheers on the phillies, i’m going to spend a good 15 minutes looking over a case study.

i present to you bon qui qui.

don’ inarup’. roodt.