I'm just SHO thankful!

A loud "UGH" found it's way out of my mouth when I noticed the christmas lights shining through my apartment window and a snowman wreath hanging on my door. Oh Mandy, you cynical, cynical human, you. "UGH??" Really? Why not "Yay, I didn't have to buy any decorations this year!" Guess living with strangers has altered my attitude about the whole thing. I usually enjoy decorating for Christmas and I usually love spending time with roommates during Christmas break! But, I'm starting to dread sharing the break with my roommates and I shouldn't- they're nice enough girls. This is bad. Very bad. Especially since break is what? 3 weeks long? Double UGH.

I want there to be a drug I can take that forces me to do my homework. HA. I can never get myself to do it until lastlastlastlast minute. Which is a huge problem because I have a 10 page paper due December 6 and I haven't even read the instructions for it. The instructions were given weeks ago! Actually.. more like MONTHS ago! Ugh. The closer the due date comes, the more stressed out I am, and the more incapable I am of starting my paper. What a nasty cycle!

In honor of Thanksgiving and the need to be more positive about life, here are a few things I'm thankful for:

Important list:
family
best friends
old roommates
freedom
religion
health
food
work
clothes
shelter
transportation
THE SUN

Unimportant list:
amazon
wit
justin bieber .. and all the other ridiculous under-aged, over-paid pop artists
these reviews on itunes about a kesha song:

dancing
animal crackers
horrible engagement pictures
horrible profile pictures
sleep
really tall trees
old people
summer, fall, WINTER
like a G6
this urban dictionary definition of slizzard:swollen lymph nodes = NOT thyroid cancer
[^had a little scare over the break]
2 jobs
christmas break
not having to work the morning of black friday
junk food
free time
live music
blogs that list
good literature
the time and will to read good literature
good drivers
apple
art, specifically this:

by allison schulnik

pianos, banjos, violins

letters
my giraffe shaped possessions
the farm
music that reminds me of my dad
being warm
2/$1 midnight milkyways at smith's
movies that aren't scary
conversations with elicia:
the ability to avoid twilight fever
cheese: the quality of being too obviously sentimental
microwaves
kind strangers
good hygiene
college
layers
breakfast
good looking people

.. I could go on forever, so I'm just going to end there because, well, remember that paper I'm supposed to write? I've got a lot more to do than just that.

- Maybe It's A Tradition -

Sometimes I wonder why I would stay up all night so I could ride in the car 30 minutes to the closest Denny's (Tremonton) and have free breakfast at 5:50 A.M. then ride in the car 45 minutes (we missed the exit the first time, ha) to home. Maybe it's tradition, since Elicia, Megan and I went last year also. Free breakfast that early in the morning seems a tiny bit crazy.. I don't usually eat until 9 anyway, at which point I would still be hungry even if I ate at 5:50 in the A.M. Get what I'm saying? Ha.

^ Macky, the roommate one who drove to Denny's.

^Megan Bell closing her eyes to the brightest flash you'd ever see.

^5:00 looking like a huge stoner.

^So cold and icy outsidE!

^ MMMM.

The last time I stayed up for all hours of the night was probably last spring. No doubt I only do it when I have good cause to, and last night that was the case. A) Because I had to be awake long enough to go to Denny's. B) Mackenzie and I beat a level of Katamari Damacy that I've been STUCK ON FOREVER. C) Mackenzie and I baked the pieces out of cookie dough ice cream to see if it would make cookies.. And THAT my friends.. was an event worth while. Ha.

^ Abigail tried to stay up all night but wasn't successful.

^Our little cookie dough morsels. ^Not cooked.^Cooked.

^ The result.
Rock hard wanna-be-cookie chips.

*100% Wouldn't recommend the above activity.

- Love Like Poetry -

"Tear the roof off my life
and gut out my insides.
Hold me closer, hold me closer"

Sometimes I wish we lived in the world of Ash Ketchum. .. Where all that matters is becoming a Pokemon master of the universe by battling and winning gym badges.

This week has been one from.. the "H" word. I got lashed upon by a teacher (and it's going to happen again tomorrow because the dang museum I have to go to is only open from 10:00-5:00 and I couldn't make it in the last 48 hours), I pulled an all nighter to get my painting done. I was let down by my 'best friend', I failed a Computer Science test, I miserably and embarrassingly bombed my presentation in History of Photography- so bad I want to hide under my covers when I look at my class materials, I got in/ am in a fuster (not a real word) with someone who is really important to me, I couldn't make it to the Tax Tea Party, I won't be able to make it to GIRLTALK tomorrow at the U, and I could keep going.. WHY DOESN'T THE EARTHQUAKE JUST HAPPEN RIGHT NOW.. MAYBE IT'LL IMPROVE MY LIFE. < < < < That's a joke. I never EVER want that earthquake to happen!.. But point is, I just feel so drudged down.

I'm thankful for Rich and his 'happy thoughts' wink of encouragement that I received today, and for Mr. Busk. and his Beatles cover band. Without them, today would have been an awful amount more windy than it was already.

- The News From Your Bed -

Actually, the news from my bed.. because I'm just laying here thinking about sleep and the days events..

Blah blah..

Pulled an all nighter

Went to sleep at 7 a.m.

Was partially awakened around 8 a.m. by a rude roommate talking to herself (yeah, I'm an art major, expect a paper scrap filled apartment).

(my self portrait collage assignment)

Went to critique.

Slept a few hours.

Worked.

Midnight- Went shopping at Smiths. While there, Elicia threw some whoppers at me which made me drop my carton of ice cream which made the lid pop off and somehow it landed with the top of the ice cream on the dirty Smiths floor. I almost peed my pants of laughter.. We took our contaminated ice cream back to the freezer section and picked out a different one. HA. Sorry to the kid who's going to end up unknowingly eating dirtied ice cream at his/her birthday party!

- Weeee Denny's -

Sometime around this post we (Elicia and I ...kind of Megan Bell too) pulled an all nighter (3rd one) and went to Denny's in Tremonton (we had no idea where it was, we went through the canyon and headed north) at 5:30 in the morning and arrived at 6:30 so we could wait in a huge line and get a free grand slam breakfast. We almost got killed by a sleeping semi on the way there. Anddd we got home by 8:30 and I still was late to class because I didn't finish my project (cause for all nighter) before we left to Denny's. It was fun. and I was really tired.)

P.S. I called the plasma donation center and they aren't run through a stable program so I'm not gonna go again unless I get another 50$ paycheck from my minimum wage job.

I'm getting way behind on my blogg...
too too much homework.