According to my presents I was pretty nice this year...

I got lots of itune gift cards-cha ching and a carraba's card. But the HUGE gift-the big one was....are you ready? I don't think you're ready.....ok, but i'll tell you anyway cause i'm still glowing over it: THE COMPLETE SEASONS of GILMORE GIRLS!!! my roommates will be soooo excited!

I was pretty surprised because that's a lot of money but oh i will get my money's worth out of it!!!

Also, got lots of other movies and some really interesting books that i can't wait to get into-tho i need to finish the dan brown book first. I got a way cool shawl/scarf thing from eric from iraq and lots of other great odds and ends. It was a great christmas and it will go out with a bang with our Thanksgiving dinner tonight (shrug, mom didn't get to make her turkey meal this year yet-score!)

Well we made it.

So I think we made pretty good time- we left around 8:30 am Sunday morning and got in around 9:00 am Monday morning, and I didn't even have to drive-Carley's hubby was hardcore and drove half the time.
The roads were clear and all and all it was a pretty smooth trip just insanely loooong.
So once again i'm "home" which strangely feels less and less like home and more and more like a nice trip down memory lane but a trip that I know won't last too long-just a nice lil short respite from the day to day. The weather has definitely welcomed me appropriately with gloomy clouds today-Sugar Land always knows just what I like ;)
It's funny but being home it's always interesting to see how people fall into their old pecking orders- i mean, i guess technically less teasing than there used to be when we were little but not by much 8)
800 miles...that's not too far right? compared to the trip i just made it's nothin.
Well hoping all made it home safely for the hollidays wherever home is and that all are watching the vegas bowl tonight!
Go Cougs!!

so we're off....if you don't hear from me in 24 hours....send a search party-we'll be somewhere between utah and texas.

IT BURNS!

So in case you were wondering, the warning in red around this contact solution is there for a reason. "Do not rinse with Clear Care prior to insertion"
Last night I ran out of contact solution so I figured I'd use a squirt of my roomies' and without thinking used this kind. Fast Forward six hours- i'm putting my contact in and INSTANTLY my eye shuts and starts BURNING like you wouldn't believe and I start flushing it out with water but not before my eye was way red. Oh the pain, oh....the pain.....
So apparently this solution is supposed to be poured into this lil case thing that has a medal contact holder in the middle and there's a chemical reacton with the medal thing and it cleans the contact and instead...it had a nice lil chemical reaction with my eyeball.
O-O-OUCH, but all is well that ends well and by the wedding it wasn't obvious-at least people didn't think I was crying so that's good.

It was a BEAUTIFUL sealing and a niice luncheon.
On to the reception!

p.s. got a new winter coat-and am so exited about it! Let it snow, Let it snow, Let it snow! (only...just a lil cause i gotta drive home on Sunday)

57 reasons why...

tonight was a great night:
-making a unique dining experience in the back of a hyundai
-discovering a new favorite group: The Classic Crime
-getting a pack of rook cards that I will NEVER throw out no matter how old and tattered they get.
-beautiful lights on temple square
-seeing a goat-dog (technical name: doat or gog) (rare but they do exist apparently in the east).
-seeing some trees of no account and some with account.
-magical snap shots near the not so creepy dead marshes
-making a wish
-58 post-it notes.
-taking virtual tours of sugar land and atlanta (who knew they looked so similar to I-15,small world)
-finding paper bags with russian and korean on them side by side
-being creepers in other people's photos
-wearing my gloves for the first time
-the way he looks at me
-my malchik (ok so this one has a few repeats...ok, 35 repeats to be exact)


P.S. I CAN'T believe that drea is getting hitched tomorrow....wow...."another one bites the dust!" It'll be fun though with my roommates and spaz there. Believe it or not after all my friends getting married this is only my second wedding to attend-i always knew I'd be the last to go (not in a negative way either, just felt that it would turn out that way and was ok with it-i enjoy my personal time table.)

Fav lyrics from the classic crime:

"I left you last week and you told me, "Go on and follow your dreams,"
I think about that lately, still I don't know what it means
Becuase you're what I dream of when I wake alone,
as I drift away as we talk on the phone,
you're all that I want and that's all that I know,
And I still just can't wait to get home"

"If you haven't been tested, you certainly will,
And I promise it's going to kill."

"my head feels fuzzy..."

quote anyone, anyone?
I haven't felt this "jet-lagged" since Scotland. I guess that's what I get for staying up late and getting up early for two days in a row. Well Russian is over and it wasn't too bad having drifted off a million times while cramming and there's just hum350 left to email in which...i dunno...maybe i'll wait to do it when i'm more coherent tomorrow-yea...kuddos to using my head.

Dinner is going to be good 8)

i like it times 4

hmm...i feel like i should blog but when it comes down to it i'm just not feeling it...i won't make you suffer through a non-sincere post, congratulations you just got a free 10 minutes of time back-don't spend it all in one place.