*insert jaws theme song here*

[19.]

something i miss.

this view.

i know it might look a little bit dry and dusty... 

cuz it is.

but it is the best place on the planet. 

aside from maybe here:

so i don't actually have a picture of my house... and google earth only had a very tiny, grainy picture.

it just can't do it justice.

and you want to know the best part about my day?

getting this:

it's got a fin!

i'm sold.

looking into my magic oracle... i see the future:

day 17:
i am looking forward to...

GRADUATION!


sorry, i don't feel like posting much today... i woke up this morning with a sore throat and feeling like my eyes were trying to explode out of my head... i didn't even get out of bed until noon (after a very sweet younger brother brought pride and prejudice in to keep me company while i tried to go back to sleep). he's actually pretty sweet on occasion!
i never get sick. i'm usually the family member that laughs while everyone else is sick in bed. not today apparently. so, i'm going to go and sit on the couch, drink some (more) herbal tea, and beat this! because i don't like being sick while i'm at home. 


but today hasn't been all bad (i was about to go crazy, but my younger sister saved me by taking me to the store... we found some sweet red mugs at d.i... which will be a project that will take place sometime within the next few days. it's gonna be sweet!) 


feel better!
yes, thanks. i will!

meltation: my new word for melting snow (just cuz it sounds weird)

i know i'm late!

i was going to post this yesterday i swear!

but procrastination (mainly attributed to laziness) got the best of me.

actually, i didn't want to post anything until i got this done.

we were wandering through the store getting root beer floats

...when yours truly had a brain blast!

and this amazing stop-motion film was born!

don't laugh.

we may be 20 years old but we still like playing with playdough.

so i don't always finish the bananas i buy...

and so i have random bananas in the freezer.

i think my roommates hate me.

but i got rid of most of them yesterday!

(there are only 2 left now...)

oatmeal banana bread (or cake)

1 1/2 cups flour

1/2 cup rolled oats

1 tsp baking soda

2 1/2 tsp baking powder

1 heaping tsp ground cinnamon

3-4 ripe bananas, mashed

1/3 cup apple sauce

1/4 cup coconut oil

2 eggs

1/2 cup honey

2 tsp vanilla extract

pinch of sea salt

preheat oven to 350

in a mixing bowl, mix together the dry ingredients (flour, oats, baking soda, baking powder, sea salt and cinnamon)

in a separate bowl mix together the remaining ingredients until thoroughly mixed

mix the wet into the dry

mix until well blended

grease a 9x13 in pan

pour batter into the pan and distribute evenly with a spatula

place in the middle of the oven and bake for 40 minutes or until lightly brown on top, firm to the touch and a toothpick comes out clean

option: chocolate chips! add about 1/2 cup once batter is mixed. that turns this from banana bread into banana cake... (i'm pretty sure that it was cake to begin with...)

so somewhat healthy... i kicked myself after i made it because i made it with white flour and i had whole wheat flower in my cupboard the whole time!

blast!

til we meet again mr. banana bread...

we also threw these little puppies together.

you really can't go wrong with martha stewart.

ever.

i just bought her comfort foods cookbook online... i haven't had the chance to try it yet, but i was looking over the recipes in there and salivating even more every time i turned the page.

cook books are not good for me.

you enable a alcoholic by buying them a drink, you give me a cookbook and i'm sunk.

just leave me alone for the next few hours cuz i'm a gonner!

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i love good poetry!

try this... or this... or the best play in the world.

and the coolest condiment

(and best color) in the whole universe!

i used to hate it.

but now i love it!

(i also went to d.i. yesterday.)

it was bad.

but ooooooooh so good!

but more about that later...

i shouldn't be allowed to post this late

...but i am going to anyway!

i guess you'll just have to put up with the ramblings of a fatigued mind.

whatcha gonna do 'bout that, huh?

i love to collect things.

this might seem odd, because i also don't like excess.

i simply like the little odds and ends that i have.

the random dishes

the books from thrift stores

the insane amount of clothes in my closet

(all of which i wear... so i can't condone getting rid of any of them!)

...i probably could get rid of a few of my shoes...

i wonder what it would be like to be ascetic.

i honestly don't think i would survive.

i think that every single one of my dishes in my cupboard has come (1) from the dollar store or (2) from D.I... which, let's face it, is one of the coolest places on earth. the unfortunate part about living in a college town full of poor college students is that the good stuff is always gone. really fast. CONSTANT VIGILANCE! as mad-eye moody would say. my roommates and i have found some of the cutest things there, hidden inside of other things, and buried beneath piles of junk - voila! you find a gem. my sister spends hours looking at clothes... yours truly is drawn to the books and the dishware. yes. i am pathetic and should probably get counseling.

which reminds me - i got the cutest mustard-yellow dishes there the other day!!! not really the cutest... but i love the color! it makes me happy just looking at them.

:)

the only down-side is that there were only two. not that i needed a whole set or anything like that. but it would have been awesome nonetheless!

(i promise that one day you will see these amazing dishes! i am still currently missing my camera though... that means that (1) my room ate it (2) my car ate it (3) someone "borrowed" it and probably won't ever be returning it or (4) i lost it. which would make me very sad.) i will definitely have to send out the search parties tomorrow... or maybe just decide to clean my room for once! where is my mom when i need her???

i found this little gem yesterday. which made my morning this morning even better when i "accidentally" slept in until fifteen minutes before my class started. which resulted in messy hair thrown into a bun/no makeup/sweatshirt day... i must have been shinin' real bright! har har har... (and you wanna know the best part about the whole morning?)

murphy's law loves me.

super-cute guy right? the one that i've only talked to like two times (ever)... not that i wouldn't be 100,000,000% ok talking to him more...

on the one morning i don't look cute, and i don't have time to shower or have time to get ready - who else would i see? and looking very fine driving a white truck. wowza.

and he honked at me! followed by a wave. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

(squealing and happy dance ensued)

but still no number.

fail.

possibly followed by a few tears...

mom says i'll have to work on that. (and how may i ask, can one accomplish that? without resorting to ridiculous amounts of facebook stalking?)

and moving on... (i'll keep ya posted on the boy developments... mayyyybe...)

this is what i feel like on a daily basis.

people say they like curly hair.

they do not realize that curly hair has a mind of its own.

but i love my hair. even though it drives me crazy sometimes.

kinda like a boyfriend... but this looks better. ;)

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i'm grateful for chocolate

banana-cranberry sticky buns

pretzel rods

...

and GREEN APPLES!

(if i haven't told you how i am obsessed with them... just wait...

there will be more on this later. i promise!)