The Journey

Ode to the Bay

2011-05-23T19:14:00.000-07:00

I had the most eventful and crazy weekend. I woke up bright and early saturday to go ride my horse, then had a nice long run along the American River. Then again woke up bright and early sunday to make banana bread and head down to Atherton where my friends the Caldwells recently moved. We walked around the beautiful Stanford Campus, were took for a spin on the back of Jacob's new bike, Played the extremely racist game Puerto Rico and of course topped it all off with a box of Franzia.

And the day goes as such...

Yep a soapy water fountain

and then it turned into a drinking game...

and progressed to this...

Quotes of the evening:

"Tic tack patty tac!"- Nolan

"Jacob, why don't you just suck off?" -Ash U

both are in reference to King's Cup

Turkey Turkey Turkey

2011-03-22T19:07:00.000-07:00

If you are wondering what that is in the picture, well that would be a male turkey. Early this morning my co-worker caught him pecking at a window, trying to attack it's reflection. They would chase him off, and here he would return running circles around the building. Finally the persistant bird left.... or so we thought. Later in the day I saw him snooping around the cars. Turns out he was pecking at his reflection on my co-workers chrome bumper. So angrily she ran outside to chase him off, and again he had her running circles around the building only to return to the chrome bumper. Finally we gave up and went inside, meanwhile he found himself again attacking his reflection in the window. No matter what we did he would not leave.

Another crazy day on the farm.

New New New

2011-02-23T16:43:00.000-08:00

A few new things have recently happened in my liffe.

1) Finally got an iphone!!!!!! Whoot woot. After holding out to get a smartphone since the dawn of time, the iphone finally came to verizon. Of course I had to be one of those 10 people that pre-ordered the phone online. Nevertheless I am inseparable from my toy. Seriously, I don't know how I survived without it, instant access to everything and an app for anything you could possibly imagine.

2) New haircut. Yep after many a months of long hair and dark roots. I once again chopped off those locks.

3) Almost 10lbs lighter thanks to kicking my butt at the gym 5 days a week!

The next biggest event I am training for is a little thing called Warrior Dash. Its a 3 mile obstacle course through hills, mud, water, and just about anything ridiculous. We will be dressed in costume and warrior helmets all in the name of fun and mayhem.

Basically the picture sums it all up.

Hello There

2011-01-13T19:21:00.000-08:00

Hello Friends or whomever is reading.

Sorry it has been ages since I have posted. Life had been extremely hectic. I work as many hours as possible, travel on occasion and most weekends, the holidays have gone by and filling my weeknights with as many social events as possible. Well after the holidays I finally decided to make a few changes. The first was to stay home more on the weekends and spend more time with people that live in the area, and since I am going to be home more it would actually be worth the money to join a gym.

With the new year they had a discount on personal training sessions so I got suckered into buying a few. I figured why not give myself a little kick start. Little did I know I would get my ass kicked by a skinny little tough middle-eastern woman, boy does she kick my ass. I was orded to forget diets in her words "I hate diets, they don't work, I eat whatever I want." With that in mind I was like "Hell yeah, I am liking this, I can eat whatever? I am in." The only catch was that I needed to go from my 3 large meals a day to 5-6 small portions and lots of water. Oh yeah and the 45 min of intense interval cardio 5 days a week and 2 sessions with her each week. So it has been 1.5 weeks, 3 sessions later and I have to say I am already feeling a great change. I am more hungry, eat more often and try to stick to healthier options but the results have been amazing. I have already lost 4.5lbs not to mention my legs are getting stronger and more toned, I have more energy and feel great and positive.

I am so sold on this new routine I am going to buy more sessions with my trainer. I have even gotten my friends to go with me to the gym and take a few classes. Not only that but I have been talking with the ladies at work and they have gotten inspired to get in better shape themselves. One co-worker now spends mornings on the treadmill before work and the other has joined weight watchers. It has definitely been encouraging to see them all start to get back into shape themselves.

The only drawback is that I don't get home till 8pm most days a week after leaving for work at 6:30 in the morning. But I am you and feeling great so what the hell.

Until next time

Zombies!

2010-11-11T18:35:00.000-08:00

Halloween is officially over and the holiday season has begun. One of the things on my bucket list for this time of year when the weather permits me to be huddled indoors to day warm is to watch the AMC mini series "THe walking Dead." Its supposed to be this amazing new show the premiered on halloween about zombies. Of course this sparked a hillarious conversation about a zombie apocalypse it went as followed.

Me- minding my own business working

Albert- "So yesterday I was thinking that my house does not have any weapons do defend myself with in the event of a Zombie apocalypse."

Me- "Really? What about a butcher knife?"

Albert- "Nah, that would mean I have to get too close for comfort."

Me- "What about a wooden broomstick you could sharpen into a spear?"

Albert- "Nope."

In walks Coy

Coy- "well there is that shooting range out there in Elk Grove, you could head there except it might be a little hard to get in its all barred and gated. Or the Bass Pro Shop, you could just drive down there and barricade yourself in. You would be set"

Albert- "True."

Me- "Well at least you are prepared [Coy]. You have all those guns and knives."

Albert- "yeah and crossbows."

Me- "Ok so basically in the event of the Zombie Apocalypse we should either drown down to the Bass pro shop or go to Coys."

Me- "Speaking of defending myself I was thinking about that the other day. What if someone wanted to come in and attack me in my apartment. I don't have any weapons and in the closet next to my door the only thing I have is a Swiffer sweeper."

Albert- "So what are you going to do dust them to death.. hold on Mr. bad guy i need to put on a new swiffer on my sweeper."

The next few hours were spent brainstorming weapons and plans of survival in preparation for the evident Zombie attack.

Dutch Mafia

2010-10-26T15:55:00.000-07:00

Ode to coffee. Better yet my absolute favorite joint Dutch Bros. Seriously I have never ordered anything I haven't liked. But the best thing on the menu has to be their dutch freeze. Its a perfect blend of coffee, milk and yummy sweetness. Another great thing is that is is drive thru and you are always served by super hot tattooed men. Seriously, in order to work there you have to like loud music, have at least a few tattoos and be extremely flirtatious and attractive. Another wonderful incentive to stop by on my way home from work.

Bring on the Rain

2010-10-23T21:54:00.000-07:00

There is something about clouds and rain that put me into the most wonderful mood. I have to say the fall and winter are my favorite seasons of all. So many wonderful memories revolve around the holidays. This weekend was the first weekend in weeks that I did not have crazy plans or adventures and was in need of much needed relaxation. So while it was cold and rainy outside I spent today cleaning, cooking and working on my halloween costume. For dinner I made a wonderful stew from a recipe I stumbled upon online, with mashed potatoes and home made pumkin pie. Also to make it even better they are now selling egg nog at the grocery store. Oh how I love the fall. To top it all off the Giants beat the Phillies and are now headed to the world series!!!

Tomorrow Hopefully I dominate my fantasy football league.

I phones can do anything

2010-10-17T19:28:00.000-07:00

So recently I found this music video and it pretty much blew me away. I had no idea that anyone could actually do this with a phone. I know apple is awesome but this is probably the coolest application of an apple product. Basically you have to watch this and be amazed.

Adventures

2010-10-10T21:56:00.000-07:00

Sorry friends for failing to post for a few weeks. Life has been pretty busy lately and full of many adventures. Blogging just hasen't made the priority list. For the past few weeks I have successfully filled up every evening with socializing or weekend trips and adventures. Two weekends ago friends came to visit, last weekend SF and San Jose. Then this weekend in Fresno with the Eleazarians and Yosemite. I went on my first rock climbing adventure. We did a nice day trip and climbed monday morning slab (500ft) to get a nice view of the valley. It was such an extreme adrenaline rush. I can't believe I did it! Needless to say I have discovered another adventurous hobby. Man there are so many incredible things to discover and do in this life! Just to give you a little idea of how beautiful Yosemite was this weekend.

My Dream/New obsession

2010-09-11T10:01:00.000-07:00

Now that I am officially an adult. Done with school, beginning my career I have to admit I have a new found obsession. I have always had an eye for interior decorating. Whenever I go into any house, place I instantly see potential for renovation and design. But lately it has become an obsession. I love to watch HGTV, DIY network and browse online for decorating/remodeling ideas. My dream is to one day be able to buy a home that is in need of lots of remodel and re-build it from the ground up. To design every room bit by bit unleashing every rooms potential. Now that I am living on my own I am fully enjoying putting together my place bit by bit leaving it as a reflection of my style and design. Now it is definitely not cheap purchasing furniture so I have had to do one small thing at a time. This has allowed me to spend lots of time meticulously picking each and every piece for form, function and keeping in mind my budget. I am also really enjoying geting ideas for cheap crafty things I can do to spice up every little inch. Of course I still have a long ways to go and a life time to master. However I am enjoying every bit of inspiration.

Just call me Yenta

2010-09-06T16:31:00.001-07:00

So my track record still stands. If you want to get married, find true love or any sort of romance all you have to do is be good friends with me. I promise, I am the best luck charm you will ever have around for hearing those wedding bells ring. I have been to more weddings than probably most any one around my age and every year more and more of my close friends meet the man or woman of their dreams. I have attended four weddings this year alone and still have two more on the way one of which is my 67 year old grandma!! Yep that is right. My grandmother recently announced last weekend that she will be getting married in my parents back yard on new years eve!!

Stats: 12 couples, 6 engagements and other numerous serious relationships

Little Bunny Foo Foo

2010-09-02T18:41:00.000-07:00

Work always seems to surprise me, I never know what sorts of creatures and animals I stumble upon. Of course we have the goats, goat kids, mice and lucky the ball python, pond of fish. However working out in the country we quite frequently find Voles (seriously an animal) wild turkeys, hawks, gopher snakes and of course field mice. Not only are these animals found outside the lab, often large spiders, gopher snakes and mice are found inside the lab!!! Last week there was a gopher snake stuck to glue board traps outside my boss' office, I had a large wolf spider (eeehhh) in my lab, and today in the kitchen there was a cute little field mouse in one of our traps. I felt bad for the little guy and made sure to go and set him free. Hopefully he now knows better to not go exploring the lab, because eventually you will get caught.

In reference to the title, as I was setting the mouse free he hopped away and I remembered the childrens song. For a refresher take a look at this

Football and Weddings

2010-09-01T16:34:00.001-07:00

Many months ago while sitting at the dining room table in Davis, Lisa, Renee and I joked about songs Renee should have played while walking down the aisle. Thanks to a violin, ukulele, Lisa and Paul this joke became reality. The ceremony consisted of "Alejandro" by Lady Ga Ga, "Don't go chasing waterfalls: by TLC and the entire wedding party walked down the aisle to "Umbrella" thats right, by Rhianna. Needless to say it was a ridiculous and extremely fun wedding. It was wonderful spending time in Paso Robles, SLO with very close friends.

With the month of September also comes the start of the NFL season. This year I actually am excited about hours of football on tv every week. Why you might ask? Well the answer is simple Fantasy Football team. I figured why not? Last night we had our draft and I am overal pretty happy with my team except for one of my bench players is no longer playing this season. Oh well I will have to make a trade. Needless to say my fun summer will be carrying on into the fall.

Until next time

Through the Wormhole

2010-08-22T20:49:00.000-07:00

For all you science fanatics out there I have a show for you. It is on the Science Channel sunday nights called "Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman" and here are my reasons for why this show is so amazing

Discusses topics such as wormholes, time travel, anti-matter and the possibility of a creator
Is narrated by Morgan freeman
Finally a show that makes physics, space and physical sciences understandable and extremely awe inspiring
Every nerds dream
Features professors from UCD!!
Most of all makes you appreciate the known and unknown world around us
I can watch an episode multiple times without getting bored
I am such a nerd and know there are so many of my friends that would think it cool too!

Basically you have to watch it! Seriously!

Fun Factoid: Supermassive Black Hole.. Not just a Muse Song

Did you know that our sun is not the center of our Galaxy (Milky way galaxy) but one of 100-400 billion stars within this galaxy? In fact our sun and the other suns rotate much like an electron orbits around an atom core. At the center of this grand orbit is what was discovered to be a supermassive black hole. This hole generates enough gravitational energy to have billions of planets orbit around it. In fact it is believed that the center of every galaxy is a supermassive black hole and galaxy's can actually collide with one another.

For more info watch Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman.

New New New

2010-07-18T18:49:00.000-07:00

hello friends.

To break the long streak of not posting anything I decided to give ya'll an update on the life.

Many things have happened in the last month or so... hence no bloggin. Lets see I have had 3 graduations including mine, 3 weddings and two more to still attend for the year, and a new apartment! I also have started my career as an artist of sorts.

The day has finally almost arrived. As of July 25th I am officially out of D-town and on to Sac. I have made detailed lists of all the necessary items needed for the new place and am so anxious to move. I have been obsessed with picking out the perfect items and shopped around to every store to guarantee the best prices in order to make the most of my minuscule budget. Oh how I can not wait.

Yesterday I even bought my very first couch! Today I could not take the wait and had to go to target to get all the linens for my bathroom. Just to give you a taste of my decor I am including pic. Can't wait to get it all moved and decorated!

Bitchin it on!

2010-06-25T20:18:00.000-07:00

Hello once again.

In brief moments in life my mind can not completely come up with the right word or in sheer brilliance I come up with ingenious phrases.

Exhibit one: Nog
described as someone with a good face, attractive one might say
in a sentence: Damn! That boy has a good Nog, or I like your nog.

Exibit two: Bitchin it on
described as being an independent, strong, powerfull women moving on from a trial or difficult situation in strength and style.
in a sentence: I don't need him, he is a jerk and I am amazing in fact I am Bitchin it on!

Television It Is Totally Reality

2010-05-31T22:01:00.000-07:00

Why oh why do shows have to end for the summer? This past week was season finales of all my favorite shows, Grey's, Fringe, Chuck luckly Glee might have a few more episodes left. Hmm now to find other shows to entertain myself for summer.

Now I sit here on the couch watching Kendra. Seriously? Why oh why does the most annoying and dumb of the Girls Next Door have a show? She is sitting with her Ghost Writer for the new book talking about acid and every other word is "uhh" or "ya know?" or best of all the laugh.

Another award winning reality show is "Keeping up with the Kardashions" always so much stupid drama that always sucks me in. And soon they will be in Miami!!

But my all time favorite reality show is Gene Simmons Family Jewels. It is seriously good. Every show is filled with how ridiculous Gene Simmons really is, his children making fun of him and his girlfriend and her sister getting into sticky and awkward situations. It is definitely worth watching.

Hmm

2010-05-23T22:12:00.000-07:00

Well another weekend has quickly gone by. I can't believe tomorrow is monday and I have to wake up and go to work. The routine is still so new I am still not used to being a working adult. Tomorrow marks the beginning of my third week at my job.

Anyways today Karen took beautiful pictures for my graduation announcements today. As soon as I get my hands a hold of them I will be sure to post a few for y'all. Weird to think I am working full time and haven't even walked at graduation to shake the hand of all the deans and say sianara. Peace! (in a gangsta tone) I am outta here! I guess it will be more real when the boxes are packed and I am finally out of Davis. Can't freaking wait. I spend my evenings online picking out furniture, bedding and all the things I want to decorate the new place.

Well I need to head to bed.

Night

Hello Again

2010-05-18T19:43:00.000-07:00

Well it has been a while since I have written. Honestly I kind of forgot about the blog. Ever since working I have been so busy with everything but the internet. I now have a lot less time to spend online and since the internet at my apartment is so pathetically slow I am not inclined to spend hours trying to do stuff online at night after work. Basically I have been busy working at my amazing job, planning the decor for my new apartment and trying to maintain a social life and fit in as many days of exercise as possible. It has been great getting to keep in touch with Chels, Akin and Tawny. I even got to visit with Akin over coffee yesterday.

Well getting ready to run over to Renae's to watch Glee with Barney aka Niel Patrik Harris. Seriously if you haven't seen "How I Met Your Mother" you should and buy all season and watch every episode. So brilliantly hillarious. My next goal is to watch all the seasons. First I need to finish the last two disks of Battlestar Galactica Season 4.5 but haven't quite had the time lately.

Working Woman

2010-05-10T20:08:00.000-07:00

It's official, today was my first day at my new job.

I can't believe how blessed I have been these days. I was able to spend last weekend at my parents house visiting friends and family, cycling and threw a surprise birthday for my mother.

Today I woke up bright and early at 6:30 am, usually I love my sleeping in and don't get out of bed till around 10. So now that I am officially and adult I am going to have to get used the morning hours. Anyways... I showed up to my new job greeted by my wonderful co-workers and set at my desk. Yes desk. I have my own little space to make my own at work. Complete with a computer. I am looking forward to decorating it... Needless to say there was plenty of paper work and reading to do but so far I really enjoyed it. There is so many new protocols and things to learn. But most surprisingly of all are the perks and bonuses. I am even being supplied an iphone!!! Yup you read that right. Of course I have to still pay for the plan but I was planning on getting one anyways eventually. I am super excited. Needless to say I can't say enough about how excited I am about my new job!

until next time.

Hobby

2010-05-02T20:44:00.000-07:00

So I have been thinking I need to pick up some hobby. Now that I no longer have to spend by evenings hunting for jobs and apartments. I have a list of books I need to motivate myself to read. I need to stay motivated to work out. However, I should find something besides facebook and television. Some ideas have been sewing or paint by numbers. However these crafts are so old lady. I want to pick up some activity to entertain myself that is not so old cat lady status. Hmmm think think think.

The pieces are falling into place

2010-04-29T21:25:00.000-07:00

Today I went to my new work to fill out some paperwork and pick up my handbooks and quality control manual. This is going to be great. I am really looking forward to starting my new job on May 10th.

This weekend I also have my research presentation. The last of the things I have on my list for college. Now all I have to do is walk during the graduation ceremony.

As for the housing situation I have been stressing over finding an affordable one bedroom unit. After countless hours online and touring almost every complex in Davis I have decided it is just way to overpriced and not worth it. Its about $1000 per month for a piece of crap old one bedroom without washer dryers. If you want to go lower than this you are at risk for having no garbage disposal or central heating and air. Not to mention how old the complexes are. So yesterday after talking to a coworker I decided I was going to check out Natomas.

So today I made the 20 minute venture outside of Davis and to my surprise I stumbled across an affordable resort of a complex. This place was a dream come true. Everything I would ever want an all within my price range.

Amenities include:

covered parking
pool and spa
business center
game room with kitchen, fireplace, flatscreen tv, pool table, poker table
2 fitness centers one is 24hrs
fully furnished guest suite
gas BBQ grills
full size washer/dryer units
walk in closet
ceiling fans
dishwasher
fireplace
tan walls with options to paint accent walls
9ft ceilings with crown moldings
patio/balcony
double-pane windows
nice carpet

basically amazing and in a great location across from a golf course, with bike and running trails

close to great shopping and restaurants

close to ARCO arena.

I am in love. Can't wait till August 1st.

Now I get to go furniture shopping and decorate!

Ahh post-college life is looking sooo good!

A little too soon!

2010-04-23T16:31:00.000-07:00

So today as I was getting ready to get on the bus to go home I received the phone call I have been waiting for all week. I had been staring at my email all week hoping to hear back from the company I had interviewed with. Still friday had come and gone and no word. Then when I had given up all hope and was ready to close the door I received the phone call to inform me that I was offered the position. I could not speak. I was so overwhelmed at the time that nothing really came out of my mouth. Good thing they had already decided to hire me because I sounded dumb. Anyways needless to say I am now a real adult with a full time job. I can now plan life in Davis, I can join the cycling club, join a gym and hunt for a place to live. Life is coming together one step at a time and this was the missing piece to my puzzle. Thank you Lord.

Waiting

2010-04-23T13:57:00.000-07:00

I am a planner. I like to plan my days, weeks and just life. Currently since I am in this middle situation I can't plan. It is the most frustrating experience. I do not know whether I am going to have a job or money to get by each week. I sure as heck do not know if I am going to hear back from the countless companies I have applied to, nor where the heck I am going to be living come August 1st. Everyday I anticipate hearing back from the company I have had two interviews with, it has been two weeks since the interview and still no response. I am so frustrated with this waiting around thing. Why can't I just know what life is going to bring. I think the most frustrating situation is Derrick. We both don't know where we are going to be after Davis. I can't plan, I can't anticipate I don't know anything but the here and now. Are we going to call it quits? Or are we going to try a distance thing? Is it really all worth it?

The frustration never ends.

Picnic Day!

2010-04-18T13:06:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was the annual UCD Picnic Day. The day couldn't have been more beautiful. It was in the mid 70's and sunny. My day began at 9:30am with a pancake breakfast and mimosa's at Renea's. Then Starbuck's for much needed caffeine. Off to campus to tie dye some t-shirts. The micro club, waiting in line forever to see the snakes and reptiles. Then party at Primero Grove. Then to visit Tawny and meet her family and new boyfriend Kevin (a.k.a. Mr. Amazing) for battle of the bands at Spafford Lake. Then food, nap and back downtown for wiki's with Kevin and Tawny. Then dinner at Dos followed by returning home to meet up with Renee and Elise and ending the evening at Little Prague. I finally called it a night around 12:45 and boy was it by far the best picnic day. No large groups, no obligations, plans or too much waiting in lines. It was great getting to relax and enjoy the day without the stress of having an upcoming exam to worry about. I am really getting used to this no school thing.

On top of that I had a wonderful visit with Elise. She really has changed since Davis. The three of us (Renee, Elise and I) were able to really have a great time catching up with life and talking about boys. It was like old times back in Sophomore year when we were great friends before all the drama of living together. Some friendships really are better from a distance with time. I am now looking forward to mending my friendship with Elise and visiting her sometime in San Francisco.

Overall good weekend. This morning I made a killer breakfast with fresh strawberries from Lodi, scrambled eggs from my grandmas, french toast and most importantly coffee. Now I am relaxing after cleaning up the apartment and going to go on a nice long run later.

And just a little trivia can anyone guess what buildings are shown in this picture of the old picnic day?

Until later...

Spring

2010-04-14T16:23:00.000-07:00

Oh what a beautiful day it was in D town. I must say spring is my favorite season here. The temperature for the most part is perfect in April, not too hot and not too cold. Sunshine with a few clouds here and there complemented with a slight breeze. Today I took advantage of the beautiful weather and ventured downtown for lunch at one of my favorite places, Crepeville. If that pleasant walk wasn't enough I decided to walk home from lab instead of wait around for the bus. It was quite relaxing, just me and my ipod meandering through downtown. I hadn't spent that much time in the neighborhoods around the East end of downtown. I must say there are some cute old homes mixed in amongst the random apartments now that I think about it I saw one for sale that was adorable, I wonder if it belongs to the Dodds?

Lately I have also been trying to mix up my exercise routine now that I no longer am a member of the Arc. I have been doing yoga and pilates DVD exercises thanks to Renee. I know its silly but at least its something. So needless to say I went on google maps and calculated my walking distance for the day and in total it was 3.6 miles! Yay, now I technically don't need to go for a run later.

Anyways time for more season 3 of Battlestar Galactica..

Would you rather....

2010-04-12T20:56:00.000-07:00

Ok so daily I have been online searching for jobs and after countless hours of hunting, applying and cover letter revision I am sick of it, completely.

So I have compiled a list of 10 horrible and disgusting things with the help of my roommates I would rather do than job hunt. So here it goes.

1) Eat worms. Like fresh from a rotten pile of dirt worms.
2) Smell 10 pairs of gross stinky feet.
3) Eat belly button fuzz.
4) Puke 5 times in a row.
5) Squish poop between my fingers.
6) Walking underneath the olive trees on campus to only get crapped on by the stupid birds.
7) Stand underneath a bat cave.
8) Chew off someone else's fingernail
9) Drop my phone in a toilet and have to fish it out with my own hand.
10) Lick a banana slug.

A whole lot of nothing

2010-04-10T19:46:00.000-07:00

To all those out in the blogosphere, I Brystal am bored. Currently I am spending my days doing a whole lot of nothing. I spend hours watching tv, Battlestar Galactica, surfing the web, applying for jobs and hanging around. It has been nice most of the time, then those moments of utter boredom sometimes creep up and I start to worry about what the heck is going to happen August first when I have to move who knows where, with possibly no job, no money for rent and no clue as to what will happen. This post-grad lifestyle can sometimes be so frustrating because I can't really make plans too far in advance. But I guess I am living life literally by the seat of my pants.

Thankfully I am blessed to still have the opportunity to work in the lab when I feel like it, have still been tutoring and babysitting here and there. It gives me a little cash for coffee and going out to the bars.

Oh and I had a secondary interview with a company. They began with praising me about how wonderful my resume was and how impressed they were with me. I should hear back within the next two weeks as to whether or not they will offer me the position. I am trying to not be too hopeful but really wish this would come through. So far it is the only company I have heard back from. Until then I will continue to hunt.

That's all for now!

On A Lighter Note.

2010-03-26T00:43:00.000-07:00

In good news today, I just got a secondary interview with a company. There is hope yet. Maybe someday soon I will be a real adult.

Time to hold up the cardboard sign

2010-03-25T00:23:00.001-07:00

Hello All,

As of March 19th I have officially completed my time at UCD. It does not yet feel quite real yet because everyone is gone on spring break, not many people are in town and my roommates are all gone. So now I am unemployed and more broke than I would have ever imagined. I mean seriously poor to where I can't really afford to even go to the grocery store and if it wasn't for stealing my roommates food while they are gone and eating the last of my frozen costco veggies and chicken I would starve. As for the job situation I have been applying to jobs every day. I have only heard back from one company and had a great first interview. So now I sit at home, watch numerous hours of tv, stare at the computer screen browsing for jobs till my eyes can tolerate no more, run and get lots of sleep.

I am hoping one day I might not be such a bum. Until then I will be bored out of my mind so free to hit me up on facebook, gchat, text or whatever form of social contact you find suitable.

Long Time No See.

2010-03-02T19:44:00.000-08:00

Well Friends, or whomever even reads this measly little blog, I have returned. It seems ages since I have written anything. These past weeks have been incredibly busy and feel out of ideas to write about. Life has become quite routine, school, work, homework, panic about life, eat, sleep and repeat. Some out of the ordinary activities are my new obsession with snowboarding. I can not wait to hit the slopes again this weekend.

But apart from that my recent focus has been to finish up with my degree. Yes, I am finally receiving a B.S in Microbiology with a minor in Technology Management.WIth 2.5 weeks left I am counting down the days.

However I try not to focus on the reality of life after school. Right now I am trying to imagine it at a super long weekend full of freedom, sleeping, hanging out and doing nothing. I am trying not to focus on the reality of no health insurance, no money, no job, and the feeling of being completely lost not knowing what to do with my life and freaking out about what I want to be now that I am grown up.

Whew so that is it in a nutshell. If you have any ideas of what I should be now that I am grown up please email me suggestions. bmforsythe@ucdavis.edu. Or if you know anyone who want to hire me. I will do practically anything, and if I don't know how I can google how to do it. Slave labor, cooking, cleaning, building shit, literally anything for a dollar.

This Sucks!

2010-01-06T20:44:00.000-08:00

Today I went outside to pump up my bike tires before heading to campus. I get to the bike rack and notice my bike is nowhere to be found. Some time within the last two weeks my bike was stolen. Then later this evening I was in class looking for my pulse life scribe pen that I just got for christmas. It was nowhere to be found. I figured it had to be somewhere in my backpack buried under all my books. I get home, empty everything, look every where and even in my car. It was no where to be found. I am pretty sure it was stolen when a zipper was open during lab yesterday. I suspect one of the students that I was tutoring for stole it while I was busy walking around the room helping the other students.

I was so excited about this pen. It was like a little computer in a pen form. It visually recorded my notes as well as audio. Had a calculator and all kinds of cool applications to be downloaded. Basically some bastard just stole themselves a $200 toy that was mine.

Needless to say I am extremely upset to how this day of thievery had ended.

Life

2010-01-02T20:04:00.000-08:00

These past two days I have been feeling very emotional. It must be a combination of recent events, hormones and other things uncontrollable in my life. Tonight I just found out two of my friends just got engaged. I am so excited for them and excited to see them finally tie the knot. The cycle of life so many of my friends are getting married. I also became an auntie when my childhood friend just recently had her first son. Then within 10 minutes of getting the engagement news I received an email from one of my professors. A classmate of mine, whom I was able to get to know last quarter was killed by a drunk driver. He and his mom were driving and instantly killed. I can't believe he is dead. We would talk every class about the class we were both going to take at Sac State for the CLS program. We were both applying to the same schools and I even bought a text book off of him. He was 22 years old getting ready to graduate from College in June. I can't even begin to Imagine how his family is dealing with this tragedy, and having to spend the holiday season mourning instead of celebrating.

Time Machine

2009-12-01T22:56:00.000-08:00

If I owned a time machine, now would be the perfect opportunity to use it. I would fast forward first to next wednesday at 10:31pm. The exact time finals are over and I begin to celebrate the fact that my last fall quarter is done! The next place in time I would go is 4 years from now. I could see what job I had, so that I could make decisions about where to go next or even have hope that I would be able to get into graduate school with my less than outstanding GPA. Or even to go back in time to re take all those tests that I so brilliantly F-ed up in order to give myself a chance at getting into a decent program. Until I can find said time machine or even muster up the ridiculous amount of money it would take to buy a non existent mode of time travel I will have to study for these tests, write that stupid report and attend these last few days of class.

soooo sick of school!!!

2009-11-23T21:19:00.000-08:00

Gah!! I am so sick of my management classes. Three more weeks and I am done with them forever! But until then I am going to whine and complain till the bitter end.

On a lighter note.. In the joy of procrastination I am now on level 19 in farmville.

Also I have finally decided what to get my dad for Christmas. I picked it because when I saw it I couldn't stop laughing. I hope he will appreciate this clock as much as I do, because I would love to get this myself. Believe it or not I get my super geekyness from him.

Then to top the list I finally got a postcard from a friend who went to Bulgaria and couldn't stop laughing, between the postcard and this clock man oh man does my stomach hurt.

'Tis the season

2009-11-21T19:49:00.000-08:00

After two weeks of educational hell, physical, mental and emotional exhaustion I am taking a day off. The past few weeks have been filled with work, papers, exams, and most of all I still have to finish some post-bacc program applications before December 1st.

Apart from all the things that still need to get done, today I refuse to do any work. I slept in after going to a party. Made yummy pumpkin waffles for breakfast. Took a 3 hour nap and woke up when it was already dark. Played a little farmville. But the best part of today has been sitting in front of the tv cuddled under my blanket watching corny Christmas movies on ABC family. Needless to say I can not wait for my favorite time of year.. Christmas. I look forward to no school, seeing friends, family, amazing food, shopping, and my birthday.

Sort Of

2009-11-14T22:53:00.000-08:00

Sort Of
Written by Ingrid Michaelson

Baby, you've got the sort of hands to rip me apart
And baby, you've got the sort of face to start this old heart
But your eyes are warning me this early morning
That my love's too big for you my love

Baby, you've got the sort of laugh that waters me
And makes me grow tall and strong and proud and flattens me
I find you stunning, but you are running me down
My love's too big for you my love
My love's too big for you my love

And if I was stronger then I would tell you no
And if I was stronger then I will leave this show
And if I was stronger then I would up and go
But here I am and here we go again

Baby, you've got the sort of eyes that tell me tales
That your sort of mouth just will not say, the truth impales
That you don't need me, but you won't leave me
My loves too big for you my love
My loves too big for you my love

And if I was stronger then I would tell you no
And if I was stronger then I will leave this show
And if I was stronger then I would up and go
But here I am and here we go again

Tell me what to do, to take away the you

And if I was stronger then I would tell you no.
And if I was stronger then I will leave this show
And if I was stronger then I would up and go
But here I am and here we go again

Farmville

2009-11-05T11:25:00.000-08:00

This morning I walk into work and instead of the usual "Hi Brystal" I hear from all the guys. "You need to harvest your strawberries!"

Yesterday all of the grad students including myself started playing Farmville on Facebook. It is a game about creating a farm. Getting all your and getting all your friends to build one too. Then you plant stuff, wait for it to grow and harvest it for money. With that money you can then buy more crops to grow. You can also upgrade to a better selection of crops, trees and animals to grow. The trick however is you have to time your plants. Each plant takes a different amount of time to grow, and if you don't harvest them in time you loose all your money. Thats what I did this morning. I learned never again to plant strawberries at night before you go to bed, because by the time you wake up they will all be rotten.

So right now the guys are planning what to plant, when and how to increase their Farmville value. I am completely entertained by how intense this is turning out to be.

Once again I can say, I wish every job was like this.

Compassion

2009-10-15T16:24:00.001-07:00

I was walking downtown just now on my way to Crepeville for dinner. On the corner there was this afro-haired man standing and asking people to write down in his journal what their ideas of compassion are. I wrote something down and then proceeded to ask him why he was doing this? His response was that it wasn't for a class, but to promote awareness of compassion. I thought that was admirable and cool.

Insomniac

2009-10-15T12:09:00.001-07:00

Sleeping has become so over rated to me lately. I can't seem to fall asleep till 2 0r 3 in the morning for the last two weeks. Then I find myself awoken around 8 am in the morning to start my day. I stay up thinking about all the things that need to get done, day dreaming or just plain anxious from stuff.

This week has also been bogged down with exams, reports and just plain school work. I didn't get home from campus till 1 am last night. I think I am liking this whole nocturnal thing though. I wake up early, work out, go to class and then go to work and stay there till the wee morning hours. Come home and do it all over the next day.

I already miss summer.

2009-10-01T22:53:00.001-07:00

The best things about summer

1. No endless amount of school work

2. Sleeping in/ having a good night's sleep

3. Vacations/ getaways

4. Hanging out with friends because you have all the extra time in the world

5. The beach and pool

6. Davis is nice and quiet because most of the students are out of town

7. Late nights out

Man I am already bogged down with so much work. I am starting to have problems sleeping because I can't stop thinking about all the things I didn't get done and need to do in the morning and next day. Now to bed because 6:30 am comes early.

A little goes a long ways

2009-09-30T18:43:00.000-07:00

This week has been truly blessed. It has been so wonderful going to church and bible study regularly. It really does change my attitude about things. We are going to start going through Hebrews and so far all morning this week I have been reading a chapter or two and reflecting upon The Word.

It is so good and refreshing to get complement from guys. Today at I got two complements on my hair today from the guys at work. It most definitely made my day.

Tips make Sex on Fire

2009-09-25T20:25:00.000-07:00

Today was the second day of classes. Oh boy was it filled with many awkward moments.

First I ran into a guy a dated sophomore year. I hadn't seen him in over 2 years and thought I would never see him again. Awkward!!!!

Then I get to lab and we had "Founding Day." A day to celebrate the lab being running for 4 years. We gave away free ice cream cones to all the people in the building. Meanwhile we all got to hang out and have a good time. Then we were all assigned name tags that were made out of Petry Plates and included a name and title. Mine was "Brystal Lab Dancing Queen." To my surprise I was volunteered to dance every time someone gave us a tip. Most embarrassing of all I had to dance to the Kings Of Leon "Sex on Fire." Not only did my entire lab get to see the dance, but all kinds of people I did not know. Including one of my old professors that I was going to ask for a letter of recommendation from. I am not quite sure if I will be able to get that letter anymore. And to think, I did all of that for just 2 pennies.

I still can't believe today..

Now I am going to try and steal the game room for an air hockey tournament.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHhhcKxflMY

Ready for School!

2009-09-23T13:51:00.000-07:00

Thanks to Michael Scott I am now fully prepared for class. Yep.... these are my new notepads.

It's Wednesday!

2009-09-23T11:31:00.000-07:00

It's official. Tomorrow I start my last fall quarter. I start classes on Thursday. Well at least it's the first day of class. All the faculty and staff are having a walk out for budget cuts and furlow days. So most classes won't start till next week. Apart from that today is the last day of summer. I am taking advantage of this day to chill, veg and do all the last minute things I want to get done before school.

The best part about fall: All the tv shows start up again.

Shows I will try to follow:

-Glee (Awesome)

-The Office (Hilarious)

-Fringe (Hands down the best show on Television)

-Grey's (It will follow just because I have watched it from the beginning)

-Private Practice (I can remember the season finale being ridiculous)

- How I Met Your Mother (I will try to watch because it is funny, but might not have the time)

The time is now, and I can't help but freak out!!

2009-09-16T16:29:00.001-07:00

My oh my I can't believe school season has arrived for me. I am one week from starting college for the 5th year. I want to start and just finish already, yet am scared to death to graduate. I have so many classes still to take as well as my internship in the lab. So far I have tallied up the units and I am sitting at 17 for the fall. Mind you a full course load is 13 and it maxes out as 19. There is no possible way that I can hold down another job. It is going to be quite the quarter. But still the end is in sight.

I have also contacted the local state school about taking a Hematology course. It is the final pre-requisite to the Clinical Laboratory Scientist program. On top of that I have to have most of my applications in before February. I am starting to panic. I mean is it worth the effort? Do I really want to do CLS for a few years? Do I really want to go to graduate school? Is Medical school still lingering somewhere in the future? Needless to say I have been freaking out. And thats only my school life. My personal life seems to get more and more confusing by the minute.

500 Days of Summer

2009-09-10T15:20:00.000-07:00

Last night I Finally saw "500 Days of Summer" it was incredible. It was very well written and hilarious. A definite must see.

Favorite Quote: "Honey.. There is something I need to tell you..... There's a Chinese family in our Bathroom"

Here is just a little taste of the wonder..

Genomics and A Taste of Brazil

2009-09-04T21:25:00.000-07:00

This week at work my PI put together a pilot bioinformatics workshop. It was a crash course in analyzing genetic sequences and using programing and databases to answer various questions. I was the only undergraduate in the workshop. The rest of the people there were professors in the department and graduate students. All I kept thinking about was how much I really want to get my PhD and go to grad school. Every day it sounds cooler and cooler. Scott (my PI) got to spend an entire week in Brazil vacationing and going to a conference and the department paid for it! How cool to travel the world going to conferences all around the world and being able to write it off as business.

Then after the workshop was done we celebrated Marissa (grad Student) and Jessica's (undergrad) birthdays with some Brazilian alcoholic beverage that knocks you on your feet. It was fun. I mean, how many people get to party and drink in the work place?

After a two drinks come of us got in a conversation about dating giving one of the guys a hard time for not asking out his so called dream girl. After us girls telling him to just grow a pair and ask her. The guys were defending his cause explaining how intimidating girls are.

Seriously.....Seriously... Why oh why is there such a huge comunication gap between the sexes? I mean most of the time girls are waiting around for that guy to ask us out and make a move. Thats how it is supposed to go. We should not have to make a move. We are too freaking insecure. We want to feel wanted, desired and perused. Instead we remain frustrated and single. Waiting around wondering if someday some guy will ever come a long that is even remotely interested and let alone has the balls to ask us out to dinner.

Moral of the story.. All men need to stop being afraid of women, because we are not intimidating, grow a pair and ask a girl out. The worst she can say is no. So then take your pride, stand up and move on.

Finally!!

2009-08-31T12:50:00.000-07:00

Hell week has officially ended as of 8:35 am this morning when I handed in our keys to the old apartment. You have no idea how much of a huge relief it truly is. I spent all week cleaning, packing moving and even painting. Yesterday I spent 11 hours over there finishing up the final coats of paint and doing the final wipe down of everything and I mean everything. All the window screens and window tracks had to be scrubbed, all light fixtures had to be taken down and cleaned, and even every spot on the wall either needed to be painted or erased. It was horrible. I have never had such a miserable week in my life. Even worse than finals. I mean it was a huge apartment of over 1900 square feet with 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms and there was only 2.5 of us there to clean. I mean .5 of a person because Lisa either was at work, hanging out with friends or ditched and went to Fresno for the week leaving Elise and I to do most of the work. And the other two roomates are in Brazil and Florida. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. It may take me a while to get over all this frustration.

On a lighter note I love my new management and apartment. It is an older complex built in the 50's but it definitely has its quirks and flaws like the fact that the air conditioning is a wall unit and only seems to cool down Lisa's bedroo

m, and there is no circulation in the kitchen. But apart from that it is nice and small and cute with white cabinets, gas range stove and new carpets. I also really like the management

. They are so sweet, and even called me to inform me that all my repairs had been done and fixed and wanted to know if there was anything else they could do. Plus the amenities are amazing. Free cable, internet, wi-fi around the beautiful almost lap size pool, game room fitted with air hockey and a billiard table, internet cafe with wi-fi and coffee, free faxing, printing, 24 hour fitness room (which is awesome) and even a concierge service!

I will be sure to post pictures of the new place soon once all the boxes and stuff have been neatly placed into theer proper location. But for now here is a picture of some of the complex.

Hell Week

2009-08-28T11:48:00.000-07:00

The time has finally arrived.

Monday I received the keys to my new apartment. I spent all day moving my massive amount of stuff over to the new place. I even blew out my knee and have been gimping around all week.

Tuesday I drove all over Sacramento area hunting down paint because it has to be custom color from Sherwin-Williams. Then come to find out that my apartment complex had bought out all the paint in the area and in order to obtain some I would have to order it and it wouldn't come in till today. Plus it would cost me a small fortune of $30 a gallon and we would need at least 3 to paint all the walls.

Wednesday I tried moving the remaining stuff and try to clean but Elise's stuff was strewn about the entire apartment and was only able to prime the walls of my room.

Then yesterday I spent 10 hours cleaning, painting the place by myself until Lisa came back. I even had to fix my vacuum cleaner. One of the belts had broke and needed to be replaced and one of Elise's clothes pins had jammed the hose and caused a huge clog that I had to remove and ended up cutting my finger on it. Good thing I had my Tetanus booster recently because it is 50% fatal. Unfortunately we still have lots more to detail clean and all the walls to paint.

It will be all over soon and I will then be able to enjoy all the luxurious amenities of the new apartment and get back to a daily routine.

Came and Gone

2009-08-18T19:34:00.000-07:00

So this past weekend I went down to So Cal to hang out for the weekend. Originally my only plans had been to spend quality time with my Dad. Instead I had more fun then I would have ever imagined.

Friday- Went to Disney Land with my Aunt, Uncle and Cousins. We stayed all day till closing at midnight. We also had dinner with my Grandparents who live in Orange.

Saturday- Breakfast with the family. Settlers with Bryson and his roommates, and I dominated the first game. Then good old thrift store shopping for a sweet get up. Dinner with Kristiana and Felisha. It was crazy as usual.

Sunday- Quality time with Dad. We went out to breakfast, our weekend morning tradition. Then Felisha joined us to Redlands to see the plane my dad and uncle have been rebuilding over the last two years. Then consumed way too much beer. First we went to lunch and my dad insisted on ordering a pitcher of Hanger 49 Orange Wheat. Which is really good, its like a Blue Moon with oranges. Then after seeing the plane we went to the brewery across the street from the airport and my dad bought us the sampler. Which is about 6 4oz glasses of each of the beers they brew. Then to top it all off we went back home and played War Craft 3. I have to say I have to coolest dad ever.

http://www.hangar24brewery.com/currentofferings.htm

Now that I have come back to Davis there has been lots of drama with roommates. Different situation predictable outcomes.

6 more days till I move out.

Ahhhh So much to do just a little freaked out.

2009-08-13T12:29:00.001-07:00

In 11 days I will be getting the keys to my new apartment. I am very excited to move to a nice new location. As I was packing to go to Riverside for the weekend. I started looking around and realizing I haven't even come close to start packing. There are so many large and small items that need to be stored, trashed, donated and moved. I have this feeling that I am going to forget so many things and what I plan on taking at the most two days to move will take me all week. Then I won't be able to sleep because there are so many things that have to be cleaned and painted. I am starting to feel a little overwhelmed. Not to mention all the little things that have to be done such as: change of address cards for not only me but Chelsea and Renee that need to be sent in, setting up PG&E and Comcast in the new apartment. Then there is the whole furniture and kitchen ware situation ...we have none. This month is going to cost me a small fortune and my bank account is running on empty.

Man oh man somehow I am going to get through. I just might be a little crazy and on the edge until then.

Idiot!!!

2009-08-12T11:23:00.000-07:00

I am such a complete air head sometimes. I have no idea what was going through my brain yesterday afternoon. Maybe I was in a rush to leave. Anyways. I spent three hours yesterday doing this reaction and the last and final step was to place the e.coli I had just created on an agar plate and then put it in the incubator. Today when I went to get the plates from the incubator they were no where to be found. Ding Ding Ding. I never put them in the incubator!! Ahh to my idiotic frustration I found them on the bench top where I had left them yesterday. Now I have to redo the entire reaction and make more agar plates and hope not to have another mess in the microwave.

Stupid,stupid stupid.

Explosion!!

2009-08-11T15:31:00.000-07:00

Today at work I had to make agar plates. For those of you who do not know what agar is, it is a gelatin like substance that is placed inside plastic petri dishes used to grow bacteria. In order to make these plates bottles of agar (gelatin stuff) has to be melted and poured. The process is a lot trickier than just microwaving it. You have to set the power level really low so it does not burn and explode. While in the process of melting I was working on another experiment and left the microwave unattended. I came back to find the entire contents of my bottle oozing all over the microwave.

It exploded and made a huge mess. I had to spend the next 10 minutes cleaning up the smelly oozing agar from the inside of the microwave.

Needless to say, I learned my lesson. Never, ever walk away from the microwave when melting agar.

The Case of the Missing Ladder

2009-08-10T16:54:00.001-07:00

One summer morning I awoke from my slumber to banging noises outside my window. I didn't hear anyone come into my apartment so I fell back asleep. On the way out the door to work I noticed that Renee's Grandfathers ladder was missing. That noise I heard was someone stealing the ladder. In hopes that it was her Grandfather who had come to pick it up I did not think otherwise. A week or so had gone by and still I had not been able to get a hold of Renee. Then when I finally did she did not remember asking her grandpa to come pick it up. In rage I alerted Elise and we decided to go ask Management. After consulting with the management we got a hold of maintenance and it seemed that they had mistaken the ladder for one of their own. They had indeed removed it from our patio that morning. The ladder was returned.

Case Closed

14 days left and counting at FC #31

Sanity

2009-08-09T19:51:00.000-07:00

Dum De Dum...

Top 10 Things that keep me sane..

1)Horseback ridding

2)Running

3) Long Drives

4) Nature

5)Friends

6) Music

7) Reading

8)Sleep

9)Fellowship

10)Chocholate

Man without these I would be misserable.

This weekend I went down to my Ohma's. Then drove down to Fresno to have lunch with my Parents because they moved my sis back into the dorm. Then I got to visit with my 89 year old Great Grandma. She is so funny and adorable. Then this morning I rode Majestic. I have been able to ride him a lot lately we are starting to get in the grove of communication these days. Also the more treats I feed him, the better he seems to be. Silly horse.

Half Dome

2009-08-03T17:09:00.000-07:00

It has been a long time since I have updated my blog. The past week has been so busy. I spent last weekend in San Jose with my aunt and Grandma Pat. Then Wednesday and Thursday I hung out with my friend Bryson. Finished it all off with a midnight hike up to the top of Half Dome Mountain in Yosemite to watch the sun rise.

OK this hike was quite the challenge about 10 of us decide it was a brilliant idea to hike up the mountain at 11 pm Saturday to watch the sunrise. It was awesome. All of us sleep deprived

scoundrels made the 8.4 mile over 4,800 foot elevation gain to reach the top of this great beast. We finally made it

to the top around 4:30 am

and were able to see this breath taking view as we freeze our asses off at the top. The coolest part of the trail was climbing up the cables to get to the top in the dark. Then we spent about an hour or so hanging out at the top and finally made our descent.

The best part about the whole experience was how accomplishing

it felt to have made it all the way up. On the way down we passed so many people heading up to half dome and couldn't believe we had made it to the top, let alone left at night and didn't sleep to be able to see the sunrise. Once we got to the bottom of the trail we see all the families and old people and they were dying just getting to vernal falls which is only about a mile and a half or so up the trail. Yep we certainly kicked ass.

Don't Let the Bed Bugs Bite

2009-07-21T09:49:00.000-07:00

Recently I have been sleeping like a log. All of the fresh air, hard work and exercise makes it really hard to fall asleep and especially wake up early in the morning. As a result I have been having crazy dreams and nightmares. The other night I had a creepy and scary dream, and last night it was a strange and frustrating one. In my opinion there are three events that occur in a dream that I truly hate.

1) When you try as hard as you can to run away from something as fast as possible, instead you either do not move or go as slow as a snail.

2) When you try to open your eyes to see something and your eyes just won't open. This one happens all the time. Frustrating.

3) Getting attacked by spiders. You may laugh but I absolutely hate spiders and for some reason I often get killed and attacked.

In my dream last night I was with my parents walking around Davis chewing gum. Then the gum sticks to my teeth and I can not talk or get it off. I am walking around trying to get this gum out of my mouth and off my teeth. We run into some friends of my dad and the whole time I have my fingers in my mouth trying to take this gum out so I can talk. So this one now goes up as #4 on the list of events that occur in my dreams that I truly hate.

Igor It's Alive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-07-20T08:59:00.001-07:00

I have officially decided that my water bottle is a dangerous weapon of mass destruction. Over spring break I had my bag filled with all of my tutoring books, papers, wallet and most importantly my very expensive TI-89 Graphing calculator. I did not close the cap to my water bottle super super tight and it leaked all over my purse destroying my calculator.

Atomic bomb number #2. While I was out one night with Chelsea and some friends I come home, slightly intoxicated to hear a weird noise coming from my room. I open my door to find my computer standing horizontally leaning against a fan on the floor. While I was away Lisa decided to use my printer and in the process spilled that same water bottle all over my computer. Luckily, After drying it out for a day or two my computer turned back on and worked perfectly. In fact it is the same computer I am using right now.

Now we come to nuclear blast #3. On a perfectly quiet afternoon I am sitting at home watching TV (BSG season1) I receive a phone call from my friend Amal (Whom I have not talked to before she gave birth a few weeks ago). I go into my purse to pull out my phone and it is dripping with water. My heartbeat stops as I pull the contents out of my bag

-wallet- drenched completely the receipts inside have turned to mush

-pens- wet

-I pod- soaked along with the headphones

-Water bottle- empty, the tool of Satan to cause death and destruction of any and everything in Brystal's life

So I emptied the contents of the purse to dry and placed my I pod along with headphones under the blast of a fan for the day to dry. After consulting with Karen she told me to instead put them in a bag of rice to dry. When I returned home from my grandmother's last night I tried turning on my ipod and nothing, no lights, no power, nothing. Then I tried to plug it into my computer and see if anyting happened. Still nothing. I was saddened. My little green friend had been with me through many great runs, adventures around the world, to the gym, on road trips across California and most of all was with me at every moment of every day in case I was suddenly stricken with boredom. Alas this long time friend was dead. I had plans to hold a funeral service for it tonight.

Until....

This morning I wake up not to my alarm, but my computer making all sorts of strange sounds and signal beeps informing me of a malfunction of sorts. I wake up, crawl out of my most comfortable bed. Wipe my eyes, and open my computer. Upon opening I saw I tunes was open, and was beeping angrily about not having connection to the itunes store. Then I look to my right and there on the table is my ipod flashing saying "Good morning Brystal I am still alive, I love you, and look! I am connected, eject before disconnecting."

Needless to say I will no longer be having a funeral today. It is fully functioning and working. Today is one of the greatest moments in electronic history.

As for the criminal, I will no longer be needing his services. I will move on to another water bottle. One that does not trick you to believe he is completely closed and sealed.

Battlestars and Trees.

2009-07-18T17:39:00.000-07:00

So today it is currently 102 degrees outside. This morning I drove down to my Ohma's (Grandma's) house in Lodi. I rode my horse, laid out fly traps, bathed horses then came inside to clean her train wreck of a house. Then I sit down to finish disk three of the first season of Battlestar Galactica. Yes, I know, super nerdy. However, it is starting to grow on me. All of the people in my lab including the professor are huge Battlestar fans and are determined to make everyone else fans. Since I have had nothing better to do after work, and have seen most of the DVDs that are out I started watching the series. Yesterday when I told a few of the guys they got super excited. They started talking about the show, and made it my mission to watch all four seasons. I totally went up on their coolness factor. Sadly, I think I became a bigger nerd. Oh well, that's the name of my blog anyhow.

Then at lunch with the lab one of the guys started discussing how he was working on one of his fictional novels again. The character is name Jared the Tree Boy. Half tree, half boy. He has leaves for hair, can photosynthesize and farts oxygen. Somehow he saves the day by farting. The details are yet to be determined and was the topic of the discussion. The origin of the boy is also questionable. How does one become part tree, part boy? Maybe his father was a gardener. All I know is that Matt said all this with such seriousness. I however was crying with laughter. I am constantly entertained daily by the characters I work with.

Survey of the Day.

What do you associate with the game Canasta?

a) Coolest game ever, rocks my socks!

b) Never heard of it, is it like the capture of Canada?

c) Definitely old ladies, dentures, wigs and moo moos!

d) Vegas baby!

my response...

My grandma always plays this game with her girlfriends. I picture then sitting around the table smoking shuffling giant decks of cards. The clink clink clink of their old gold and topaz stone rings.

(note: Picture was from google. This woman is in no way related to me. Those glasses are awesome!!)

Longing to be somewhere other than the here and now.

2009-07-15T22:41:00.000-07:00

So for the last week I have been trying to plan a weekend to go home to Riverside. After corresponding with the parental units and looking over schedules it looks like August 13th-16th seems to be the only good weekend. My mom unfortunately will be in Minnesota visiting family and my sister will be back at school. So it looks as though it will be a weekend with just the Pop's. I am excited it will be three days of War Craft, Age of Mythology, tv and not cooking. We will be able to play video games guilt free without the incest nagging of mom. Plus I will have full access to her automobile to go down to the OC to visit friends, and maybe my dad will go with me to get my tattoo.

I finally was able to talk on the phone to Chels today. Oh how I missed that Ho. I mean my life is truly not complete without her in my life. I really have missed our daily decompressions, random adventures and all the classes we had together.

One plus to being the only one in the appartment I don't have to worry about cleaning up after myself. I still am a clean freak and all but for the first time I can leave all my make up and hair tool all over the sink and not worry about it being in other peoples way. I also don't have to get dressed. I could totally walk around naked and no one would know or care. But that just feels wierd so I stick to a robe. Also, I can sleep with the bedroom door open and not have to worry about being woken up by loud people... But still, living alone is not as fun as living with your best friends.

Texts from last night

2009-07-14T18:34:00.001-07:00

Here are some great quotes I stumbled upon from Texts from last night blog

"so I was just driving high and I stopped to let a pinecone cross the road because I thought it was a hedgehog."

"hey this is lauren, i have to type for jon because he's convinced the tongs he's holding are his real hands"

(434): why are there goldfish crackers all over my bed?
(540): you decided you wanted to name them & keep them as pets.

(508): awoke with 47 plastic lawn flamingos in my bed and on surrounding floor. explanation?
(1-508): you said they were your minions of evil that protected you from ferrets.

(402): lol whn u cming hre I nd 2 c ur fce
(1-402): IF YOU TEXT ME ONE MORE SHORTENED VERSION OF A WORD, THE ONLY THING YOU'LL SEE IS MY FIST IN YOUR FACE.

The Gayest Straight Men I know

2009-07-14T17:14:00.000-07:00

Everyday I am constantly amused of the events and conversations that take place in the lab.

First of all, if I would have bumped into some of the guys I work with on the street I would never expect them to be such extreme nerds. They all are good looking, good dressing guys. Until closer examination you do not find that they have all seen all seasons of Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Chuck and some other super nerdy SiFi network shows. Not to mention the fact that three of them are making a road trip to San Diego for Comic Conn next week.

Second, today Derrick and I were asked to accompany Matt to carry back new lab supplies. Just as we leave the door I see Matt brings out these re-useable blue shopping bags. I started laughing. To make it even better he hands one off to me and then takes one himself, throws it over his shoulder like a purse and proceeds down the hallway. Carrying it exactly how I carry a purse. I can't stop laughing. He was serious, and didn't understand how Gay he looked walking down the hallway with a bright blue purse. Then to make it even better we get to the supply room and what he thought was going to need two bags was all pre packaged into a nice box. He responds in a serious monotone "Man, I am seriously disappointed; I wanted to be able to pick out the colors I wanted." I laugh again at him realizing how absolutely gay he sounded again.

Then we get back to lab and the whole lab goes over to ohh and ahh at the new projector that came in. We seriously get the hook ups. Every week the Prof. bakes or cooks for the lab. We have an espresso machine with all the coffee and espresso provided. The place is also hooked up with top of the line Mac Computers and we are now going to get wireless speakers to accompany the new projector.

Hmm.

2009-07-13T18:11:00.000-07:00

This summer is starting to pick up. I am working in the lab everyday and loving it. It is so laid back and the people are fun. Here is a little picture the parasite that I do research on.

Along with research I have started babysitting a 3 year old adorable girl, a cute 3 month baby boy and an 11 year old.

Yesterday I went to the mall with my friend Karen. I am a Sephoraholic. I have realized that I can not go to a mall without going to Sephora and proceeding to purchase something. Yesterday I bought moisturizer, foundation and powder. I am excited about it. I have been cheap and buying foundation from target lately and nothing compares to the bare esentuals mineral foundation from Sephora. I mean this stuff is truly incredible it matches my skin perfectly. It is light, doesn’t clog my pores and it stays perfect all day. Oh there is nothing like a little shop therapy to make my day.

out with the old

2009-07-08T14:25:00.001-07:00

Since school ended last month I have been itching to move to our new appartment. We don't officially get the keys till August 24th which is over a month away. I walk through my appartment on a daily basis and keep thinking about how truly dreadful the moving process will be. I have to down size my stuff in order to share a room. Then we have a bunch of fruniture we will not being taking with and have to move and get rid of. Then there is the process of painting all the walls that we insisted on painting. My room is the most dreded paint job of all I have three walls I am going to have to first sand, prime and then paint. I was stupid and decided to use a semi gloss lime green paint. That was the most stupid decision I think I have made in my life. Then I came home to a disaster of an appartment on monday and have slowly but surley been cleaning a little at a time.

Today I feel a little more accomplished. I had the sudden urge to search for my War Craft game disks because I hid them from myself and have been unable to find. Instead of finding the disks I started cleaning out my closet, desk and all my boxes full of school stuff that have accumulated over the last four years. It is amazing how much crap I kept. I had 4 boxes of miscelaneous notes, books, pictures and paper. I was able to consolodate and trash 4 bags of stuff. Not to mention organize 2 boxes for long term storage to take to my grandmas until I have my own appartment and pack another box of stuff to take to the new place. My desk is no longer covered in books and papers. Instead it has the remaining essentials for the summer and a bunch of docum

ents that have to be shredded before being disposed.

Note to self- purchase a paper shredder.

Summer is officially here

2009-07-01T14:24:00.000-07:00

Well it is already Wednesday. This week has flown by. I am really excited to fly home for the weekend tomorrow. This is a record, three weekends in a row being at home with the family. We are having a big reunion and party all weekend.

It's finally official, my best friend has finally tied the knot after a 3 1/2 year relatioinship with Mr. Fullman. It was such a beautiful and fun wedding. I had so much fun with the entire bridal party. The photographer was amazing, the food and dancing were also good. But my all time favorite moment was decorating the car. Here are some photos show what we did.

Earthquake! California slips further into the ocean

2009-06-21T12:47:00.000-07:00

So it is good being home in Riverside. I haven't been down here since Christmas. It is so nice to be able to sleep in a large squishy bed where I can spread out and lay diagonally, except I have to worry about upsetting the grumpy sleeping dog that follows me around where ever I turn. This morning I awoke to the slight shaking of the house, or also known as an earthquake. It was just a little one of about 3.3 magnitude and centered about 30 miles from my house. I forget about earthquakes in Davis, there are no fault lines active enough to have many. However, in Riverside earthquakes are very common. All of Southern California sits on many fault lines and there are a few each Day. According to the news article over 50 small earthquakes happened last week.

Call me crazy, but I love the thrill of the house shaking, the thunderous sound of the earths crust moving. I don't find them scary at all. Apart from what the rest of the country thinks, earthquakes are not that dangerous compared to other natural disasters. I mean, if I had the choice between fire, tsunami, hurricane, flood, tornado and earthquake, hands down I would rather have an earthquake.

Craig's List

2009-06-17T20:36:00.000-07:00

My oh my has this week flown by. I can't believe it is almost Thursday! Yay I am leaving Davis for a week on Friday. I can't wait to go see my horse for a bit and then go home to Riverside. I haven't been down there since Christmas. Nothing like an 8 hour drive to keep you from going home. I just need to remember to make a mix cd of all my new music to keep me entertained for the long drive in my stick shift with broken cruise control. Then finally I am going to get a haircut my long locks that once were so golden are in need of trim an rejuvenation. One more day to go!

Here is a weird one for y'all.

Awkward

2009-06-16T15:48:00.000-07:00

Awkward

Yet anther reason to dislike FC. Management and maintenance is always coming into our apartments for the most random reason. I swear it is at least 2 times a month. Today they came in twice to measure and check stuff for move out. I mean come on, we have two more months before we even move out. So here I watching TV in my un matched pajamas after I have gotten out of the shower, with no make –up and my hair up. Comfortable looking horrendous not expecting anyone to see me. Then the doorbell rings yet again and management and two other people come in to measure the doorways. It is always so uncomfortable, I don’t know what to do or say they only thing I can do is continue to sit her awkwardly. Still I think the worst of the awkward encounters with maintenance is when they insist on doing maintenance at 8 am in the morning, on the few days I am able to sleep in and I wake up to men talking outside my bedroom door. Oh man I am so ready to move.

Summa Time

2009-06-15T15:46:00.000-07:00

Well after a year of hard work, tears, and toil I am finished with yet another year of my UC Davis career. I still have a few more classes to go until I to will cross that stage and shake the hands of the Deans and my family screams proudly in the audience of another boring graduation. But for now I will spend my summer here in Davis trying to figure out what the heck to do at work and lounge around filling my down time with activities and planning.

This past weekend already seems so long ago. We finished our last class on Thursday, Jennie's wedding on Friday, Chelsea moved out on Saturday :(, and Sunday was spent running errands, graduation parties and having dinner with Emily.

Today I had my first day of work. Unfortunately it was not as busy and exciting as I anticipated. I have no clue what to do and no one was there to teach me anything. Hopefully tomorrow will be more adventurous. However, I did get quite a bit done on the Bachelorette party planning and a secret project I am working on. Now I need to look for hotel rooms for friends.

I am doing my best trying to keep myself this summer. I have started a list of books I want to read, projects I haven't the chance to get around to, organizing and consolidation of my stuff in preparation to move in August. Oh yesterday I bought "The Host", the other Stephanie Meyer book. It is kind of strange, but I have been wanting to read it for quite a while. I will be sure to keep you updated.

Waking up in Davis

2009-06-09T23:35:00.000-07:00

Oh I forgot to mention the wonderful song Chels and I wrote yesterday. As we were coming back from dinner at Thai Bistro the Katy Perry song "Waking up in Vegas" came on the radio. Chelsea had the brilliant idea of writing new lyrics and change it to

Waking up in Davis

You got to help me out
I got lost on campus last night
We need the bus because we’re freshmen, and we’re broke
I lost my school ID you lost your bike key
Spare me your freaking dirty looks
Now don’t blame me
You want to drop out and get hell out of town

Don’t be a baby
Remember what you told me
Shut up and put your books where your mouth is
That’s what you get for waking up in Davis
Get up and shake the pollen off your clothes now
That’s what you get for waking up in Davis

Why is the lecture hall so bright?
Oh, we didn’t get any sleep last night, writing a paper,
And why am I wearing your sweat pants?
Don’t cry to your father
‘cause we’re not freshmen any more

Don’t be a baby
Remember what you told me
Shut up and put your books where your mouth is
That’s what you get for waking up in Davis
Get up and shake the pollen of your clothes now
That’s what you get for waking up in Davis

You got me into this
Information overload, situation lost control
Send me an S.O.S.
And take a loan out
We’re gonna bike all over town

Don’t be a freshy
Remember what you told me (x3)
Shut up and put your books where your mouth is
That’s what you get for waking up in Davis
Get up and shake the pollen off your clothes, now
That’s what you get for waking up in Davis
That’s what you get, aggie
Shake the pollen, shake, shake, shake the pollen c’mon!
Take some loans out, aggie
Take some loans out, aggie

And for the music
http://www.truveo.com/katy-perry-waking-up-in-vegas-instrumental/id/1626891644

Frying Brain Cells

2009-06-09T23:29:00.000-07:00

Well, 48 hours till I am done with my senior year of college. The only things that stand between me and the freedom of summer are two lab reports and a final. It is currently 11:31pm and I do not have the motivation to study any longer. However I have hardly studied at all and I think I am really going to regret that decision in the morning. But for now I don’t care. I honestly don’t think I will be passing the class anyways because when it comes to these tests my brain seems to loose all regular function. I am just banking on the hopes that somehow will beat the average and be able to understand the questions and what the professor wants. My dyslexia seems to get worse and worse as the years go on.

Right now I would much rather be playing the bean game with Tim and Chels or being artsy with Lisa and Renee. They are having so much fun painting and watching movies. Ohhh how I want to be done!!!!!!!!

2009-06-09T01:07:00.001-07:00

Thank You Comcast!

2009-06-09T00:26:00.000-07:00

Such a wonderful thing occurred today. Our Cable was disconnected. You may think, "What? Brystal, why are you excited about your cable not working?"

In the words of John McCain

"Well my friends...."

For the past week there has been a silent between Chelsea, Elise and I over control of the remote. It is Chels and I VS Elise, and Today meant Victory for our team. No longer will we be subject to 24 hours of the television only playing Law and Order. Literally 24 hours. Elise has been camped out in front of the TV assuring her complete control of the television. Chelsea even woke up at 4 am to find the TV on, and guess what was on.

So Saturday before I left for the fun Hen Party, the internet decided to fail. In attempt to fix the solution after being bitched at by a certain someone, I called Comcast. I scheduled an appointment for Sunday. Finally, today the Comcast tech. came and spent an hour analyzing the system to give us an unfortunate diagnosis. This shity apartment had horrible cable lines and need to be replaced. The maintenance is under Fountain Circle's jurisdiction and he was unable to fix the problem. So for the time being we can have either cable or internet, not both. So of course it being finals week, internet wins. Well, I don't think that this complex will even get around to fixing the problem so tomorrow I am going to cancel cable all together.

Luckily I am not going to be around much this summer to want to watch TV. Instead I will just get a subscription to Netflix.

Today marks a wonderful day of silence coming from the living room.

The Final Countdown

2009-06-03T17:24:00.001-07:00

7 days till I am done with finals!!!!

Then Summer!

A song to represent the theme for today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_IKcMl_a9A

Spectacular Spectacular!

2009-05-28T22:29:00.000-07:00

After a very long week, I finaly feel a little less stressed. I had a final project presentation that we rocked, had an exam today and turned in the first of four lab reports due over the next two weeks. I also signed the lease to our appartment for next year. Which I am extremly excited about moving out of fountin craple. I spent a few hours at Starbucks with Renee working on a lab report due tomorrow. Finally ended the day with going for an amazing 4 mile run. Now I have to work on some more homework.

I ran across this picture today. It is what Lisa drew on my door last year.

2009-05-26T16:53:00.000-07:00

Oh I forgot to mention the crazy cat lady! So there is this woman in my lab. She is married and strange. Reminds me of someone else I know.. no not you Akin, someone blonde.. Well while the rest of the class spends time on the computers checking e-mails and other somewhat academic stuff. This girl spends hours online watching you tube videos of cats. I mean seriously and then she drags me into watching them too. They are wierd. I enjoy animals and all, but seriously. She is obsessed.

Grow Bacteria Grow!

2009-05-26T16:48:00.000-07:00

Man, I am siting here in lab trying to kill time waiting for this mutant bacteria to grow. So very borring. I have tons of stuff to do for thursday such as studying for my exam, writing my lab report and graphing the Data from Hell. Ahh and to top this wonderful day off I am sick. My throat is burning from thirst and my stomach groans with hunger pains. That small muffin from the Co-Ho at 9 am is not holding me over now that is is almost 5pm. Oh man and when I get out of here I have to rush home and change for my marketing presentation this evening. Oh how I long for summer to arrive. I wish I could just skip over finals week.

Surprise Surprize

2009-05-21T20:39:00.000-07:00

Well after having a major melt down monday. I am starting to try and not be so stressed out. Oh how I look forward to summer. So close but so far away. I have two weddings to attend. A cool lab to work in. Places to travel to and people to catch up with and see. I also will have more time to log hours on the bike and run. Oh and being able to go hiking and up to the mountains, ride the horse. So many plans.

As for being super studious today and getting a lot of work down that was completly shot down when Tawny and Derrick came over and Pj walked in randomly to join us. We spent the rest of the afternoon playing settlers and finishied it off with beers. It was fun. I even cooked dinner for the first time in what feels like weeks. I have been so busy and stressed out I have been eating out so much.

Mmm now I am going to make brownies, and still try to get stuff done.

well until later.

I wan't a puppy

2009-05-09T22:25:00.000-07:00

So what better to wake up to the morning to a cute little furry creature at the side of your bed. After years of being away to college I am very deprived of the canine companionship. So this week I realized that I really really want a puppy. What better to come home to a little ball of fur that is so excited to see you. A companion to go on runs with and to bring a little life to my appartment. So after searching I realised I am quite partial to terriers. I love Terryk my cute little furry westie at home. I love that little dog. The only drawbacks is that he always gets dirty and has a hard time staying white. Since I am always out and about it would be nice to not have to worry about a dog that always has to stay nice and clean and white all the time. After googling different terriers I have come across the cutest of breeds. The Cairn Terrier. Aren't they so adorable??

I have decided that if I get one I would name it after one of the Ewoks from Star Wars because they remind me of those cute little guys. Man oh man do I want a puppy now.

Many Things

2009-05-08T16:06:00.000-07:00

Well So many thoughts since I last documented by uneventful life.

Well for one I love the weather this week. It started out cool and cloudy and now it is sunny and breezy. The perfect temperature. Man I am really going to long for this weather as I sit and fry like an egg in Davis this summer.

Well it is Mother's Day weekend and I won't be seeing her at all. It is also her birthday. Instead I will spend those days ridding my horse in the new arena. My horse will sure be happy about that.

Last night I had dinner with Chelsea and my Dad at Burgurs and Brew. It was good. Afterwards even though I was completly not hungry, we had to go in to Yolo Berry. Except now a days I feel like such a trader for going in that place. For my marketing class we are doing our project on Yogurt Shack and trying to figure out how they can stay in business in the newly competative yogurt industry in Davis. But of course I like all the places. They each have something good about them, but for locations sake Yolo Berry is better situated right next to central park, Crepeville and Burgers and Brew. Man oh man.

That leads me to my next tangent. Wednesday while I was outside Yogurt Shack doing customer survey's I was excited to make a new friend that is more obsessed about seeing the new Star Trek movie than I am. I mean, I grew up watching the shows as a kid, and have seen most of the major movies that came out in the 90's when my dad would drag me and my sister along with him. But this new film is produced By J.J.Abrams, the creator of Lost and Alias, two amazing shows. Oh and the young Captain Kirk is quite a site to see. Needless to say I am excited about going to see the movie tonight with Chels. We are such nerds. But hey that's what the title of the blog is right???

So many things yet to experience

2009-04-29T00:51:00.000-07:00

Ok so this is my senior year here in Davis and there are so many things I have yet to have done. First of all I have not explored all of the downtown hot spots of recent addition to Davis. So I am making a list of places I want to have tried by the end of summer.

1) Makuni, its a new chain sushi restaraunt to recently open in Davis

2) The new Thai restaraunt/night club- I have heard nothing but amazing things about this new bar.

3)Davis Shushi Buffet- apparently better than Fugi's and buffet.

4) Davis wikki- the drink, a Davis tradition that apparently everyone must try at least once in their life.

5) The Varsity Theater- Cool, vintage and still never seen a film there.

6) Quickly- the new boba place

7) 49'er video- still never been there

8) Batting cages- really really want to go, need to find out when it is open.

I know there is more. But right now I feel really sick, must have eaten something that does not agree with my stomache. That and the fact that I am freezing from standing outside for the last 4 hours at Sophia's trivia night, which by the way was a lot of fun and my first time. Man I do not get out. I am so lame.

A wonderful Week

2009-04-12T17:27:00.000-07:00

Well it is now 5:30 pm on Easter. The end to a long and wonderful week. Hello to a new week. Well this week as you know was important for two wonderful religions, Judaism and Christianity. Thurdsay was the begining of Passover, celebrating the New Covenant God made with Israel. I was lucky enough to attend my first Passover dinner with some friends. It was a lot of fun and really made me miss Israel. In the booklet we were reading though it was in both Hebrew and English. I was so content listening to that language for the first time in months. Oh how I wish I knew Hebrew. It was also so amazing being able to learn all the wonderful traditions that have been kept over the years.

Also Friday was good Friday marking the day Jesus died to Rise again out of the Tomb on Sunday. That also made me remember the Garden Tomb. It is really neat being able to read through the Bible and being able to remember where the stories take place and have been there.

This week will be busy. I have been tutoring a ton and have two exams and a lab report due. Not to mension preping for the GRE and trying to improve my vocabulary and verbal scores. Then there is the constant intership and summer job search. Finding an intership is so difficult because so many people are going into the Bio- tech indistry. It is really frustrating waiting around trying to figure out what to do with my life next. I honestly don't know.

Well until later

Hmm Bacteria!

2009-04-07T14:03:00.000-07:00

Ok so I am a super nerd and currently am sitting in my Microbiology lab waiting for my bacteria to grow. In the mean time I try to catch up on all procrastination I have lost over the last few weeks and realize it is time to update this nerdy blog. So sit back and relax I have a lot to catch you up on.

Item #1 Chelseas Bridal Shower

It was a wonderful weekend of making fun of chelsea and all the wonderful things she has to look forward to for getting married. I have so many obsene pictures but and fearful to post them. So I guess I will put one amazing one up to sum up the tone of the shower.

After a weekend of fun and surprises the next few things I am looking forward to are

1)picnic day and seeing my family

2)Star Trek.

I am such a nerd and May 8th baby I am going to be watching the opening night showing of that movie. Even Chels wants to see it with me. You all should totally check out the trailer. http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/startrek/

Its been a while

2009-02-18T22:18:00.000-08:00

So it has been quite a while since I have made a post. Over the last week..
1. my car got towed from Derricks apartment complex
2. My computer crashed
3. I went completely Broke
4. I went to San Louis Obispo for the weekend

Last night I realized that I have an exam on Friday and the career fair tomorrow. Man growing up and looking for jobs really sucks.

However I now have Katy Perry's song "Hot N Cold" stuck in my head from Anneliese's twilight blog. Man that ridiculous movie is coming out on video soon. I need to go on detox from everything Twilight. I keep reading the books when I have nothing better to do (on the pot) and while I am in class I make comparisons of my life drama with the charachters in the Novel. Yes it is bad. I relate reality to fiction. But I know I am not the only crazy girl who does that, I talked to two other of my friends who do the same thing. Maybe I need to get sane friends.... No.. I like being surrouned by my kind.

Hmm wine. I think I might help myself to a glass of full moon. Like the greatest winery from $5 at Traders.

Viruses!!!

2009-02-07T21:58:00.000-08:00

Gah I have been plagued by viruses for the last week. First I get sick in the middle of mid terms, then my computer gets bombarded with viruses while in the middle of trying to download age. So I have spent literally all day fixing my computer. I have sat on the same couch all day!!! At least I went for a long run and cooked dinner and stuff. Man I am such a bum today. But my computer is my life. Gahh if only I had a mac. I would not have to worry about viruses.

Kilts

2009-02-05T16:01:00.000-08:00

So this morning Jennie and Anneliese came over for breakfast. It was fun talking about just about everything from Obama on Twitter, why John McCain cant raise his
arms and Scottish Kilts. Hehe so all morning in Lab I just pictured everyone wearing a kilt. That later turned in to why Chelsea should buy a Kilt for Tim for his birthday, and cutting her cake with a Medieval sword.
Oh Life so just to put to picture my crazy converstions of this morning.
Funny Right??
Oh Jennie I can't wait to see all the men of your wedding wearing one of these.

2009-02-03T23:24:00.000-08:00

Akin this one is for you! So I am excited you are coming to visit Chels and I Thursday. Get ready to get your game on!

Welcome

2009-02-03T23:14:00.001-08:00

Well after months of pondering, procrastinating and denial, I have finally broken down and started my own blog. So here it is my online journal for the many weird happenings and thoughts of my life.