I'm really enjoying my job. And, more importantly, the people that I work for. They give me good vibes.
I loved seeing some of my girls tonight. I wish I had more time to spend with them but school's gotta come first!
I am pretty exhausted after this crazy week. It was like Murphy's law in action, man. Although I can't complain too much because life is generally good to me.
On the agenda this weekend:
Barbara's baby shower.
Biochem homework and study group.
Organic prelab.
This week:
Organic postlab.
Biochem exam.
Two Biochem postlabs and one prelab.
Oh, and I love my new straightner. I spent about an hour in Ulta comparing their huge selection and got a decent one for about 30 bucks. It's red. <3
The only thing was, I couldn't locate the Biosilk protecting spray stuff; all I found were shampoos. Lame.
I like that Fergie song about being clumsy.
01 March 2008
24 February 2008
sunday morning and hair stuff
I'm sitting here in my comfiest pj pants drinking coffee and munching on homemade cinnamon graham crackers. They taste just like the real thing, yay for a successful recipe!
It's the earliest I've gotten up on a Sunday in a long time. The sun is shining and it's slightly warm outside with a nice breeze. After being woken up abruptly, inducing a major case of temporary grouchiness, I'm pretty content.
I've got one lecture to watch, one very long chapter to read and one prelab writeup. I've got to make a trip over to the mall to pick up a piece of jewelry and then I get to shop around for a small belated birthday gift for my mom.
I think it's time to retire my trusty Revlon hair straightner. I've had the thing since high school and it's been dropped so many times the outside has gotten cracked and the metal plates sometimes come out. When I use it sometimes my hair gets stuck and gets pulled out. No wonder it's so damaged... I guess I should upgrade while I'm at the mall today, but I don't think I'm ready to shell out over $100 for a chi.
My new hair stylist (whom I love- aka she listens to what I have to say instead of hacking away and giving me mullet-like layers) also said she likes the Biosilk protecting spray stuff, and I'll try it because the stuff I use now, ironically the chi brand, doesn't seem to be doing much. Do any of ya'll use something like that that you'd recommend?
Anyway when I was getting my hair cut yesterday there were a lot of ladies there talking and getting their hair done. It was kind of like a scene from a movie. One of the ladies started talking about how she goes to Whole Foods on Saturday to try all the great samples they put out, and then she was talking about how she tried the gluten free bread. She said it was terrible (word) and that if she couldn't eat stuff like that she just wouldn't eat bread at all. (double word) I kinda wanted to pipe up and contribute to the conversation, but she was on a roll and was actually pretty amusing to listen to.
Because here's the thing: I hate it when people try the bread or other gluten free item and go, "it's not that bad!" It IS that bad when you're craving a peanut butter sandwich and have to eat it off hard, dry, dense bread. And it IS that bad when you have no choice and are forced to choke it down or, more often than not, go without. So anyway. Some non-celiacs feel our pain, tell it like it is and admit that some of the products are downright nasty, and it made me feel kinda good.
Back to my graham crackers :o)
It's the earliest I've gotten up on a Sunday in a long time. The sun is shining and it's slightly warm outside with a nice breeze. After being woken up abruptly, inducing a major case of temporary grouchiness, I'm pretty content.
I've got one lecture to watch, one very long chapter to read and one prelab writeup. I've got to make a trip over to the mall to pick up a piece of jewelry and then I get to shop around for a small belated birthday gift for my mom.
I think it's time to retire my trusty Revlon hair straightner. I've had the thing since high school and it's been dropped so many times the outside has gotten cracked and the metal plates sometimes come out. When I use it sometimes my hair gets stuck and gets pulled out. No wonder it's so damaged... I guess I should upgrade while I'm at the mall today, but I don't think I'm ready to shell out over $100 for a chi.
My new hair stylist (whom I love- aka she listens to what I have to say instead of hacking away and giving me mullet-like layers) also said she likes the Biosilk protecting spray stuff, and I'll try it because the stuff I use now, ironically the chi brand, doesn't seem to be doing much. Do any of ya'll use something like that that you'd recommend?
Anyway when I was getting my hair cut yesterday there were a lot of ladies there talking and getting their hair done. It was kind of like a scene from a movie. One of the ladies started talking about how she goes to Whole Foods on Saturday to try all the great samples they put out, and then she was talking about how she tried the gluten free bread. She said it was terrible (word) and that if she couldn't eat stuff like that she just wouldn't eat bread at all. (double word) I kinda wanted to pipe up and contribute to the conversation, but she was on a roll and was actually pretty amusing to listen to.
Because here's the thing: I hate it when people try the bread or other gluten free item and go, "it's not that bad!" It IS that bad when you're craving a peanut butter sandwich and have to eat it off hard, dry, dense bread. And it IS that bad when you have no choice and are forced to choke it down or, more often than not, go without. So anyway. Some non-celiacs feel our pain, tell it like it is and admit that some of the products are downright nasty, and it made me feel kinda good.
Back to my graham crackers :o)
22 February 2008
love that kid
My little brother Luke is so awesome, so thoughtful and so underappreciated.
That kid will take his shirt off his back for you. No questions asked.
I came home today to some gluten free cookie & cake mixes with the most adorable high school boy chicken scratch note.
And this is not the first time he's ever done something thoughtful like that, and not just to me.
Of course I love all of my brothers and sisters but I just wanted to sing his praises a little bit.
That kid will take his shirt off his back for you. No questions asked.
I came home today to some gluten free cookie & cake mixes with the most adorable high school boy chicken scratch note.
And this is not the first time he's ever done something thoughtful like that, and not just to me.
Of course I love all of my brothers and sisters but I just wanted to sing his praises a little bit.
21 February 2008
50 things!
Today's entry is inspired by Random Brain Syndrome. She wrote about a list of 50 things she wanted to do and it made me think of my own that I had written up a few years ago. I'm sure there were some really cool things in there I'd thought up, but it was all lost in the Great Computer Crash of 2006, along with the 50-page Microbiology lab notebook that I slaved over and had to re-type frantically in two days...
But anyway. I now know the importance of backing up important files AND I want to try and re-construct/ update that list.
Here's what I remember from the list, and what I want do to!
Over time I've removed some as I don't really care anymore. As I figure out what I want to do instead, they'll get filled back in.
1. Walk on stilts
2. Get my bikini area professionally waxed
(x) 3. Decide on a major
(x) 4. Fall in love
(x) 5. Take a cake decorating class
6. Learn how to play the piano
7. Be more outgoing
(x) 8. Feel confident in a bathing suit
(x) 9. Figure out what's wrong with me!
(x) 10. Climb a rock wall
(x) 11. Give blood
(x) 12. Get a tattoo
13. Learn how to change oil and a tire
(x) 14. Learn how to cook
15.
16. Milk a cow
(x) 17. Not wear jeans, a tshirt and tennis shoes every day
(x) 18. Buy a little black dress
19. Become knowledgeable in politics
(x) 20. Learn how to put contacts in
(x) 21. Own diamond jewelry
(x) 22. Get drunk.
(x) 23. Try some sort of illegal drug
(x) 24. Have sex in a car
(x) 25. Learn how to knit
(x) 26. Plan a potluck picnic during the spring
(x) 27. Watch the sunrise
28. Live in CA again
29.
(x) 30. Plan a wedding
31. Pose nude for art
(x) 32. Learn how to take a compliment
33.
(x) 34. Floss
(x) 35. Make my parents proud
36. Spend more time with my siblings
(x) 37. Make a 4.0... from now on
(x) 38. Build a custom home or re-do a fixer upper
39. Go fishing and catch something
(x) 40. Learn how to surf
41. Be able to communicate in sign language and spanish
42.
43. Buy my mom a car
(x) 44. Wear lipstick without looking like a whore
45. Learn how to dance with a partner
46. Be "the tooth fairy"
47.
(x) 48. Collect enough wine corks to cover a bulletin board
(x) 49. Buy and actually use a crock pot
50. Get published.
51. Visit a ghost town
52. Own a chicken that lays eggs
53. Participate in a demolition derby
But anyway. I now know the importance of backing up important files AND I want to try and re-construct/ update that list.
Here's what I remember from the list, and what I want do to!
Over time I've removed some as I don't really care anymore. As I figure out what I want to do instead, they'll get filled back in.
1. Walk on stilts
2. Get my bikini area professionally waxed
(x) 3. Decide on a major
(x) 4. Fall in love
(x) 5. Take a cake decorating class
6. Learn how to play the piano
7. Be more outgoing
(x) 8. Feel confident in a bathing suit
(x) 9. Figure out what's wrong with me!
(x) 10. Climb a rock wall
(x) 11. Give blood
(x) 12. Get a tattoo
13. Learn how to change oil and a tire
(x) 14. Learn how to cook
15.
16. Milk a cow
(x) 17. Not wear jeans, a tshirt and tennis shoes every day
(x) 18. Buy a little black dress
19. Become knowledgeable in politics
(x) 20. Learn how to put contacts in
(x) 21. Own diamond jewelry
(x) 22. Get drunk.
(x) 23. Try some sort of illegal drug
(x) 24. Have sex in a car
(x) 25. Learn how to knit
(x) 26. Plan a potluck picnic during the spring
(x) 27. Watch the sunrise
28. Live in CA again
29.
(x) 30. Plan a wedding
31. Pose nude for art
(x) 32. Learn how to take a compliment
33.
(x) 34. Floss
(x) 35. Make my parents proud
36. Spend more time with my siblings
(x) 37. Make a 4.0... from now on
(x) 38. Build a custom home or re-do a fixer upper
39. Go fishing and catch something
(x) 40. Learn how to surf
41. Be able to communicate in sign language and spanish
42.
43. Buy my mom a car
(x) 44. Wear lipstick without looking like a whore
45. Learn how to dance with a partner
46. Be "the tooth fairy"
47.
(x) 48. Collect enough wine corks to cover a bulletin board
(x) 49. Buy and actually use a crock pot
50. Get published.
51. Visit a ghost town
52. Own a chicken that lays eggs
53. Participate in a demolition derby
19 February 2008
grade-ness
I got a 74/75 on that psych paper I BS'd my way through. The TA even put "good job!" on it. I rock. In other grades news, I got a 57 on my ochem exam, but the class average was a 54 so that's not AS bad, right? Right. I would have made in the lower 60's but I completely stupidly bombed this one question that I realized after I got my test back that I knew how to do. Grr, I hate that.
Now I gotta do a scientific paper on Vitamin C, which there is no way to BS through and it is actually my kind of writing. The only thing is, the research and analysis takes a long time. Other than that, I can totally crank out a badass scientific paper. Although I did take an hour to figure out how to put the symbol for statisical mean, "X-bar" in a formula in Word, because I don't have that equations program uploaded. Thank God for Google!
I've also been on a fruit kick. I want to go to Fiesta (where it's cheapest) and get a whole shitload of fruit just to snack on. Today in biochemistry, the class where I get SO STARVING, I was eating an apple that was so delicious. I guess it was kind making noise kuz my friend turned around to look at me, LOL.
All right, happy writing to me...
Now I gotta do a scientific paper on Vitamin C, which there is no way to BS through and it is actually my kind of writing. The only thing is, the research and analysis takes a long time. Other than that, I can totally crank out a badass scientific paper. Although I did take an hour to figure out how to put the symbol for statisical mean, "X-bar" in a formula in Word, because I don't have that equations program uploaded. Thank God for Google!
I've also been on a fruit kick. I want to go to Fiesta (where it's cheapest) and get a whole shitload of fruit just to snack on. Today in biochemistry, the class where I get SO STARVING, I was eating an apple that was so delicious. I guess it was kind making noise kuz my friend turned around to look at me, LOL.
All right, happy writing to me...
18 February 2008
HOME!
I've been spending a lot of time over at C's lately, and today I had a blessed short ochem lab, so I hightailed it home before traffic started sucking. It's another "California day" and it feels so good to be home! I've missed my bed and my cat (yes, the little pissing machine, I missed her), and my own coffeemaker, and all the little comforts of home. Yesterday we BBQ'd for my mom's birthday instead of going to church because she partied Saturday night, lol. C brought some of this deer sausage from this deer he killed. Boy it was good. But anyway I was like, wow I haven't been home in a while. So yeah, it's nice.
If I feel like writing I don't get to make blog entries over at his place b/c I have not told him about this. He may know anyway, but I'd rather not advertise it.
Since becoming gluten-free, I've had to find something to satisfy my cake cravings. Lately it's been ice cream. My new obsession: the dryers snickers ice cream. It tastes JUST like the snickers ice cream bars. It's so delicious! I make myself scoop it into a bowl or I'll sit there and eat the whole damn carton.
Well let me take advantage of this extra time to get my post labs done. Chiao!
If I feel like writing I don't get to make blog entries over at his place b/c I have not told him about this. He may know anyway, but I'd rather not advertise it.
Since becoming gluten-free, I've had to find something to satisfy my cake cravings. Lately it's been ice cream. My new obsession: the dryers snickers ice cream. It tastes JUST like the snickers ice cream bars. It's so delicious! I make myself scoop it into a bowl or I'll sit there and eat the whole damn carton.
Well let me take advantage of this extra time to get my post labs done. Chiao!
16 February 2008
random
So I spent most of my day cleaning. Cat Pee.
There is a spot that she "likes" to pee and I swear I've scrubbed it so many times but it still stinks. Effing cats man. When she kicks it I'm totally not getting another cat. This is ridiculous.
I woke up early (because of my sister's cat, which I'm TOTALLY not getting into now) and tried my hand at donuts. Since C has been on this donut kick I've really been wanting them. I've never really liked donuts, but I figured that maybe if they were gluten free I'd like them. Nah. I still don't like them. There's something about fried dough covered in glaze that doesn't appeal to me.
I had goals to watch at least one of the psych lectures today but it doesn't look like I'm going to buckle down and get to it. Meh.
T is having an apartment warming party tonight. I was going to bring her a plant but I forgot to go to that part of Walmart. I'm bringing her some TP instead. It may seem lame, but you always need TP.
Mom wants us all to go to church and breakfast tomorrow for her birthday. Hrm. I don't like going to church since they made the services all contemporary.
I'm kinda hungry and spaghetti sounds good.
There is a spot that she "likes" to pee and I swear I've scrubbed it so many times but it still stinks. Effing cats man. When she kicks it I'm totally not getting another cat. This is ridiculous.
I woke up early (because of my sister's cat, which I'm TOTALLY not getting into now) and tried my hand at donuts. Since C has been on this donut kick I've really been wanting them. I've never really liked donuts, but I figured that maybe if they were gluten free I'd like them. Nah. I still don't like them. There's something about fried dough covered in glaze that doesn't appeal to me.
I had goals to watch at least one of the psych lectures today but it doesn't look like I'm going to buckle down and get to it. Meh.
T is having an apartment warming party tonight. I was going to bring her a plant but I forgot to go to that part of Walmart. I'm bringing her some TP instead. It may seem lame, but you always need TP.
Mom wants us all to go to church and breakfast tomorrow for her birthday. Hrm. I don't like going to church since they made the services all contemporary.
I'm kinda hungry and spaghetti sounds good.
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