It's the WEEKEND!

It is finally the weekend bloggers! What are you doing to celebrate?  The Nashvegas road trip begins in t minus 4 hours. Let the FUN begin.

In other good news, I e-mailed the company I got the new template from and they ever so kindly offered to fix the header problem themselves.  Hooray.

Last night, I made a REAL dinner.  Most of my dinners consist of an english muffin, shredded cheese, and turkey.  I know you are wondering with meals like every night that how I am not a size two. Don't worry I've asked myself the same question for the past 21 years.  Damn metabolism.  I think mine slowed down when I reached the ripe old age of 3.  Anyway instead my usual "barely sandwich" I eat for dinner, I baked chicken and broccoli. Check it out:

There are many reasons I do not usually cook meals such as this, the two main being: ingredients are so freaking expensive.  Five dollars for a jar of minced garlic, like how often do I use minced garlic (uhh, never).  My fingers are crossed that the expiration date on that sucker is 2101.  And the second reason I do not whip up Paula Deen dishes on the daily is: dirty dishes are still piled up in the sink. See that's the thing about cooking, the work isn't over when the meal is on the table.  No no, you slaved over the stove then you must slave over the sink.  And, that's the WORST.  Regardless of the burden of playing chef, it was still as tasty meal and definitely something different I enjoyed, perhaps I will make eating "real" food a weekly thing.

I also watched Garden State for the first time last night recommended by Meg.  If any of you haven't seen it, I suggest renting.  Great characters, music, and lines. What more could you ask for? I mean really.

Well, I am going to attempt productivity in my last hour before my next class!

Happy weekend!



road trip.

Because it's spring semster and we need to live a little, and because the rooms has family in Nashville that we can bunk with we are taking a road trip bayy-bee!  This weekend we are hitting the road to Nashvegas to take in the sights and dine with Taylor and Carrie.  Kidding about the last part, unless we actually do see them in a restaurant and pull up chairs at their table (wouldn't put it past us).

Our plans so far include: walking around Franklin, and going to see play Shrek.  This should be so fun, because I LOVE plays and love the green ogre and his donkey friend!  If you have any favorite sights or restaurants in Nashville, please let me know! I'd love to hear some suggestions.

Franklin, TN!

How embarrassing is a headerless blog?  Pretty.  But I just don't have the patience to learn how to do it right now.  With the help of my Dad I finally got the background up, but the header file is not cooperating, so until I muster up that little virtue of patience this blog will be header-less.  Don't hate.

What have your days looked like lately?  Mine are looking like this:

Note all of the To-Do Lists.  I am obsessed with list making, I think I inherited it from my mother.

I had my two and a half hour seminar tonight and found out the date of my ten minute presentation.  February 23.  Already DREADING it.

Happy hump day bloggers.

just call me monica.

Monica Geller that is. I cleaned, and cleaned, and CLEANED this morning.

For Christmas I asked for dusters.  And low and behold sweet Santa brought me just that.  

The swiffer dusters.  I was impressed with these little suckers, and they are disposable which is nice for me because storage is lacking in Apartment 5.  Take a look at my de-cluttered, swiffered clean desk and nightstand. 

My room hasn't seen this side of clean in forever. Monica would be so proud, now if I could master her ways in the kitchen and snatch a funny hubs like Chandler, I'd be set!

And moving out of the fictional character realm and back to my actual life...  Last night we went to the gymnastics meet.  Not as much trash talking went down as at the basketball game Tuesday night, but still entertaining. 

Then Meg and I went to see No Strings Attached.  I didn't have high expectations and mainly just wanted to see Ashton on the big screen for a couple hours (what a cutie) but I cannot tell you how good this movie is.  You need to see it, and take me with you because I will be seeing it atleast one more time in theaters, if not twice.

Have a lovely Saturday!!

happenins

Hey hey bloggers!
I bet you thought I had fallen off the blogging bandwagon.  Nope!  I'm not giving up New Year's resolutions until at least February.  How has every one's week been? I have been a busy bee learning, learning, learning in my new classes, and napping when I am home.

I have too many random thoughts to focus on one topic today so I will theme this post "Hot Topics".  You know, like the ones Barbara, Joy, Sherri, and Elisabeth discuss everyday, except these are more personal and less political. And here we go..

Monumental moment of the week: I became a basketball fan.  It has never been my favorite sport to watch  because I have a theory that no team is exceptionally better than another, it just comes down to the last 10 seconds (or in our case, 2 seconds) of luck.  But boy oh boy, after Tuesday night's game I think I will be a regular at the Bama basketball games.  Amanda and I give ourselves partial credit for the win as we were coaching from the stands.  She would yell, "Put it up" and I would yell "Help em out" until someone finally made a shot.  We are expecting an offer from Anthony Grant any day now..

Phone picture, not the best quality!

Fun fact of the week: Single men have mortality rates 250% higher than married men.  I am going to include this on my e-harmony profile (when I make one, that is..) "We may not have 35 levels of compatibility, but marry me and stay alive!!"

Favorite text of the week: "Just so you know, I miss you"- from my mother.  I MISS YOU TOO!

Best song of the week: Firework by Katy Perry.  The first Katy Perry song I have actually liked.  I have been listening and dancing to this song on repeat.

Best meal of the week:  The taco salad I am about to devour at Iguana Grill.  YUM YUM YUM! Speaking of, gotta go get ready.

Hope everyone has a lovely Friday!

weekend wrap up.

Hi friends!

How is your three day weekend?

This low key weekend has been exactly what I need to get back into the swing of school.  I have been able to finally purchase my school supplies (scored on notebooks at Wal Mart yesterday for 94 cents), my room and bathroom are actually clean, and I did some laundry. And in case you were wondering, I am now answering to "Domestic Goddess".

I have also started Jillian Micheal's Thirty Day Shred with Abi. The workout DVD is only 20 minutes in length, thanks be to God, because I would shred right to pieces if it was a second longer.  Today was day 2 of the thirty day challenge, which is always the most painful because one, you are still sore from yesterday and two, your body has yet to adapt to the pressure. If I don't have Jilly's abs at the end of this bad boy, I am going to be upset because my whole body is in pain.  Washing my hair with shampoo was a struggle today, I can barely life my arms and I won't even go into detail about my rear..

Here's hoping we get good results.

My big plans tonight are watching The Bachelor. Who are everyone's favs this season?  I love Emily and Ashley S. so far!  I think Brad seems like a nice enough, down to earth guy. I still don't get why everyone's panties were in a wad about him not proposing on his previous season.  He didn't love them.  Would you rather be dumped and slightly heartbroken, or led on by a meaningless proposal and find out down the road he didn't ever love you?   Best of luck Brad, all I can say is you better be pickin someone because America may actually come after you this time if you don't. 

Happy Monday everyone!

lazy saturday.

I hope this post is finding you on a happy Saturday.  Whether it was filled with action packed fun or as lazy as possible like mine, I hope you are enjoying your day off!
Spring semester has an altogether different feel than fall semester and this is mainly noticeable on the weekends.

Fall semester looks like:

 Weekends are full of tailgating, football, and friends.

And Spring Semester looks like:
I will spare you a picture because it was a shower-less Saturday.  I took the trash out at 3 pm in my jammies and got condescending looks from visiting adults in our hood, so I caved and got dressed for the day.  And by dressed I mean black stretchy pants, a t-shirt, and a hat (perfect for hiding a multitude of hair issues).  After I finally decided to begin my day the rooms and I were off to Target for some essentials.  I needed snack bars, diet cokes, concealer, and school supplies.  Well, the school supply aisle was useless.  I got the last notebook that didn't contain graph paper.  However, I did find a gem in the clothing department.  I found a shirt that looked comfy and cute, and I knew I needed to buy it.  Don't worry to ease my mind from buyers remorse I made the sacrifice and put the expensive snack bars up to purchase a baseball tee that is styled similar to this:

This shirt is from J. Crew and is probably cuter and higher quality than the solid neutral Mossimo brand one that I purchased today.  However I saved 45 dollars by buying at Target.
In equally exciting news, rooms introduced me to Train's new song "Marry Me" tonight. It is SO sweet.  If you haven't heard it go listen, go listen now.

happy weekend!

Bloggers, it is finally the weekend.  It is unfortunate that I am this excited about the weekend, seeing how it was only a three day week.  Also unfortunate, I am not loving my classes thus far.  Hopefully this will change because as nerdy as it sounds I really enjoy learning and typically love the material of my courses.  Minus these (insert dirty word) computer courses which I am required to take but have NO DESIRE to learn about.  I can tweet, blog, and fb stalk.  So what exactly do I need CS 202 for?

Although I am not in love with my classes YET (there is still hope) these are some things that I am loving:
-Uggs.  Whether you think they are fashionable or tacky I would seriously die without that fur around my feet this time of year.
-Hot water. I took a shower today and the hot water only lasted a minute, and I am not exaggerating.  I had to finish rinsing the shampoo out of my hair in the sink.  Never taking hot water for granted again.

-My 2011 planner I got for Christmas.  

-Diet Sunkist.  I don't know what it is but I have been on a huge Diet Sunkist kick lately!

Happy weekend!