Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut

Hullo. :)

I would assume several of you have at least somewhat contemplated the various possible reasons for the lack of updates considering this is break. Well, that's quite easy : the only friggin computer in the house that works that I can use is my mother's laptop. She doesn't really believe in wasting time on the internet, a sentiment that I rather approve of since it generally entails going to the barn and having fun with the horses instead of wasting away at home.

I'm rather a fan.

This, of course, leaves me with yet another horribly long post in which I catch up on, well, life.

I'm down a much warmer region of the country, which I totally approve of as instead of the usual bundling slash freezing my ass off, I'm wandering around in a short sleeved shirt and feeling rather warm, thank you very much. It's really quite nice :D The horses are cute and cuddly and adorable, and I'm riding both of them (and a tad saddle sore too) and we're going to see Avatar in 3-D at four today. It's my christmas present to my mother and brother as both of them want to see it. I went and saw it with never-single-sophomore, jackie, and platinum and it was sooo sooo sooo good. (I think I might have written about this, but I don't really happen to recall, so oh well.) Anyway, let me try to remember the day before I left and the day I left, since those would be the starting point for making up on forgotten posts.

Hmm, well that entails Christmas day during which I did a fat lot of nothing with the fam, and then escaped at about 6:30 to "go to jackie's house" which was really me sneaking up to go and see Ginger, her family, Columbus, and his girlfriend. (My father and Columbus are currently not on speaking terms, so I had to sneak him up his presents/cards/everything I could. I'm working on sneaking up the rest of them when I return.) I hung out with them until like nine and had a marvelous time (gosh I miss them when they're not around :( ) and then went to Tybalt's house. He made cookies *without* burning down his house or blowing up significant parts of the town. I know, it's a real shocker! So I stopped by at like 9:30ish to sample a cookie (a bit overcooked, too much salt but not too bad) and then we hung out in his living room watching 40-Year-Old-Virgin together before I had to leave.

It wasn't really awkward at all, although I felt a bit odd since none of his family knew I was there, and as far as I know they still don't know. At least his mom didn't wake up. She tends to assume the worst about situations and I would not have wanted to explain to her what I, some random girl in pajamas, was doing with Tybalt in a living room, alone, at night. Yea. That could have been awkward. How many ways can you draw the wrong conclusion lady.

Anyway, the next day was just travel, travel, and more travel. LGA lost our baggage, obnoxiously enough, but we got it the next day and went to wal-mart for pajamas, so it was fine. Which reminds me, someone took a white stretch limo to go to walmart. kinda confused as to WHY you would do that, but oh well, whatever.

And since then it's been the usual of what happens down here: lots of reading, working on anatomy/chemistry/supposed to be working on culinary, riding every day, sleep, movies at home, lots and lots of good food.... the general stuff. :)

I'll get the next update here as soon as I can, but I never know with down here. Love you all!

on, and Tybalt passed his license test this morning. all he needs now is the written. i thought I would mention this.

Christmas Break FINALLY :)

I shall have time to post again! God, I just got soooo mauled by work the last few weeks - most of my teachers were subscribing to the pre-break cram. I mean, I still have a lot of work over the break, but I have time to do it.

I'm not going to bother going over all the time that I missed since a) I don't remember it all, and b) I forgot what B was. SO, we shall skip to today, which was more important anyway.

I was supposed to go see the Princess and the Frog round three with Tybalt, Tea, Wah, and (of course) myself today, but at the last minute I got a text from my dad informing me that my grandma had shown up and I needed to be home for dinner which happened to be at the same time as the move. There goes that plan. Not that the day was a loss, Never-Single-Sophomore, Jackie, his friend who I have yet to make up a name for, and I all went skating before going to go see Avatar in 3-D. It was SOOOOOOO SOOOOO SOOOO good!!!!!! I won't give you guys any spoilers, but I will say this: the graphics were GORGEOUS and totally worth the extra money that they spent; I loved the plotline as well. It was just a generally good movie and the effects were actually worth the extra two dollars. Shocker, right?

After this, we retired to Tea's house for a bit to nom on cookies, made by her and Gretchen, and then I had to leave for dinner while Jackie stayed. I was going to go back for movie watching, but I'm exhausted, so am planning to retire to bed instead. <3 Love you all, nighty night!

Friday Night Skating

My ass is so sore right now. Well, technically, my gluteus maximus is sore as well as the other muscles which abduct and adduct the legs which I had to do academic stuff with during anatomy today, but I don't care enough to recite all of them. So we're sticking with my ass is sore. The sole culprit of this whole thing would be skating, a pasttime which I indulged in for three hours tonight. A very, very well spent three hours if I do say so myself.

Being the cool person I am, I went with a whole group of sophomore guys (and there were about three other girls, but in this case the y's were giving the x's a run for their money in number). This would be because I had plans to skate with never-single-sophomore and I knew his friends would probably be there (which was fine, because I know most of them by sight, and one of them is also friends with me) for saturday night. As it turned out, they decided to go today instead, and so I met up with them. It. Was. Epic.

The guys were all really good skaters (the girls not so much - they weren't bad, but they weren't particularly good either) so after stealing hats, we ended up having a makeshift game of football that quickly turned into pass the hat in the most creative way possible. This lasted for a good two hours on and off until the rink staff yelled at us, along with a tag game that had a slightly shorter lifespan of a bit over an hour and a half. The latter concluded because hats were so much more interesting.

Excitable Asian and her boyfriend were also there - of course I didn't talk to them particularly much as I didn't want to intrude on their date. They are such an adorable couple, just getting that out there. Another couple I know was there as well, but I only talked to the guy for a bit and then his girlfriend showed up and we parted ways. Essentially everyone from another group of friends was there, as well as a set of three people who I am more or less aquainted with but don't really talk to. And then one of my really good friend's little sister was there along with her friend... they had a game of truth or dare going that confused everyone I was with so I had to clue them in. There were of course a few miscallaneous people there as well who I didn't know, but probably not more than ten.

I know it sounds like a lot of people, but the rink was actually not all that filled. Which was really nice and why we could skate fast and really mess around. Not so many small children being moving targets. Besides, people kinda came and went.

And now I am sore. And tired. And took my little brother out for pizza. :) Good times, good times.

Use Your Head

I'm beginning to be positive that volleyball is really quite the epic sort of pastime. The Midwestern State used his head - quite literally - in a particularly snazzy fluke in which he headed the volleyball. I would laugh at him, but I'm rather jealous of his skills since the last time my head came in contact with a volleyball (too recently for my taste) I used my face. Honestly, how do I acquire these top-of-the-head skills? Speaking of heads, Excitable Asian almost got pegged in the head by the Midwest when he was attempting to chuck the volleyball back to the sever, but she ducked at the last moment. Clearly, we do almost too good of a job using our heads during gym class.

Speaking of the Midwest, Friend A - now named Jackie because I figured it out GO ME - made up with her Y Chromosomes today. I'm so proud of her! Yay for drama being solved!

This reminds me, I did not get chocolate from Tybalt today. Although I did get mauled by sophomore-pal-who-can't-be-single-for-more-than-two-milliseconds. It was rather entertaining although I was temporarily drowned in a sea of boy-I-would-never-go-out-with. It was also probably the reason I did not get chocolate as I was so busy being mauled I think Tybalt passed me. (I didn't actually SEE him so I wouldn't know, but whatever) OH and teacher-from-the-black-lagoon-who-teaches-government will be out for a week in December. I had a very hard time not crying tears of pure joy upon finding this lovely little gold nugget of news. I do believe that December is going to be a very, very, very good month. :)