Happy Birthday Carolyn!

*Ahem* It's been awhile since I've posted, so I'm taking the liberty of updating you all since I know KK isn't about to. First of all... Happy 20th birthday Carolyn!!! We celebrated my sister's birthday last night with the famfam, her friend Sai, and my boy toy Alfie. Carolyn cooked for us all and did a really great job. We had falafels, pasta, salad, and homemade vegetarian pizza. My Mom made a cake too, it was really delish. 

Right now I am desperately trying to avoid reading for biology. It 's not that I wouldn't LIKE to read, but honestly, how am I supposed to focus when I have important things like this to do? 

Well let's get down to business. The most important thing that has happened to me lately is the passing of my Gramie a little less than a month ago. She developed aspiration pneumonia in the rehabilitation center, so we transferred her to my Mom's hospice where she hoped to regain her strength and return to her home. It was only a couple days before things went steeply downhill, and she died the morning of the 22nd. So that's been pretty hard on our family and I miss her a lot,  but she shows up in a lot of my dreams so I like to think she misses me too :). 

Umm what else... school is going well so far, spring semester started last week. I'm taking Biology w/ a lab, Psychology w/ a discussion section, Ethnic America, and Pilates. It's all pretty fun and I'm enjoying it so far. Plus KK and I have a lot of breaks at the same time, and as it turns out, were in the same psychology class AND discussion group! We didn't know until the first day of class when I walked in and saw her staring at me. I did a 180 and almost walked out of the room until I realized that I probably didn't have the wrong class, we had made a mistake comparing our schedules. So that has been fun and Kathryn already got in trouble for talking too much... it's 6th grade all over again =D. 

Last weekend  KK and Alfie and I went to the casino for the first time. Kathryn walked in with 20 bucks and lost 15 within the first 20 minutes. She is a terrifyingly perfect target for the casino industry. She was playing a $2 game and when I told her to stop, she looked up at some fliers hanging from the ceiling and said "But look Emily! THEY won a car!!" and proceeded to hit buttons randomly and lose more money. After that we were walking around looking for a more promising game to play, and before Alfie or I could step in KK was yelling "Ooo this one is so colorful!" and feeding money to another game. Long story short, we will not be going back to the casino together any time soon. 

Alrighty folks that's all I've got time to write right now... I'm going to go study some more and then KK and I are going on a Burger King run. We both have school tomorrow from 9-11:45, it's our shortest day, AND we get to ride the bus together!! =D 

Love, EmEm

p.s. Please comment. We are el desperado for attention. 

Paper Planes

OK, so I try to update the blog for the first time since almost a month and my computer starts freezing like nobody's business. I think it's a sign because I was listening to Paper Planes by MIA and for the lyrics "Sticks and stones and weed and bones" the computer freezes at sticks, but because of her accent it sounded like six and it just kept playing "six, six, six, six", so it was listening to the remixed version of that song, demon style. A little scary.

Anywhoozle, the past few weeks have been pretty busy with everyone back in town for a short period of time. So here is a train of thought of the things I've done the past few weeks. Um... I hung with the extended famfam for Christmas eve and Christmas day. For New Year's Eve, Emily and I went to Emma M.'s house which was fun. Katy, Ellen, Devin and I painted our faces with finger paint. It was fun at first until it started burning... And on the third, I went with Amelia for her last night to Galactic Pizza and Too Much Love. The DJ there was super fine and we saw Peter K., Tom S. and friends of theirs getting their groove on. I also got in trouble with one of the staff members at First Ave because I was washing my hands and stupidly shouted to Amelia "Look how easy these X's come off your hands!" Her marker didn't work when she tried to put new X's on my hands so she hunted me down five minutes later on the dance floor with a new marker. She interfered with my groove but what can you do?

I also saw the movies Curious Case of Benjamin Button (twice and cried both times. Pat on the back for me) and Burn After Reading. Now my only goal before school starts next week is to get school supplies... and maybe go to the casino if there's time. We'll see.

Oh, and new years resolution- to move out of my cribbb. Please comment if anyone is still reading this.

Hello? Hello? Hello?...

I'll post a stupid picture and video to encourage people to comment! I lol'd. She's so scared.

Title: My fear of mustard and pickles is ruining my life!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUk_3eKL9Xk

And a fear of balloons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jHFaOBgXBU&feature=related

^I think it would be slightly (or very) funny if these people did end up dying of their weird phobias. Choking on a pickle, getting smothered by a balloon, dying from chalk fumes...? etc.

And on that note, it's Emily's turn next time to do a blog post.