The Three Pound Gem

Well, it's been a good week--a good start to a better year. I've pretty much just worked until five everyday and then came home and continued with my overwhelming boredom. So I suppose this means I can't make assumptions about how much better this year will be quite yet. Give me a month or two. Tomorrow, however, I shall be driving down to San Jose with Katie to see the Body World 2 exhibit which is brain themed!!!! I'M SO EXCITED. Of course, I probably left half of the people who read this blog with vomit in their mouth because of the picture on the right. Well, to all of them, get bent. Thank you. *bows* No, but seriously, it's human anatomy, it's science, it's information. You should be thanking me. Because that picture is amazing. And the fact that that man's brain was preserved through plastination and didn't turn into a rotting broth that resembles chicken noodle soup is fucking awesome. And now I've just lost the rest of you. Enough science for now.

So I'm not dieting. I'm not. Because there are no restrictions on what I eat. Just how much I eat. So that's a good thing. If I could lose 2o lb before spring break, it would be wonderful. No, I won't be bikini clad...god no. I'll be in Denmark and then in Washington DC. Have I posted about this? Yeah, I have. Well....I'm just assuring everyone that I will not be blinding whatever city I'm visiting with my paleness. But here's my "not a diet" in a nutshell. I write down what I eat and their calories on Mon-Fri and try to keep it under 2000--or if I exercise that morning, more like 2200. If I don't, oh well. If I do, yay for me. What about Sat and Sun, you ask! Well, the weekends are made for people to relax and get out and spend time with people. So I don't care what I eat on the weekends. I could eat a whole tub of butter and I wouldn't care. Well, unless it made me physically sick. Which I am right now. Well, not sick...but a bit full from all the Apple & Cider Beignets I have consumed this evening. They were particularly amazing and I got carried away. What can I say, I'm a culinary genius. The microwave Chicken Tika Masala was fucking amazing too. I will definitely be going back and buying like twenty of those for my freezer. And it's SO much cheaper than going to House of Curries.

I'm thinking of starting another kind of blog. Perhaps one that highlights moments of pure comedy.....this is my new work in progress for the....well, it'll probably be up around Monday. I won't have a life until classes start on the 22nd.

I love this morning

When regularity goes out the window

Ever since my 21st birthday, I feel like all normality in my life has been side-stepped by my need to abuse my adult privileges. That's a shot of my fridge in early December. Right now all that's in my fridge is half a bottle of margarita mix, three bottles of wine, four beers, a can of diet pepsi, some condiments, a grapefruit, some clementines, and 8 eggs. This isn't healthy. Not healthy for my body and definitely not healthy for my mind. What the hell happened? I can pin point a few things that have led to this break down of my normality. 1) I got sick and wasn't going to class. 2) I got a social life and decided to party every weekend. 3) I went home for break. And, 4) It's now two weeks until class starts again and I don't even know what day of the week it is because I rely on school to keep me on track. I have no schedule. Sure, I have work. But work is a "come in when you can and work a few hours" kind of thing. I gained twenty pounds since I turned 21. Five of that is from negligence, eight from the shit-headed nurse practitioner taking me off my thyroid, and seven from alcohol consumption. This has to stop. Especially since I lost ten pounds before my birthday. The lack of thyroid is making me inactive. The lack of school is keeping me in my house. The rain and winds are keeping me from walking anywhere. I fucking hate winter.

I have to fix this before it all gets worse. I have to get my life back in order. Fuck New Year resolutions, this is serious, not some superficial promise you make to yourself year after year. So I've devised a plan. Because, I'm all about plans really. I shall be asleep by ten tonight. I know this because I took a sleeping pill twenty minutes ago and I can already feel it kicking in. I shall wake up at 6am. I shall work out to that stupid dancing with the stars dvd, do some core exercises, shower, clean, use the internet for less than an hour, and then go into work at 11am. I will do this pretty much every day until school starts and I have to adjust my schedule. Good plan.

Speaking of plans. Spring break is 74 days away. I have plans. For the first time in years, I'm going somewhere. First I will go to Denmark to be reunited with mah poon (aka my best friend Holly) where we will drink (yeah, yeah, yeah, after all I wrote above, I go ahead and allow myself to do it anyways) make out with sexy Danish men and do crazy shit only we do together!! I miss her so much and this will be my first time off the North American continent, so GO ME! Then I shall fly back to the states to see Elizabeth. And we shall go to DC!!! OMG SO EXCITED! I've been to DC once before, but this is going to be so much better because Sara will be there and we'll be our geeky selves. Going to all the Smithsonian museums, the National Mall (no, not a mall, it's where the monuments and memorials are), to the National Archives, and then on the way back to PA we're going to Gettysburg! Oh how I love road trips. Then it's back here for school the next day. Now how do I make up my Friday lab on the 21st of March.....

New Year Resolutions

1) Focus a bit more on classes. I don't think there's ever enough focusing unless you get 100% on EVERYTHING. Especially since next semester I'm taking organic chemistry next semester.

2) Ignore whatever feelings I'm having for a certain person and, for that matter, stop thinking so much about relationships in general. I'm pre-med for Christ's sake. I don't have time for a relationship.

3) Save some money and spend less overall.

4) Travel. I want to get out there so badly and, honestly, I don't care how I do it. Denmark is my goal for Spring break because I want to see my best friend and that's where she is right now. Perhaps planning a stop-over in London or Paris would be a possibility. The only problem is I don't want to go alone.

5) Blog full time perhaps. I mean, I did well for a while. But, admittedly, I slipped up. Eventually, I guess everyone slips up.

6) Get down to my high school weight. This is pretty much at the bottom of the list because, let's face it 1) it's on everyone's list and 2) it's kind of a year round thing. And the worst part is last month I had lost like 16 lbs and I was doing really well and now...I gained like 10 lbs back because of being home and being sick and shit...sigh.

Cha, Cha, Cha, Cha, Changes

So, where have I been? What have I been doing? Why have I been gone? Perhaps these are not questions that have crossed your mind, but they do happen to cross my own. I feel a bit guilty for not having even visited my blog since my last post--well....my last real post. I suppose video posts don't really count. How shall I begin....let's start from the beginning, I think that's always a good place to start.

Went home for Thanksgiving break on the 20th of November. That night went and got six bottles of wine on the way home. Flirted with the guy at the winery for a bit. Went home, ate Chinese food with the family, and joked for a while with my cousins. If only it were that peaceful.....But it wasn't. It never is. When we got home we found the water heater had rusted through and was leaking. So we had no hot water and had to spend $400 on a new water heater the next day: my birthday. Spent all day on the 21st installing the water heater, but we did manage to go out for dinner and drinks and then head over to the casino. Which I really shouldn't have done. 1) I don't gamble. 2) Smoking is legal inside the Indian casinos. 3) I'm asthmatic. So I had a bit of fun drinking at the bar there, but I suffered for the next three weeks because it induced a nice, long, and uncomfortable spell of bronchitis....this of course all coming before finals. That picture to the left is the lighting ceremony of the Mission Inn which I went to during Thanksgiving break.

So I missed the next two weeks of class and had to study and write two papers while working and rehearsing and going to the hospital about every morning to get a breathing treatment. One paper was on Shakespeare. Two page paper...nothing really. The other, however, turned out to be a 27 page research paper on a building on campus and it's frat history. This included pictures and charts, so really, it was about 7 pages of type. Still it's not easy when you're sleeping 18 hours a day and working and rehearsing for another 6.....yeah.....Not an easy task. I managed to do alright though. Pulled off an A in anthro and a B in Shakespeare........but I have to take calc again because I got a D. Can everyone say fuck? So can I. Fuck.

Amid this was some partying. Of course I thought I felt better--well enough to go to the party. But I really wasn't and after a night of drinking I ended up sick again. I had to go to these parties though. A certain person was there....a certain attractive person. I also hosted a party. Twas a wine and cheese party. Good fun. A lot of people showed up this time too--which made me happy, but I think I'll stick to the smaller get-togethers at my place. People are messy and I spent a lot of the party cleaning up after them. Of course we had fun. Can't complain about the company...just the mess. We ended up playing charades from about half past ten until after one in the morning. Memories like this make me feel the all the money and time I dedicate to my social life are worth it--and it really is worth it.

Did I mention I was in a skit at work? Probably not considering I haven't blogged since--I don't even remember. Well, I was. It was a musical parody on 007. I played a technician for the mad scientist. I may working with nobel-prize winning, genius geneticists, and hard-working accountants, but that doesn't mean they don't like to party and do crazy shit like parodies. I love my job. That picture there is from the day of the performance. I wish I had more to say...I never seem to have enough to say....well, weeks past the fact.

Hmmm....what next. Came home on the 21st of December for Christmas break and I'm leaving the 2nd, but I don't have to go back to class until the 22nd. I just really don't think I can stay with my mom for much longer. I love her, but living with her....well, there's a reason I go to school 500 miles away. Christmas went well, and my family's actually been good company. We went to the aquarium on the 28th and then I got together with my friends that night. We went a bit crazy and decided to go to a sex shop and then after discovering there were no movies we wanted to see, went to get pie. Oh man, it was funny.

And now I'm sitting here on New Year's Day--just a few minutes after midnight--contemplating what my resolutions for this year will be. Every year we all try to make some changes. I for one am going to focus on some small changes that perhaps will make me a bit happier. Not that I'm not happy, but I could be happier. We could all be happier.

Pachelbel Rant

Because I'm a youtube whore.

Noteworthy - Pocket Watch

Ok...I'm not freaking out and I'm not watching this non-stop. Yeah, I so am, but this is my favorite song ever. Not just my favorite Noteworthy song, but my favorite song. You know the last video I posted, well this is from the actual show I went to. I waited all day for this song. And it was worth it (esp. the "something rumbling, mmmmhm").