HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Happy Halloween!!!!!
I got my halloween package today! FAT WITCH brownies and cookies :) annoyingly delicious. omgoodness. My roommates are irratated with me, guarenteed because I've forced them to eat like 5 each, haha. Yaiza thinks its my ploy to get her fat... Im like its halloween! youre allowed a cheat day ;)
Thank you Mom, Megan, Dad and Austin for the yummy treats. I loved them and so did my friends!
I hope everyone enjoys themselves and eats lots of candy! :o)

good luck tarriers the game tonight! I know you guys will pull it out. Its Halloween and thats a bummer, put just put in some cute orange and black ribbons and you will be set! I love you Megan! kisses!

To my family:
Even with everything that happened, nothing is lost forever. I will always remember the years and trips we had and our countless memories. I'll miss the pinecone comforters, hot cocoa mugs, and playing cards on those tippy stools while mom whips up dill and veggies, haha. Mom, always in the kitchen :)

I love you guys.

Anything to look forward to?
--> Perks for the girls: shopping!

halloween approaching!

2 days left until Halloween... except it feels like its been the everlasting holiday given that campus had costume parties on both last thursday and saturday nights. The girls and I dressed up saturday and went out to a few parties... it was so much fun and we all went as something different. A fairy, ladybug, devil, filght attendant, and a french maid (me). By the end of the night my feet were killing me from Hilary's 4 inch heels and i desperately needed advil.
This was also our homecoming weekend so on Friday night we went to our homecoming centennial ball. Got all dressed up and went dancing! It was lots of fun, tiring and hottt, but fun :) it was a nice feeling to put on a dress and take some cute pictures, made me feel like I was getting ready for our homecoming dance last year. Except this one was like 10 times bigger (and BETTER!)
Real halloween, Wednesday, is still up for debate. Maybe a night of scary movies and too much halloween candy, or possibly a haunted house. Either way we will be in spirit and ready to go! I got a nice box of delicious chocolate shortbread cookies a funny funny card from my lovely sister and lindsey and lindsay. The cookies are gone now... but were througholy enjoyed and devoured.
GOOD LUCK TO MEGAN AND THE GIRLS CWA SOCCER TEAM IN THE BIG GAME TONIGHT VS. SEATTLE ACADEMY!!!!! you all are already co-league champions but win this one and the journey further will be much easier. I love all of you girls and know you will all do amazingly.

Mom says there is something in the mail for me (another yummy holiday treat) to be delivered either tomorrow or on halloween. waiting patiently..... :D

♥

homecoming week!

So, I am in desperate need of an update. You could guess that the reason it's been almost a week since my last entry illustrates how busy I've been. Rather than giving the play-by-play of my past 5 days, I thought I'd highlight the interesting parts/ stories that would actually be fun to read.
Let's see. Monday, dinner was 50's themed. I thought it would be really fun; music, decor, something different, etc. However the exact opposite was true. We get in there (the commons) and are immediately freaked out by the set-up. I had no idea how weird I was going to be about things in the commons changing. It sounds so dorky but I got flustered and confused on where the stations were that I had been eating at for the past 9 weeks. Given that, and the fact that music (bad 50's music) was blarring so loud I had to scream at Hilary in the sandwich line to form some sort of communication, and that about 80% of our student body decided for some reason to all chose to go to dinner at 6... turned our "looked-forward-to 50's dinner" a complete disaster. I ended up with cereal bc I got cut in the sandwich line and then resultantly, a new line form parallel to me, removing me completely from the word sandwich. I settled for capn' crunch and pineapple, i was grumpy the rest of the night.
Tuesday, fires struck the greater So-cal area and everyone freaked out. Campus was mayhem for like a day until reports finally started to come in on location of fires and evac situations. A girl on the floor below me had to go home to evac her house and the last thing she heard was that it was surrounded on 3 sides by fire. Wednesday San Diego was hit too, so in many classes I noticed a least 4-5 people gone, going home to evac their homes and hope their house is still standing in a few days.
Although we didnt get fires here (25 miles away) we definately have been affected by the smoke. Air&pollution control group deemed our air 'unheathly' and all outdoor sports have been suspended since tuesday. This includes tennis, so intersquad matches have been delayed, and soccer games. AND our HOMECOMING FOOTBALL GAME TOMORROW has been moved to Palm Desert High School.... homecoming game, home game - no more. now 1 hour away. everyone not so excited :/
Class update- Spanish mid-term next Friday, Spanish paper due next Wednesday, Bio lad Report due next Thursday, 6-8 pg Dracula paper due in two Monday's. Things are piling up, stress building, but I'm plowing through only because Thanksgiving break is a little less than a month away!! :)
Went to a 'four-year plan' meeting with this really nice lady named Jen. She helped me map out what I wanted to do, where my interests lie, and what requirments I need to fulfill. After a long meeting, she gave me some optional major's to look at and think about. After sifting through the confusing and technical terms in our class catelog, I think I settled on a direction. Right now I'm looking at majoring in English, with an emphasis on writing. For English majors, you can either take a writing or literature path. I think writing fits me more so. Walking out of the meeting with some sort of idea for what I want to work towards for the next 4 years got me excited and giddy for everything I have yet to experience.
Some notes:
THANK YOU SO MUCH MEGAN, LINDSAY, AND LINDSEY FOR THE DELICIOUS COOKIES (NO CRUMBS!) AND CARD (MEG!) I loved the halloween spirit and getting a package always makes my day 10 million times better!!!! I love you all bunches and bunches and it was very thoughtful :)
GOOD LUCK CWA IN THE HOMECOMING GAME TOMORROW (both football and soccer!) GO GO GO!!!

will write more later :D
♥

weekend wrap-up

Its Sunday. The weekend went too quickly, once again. I am surprised that it is already getting close to the end of october. I feel like just a few days ago I was posting something saying that it was the start of a new fall month. Everything is going well, we've had the most beautiful past three days, 80's and blue skies. I still find myself walking outside for morning class and being surprised by the smells and palm trees. October in washington is looking a bit different than this these days, and for that I am happy as a clam that Im here :D
happenings happenings happenings...
♥ Friday. classes, lunch with lo outside 'coffe bean & tea leaf' so cute! stopped by this little surf shop and got a cute tank top. mexican dinner with all the girlies at el torito, flautas! yum! and then party hopped a few places :)
♥ Saturday. brunch, gym, starbucks, water polo game (we won!), margaritas at the delta house, dinner, boys soccer game, night life.. etc. :) Saturday was so relaxing, I loved it. shorts and a tank at the end of october? im falling in love with this place.
♥ Sunday. well, currently this. brunch soon, just waiting for the other gals to wake up... long night ;) teeeheeeeheeee. but we all made it back in one piece and thats the goal.

notes:
Halloween soon! I'm going to be a french maid.
Homecoming next week! so excited for all the festivities
Jackie and Lo's parents are coming next weekend! Hil and I are getting adopted :)
Tennis gym work outs, starting 3 days a week, with this trainer guy, god help me.
English Victorian presentation on Wednesday

------good luck megan and austin on finishing up your sports seasons! soccer and football. you both are doing so well!

taking a breather..

So i somewhat sped through my last update given how many things have gone on this past week.
My weekend with mom and maymay was a breath of fresh air, since I hadn't seen either since the middle part of august. Our girlie weekend included shopping and dinner in redlands, which was exciting for me since I havent ventured out that far, we found 3 really cute boutiques! like CAKE kinda, and megan got these really cute grey burmudas (spelling?) that mom said she wouldnt wear but i pushed the purchase :) Then we went to a yummy dinner in town where I got to eat something other than commons chicken and salad, yah! Afterwards we went to the cinema nearby, you can actually walk there! and saw The Heartbreak Kid.. which was HILARIOUS but nonetheless raunchy, correctly R-rated, kinda soft porn-ish... haha, but I was like crying I was laughing so hard!
Saturday I met the two at their hotel for breakfast, accompanied with Starbucks lattes :) and we hit the road to Palm Desert, aka el paseo, for the day. We made it there in under 50 minutes, I liked the drive and am confident now that I could try it alone, be it to Grandma Mary's or the Kantors, etc.
A lunch at Tommy Bahama's and a few credit card transactions later, we made it back to get showered and ready for thai food with my girlfriends. Megan, Mom, 4 girls, and I all enjoyed a delicious din din and treated ourseleves to Ohana's afterwards (the best frozen yogurt in town, uhumm!!) That night megan spent the night in my dorm with me and was highly entertained by my friends and the activities of the night....
Sunday we went to brunch, coffe bean & tea leaf for a snack, and drove to the airport for a 4:15 (which turned into a 5:15) plane.
All in all it was a successful weekend, a nice break from the clutter and nonstop college life, a good to see some family faces!
I missed Dad and Austin though. Next trip down, its the boys turn ;)
Off to english..

ps: MEGAN GOT HER LICENSE YESTERDAY... 92% WOOHOOOOOO. (now she just needs to learn how to drive her car, haha)

long day

I'm am writing this, avioding all homewrok, well avioding all work. i am extremely exhausted and feel like I've been hit by a train. I tried to work on my english paper at 130pm today and feel asleep. Then went to the gym, where i actually felt ok, and tennis practice, and afterwards i went back to my blah day. My nap i feel made me more tired, even though it was less than an hour. The Hills are on tonight, that is the only thing keep me up right now... well that AND the balsting rap music from room 317, my roommates, the blaring floresent lights, ping pong playing, and my inability to concentrate on anything productive.
Quite the day.
What else can I write that is somewhat interesting about my life. Thanksgiving. 34 days away. AKA home in about 5 weeks. weird? yes. excited? hell yes! home, family, friends, my bed, my dog, a serile shower, and home cooking!
Halloween is coming up... were going to be football players i think, cute? yea jerseys as dresses w/ leggings and black "hard core" stripes. oh and jello-shots ;) teeeeheeeeheeee just kidding mom!!

Current thanks to:

- Megan and Mom for spending an amazing weekend with me
- Mom for ordering me new shampoo and conditioner, and bringing me down a random list of things and an ADORABLE halloween care package thing
- well, not really a thanks but anjelica and megan got my cards today! :)
- Liz for always making the effort to play catch and making being her best friend a really easy job
- Megan, for the new CD!!
- Dad, for not completely freaking out when he recieved the monthly statement for my bank account. :D I went to LA, whats a girl to do?
- ANd to all the girlies here: for sticking with me these first 6 weeks while we all figure out what this whole college thing is all about :)


I miss home, and everyone whose apart of my life, be it in NYC (anna!) to Morocco (adian!) to CWA (class of 08♥ ) to mom-dad-meg-austin, in lakehood :)

Love you all, ♥

to the airport!

I'm one my way to the airport to pick up Megan and Mom! Their flight gets in at 930am, it takes about a 1/2 hour to get there. Kinda nervous about the exits because everyone says theres like 8 signs for the free way, so Im leaving a little early to aviod confusion :) I AM SO EXCITED TO SEE THEM. I'm so giddy right now, I woke up at 7 and already went to breakfast with my friend, had an hamlet, made my bed, picked up my room, and am ready to see some smiling faces! That I have missed so much!
This weekend is going to be so busy, I know I probably wont update until Sunday, BUT all is well.

Because Mom didnt think shed use a rental car, I'm skipping Spanish to pick them up. Such a rebel ;)

Have a good weekend everyone!! ♥

happy birthday mom!

Happy Birthday Mommy!!!
I know you're turning 30 something... I just forget exactly ;)
I am so excited to see you in less than 2 days, now going to bed! finally finished my bio lab, ugh!
I hope you have a good day, I'm thinking of you!

I love you. very very much! xoxoxo

YAH YAH YAH!

MOM AND MEGAN OFFICALLY FLY IN IN T-MINUS 48 HOURS... I AM SOOO EXCITED!!!!!
WE ARE GOING TO HAVE SOOO MUCH FUN!!! however... forecast does show 73 friday, 72 saturday, BUT 80 sunday
(happy early birthday mom!) :)





♥ ♥


ps (to fam): just about to head to the mail room to get my package!! :)

home sweet home

After a fun-filled, first road trip off campus, Jackie and I finally made it back in one piece. It was so great to see Liz and meet all of her friends. We met her roomate, and then the two girls who share a room and then share a bathroom w/ liz and both were very nice too. UCLA was pretty, but so so overwhelming! Lots of people, lots of lines, lots of waiting, and lots of confusion (mostly on my end.) Liz had to go to her spanish class yesterday and left Jackie and I to fend for ourseleves to find lunch. We were successful, only after we got over the fact that the place we ate at was bigger than our commons & plaza (which we only have one of) and this place was one of 8 on campus. Yes, I guess 'big' is the word.
We also met her good friend Christie, who runs with her but is injured. She hilarious and keeps us entertained, to say the least.
We went cite seeing around campus, shopping on Rodeo, I got 2 new dresses! :) ate dinner at the News Room, I was happy to be eating something other than chicken, and then late went to this yummy ice cream place called Diddy Riese (?) where you get to pick two homemade cookies and the ice cream you want and they make you an AMAZING ice cream sandwich. omg, so good.
Oh, but we did run into some bumps. We managed to get 2 parking tickets in one day. One at ucla for $45 for not having a permit and one on Rodeo Drive for $40. yah, neat. How we managed to do that i do not know, but me + liz + jackie = not too tough.
It was in the 80's both days, ride down there was no traffic, ride back... we left at 2ish and just got back 20 minutes ago... so.
Lots of directions to follow, but we couldnt have done it without Navi. Shes a gem.
Other random road trip adventures? ----
-liz broke down in the verizon store bc some retard is charging her $100 per month for her new phone, and for a service she isnt using.
- ive never pulled so many u-turns in my life.
- low point: a box of SPRINKLES cupcakes. 4. jackie and i in the car, coming home. no lunch. each ate one. too delicious to describe. OH no. last two were orignally bought with the thought that we would bring them home....hmmmmm
Jackie:2 Me:2. left feeling sick, but sooooo worth it :D
- i laid on my horn for really no reason other than bulit up stress, LA freeways can do that to a girl.
- jackies road trip mix was amazing.
- some mexican saw me and jackie eating in out car and looked at me and licked his lips. I screamed and Jackie almost hit the SUV in front of us...
- there are MANY cute guys at her school... liz needs to get on that
No more i can think of right now. Glad to be back home, everything here has never felt so familiar. :) I love our little school!

i got mail today!

So snail-mail of the day thanks goes to two people:
1. The Kaiser family (expecially Olivia!!) who sent me and very cute little card and some VERY pretty pictures courtesy of Olivia. Flowers, a rainbow, and other various drawings are up on my wall now, in front of my computer. That wall was so plain and made it feel like a prison in here! So thank you SO MUCH for making it a little warmer in here :) i look at them all the time!
AND 2. goes to my sister, Megan. who sent me a letter (long and informative) and a piece of fruitstripe gum :) it was so fun to get to my mailbox and see something in it!
Today was quite productive:
Woke up at 11, went to brunch, had an amzing hamlet and muffin :) , watched friends episodes, went for a run outside around campus, washed my sheets w/ jackie, took a shower, wrote some cards, went to the plaza for dinner, drove some boys to get chinese food (im the only one with a car lol), came back and went to ohana's with the girls, watched more friends, folded/put away my clothes (which made me grumpy), put my sheets on my bed, and am currently updating this.
Tomorrow will be just as productive... what a break can do for a girl!

FALL BREAK PLANS!!

SO OUR 4 day break is quickly approaching and I finally have some plans nailed down! We (as in Jackie and I... the only 2 of our friends who are here for break.) are going to spend the weekend here, and then Monday morning wake up and take a road trip down to UCLA to visit Lizzieee!!!! They have a pull out couch for us to sleep on and we're going to stay there Monday night, and leave Tuesday, probably home before dinner. YAH! I'm so excited, it's been about 3 weeks since she came down to stay with me and I am very excited to meet her friends/ roommate/ and xcountry team! AND shopping in westwood isn't sounding too bad either... :D
We were going to pick a weekend day to go down but Monday makes more sense. A. because I want to get up and leave early morning to get there with the most time and that will prove a tough task if we are hung over B. because leaving on Monday feels soo much cooler since we dont have schhoooolll :) and C. becuase liz only has one class that day.
YAH. plans plans. plans. My Navi will help us but Jakcie does have an excellent sense of direction. After Starbucks I'll be ready to face the LA frreways and if not... well i'll make Jackie drive.
All for now,
♥

PS: MEGAN GOT ASKED TO HOMECOMING TODAY!!! BY HARRY. HES SO CUTTEEEE AND HE ASKED HER WITH CUPCAKES.... CUTEST THING EVER... the question on everyones mind? Was is Harry or his mom who made them? teeeheeeehheee.
I LOVE YOU MEGAN...oh and ps: your getting your dress down here so I can help you pick it out!! :)

my freshmen september

Well, its offically OCTOBER. Even typing it sounds weird. My "freshmen September" is behind me and I have successfully made it through my first month of college.

The things I've learned so far:
- Always wear shoes in the shower.
- When at dinner, if your one of the last ones to get your food, look for your friends and where their sitting ahead of time so that when you actually have tray-in-hand you dont look lost and sad.
- Make sure shoes are comfortable on Tuesday's and Thursday's... walking the length of the campus in under 10 minutes creates both blisters and makes you look like you need someone to help you get there.
- If alone and awkward have a pretend conversation with yourself on your cell, no one knows theres no one on the other line.
- Don't make eye contact with the creepy guy in Biology. You will get eye-raped.
- Deodorant. check. always.
- Shave legs every 2 days, I didn't realize how often I were shorts (or always) and thinking about your legs is sometimes low on the list of "to-do's."
- Bring room key to shower. If not, your roomate will asume you have one, leave and lock the door, and your left standing.. naked and sopping wet, wandering the halls looking for an RA. Yeah, thats neat.
- Take drinks from boys that you've watched them open. Date rape is out there, I'm always on the alert!
- Drink lots of water. It's really weird but its all too easy to forget about liquids.
- Bring hot cocoa/coffee to Bio in the mornings... provides something for me to focus on oher than holding head up.
- Check oufit before you leave your room.
Story: Hil wanted to go get food, I was in my pj's, I said OK! yeah, grabbed my keys and left. Thought everyone was looking at my cute new sweat shorts.. nope. just the paul frank boy breifs underneath them.
- If you hear a skateboard, move quickly to left side of sidewalk. They won't wait for you.
- Gym: always grab a hand towel and make sure to pick the machines furthest from the weight room side. They're are too many guys who create distractions in there and I've had 2 close calls keeping my balance on the treadmills.
- If its past 1 and a guy tells you your beautiful and you ask him his name and he takes a couple seconds to answer and then kinda falls over and spills his beer on you..... he won't remember your face/convo in the morning even if he tried.

I have probably like 478 more lessons learned but my list is getting kinda long!
Dinner time, then more PSYC studying. woho!