flat tire... not to be confused with the delicious beverage known as fat tire

So i got out of my car on Tuesday night, after making the long journey around the block. I only drove my car so that I could switch parking from one side of the road to the other (which I have to do EVERY night) so that I wouldn't get a parking ticket. As I'm pulling up to the curb I feel and hear my car run over something. I get out and go around the passenger side to make sure my tires are okay.... They arent. I could hear the air gushing out of the front passenger tire and see a huge piece of glass sticking out the top of it.... oops. It was about 9 at night so I just let my car sit there and prepared to have a flat tire in the morning and deal with it then. I haven't changed a tired since I was in high school so I was nervous. Luckily Derek helped me yesterday. So we put the sweet donut in place of the slashed tire and I headed off to Wal-Mart. I had contacted my dad because I figured I would have to buy a new tire and I have never done that before. I've gotten my tire repaired for slow leaks plenty of times but never a hole that the air gushed out of like this, so I figured the hole would be too big to patch. So I talked to my dad and he told me to buy 2 tires instead of one, he never buys just one tire, which I figured was going to run me at least $200. I went to Wal-Mart and luckily the totally patched it for $10.17 and it's good as new! I was so excited because I thought I was going to be even more broke than I already was. Yay for Wal-Mart and for Derek helping me change my tire! AND for my dad telling me after I got it repaired that he had planned on paying for the 2 new tires anyway if I needed to get them!

when in rome

So I changed the look of my page today to pay homage to the upcoming holiday known as Valentine's Day. I've seen pink and red ads and commercials all over the place so I figured I should join the band wagon. I've noticed that people (in general) tend to either love (no pun intended) this holiday or hate it with a fiery passion from hell. I consider myself to be in the middle of this spectrum. I've never really had an awesome Valentine's Day in the romantic sense, but that doesn't really bother me. I know people say you should tell people you love that you love them everyday but I think it's nice there's a special holiday to celebrate it! I haven't had a Valentine since my senior year in high school which is kind of depressing when I actually type it out. But I'm okay (at this point in my life) with the fact that I will get a Valentine's card from my mom, dad, and grandma (and my grandma usually gives me like $20 which is always a plus!). I know that my family and friends love me, and although I don't have a significant other to spend the holiday with I'm still kind of excited about it.

Now I realize some of you may be completely dreading this holiday this year, but just remember the people that DO love you unconditionally and always will! Your lovely friends and awesome families!! 

And I'm not even sure why I am so excited about it. I honestly shouldn't be, I'm kind of a sad lonely loser if you will. Maybe it's because I have been very optimistic concerning my love life in the past few weeks, or maybe I'm just taking crazy pills.... who knows. I'll find someone out there that meets my standards and likes me back somewhere soon..... right?

dream a little dream of me

So I suppose it is time for an update. I am going to touch on what Katie wrote about in her random things blog. Because I totally (like her) have had dreams that are so real that I thought they actually happened, or at least parts of dreams that are so real I have to ask people the next day if it really happened which makes me feel like a moron. Dreams are just fascinating to me. Last night I had a dream that was so vivid and detailed that it was awesome, but I didn't think it actually happened because it wasn't really a very realistic dream. I've always thought about starting a 'dream diary' where you write down what you can remember from your dream right when you wake up. Because although last nights dream was extremely vivid, now I can't even remember what it was about, which is why a dream diary would come in handy. 

Sometimes I think that dreams are a sort of way to help you work through issues or problems that you are dealing with in your life, but other times they just seem completely random. I've tried to force myself to think about a subject before I went to bed in hopes that I would dream about it, sometimes this plan has worked and sometimes it hasn't. 

So that is what I'm going to do, start a dream diary and see if it helps me to figure out how my mind works or helps guide me in some way.

new look

I feel like I need a new look to my blog page so that I will update it more frequently... but I'm an idiot. Can anyone help me?? I hate my page.

my day

8:39 a.m. - Derek pounds on my door and tells me to wake up, because I asked him to do this so that I would be somewhat productive today.

10:44 a.m. - My cell phone rings the Bad Boys theme song and wakes me up.. It is my sister's friend who is calling so I am confused, yet I don't answer.

10:47 a.m. - I go pee then look at the two monsterous zits that have grown on my face over night.

10:51 a.m. - I sit down in the chair and use my new fleece tie blanket that i made myself over Xmas break! I turn on the Tv and listen to Real Chance of Love while checking Facebook/Myspace/Email.

10:59 a.m - Played Text Twist for a while

11:43 a.m. - Went to the bathroom (#2)

11:51 a.m. - Ate a banana

11:52 a.m. - Started talking to my sister on facebook chat

12:12 p.m. - I answered the door and a cute guy asked if i knew who owned the green pickup truck outside.. i told him i had no clue

1:01 pm - Answered the knock at the door. Package for myself and Derek, my package included the USB drive that I accidentally left at my mom's house over break

1:07 p.m - I realize that my USB is now here and I have no more excuses to not be productive today.

1:16 p.m. - I had a cigarette outside while wearing shorts, and its negative 10 degrees out... that was a bad idea. but this pack of cigarettes is my last pack!!!

2:12 p.m. - I emailed the Chief of Police in Burlington, Iowa to check up on his progress with the letter of cooperation he was supposed to send to UNI about a month and a half ago. 

3:14 p.m. - I head to the gym with Derek to get yelled at by him so he can get me in shape. (Derek has started a new work out program and is helping me get passed my weight loss plateau that I am at right now.. he is a Nazi and is making do a low carb diet too)

5:16 p.m. - Return home from workout.

5:37 p.m. - Ate chicken noodle soup, chicken, and peanuts for dinner with some orange juice.

5:38 p.m. - Started watching Sixteen Candles on TV while eating my din din.

6:58 p.m. - Hopped in the shower when Sixteen Candles was over.

7:16 p.m. - Started watching the premier of American Idol

8:00 p.m. - Called my mamacita and talked to her for about 15 minutes.

8:49 p.m. - Derek came back from the library, so now I have a real life person to converse with again.

8:51 p.m. - I DVR'ed Sixteen Candles for Derek because he has never seen it, so now I am going to watch the end again, then I will probably read while laying in bed and watching Sex in the City and start my snoozing. (p.s. Chief Luttenegger has not replied to my email yet)

Alright... the explanation for this post is that I haven't updated my blog in so long because I feel like I have nothing to blog about because my life is so boring. And when it isn't boring it seems like lately only dumb things have happened that I feel I would be complaining about. But after talking to JamFla I've come to the realization that it is my blog and I shouldn't worry about whining too much, I should just write about whatever I want to write about... so today I gave you the really boring play by play of my day!!

an update...

is coming very soon i promise!!!

im kind of a slacker... in all aspects of life

So I again have been slacking on updating my blog. And one of those reasons is because I also slacked this semester on working on my Lit. Review for my thesis, and it is due Wednesday, and I have been working on it hardcore for the past three days which leaves minimal blog updating time. I feel like I have also been slacking on seeing all my friends that are going to be leaving soon... It is starting to sink in that they are all going to be gone, moving on and making big changes in their life, and I will be stuck here in Antarctica. So I will update more later. But I need to see you people before you leave damn it. I know I wasn't a huge part of your lives these past 3 years like everyone has been saying, because I am not a SLP major, but I will still miss you guys.