Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Spend it with the people you love.

First Comes Thanksgiving, Then Comes Christmas

As excited as I am about Thanksgiving, to eat food, to give thanks, to spend time with my family and to shop on Black Friday.... I have the best Christmas gift ideas this year.
Be ready, everyone.

Just One Of Those Days

Today was a good day. I spent the majority of the 24 hours, lying around in my sweatpants, watching chick flicks and then consuming an entire pizza all by myself. It was brilliant and much needed. Tomorrow I'll be writing an essay that I procrastinated on. But hey, at least I admit it, right?

Anyway, one of the last movies that I watched today was Father of the Bride, you know the one with Steve Martin? It's one of my favorite movies and I've been in one of those weird moods where weddings become a bit of an obsession. I'm a girl, it happens. I guess I shouldn't be spilling all of my weird quirks over a public blog, but I can't be the only girl who gets teary eyed at wedding vows. 

Ukelele-ing

Tonight, I went over to the LLC South to hang out with my friends, Joel and Caleb. Caleb ended up leaving Joel and I, like usual, so I told Joel I wanted to record something with him. Joel has an amazing voice and he's an amazing musician. He helped me so much with all of my vocal parts, because, as much as I hate to admit, I just can't hear them like I used to. So, Joel and I decided on Somewhere Over The Rainbow, and boy did I have a hard time with it! I played the uke part and tried my hardest to sing a difficult harmony. Joel had to teach me the parts before hand and then I'd practice and we'd finally sing it with the ukulele. I had a difficult time finding the chords online, so I had to figure them out myself. That's something I'm good at, chords and melody, but not harmony. So, Joel pretty much has the song perfected and I have to practice at it, but hopefully we'll have a pretty decent video up on Facebook or Youtube soon enough.

Procrastinating

I must say, if there was an Olympic sport in procrastinating, I would be a gold medalist. Probably multiple years in a row. I have a paper to write today on Athenian Democracy, the Roman Republic and the Augustan Principate that's due on Monday. I fully intend to finish it, and it's going to be an excellent paper, I just need to get in the mindset of actually starting it. The thing that I like about this paper in particular is that it's a resource paper, so you need to do a lot of reading and really know your stuff while you do the research. But, that's not even the best part. The only resources we're allowed to use are primary documents that we have gotten in class discussion, lecture notes and obviously, the history book itself. Once I get my outline done this paper is going to be a breeze!


On a more exciting note, The Hunger Games is going to be in theaters in a mere 4 months! I've already started getting excited, since the trailer was released only a few days ago. I need to re-read the book, and if you haven't already I strongly advise you to go read it!
Seriously.
Stop reading my blog and go get yourself a copy!
I need to start going on my paper now.....

Finally Back

So, I've taken a very long break from writing on my blog and I didn't even think about it until someone brought it up. I didn't know I had readers out there, until I heard the complaint.
Well, here it goes, an update.
I met a guy online about a month ago on the website: Datemyschool.com. It's a safe college dating website for college students and I honestly wouldn't have ever thought of joining, because I didn't know anything like that existed. I was in History class one morning and completely zoning out because it was about 8:00am and I was so not in the mood to be lectured on Western Civilizations. I saw a sign on the wall opposite where I was sitting, Datemyschool.com, it said. I thought it was a joke until I looked it up on my iPhone and it was real. I couldn't access the whole website then and there, and I decided to be a better student anyway and pay attention to the lecture. 
Later that day I made a profile and in about 8 hours I was flooded with inbox messages and "views". People who had viewed my profile but had not bothered to message me. One of those messages was from a guy in North Carolina who wanted to talk to me about my ukulele playing. So, I told him that I played, covered songs and occasionally wrote one of my own. I dunno if he believed me, so he wanted to skype video chat and have me play for him. I thought this was so weird and I'd never done anything like this before, but he seemed nice enough so we skyped. I played, he listened and we ended up talking for two hours. I had never struck up conversation this easily with anyone before and it was refreshing to talk to such a nice guy. Now, we've known each other a month, we talk everyday, we've written letters and we skype about twice a week. It's wonderful to have a friend who lives on the West Coast, but at the same time not so wonderful because I can never see him. That's about to change.
On March 30th, there will be a Military Ball in North Carolina and I am invited! This is during my spring break and I cannot wait to go, meet him in person and his family! I can tell that this is going to be a very exciting adventure.