Hmm...

Just because actions may speak louder than words doesn't mean words are unnecessary. But it doesn't mean the actions are either.

Unicorns and pots of gold

Long time since update I suppose.

Lindsey and I (among a few others) went to Belvedere last night. I had a really good time, which was suprising since I almost didn't go. And I got to ride home in a 911 turbo, which I will say definitely didn't make my night any worse ;) I brought my camera, but didn't take any pictures...though there could have been some entertaining ones I'm sure.

I have less than a month until I'll be going to Canada, I'm excited...though not sure what to expect. Should be entertaining nonetheless though, eh? ;)

Guess I haven't updated in a while. I've decided it's that time again though. Stuff has happened, but I don't really remember what. There are pictures of some of it on my other site.
I saw Green Street Hooligans tonight. Soccer...err "football" movie that has about 5 minutes of the sport in it. It's about a bunch of guys called the Green Street Elite and Elijah Wood's...err...adventure with them, earning his reputation among the soccer firms in Britain. The end, of course the big fight scene...was disturbing. But not without a moral. So I guess disturbing but touching? Anyway, even through all of the punching and the fighting and the blood flowing everywhere, I still thought it was a good movie. Good enough that I stayed up to write a blog about it. So there. It's bedtime now. I have to wake up early and try to pretend my bullshit job is worth going to at 7am. It's really not, but somehow I'll convince myself it is...

Ouchie

Why do I keep hitting myself in the hand with a hammer? Because it feels so good when I stop...

vroom makes me happy

So the last few weekends have been pretty mellow. I've had finals and such, last weekend Tyler and I went to a "seis de mayo" party at Shane's house. Good times, good times. No pictures from that, but this weekend was really busy.
Friday night Tyler, Andrew and I went to the Grand Prix of Houston for the LeMans races. Talk about freakin' SWEET! The pictures of the cars while they are racing are pretty crappy, because they were going sooooo fast, but we were walking around and got some other pics of cars that were being worked on and stuff, and some cars that were going to be raced in the Champ Car races the next day. I had a really good time, and then I found out that Saturday was the Art Car parade, so we all went to that. Talk about literally, art in car form. Some of the entries were kind of lame, but some were really awesome. One of the cars even caught on fire! (not on purpose) Apparently several of the metal looking cars (the dragon and a few others) go out to the Burning Man Project every year, which would be cool to see. Anyway, so there are DEFINITELY pictures of all that on my MSN space. After all that, we decided it was hot outside so we all went to Andrew's pool and chilled for the rest of the day, followed by somehow this turning into a house party at Tyler and Travis's place.
Sunday was a little more laid back, I went to my parents house for dinner and mother's day and such...not much there, just had some seafood which was good :)
Next weekend should be interesting too. Bryan is having a beach party for end of semester down in Bolivar, so that should be fun. Another of Tyler's friends is coming from Canada to visit, so the beach should be a fun place to spend the day. I'm looking forward to it, might not bring my camera to avoid sand/water badness though.
Other than that, summer school starts today, which kind of sucks, but online is good at least. So I'm just waiting for my semester grades and whatnot still :-/ Gonna be so much more fantastic than in engineering though ;)

You'll get culture if I have to drill it in...

Surprisingly, quite a bit has happened since my last post. I have actually been kind of busy lately. I am finished with all of my papers for the semester except for the big nasty 10 page one, which is...an almost nice feeling hehe.
2 weekends (I think) ago I went to the Museum of Fine Arts. The plan was to go to the Museum of Natural Science for the BodyWorks exhibit, but the line was really really long, so we opted to see the Inspiring American Genius exhibit at the MFAH. I must say, I was impressed. I've been to the MFAH before, but this time just kind of stuck out more I guess. The detail these people put into their work...amazing.
Tyler and I also went to see The Miser at the Alley Theatre. We had the Honors College seats, but somehow when we got them they gave us tickets for the wrong day, so we ended up even closer to the stage, which was super awesome. The play was really funny too, everyone did a great job I think.
Last weekend we went to the zoo. It was fun, but as always, it made me kind of sad to see all the animals with such small spaces to roam. Even if they are born in captivity and "do not know any better"...you can still tell...they look rather unhappy :-/
Anyway, I'm pretty sure that just about catches everyone up. I've seen a bunch of movies too. Silent Hill was weird. Took some thought, surprisingly. I have pictures of all of my adventures on my MSN space. Oh, and my lease is up in a month and three days. Which fills me with glee. (No offense Andi, you're the coolest.)

**Edit**
My lease isn't up in a month and 3 days...it's up in 2 months and 3 days. BUT the crappy part of it is up in a month and 3 days. I was so caught upin happiness I forgot to get my facts straight.

Less angry about underwear. Well, not really but I at least bought more hehe. Here is the link (again) to my MSN. The Aeros pics are posted now. Tyler's friend Dan is down from Canada for about a week. I'll have pictures from that adventure as soon as I have all of them. Yay for collecting pictures from other people!

On a sadder note, I think I am going to be rather busy soon :( I have a 10 page paper and two 3-5 page papers coming up that I haven't started. But, not to worry about that now, they aren't due yet, eh? :) I also FINALLY got my painting back from being framed. And I (well Tyler and Dan) hung it on the wall. It's preeeeety, see
















I think that's all for now...perhaps something of interest when I can think of it.

Just so everyone knows, in case some of you were wondering...

Stealing is bad. Especially from other people. Especially if you go through their clothes in the dryer and steal only their underwear. That makes you a creepy pervert, which in turn makes me want to rip your cock off and choke you with it. Though it would probably be too small to choke you with, obviously. Which is why you are stealing all of my underwear out of the goddamn dryer in the first place I must assume. Fucking perv. GRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

In other news, I saw an Aeros game on Saturday. Pictures will be on my MSN once I'm less angry about the underwear thief.

So since my last update, Tyler and I went to Dallas for the Calgary v. Dallas game last Sunday. Since we were already going to be there and needed something to do ;) , we went to Medieval Times on Saturday. I'd been once, when I went to Florida, but Tyler had never been. It was a good time, makes me glad my "silverware" consists of more than my hands these days. Then the game was on Sunday. Calgary lost, but it was still a fun "first NHL game" for me. Oh, yeah and go Red Knight! heheh. Overall, I say it was a great trip. Nice and relaxing, just what I needed. Semesters should come with more of those built in ;) Oh, and of course, pictures of Medieval Times and the hockey game are posted on my MSN space. Enjoy!

rainbows and butterflies anyone?

Ever notice how people have far less (or at least far less interesting) things to say when they aren't unhappy? Maybe I'm just not deep enough to have regular, meaninful posts ;)

Found out I have to write a 10+ page paper for my poli sci class today. That sucks.

I don't really have much of anything interesting to say this semester. School is...yeah. But whatever, it's cool. Accounting has some pretty interesting stuff I've learned. My history class is pretty cool, the prof (Robert Buzzanco) is rather liberal and teaches it that way. He wants us to see the other side of the history we've always learned. My poli sci class is ok, exam Thursday, should be pretty easy. I have a paper due sometime in there too. And in psych as well...hmm should probably get started on those sometime. That's what spring break is for. That and not class. I'm starting my break off nicely. Shopping with Holley and Krutina and then Cirque du Soleil. Should be exciting :) I think I'm going to some party thing at an art store on Saturday night with Ali, Jael and Andrea if she's still going. Anu too, perhaps? Not sure. Figured I should find something to do so I'm not bored while Tyler is out drinking and "playing wingman"...I found a piece of art I really like. Unfortunately it's huge and $1500. But I really like it... It's an abstract piece with orange and purple and black and its just...awesome and beautiful. Saw a Picasso too, it was about the size of a half sheet of paper and was almost $3000. Too bad Picasso isn't around to be paid, poor guy. There was also this cool tree made of copper piping that had candle votives wrapped into it that was really awesome. I bet it looked even cooler when candles were lit. The guy who made it will apparently come into your house and create something for a particular space you want it in. Too bad I move a lot, eh? And too bad I'm broke haha.

I think that's about all that is going on. I saw Ultraviolet on Sunday. It was pretty terrible. I want to see The Liberati and V for Vendetta. I hope they are less terrible.

Babbling

You know what sucks? Knowing something you aren't supposed to. You'd think it would be better to know than to stand oblivious. It's not. It's like, well, you know, but you can't tell anyone or say anything because, well, you aren't supposed to know. Now I see why people are so much happier when they don't know what's going on. Maybe that's why curiousity killed the cat.

Cirque du Soleil is next Friday. I'm pretty excited. Good way to start off spring break. I kind of want to take a trip somewhere (within driving distance) over the break, any suggestions?

I know it's been forever since I said I would post this, but I finally got all the pics from the ski trip. So...I put them on my MSN space for all to see :) Here is the link. (http://spaces.msn.com/lilbluegal/photos/?_c02_owner=1 for those who can't click it for some reason.) I think there are some good ones. It was SO pretty there. Enjoy!

Also, I posted some pics from before the ski trip (all the stuff that happened through January) so those are finally up too! :)

So I have not really had much to say lately. Business is a lot easier than engineering. There is no homework, other than stupid WebCT, and I have never bought so many scantrons before. Because of this, I have nothing interesting to say about what is going on. No "I was sitting in class and suddenly it all made sense" stories. Because there's nothing TO make sense. If you can not get that two sides of a balance sheet have to balance, then...well then WTF. I miss engineering. With the....you know....challenges. Maybe it is not even that. I miss the people. There were no looks from them like I did not belong. Maybe I am not cut out for this. Perhaps I would be put to better use at McDonalds. sigh. I think it is the thought of my alternative - working somewhere like McDonalds for the rest of my life - that keeps me just okay enough to make it one more day. I was talking a few days ago about people who have just enough common sense to make it through the day. They lay down to go to bed and are like "oh yeah, I need to close my eyes to sleep." And they do so and that is IT. No more common sense for the day. It is all used up. I think I am like that with sanity. And sometimes tolerance. I have just enough to make it through the day, but if the day runs long or something...I am screwed. Perhaps today ran long...

Ahhh, yay for well needed vacation. Skiing was SO fun! Yay for good birthday presents. Hehe, and falling in the snow. And getting better and not falling in the snow as much. And lots of powder, which by the way, is much harder ito ski in. All in all, I say the trip was a success. A super fun success. Pictures will be on my MSN space soon. At which point I will also provide a link to said space. :)

Thursday seems like it's going to take forever to get here. It's Monday. That's all. And it's been Monday for 14 hours. I've sat and stared and read through just about all of them. Leaves me wondering why sleep just doesn't seem to come some nights. I have to work until 10 tonight. I guess that will at least be something to pass the time for me. Perhaps. I can't decide if I like my job or not. Whenever I decide I don't, I find myself danciing through the aisles and singing. Whenever I decide that means I do, the day sucks and moves more slowly than ever. I guess it just depends on who else is working that can entertain me. I should get an job with an accountant. Experience would pretty likely prove to be beneficial to me. Hmm, almost a real job. Imagine that. Almost. Heh, hopefully it will be better than my last attempt to have a "real" job that will get me some experience in my field. Because that was utter failure. And a waste of my time.

Anyway, time needs to pass more quickly. I sat in my history class for what seemed like absolutely forever, listening to my professor drone on and on in his story about poor farmers in the 1890's. Then I looked at the time and realized I'd only been sitting there for 20 minutes. Gives a whole new meaning to "every minute is like an hour". Christ. I didn't think it would ever end. Even music won't pass the time like normal. I'm almost out of books, I didn't bring one with me today so that doesn't help either. I'm down to the last one, the one that I was planning on reading on the flight and such. Oh well. Perhaps I'll take another trip to the bookstore. Find something interesting, something that catches my eye. Heh, I'm a terrible shopper. Totally irrational. I figure why look for a book (or anything for that matter). Let it look for you. If it doesn't jump out at me, then why bother, eh? Guess we'll see. Got an idea for a new author to try anyway, so perhaps that'll prove itself. Paul Bowles. Leave a comment if you've read him and let me know what you think. I'll be reading him, so I'll probably leave a post about it later.

Not much has happened since my last post. At least not much interesting. I've come to a conclusion, more of a realization perhaps. But I find myself somewhat unwilling to go into detail. Or maybe apprehensive I guess. School started. My classes are by far the most boring ever. I miss engineering. At least then there was a challenge. Maybe it was so great because it was too much of a challenge for me. No sense dwelling in the past when you can't change it I suppose. But I do miss it. The challenge. The excitement of finally getting something right. The friends that were always around...everything I suppose.

I started a new book. Angels & Demons. It's the prequel to The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown. I plan to read that one next. Angels & Demons has been good so far, I've enjoyed it. Enough to read nearly 400 pages over the last day and a half. While Catholicism doesn't interest me in an "I want to be Catholic" sort of way, the history of all the terrible things that have been done "in the name of God" is captivating. But I suppose that is the way it is in all religions. There may not be "Holy Crusades" in the present, but when it really comes down to it the battles between religion and religion and religion and science IS quite prominent. I also find it interesting how, when it comes down to it, all tmehe major religions really do tell quite nearly the same story. Sure, there are obvious deviations, but who knows what may have been lost in perception and translation. There are obvious deviations even within modern history books about the Civil War...look at one from New York and one from Texas. You'd barely think they were talking about the same thing. And that wasn't even 200 years ago. This was 2,000 years ago. Anyone who can say that there is no possibility for variation of the same story is ridiculous. Ridiculous. And that's all I have to say about that.

I also bought several more books in addition to Dan Browns. One is My Friend Leonard, the next book written by James Frey, author of A Million Little Pieces. Yeah, I've read the CNN news reports on how "the book is a lie" and "how he fooled Oprah" and this and that. Don't particularly care. I thought the book was good. It had to have some truth to it. So the guy exaggerated some charges and such. Who sells an autobiography that doesn't exaggerate something about themselves? Sure, maybe it's something good most of the time. But still...I dunno, I guess I kind of expected some exaggeration. I mean he was on drugs, blacking out and such. Perhaps I'm wrong, but don't you NOT remember the things that happen when you blackout? The book would have been pretty damn short had he said "well, I don't remember this entire period of my life, so even though it's important and kind of vital to my explanation, I won't include it." Yeah. Maybe I just read too much fiction and come to expect the same from nonfiction. Whatever. I liked the book. Once I finish with Dan Brown's work, My Friend Leonard is next on the list. The other book I bought was just kind of an impulse, this looks interesting kind of thing. I really don't know what to expect from it, but the subject is one that has the potential to be highly interesting to me. It's called Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce. The New York Times called it "Riveting." I think "riveting" is the dumbest critic word ever. I mean, really. Riveting? WTF. Just say "captivating" or something. Riveting is something you do to a building. With rivets. Anyway, I think that will probably end up being airplane entertainment or the like, since because I have way too much free time and nothing to do with it I will probably have zipped through the other 3 by Feb 2.

Oh man. Feb 2. It's so soon! :) I'm more excited every day. I've been skiing before, twice even, and snowboarding once (kinda :-P...we'll call it "snowfalling" for the most part) but not in Colorado yet, and most definitely not recently. I love being in the snow. Yeah, yeah I realize that it must suck to deal with it for a whole season, and that the day after it falls and is all pretty it gets all gross due to cars and such, but still...when it's falling or freshly fallen it's so beautiful.

My new addition!

PA-THETIC

That is all.

New Years party was last night...it was fun :) I took lots of pictures, and posted them on my MSN site (because putting 50somethin pics in blogger was not my idea of a fun time) so I just made an album there. You can click here to see them. Definitely quite the entertaining night. For those of you who didn't come...you missed out! Tyler gets back from Canada/Vegas soon too, and I'm excited :-) I went and watched Anu's dance performance today also, it was really interesting. I'd never been to a Hindu temple, it was very pretty, as were the clothes. Pics of that are also on my MSN site :)

That's all for now. I guess it's post party apartment clean up time... :'( sadness.

So I guess I was a bit unhappy in my last post. Once again, I have learned that stupid girl things are just that...stupid. Though I might find it hard to believe that someone might actually care or something like that...I guess I shouldn't let my insecurities take over. Heh, easy to say, not so easy to do. But I've been trying. Really hard. Guess sometimes I just slip up. Anyway...

Had my New Years party tonite. Only 1 of my friends showed. The rest were Andrea's. Thank goodness she actually invited people this time, eh? What's up with the ditching me, people? :( But it's ok, more booze for us... I have lotsa pics that I will post when I'm a little more sober...dice games aren't always the friendliest ;-) I guess unless you're the guys in the midst of a bunch of girls haha...

That's all for now...like I said...I'll post the pics (or some of them at least...) soon.