Random Installments: Episode 4

1. I love the beach. I need to figure out a way to spend my entire summer there every year and eat nothing but seafood. And popsicles. I don't even mind being salty and sandy and loaded up with sunscreen all the time. I kind of like it. If I start wearing Hawaiian Tropic as perfume until September, don't be surprised... I'm only sort of kidding.

2. Popsicles are incredible. I hope that these bizarre little independent popsicle places that make flavors like "rose petal" and "hibiscus" and "Strawberry Pink Peppercorn" are EVERYWHERE this summer. I know I'm covered in Nashville and North Topsail Island... do we have any places like this in Raleigh? Cary? If not, someone start one. Kthx.

3. Why is it that my entire social life revolves around eating? Seriously guys, we really need to come up with other fun stuff to do. Or I will never wear a two piece bathing suit again. We live in a fun city, I'm fairly sure we can entertain ourselves away from restaurants. I vote for kayaking on the next weekend. Who's in?

4. I am the worst procrastinator in the entire world. We have to be out of our apartment in less that 2 weeks, and I have packed like, a box. Anyone wanna help me? I'll feed you. It may even be homecooked. Please? I'll provide the fun vacuum bags and we can squish all my clothes and bedding. It'll be fun! Oh man. Even I don't believe that.

5. O.M.Gsh. I Want To Believe. I can't wait. I'm gonna die! They're totally gonna make out.

Random Installments: Episode 3

1. Somehow the concept of being in 2 places at once still seems possible to me. Which, being an intelligent woman with a reasonable understanding of the laws of physics, doesn't make much sense. Yet I continually overbook myself. I'm going to start keeping a planner. I'll let you know how this works out for me.

2. I should be a 5 year old boy. I enjoy poking roly-poly's and chasing animals way more than I should probably admit. And I don't even mind the dirt under my fingernails. I seriously considered buying a creepy crawler machine after playing with one a while back. SO FUN.

3. Summer makes me a happier person. The sun comes out - I love life. Maybe there's a direct correlation between the amount of ice cream I consume when it's hot and my elevated mood? Maybe it's the obnoxious yellow purse? Who knows. But it's workin' for me.

4. I want my car. In case you haven't heard yet... meaning, you've had no contact with me this week, I'm buying a car, which is on it's way from Atlanta and will be in the same city as me by tomorrow. Meanwhile, my useless machine is overheating constantly, spewing fluids everywhere, and generally being an eyesore. This is my new car:

Tell me that I don't belong in a Bug. I'm breaking her in on a trip to NC. Very soon. Next week if I can scrape the gas money together... Because um, gas home is going to cost me MORE THAN MY FREAKING RENT. But, this time I don't have to rent a car!

5. Since it seems that I always close these out with a YouTube video, I'll keep up the tradition with a little flashback from Keith Urban and Patty Loveless... from when Keith was "on the verge"... yeah he'll never make it. March 2001.

I love love love both of them.

Random Installments: Episode 2

1. I'm working the CMT awards on Monday.  It's gonna be a long day and I really couldn't care less about most of it... except I really hope I get a chance to meet Miley Cyrus.  Is that strange?  I don't care, I kinda wanna be Hanna Montana when I grow up. I will totally geek out and try and get a picture.  Don't doubt me.

2. I will never understand why they have to teach me calculus.  Ever.  Nothing any teacher or anyone else can say will ever help me rationalize why I need to understand the quadratic method or derivatives or why I need to be able to find the slope of a tangent line.  Really, I cannot even get past the whole multiplying letters thing.  This is a huge amount of unnecessary stress for me.

3. My dog is jealous of my computer.  3 times last night I was sitting on my couch writing, and he would charge across the room, stare at me and whine for a second, then proceed to pounce on the top of my computer and slam it shut.  He was very deliberate about his intentions - and he achieved his goal, I suppose, because I played with him every single time he managed to slam it shut on my fingers. After I yelled at him, of course.

4. Leaving a two hour gap between my MWF classes was the most brilliant thing I have done since entering college.  Seriously.  At first I thought it was stupid because I had a huge empty slot to fill three days a week, but in reality I have these glorious two hours to sit on my butt and blog, eat, nap, facebook stalk you, do homework.

5. Anyone remember this show? It's kind of creepy now that I look back at it.  My favorite part is where they misspell "medicine".  

Random Installments: Episode 1

1. I HATE when the bottom of my jeans get wet in the rain.  It pretty much ruins my night.  I wish I was exaggerating.  I have a habit of always sitting on my feet, and when my jeans are wet and I sit on my feet, my butt gets wet, and being in class with a wet butt and wet legs until 10pm is really unfortunate and makes me hate being in International Business even more than I already do, because we all know that there are SO many other places I could be right now.

2. I babysat for a 4 year old weasel pig today.  We played with transformers for an hour (side note: can ANYONE actually make those things work? I really won't even discuss what a miserable failure I am as a transformer-fixer), until he got bored with them and insisted that I read 637 Golden Books.  By the end of the last book about trucks or firemen or something, my throat was raw, and I convinced him to choose a game.  Any game.  I needed my voice.  So, he chose "jail".  Basically, we took turns "handcuffing" each other and locking each other in his bedroom, then breaking out and running like idiots around the house.  I was definitely mid-tackle when mom got home.  

3. Southern Drivers + Rain = Stupid.  I'm not sure what it is, but there is definitely some sort of stupid switch that gets flipped in our brains when it's raining outside.  I'm totally among them.  There were some pretty substantial storms blowing through here today, and it was dang near impossible to get around.  I am pretty much always late anyway, but rain automatically adds at LEAST 10 minutes to my late-ness.  I really don't know how to explain this phenomenon.  But it's a fact.

4. I would be barefoot all the time if it was acceptable.  Which is sort of ridiculous if you're familiar with the absurd amount of shoes I own.  However, at any given point throughout the day, I will not have shoes on my feet.  Even at work.  With my suits and jackets and dresses... it doesn't matter.  I can't explain this one either.

5. This little girl is the cutest thing in the whole world. 

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