and here's an update...

it's been awhile. christmas has come and gone (it was good) squeak is back in germany, movies were watched (narnia was good, family stone...a little more dramatic than what was expected, funny but not as funny), and way too much food was eaten.

i went out and bought the first season of gilmore girls and i'm watching while i wait for a certain person to call. i love this show. i love how innocent rory is in the beginning...lorelai too. she tries to be cool...well, she is cool...but inviting your crush over for movies with your mom = not cool. just a note to mom's out there. at least she makes up for it in the long run.

well...here's for a boring night in. tomorrow night should be a good one though. everyone will be back in town!

if i don't say it before it happens: HAPPY NEW YEAR!

released

it's weird to see your friends leave. it's almost an eye opener to know that you've been here long enough to watch your friends be released into the real world and leave the safe, crazy, fun haven of bemidji.

good luck to all that are graduating...it's been a fun couple of years. keep in touch.

Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
But the rest is still unwritten
-unwritten, natasha bedingfield

My blog is worth $3,387.24.
How much is your blog worth?

...and how can i get this money?

and it's christmas...allover, again!

a eurospring christmas party just got done. i hosted and am now officially broke. why did i agree to host? because then it wouldn't have happened...and it was so much fun!

i was the only one who stole on our white elephant gift exchange. i wanted that painted martini glass like no other. and bill looked pretty kickin in the hat i gave away. suited him more than it did me! haha.

habitat christmas tomorrow, plus bajillions of cookies to deliver.
christmas with the girls on tuesday.
out on the town for one last hurrah with the peeps on wednesday. before they all go home...and i stay here to work. but o my, will it be wonderful. i get the house to myself!

big project due tomorrow, let's hope i finish it.
tuesday test.
wednesday, @ noon, my paper retype is due. aparently, when a teacher says to type about your passion, she doesn't mean your passion. she means to type about the part of your passion that you really don't care about.
WTF.

and jennie leritz might be living with me next year! wooohoo!

so me and my 20 dollars that i hold to my name are over and out for the night. doing homework...boo.

job well done

i love it when you get good reviews back on homework that you kicked your butt on. we completely rocked our design management class, our teacher was so impressed. he said:

"it's so good to see a group meet your expectations, but when a group goes above and beyond your expectations...wow."

thanks mark!

and thanks to phil, jenna, and jessie...we had a kick butt group. if you want to see our dance club and business plan that we put together so stylishly...go here:
http://www.bemidjistate.edu/atc/staffsites/jtaray/InThePit


so yeah, sweet presentation today...glad to have class number 2 out of the way...3 more to go!

the good and the bad

it's been one of those days

good:
-got my hockey ticket for friday
-ran into a certain someone...made me smile
-was told about my work being published (see below)
-finished my honors class (YEEESSSS!)
-got 2 more registrants for battle of the bands and another on the way!
-cookie sales finally got going
-we had a good habitat meeting tonight...for once i didn't have to do all the talking

bad:
-sat on the phone with habitat international today as they continued to screw us over. i know they don't mean to, and i'm not mad...just really frustrated because i want them to give us something in return for all of our suffering...even though they have nothing to give us.
-i hate running all over campus
-i wrote a 10 page paper in 1 hour and 49 min. and ran it to be turn in with 5 min. to spare
-i miss a certain someone. though i shouldn't be jealous...i got 3 days in a row before this one day off.
-form z can bite me butt. i hate it
-no more homework, make it go away.

it's my finals week

and after this week i'm done! but for now...well, i shouldn't even be typing in here i have so much to do...and i have so much going on!

but i do have to tell you this: my teacher for 3d computer imaging will be featuring my artwork in an article that the software company that we made our artwork in wants her to write. it will be featuring bemidji state students and i'm one of the few she choose to include in the article. so yeah...that makes me happy.

i lost 9 pounds in the past week

i'm happy...yet concerned. that's an awful lot to loose in 1 week. that's 5 pounds of turkey and 4 pounds of me...just random fat that was there before. well...6 pounds until my goal...and then i get to reward myself! massage...body wave for the hair? i don't know. we'll worry about it when (and if) i get there...because i'm technically not on a diet.

things i should be doing:
-business proposal papers
-3d computer imaging homework
-the book
-student senate webpages
-honors paper...if i have to do it

things that i want to be doing
-watching tv
-blogging
-running
-sleeping
-anything and everything that's not on the list above...

how sad am i? eh, gotta keep going...

i hate keeping secrets. sometimes, i just want to run out and tell all to the world. i don't want to tell my secret, but sometimes...it's hard to not say it. i find it funny that you have friends that you only tell certain things to...never the whole story.

but then again...we don't want others screaming, "too much information!"

june 24.

i will be competing in a swim meet on june 24...or at least i'm pretty sure. i need to start getting in shape! my siblings and i are going to do a medley relay for sure: i'll swim back, zach breast, alli fly and zerek free. zach and i are going to have to train hard core this spring semester. we can't let the 2 that are still in shape swimming wise down.

i need to start running, everyday. no more eliptical...we need to do the tread mill. and swimming more often. i'm kind of excited!

so i'm bored at work...have fun!

10 Firsts:
First Best Friend(s): Britton Smith
First Screen Name: giggles1444...andi...
First Kiss: Shawn
First Pet: Brandy, my guard dog
First Piercing: ears
First Crush: Britton...funny how your 3 year old best friend is also your first crush
First CD: I think I got Amy Grant for xmas...good cd.
First love: swimming...haha.
First Stuffed animal: this little teddy bear...apparently i had a name for him and my mom asked me and i have no clue. thanks for remembering mom...so now i have my first teddy bear lying around nameless. sad.

9 Lasts:
Last Cigarette: ick, gross, keep em away.
Last Alcoholic drink: last night...combat!
Last Car Ride: home from the bar last night.
Last Kiss: my mom gave me a kiss before i left back to bemiji
Last Movie Seen: Harry Potter
Last Phone Call: i just talked to steph who's on the radio right now. she played a surprise song for me.
Last CD Played: a very merry christmas 2. i love xmas music
Last bubble bath: right after we got the new jacuzzi at our home last year.
Last time you cried: the night my friend yelled at me and then we didn't speak for a month...beginning of october.

8 Have You Evers:
Have You Ever Dated One Of Your Best Friends: how about, have you ever dated? no.
Have You Ever Been Arrested: nope...but i have been pulled over because i can't control my passengers fingers when they decide to flip off a cop. the cop wanted to take me in for that one. how would the rest of my drunk passengers get home? stupid.
Have You Ever Skinny Dipped: yes! adrianic sea at the island lido off of venice, italy. amazing.
Have You Ever Been on TV: yeah...news and when i was little they had this show where you went up and sat on santa's lap and told all of the grand forks community what you wanted for xmas. i was the last one picked from the big crowd to go up.
Have You Ever Kissed Someone and Then Regretted it: not yet.
Have You Ever Dreamt about someone you knew: ummm...doesn't everyone?
Have You Ever played in the middle of a hurricane: No.

7 career paths you've considered:
1. layout artist
2. grahic designer
3. graphic design teacher
4. swim coach
5. beggar on the streets of oxford
6. artist
7. president of the united states...ahaahha...no. why would i want a job where almost eveyone hates you?

6 Things You've Done Today:
1. Checked E-mail
2. Ate lunch
3. woke up at 11...yeeeesssssss!
4. checked all my websites
5. struggled to put my contacts in
6. amused our selves at work with contacting the other office via microphone and tv

5 favorite things In NO Order:
1. computers...and the internet
2. laughing
3. music
4. being warm and near good people
5. cuddling

4 People You Can Tell Anything to in NO order:
1. ok, first off, i tell everyone everything because a)nothing cool ever happens to me so there's not much to tell and b)if something cool does happen, i tell everyone because it's just that cool

3 Choices:
1. Black or White: either or
2. Hot or Cold: depends on my mood
3. Chocolate or vanilla: they're both good...i had triple chocolate cake today...and phil made me scrap all the rest off the bottom of the pan and eat it...gross.

2 Things You Want to Do Before you die:
1. travel all over the place (and relive eurospring)
2. Die clutching all my glorious money (i kinda like that answer...)

1 thing you regret:
i have nothing to regret...yet.