Peanut Butter and Love Poems

I just want you to know that I ate an entire jar of peanut butter in a month. This isn't your normal peanut butter eating, either. I mean, I didn't eat it on anything, I just scooped it right out of the jar, and after a while I realized that I could see the bottom. It just happened. But I went to Wal-Mart today, and I bought another, bigger, more crunchy one. I don't know if peanut butter is brain food, but I know it has a lot of protein in, and it makes me feel happy, so I think I will continue eating it at my present pace, because it is better to eat peanut butter while I do homework than to eat candy while I do my homework (I have not bought any candy for weeks, you should be proud).

I was going to get my oil changed, too, but the only place I know where you can get it done here is at Jiffy Lube, and when I googled how much it cost to get oil changed there, all that came up were a bunch of horror stories from people who had been totally scammed there. So I don't want to go. I will probably just stop in Harrisonville the next time I come home and have it done there. I feel bad that I'm putting off this whole oil change thing but it's not like I'll be driving at all between now and then so I guess I won't be racking up more miles.

The cool thing about that CD that you left in my car is that the bass of songs comes through a lot better if they're on a CD rather than a tape adapter. When I was driving back from Mor Mor's on Sunday I listened to Turn It Up a few times with the bass up high so I could feel it. It was pretty cool. The only other CD I have in my car is a mix one that Elise made, and there is an old-school Black Eyed Peas song on it that gives me the same artificial feeling of being a badass.

There is this line in How Gee that goes "I wear my sunglasses at night/still 20/20". Cracks me up so much.

Sometimes when I do my laundry, the washing machine just flips out and when I go to put the clothes in the dryer, they're soaking wet. It's really annoying because dryer cycles are an hour, and this load is going to take at least two cycles to get dry. On any other night I'd be in bed by the time it's done. First world problems.

There's only one remaining day of teaching for Literature of Adolescents. I am ecstatic. I can't wait to be done. If there's one thing this class has done for me, it's shown me how unready I am to be a teacher. Thankfully I have a couple more years before I have to step out on my own with this. It's pretty scary to think about, but then again most of what makes being a grown up makes me sick to think about. There's nothing quite like independence to make a body feel vulnerable. I'm determined to own it though, just you wait.

The window in our room has been wide open for weeks. It got pretty cold outside a few times, but it never matters - regardless of the weather outside, it is always a steady 75-82 degrees in this room. There is nothing to do that will make it any cooler. Part of the reason is because the heater is right below the window, so it blows up a hot air barrier that prevents anything cold from coming in. The heater never turns off. The last three nights my roommate went and slept in her friend's room downstairs just because it was too hot to sleep. It doesn't bother me when I fall asleep, but there's nothing quite like waking up sweaty to make a body feel cranky in the morning.

I am probably going to watch that movie you recommended while I wait for my laundry to finish. I can never resist beautiful people being talented on screen. You know how I am.

-Amy

P.S. I forgot it was Valentine's Day, because I was too busy thinking about other things. But there was chocolate fondue in the cafeteria today, so that was cool. Thankfully no one's been particularly mushy in my vicinity, but I was at Wal-Mart earlier and there were a lot of uncomfortable-looking men buying roses. It warmed my heart a little.

P.P.S. I also bought you a birthday present today. It is pretty exciting.

P.P.S. My eccentric World Masterpieces teacher also celebrated today by breaking off from Dante's Inferno, which we're reading, to read several famous subtly suggestive love poems of yore. We all lol'd, but it was also pretty awkward, because Shakespeare sure was into innuendo. Dang.

Back into the swing of things

Well, break it over, and school is starting again. UUUUUUUUUGHHH.
My school is starting before every person on the planet! Its not 2011 yet, and yet I'm still doing school AFTER Christmas break. I don't think this has ever happened to me before, and it shouldn't happen to anyone else.

We had a pretty cool Christmas and with the family, and I got some pretty cool stuff.
You know how people are asking you what you want, and you know through out the year you've had just about 100 ideas, but you can't think of any when you need to make a list? Yeah that's what happened to me. I put like three little measly things on the list, but I didn't think of anything big until I went Christmas shopping. I always see a billion things I want when I go shopping anywhere, but that was just about a week before Christmas and everyone had already bought all their presents for me, but I wrote my ideas down anyway.

Thats whats so nice about having a birthday right after Christmas. Its like the safety net for Christmas. Everything that you don't catch in the Christmas net will be caught in the safety birthday net. Its pretty great.

But thats just about the only up side to having a birthday in the winter. February is just about the worst month of the year because its before the grass starts getting green or the leaves start coming out, and its after the snow. Its always gray all the time. Valentines day does make it feel better though, because its like the 3rd most colorful holiday of the year (Christmas and St. Patricks day come before it. Thanksgiving and Halloween are next after Valentines day on the colorful list because I don't consider brown to be a color, and that's the color that it is outside and inside during Thanksgiving (That goes for the turkey too. And all the other food, actually) And the official color of Halloween is Orange, but you see more Black and gray and cobweb-color than anything) and its all about love and hearts and girls and embarrassing little love notes and ME. Yes. I pride myself on having a birthday on a holiday. I may just get married on Valentines day too, because then I would have THREE things to celebrate on that day. Ha.

So far I haven't been able to live Valentines/my birthday out to the fullest because as they say, "February 14th is the worst day of the year for single people." Its also the day of the most snail mail AND the day of the most speed dating/blind dating. Fun, right? I do happen to be single, but since Feb. 14th is my birthday, it isn't the worst day. The worst day of the year for me is probably December 26th or August 1st, when I start school.

Oh my, the last couple of days there has been the prettiest yellow cat hanging around outside our house, and I feel so terrible for it because its really cold out there, and I want to let it in, but every time I open the door it runs away. I tried to put some food out for it, but I think the dog ate it. Our dog is CRAZY about cat food. I mean whats the difference between dog food and cat food? They both kind of look the same, and they smell the same. I wonder what they taste like. This one time I ate a dog treat. It was cheese and bacon flavored and it kind of tasted like a ball of grits with really almost tasteless powdered cheese on it. I didn't taste any bacon. I think they were lying about that.