HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Happy Birthday!

That's right, it's your birthday! Guess what! It's everyone else's birthday too! For some reason half the people over here have a birthday on or around Valentine's day. There are donuts and cake and coffee and e'erthing. I just had a donut with lemon creme filling. It was amazing.

So far this week, nothing has happened, because it's only 9 on a Monday morning. It's warm outside though. I need to do homework. Speaking of homework, I still haven't watched the last episode and a half of 24. Even I am impressed with my own restraint. Especially since Hume, at the moment, is so crushingly dull and dry.

I drank a ton of coffee last night at D&K's without really thinking about it, so after I got to Mor Mor's I didn't get to sleep until about 1, and then I tossed and turned and woke up every hour or so for the rest of the night. When I get back home today, I'm going to take a nap, homwork be darned.

I wrote a poem yesterday. I felt sort of dumb because it didn't rhyme, but then again I'd feel dumb if it did rhyme. Writing poetry makes me feel dumb. I don't like it. Maybe I'll send the poem to you before I hand it in so you can tell me how to fix it. The next poem I write (there have to be 5) is going to have the same meter as Psalm 23 because if I'm going to write a poem I probably need some sort of template.

-Amy

P.S. Happy Birthday.

Little Rivers.

Thats what I call Brooks. Actually I call him any kind of body of water. Usually puddles or streams, but lately its just been lil rivs.

I saw Nicole today and she said you were in the cafeteria or whatevs with a person. A real, live person.

Yeah I've heard of the Hunger Games when Havilah and Esther came Esther told us all about them. They sound pretty good I guess.

Nicole told me that you weren't being very extroverted when she was sitting next to you and brooks for like an hour or however. Remember when I told you how to start a conversation with someone? its not that hard, especially when you have a mutual friend, especially when that mutual friend is right there trying to get you guys to start a conversation.

Tut tut, Amy. You have so much to learn.

Nicole thinks that he's super shy and it really annoys her. That wouldn't annoy me very much. I think he might be coming to my party, because she wants him to meet people and be more extroverted and stuff, and he sounds pretty cool, and you know, the more the better, amiright? Yeah, I am. I always am.

My birthday is going to be sooo much fun, I can't even believe it. Mor Mor said I could pick out an outfit at the mall and she would buy it. I'm debating weather to do that or get some pants and have her buy this jacket. Isn't it so awesome???? Yes.

stay classy

Wuddup

Wow, you're crazy with the references lately.

I promise that I will watch Roswell and only Roswell today. Really. Basically I'm watching 24 because there are no good action movies on Netflix, and I like an action fix every now and again. There are lots of shows that I feel like watching instead of 24, like Heroes, only we were sort of doing that together or something.

I'm impressed with your organisation skills. I wouldn't be any good at that because I can't even organise my own clothing. Do tights go in the underwear drawer or the pants drawer? Cardigans with long sleeves or hung up?Socks with underwear or tights? Undershirts with t-shirts or underwear? There are a lot of questions. So far my answer to all of them is "throw it on the bed and deal with it later."

Anyway. Today at work I have to fill out a sexual harrassment training form thingy. Not sure what it's all about but the bureaucrats are threatening "decisive punishment" if I don't do it quickly. Maybe I should file harrassment charges on them.

I'm tired today. When I'm tired I become a little mean. I feel bad. There was a Russian woman here who asked me if I was Russian because she thought I had an accent. I said no, so she asked me if I was Ukrainian. I said no, I'm from here, and my family's from Ireland. I think she thought I meant that I myself was from Ireland, and went on to say how much she loved the accent. I didn't have the heart to tell her that I have an American accent just like everyone else.

Nicole's in the WC today with someone working on like homework or something. I met Brooks today, briefly. He is cute but I didn't get much more than that. He had a nice leather jacket.

The title of this post made me think of this one time when Mor Mor was telling me about how she was reading the sunday comics and one character said "Zup!" and she didn't know what it meant. It took me a while to realise that she was saying 'sup. Then it was funny.

-Amy

P.S. I had a two-hour break today but I didn't watch Roswell or any show at all because I had lunch with one of my coworkers and we ended up chatting for the entire two hours. She recommended a series of books called The Hunger Games to me. Have you heard of them? I'm excited to try them because she said she liked them more than she liked Harry Potter. We shall see.

Cold to the bone!....geddit?

Last night I had a dream about you,

In this dream I'm dancing right beside you

And it looked like everyone was having fun

The kind of feeling I've waited so long.

Thats a daft punk song. Its stuck in my head.

Along with,

Should I do classic or vintage or plaid,

I think this tux is to baggy, to tight, it makes me look weird.

And

We can go nowhere but up from here, my dear.

Yeah so today we're still doing everything that we were going to do, but theres a ton of snow. Its snowing like crazy heck. I hate it.

Snow is cool for like a week. Then I run out of clothes layering combinations.

And socks.

I actually really love layering, but about the middle of February is about when I first resign myself to doing it every day, and then when spring comes along I find myself thinking my clothes are....plain.. Like, a t-shirt and some shorts. And some flipflops. Summer is just so simple.

In the winter, it goes more like this, tanktop, long sleep shirt, another long sleeve shirt, a hoodie or sweater, a scarf. A hat. Tights, tights, leggings, leggings, jeans, leg warmers, socks, socks, knee socks, boots.

gloves.

Coat.

Wow. I can't hardly remember feeling hot outside.

Amy... I can't recall the taste of food...nor the sound of water...nor the touch of grass.

Did you get the reference? I thought you might.

Keep brainstorming about the list, Amers.

Stay classy

Organizing movies

This is a short post, I know, and the last one was too, so you can just pretend like they're one post.

I organized the movies today, like mom asked me. Wow, tell you what, its times likes these where I hate rom-coms and action comedies.

I was like, ok I'll make a couple of catagories,

Animated

Comedy

Romance

Musical and dance

adventure

action

trilogy, chronicles

Time Period

But then I was like, what about the rom-coms, or Superman, which is a superhero movie, but its not in a series, so it goes with the adventure movies, and not with superman and xmen, like it should.

And then there were movies like Oceans 11 and 12 which I kept switching from action to comedy because I just didn't know, and same with Mr. and Mrs. Smith, except that was even harder because thats a romance too. I ended up putting it in romance, because after all thats pretty much what the movie was about.

I was going to make a fantasy section, but there were too many movies that were already in like four categories.

Then there was princess bride and October Sky, like....what? I don't know. I ended up putting October sky in 'adventure' and Princess Bride in 'comedy' good?

I hope it stays that way. I'm sure it will, with just the parents and the married units here. They don't watch anything except pilates videos, so I put those on the side so they wouldn't disturb everything else when people move them.

I put all the period movies on the side too, and they took up the whole side. there are a lot of them. It looks very good. I should go national with my skills.

I watched this movie called Cow Belles the other day. Its a disney channel movie. The main girl was good but her sister wasn't. They played sisters and they were actually sisters. The guy that the main girl go together with was cool. Turns out hes from vampire diaries. Ha. He started on Disney channel and then went to that? ha.

Nerds

Thats what we are. Nerds.

24? Really? I feel like thats the ultimate show. And when I saw ultimate show I mean, no one actually watches that show because they want to, they just watch it because they've already watched Bones, CSI, NCSI, Buffy, and all the other millions and billions of action/cop mysteries, and they've got that post-show empty feeling.

Speaking of shows, I've watched a lot. I started making a list, but I knew that I was forgetting a lot, so I just stopped.

Can I have that Mall list? You can email it to me. I'm adding to it. Slowly, not very surely.

I think I'm going to watch 101 dalmatians tonight, add to that list, add to my birthday list, eat snow ice cream and lounge around while I wait for myself to no longer be sore. I might get in the hot tub to help that, but for now I'm stuck in the house doing school school school. Its quite a bore.

I watched High School Musical (one) for the first time yesterday. I got into that mood. I like that mood. Its the same mood that I get when I watch Star Struck, Step Up 1, 2, and 3. And any dancing singing movie ever.

I decided if I ever want to be in a good mood for something, and I'm not really, then I'll just watch one of those movies and I'll be good.

You wear a tiara at work? Like, you're supposed to? wow. ha. thats funny.

-stay classy

Gasp!

Doublepost! Not even kidding. This is like an historic event. And even more historically, it's Monday and I'm making a post, even though I'll be seeing you in a couple of hours up at Oak Park. Why am I posting, you ask? No reason! Only I'm at work with little to do (not really, I'm actually not on duty. There's an off-duty tiara that we're supposed to wear when we're here but not working so no one will bother us, but I never wear it because it's made for a six-year-old head), and I figured I'd make a post because 1) I'm free, and 2) I'd rather not do homwork instead.

Last night I watched the season 1 finale of 24. 24 is one of those shows that you absolutely have to commit to because if you don't then you won't like it at all. I didn't like it at all at first, because nothing interesting happened, or everything good that happened was frustrating because there were still 20 hours/episodes for it to go wrong again. And everything did go wrong, up to the very last minute. And I cried and carried on about it for a while, and then went ahead and watched the first episode of season 2. Here are my thoughts, whether or not you're interested in them:
1. Gingers should never have beards. There is something about a ginger with a beard that is just so wrong.
2. There's no way you can seperate from your wife in the middle of your Presidential campaign and still become President.
3. Charlie was in it. Here's the real tragedy: I didn't even know it was Charlie at first because he was an abusive husband and father and he didn't have his super crimefighting mustache. I felt a little like crying.

So that's the lowdown on 24. It was sad and I'm still a little depressed about it. I will fight my depression by doing homework. I will fail. Did you know what I found out today about Galileo? Not that he pioneered the idea of a rotating, revolving, non-universe-centric earth, not that he treated Aristotle's research like gold, but that Galileo was one corny guy. Not even kidding. So there's your lesson of the day.

Later,
Amy