Merry Christmas!
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
My First Kiss Went a Little Like This...
No twisting. I actually really hate that song, but it's a really fitting title for what I'm about to show you. Enjoy story time! :)
Love, Desi!
Love, Desi!
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Monday, September 5, 2011
"I'm sorry that people are so jealous of me... but I can't help that I'm so popular."
- Gretchen Wieners, Mean Girls
If any of you have me on Facebook (which I'm assuming all of you do, this blog is NOT very popular) you know that my name is Gretchen Wieners. Bonus points if you also knew my roommate changed her name to Karen Smith! Extra bonus points if you were a boy and knew all these things and the movie from which it's from! Those extra points, however, are known as metro sexual points. YEAH!
As I type the words you're reading on this web page, I'm gazing out of the window of a house in Wellington, Colorado, sipping my double french vanilla coffee and listening to the sounds of my family. Wellington, for those of you who don't know, is a little town outside of Fort Collins about twenty minutes away from Wyoming, and is the city in which my aunt resides, for now. My dad and his three full siblings, plus family, have reconvened for the Labor Day weekend and it's been awesome! I have so many cousins, but only one who's close to my age. We got out my first night here and I got to see his casa, at which there was a small get together...
"And the DJ said, 'Let there be music, and multitudes of ravers to be fruitful and multiply!' And it was so. And he saw that it was good."
Alright, so my life isn't really that awesome, but that little gem was too good to pass up. The rest of this trip has been freaking amazing and if I'm able to get the shirt I've had my eye on for some years now, it's gonna be too epic for words. You'll know that I got it when my background suddenly changes. Just kidding, I just left and came back (not that you can tell the time difference) and the location did not have the shirt in my size. :( Hopefully Fort Collins or Denver will! Let's cross our fingers because this shirt is AMAZING!
Time to YouTube it up in efforts to fill the shirt-shaped void in my soul.
Love, Desi!
If any of you have me on Facebook (which I'm assuming all of you do, this blog is NOT very popular) you know that my name is Gretchen Wieners. Bonus points if you also knew my roommate changed her name to Karen Smith! Extra bonus points if you were a boy and knew all these things and the movie from which it's from! Those extra points, however, are known as metro sexual points. YEAH!
As I type the words you're reading on this web page, I'm gazing out of the window of a house in Wellington, Colorado, sipping my double french vanilla coffee and listening to the sounds of my family. Wellington, for those of you who don't know, is a little town outside of Fort Collins about twenty minutes away from Wyoming, and is the city in which my aunt resides, for now. My dad and his three full siblings, plus family, have reconvened for the Labor Day weekend and it's been awesome! I have so many cousins, but only one who's close to my age. We got out my first night here and I got to see his casa, at which there was a small get together...
"And the DJ said, 'Let there be music, and multitudes of ravers to be fruitful and multiply!' And it was so. And he saw that it was good."
Alright, so my life isn't really that awesome, but that little gem was too good to pass up. The rest of this trip has been freaking amazing and if I'm able to get the shirt I've had my eye on for some years now, it's gonna be too epic for words. You'll know that I got it when my background suddenly changes. Just kidding, I just left and came back (not that you can tell the time difference) and the location did not have the shirt in my size. :( Hopefully Fort Collins or Denver will! Let's cross our fingers because this shirt is AMAZING!
Time to YouTube it up in efforts to fill the shirt-shaped void in my soul.
Love, Desi!
Thursday, September 1, 2011
The second worst day of my life!
It's been a while since I've blogged since I've been so friggin' busy with life and stuff, and even longer since I vlogged so here's my present to you.
I figure you should just accept when stuff like this happens and own it, so here it is.
I figure you should just accept when stuff like this happens and own it, so here it is.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Eating soup and blogging!
Probably not the smartest thing to do (liquids + computers = ?) but I'm hungry, I make darn good soup and I forgot about the fish fillets in the freezer that I'm bound to make in a few hours. Soup covered, time to blog about sad things in my life that show how bad my luck is and how poor I am.
Bad luck! And kind of about being poor.
So, last time I blogged I mentioned a ticket, and I had to take an expensive class to get rid of it, the points against my license and I had to get it done a week before the court date that I had to get an extension for. Monday marked the day it was due and the Friday before that marked the day I got paid and was able to pay for it, but unfortunately I still couldn't even take it that day. The cut-off time for the site was 6 P.M., and they needed me to print a document to sign when I don't even have a printer! So I had to e-mail it to my step dad to print and give to me after he got home around 7. The next day I had to pay ten friggin' bucks more for "same-day processing" so I could just take the class and be done, and even that wasn't enough! The chapters have 23 minute timers that MAKE me wait to take the little quiz at the end of the course (ridiculously easy, by the way) and by the time my shift started Sunday afternoon, I had to take the last quiz of the last class and take the final test! The last quiz was two questions but when I clicked on the test that I figured I'd have to wait to take because of the timer, it turned out that the quiz itself was timed and I had to complete it in an hour! Luckily I had an awesome manager that day who let me spend the first ten minutes of my test running down the last timer, taking the quiz and the test so I do believe I'm safe. :)
As you can see, I'm still poor! And because I'm poor, MCC dropped me from all my classes for not paying. I visited MCC and they said I still had my spot saved, I just needed to pay, so I set up a payment plan and was "re-enrolled" but when I checked on my classes this morning, they were still gone! My theatre class was full and I had to take a different teacher on a different time and date - Tuesday-Thursdays instead of Monday-Wednesday-Fridays, barf - with a teacher who is not on ratemyprofessor.com, which got in the way of my CPR class so now I'm taking only four gosh darn classes that look a little something like this. It's a little bit hard to see, but now I have a break M/W/F from 8:50 to 11 and on T/T from 10:15 to 11, not to mention I start an hour later on those days. I guess I'll be drinking my money away at Grounds for Thought, doing my homework right after English and looking at magazines in the library. At least I still have four days of choir. <3
Now, for some delicious things I am enamored by and think you all should try! One and two!
I'm really just trying to fill this void. :(
Love, Desi!
Bad luck! And kind of about being poor.
So, last time I blogged I mentioned a ticket, and I had to take an expensive class to get rid of it, the points against my license and I had to get it done a week before the court date that I had to get an extension for. Monday marked the day it was due and the Friday before that marked the day I got paid and was able to pay for it, but unfortunately I still couldn't even take it that day. The cut-off time for the site was 6 P.M., and they needed me to print a document to sign when I don't even have a printer! So I had to e-mail it to my step dad to print and give to me after he got home around 7. The next day I had to pay ten friggin' bucks more for "same-day processing" so I could just take the class and be done, and even that wasn't enough! The chapters have 23 minute timers that MAKE me wait to take the little quiz at the end of the course (ridiculously easy, by the way) and by the time my shift started Sunday afternoon, I had to take the last quiz of the last class and take the final test! The last quiz was two questions but when I clicked on the test that I figured I'd have to wait to take because of the timer, it turned out that the quiz itself was timed and I had to complete it in an hour! Luckily I had an awesome manager that day who let me spend the first ten minutes of my test running down the last timer, taking the quiz and the test so I do believe I'm safe. :)
As you can see, I'm still poor! And because I'm poor, MCC dropped me from all my classes for not paying. I visited MCC and they said I still had my spot saved, I just needed to pay, so I set up a payment plan and was "re-enrolled" but when I checked on my classes this morning, they were still gone! My theatre class was full and I had to take a different teacher on a different time and date - Tuesday-Thursdays instead of Monday-Wednesday-Fridays, barf - with a teacher who is not on ratemyprofessor.com, which got in the way of my CPR class so now I'm taking only four gosh darn classes that look a little something like this. It's a little bit hard to see, but now I have a break M/W/F from 8:50 to 11 and on T/T from 10:15 to 11, not to mention I start an hour later on those days. I guess I'll be drinking my money away at Grounds for Thought, doing my homework right after English and looking at magazines in the library. At least I still have four days of choir. <3
Now, for some delicious things I am enamored by and think you all should try! One and two!
I'm really just trying to fill this void. :(
Love, Desi!
Sunday, August 14, 2011
"Help me, I'm poor!"
- Annie, Bridesmaids
I love that movie so much! I got the poster from Wallace movies, thank you Sarah! <3 Love aside, I truly am poor. I have nine dollars in my bank account and I still have more bills to pay. </3
Paying for college sucks, don't do it. Learn from me and either get a scholarship or be a trust fund baby. Your choice. It's a good thing I decided to go on a model-vegan diet (I'll explain later) because veganism is great for poor people, rock on! Between school ($1,200), insurance ($120), my phone ($30), feeding myself for a few weeks ($30) and the stupid TICKET I got for zoning out on the road ONE TIME and running a red ($240 but I didn't pay it...) I have to take driving school ($230) which I am in the middle of now. Almost done, but it's time consuming and budget busting and tear inducing. So I'm flat out broke and have to pay my insurance for last month and this month and then my phone bill. Then I'm free! With the exception of the 5th of every month where I have to make a payment on my tuition. I'm gonna cry.
So that model-vegan diet thing I mentioned is actually really awesome. I'm not fully vegan, I just rarely eat crap or meat. I'm slightly anemic so I have to eat steak every once in a while but PB&J and some raisins get me by the rest of the time. I missed being a vegetarian and decided to go hardcore but not really as a model-vegan. :) I guess the real term for it would be flexitarian except I pretty much only eat fruits, veggies, special home-made soup and PB&J, which is less than a vegetarian. I do use spices and what not, and I still eat ramen noodles (I'm poor!) and bean and cheese burritos, yum. I avoid non-vegan things, but I do still eat them. I had Chic-fil-a the other day.
Why is everybody leaving? I had two good bye parties yesterday, one of which I could not find but still. Why is there an allure to leave little ol' me? It breaks mah heart! :( Stay home!
I'm surprised I haven't fallen over dead, yet. My bedtime lately has been averaging between midnight and 2 A.M., but I keep getting up around 9. Like today, in bed at two, alarm at 7:40, up at 8:20 for church. How am I still functioning? And I work later, so no nap for me. Speaking of church! Guess who has a keyboard and is now a Hospitality Minister at St. Benedict's?! THIS GIRL! So that means all y'all Catholics need to get your butts to church and let me greet you! :D
Alroight, mates, I'm out!
Love, Desi!
I love that movie so much! I got the poster from Wallace movies, thank you Sarah! <3 Love aside, I truly am poor. I have nine dollars in my bank account and I still have more bills to pay. </3
Paying for college sucks, don't do it. Learn from me and either get a scholarship or be a trust fund baby. Your choice. It's a good thing I decided to go on a model-vegan diet (I'll explain later) because veganism is great for poor people, rock on! Between school ($1,200), insurance ($120), my phone ($30), feeding myself for a few weeks ($30) and the stupid TICKET I got for zoning out on the road ONE TIME and running a red ($240 but I didn't pay it...) I have to take driving school ($230) which I am in the middle of now. Almost done, but it's time consuming and budget busting and tear inducing. So I'm flat out broke and have to pay my insurance for last month and this month and then my phone bill. Then I'm free! With the exception of the 5th of every month where I have to make a payment on my tuition. I'm gonna cry.
So that model-vegan diet thing I mentioned is actually really awesome. I'm not fully vegan, I just rarely eat crap or meat. I'm slightly anemic so I have to eat steak every once in a while but PB&J and some raisins get me by the rest of the time. I missed being a vegetarian and decided to go hardcore but not really as a model-vegan. :) I guess the real term for it would be flexitarian except I pretty much only eat fruits, veggies, special home-made soup and PB&J, which is less than a vegetarian. I do use spices and what not, and I still eat ramen noodles (I'm poor!) and bean and cheese burritos, yum. I avoid non-vegan things, but I do still eat them. I had Chic-fil-a the other day.
Why is everybody leaving? I had two good bye parties yesterday, one of which I could not find but still. Why is there an allure to leave little ol' me? It breaks mah heart! :( Stay home!
I'm surprised I haven't fallen over dead, yet. My bedtime lately has been averaging between midnight and 2 A.M., but I keep getting up around 9. Like today, in bed at two, alarm at 7:40, up at 8:20 for church. How am I still functioning? And I work later, so no nap for me. Speaking of church! Guess who has a keyboard and is now a Hospitality Minister at St. Benedict's?! THIS GIRL! So that means all y'all Catholics need to get your butts to church and let me greet you! :D
Alroight, mates, I'm out!
Love, Desi!
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
So Disappointing
As I type these words, my heart clefts in twain; The Change-Up is absolutely horrible. Whoever did the advertising is a genius and deserves millions upon millions because that show is a crapfest. I guess I should have checked Rotten Tomatoes first, because the 22% they gave it was probably generous, for once. There was so much cussing it was insane! I know I'm a conservative Catholic and my best friend is a Latter-Day Saint, but after about thirty minutes we walked out and got a refund for our money because we don't know anyone in the world who uses that many swear words, or anyone who finds it that funny. The physical humor was terrible too (MINI SPOILER ALERT, even though if you go see it you are a moron) in the commercial you see Jason Bateman taking poop in the face while changing a diaper. That's only after his son grabs the bars of his crib and repeatedly bangs his head against them (really poor CGI, by the way) and before the child shoots poop into Jason Bateman's mouth, which he has the most surprisingly calm reaction to. Does this happen every morning? It's SO BAD! And it hurts so much, I love Ryan and Jason so freaking much, I just wanted a good movie for them. </3
Heart break aside, my life has been pretty good the last few days. The Jersey Shore premiere was good! I actually intended to record my watching it and clipping together all the reactions I had but about ten minutes in I realized my sound somehow got delayed and I was already tired and didn't wanna fix it so I deleted it. :) I've been hanging out with amigos like the Megan and the Nico and the James! I'm trying to get the Ariadna tonight and the Quinn tomorrow but we'll see. :)
Well, I'm off to watch the Kardashians and talk to Megan in a Sarah Palin accent. America!
Love, Desi!
Heart break aside, my life has been pretty good the last few days. The Jersey Shore premiere was good! I actually intended to record my watching it and clipping together all the reactions I had but about ten minutes in I realized my sound somehow got delayed and I was already tired and didn't wanna fix it so I deleted it. :) I've been hanging out with amigos like the Megan and the Nico and the James! I'm trying to get the Ariadna tonight and the Quinn tomorrow but we'll see. :)
Well, I'm off to watch the Kardashians and talk to Megan in a Sarah Palin accent. America!
Love, Desi!
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Quick update!
I've been SO BUSY lately! Literally every moment I'm awake I'm either working, babysitting, sleeping, resting or actually having a little bit of a social life. :( Sorry it's been so long, I hate that!
Some things going through my mind:
- You may remember in a previous blog me mentioning my love for Ryan Reynolds and then repressing my urge to share the same notion about Jason Bateman? Well tomorrow a little movie called The Change-Up with both of them in it comes out, and I shall be drooling over that silver screen aaallllll night long.
- Jersey Shore premiere is TONIGHT and I most certainly will be tuning in. :)
- I have done practically nothing socially this week and that makes me sad. Hopefully you all will make next week better. :)
- My bed is FINALLY getting moved over after a two week delay. Now I can lock my moms cat out of my room so she stops eating all of Dutchess' food and goes back to being a recluse.
I'll be back, in the mean time I leave you with this:
Love, Desi!
Some things going through my mind:
- You may remember in a previous blog me mentioning my love for Ryan Reynolds and then repressing my urge to share the same notion about Jason Bateman? Well tomorrow a little movie called The Change-Up with both of them in it comes out, and I shall be drooling over that silver screen aaallllll night long.
- Jersey Shore premiere is TONIGHT and I most certainly will be tuning in. :)
- I have done practically nothing socially this week and that makes me sad. Hopefully you all will make next week better. :)
- My bed is FINALLY getting moved over after a two week delay. Now I can lock my moms cat out of my room so she stops eating all of Dutchess' food and goes back to being a recluse.
I'll be back, in the mean time I leave you with this:
Love, Desi!
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Nooh Joisey
Holy crap, it's been over a week since I've last blogged! I intended to send a blog out while in Arizona, make a video heading to NJ and then have one blog in NJ done by now. Unfortunately that's not what happened. :) I was just so busy the entire time I was home and I've been so, so exhausted every day I've been here (I still am now) that when I wasn't out in the world, I was out cold. Moving on.
In Arizona I saw Transformers 3 and it was surprisingly really good. Rotten Tomatoes gave it 36% so I figured it'd suck but after viewing I think R.T. is being harsh, it deserves at least a 50%, even by their tough standards. The only part that really annoyed me was this new chick he was with, Carly. One, you don't change leading ladies ever and two, everyone thinks she's so hot but the only thing I found appealing was her lips, and I don't even know if they're as attractive as they are weird. That last picture of her was rather unattractive though, so maybe I'm not crazy, hah. Also while home, I saw Horrible Bosses! It was great and Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 73% if that says anything for you! :) Despite R.T.'s analysis of the flick, I thought if fabulously funny and I kind of really want to see it again now that I think about it. Any takers? :) Besides its ability to make me nearly pee my pants, Jason Bateman is in it and I'm weirdly in love with him. :) You should go see it!
I flew into JFK Monday and my mom and I had a driver take us to Lisa (my moms best friend) and Pat's house in New Jersey where we're staying. Unfortunately, we were not met by fist pumping, gel haired, orange giudos and guidettes, but the car was a Lincoln and I had no idea that the seats would feel like a friggin' bed. I don't know how I didn't know that car seats could be so comfortable but now the thought of mine depresses me. Oh, well, my car is cuter! Anyway, since it was a five hour flight, a two hour car ride and a three hour time difference we pretty much lost our day and just sat at home Monday. Tuesday we spent ten hours in the city (if you've ever been all you need to know it that's WAY too long to be there when you don't live there) after taking a train to get there, bought a bunch of stuff, took a subway to another part of the city and back, hopped back on a train and came home where I promptly crashed. I should say that I'm actually a bit sick right now, so I need more sleep than I've been getting and doing way more exploring than I should if I want to get better, so that's why I'm so easily wiped right now. Today was much more low-key, my mom, Lisa and I went to a mall in New Jersey and I bought even more stuff and came home. We're supposed to go to Chinatown at some point and I really don't know how I'm gonna get all these clothes back home. I may have to send some in the mail. :)
Otherwise there hasn't been much to talk about, so I and my new 908 area-coded phone shall sign off! ;)
Love, Desi!
In Arizona I saw Transformers 3 and it was surprisingly really good. Rotten Tomatoes gave it 36% so I figured it'd suck but after viewing I think R.T. is being harsh, it deserves at least a 50%, even by their tough standards. The only part that really annoyed me was this new chick he was with, Carly. One, you don't change leading ladies ever and two, everyone thinks she's so hot but the only thing I found appealing was her lips, and I don't even know if they're as attractive as they are weird. That last picture of her was rather unattractive though, so maybe I'm not crazy, hah. Also while home, I saw Horrible Bosses! It was great and Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 73% if that says anything for you! :) Despite R.T.'s analysis of the flick, I thought if fabulously funny and I kind of really want to see it again now that I think about it. Any takers? :) Besides its ability to make me nearly pee my pants, Jason Bateman is in it and I'm weirdly in love with him. :) You should go see it!
I flew into JFK Monday and my mom and I had a driver take us to Lisa (my moms best friend) and Pat's house in New Jersey where we're staying. Unfortunately, we were not met by fist pumping, gel haired, orange giudos and guidettes, but the car was a Lincoln and I had no idea that the seats would feel like a friggin' bed. I don't know how I didn't know that car seats could be so comfortable but now the thought of mine depresses me. Oh, well, my car is cuter! Anyway, since it was a five hour flight, a two hour car ride and a three hour time difference we pretty much lost our day and just sat at home Monday. Tuesday we spent ten hours in the city (if you've ever been all you need to know it that's WAY too long to be there when you don't live there) after taking a train to get there, bought a bunch of stuff, took a subway to another part of the city and back, hopped back on a train and came home where I promptly crashed. I should say that I'm actually a bit sick right now, so I need more sleep than I've been getting and doing way more exploring than I should if I want to get better, so that's why I'm so easily wiped right now. Today was much more low-key, my mom, Lisa and I went to a mall in New Jersey and I bought even more stuff and came home. We're supposed to go to Chinatown at some point and I really don't know how I'm gonna get all these clothes back home. I may have to send some in the mail. :)
Otherwise there hasn't been much to talk about, so I and my new 908 area-coded phone shall sign off! ;)
Love, Desi!
Monday, July 4, 2011
Firework
Patriots realized it's the fourth of July, others thought of Katy Perry. I won't condone you, both are wonderful! And all you haters, shut your mouths; here we love our country and our Katy. <3
Iowa is amazing! Every single day I want to live here more, if you couldn't tell by my new background. And no, I didn't pull that one off of Google Images, I took that myself! You can get an unobstructed view and an explanation of what it is here, and you just might be amazed! I know I was. Between how green everything is, how small the towns are, the gorgeous - and I mean absolutely gorgeous - real estate, how much history there is and how amazing every experience is, I'm starting to wish a good law school was built here so I could at least spend my grad years in paradise. Maybe I'll poke around and see what I can do, because D.C. and Boston are way too far away!
New York better blow my mind. I'm sure it will. :) I am a small-town girl but I'm also a real estate freak (if you didn't figure that out already) and New York is the grandest of the grand. Pre-Civil War buildings on the Upper East Side? I think I'm in love. I'll also be looking at the Met, maybe the Statue of Liberty but definitely every museum and gallery I can find. I hate being the tourist, but the crowded streets of the Big Apple just don't sound like my thing. I'll be through there, of course, but I'm more excited for Central Park :) Maybe even the Central Perk! :D I'll also - hopefully, crossing my fingers - be seeing Book of Mormon! Please nobody hate me! It's been given the highest of the high in reviews and I have to see a Broadway play. Not want to, have to. I still love you, reciprocate? :) Finally, of course, there will be shopping. I have been saving as much as possible and it looks like I'll have quite a decent amount to re-pad my closet with. I've given away - no joke - at least 75% of my closet because I just don't wear the clothes. They hang there looking pretty but they're simply not my style anymore and I'm ready to repopulate. :) I love how as I go down the paragraph of what I'm going to do in New York, each item takes less brain cells than the one before it to grasp why it'd be fun. I least I don't need to sort out my priorities!
Speaking of Harry Potter! Guess who found his home in Iowa? This girl! This house is seriously so amazing. I'm going to try to take you all on a video tour of it tomorrow when it's light outside and pretty and you can actually see it, but that may prove difficult as there are six people in the house and I don't think they want to be filmed. But, hey, that back yard's the closest thing to Eden I've seen with my two eyes, maybe they'll be out there long enough for my to film the inside and vice versa.
Happy Fourth, all, and God Bless America!
Love, Desi!
P.S., did any of you notice I have ads on my site now? I'm in the big leagues! :D Or at least Google AdSense thinks so. Every time someone clicks on one of my ads, I get a lil' money! But don't all of you get click crazy on me, I know you love me and you just want to give me as much of other peoples money as you can but you and I could get into a lot of trouble, excessive clicking is illegal! I am in no way encouraging you to click on ads for my personal gains with this or any prior or future statement. Now, with that said, if you see an interesting ad... ;) just kidding!
Iowa is amazing! Every single day I want to live here more, if you couldn't tell by my new background. And no, I didn't pull that one off of Google Images, I took that myself! You can get an unobstructed view and an explanation of what it is here, and you just might be amazed! I know I was. Between how green everything is, how small the towns are, the gorgeous - and I mean absolutely gorgeous - real estate, how much history there is and how amazing every experience is, I'm starting to wish a good law school was built here so I could at least spend my grad years in paradise. Maybe I'll poke around and see what I can do, because D.C. and Boston are way too far away!
New York better blow my mind. I'm sure it will. :) I am a small-town girl but I'm also a real estate freak (if you didn't figure that out already) and New York is the grandest of the grand. Pre-Civil War buildings on the Upper East Side? I think I'm in love. I'll also be looking at the Met, maybe the Statue of Liberty but definitely every museum and gallery I can find. I hate being the tourist, but the crowded streets of the Big Apple just don't sound like my thing. I'll be through there, of course, but I'm more excited for Central Park :) Maybe even the Central Perk! :D I'll also - hopefully, crossing my fingers - be seeing Book of Mormon! Please nobody hate me! It's been given the highest of the high in reviews and I have to see a Broadway play. Not want to, have to. I still love you, reciprocate? :) Finally, of course, there will be shopping. I have been saving as much as possible and it looks like I'll have quite a decent amount to re-pad my closet with. I've given away - no joke - at least 75% of my closet because I just don't wear the clothes. They hang there looking pretty but they're simply not my style anymore and I'm ready to repopulate. :) I love how as I go down the paragraph of what I'm going to do in New York, each item takes less brain cells than the one before it to grasp why it'd be fun. I least I don't need to sort out my priorities!
Speaking of Harry Potter! Guess who found his home in Iowa? This girl! This house is seriously so amazing. I'm going to try to take you all on a video tour of it tomorrow when it's light outside and pretty and you can actually see it, but that may prove difficult as there are six people in the house and I don't think they want to be filmed. But, hey, that back yard's the closest thing to Eden I've seen with my two eyes, maybe they'll be out there long enough for my to film the inside and vice versa.
Happy Fourth, all, and God Bless America!
Love, Desi!
P.S., did any of you notice I have ads on my site now? I'm in the big leagues! :D Or at least Google AdSense thinks so. Every time someone clicks on one of my ads, I get a lil' money! But don't all of you get click crazy on me, I know you love me and you just want to give me as much of other peoples money as you can but you and I could get into a lot of trouble, excessive clicking is illegal! I am in no way encouraging you to click on ads for my personal gains with this or any prior or future statement. Now, with that said, if you see an interesting ad... ;) just kidding!
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
IOWA!
Sorry this took so long to blog (super busy day) and sorry it was so short and so quiet, we were on the plane and the lady next to me was not digging the filming! Quinn's a cranky butt too, but when is he not? ;) I wanted to film in the airport while waiting to board but this little family was late and the lines were so long! By the time we sat down to wait for boarding they were making last calls for people who bought reserved seats, so we just had to stand right back up and board. Speaking of this airline, this was the first time I've ever gone anywhere and not flown out of Sky Harbor! We took Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport and it was so tiny! It used to be a military base, apparently, but now it's a little baby airport with a whopping four flights headed out that morning, including my own. Instead of walking down one of those make-shift halls where the end has an accordion-style wall kind of just flop over the entrance door of the plane, we had to walk on the black top and climb stairs to the entrance to get on. I felt like the Backstreet Boys (<-- this is clickable, if you have no idea what I'm talking about. I don't know why it won't light up red.). Well, okay, our stairs were a little bigger but it was still cool!
I slept practically the whole way there, only waking up during mild turbulence and for the dinging noise right before the captain made an announcement, which was obnoxiously loud. We landed and claimed our luggage and Quinn's aunt Kelly came and picked us up! We're now staying in Cedar Rapids, which is so freaking gorgeous! I would consider moving here (since we all know Arizona is just hell on earth with the rocks and the heat) since it's so lush and green but I'm afraid I'd never find a job with my party alignment! :( too blue as of now. But it's still pretty!
Today's been super packed with stuff, as I mentioned before. We arrived at the house around 1 and ate, then the aunts, Quinn's mother and I went shopping for the food we ate tonight while Quinn napped like a bum, we drove around to other houses to look at or visit for a few minutes and finally got back to the home base at 4:30, we snacked then went over to Aunt Kelly's for food and drink and chatting and karaoke! ;D unfortunately within an hour of getting there I got heart burn or acid reflux or whatever I have, I don't know what it is because my parents won't take me to the doctor! (hint, hint, if you're reading this) I've been asking to go for forever. Anyway, luckily I had some Pepcid and felt better after fifteen minutes of writhing in pain. I'm so dramatic, but really, nothing felt comfortable so I just rolled around for forever until it stopped. :)
We finally came home around 11 Iowa time (9 in Arizona) and right now it's a tad after midnight. I'm so excited! :D
Love, Desi!
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Let the good times roll
So I left you last time about to go retake the ALEKS to see if I could test out of Reading... Guess who has two thumbs, a crooked smile and went up twelve points on her test? This girl! I ended with a 104 out of 114. :) That feels great.
I signed up for classes the same day and ended up with English M/W/F 8-8:50, Theater M/W/F 9-9:50, Math M-F 11-11:50, and Choir M/W 12-12:50 and T/T 12-1:15. For those of you who visualize what you're told like me, you realized that I have my first class at 8 on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, but 11 on Tuesdays and Thursdays! Ridiculous, am I right? Yes, I am. However, I didn't notice that until after I noticed the gap from 10 to 10:50 in my schedule. After hours of looking for that time slot, I've decided God just wants me to study and grab a coffee every day, so I gave up. Back to the Tuesday and Thursday debacle. There was no-friggin'-way I was going to have that kind of a gap every other day every week and after two days of looking I decided that maybe I'd just get a job at a coffee shop or breakfast place that opens super early so I could work an early shift before going to school, and after mild poking for a day, that didn't seem promising. Then finally, after three days of searching and stressing that any open class would surely fill (I'd found many that fit my time slot that were indeed already full) I found the winning ticket. Now, my schedule looks like this. I still get a break for homework, coffee or a meal, and I get to wake up around the same time I normally do. I plan my outfits, so I'll probably just wake up at the same time every day and spend my extra time on Tuesday and Thursday preparing for looks that require a little more time, like curls! :) Ha ha ha, all I could think about while typing that last sentence was all the guys reading this. Sorry!
Gah, I leave for Iowa Wednesday. Wednesday! I'm so stoked. On a random note, I always seem to be watching a movie when I blog. This time it's Just Friends with the super attractive Ryan Reynolds. I'm not the type of person to have celebrity crushes (I believe my last one was Daniel Radcliffe when he looked like this. I was 11.) but if you say you can resist that, then you're a freaking liar. (P.S., if you watch the first 18 seconds of the video, it's wrong... he's not taken anymore! Ah, my chances have gone up ;D)
Love, Desi
I signed up for classes the same day and ended up with English M/W/F 8-8:50, Theater M/W/F 9-9:50, Math M-F 11-11:50, and Choir M/W 12-12:50 and T/T 12-1:15. For those of you who visualize what you're told like me, you realized that I have my first class at 8 on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, but 11 on Tuesdays and Thursdays! Ridiculous, am I right? Yes, I am. However, I didn't notice that until after I noticed the gap from 10 to 10:50 in my schedule. After hours of looking for that time slot, I've decided God just wants me to study and grab a coffee every day, so I gave up. Back to the Tuesday and Thursday debacle. There was no-friggin'-way I was going to have that kind of a gap every other day every week and after two days of looking I decided that maybe I'd just get a job at a coffee shop or breakfast place that opens super early so I could work an early shift before going to school, and after mild poking for a day, that didn't seem promising. Then finally, after three days of searching and stressing that any open class would surely fill (I'd found many that fit my time slot that were indeed already full) I found the winning ticket. Now, my schedule looks like this. I still get a break for homework, coffee or a meal, and I get to wake up around the same time I normally do. I plan my outfits, so I'll probably just wake up at the same time every day and spend my extra time on Tuesday and Thursday preparing for looks that require a little more time, like curls! :) Ha ha ha, all I could think about while typing that last sentence was all the guys reading this. Sorry!
Gah, I leave for Iowa Wednesday. Wednesday! I'm so stoked. On a random note, I always seem to be watching a movie when I blog. This time it's Just Friends with the super attractive Ryan Reynolds. I'm not the type of person to have celebrity crushes (I believe my last one was Daniel Radcliffe when he looked like this. I was 11.) but if you say you can resist that, then you're a freaking liar. (P.S., if you watch the first 18 seconds of the video, it's wrong... he's not taken anymore! Ah, my chances have gone up ;D)
It's late and I still have to edit this, good night and good bye!
Love, Desi
Thursday, June 23, 2011
ALEKS and Desi, sittin' in a tree!
But there will be no kissing because I hate the ALEKS. For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, the ALEKS is essentially the placement test for new college kids, which I have to take again once my movie (A Guy Thing) is over. Alright, that's a lie, I just have to take the Reading portion again and technically I don't HAVE to. I'm two points away from testing out of reading classes altogether, so I was advised to go back and test again to see if I can score better and avoid taking the class which would be AWESOME! I have to drive all the way out to school to retake it, though because I'm starting at a CC and not a University, where you get to take it online. Oh, well. Let's hope I can get one more question right than the last time!
It feels weird blogging right now, I wanted to blog sooner but I've been working every day since I created this thing and the impending, looming thought that I had to go to work soon made blogging impossible. So I keep getting that feeling and then remember this is the first and only day I have off until the day before I leave which I requested off so I'd have time to pack. And where am I leaving to, you ask? I-O-WA! Ahhhh, yes! Alright, so if you've even glanced at anything else in this blog, you probably weren't asking where I was leaving to, but saying - heck, even just typing the word Iowa gives me a little jolt because I am so freaking excited! Iowa. Iowa. Iowa. Iowa!
Ugh, speaking of packing, I need to do my laundry. No! :(
I had a thought on what to make this next paragraph but somewhere between stretching and this movie I forgot what it was. Oh, well. I really love Julia Stiles, I've been watching a lot of movies that she's in lately and I miss her being in so many of them! She's so underrated, it's depressing. And my cat looks really cute right now, she's sprawled out under the coffee table sleeping. Even though we just woke up a little while ago.
Does anyone else have like a thousand remotes for their television? My movie just ended and to turn off the DVD player (note: it's not a Blueray player. Because Bluerays are stupid) took one remote, to change my television from "DVD" mode to "T.V." mode took another remote and to turn on my cable and click to the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air took a third. I'm not linking anything to the Fresh Prince because if you don't know what that show is, you need to stop looking at this blog. Now. You're not welcome here.
I spent $65 dollars on make up the other day! And only bought two things! I'm falling in love with Smashbox make up, which is a problem of my own making but their products are sooo good! I bought their new mascara because it makes my eyelashes look 348957 miles long and it's awesome and I would recommend it to anyone who can afford it (for a cheaper alternative, use this). I also bought their primer because I don't wanna get premature wrinkles! And everyone laughs at me when I say that but I'm serious! My skin is great now and I would like to keep it that way for as long as I can. There's no way to get rid of wrinkles once you have them! Naturally, anyway. I'm sorry for all the guys who just read that, but if you stuck with it and got this far, I love you! :)
Well, I should be getting to school and taking that darn test... after this episode of the Fresh Prince is over. :)
Love, Desi!
It feels weird blogging right now, I wanted to blog sooner but I've been working every day since I created this thing and the impending, looming thought that I had to go to work soon made blogging impossible. So I keep getting that feeling and then remember this is the first and only day I have off until the day before I leave which I requested off so I'd have time to pack. And where am I leaving to, you ask? I-O-WA! Ahhhh, yes! Alright, so if you've even glanced at anything else in this blog, you probably weren't asking where I was leaving to, but saying - heck, even just typing the word Iowa gives me a little jolt because I am so freaking excited! Iowa. Iowa. Iowa. Iowa!
Ugh, speaking of packing, I need to do my laundry. No! :(
I had a thought on what to make this next paragraph but somewhere between stretching and this movie I forgot what it was. Oh, well. I really love Julia Stiles, I've been watching a lot of movies that she's in lately and I miss her being in so many of them! She's so underrated, it's depressing. And my cat looks really cute right now, she's sprawled out under the coffee table sleeping. Even though we just woke up a little while ago.
Does anyone else have like a thousand remotes for their television? My movie just ended and to turn off the DVD player (note: it's not a Blueray player. Because Bluerays are stupid) took one remote, to change my television from "DVD" mode to "T.V." mode took another remote and to turn on my cable and click to the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air took a third. I'm not linking anything to the Fresh Prince because if you don't know what that show is, you need to stop looking at this blog. Now. You're not welcome here.
I spent $65 dollars on make up the other day! And only bought two things! I'm falling in love with Smashbox make up, which is a problem of my own making but their products are sooo good! I bought their new mascara because it makes my eyelashes look 348957 miles long and it's awesome and I would recommend it to anyone who can afford it (for a cheaper alternative, use this). I also bought their primer because I don't wanna get premature wrinkles! And everyone laughs at me when I say that but I'm serious! My skin is great now and I would like to keep it that way for as long as I can. There's no way to get rid of wrinkles once you have them! Naturally, anyway. I'm sorry for all the guys who just read that, but if you stuck with it and got this far, I love you! :)
Well, I should be getting to school and taking that darn test... after this episode of the Fresh Prince is over. :)
Love, Desi!
Sunday, June 19, 2011
G'day, mates!
Although, I guess it's not really day anymore, it's dark outside. Either way, welcome to my blog!
First-posts really have no weight, they're done more to establish who I am, why I'm here and so I can see what the final product of a blog post will look like before opening my page to the general public to devour. Most of what you need to know is elsewhere on the page, though it is still under construction as it's new. Hopefully I'll be done soon. ;)
To fill the criteria I mentioned above:
I am Desi, I'm here blogging my life and maybe a few other things. I'm very expressive, opinionated and rarely filter what comes out of my mouth (or on to the keyboard), so I speak my mind a lot and that can rub people the wrong way, I'm one of those "hate me or love me" people but not the annoying kind that posts it all the time. I swear, that is the first and last time I'll type that phrase in reference to myself, I'm not stupid. P.S., I really love speaking with an Aussie accent even though I'm no where near Australia or Australian. Just dig it. :)
I'm here because I actually love writing, but I'm not majoring in it and an outlet for my textual energies sounds wonderful. I had a blog once before this one but when I became Editor-In-Chief of my school newspaper, writing in my leisure wasn't all that fun anymore, so I just abruptly stopped. If you wanna catch the prequel, check out desitaylor. It's not very good, I wouldn't.
I love feedback! Negative or positive, preferably something actually coherent. I will probably respond to people who have something of value to say, so check back if your comment is more than fifty-ish words. :)
My background will constantly change, depending on what's going on in my life time-wise. Since I'm limited to a semester and some Myspace of HTML experience and this whole thing is pretty much a "status update," to keep things interesting I'll just change the picture from time to time. To start, the background is a tornado in Iowa because I'll be headed there for my boyfriends, Quinn, family reunion. After that will be one of New York since I'm headed there, and I may do fun ones of my friends and I, holidays, epic movies and so on. I'll keep an archive of all the pictures I post so newbies can check them out if they'd like, or if you've just been absent a while, you can see what you've missed. I'll also have a post on the left explaining what the current background is, what it's for and so on.
Hopefully you like it, I actually can be quite interesting. ;)
Love, Desi!
First-posts really have no weight, they're done more to establish who I am, why I'm here and so I can see what the final product of a blog post will look like before opening my page to the general public to devour. Most of what you need to know is elsewhere on the page, though it is still under construction as it's new. Hopefully I'll be done soon. ;)
To fill the criteria I mentioned above:
I am Desi, I'm here blogging my life and maybe a few other things. I'm very expressive, opinionated and rarely filter what comes out of my mouth (or on to the keyboard), so I speak my mind a lot and that can rub people the wrong way, I'm one of those "hate me or love me" people but not the annoying kind that posts it all the time. I swear, that is the first and last time I'll type that phrase in reference to myself, I'm not stupid. P.S., I really love speaking with an Aussie accent even though I'm no where near Australia or Australian. Just dig it. :)
I'm here because I actually love writing, but I'm not majoring in it and an outlet for my textual energies sounds wonderful. I had a blog once before this one but when I became Editor-In-Chief of my school newspaper, writing in my leisure wasn't all that fun anymore, so I just abruptly stopped. If you wanna catch the prequel, check out desitaylor. It's not very good, I wouldn't.
I love feedback! Negative or positive, preferably something actually coherent. I will probably respond to people who have something of value to say, so check back if your comment is more than fifty-ish words. :)
My background will constantly change, depending on what's going on in my life time-wise. Since I'm limited to a semester and some Myspace of HTML experience and this whole thing is pretty much a "status update," to keep things interesting I'll just change the picture from time to time. To start, the background is a tornado in Iowa because I'll be headed there for my boyfriends, Quinn, family reunion. After that will be one of New York since I'm headed there, and I may do fun ones of my friends and I, holidays, epic movies and so on. I'll keep an archive of all the pictures I post so newbies can check them out if they'd like, or if you've just been absent a while, you can see what you've missed. I'll also have a post on the left explaining what the current background is, what it's for and so on.
Hopefully you like it, I actually can be quite interesting. ;)
Love, Desi!
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