Super Stoked!

My morning class was canceled, which is awesome because I was supposed to have a test today.

And I found out my afternoon class was canceled as well (same teacher), which is also awesome because I had a(n easy) presentation due today!

And now I get to sit here and enjoy awesome iTunes and bowl and play Guitar Hero instead! I party hard.

Hahaha!

I woke up earlier than I intended this morning, but I couldn't fall back asleep so I just decided to shower early and get ready to meet MacKenzie in Fremont. A few days ago we made plans to go get pedicures (she lives in Danville; we decided to meet halfway in Fremont).

I got to the place on Washington Blvd about twenty minutes early, and so I just sat in the car listening to music, when she texts me telling me she just woke up and she's sorry but she won't be able to make it. Which is no biggie, I don't mind, except that now I've driven 25 miles out of my way for no reason. So I decide to go ahead and get a pedicure by myself since I was already willing to spend the money. While the lady was painting my nails, I realized I left my cash in the pants pocket I was wearing yesterday, and had no way to pay for a tip. So I paid for the pedicure and explained that I had no cash and needed to make a quick run to the bank. I'm sure they hear that all the time and then have people never come back, but I really did intend to get her that tip.

I knew the closest WaMu was about 2 or 3 miles away, so it took a few minutes to get there, and I planned on going inside to withdraw $5 because when I have extra cash on me it's dangerous - it gets spent pretty quickly. But the line was HUGE, and there was no line by the ATM so I went ahead and withdrew $20, and decided to go to 7-11 to break it. The closest one I knew of was another mile and a half away. So I bought a candy bar and some gum, and then realized I didn't know how to get back to the nail salon from 7-11, but I knew that if I went back to WaMu and then the nail salon that would definitely be going the LONG way around, so I just guessed how to get back. It's not like I've never been to Fremont. So eventually I did get back to the salon, after getting turned around a few times. So this is like half an hour to forty-five minutes later: I went in and went up to the lady with my tip and she looked like she had never seen me before in her life (but then she recognized me).

Wait this is the best part. I drove down Washington to Mission to get back on the freeway to go home, and there was totally a 7-11 down the street from the salon.

Good job, Toni.

I've Been in Bed All Day

I've been listening to this soundtrack since I got the CD on Wednesday, and it gets stuck in my head so I have to keep listening to it. And then it gets stuck in my head more. Good times!

The title of this particular entry is somewhat misleading; I actually was up and around for about an hour and a half to shower, eat, and watch an episode of That 70's Show with my brother, but then I crawled back under my snuggly blankets, because I've got nothing better to do.

But I made a rather depressing discovery today: Not long ago I got up to get my Spanish dictionary from my bookshelf (because I wanted to text someone in Spanish), but I couldn't find it. I could only conclude that I threw it away when I was going through that massive room-cleaning phase, because I did throw away some books. But why would I do such a thing? I'm upset at myself.

Tonight I'm going to Fremont to see The Rosa Lee Show, so I'm excited about that! :)

And tomorrow morning I'm getting my nails done with MacKenzie, so I'm excited about that too! :)

And then tomorrow afternoon I was asked to cover a five hour shift, so.... I'm excited for the paycheck?

Peace.

ASL Vlog

Translated to English for the ASL-Impaired:
Okay. A while ago I decided I want to try vlogging using American Sign Language, but I thought about it and nothing came to mind to vlog about. But yesterday something happened that I decided I can vlog about! Woo-hoo! Before I start, I want to give you some background information. Last semester, many people came up to me one by one - and I mean a lot of people - and told me that I looked a lot like a girl named Lacie [namesign: L on chin]. They would remark on how similar we looked, because of our hair, glasses, face, etc. Okay, so I'll start my story now. Yesterday I went to the lab - the ASL lab - to work on some homework. I signed in and checked out a video. It was really a boring video and I was feeling kinda sleepy while watching it. Anyway, one girl named Rochelle came up to me and got my attention. She told me that Lacie was in the lab now and that I really should meet her. I asked her to introduce us, so she did so. Lacie and I finally met after one semester of hearing all about how much we looked alike! We said our "hello's" and chatted a little bit. I didn't really think we look THAT much alike like everyone says, but we have some similarities, sure. While we were chatting, a lot of people there all started to stare at us. I was kinda like "what? why is everyone looking at us?" And everyone started commenting on how much we looked alike, making the same comments about our glasses, faces, and hair again! Lacie and I just kinda looked at each other confusedly. I was still thinking we didn't really look that much alike. We continued chatting and a little bit later I decided I wanted to take a picture of the two of us so I can show all of you and YOU can decide if we look similar or not. I don't know, I think a little bit maybe, but not like "HOLY SMOKES" similar! No, I don't think that, but you think for yourselves and decide, maybe you think so, I dunno. So here's the picture [PICTURE]. What do you think?

Let Me Take This Moment...

...to just be a girl for a sec.

Everyone is getting married and it makes me jealous!!!

Alright, I'm done :)

I'm Not Sure What to Call This One

So I ordered Yes Man online from Barnesandnoble.com last Friday, and it still isn't here yet (I didn't want the movie cover version and that's all the store has). I'm slightly frustrated.

This morning I was playing in Photoshop and made the custom skin for my playlist at the bottom. Yay! Unfortunately there's only two options for the text color in the generator - black or white. I think the white looks better but then you can't read the title of the song playing now so I went with black. Hopefully in the future they'll have more options.

Yesterday I went to Bryson's house because we decided to have a cookie-making extravaganza! Ohmygoodness. I am so cookied out. I thought it would take just a few hours to make two different types of cookies. I showed up at 2:30 in the afternoon, and then left his house at midnight-ish. Granted, we took a break for dinner and to watch The Office, but the rest of the time we WERE making cookies. Our sugar cookie recipe made quite a few more than we were expecting. We used all sorts of cookie cutters, though, which was fun. We had pumpkins and ghosts and hearts and Christmas trees and ornaments and trains and cats and leaves and little star things which look a lot like shurikens, among others. My camera broke last week or else I would have taken pictures. Let your imaginations go crazy! I'm off to go play around on my in-tune piano!!

CTR

Sometimes you have to decide things more than once to recognize when you've made the right decision.
I'm a lot happier with what I decided tonight than I thought I would be! Yay!



My decision is not altogether church-related, but the ring still says it all! :)

7 is the One I'm Most Worried About

1. Finish reading "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by mid-March.
2. Read 5 books I haven't already read by June.
3. Also re-read HP & Deathly Hallows by June.
4. Go to every single Wed night Institute class I have the chance to, at least for this semester.
5. Make curtains & hang them in my room by the end of May.
6. Learn to cook/make/whatever 3 more things by the end of February.
7. Only spend one hour on Facebook a day.
8. Save two days each Mon-Fri to do something with friends, and be the one to instigate said "do-somethings."
9. Try to learn a new sign each day I have direct contact with ASL.
10. Watch & send back each Netflix movie within a week after receiving it.

My House is Muddy

Because of the stupid dogs!!! I got home from school today and the floor was covered in paw prints, which I have yet to clean up. But I did at least towel the dogs dry. I'm going to try to not be home when my parents get here.

I'm pretty sure the piano is getting tuned tomorrow, so yay!
And today is pay-day, so yay!

I'm less overwhelmed by my advanced reception of ASL class than I was last week, minus the amount of watching video tapes we have to do. My friend and I watched one together though, and it was this guy telling a story about a dad telling his daughter a story about how wood burns. His explanation was that as a tree grows it takes in all the heat from the sun, and then when you cut it down and put a match to it it gives said heat to you! And it was hilarious, because it was the corniest thing I've ever seen in my life. We laughed a lot. Hopefully on the videos I still have left to watch there will be things like that to keep me awake.