I’m watching You’ve Got Mail and this movie is good no matter what you feel like. Anyways here’s a couple of things I’ve been thinking about.
1) I’m going to start wearing my cowboy boots regardless of what my outfit is.
2) I need a new cute hoody… preferably something that is super trendy and warm
3) I’ve started parting my hair on the other side of my head and it’s a weird sensation not knowing which way to brush your hair out of your face. Also I'm going to color it dark dark brown when friends are in town to do it for me.
4) I love tom hanks. Movies that are never to be passed (included already mentioned you’ve got mail) Big, That Thing You Do, Gump, Toy Story, Joe Vs. the Volcano, every episode that he was interviewed on Conan O’brian… and many others.

In other news…
Work is going well. I do come home smelling of garlic and onions but it’s free food and a paycheck. Oh my god and guess what!
My birthday is this Sunday!!! I’ll be 23. I already got a birthday check from my aunt, which was very much appreciated. And my mom said a birthday package is coming on Friday!! How exciting. And Matt is taking me to a fancy pants restaurant on Sunday. Anyways.

My brother said he was going to get a dog… I hope he does.

pictures!

what i did during my fall vacation

I’m back in IL. After being in a very relaxing very family Texas. Let me tell you what I did in TX.

Went to dinner with Stef!!! My dearest oldest friend- we had Mexican food and it was great. We had a good conversation and topped it off with some delicious desserts sopapillas. And I didn’t really realize how long we had been friends until later that night I stayed up til 2 am looking at old family photos… I was mainly looking for a baby photo to add to matt’s baby picture we have in our apartment already.

Plus I found great pictures of my parents being young and dating and it made me so happy. Also made me realize my parents have this whole other life that existed before I was born. They once were stupid teenagers and did things before I was even a thought in their head. But I took one picture of my parents in college at a 50’s party, both with cigars in their mouths. When I told my parents I took said picture, my dad immediately went into a story of how a good friend was so drunk and passed out or something and how they also were totally sloshed and had to talk to a police officer to save the passed out friend. And they drove home drunk. Honestly! My parents were/are such bad influences. But I love them all the same.

Then I went to the lake house with my parents and we started our holiday of making and eating food and watching movies. My brother and uncle and cousin showed up later and that was our Thanksgiving. I also realized I drank more wine and beer than water. Also we burned a big pile of yard trash. Like tree stumps and leaves and such. Fires are so amazing.

So yep. Then I flew back up to St. Louis and had a big lunch with Matt's parents, sister, brother, grandparents, and uncles. So THAT was slightly exhausting. But I made it back to Urbana, IL.
It’s nice to be back but I had such a great time. *sigh*

Beautiful wonderful Thanksgiving

Here in the United States of America, we have a holiday called thanksgiving. This holiday is based on eating. Eating. Isn’t that funny? But it’s the best kind of food. Savory and sweet and different textures than usual everyday food. Like stuffing, it’s kind of like bread but it’s kind of like mush but it’s delicious. And cranberry sauce isn’t sauce at all… it’s like a weird 2nd cousin of Jello. Then there’s the turkey, which I don’t know about you but I rarely get to see a whole turkey- it’s usually already processed and sliced for my convenience. And the yams, oh the yams! They’ve managed to take a fairly vitamin enriched vegetable and do what to it? Smother it in butter, brown sugar and cinnamon and top it off with marshmallows. It’s genius. And then there are pies. Enough said. So I wish you a happy Thanksgiving on this up coming Thursday. I will be enjoying it from a lake house in Mineola, Texas with my parents and brother, and maybe other family members I’m not sure.

Anyways other than being excited for the holiday… This weekend was/is still going great… I’ve done very little and feel very comfortable about that. Oh wait, matt and I did go to the Jimmy Eat World concert on Friday night. Matt working at the radio station was around when someone said something like “hey we couldn’t give these tickets away fro the show do you want them” and so he took them. And we went, but very much avoided the opening bands. But JEW was pretty good. Played the goodies from Bleed American. Matt had bought a bucket of popcorn too, what a goofball.

Also this weekend we rented Ratatouille, which was alright… I really liked the incredibles or finding nemo a lot more. Oh well.

Also! Matt got a call from Palm, the company who makes Palm Pilots. Well they were very interested in his resume. Isn’t that cool? Also they’re offices are in bay area of CA. Bad Ass.

Also Matt and I played Mario Kart 64 last night and we both got mad at how awful we were doing at banshee boardwalk- damn you ghosts!!!!

keep dancing goofball...

i love you tom hanks. i love you steve zahn. i love you captain geech and the shrimp shack shooters. what movie am i watching? teehee.

did not a lot today. deposited some checks. enjoyed my jeans and some orange juice. had a pumpkin spice latte. also declined a visit to the grocery store because there were too many cars in the parking lot.

i start work on thursday! woot.

i'm at a complete loss. on facebook there is a spot to put your favorite quotes. now i am a lover of quotes. so trying to figure out what to put down is impossible. if i could group my favorite TYPE of quotes it would go like this: 1) any conversation with friends 2) any jokes repeated at nausium from the following movies or tv show "stella" "flight of the conchords" "wet hot american summer" "aladdin" "hook" "south park" "yo gabba gabba" "simpsons" 3) or just funny in general. and in conclusion:

"there was this one time where we stayed up way past midnight."

Guess who’s slightly more employed than usual!

Me! I took the job at the Italian eatery. And gadzooks abound. I will be working with two people that I know already. Woot. I’m excited for having something to do and a paycheck and free food. Pretty groovy. And I get work shirts which is great so I don’t have to gunk up my own t-shirts.

In other news, talked to Emily and Casey via internets today. I miss those goon-butts.

I’ve been looking at clothes to buy today which can’t be good. I’ve decided I need more underwear and some leggings. Otherwise everything else is blah looking to me.

My birthday is in a while but my mom already asked me if there was something I wanted I couldn’t think of one thing. That’s how I know I’m getting old.

I just remembered that batman (the animated series) episode were everyone in arkham asylum puts batman on trial for making them what they are and in the end they realize that it’s them that made him. Such an awesome episode.

Today was real rainy and awful. Reminds me: gift idea for my birthday- new windshield wipers. Ok that’s all.

parents in town=eating a lot of food

Well it’s been a week exactly so where to start?

During the week I made this amazing pumpkin bread. Like really good. Its really good toasted and then with just a spoonful of ice cream. Oh my goodness. I made muffins of it too because I had so much batter. Needless to day it was gobbled up.

I cleaned the apartment pretty well because my parents were coming and I want them to know that I don’t live in a COMPLETE pig sty only a partial sty that has lovely fall flowers and smells of lavender. Also I bought an African violet to brighten up the kitchen.

If you haven’t noticed by now I have become a housewife.

So in revolt against this slow transformation I checked job listing and saw that an Italian eatery needed some lunchtime help. And I know I wanted to stay away from food service but I’m desperate and at least I kind of already know what I’m doing. And I have an interview there on Monday, which is tomorrow. So that’s good.

My parents came into town on Friday night. I was so stoked. We went first to this place that I knew had great thin crust pizza and that’s my mom’s favorite so we went there. And then we rented two movies- Transformers and Spiderman 3. I know ridiculous choices but at the same time kind of didn’t want to have to think. And we got some booze too. Not too shabby when hanging out with the Grifs. So that night we just watched transformer and drank beer and champagne and cider. Then the next day was our two-meal day because the meals were huge. For brunch we went to Flat Top where we made our own pancakes and omelets and French toast. My parents liked it. THEN! We went shopping around I guess… to target for whatever and my dad wanted a U of I button up shirt. So yeah and then we started watching the U of I vs. Ohio football game. And oh my god we won. Amazing. Ohio was ranked number 1. And we weren’t even in the top 20 teams. Students started gathering at the alma mater being buzzed from the game and also from the beers we had all consumed. It was fun. My parents, Matt, and I had gone to a bar to watch the game too. Then we wasted some time before going to the hockey game where we won again. It was just a sport filled night. And afterwards we went to Papa Del’s. Incredible deep-dish pizza was consumed by all. Ryan and Jeff were there too! Good times.

My parents left this morning- boooo! But hey I get to go down to Texas in like a week for Thanksgiving. I’m also excited about that because I get to see Stef and my brother! Yay.

I need to throw away my pumpkin because it’s starting to grow mold.
Also I’ve decided putting lotion on your feet really stops squeaky shoe syndrome- that is, of course, if you’re not wearing socks.
Curb your Enthusiasm finale tonight- bittersweet. Because it’s over but I can cancel HBO which costs $$$$$.