Merry Sickmas

It's Christmas and I'm sick and I hate it. When I woke up this morning my voice was gone, my throat was sore, and my body was exhausted because I hadn't slept enough. Not even Nyquil is giving me a decent night's sleep! Screw this!

So, it's 10:43 and I'm awake, my parents are awake, but the two of my brothers who live here, Sam and Tiger, are not awake. We're letting them sleep until noon before we begin our Christmas. It's annoying to me that even though I'm 20 and the stuff I really look forward to is just decorating the tree and having a nice family dinner, I still wake up at 7 every Christmas and get excited to go open presents. There's one box under the tree and it's for Tiger. I wrapped it myself. There's another box hiding someplace, also for Tiger, with something wildly expensive in it. I already know how it's going to go. We'll start waking them up at the crack of noon, they'll actually come downstairs between 12:15 and 12:30. We'll all sit in the TV room on the couch and chairs while Dad comes in and gives us our stockings, overflowing with toilet paper (what?), peanuts, shaving razors, some kind of chocolate and possibly a bar of soap. We'll either migrate to the living room, where the tree is, and open our presents there or stay in the TV room while Dad brings them to us. The process will take about 15 minutes. Then we'll get a trash bag for the wrapping paper and eat the breakfast that Dad's been making since this morning. That's what I'm really excited for right now: hot pancakes and syrup and a giant mug full of tea (for the throat). Then one of two things will happen: either we'll all be antisocial for the day playing with our new toys (this is what I envision Tiger doing today, because he's getting the most expensive and most useful gift [I'll come right out with it, since he'll be unconscious for another hour and a half and there's a 0% chance he'll read this] [it's a keyboard]) or we'll all be in the TV room being fat and watching "A Christmas Story" and "Twilight Zone" all day, until dinnertime.

Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays/Enjoy your December 25th.

The only problem I had with my Bio final

I don't know how to study.

I've never been able to do it effectively and I don't test well anyways. I can put together an awesome project or something, but tests never go well. I'm a visual learner. Today, I thought it might change. I've been going over and over my Bio notes for the last couple of days and spent hours answering everything that was on the study guide. I felt like I knew the material really well so I went into the exam with confidence.

Then there were a bunch of questions about things that not only weren't on the study guide, but which were also not covered (and if they were, it was done minimally) during lectures. Shit.

Well, it's all over now. For me, the semester is over. And now, pajamas.

On Finals Week.

Because it's Tuesday, we have to announce who the twin of the week is. Usually Shawn and I make the decision, but we haven't really discussed it since it's finals week and the last couple of days have been really busy. But who to pick?

I'm sitting next to Steph right now. She's doing the good friend thing and helping a friend study for her Latin final. So there's a point for Steph. Amanda went to Pita Pit with me the yesterday, and we got frozen yogurt too, so there's a point for Amanda.

What do we do when the twins are tied?

I pick Amanda. Because she turned me onto the fat free CHOCOLATE frozen yogurt at the Blue Wall. It was delicious and you can get a shitload of ice creams using one YCMP swipe. I've never realy eaten at Blue Wall up until about two weeks ago so I'm still excited by its majesty.

Congratulations Amanda! Second week in a row. Go you!

On the first real snow of the season

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Uggs are not waterproof and are not meant to be worn as a winter boot. The same goes with Ugg slippers (cough, girl trudging through the Baker courtyard this morning) and any other boot that is made of fabric or dead animal. You can ruin your Uggs by spraying them with waterproofing. But it's really not worth it, unless you're down to spend another $120+ on a new pair in a few weeks, after the waterproofing effectively destroys the lambskin (you know, the stuff that used to belong to an adorable little lamb back in the day, before your order deemed it to die).

Twin of the week 12/8

Due to a hilarious story that we can't repeat, Amanda is the twin of the week this week. Go Amanda!

Twin of the week 12/1

Congratulations to Steph, our Twin Of The Week! She beat out Amanda because Amanda was dressed like a fool.