Halloween Day PLUS Me Dressing Up Equals My Increased Ability to Eat Candy

I have brown fuzzy gloves

[Doug calls them my Fozzy Bear gloves]

I have brown cloths
and hair-ties

and makeup

VIOLA, MY COSTUME!!!

Yum, yum, yum :)

*Happy Halloween Everyone*

The Malnutrition of College Students: A Close Study

I already told one friend about this, but I feel like I should tell the world

This is what I had for dinner Wednesday night:

Wasn't feelin' the pizza that night so I opted for a to go container of.....

Gherkins????

then popped in to the C-Store and picked up two cheesesticks.....

these two foods look gross together AND taste gross together. Needless to say I got through about 5 gherkins and one cheesestick before I realized how sick it was

and that this was not a real meal....

I can't wait to buy my own food and never have this kind of thing as a meal option ever again!

Today I Cried....

From looking at too many pictures of Paris:

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So I shan't be doing that again

[stupid capstone topic being about a FRENCH artist leading me to sites like these]

I've also been a little on edge all week since we've been watching "Hotel Rawanda" in my PoliSci class since Monday :( wonderful movie, just a lot to take in, a lot to ponder and think of what to do next, where to go from here....

ps: I'll save my "Why Lucia's Not Allowed in Europe Anymore" story for another time, when I have more than 2 minutes to post something

Can I Start Listening to This Yet???

Probably not during spooky scary time.... but once November 1st hits this will be on full blast!

[it doesn't count that throughout the year I watch the movie if I can't fall asleep

because thats strictly for sedative purposes...]

What's nice to know is I have birthday month to look forward to

Christmas month after that

gottu get through boring January

Then it's our Wedding :)

followed by Super Bowl hopefully between the Patriots and the Bears

Life is SOOOO good right now

Apple Picking at Eckerts Farm

Sunday we went apple picking.... and by apple picking I mean we got so grossed out by the apples left over this late into October that we decide to just stroll through the orchard

and bought some apple cider in the store - Aaaaaamazing

a caramel apple covered in Reese's pieces - my choice, also amazing

and some warm cinnamon crusted pecans - Doug's choice, best toasted pecans we've ever had

It was a gorgeous day, no coat necessary, and we probably had the most super fall weekend anyone could have this week. I can't wait for this next one! All I'm sure of is that we're going to see "Anonymous" and I am super stoked

ps: paying my $10.10 fine from the library tonight so I can start checking out books again - everyone calm down its from like 3 years - all it shows is how much I love books.... and suck at returning them

Someday...

I'd like to have a ladder in our library....

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I think they're lovely - allows for many books, little interesting things,
and ability to easily dust the books and things :)

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I would even settle for one in the kitchen I think

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Someday :)

Saturday Night - aka: Halloween Time begins

.... ok to be honest halloween time started about the same time I drove myself all the way to Target last weekend just to get a bag of candy corn..... for myself..... and nothing else

it also kinda started when Doug and I watched "28 Days Later..." [zombie movie - brilliant zombie movie] earlier this week

but it FOR REAL started this weekend because Doug and I carved pumpkins :)

Not to toot my own horn... but I take pumpkin carving pretty seriously, Exhibit A:

which led to...

Yes I absolutely made my pumpkin look like Darth Vader!!

thats what weirdo nerds do...

This was 2008, the last time I got to carve a pumpkin, and with my baby sister Caitlin! [HAPPY LATE BIRTHDAY BUBBY GIRL!!!! I love you so darn much!]

To my shock, disbelief, stupefaction and great surprise - Doug had NEVER carved pumpkins before..... the lunacy!!

We remedied that this Saturday - while we watched "Shaun of the Dead" :)

Here's our handiwork:

[someone's got Xmas on the brain....]

I think he had fun :)

This was quite a night of grilling, mild thievery [the pumpkin patch wasn't necessarily open when we got there, but we left a note with the total in cash for the pumpkins we took.... we hope they find it under that pumpkin....], pumpkin smell all throughout the house, joking, candy corn and cupcakes!

 

It was a great night, followed by a great Sunday of apple picking! [pickies to follow]

I LOVE AUTUMN TIME!!!

Homecoming!!!

This past weekend I opted to go to Homecoming sans Doug

I figured it was my last one ever to go to

I have ALL these pretty dresses in my closet just waiting to be worn ;)

and my supah-friend Tavia [howu howu!! inside joke] asked me to be her date

Dancing was crazy and fun - I'm awkward :) - and Tavia likes to be in the middle of all the action

Crazy girl!! It gets so hot in the epicenter of dances!

By the end of the night we christened each other with the names

"Co-Fiance" and "Co-Boyfriend"

since our respective dudes could not be there with us that night

Here's what they missed out on ---- allllll this :)

[boarder courtesy of the picture-taking team that night]

I went for the typical "Jesus in fine art" colors of purple and gold [shoes too!]

Tavia went for black and pink.... gothic Barbie colors?? Maybe? 

whatever look she was going for - she rocked it and looked simply smashing

Her other date [playa, playa!] Jen made her hair look crazy gorgeous from the back as well

It's hard being surrounded by such beautiful, talented, cool, awesome ladies at Prin

Speaking of being surrounded by beautiful ladies.....

I'm in the back... cause I'm that awesome height thats too tall to be in the short row.... 

and yet too short to be seen from the back where the short people send you

Obviously it's a tough life I do lead ;P

Here's the rest of the pickies!!

[obligatory "funny" picture - where clearly Tavia and I panicked and gave peace signs???]

and

The theme of this picture is "undressing" because we're Principians and we like to be 

[gasp!] SHOCKING

I Had a Break, So We Had a Date!

I had a much needed Fall Break last weekend so Doug and I celebrated by going on a "City Date"

a City Date is something I get really excited about

because it means it's a date we get to dress nice for - eat at a restaurant we've never been to 

[those crazy city folks are always running out of business and starting up new ones!]

and walk around an area that is NOT the suburbs, Target, Schnucks

[stl grocer], or the path from Doug's living room to his kitchen

[I force us to take that walk a LOT]

Doug looked great, I looked colorful [purple, orange, gold and 

THESE heels]

 but OF COURSE we never got around to taking pictures - cause we suck like that :P

It's ok though - I'll still brag about where we went and steal photos from Google...

We ate at:

It was so cute! Very 50's, I Love Lucy playing on the tv's, and on a corner! Perfect for diner :)

Doug had a delicious burger and I had an enormous chili cheese dog... also I don't believe in eating at diners without ordering a chocolate milkshake - not my best idea seeing as how we planned on getting gelato after - but we did do that annoying thing where you drink from the same shake with two straws - after which I asked him if he would've given me his pin if we were dating in the 50's

Once I explained to him what the heck that meant: He said yes :)

Then we went:

And since we were stuffed to the point of near-death we shared a small lime gelato

It was such a beautiful night we were able to sit outside!

Once the smell from the Hooka bar across the street wafted over - we decided it was time to go

'Twas a wicked fun night - I like dating Doug :)

This Sash Costs 400 Dollars.....

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This sash costs 400 dollars....

This sash costs 400 freakin' dollars....

Let's get it!!

Ha! Just kidding, I would never cause: a) I'm not stupid b) I'm not duuuurty rich c) it's a sash --> a glorified bit of ribbon with little glorified bits of stuff stuck on it....

[sometimes shopping for wedding stuff makes me feel like I'm in Crazy Town]

*note: Marriage is important - I know that; Weddings are important - with peoples' help, I'm beginning to understand that; but for things to be expensive because it's related to weddings - its stupid, and mean, probably up there with jacking up the prices and constantly making new editions with slight changes to college textbooks in order to make an enormous profit off young adults trying to get an education...... ["what me? Bitter after four years??? noooooo" ;)]

Funny Words Spelled the Same on RapidText

KISS ------ LIPS

TREATED ------ UPDATED

BUTTON ------ AUTUMN


LOUD ------ LOVE

C'est très très crazy non??