seriously?

One of the Finance Counselors that is on my team at work got a call today from one of her students. What was the student's issue, you ask? She wanted to make sure that the check she was receiving from the University hadn't been sent to someone else and cashed. What would make her suspicious of this happening, you ask? Apparantly her next door neighbor just bought a new boat and the student was worried about where they got the money to do that.

Seriously?

The Academic Counselor that I work with every day told me today that the reason she hasn't been feeling very good the last week has been because, "My dream told me it was a virus." (Her dream last week told her that she should buy the black cat at the pet store--which she did--and that her lost ID badge was in her purse--which it was not).

Seriously?

numbers

time my alarm clock goes off every morning = 5:30

pillows on my bed = 8

hours I spent on the phone today at work = 3:46

pounds I have lost in the last 7 weeks = 30

number of times JC said the word "moment" during this season of ABDC = 16

words needed in the paper I am currently procrastinating = 1050

dude, you're getting a dell

After about a year of saying, "I need to get a new laptop," today I actually put my money where my mouth is. Literally. Since I went back to school in March I took out a student loan and I used some of the money today to buy a new DELL laptop. I'm in love with it. It's amazing!

My old laptop served me well, and we had a lot of good times together, but there comes a point in every relationship when you have to stop and ask yourself if you want to continue to be with someone who is slowing you down and can't keep up with all of the things you want and need to do, or if it's time to break it off and find someone that's more your speed. It was a hard decision to make, but I feel it was for the best.

no one should have a name that ends with "omi"

Favorite random quotes of the day:

Elaina: "Your place is small, but it has a good floor."

Elaina: "Satan's Bible Church."
Me: "How is THAT possible?!"

Kari: "Timeless Romance."
Betty: "What kind of romance?"
Kari: "The timless kind."

Elaina: "Naomi is a weird name. No one should have a name that ends with 'omi'."

farewell to summer

What better way to end the summer than with a concert? And what better concert to go to (since my favorite group is no longer together...) than the Jonas Brothers? Last night my sisters and I spent their last night of summer before heading back to school at the Jonas Brothers concert and it was awesome!

Opening Acts: Honor Society (never heard 'em before, but really liked 'em!) and Jordin Sparks

i'm just a girl

May 23, 2009: No Doubt concert at Cricket Wireless Pavilion. By far one of the best concerts I've been too! Granted the only other concerts I have been to have been The Jonas Brothers and Michael Buble, but STILL...one of the best! :) The band sounded great, Gwen was amazing, and the best part was that it was Elaina's first concert! She is no longer a concert virgin!!

the town too tough to die!

Yesterday my roommate Elaina and I decided to head south and visit Tombstone, AZ. I had been there once before a few years ago but wanted to go back. We had the day free and decided, why not? It turned out to be more adventurous than we anticipated!

What we saw:

*An orange submarine. No joke! There was a flatbed truck carrying an orange submarine down the highway.

*The Donut Depot. Who knew Huachuca City (I think that was the town it was in...) had a Donut Depot? We were going to stop, but the sign in the window said they were sold out. Elaina's response? "So make more!"

*Children undressing themselves at Texas Roadhouse! We stopped for lunch and as we were leaving the girl in the booth next to us was out in the aisleway taking off her skirt and then putting it back on. Her dad's response? "You don't do that here!" Needless to say we had a good laugh about that one.

*A tiny bit of water in the San Pedro river.

*A mountain on fire.

*A montrous dog on a leash with a ginormous head. Breed: unkown.

*"A really, really old skull"

*A bunny on the side of the road.

*A herd of llamas.

*A guy carrying a rather large, plastic blow up Spider Man doll.

Elaina also decided to speak in tongues on this trip. Here are my favorite lines she came up with...

"Now we're going to go down aways, a little bit, you know--over to there." Translation: we're going to drvie through the mall parking lot from Texas Roadhouse to the theatre to see what time the movie is playing.

"I don't want to cop a pass with this." Translation: It probably wouldn't look too good to pass a cop drinking out of this bottle (don't worry, it was a bottle of Sassparilla).

Good times were had by all!