just say it
i have so much to say but don't know where to start, or whether its appropriate for on here.so, i'm just going to say this. i wish that people would be able to talk more freely about how they feel about other people and situations. i wish that people (myself included) wouldn't worry so much about getting their feelings hurt, or hurting other people's feelings.and that's where i'm leaving it for today.
talking to Chris the Brit. it amazes me how no matter what we end up talking about, we always touch on the subject of that AMAZING reception we did in Boston, the thing stuck in that dude's throat that no matter how much he cleared his throat, it never really cleared, georges 30 minute plane ride, and my driving and the fact that no matter what the distance..10 feet or hundreds of miles, when i'm driving the car, you need a seat belt on.had an AMAZING chat with the queen of randomness this morning. Maz, i love you babe. thanks.i have not spent a lot of time with kait and holly lately, so we decided that last night is as good of night as any. a friend that moved to costa rica last week gave me all her liquor, so with a 3/4 full bottle of jose, open and honest time began. quite tame and more sober than usual, a refreshing twist to things. there's not a whole lot better than a good talk with some good friends.foreign film night is tonight. shiro's up, and although i'm not sure what's on the menu, i do know that it better be british as "ali g, in da house" is up for everyone's viewing pleasure.
the "Wisconsin Experience"
katie, we have to do that!
there is talk about having a townie tour... ie: a "Wisconsin Experience". if interested and want this to develop further than just an idea, please see Katie's blog and either let she or I know.
i let my roommate cut my hair last night. i asked her to leave the length, but put more layers in so that i no longer looked like i had a triangular haircut. so, she cut my hair............. into a shorter triangular haircut. i forget sometimes that just because i can do a good job at cutting people's hair, doesn't mean that anyone can do a good job at cutting people's hair. so, i'll leave my short triangular haircut for about a week so that she doesn't feel bad, but now i have to go to a salon and pay for a haircut. damn it all.
so, because i can no longer graduate in august like i was planning, kait and i devised a few plans for me...and her. for the summer we could: move to a tropical island, have one sarong that we wear differently every day so that it seems as though we own more than one, scrape barnicles off of rich people's boats by day, start drinking at 5, pass out by9, wake up every morning early enough to watch the tropical sunrise while having a walk on the beach and repeat daily. OR, i could work 2 jobs, make oodles of money so that i could afford many trips this summer including: san fran, new york city, san fran and the UK (Ireland and France too)....in that order. mumken a trip to florida.
it sucks, but hey, someone's gotta do it.
home is 2000 miles and 1 left turn
my family is in love with shiro. in fact, my parents have started referring to her as "the other daughter". and as for the rest of my extended family, who have had little ot no cultural run-ins, they were pretty excited to meet someone not like themselves. so, now, you may refer to her as "shiro (cheerio) gelhaus". on friday night, upon returning home, shiro and i headed to the bowling alley to meet up with one of my friends and 2 of her brits. half of my graduating class was there and more than one of my relatives...whom i haven't seen in quite a while. i bought shiro a long island iced tea. in the 4 hours we were there, she drank half. that night, she slept until 1:30 in the afternoon, but in my parents house, if you sleep past 9:30, there is something seriously wrong with you. i had gone to lunch with one of my friends, left shiro sleep, and when i came back, i found my mom standing in the kitchen with her hands on her hips and the meanest face i've ever seen her give me. "whatever you did to that girl last night, you better NEVER do to anyone again". sure, shiro never drinks, but c'mon. one half of a drink in 4 hours?... could that really do a number on a person? mom thought she was near-death. turns out, she hadn't slept more than 3 hours a night for the whole past week and she was simply tired. shiro later that day: "do i need to go explain to your mom that you didn't almost kill me last night?"shiro experienced the making of maple syrup this weekend. my dad took us to the "sugar bush" where half of my mom's family was collecting the sap from the maple trees and cooking it down to the gold goodness. she got to lick the vat, ride a mule (not an animal, but one of the many ATV toys that my grandpa plays with), pick the mule up out of very stuck position and place it back on the trail. ggggggggraaaahhhh... girls have muscles too!survived the LONGEST church service i've ever been to. 2.5 hours long... bah! stand-sit-stand-sit-kneel-sit-stand-kneel-stand-kneel-listen to someone sing every saint ever known to man off key-stand-sit-stand-someone else sings off key-kneel-stand-sit-stand-sit-stand-sit-shake some hands-get sprayed with water-kneel-stand-sit-stand-kneel-take communion-kneel-sit-stand... woke up easter morning to my parents talking loudly in the kitchen about how they think its the right thing for me to graduate in august instead of waiting until december. dad:"but what's she going to do after she graduates?" mom(in a sarcastic tone):"go travel around europe with some people that we don't even know!".... its so good to have had shiro there to have someone other than me try to explain AIESEC to them. shiro's trying to figure out a plan so my parents won't be so bitter towards my travelling. i can't remember what i was trying to get my dad to do for me this weekend (something like take my car to the carwash for me). dad:"no, you've been more places than i have." me:"but i've never been to fargo." dad: blank stare, a turn, and a walk-away. i will share the goings-on of easter day at a later date, as pictures are crucial...need to enroll in classes, some that i need are already filled. its going to be a day of begging the admin people.
happy happy friday. today is GOOD. (haha)
i'm missing new york city right now. the people, the public transportation. i can't wait to be back in a city where i don't have to drive. because as some of you well know, i probably should've never been issued a license. maybe i do belong there, but have been trying to talk myself out of that fact these past few weeks...just in case life never takes me back there.
sorry for using all your minutes last night. i must cost you a fortune. do you have a land line?
another adventure in sconnie for connie..and shiro. my family has been waiting for the return visit of cheerio. probably more than a return visit from me. god, i hope they get used to me not being there.. soon.
i wish you all a magnificent weekend... and a very happy easter.
is this the beginning of the end?
today is the first day that i can enroll in summer classes. so, i'm going to. i need 4 more classes before i'm officially done with school, and ironically, all 4 are offered this summer. so, it looks as though an august graduation date is calling my name. and then moving on to new, foreign to me places. UNLESS:someone yells that aiesec can not live without me. i think that's why i've been having such troubles lately. because no one is truely telling me that my presence in this organization is crucial. and maybe no one will, and maybe no one thinks it. and that will be fine with me, eventually. col and i were speaking today...soberly. it may be a grand idea for both of us to take a step back from @US and see what else is out there in this amazing @ world that we've both been so sold on since we started. i would love to do that, but that takes money...which i don't have. so, if a traineeship is in the future for me, it'll be in the way future. i hate loans. i hate the fact that some of the greatest people i've ever met (through aiesec) will not always be close friends. i hate thinking that aiesec will not be with me forever, but i hate even more to think that its a possibility that the things that i've already done for this org. are the best things that i could offer it.i would never, no matter what happens, give up a single experience, good or bad, that i've been through as a result of my membership. i wouldn't redo any situation, alter any relationship, i wouldn't change the person i've become. i just wish that things could be more clear. that someone... someone who knows me and has a respectable, valid opinion.. would clue me in on things they see. because i honestly don't know. is there something that you see in me that i constantly doubt? what should i do? what?
it wasn't very long ago, that you yourself was just a hasty plowboy, who didn't have a row to hoe
while driving to work this morning, i was stopped at a traffic light. around the corner comes an "older couple". the lady was wearing, what i can only assume was a birthday headband. it was one of the kind like that you might find for new years... the cardboard with mucho glitter on it. it made me smile because i flashed forward about 55 years in my head, picturing myself (and kaitlin) doing the same type of thing.
i had another "scott tworek" moment yesterday with carly. the only problem was that scott was no where to be found, so i think maybe, a more appropriate name for those moments are "carly lewis" moments.
Amelie was a SMASH HIT! as were the crepes that i made and the nutella that i can't get enough of. shiro, i challenge you to beat that.
i wish i would receive more drunk dials. although i'm very particular about who gets my drunk dials, i really wish i'd be on the top of more people's lists. naub dialed holly last night during the movie. phone got handed off to me, naub commented on how amazingly low my voice sounds lately, then handed off the phone so that i could speak to my twin. yet another glorious convo that again convinced us that we truely are one person in two different bodies. ended the call by colleen saying "lets discuss this when i'm sober." usually, i have people telling me that we should discuss whatever when i'm sober. its fun to be on the other end of that statement sometimes. and it always amazes me to realize what drunk people can talk sober people into considering. are any cool people out there going to casino night...or more importantly, arnaub's birthday celebration?
i was told last night that i speak perfect french. too bad the only things i can say in french are "i can't speak french because i forgot" and "SNOW WHITE!?"... there are a few others that i can produce if i truely think about it, but this is yet another thing that makes me giggle.
ooo...its poll time! if someone said this to you, would you be offended?:
"Right people, there's a godawful stink in here and i think it's coming from all you rabble so get up and get out. Now."
just curious as to how british tactics work in places other than britain.
do do do
i made myself breakfast this morning. i do not like breakfast foods... if i were to choose to eat breakfast, any sort of left-overs is WAY better for me. i can not remember the last time that i ate breakfast, much less made it for myself. i can breathe out of one nostril today. huge improvement from my near death experiences yesterday. thanks for all who were concerned...declan... and those who are now known suppliers...holly... i have full confidence that the hit you gave me last night resulted in my decent nights sleep and the progress of nasal decongestion. i am forever in your debt.foreign film night tonight will be hosted by yours truely. Amelie! ... and crepes. if you are in the st. cloud area, please drop by my pad... i'm sure we'll be going all night, but hopefully last week did not start a theme.it annoys me to no end how airlines are able to rape people so badly. honestly... i just want to go visit my friends and be able to have enough money when i get there to do stuff with them. is that really too much to ask for?... note to my friends: if i'm planning on coming to see you (and you know who you are) start looking for free stuff to do!... flying over an ocean to watch movies works for me! (c;
conclusion
i've come to the conclusion that taking famous lines from famous movies and trying to incorporate them into songs is a BAD IDEA. whoever the guy that wrote the song with "here's looking at you kid"..(or however that goes exactly)...anyway, i think he should be shot. if you're ever in the mood to write a song, don't do the "famous lines from famous movies" theme...i will hurt you. (c;
danger will robins.
it is dangerous to attempt to eat while having a head cold. may result in death.bicycles have been spotted in st. cloud.aleve is my friend... i am willing to share my friends with others. sharing family members with friends is soon to be prohibited, though. i am a quick typer..although not always accuratethe poinsettia at work is finally dead. may it rest in peace.easter dinner is set to be at my parents house this year. shiro is braving a return trip to medford. i'm not sure i'm looking forward to it, though, because of the amount of judgement ma gave me the other night about my life-long dreams of "not living all of eternity in townieville, usa".i really do love aiesec and have faith in those people involved in @us's restructuring. it sometimes concerns me how much i love the colors green and pink.i was officially named "holly's creepy friend" yesterday... i think she's mine. does that cancel our creepiness out, then?i think that my cold is resulting in lack of oxygen to my brain and causing me to go ever so slightly crazy.
yay!
i think the co3 meeting just re-energized the AIESEC bug that's been laying dormant inside of me... ready to kick some ass, i believe
last night
i feel like i'm always learning something new. i realize that this is part of human nature, but i think that i'm a bit slower than most at the learning process. for example, the things that i learned (or finally allowed myself to realize) last night were:-when you get hair dye in your eyes, it stings like a mo-fo.-no matter how much i try to ignore my roommate, she continues to tell me all about herself and shit that i told her to stay away from in the first place. this annoys me profusely.-flip-flops in the middle of march is sometimes acceptable in minnesota-there will NEVER be the correct formula for cold medicines to directly match up with whatever you have... you will always have to compromise one or two of your symptoms. -i rely on certain friends too much-having clean sheets is one of the best feelings in the world-nothing will ever be perfect, but you can try to make it as close to perfect as possible
dreams dissolving?
i've had certain dreams for myself since i was in middle school. parts of them have changed a bit, like the whole "i want to be a lawyer" thing... that flew out the window. and right now, as i'm trying to figure out who i really am and who i want to be, the rest of them are kind of crumbling. i always thought that i'd be in New York the minute i graduated from college, but i'm not so sure that that is for me anymore. and that's a scary thing. i've always said that i wouldn't allow any one person to hold me back from things, but maybe, is there a chance that there are people out there that are worth the sacrifice of your dreams? yet another thing to think about.
figuring things out
i've always known, but last night reconfirmed the fact that i have some of the best friends in the world.
last night was just what the doctor ordered. a night out with one of my best non-aiesec friends who's leaving for costa rica soon. speaking with my favorite clan of UK boys....multiple times. being tackled on the stairs at a bar by a friend that i haven't seen lately. running into kaitlin, holly and another friend, jen, and singing the night away. not remembering the ride home because i was again on the phone with the brits...who passed the phone around the whole group. spent what felt like 15 minutes on the phone with an english irishman, realizing later that it was actually about an hour. finally, waking up in the middle of the night by a text message from overseas, 2 texts long, that was so much what i needed to hear that when i woke up this morning, there were mascara marks running down my face. ( it was a late night and i became too lazy to be bothered with make-up removal)
a night full of everything that i needed, just when i needed it. thanks.
some things i've been pondering lately
the green is for st. patrick's day... and because its my favorite color... which is probably why i love this holiday.i've been rather unmotivated in aiesec lately. i feel as though i'm going through the motions when i do anything at all. i don't know if its because i'm coming to the end of my college career, or because i'm realizing that there is a good possibility that AIESEC will be done for me forever in a few months... maybe because i used to have half of the MC on speed dial and now don't converse with anyone but jen... and that's just to get the insults out for the week. its kinda depressing.i have a few questions for everyone out there... please feel free to post comments on my blog or email me. i honestly want to know what people are feeling about the stuff that i'm going to mention and other things that people have concerns with:-i've never been truely sold on the whole "lsr" thing. do the trainees actually get the servicing that AIESEC promises? are they really getting the "AIESEC EXPERIENCE"?-are we truely a "student run organization"? is the fact that some of the most important decisions that are made in this organization aren't done by the students that supposidly run it still give us grounds to call it student run? and the LSR thing ties into this too. does the fact that the national staff sells these accounts, not the students, still give us grounds to call ourselves "student run"?-is "getting rid of LCs that aren't profitable" something that should happen?-is there proper membership development in this organization... or is there enough? those have been running pretty heavily with me for quite a while lately. i'm just curious as to what others are thinking about these... if anything at all. hell, i could be the only one having concerns with stuff like this, and if that's the case, i'll just assume i'm over analyzing stuff, go to a corner and be in my own little world.on a lighter note: HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!!
oh..........ok
last night:-got suckered into going to a mary kay party -suckered kait into going with me (told her there were free cookies)-got suckered into buying "just one more thing" to get the "bonus prize"-got suckered into booking a party (if you're free on march 31, my house, snacks included!)-felt bad for suckering kait into coming with me 'cuz the dealer was so cute that NO ONE could say NO to her-called the friend that was originally supposed to go with me to the M.K. party-got suckered into going out with herkaitlin metzler told me: "man, if your night keeps going with this trend, you'll be pregnant by midnight"no babies here, thank you very much
patrick, jen, me, benjamin
patrick, jen, me, benjamin
Originally uploaded by conniemg6.there's nothing better than a man in a tie... especially when he looks good. holly sent me some pictures last night and this one is one of my favorites to date. our annual "pub crawl" this past fall. my brother (the bald one) and his best friend came all nice looking. ... gotta smell good too. i had just come back from florida...nice tan. boo for winter sometimes.
lesson learned:
-just because it's cheap wine, doesn't mean its less potent
-just because it tastes good, doesn't mean you should slam a lot of it...like kool aid
i just want to let y'all know
that tonight/this morning... however you're looking at it,
i have:
-called Flea... yes, the FLEA from the Chili Peppers... no Lie!.. i spoke to some little girl, sounded about 10. will try back later! (c;
-am currently filled with half a bottle of Carlo Rossi
-sat on blue balls....ok, so its only one. but it is blue, and it is a ball..(deflated). none the less, i'm sitting on it.
i will go to bed now... KAIT, make me go!
holly and kait's house
i'm lazy and/or responsible and won't drive my drunk ass home from holly and kaitlin's house. i'm too busy writing on blogs, responding to brits that are still in britaind.. and such!
i've had way much wine
and way much love from the USA and britain side....y'all need to quit egging me on!
going to have sweet dreams on couches now... love from me!
aaaaaaaarrrghhhh
about 10 mins ago, i had a squirrel jump out of a garbage can toward me... i'm sure it wasn't intentional on his/her behalf, but it scared the shit out of me.its snowing one of those "first snowfalls of the fall" kind. its beautiful and peaceful. sometimes i wonder why i'm going to want to leave a place like this and then i look at how many layers i have to take off every night.
happy happy monday
back in the "saint of water vapor" as Mr. Pflaumer once called it. its both a relief and pain. went to bed at 8pm last night. was planning on studying for a finance test, but i was so sick that my eyeballs hurt. my roommate thought i was crazy. but after a few different kinds of medications mixed and a few hours of sleep, i was up at 5:30 to crack the books for the first time in over a week.been on campus since 7 am... still don't understand this shit. probably never will. this class is why i'll never graduate, i swear!i need spring break back already. )c*:
screaming at the top of your lungs
i LOVE singing in my car. special people get the "music turned up so loud that you can't actually hear yourself.. therefore, you believe that you actually sound good, as all passengers in the car and the driver sing as loud as they possibly can" treatment with me... my roommate, holly, my little sister, and a handful of others. i love bombing through town in my "not so nice anymore" car and just watching people as they pass by. it delights me so much to see others who you know have their music cranked up, are singing along, and probably don't remember the path they've been on for the past 2-3 minutes because they've been so consumed in that song.
my childhood love
i think that between shiro and i, we've convinced (if only for a few seconds) everyone i know that i'm engaged. it seems as though they're all just waiting for me to come home and announce that i'm moving to some foreign place to marry this exotic man that i've met once... not today, but maybe one day (c; ... it snowed while i was home. took a tour of the grandma's. and then today, we did something that i loved doing all while growing up. in the past 5 years, i have not had a chance to do this activity, but the charm of two Kenyan girls won my dad's heart over and allowed... and paid for our outing today. we took the snowmobiles out. because my parent's own quite a bit of land and my dad LOVES to drive the sleds in the winter, the snomobile trail runs about 50 meters from my house (right through our land). bundled up, threw helmets on, and buzzed to the towniest bar in the Medford area. its called "the pot belly pub". dad met us there via pick-up. my sister, the mugo sisters and i headed on the mobiles... super fun, shiro saw her first deer. and when my dad walked in the bar, he looked at me and asked if i felt the floor moving too... "its the pot belly, dad. of course the floor is moving... we're jsut lucky there IS a floor... last time i was here, there were large patches of gravel poking through." haha. my roots! anyways... most popular questions this week/weekend:"so, what made you want to come to Minnesota?""you're not really engaged............are you?""where's Kenya?""so, how's school?""why would you not want to come back to medford after you graduate?""why would an 'open minded' girl like you vote for W?" .. followed by... "who SAID i voted for W?"thank god i'll be back in cloud in 24 hours... off to townie karaoke!
entertainment in medford
i may have been a bit more concerned about my community and my two kenyan friends meeting up than i should've been. first stop in medford: the high school where my mom works and on of my favorite teachers EVER is located. mom wanted me to drop by her 8th hour math class, so we did. when we walked in, one child in the front promptly pulled his hoodie over his head and put his face down on his desk. when my mom went up to talk to him abou the no hoods on in school policy he said "mrs. gelhaus, you didn't tell us that you were bringing sisters in to the room today! my hair's a mess." (this child.. not kidding when i say that his name is Charlie Brown and he's one of two black kids in the school.. was quite embarassed that he didn't brush his hair that day...and it was noticeable).shiro is already making my house laugh like only shiro can. my parents are giving her shit for being a vegan (mom grew up on a farm and will never understand people who don't enjoy milk and butter)... she's being lenient on her diet and ma and pa are trying their damdest to accomidate her. whew... this week is going to be enjoyable, i can just tell. mom mentioned that grace is learning about africa in school... that maybe shiro and kari should go and talk to the classes about their country. shiro's really excited to do that... :D. i just giggle... its going to be OK
take note!
to prevent further blogs such as these, you people need to learn how to call kait, holly and i early in the evening and keep us occupied for hours so that another night doesn't result in random phone surveys of ever man we have in our phone "books". i appologize (not really, but i'm trying to be polite here... rather out of character,i know, but deal with it) for awakening those of you in slumbers, disturbing those of you in deep thought and studying, annoying those of you who forgot to block our phone calls, etc... well, i don't really feel sorry if you didn't block us, its your own damn fault then.anyway, if any of you are interested in the results of the survey preformed this evening, here goes:of those of you that answered your phones, you answered the question (if a man were to lose one of his testicles, would it effect his balance?) the answers were as follows:yes: 3no:15confused:1mentally concerned:2the following quotes from this eve may only be funny to kaitlin, holly and i, but i'm going to share them with y'all anyway:-"Paul got a job at Seaworld!" ~holly-"if someone bit off your testicle, do you think you could run?!" ~holly.... "no 'cuz his foot was bitten off too" ~kaitlin-"do you think that losing a testicle could throw off a lopsidedness of a person?" ~holly-"how embarassing is that?! ... i couldn't even stick it in!" ~kaitlinand there you have it kids, i know it comes as a shock to most that i didn't make any "stupid" comments this evening, but i think that all in all, i was pretty good given my townie roots. thank you all for participating and reading this rather dull entry... have a wonderful day!
i have an uneasy feeling in my stomach
things like
this instantly give me a feeling as though i'm about to throw up. i often wonder if "world peace" will ever become a reality. i'm not so convinced that it will be. but doing everything that AIESEC does, i'm proud to say that we're actively working toward it.
how i use my blog is my business
i, unlike most nomadlifers, am not a nomad YET. soon, though. i enjoy using my blog in multiple different ways. here are just a few: -communicate with my friends whose phone numbers or msn screen names i don't have (or those who don't have phones period) -express my inner most feelings (both rants and raves) -start rumors about myself -express my passion about certain products/companies... and receive a "post-a-comment" email from that company asking me to fax them my resume. -expose people to random weird things going on in the world and in my own life soon i will have glorious nomadic adventures to share with everyone... be patient
@ sleep patterns
these may get annoying to some people, but i must share a strange finding yet again.
it seems as though @ people, no matter where they are, follow the mindset of those in Asia in terms of sleeping patterns.
THIS is ok for a short while, but judging by the amount of suicides in Japan these days, i urge you all to go to bed early tonight.
happy nights
last night may have been one of the most enjoyable times i've had in a while. my roommate and i had a date with the cheap seat movie theater, we then stopped by kait's house to kidnap her to the chinese buffet, and then... a long night of shisha and wine on the deck in 50 degree weather. if you have never had the privilege of having a heart to heart with miss kaitlin, you are missing out. sometimes she's silly and people don't quite know how to take her always, but honestly. if i EVER need an objective talk about anything, kait's the place to go. the convo that took place last night on my balcony under a very clear sky full of stars was very familiar to us. talking about culture and how my family isn't very exposed and how i'm trying to ween them into other cultures...etc... but then we turned to the "religion of segnificant others". kait, you made me look at this in a different light, and i thank you. i'm not really thanking anyone for the wine hang-over that i have right now. can't remember when the last time i had a hang-over was, but damn. alieve anyone?i've been blessed with some pretty warm/fuzzy dreams lately too. i love waking up with a smile on my face. however, it becomes very disappointing when you realize that what you just saw in your head isn't real and probably never will be... at least not with the people that were present in your head. one day, those feelings will be ever present in my life (i hope). happy monday y'all. i hope you have a smashing week!
for perfume, i prefer aussie sprunch hair spray
lazy day! those are the best ... looking forward to a week or so of them.
headed to minneapolis tonight with one of my good friends. i'm excited to introduce yet another person to the wonders of Teavana. supper and an airport pickup. i'm sure there'll be plenty of window shopping and scopin th boys too.
sometimes i wonder what makes a smell good or bad. like onions. to me, the smell horrible, but to others, they're wonderful. i have found that a few smells can be substituted for others. for example, i always get compliments on how i smell when i do myself up .. like my hair and makeup and all... i go sans perfume often, yet get complimented on my scent. i figured it out about a month ago. there are two things (sometimes closely related). one of my friends walked into the office, promptly walked right up to me, burried his nose in my hair and said "mmmm.. coconut shampoo! nothing smells better on a woman." that was on a non-did-up day (air dried hair). another of my friends (on a did-up night) burried his nose in my hair and said "aussie sprunch! i love it when woman use that hair spray".
so girls, to save on some money... use good smelling shampoo and hairspray. drives the men wild...
i'm a sucker
got talked into pampering myself again today. i can't remember the last time that i painted my finger nails, much less pay for someone else to do it for me. holly.... she has these faces that i happen to be a sucker for (but don't tell her). was quite an interesting morning at the beauty college. between holly, myself and our two nail-care-specialists-to-be, i think enough tears were shed for a while. we laughed so hard that we pretty much cleared out the place and had different students and instrutors stopping by wondering what the hell was going on. one thing that i learned this morning... you always need to "keep things sanitary". i suppose that its only appropriate to have fancied up hands to showcase a fancy new diamond! another weekend with friends. some that i have not seen in a long while. it will be refreshing to say the least. and next week, i will be returning to my townie roots with two friends from Kenya. pray for me (if you believe in that sort of thing). i'm looking so forward to introducing new cultures to my family and friends. today, i am a very happy girl. i can't put into words the joy that is running through my body right now. i wish i could share it with everyone!
spring break
the snow is heavily melting today. i've opted against a jacket, choosing rather to absorb some of the sun and crispness in the air by sporting a hoodie instead. i feel like my day's been very full so far and that it'll only get fuller as the day goes on. i've already spent the morning at the mall shopping by myself for work clothes. i got to campus about 20 mins ago and am waiting for my ex-roommate to meet me for lunch. i have to sit through one guest speaker today and by 4.45, spring break will have officially begun for moi. working the first part of it and headed to a VERY exotic location for the latter half. (i don't care what anyone says, MEDFORD is exotic ... in a very townie type of way). i'm taking shiro home with me... adventures of the con, shiro, and gelhaus clan will be documented as needed.
mazzy mazzy mazzy
mazzy mazzy mazzy
Originally uploaded by conniemg6.the future AI VPF?? time will only tell, i guess.
why?... where?... sleep?
why is there no one online at 7:30 cst? i get so bored while i'm trying to procrastinate. y'all should really get your asses out of bed to entertain me that early in the morning. ahh, the people in dubai are awake.an early morning (for me at least) msn convo between myself and jen:connie: "WHORE!"jen: "is that because of the comment i left on your blog?"connie "no...i haven't checked yet... you just ruined the suprise!"jen: "oh sorry"connie: "is it suprise or surprise? i'm having difficulty with that word lately"jen: "supise"connie "that wasn't a choice, man you're bad at this game"jen: "fluck"ok, i've gotten 4 hours of sleep 'cuz i NEEDED to stay at kaitlin and holly's last night until after 1. its getting scary 'cuz we're all starting to realize that our late night chats sprawled out on the couches are soon to be added to the endangered species list ... in two short months will be extinct. i have a test today. haven't studied yet. i'm not too worried either. man, i need to become a better student. need to care more. my gpa will take me nowhere. but without my friends, my sanity will be lost. opportunity cost.. god i love my major.
quotes/reactions from the humble abode of holly and kaitlin
holly: "why don't we go back to the times when we had gentlemen callers?"
-holly gives a really odd bug eye after taking a swig of her white wine..
-connie and holly simultaneously: "OUR GOD IS AN AWESOME GOD! HE REIGNS FROM HEAVEN ABOVE!"
connie as holly is singing "i don't need anything but you" from the movie ANNIE: "and now i'm a swinger"
holly: "BFF, how dare you ever give anyone praise but me. i am deeply wounded. i shant ever recover."
-kaitlin puts up her little finger and guiltily bites her lip as holly serenades her with "you wrapped me around, that cute little finger".
kaitlin "yay!. i finally put up my stupid calendar. and look what i did when i got it. filled in MAY."
sorry for the ANNIE overload tonight... we really can't help it
a breath of new life
its officially March! the fridgidness of winter is over (supposidly). baby animals will be born soon, plants will start truning green again and blooming, people come out of their winter-depression modes.... this starts the joy of springtime. vibrant colors re-appear, school for the year starts winding down...its just good. ever get the feeling that you're getting old?.. this seems to only happen to me when i return to my hometown. for example, the oldest of my baby brother's is turning 19 in nine days. i've always been older than him, almost 3 years, but i feel like i'm the only one that should be getting older. everyone else needs to stay little. what makes it especially hard for me is when i am back home and i watch these kids who were infants when i started babysitting them... they're like 10 years old now. and the scariest thing about this all is that people trusted ME..a 12 year old with their new babies. i was reading marianne's entry about her birthday this morning. its funny how i didn't really realize how confusing this period in everyone's life really is. like her, i don't want to be grown up, i want to explore the world, i want to be free ... but i also get the baby itch and fantasize about what it would be like to find THAT person and to nest. i know that the latter is just a fantasy, that i'm not at all ready for that in my life. its still fun to continue to dream about that kind of thing. gets scarily close sometimes, though. my "best friend from h/s" emailed me yesterday letting me know that she scratched her plans of getting married traditionally and she and her fiance are going to fly down to jamaca and get married on the beach. in one year, two of the people who were closest to me in my childhood will be attached "forever". in fact, they have been for years now. it makes me both happy and sad for those who find their one true love in high school... they didn't get to go out and have fun, experiment if you will, with different types of people. but then again, they didn't need to kiss a lot of toads before they found their prince charming. i suppose i can't speak yet. maybe i've already kissed P.C. and just don't know it yet... perhaps i need to keep looking... but just maybe my life will circle around and i'll have to catch him on the flip side. i think i'm going to buy myself some fresh flowers today... to brighten up my bedroom... vibrant colors to make me smile when i wake up.
