last day of 2007..

which meant cooking all day and time for polka dots!

every year my whole family says it's good luck to wear polka dots into the new year... so today, RIGHT NOW i'm wearing the only polka dotted shirt i have, and it happens to be my (new) favorite!

part of my new year's resolution is to consume less and conserve more... 'cause dang it our world could do without a band-aid on it (thank you anchor blue for producing this shirt on organic cotton, even though i'm not really sure how cotton can't be organic). so i really am going to try to turn off the lights when i don't need them, use less running water, wear sweaters more when it's cold rather than use the heater, and other good stuff i should already be doing.

the other part of my new year's resolution is all personal. let's just say i will be looking at positivityblog.com more.

so long 2007, it's been fun. i'm a little anxious for 2008 'cause i know fo sho it's gonna go by fast... and i have to graduate (date is May 22, 2008 people!) then do something with my life. let's just hope it's something good. like all good things done in faith i'm just gonna try my hardest and leave the rest up to Him.

hope 2008 is gonna be great!

concentrate

i think i concentrate better when i don't eat. or maybe i do better when i'm not eating. there's a difference to that.

what i'm eating right now is distracting me a little from this 12 page paper i have to write.. thank goodness for kind people who help and motivate! you all deserve really nice christmas gifts.

want a form of taco soup? here's really easy recipe!

ingredients:
2 cans of chicken broth
1 jar of salsa (Safeway's Mild Southwest Salsa has the BEST flavor!)
1 can of black beans
1 can (11 oz) corn or frozen corn
some shredded cheese
tortilla chips

steps:
heat chicken broth, salsa, beans and corn together (simmer about 5 minutes to blend the falvors). put small amounts cheese and tortilla chips in bowls, and ladle soup over.
voila!

cheap and fast... the ingredients were on sale at Safeway so i bought LOTS!

woohoo! and yay for being semi-productive during my eating break... back to the paper now...

grown up

when did it happen? i mean, did i ever feel young? i guess when i used to pretend i was camping in my living room, making tents out of bed sheets and sleeping "under the stars" that were really glow in the dark stickers i put EVERYWHERE i felt young.

but i don't think i ever recognized when that changed. i still want to make tents and everything, don't get me wrong, but sometimes i just feel so serious.

i shouldn't be... maybe it was MTV that made me grow up and wanna dress older. maybe it was TV, ads, and those things in general that made me grow up. maybe that's why i like Disneyland so much... makes you feel young. (although spending that much money on things makes me feel the need to be old and responsible!)

well i've learned my lesson, do what you want to do because YOU want to do it. yeah, i was very impressionable before, but am trying not to be now.

but you gotta be serious sometimes too..

there's a word for this kind of double-y thing.

lagger

I've lagged on all my stuff and now I'm paying the price.

Crap. Got a final next week and hella stuff to study for it! I don't think I'm gonna finish...

School should mean more to me, but a lot of the time I don't feel I'm good at it. And that's the truth. I got lazy after the last Anatomy midterm... the drive just wasn't in me. And when I tried to read and study for it, I just kept falling asleep. BOO!

Time to cram...