Sunday was summer material!  No damn rain for a change!  Stacy woke my lazy ass up sometime in the afternoon by calling me.  I have excuses for sleeping so late!  Between former sleep issues coming back and nightmares, it hasn't been easy.  I'm getting really tired of the nightmares... they are all job and family related, SIGH.  So Stacy told me to get out of bed and come over for a swim in their awesome above ground pool.  Float around a pool?  I'm game, LOL. No need to shower or anything.  I rolled out of bed half asleep, put on a tank top and shorts to swim in (I need to buy a swimsuit when I have money to), grabbed extras clothes to put on when dried, and Stacy was over before I knew.  She spent forever chatting with my mom.

I love Stacy's family (How many times have I said this?)  We spent forever swimming with their 2 dogs (huge compared to my little chihuahua, LOL).  We goofed off as usual.  If Stacy reads this...Chika-Chika-Boom!!  Sorry, inside joke.  Gah, I love water so much.  I wish I had a pool.  Got a lot of exercise too.  May have a mild sun burn.  I can somewhat feel a bit of heat on my skin now.  My poor skin.  I'm as white as white comes. 

We came in after forever and I chatted with her mom for a while about animal rights and animal abusers.  We all LOVE animals, but we agree PETA is nuts.  Think it started from talking about my cat.  He was abused by previous owners, so he has mental issues.  Her mom was cooking at the time.  let me tell you... her family makes these epic meals.  Her dad was out cooking on teh grill.  They made burgers and hotdogs with all sorts of sides.  Stacy tortured me with High School Musical for a little bit.  Until the food was ready.  We stuffed ourselves while watching a movie in their wicked living room.  They have a SWEET, huge HD TV in there.  She put WALL-E on.  I hadn't seen it before.  It SO cute!  I love WALL-E! 

It was about 10PM by the time that ended and here I am at home.  I'm happy.  I love weekends so much these days.  I wasn't feeling so great throughout the week.  I needed the little pick up.

I had a great Saturday too.  I went with my mom to help her shop for a few things.  She'll be installing wood floors soon and I needed something to cut wood up for the new BBQ she bought.  I looked at three freakin' places for the Rolling Stone magazine with Adam Lambert and it was nowhere to be found.  Booo!  Then we went to ABC Liquer to pick up supplies for my first attempt at mixing drinks up.  I invited Stacy over and I made frozen strawberry margaritas for her, my mom, and myself.  They were AWESOME!  I didn't really have a clue what I was doing, but I ended up doing good.  I made enough for all of to have 2 drinks each.  I was fine, until I felt like more and got a shot of Triple Sec, LOL.  I wasn't on the floor or anything, but I couldn't talk.  When I've drank a bit, I start to use the wrong words... or talk in dyslexic speech.  I sound like an idiot.  I don't remember what I tried to tell my mom about, but I think she got the gist of it.  Anywho, we all didn't last for long.  We all got really tired by midnight.

I'm hoping to have a BBQ and mix drinks up for my two best friends, Stacy and Amanda soon.  We are itching to all get together again soon.  last time was our trip to St. Augustine for the day.

Oh, my mom wants to have a big yard sale soon asking people we know to bring stuff over and join.  Shoot me.

Oh and something else, the Adam Lambert interview on 20/20 on Friday rocked!!  He has a good sense of humor :)  If you haven't seen it, the clip is probably up on YouTube somewhere.  Glenn Beck was also on the show and that was interesting.  I have a love and hate thing for him.

The past weekend, aside from Comcast assholes, was awesome.

Friday night I spent with one of my suitemates.  Everyone else (my roomie and the other suitemate) had left already for the weekend.  She got her car recently from her parents, so driving around is finally an option, especially since gas is only $2 now.  We drove onto Sonic for Blasts and chatted.  At one point I was telling her about my friends from the previous semester, because they made me laugh the hardest that I have in many years.  I was talking about the homoerotic humor between all of us and how of my friends last semester two of us were straight and two of us weren't, but we all joked as though we were lesbians with each other.  I was assuming She knew about my sexuality, because we're friends on Facebook and it says right there that I'm "interested" in men and women, but I wasn't sure she knew.  She was surprised when I mentioned I was one of the non-heterosexuals, LOL.  Slightly awkward.  But she was surprised because she didn't know, not because she was bothered by it.  When we got back to the dorms she ended up asking me about my sexuality.  How did I know I was.  When did I know.  All that sort of thing.  I told her about the only person I've ever been "in love" with and how that made me realize a person's sex didn't matter to me... that I loved her for who I thought she was.  I say "thought" because she was an online friend that I adored for years, so how can I claim to have known the real person?  She was the most incredible person I had ever met though.  Sadly, I still pine for her.  My suitemate said she didn't see me any differently and she's in complete support of me.  It was a weight off of my shoulders.  I'm always afraid a friend will drop me when they find out or they might back off feeling uncomfortable with me.  I don't want to make people living with me uncomfortable.  I don't want to make them uncomfortable in their own space.

This Saturday I went to a birthday party for my friend Tina and a friend I know through Tina named Julia.  I think I was there over 5 hours.  Talk about sugar overdose.  It was a dessert party.  Lots and lots of chocolate.  The martinis were even chocolate.  I have a new found love for Martinis... because they can contain chocolate, LOL.  I also had a french vanilla martini, which was good, but not as fabulous.  I'm such a novice with alcohol.  I'm finally in the mode where I want to try everything alcoholic.  Previously, I've never been interested.  I was being so careful trying not to get drunk in front of the party goers, so I stopped after the second drink.

In short, it was another fabulous weekend :)

The Art Walk was awesome Friday night!!  My mom drove up from Jax and went with me.  We went to sooo many galleries.  The weather was perfect.  I was expecting it to be cold, but it wasn't.

Saturday, I have to work my but off to get assignments done.  It's all good.  I'm not really fretting.  Get back to me next week on fretting, LOL.  Woof, this semester is nearly over.  Kinda scary, considering how many assignments and exams are left to get to.

Sunday, I'm going out to eat with a bunch of friends.  It's another birthday celebration for one of my friends here at Flagler.  I can't wait for that.  She's a really cool chick... even though she disses my FOX News ;)


Oh, and my latest major grades:

Personal Finance exam #2 - 88/B
I could probably study a little more.

Intro to Visual Arts exam #2 - TBA, I just know that I have an A in the class so far.  Let's hope this exam doesn't ruin that, LOL.
Kinda scurd to get this one back.  I only crammed the morning before the exam and I didn't even read the chapters in the book...

Second campaign grade in Graphic Design III - 91/A
This was for the Torrid campaign.  I'm working on a campaign for Dogs Deserve Better at the moment.  I'm getting really good responses from my professor and classmates so far on this new campaign!  They seem moved by it.

First project for Photo Art Direction - We finally got it back and I can't remember the grade, LOL.  I know it was a high grade.  Like A or B. 
Well, here's the deal.  This first project was the one I took the architecture photography for.  We had to make 3 ads with the goal of attracting tourism to St. Augustine... essentially, a small ad campaign.  Our professor wanted us to turn in creative briefs, but didn't make that clear, so no one did.  I always write briefs up for my own benefit for every campaign I do.  That's how I roll, LOL.  I just didn't have a printed copy at the time.  So I printed one up later and gave it to him, along with the grading sheet, so I could get points added onto the grade.  So I don't have the grading sheet to look at right now.  Last he told me, it was on his desk at home waiting to be looked at, LOL.

My friend took some awesome photos of us and I want to share :)  These are from October 25th and 26th, back in Jacksonville for the weekend.  We reunited after about 4 years.  We were best friends, since middle school. 



I actually have a pretty smile now!  Perhaps aging and losing some weight helped?  Makes me want to smile more.  I've always hated my smile.... was rather depressing.



More here

Speaking of sexy bitches, another awesome friend came to St. Augustine to see me this weekend.  We had a great time, of course :)  I need to take photos of us!!

Weekends rock!  I <3 my friends.

This is random to insert into this journal, but I can't for election night!!  I'm getting seriously excited!  I really want to go to the student center for the viewing party there where my friends will be all night, but I know they'll have on CNN.  I REALLY want to watch Shepard Smith on the broadcast FOX.  I'm sure he'll be so much more interesting and fair.  I guess I'll run over to the student center for a little while and come back.... maybe.  CANT' WAIT!!  Why in the hell did one of my professors think giving a test on Wednesday is a good idea???  I'm going to be up all night watching election coverage instead of studying!

Back to homework...

My wonderful friend Amanda (former Spring semester roomie) is coming over.  Amanda isn't staying the night this time, because we both have a lot to do this weekend, but she's coming to hang out with me in here St. Augustine on Saturday :)  I'm so excited!  She's such an awesome friend. 

I'm seriously loving the weekends these days.  Every weekend I get to hang out with friends and I love it!  It's so different from previous years when I sat in my dorm all weekend feeling so alone and crying over it.  I feel so good now.  Maybe too good.  I almost feel like this is all too good to be true... like something bad is about to happen around the corner to destroy how great things have been.  How bad is it that I always have that feeling in the back of my mind?  Whatever.  I'm enjoying the fun shit in my life right now!

Aside from fun, I also have work on the agenda...
-Study for Photo Art Direction exam, for Tuesday
-Study for Intro to Visual Arts exam #2, for Wednesday
-Read chapters 9 and 10 in Personal Financial Planning book, for Tuesday
-Do Personal Finance exercises, for Tuesday
-Create 3 single page ads for Graphic Design III social awareness campaign, for Monday

Anyway, I'm going to study and continuing my overdose of watching House tonight.

I hope everyone reading this has a beautiful weekend. 

Just ask my roomie... I practically glow talking about this.

I was over at my mom's house in Jacksonville for the weekend where my old friend lives.  I go home every month to get away from college, do laundry, eat real food, etc.  My friend and I recently started talking again and we really wanted to see each other.  I had to get stuff done Friday and early Saturday, but by the evening my friend came over and we talked non-stop.  Before we knew it, it was 5am.  She went back home to sleep.  Then we got back together around 2pm on Sunday.  This time she took me to see her family.  They were seriously my second family back in the day.  I loved them over my own family.  Their house is so different now and, oh my gosh, her younger sister has grown so much.  I'm bummed I missed out on her growing up like she has.  She used to be the little girl that would pester me all the time and play with my hair, LOL (I even miss that).  Now she's in high school.  Time freakin' flies.  Then we went to Starbucks to get Frappuccinos and hang out before I had to go back home around 6pm.

My friend and I haven't seen each other in about 4 years.  It was so sad that we drifted apart after high school.  It was a gradual drift, because our lives were changing after high school.  We were really tight ever since 7th grade.  When we stopped talking, I honestly cried over our lost friendship many times.  She meant so much to me.  She was the bestest friend I ever had.  Welp.  Nothing has changed between us.  We're just a bit older now.  I felt completely comfortable all over again :) 

I never imagined this happening.  I thought she had probably moved on to better friends and wouldn't be interested in seeing me ever again.

We are going to try and get together again when I return to Jacksonville for Thanksgiving.  I can't wait! *jigs*

You know what else rocks??  I got a message from an old high school friend Sunday night.  I've been looking around online for her for YEARS.  I was so afraid something had happened to her, because I was able to get in contact with all of my high school friends that I cared about after high school.  But I could never find her.  That message last night was such an excellent way to end off the weekend.

I love my friends :)

I forgot to mention I had a great time last night!  Sooo, I'm going to use this as an excuse to avoid my reading a little longer, and then I really do have to read some. 

Eight of us went to Carrabbas last night, because we had a birthday girl in the group and, you know, we have to go out to celebrate!  Said birthday girl is one of my suitemates.  And I have to say, she is a cool chick from Miami.  Through her I've also made friends with her closest friend here at Flagler, also from Miami.  I've spent quite a bit of time with them, because they are so chill and fun.  I've watched a lot of Red Sox thanks to them, LOL.  My roomie also went.  I know all of the other chicks too.  We eat dinner and lunch with all of these people throughout the week in the dining hall.  Anywho, I had never been to Carrabba's before.  I had the lasagna with the Caesar salad.  Oh man.  Dinner was so gooooooooood.  Conversation was great.  And of course, I can't get away from the baseball/sports talk.  Red Sox were on the TV again, LOL.

Okay, off to study...

I'm taking a short break from working on some single-page ads for Torrid.  I'll have to take photos of them to post on here when I print them out and paste pages together.  They have a small element of interactivity to them. 

Anyway, I had a great weekend.  Roomie went back home, so I had the dorm all to myself from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon.  If you've talked to me on a very private level, you'll know why I like having the dorm to me, myself, and I, LOL.  Other than that... I also spent the weekend with two buddies here at college, since I didn't have a whole lot of work to do.  We ordered Pizza Hut (mmmmm real fooood) as a treat.  We watched Meet the Fockers and My Big Fat Greek Wedding (which was fitting since the Greek festival was on Saturday and Sunday over at the St. Francis field).  Those were good.  I preferred Meet the Fockers.  Some of the Greek stereotypes in My Big Fat Greek Wedding were very obnoxious and made it difficult for me to really enjoy the movie.

And can you believe I watched sports?  Usually sports does nothing for me, but I was enjoying being with my friends, so it didn't matter.  We were up in one of my friend's dorms for that because she's a die hard Boston Red Sox fan.  They were up against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.  Her commentary during the game was rather funny.  I thought it would never end.  I was tired by the 9th, but I had to watch the WHOLE game, just to see who was going win.  It was pretty intense.  We also flipped back and forth with the Florida Gators vs. LSU Tigers game.  Gators ate those Tigers alive.  A small part of me was happy about that.  I used to be a bit of a Gators fan when I spent every waking hour with my best friend's Gator obsessed family.

Also had some politics thrown in there.  One of my friends is a major liberal.  The Obama love and MSNBC love makes me twitch, but we enjoy poking fun of Sarah Palin, LOL.  It's too damn easy.  On that line of thinking.... I think I'm falling for Tina Fey, LOL!  She's PERFECT as Palin.


Our favorite phrases:
"Yo tengo un bicicleta" Yes, I know that is wrong.  It's an inside joke, because someone asked us for directions while we were walking to the student center.
"Sooo excited!"
"I can see Russia from my house!" 
The last two have to be said with a Sarah Palin accent, BTW.

The title of this journal is a quote from my friend Amanda about me, LOL.  Reminds me of our friendship, because we're are very silly.  We spent Friday and Saturday together having a ridiculous amount of fun.  I'm sure a lot of people would find our fun really boring, but we just have fun hanging out with each other.  St. Augustine is the best place to stroll around while chatting.  The weather was freakin' PERFECT.

Friday we ate dinner and went off to Marble Slab Creamery where I got cheesecake flavored ice cream with white chocolate chips and chunks of Reeses.  Yum yum.  We chilled out on the grass at Flagler College as it got dark.  We stayed in my dorm for a little while and watched bits of House.

Saturday we went for lunch and head off to the beach.  What is sad is I've lived in St. Augustine during college since 2006 and I've never been to the beach.  One reason is that I've refused to get a bathing suit and go into the water due to my lack of self esteem.  I LOVE swimming at the beach and it's been torture not allowing myself to do that.  But this time, I said screw it.  I may look like a whale, but I'm going to have fun like I did as a kid and go swimming.  I don't own a bathing suit, so I just put on some shorts and a shirt and went into the water like that!  I'm glad I did.  Then we went to the bay to hang out by the Castillo de San Marcos fort, like old times.  And of course, we walked St. Georgie Street with all of the tourists.  Got ourselves some gelato.  That stuff is gooooooood.

I had to go to my mom's house Saturday night so we drove back to Amanda's neck of the woods.  While I waited for my mom to pick me up, Amanda got me a fabulous Frappuccino where she works.  She got me addicted to those things last semester.

So Friday and Saturday went beautifully.  It was so great to have someone to spend time with that likes me just the way I am.  Whereas, with everyone else offline, I hide myself to some extent, because I know they aren't going to enjoy me as I really am.

Sunday blows though.  I'm here at my mom's house doing laundry and homework.  That's not the sucky part.  The sucky part is I'm miserable with my family.  I really don't care to be around them, especially my mom, because of it.  We got into a nasty argument over money.  My cat ruined my headphones for the second time.  I don't have money to replace the headphones for the third time, so looks like I'll be going without music listening for the most part.  That's depressing.  I can't be without music.  I also slept horribly last night and I'm exhausted.  I hate my fucking family.  As soon as I can, I'm moving far away and I'm not coming back because I want to stay happy.  Yeah, so my weekend has been ruined and it killed my motivation to work on anything.  I have a project to do before tomorrow.  So I'll post this and try to cheer myself up, so I can get a decent grade on this project.

[EDIT: OMG, my project isn't due tomorrow.  I have until Wednesday!  I totally fooled myself into working on this project earlier, LOL.  I tend to do that when I have lots of deadlines and tests in a short amount of time.  I worry about not finishing things.  I feel SO much better right now :)  I can actually chill and enjoy doing this project right now.  I love my life lately, hehe. *jigs*]
 

I've posted enough crap today, but I can't help it.  I'm so happy!!  We've been planning it for a while... one of my awesome friends (and former roomie) is coming back to town tomorrow!!  We're going to spend the weekend together.  Going to the beach and whatever else we feel like.  I miss her so much.  We haven't seen each other since April.  *jigs*