completely awesome news!

tonight has been so excellent!!

first of all, i finished the dreaded management project i have feared since i heard about it in september...YAY!

secondly, THE BRITNEY INTERVIEW WAS ON TONIGHT! did i mention how much i adore britney? obsessed is a word i would describe my feelings for her. sykeeee, but really. me and my roommates watched and cheered and cried and cheered and danced and immediately went and grabbed out laptops so we could order every britney spears manufactured perfume and product she's ever put out...i dont know why, its like it was ingrained in my head to do so!!?! *great use of advertising, btw.

thirdly, i got A NEW INK CARTRIDGE!!!!!!

fourthly, my bed is the most comfortable place in the world. sometimes when i'm in class, and i'm super tired because i got an awful night's sleep, i just sit there and think "3 more hours and i can get back in bed." is that pathetic? i thought so too.

anywho, this week should be great. tomorrow i'm going to devote to studying ALL DAY 4eva and doing homework that needs to be done. i got butts & guts at 5pm and zumba right after, so that will be also awesome.

finally, i need to figure out how i can get hundreds of dollars for christmas presents like, immediately. any idears?

-e

thanksgiving recap

yo.

so thanksgiving actually was pretty fucking rad considering i didn't spend it with the usual side of the family. my uncle and his family were at my grandma's and we hadn't seen them probably in about 3-4 years, so it was really cool to see them again. his kids, i'm in love with them. my cousins are by far some of the funniest chicks ever. they're like 12 and 10 and are OBSESSED with texting and boys and politics? girls after my own heart.

but anywho, the best part of today was the absurd lack of drama. WHAT?! figures, we weren't celebrating on my moms side (the side where most suicide threats happen) but still, it was strange. it was like, eerily calm. you know how when a really bad storm comes, sometimes it gets really super cloudy out like to the point where it looks like the clouds are about to shit out a furious wrath of rain like you've never experienced but it never comes...thats sort of how today felt. i didn't haaaaatee ittttt

also, i got started on a project tonight that i have to present (BY MYSELF) to my teacher tuesday morning. OMG SAY WHAT! i'm gonna finish it tomorrow.

alright time for bed.





this post was brought to you by the letter F.

happy thanksgiving, y'all.

thanksgiving

so this weekend went well. hung out with the boyf A LOT which was a nice change of pace. i am now back at my parents house and just hung out with one of my best friends from high school. and guess what i'm watching? A HAUNTING. its like this show is always on when i'm home. its like IT KNOWS.

anywho, i found a new love for my sister's cats the past week or so. they are so fucking cute its sickening. and of course theres LILLYMONSTAA who is always beautiful and stunning and fat as fuck. love my dog.

so i guess thanksgiving is at my dad's parents house this year which is cool but im gonna miss my cousins and stuff. thanksgiving is a big deal to us, yknow? i dont even know if my grandparents are gonna have brocolli cheddar casserole!!! wtf. also, i have a lot of homework/studying to do before i go back to VA on saturday. maaaaaaan.

well, happy thanksgiving and all that.

weekend

finally :)

upcoming schedule of events:

BF comes home :)
work on sunday
homework on monday
classes on tuesday
MD on wednesday
Thanksgiving on thursday
Thanksgiving #2 on friday/saturday?

THEN THE WEEK AFTER THAT IS THE LAST WEEK OF CLASSES!

prepare for total domination.

update on the homework status!

still haven't done it.


ps. shoot me?

i'm a maryland success story

so i'm back in MD for the night, as per election night. sitting in the exact same spot when i found out obama won! how nostalgic! syke, but anywho this weekend was superb. i'm pretty happy to know thanksgiving is next week, and the boyf is coming home this weekend cuz their lucky asses get off an entire week (thanks, mason). in other news, the pilot episode of SITC is on right now and i have a few things to say about this:

1) the 90s were an awful, awful time.
2) carrie looks pretty hot minus her fro...looks more like her character towards the end of the show than she does anytime else in the show.
3) samantha is a straight smoke in this. long blonde hair? its what i aim for
4) there's way too much side-commentary in this.
5) i still love this show

i am such an asshole about homework lately. i definitely had ALL night to get started on at least one of the three major assignments i have due TUESDAY, but i, for some reason or another, had no intention of starting. so i decided tomorrow that i need to wake up by 9, head back to NOVA, and do homework ALL day, no distractions. possibly just go to campus and do it all, because at 5pm there's a "butts & guts" class at the gym i wanna hit up.

countdown to friday: 5 days

best thanksgiving food ever

so my almost-favorite holiday is just around the corner...THANKSGIVING! this holiday is good for many reasons, and i think all but one reason (spending time with family, blah blah) is food related! so, as an american AND an avid eater of holiday foods, i would like to present to you the top 10 reasons thanksgiving rules (in the form of the best t-giving foods there is):

10) PUMPKIN PIE

this is a very serious dessert for thanksgiving. i'm not gonna lie, i used to not like pumpkin pie. in fact, i wouldnt touch anything ending in "pie" unless it had "apple" in front of it! but just a few years ago, maybe 2 or 3 at most, i discovered why so many people blow their load over this shit. IT TASTES LIKE A SLICE OF FLUFFY HEAVEN INSIDE A FLAKY CRUST! oh my god and you BETTER eat that shit with vanilla ice cream or else i'll hunt you down and punch your mother.

9) DINNER ROLLS

the perfect addition to even the pickiest of eaters! "oh little jimmy, you don't want some of grandma's casserole? well have a roll!" NO ONE CAN SAY NO! and the butterier (apparently thats a word) the better! i especially like the potato-bready kind that makes you fat as shit but you dont even care because being fat would be better than life without these rolls.

8) GRAVY

a thanksgiving without gravy is just "giving." actually, its not even giving if theres no gravy! there would be NOTHING to be thankful for...NOTHING! the weird thing about this delicious liquidy goodness is that you can't really get away with eating it except between thanksgiving and christmas. any other time just seems....wrong. you DEFINITELY can't eat it in the summer, i dont care who you are! if you do, i will assume you are a terrorist and report you immediately.

7) CRANBERRY SAUCE

look, i'm not even going to pretend to like this stuff...i LOVE THIS STUFF! again, this is one of those scary-looking foods i never wanted to touch as a kid. it looks like someones guts on a piece of fine china! GROSS! and i definitely immediately hated anything that had "berry" at the end of it unless it was artificially flavored or gum. but i had this for the first time a few years ago (probably the same thanksgiving i had pumpkin pie) and ever since i obsess with anything berry. i buy berry lotions, berry lipbalm, berry colored towels. LOOK WHAT ITS DONE TO ME!


6) SWEET POTATOS

just look at that picture...you KNOW that shit has brown sugar, hazelnut, and sugar all mixed up in it! sweet potatoes would almost be better than regular mashed potatoes if they were a) saltier and b) butterier...but then i wouldnt like them anymore cuz they'd be exactly like mashed potatoes! so sweet potatoes, stay the way you are!!

5) GREEN BEAN CASSEROLE

um...i don't even know how to describe my love for green bean casserole. i've almost never loved a man as much. the mixture of green beans (awesome), cheesey-sauce (awesome), and crunchy wonton things (amazing!!) probably is enough to make the general population pee themselves. this is one of the dishes i keep in mind when i'm thinking about how i need to lose so much weight before thanksgiving...cuz i probably have at least 8 servings of this janx! thank you, GBC!

4) CORN ON THE COB

corn on the cob was probably the easiest shit EVER to make back when the pilgrims and indians still liked each other. this is probably why they didnt immediately kill one another! how can you be mad when you're eating buttery-ass corn on the cob!? except when i was in 7th grade and had braces and that shit got ALL UP in my wires...shit that made me so mad!! i could almost kill...an entire colony!!!! the indians shoulda took charge when they had the chance.

3) TURKEY

you must be freaking out right now, wondering why turkey is only #3 on my list. well why dont you shut up already so i can show you...

AND NUMBER TWO IS..

STUFFING!!!
this is serious. THIS IS SERIOUS!! stuffing is probably one of the best dishes ever created by jesus himself. i know this because nothing THAT good could come from plain old human mortals. my method of eating stuffing is taking a bite of stuffing with EVERY other food i eat on thanksgiving. and then maybe roll that shit in some gravy!! omg.

AND THE NUMBER ONE BEST EVER THANKSGIVING FOOD IS....


BROCOLLI CHEDDAR CASSEROLE!!!
brocolli cheddar casserole is so good i might have to kill myself. i feel like if anyone ever wanted to get me to do ANYTHING (and i mean anything) all they have to do is promise some brocolli cheddar casserole in return and i am 99% guarenteed* to be their slave for a week +.

well folks, i hope you enjoyed my top 10 list of holiday food. now if you will excuse me, i need to go stretch my entire wardrobe to accomodate the FAT that will be moving in the weeks following thanksgiving.



*i'm a liar.

**EDIT**
i noticed something completely uncalled for. i didn't add mashed potatoes!!! i totally meant to put them where corn on the cob is, and now i dont feel like going back and putting them there. i mean corn is good and all, but MASHED POTATOES!!? if you havent noticed my unhealthy love for carbs yet, you would understand if you gave me a gallon of garlic mashed potatoes.

this just in: modern dance doesn't always suck!

so tonight i went to a dance show (alone...tear tear) at school for my dance class that was actually...extremely awesome. i walked away smiling i think. the troupe was called "hubbard street" from chicago and they were spectacular. i highly recommend them to anyone interested in dance.

anyways this week's been okay. yesterday i hung out with my cousin for a good portion of the day, then went over to a friends house at night. today we had family portraits which came out beautiful, but my family has to create drama out of anything and successfully did so today as well. but its okay, i'm stoaked about these pictures because its been a long time since we had them done (literally--last time i was about 8 years old).

next week is going to be AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!1111 i say this because on friday i'm going to see my lover with 4 awesome ladies and fun times will be had all around. i'm starting to get excited about the holidays coming up regardless of the fact that a) i have no money and b) usually holidays induce some sort of suicide talk from multiple members of the family. i mean no big deal right!?!? whatever, i'm pretty sure my family is doing 2...count 'em TWO...thanksgivings that week so i cannot complain. i just need to lose 10 pounds now so that way i can gain that all back plus some on the turkey days ahead.

one more thing. one of my roomates got the sims from her house and brought it home and it has now become more addicting than both crack AND diet coke and thats saying a lot for me and my roomates. because we do crack ALOT.

i definitely wish that i could create my life like i made in the sims. i also love their language. now everytime i leave the house, i just say DAG DAG and A TAUT, NU NU!

ps. i suck, alot.

dear red states,

*this was not written by me, i just thought it was funny*

Dear Red States,


We've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, and we're taking the other Blue States with us. In case you aren't aware, that includes: California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast. We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to the people of the new country of New California.

To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states. We get stem cell research and the best beaches. We get the Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood. We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom. We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss. We get 85 percent of America's venture capital and entrepreneurs. You get Alabama. We get two-thirds of the tax revenue, you get to make the red states pay their fair share.

Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a bunch of single moms. Please be aware that Nuevo California will be pro-choice and anti-war, and we're going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at once. If you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have kids they're apparently willing to send to their deaths for no purpose, and they don't care if you don't show pictures of their children's caskets coming home. We do wish you success in Iraq , and hope that the WMDs turn up, but we're not willing to spend our resources in Bush's Quagmire.

With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80 percent of the country's fresh water, more than 90 percent of the pineapple and lettuce, 92 percent of the nation's fresh fruit, 95 percent of America's quality wines, 90 percent of all cheese, 90 percent of the high tech industry, most of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools plus Stanford, Berkeley, Cal Tech and MIT. With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to cope with 88 percent of all obese Americans (and their projected health care costs), 92 percent of all U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100 percent of the tornadoes, 90 percent of the hurricanes, 99 percent of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100 percent of all televangelists, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia. We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you.

Additionally, 38 percent of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale, 62 percent believe life is sacred
unless we're discussing the war, the death penalty or gun laws, 44 percent say that evolution is only a theory, 53 percent say that Saddam was involved in 9/11 and 61 percent of you crazy bastards believe you are people with higher morals then we lefties.

Finally, we're taking the good pot, too. You can have that dirt weed they grow in Mexico.

Peace out,
Blue States

President Barack Obama!!!

the title above seriously gives me goosechills all over my body. i'm SO happy right now!

seriously...call me corny. call me lame. me and my mom have been crying for the last 30 minutes since they announced obama is president. this is historic. this is truly beautiful. i scared my boyfriend with how excited i am.

but really, i am so so proud of this country. we have come such a long way, and i really want to quote elle woods when i say: WE DID IT!!!!

there's no place like home

i am currently laying on my parents couch with my enormously fat dog lilly (the bitch-literally-is 105 lbs...she weighs more than me and she should weigh ohhh about 40-50lbs) watching the discovery channel and trying to figure out how to order papa johns online. my zoo of a house greeted me at the door with much excitement (okay maybe just lilly but the cats came over and the birds were tweeting so i felt important, dammit!) so thats good. i'm just waiting for my mom and sister to get home so we can go vote the shit out of america!!!! syke but really.

why is it that my bird nessie got so excited when he saw me that he proceeded to mate with harriet? i will never understand pets.

happy voting, america!

NEVER FORGET

in the midst of such a chaotic time for our country, i would just like for us all to sit back and remember. remember...this:



she may be hot, america. but she kissed her own brother.let us remember, that incest is NOT best (and it most certainly should not be put to the test!)






this post was brought to you by a sleep deprived and emotionally drained emily.

shhh shh novembers here, keep it down

I cant believe this shit. its already november! next month is DECEMBER! WHAT! crikey. i need more time/money for christmas and shit. anywho, halloween was a success...i had a lot of fun and mondo good times were had. deffies bummed its over but whatever, this week is going to blow hxc. i got SO much work to do on top of the rest of my life, but the good news is...and what good news it is...is that theres only 4 weeks left of fall semester!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

night.