so there is apparently yet another winter storm coming this way. i guess its currently wreaking havoc in the midwest right now. i already have a bunch of classes cancelled for this week and i have to say i'm not really happy about it. its soooo boring here sometimes! going to and from class kills time. now, on top of other homework and stuff, i have more stuff to get done. tonight i'm gonna go stock up on ramen and soup and other food so if its really bad tomorrow, i can stay inside all day and be fine.
so i shall be purchasing the following:
chicken ramen (3)
tomato soup (2)
juice bottles (2)
hummus&pretzel combo thingy (2)
saltines (1)
various candy (a lot haha)
NyQuil (1)
DayQuil (1)
--those are because every single time theres a snowstorm my persistent, never-ending cold gets ten times worse wahhhhh
and then i'll get starbucks, of course =)
hopefully the rest of you prepare yourselves accordingly.. get out the flashlights and blankets to bundle up and non perishable goods and books (in case the tv goes out, or just because reading is awesome). maybe it will be a good time to finally clean your dorm, get a jump start on reading for class, or really get to know the people you get snowed in with. hey, this could be kinda fun!
also id like to thank my regular readers for going to the trouble of not only reading my blog but also clicking me ads for me!! its MUCH appreciated!!
also, jess dosser is pretty awesome =) and she was here when i wrote this and she is a fan of this blog yay!!
until next post,
~sam
About Me
- Sam
- i'm samantha, i'm 20 going on 21 and i am a junior English major, but im not here to use proper grammar. im athletic but i also love to write and figured a blog would be a good way to keep up with writing and also help get my thoughts out in a constructive way. i have a lot of opinions about society, especially how i think humanity is suffering because of the "gimme generation" (details on that later). i write mostly poetry but also dabble in prose and want to get into short fiction and all that jazz..hope someone finds this interesting!
Monday, January 31, 2011
Sunday, January 30, 2011
dear society
i am really, steadily and steadfastly losing faith in humanity, and this time for different reasons than spoiled little brats. this time it's about self-image.
pick up a magazine--any magazine, preferably one with celebrities or about fashion. do you see many "fat" girls in it? of course not. they're all stick thin, have perfect hair and flawless makeup, and are basically drop dead gorgeous. then they have articles selling the tips on how to be beautiful to the average janes who read the magazines. people start to follow the advice--dieting like crazy, going on juice cleanses or detox's, buying a certain expensive brand of this or that to make your hair shiny like kim kardashians or your face free of blemishes like paris hilton's. want to be as thin as kate moss or vanessa hudgens? gotta hit the gy, hire a personal trainer, and deny yourself all the foods you have grown to love. all for what, ladies? hasn't anyone realized that these people are the ones that are single and unhappy? they try sooo hard to stay "in shape" and be thinner than this starlet or that singer, be prettier than reese wtiherspoon, and striving to be these things makes them unhappy. take a look around you. look at your friends that are like this (everyone has at least one friend like this). are they happy? do their constant crazy vegan or raw vegetable only diets make them happy? and now look at your other friends--the ones who are of average weight and don't follow every trned or craze. the people who are happy to stay in on a friday night eating pizza and junk food, watching movies with their friends. they're happy! for goodness sake... why would you want to be labeled perfect or beautiful and be miserable when you could be a few pounds heavier and much much happier??
i'm not against working out, especially if you're obese; by all means, try to get healthy. but dont overdo it girls. its definitely not worth it. i dont know how to do my hair and sometimes it bothers me but usually im like eh, whatever--i guess it'll look messy and frizzy again today. and i have good days, usually. i dress semi-nicely for class and am going swimming 3 times a week just to stay in shape. i drink water whe i remember (which isnt often) and stay away too much starbucks, but i'm not crazy with this crap. i'm happy the way i am and i have lots of friends who stick by me and a boyfriend who loves me and family that supports anything i do.
its jsutnot fair that society dictates that we can only be pretty if we are super thin. and its not fair that if a thin girl gains a few pounds, everyone starts gossipping. or if an average girl loses a good amount of weight because she cuts the binge drinking everyone assumes she's anorexic. its not fair, so this is my message to you all--stop being judgmental about people's weight!!!
and besides--the stick thin girls just look gross. and what guy wants to date a girl who looks like a light breeze could snap her in half?
~sam
pick up a magazine--any magazine, preferably one with celebrities or about fashion. do you see many "fat" girls in it? of course not. they're all stick thin, have perfect hair and flawless makeup, and are basically drop dead gorgeous. then they have articles selling the tips on how to be beautiful to the average janes who read the magazines. people start to follow the advice--dieting like crazy, going on juice cleanses or detox's, buying a certain expensive brand of this or that to make your hair shiny like kim kardashians or your face free of blemishes like paris hilton's. want to be as thin as kate moss or vanessa hudgens? gotta hit the gy, hire a personal trainer, and deny yourself all the foods you have grown to love. all for what, ladies? hasn't anyone realized that these people are the ones that are single and unhappy? they try sooo hard to stay "in shape" and be thinner than this starlet or that singer, be prettier than reese wtiherspoon, and striving to be these things makes them unhappy. take a look around you. look at your friends that are like this (everyone has at least one friend like this). are they happy? do their constant crazy vegan or raw vegetable only diets make them happy? and now look at your other friends--the ones who are of average weight and don't follow every trned or craze. the people who are happy to stay in on a friday night eating pizza and junk food, watching movies with their friends. they're happy! for goodness sake... why would you want to be labeled perfect or beautiful and be miserable when you could be a few pounds heavier and much much happier??
i'm not against working out, especially if you're obese; by all means, try to get healthy. but dont overdo it girls. its definitely not worth it. i dont know how to do my hair and sometimes it bothers me but usually im like eh, whatever--i guess it'll look messy and frizzy again today. and i have good days, usually. i dress semi-nicely for class and am going swimming 3 times a week just to stay in shape. i drink water whe i remember (which isnt often) and stay away too much starbucks, but i'm not crazy with this crap. i'm happy the way i am and i have lots of friends who stick by me and a boyfriend who loves me and family that supports anything i do.
its jsutnot fair that society dictates that we can only be pretty if we are super thin. and its not fair that if a thin girl gains a few pounds, everyone starts gossipping. or if an average girl loses a good amount of weight because she cuts the binge drinking everyone assumes she's anorexic. its not fair, so this is my message to you all--stop being judgmental about people's weight!!!
and besides--the stick thin girls just look gross. and what guy wants to date a girl who looks like a light breeze could snap her in half?
~sam
Friday, January 28, 2011
once a pink panther, always a pink panther
this is about my high school swim team, the SCHSD pink panthers. i was a diver, to clarify--yes swimming and diving are combined on one team. and i was the only constant diver we ever had. occasionally we would have someone try diving for a year but they either went back to swimming, gymnastics, or other sports. i loved diving for the panthers--those girls were the best!! we had the best cheers, the best HOT PINK bathing suits and sweats, and the best desserts after the meets, courtesy of grace and laura's dad who is by far the best baker in the world.
it was fun because even if we lost we had a great time; the bus rides were great because for a fe years someone brought their boom box thing and blasted music that we all sang along to.. if we passed a bus of boys (soccer players, almost always) we opened the window and flirted or wrote our numbers on notebooks for them (i dont condone this any longer with the amount of creepers out there), and it was just always a blast.
this is also how i met annemarie, and lo and behold we ended up working together for two summers at the same pool. this is also her shoutout. she is a great swimmer and has been on the team since 7th grade, like me. she and i both love vera bradley bags, fashion especially shopping at forever 21, and teaching swimming lessons and the best class ever--ADULT lessons!!! those are the best classes, honestly. she and i taught it with falco (see his shoutout for more details). on the last day of lessons we took our adults down the water slide and... we put a fish in a gatorade bottle, closed it, and took that fish in the pool. it went down the slide off the diving board and it floated on a kickboard too. it was awesome.
we also did something simultaneously at 7:22, about halfway thru our last adult lesson class, that will not be mentione here but will never be forgotten. hahahahahhahaaaaa!
annemarie is awesome and recently us and our work friends got together one night and watched armageddon. she had never seen it; i had. i still cried at the end. bawling is more accurate. she, however, sobbed and it would have been funny if i wasn't crying also. so we are cry buddies now. teeheehee
she is very fashion-forward, always perfectly accessorized and matching and has tasteful makeup (unlike some of our friends who dress like homeless people...hahaha jk).
on new years eve she and i both wore awesome sparkly shirts haha <3
she has never crashed/totaled/scratched a car. that doesnt go for all of our friends =)
she requested a shoutout better than falco's and since this is in narrative form rather than list form i hope it constitutes as "better" because i took more time in writing and planning it out for her.
basically, annemarie is awesome!! oh and i lvoeher dog, Tux, and her bunny marc jacobss =)\
until next post,
~sam
it was fun because even if we lost we had a great time; the bus rides were great because for a fe years someone brought their boom box thing and blasted music that we all sang along to.. if we passed a bus of boys (soccer players, almost always) we opened the window and flirted or wrote our numbers on notebooks for them (i dont condone this any longer with the amount of creepers out there), and it was just always a blast.
this is also how i met annemarie, and lo and behold we ended up working together for two summers at the same pool. this is also her shoutout. she is a great swimmer and has been on the team since 7th grade, like me. she and i both love vera bradley bags, fashion especially shopping at forever 21, and teaching swimming lessons and the best class ever--ADULT lessons!!! those are the best classes, honestly. she and i taught it with falco (see his shoutout for more details). on the last day of lessons we took our adults down the water slide and... we put a fish in a gatorade bottle, closed it, and took that fish in the pool. it went down the slide off the diving board and it floated on a kickboard too. it was awesome.
we also did something simultaneously at 7:22, about halfway thru our last adult lesson class, that will not be mentione here but will never be forgotten. hahahahahhahaaaaa!
annemarie is awesome and recently us and our work friends got together one night and watched armageddon. she had never seen it; i had. i still cried at the end. bawling is more accurate. she, however, sobbed and it would have been funny if i wasn't crying also. so we are cry buddies now. teeheehee
she is very fashion-forward, always perfectly accessorized and matching and has tasteful makeup (unlike some of our friends who dress like homeless people...hahaha jk).
on new years eve she and i both wore awesome sparkly shirts haha <3
she has never crashed/totaled/scratched a car. that doesnt go for all of our friends =)
she requested a shoutout better than falco's and since this is in narrative form rather than list form i hope it constitutes as "better" because i took more time in writing and planning it out for her.
basically, annemarie is awesome!! oh and i lvoeher dog, Tux, and her bunny marc jacobss =)\
until next post,
~sam
paranormal activity, college edition
as some of you might know, i firmly believe my dorm is haunted. and by dorm i mean our common room (living area, with a tv, fridges, microwave, couch and tables) is haunted. my bedroom and my suitemates bedroom seem fine. but last semester i would be in the common room on the fone or watching tv at night, the last one up, and id hear noises. at first it hought it was regular noises; the heat creaking on, normal bathroom sounds of the faucet, people in other rooms making noises, etc. but then i would hear the microwave door open and lo and behold when i looked at it, it was closed. i thought it was just my imagination until the noises started happening at frequent intervals.
then one night last semester i heard a sound in my room, right after i had laid down to sleep. it could have been something falling off my dresser, but in the morning there was no evidence that anything physical had happened. weird.
when this semester began i had convinced myself it was all just normal noises. the first few nights were blissfully quiet. then 2 nights ago i heard microwave door opening sounds and even the sound of the fridge being opened or moved or something. i was telling my roommate and suitemates about it last night and decided to show them how loud it actually was and that i wasn't crazy.
they were in my room. i got up and closed my door behind me. it was silent in our suite and i opened the door of the microwave. then i closed it shut, and they started screaming.
apparently when i shut the mucrowave door, something from my roommate's top shelf fell off. it could have hit her! i think the "ghost" or whatever is haunting our suite wasn't happy that they don't take it seriously. it was a physical manifestation and i think it was just wayyy too coincedental that the thing fell at theexact moment i closed the microwave door. weirddd...
anyway i'm not crazy! and it's probably nothing abnormal but i thought people might like to know about the paranormal activity that goes down in suite 103
until next post,
~sam
then one night last semester i heard a sound in my room, right after i had laid down to sleep. it could have been something falling off my dresser, but in the morning there was no evidence that anything physical had happened. weird.
when this semester began i had convinced myself it was all just normal noises. the first few nights were blissfully quiet. then 2 nights ago i heard microwave door opening sounds and even the sound of the fridge being opened or moved or something. i was telling my roommate and suitemates about it last night and decided to show them how loud it actually was and that i wasn't crazy.
they were in my room. i got up and closed my door behind me. it was silent in our suite and i opened the door of the microwave. then i closed it shut, and they started screaming.
apparently when i shut the mucrowave door, something from my roommate's top shelf fell off. it could have hit her! i think the "ghost" or whatever is haunting our suite wasn't happy that they don't take it seriously. it was a physical manifestation and i think it was just wayyy too coincedental that the thing fell at theexact moment i closed the microwave door. weirddd...
anyway i'm not crazy! and it's probably nothing abnormal but i thought people might like to know about the paranormal activity that goes down in suite 103
until next post,
~sam
Thursday, January 27, 2011
call me madam president
soo tonight is the first hall council meeting of the spring semester. i am, of course, the president of my dorm. its an awesome position to hold because basically i control everything. if we want to make a decision i get to be the one who says "all in favor?" and "meeting adjourned" and "motion to select____" and other cool presidential catch phrases like that. we get to do community service (a lovely addition to any resume) and cool activities for little siblings weekend. i soooo wish my bf's little cousins could come, the 3 of them would have a blastt! last year we did face painting and cookie decorating (i was VP) and this year its better. we are doing an egg toss aka you have to design some way for your raw egg to be dropped form 2 stories (into a trahs can) and not have it crack. you can design a parachute, pack it into a styrofoam cup, etc. gonna be sweeeeeeeeeet.
also as president i get to oversee how our budget is spent. basically when we have to buy food for events i make sure its food i like and soda i will drink. generally NO ONE but hall council members and 3 other people show up so if we're gonna have a ton of food for 10 people it might as well be food i like. i am after all president.
i am also a very unorganized president..i rarely have an agenda and tend to just wing it at the meetings. my favorite part is telling everyone to shut up when side conversations get us off track. no one wants to be in a meeting more than ten minutes, especially the RA's lol. but oh well--part of being President is being able to think on your feet. obviously i'm doing that since everyone on hall council says they enjoy our meetings.
anywayss i shall now go and relax and watch comedy central until its time for our meeting. and then start planning the shout-outs to the people who want them teeheehee =)
until next time,
~sam
also as president i get to oversee how our budget is spent. basically when we have to buy food for events i make sure its food i like and soda i will drink. generally NO ONE but hall council members and 3 other people show up so if we're gonna have a ton of food for 10 people it might as well be food i like. i am after all president.
i am also a very unorganized president..i rarely have an agenda and tend to just wing it at the meetings. my favorite part is telling everyone to shut up when side conversations get us off track. no one wants to be in a meeting more than ten minutes, especially the RA's lol. but oh well--part of being President is being able to think on your feet. obviously i'm doing that since everyone on hall council says they enjoy our meetings.
anywayss i shall now go and relax and watch comedy central until its time for our meeting. and then start planning the shout-outs to the people who want them teeheehee =)
until next time,
~sam
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
aaand 3..2..1..GO!
for homework due friday, my professor for intermediate fiction writing assigned us this seemingly impossible task: write a short story, in less than 200 characters (inc. punctuation and spaces) that has a charatcter(s), tension, and seems to really be a complete story.
these are some examples i threw out before i kept the one i'm handing in:
-once upon a time there was a girl in a college english class with a lot of stupid homework. she didn't do it. nothing happened to her. the end.
-once upon a time a boy wrote what he thought was an incredibly awesome poem, only to be told it was awful by his mom. he cried for the rest of his life.
-today, jack won the lottery. tomorrow will be the worst day of his life.
-the zombies invaded america today, wrote allie in her journal. i don't know if they got to the rest of the world yet, but i can't call long distance anymore. guess they got to ireland too.
-sprinkles was a fat cat who lived in a nice house with nice people. they fed her (too much) let her have toys and occasionally make fun of her when she steps in wet paint. she is kind of dumb. poor sprinkles.
hahahah. the one i really wrote was 24 words about the end of the world and its good but im not putting it here because i dont want anyone to steal it, pass it off as their own, and make millions of $$$ off of my incredibly amazing story =) jkkk
~sam
these are some examples i threw out before i kept the one i'm handing in:
-once upon a time there was a girl in a college english class with a lot of stupid homework. she didn't do it. nothing happened to her. the end.
-once upon a time a boy wrote what he thought was an incredibly awesome poem, only to be told it was awful by his mom. he cried for the rest of his life.
-today, jack won the lottery. tomorrow will be the worst day of his life.
-the zombies invaded america today, wrote allie in her journal. i don't know if they got to the rest of the world yet, but i can't call long distance anymore. guess they got to ireland too.
-sprinkles was a fat cat who lived in a nice house with nice people. they fed her (too much) let her have toys and occasionally make fun of her when she steps in wet paint. she is kind of dumb. poor sprinkles.
hahahah. the one i really wrote was 24 words about the end of the world and its good but im not putting it here because i dont want anyone to steal it, pass it off as their own, and make millions of $$$ off of my incredibly amazing story =) jkkk
~sam
the life and times of michael falco
so my friend from work mike falco has asked for a blog shoutout. i will tell you everything i know about him and how i have gotten to know him in the past few years.
-we taught adult swim together last summer, along with annemarie...and now refer to money as Brenda Buck$ thanks to the lovely Brenda who took the class 3 times
-he gave me a Shake Weight for christmas with a tag that said "you're a strong and independant young woman"
-his mom makes the BEST fried oreos!!
-he came over for my family movie night when my family watched 'inception' and tried to help me and my brother explain the movie to my mom who undersood almost nothing... we were all also in our pj's and looked horrible, and we didnt really expect him to show up
-he saved a hilarious video of a friend's car accident on his falsh drive and put it on my computer on said movie night and itsby far thebest video i've ever seen...sorry patrish, i had to see it
-he once worked for 27 straight days at the pool and got a lil party to celebrate it
-he's American, and damn proud of it
-i put a cheeto in his christmas gift (fish in a bottle) and i think it killed one of them..sorry haha
-we were on the WINNING team for the staff scavenger hunt last year, team SSPAMMM, we dominated, and he was the legit captain because he drove us in the swagga' wagon
-my parents absolutely adore him, and its funny because i only met his mom once or twice but apparently she loves me too..yay!
i would write about patricia but all she does is drink arnold palmer's and total cars. she did have an awesome honda accord and we had matching cars..until she plowed an SUV hahahah she's gonna kill me for this and i'll probably have to edit this paragraph out later but i do love her even tho she's addicted to her blackberry and is mean to annemarieee
oh and mike falco started calling my cat tinkerbell by the name of sprinkles, and my dad started to call it sprinkles over break. and he was there when she ran in blue paint and had a blue paw for a night lmao
until next post,
~sam
ps if u want a shoutout i will gladly write one =)
-we taught adult swim together last summer, along with annemarie...and now refer to money as Brenda Buck$ thanks to the lovely Brenda who took the class 3 times
-he gave me a Shake Weight for christmas with a tag that said "you're a strong and independant young woman"
-his mom makes the BEST fried oreos!!
-he came over for my family movie night when my family watched 'inception' and tried to help me and my brother explain the movie to my mom who undersood almost nothing... we were all also in our pj's and looked horrible, and we didnt really expect him to show up
-he saved a hilarious video of a friend's car accident on his falsh drive and put it on my computer on said movie night and itsby far thebest video i've ever seen...sorry patrish, i had to see it
-he once worked for 27 straight days at the pool and got a lil party to celebrate it
-he's American, and damn proud of it
-i put a cheeto in his christmas gift (fish in a bottle) and i think it killed one of them..sorry haha
-we were on the WINNING team for the staff scavenger hunt last year, team SSPAMMM, we dominated, and he was the legit captain because he drove us in the swagga' wagon
-my parents absolutely adore him, and its funny because i only met his mom once or twice but apparently she loves me too..yay!
i would write about patricia but all she does is drink arnold palmer's and total cars. she did have an awesome honda accord and we had matching cars..until she plowed an SUV hahahah she's gonna kill me for this and i'll probably have to edit this paragraph out later but i do love her even tho she's addicted to her blackberry and is mean to annemarieee
oh and mike falco started calling my cat tinkerbell by the name of sprinkles, and my dad started to call it sprinkles over break. and he was there when she ran in blue paint and had a blue paw for a night lmao
until next post,
~sam
ps if u want a shoutout i will gladly write one =)
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
if i had a million dollar$
so i was thinking of all the things i would buy if i had a million dollars. here is an incomplete list. and its all legit i would really try to buy all these things
-a porsche 911, in black or silver
-louis vuitton luggage
-a bunch of coach and vera bradley bags so i would never have to worry about matching a bag to my outfit again
-juicy couture tracksuits in various colors
-a tank of exotic fish, maybe even rays (not the stinging kind) because they're cute
-a shark tank
-buy my parents a house in a climate they actually enjoy
-pay off my, my brothers, and my boyfriends college tuition/loans
-hire someone to get me starbucks everyday..because its too expensive to get it everyday unless you're rich
-make a month be "sam history month" idk which month yet
-my birthday would become a national holiday
-shut down a certain pool in a certain town
-donate money to funding cancer in memory of my family members who endured it
-buy a Greek island, and make it private
-make it illegal for patricia holliday to have a drivers license or say the phrase "im so college" ever again
-hire mrs falco to make me fried oreos whenever i want...aka all the time
-make lindsay lohan go away, not be "taken care of" but be locked away forever in a shack in a third world country so she can stop ruining america
-pay for my dream wedding to my dream man <3. and i swear that would be th nicest wedding...move over prince william and kate, mine would be better
-hire a hair stylist..im HOPELESS at doing my hair
-buy a nail salon exclusively for me and my mom, so we never have to wait for an opening or for the girl we like to do our nails, and it will have all the colors of nail polish we like and the people working there will only speak english so they cant talk sh*t about us in korean
-and i'd buy barnes&noble so i could always have access to books =)
and im sure there's more id buy, will add at a later date
=) sam
-a porsche 911, in black or silver
-louis vuitton luggage
-a bunch of coach and vera bradley bags so i would never have to worry about matching a bag to my outfit again
-juicy couture tracksuits in various colors
-a tank of exotic fish, maybe even rays (not the stinging kind) because they're cute
-a shark tank
-buy my parents a house in a climate they actually enjoy
-pay off my, my brothers, and my boyfriends college tuition/loans
-hire someone to get me starbucks everyday..because its too expensive to get it everyday unless you're rich
-make a month be "sam history month" idk which month yet
-my birthday would become a national holiday
-shut down a certain pool in a certain town
-donate money to funding cancer in memory of my family members who endured it
-buy a Greek island, and make it private
-make it illegal for patricia holliday to have a drivers license or say the phrase "im so college" ever again
-hire mrs falco to make me fried oreos whenever i want...aka all the time
-make lindsay lohan go away, not be "taken care of" but be locked away forever in a shack in a third world country so she can stop ruining america
-pay for my dream wedding to my dream man <3. and i swear that would be th nicest wedding...move over prince william and kate, mine would be better
-hire a hair stylist..im HOPELESS at doing my hair
-buy a nail salon exclusively for me and my mom, so we never have to wait for an opening or for the girl we like to do our nails, and it will have all the colors of nail polish we like and the people working there will only speak english so they cant talk sh*t about us in korean
-and i'd buy barnes&noble so i could always have access to books =)
and im sure there's more id buy, will add at a later date
=) sam
my tuesdays are gonna be SWEET!
so my monday wednesday and fridays are gonna be annoying this semester because i start class at ten am and am not done til 4. of course i have breaks in between but with the negative temperatures outside im stuck hanging out in the library or coffee shop btwn classes to kill time. thankfully, my tuesdays and thursdays are awesome because i only have one class and its from 12:30 til 2. so i can sleep in and im done early afternoon. and after 2 is perfect nap time haha.
the class i had today was this awesome greek history class, with a professor i had freshman year. he's a great teacher and i know the way he grades and he only has a midterm and final exam, and 2 papers during the semester. the participation is a big part of the grade but im talkative so i'm fine. and HE REMEMBERED ME!!! he remembered my name and said hi when he took roll. thank god, because this professor likes when you're smart and talk in class. i do both. today no one would answer a few basic questions. he asked who gave the ancient greeks the alphabet and i knew it was the phoenicians. i didnt say anything yet, figuring id let someone else answer. either everyone else is braindead, or too scared to talk, because about thirty seconds went by of complete silence. i finally said the answer and the professor was all excited haha. im a nerd for history, especially greek history.
i also bought all my textbooks and notebooks and went grocery shopping. i feel like such an adult haha. i even got up early today to shower, do my hair&makeup and pick out a nice outfit for school today. soo responsible! haha
k gonna go write my short story for my fiction class tomorrow then watch last weeks tenn mom 2 to get ready for the new episode tonight!! yayyy teen mom 2.. such a guilty pleasure. so is extreme couponing ahahaa
until next time,
~sam
the class i had today was this awesome greek history class, with a professor i had freshman year. he's a great teacher and i know the way he grades and he only has a midterm and final exam, and 2 papers during the semester. the participation is a big part of the grade but im talkative so i'm fine. and HE REMEMBERED ME!!! he remembered my name and said hi when he took roll. thank god, because this professor likes when you're smart and talk in class. i do both. today no one would answer a few basic questions. he asked who gave the ancient greeks the alphabet and i knew it was the phoenicians. i didnt say anything yet, figuring id let someone else answer. either everyone else is braindead, or too scared to talk, because about thirty seconds went by of complete silence. i finally said the answer and the professor was all excited haha. im a nerd for history, especially greek history.
i also bought all my textbooks and notebooks and went grocery shopping. i feel like such an adult haha. i even got up early today to shower, do my hair&makeup and pick out a nice outfit for school today. soo responsible! haha
k gonna go write my short story for my fiction class tomorrow then watch last weeks tenn mom 2 to get ready for the new episode tonight!! yayyy teen mom 2.. such a guilty pleasure. so is extreme couponing ahahaa
until next time,
~sam
Monday, January 24, 2011
first day of school!
so its the first day of classes for the spring semester (ironic, since it's negative 12 right now) and it's going swell so far. had intermediate poetry at ten, black women writers at 11, literary publishing at 1 and then i have intermediate fiction at 3. and three of those classes are with the same professor lol. its good because he'll get to know me and know i'm a hard worker. its bad because i can't ever just skip a morning class because i'm tired.
normally in my breaks between classes i go back to my room but its literally so cold outside that we have an advisory ("stay inside unless it's absolutely necessary for you to go outside, and if you do please wear apropriate apparel" oh ok thanks, i didnt know that already). so im in the library enjoying the internet for a while before i venture back outside into the tundra for my last class of the day. and even though my MWF days suck, tuesdays and thursdays are nice because i only have one class and its from 12:30 til 2. so i can sleep in, and im done early. cha-ching!!
anyways..i farmed a little. i play farmville on facebook..kinda sad, i know, but im addicted and its the only game im addicted to really. virtual game, at least. board games i love and im very good at them. some people would say thats because i cheat/steal cards/place the dice to the number i want it to show when no ones looking/steal money or property cards, etc. but im good because i strategize, make alliances, and have a plethora of usuless trivia knowledge at my disposal.
anyways, i am already weighing the ups and downs of being back at campus. the ups are: starbucks conveniently located, free magazines (thanks to my fredcard debit funds), no cats to knock my stuff off my dresser. the downs are: its FREEZING, there's ice everywhere, theres too much snow, i miss my cats, i miss not having class, i cant sleep in all the time, i dont have my boyfriend or long island friends here, the food isnt that great, and i dont have access to a car. oh and the internet doesnt always work in my room. oh and its FRIGID all the time!!!!!!!
ok enough complaining...back to farming, then back to the building for my last class of the day. intermediate fiction writing woooot!
until next time,
~sam
normally in my breaks between classes i go back to my room but its literally so cold outside that we have an advisory ("stay inside unless it's absolutely necessary for you to go outside, and if you do please wear apropriate apparel" oh ok thanks, i didnt know that already). so im in the library enjoying the internet for a while before i venture back outside into the tundra for my last class of the day. and even though my MWF days suck, tuesdays and thursdays are nice because i only have one class and its from 12:30 til 2. so i can sleep in, and im done early. cha-ching!!
anyways..i farmed a little. i play farmville on facebook..kinda sad, i know, but im addicted and its the only game im addicted to really. virtual game, at least. board games i love and im very good at them. some people would say thats because i cheat/steal cards/place the dice to the number i want it to show when no ones looking/steal money or property cards, etc. but im good because i strategize, make alliances, and have a plethora of usuless trivia knowledge at my disposal.
anyways, i am already weighing the ups and downs of being back at campus. the ups are: starbucks conveniently located, free magazines (thanks to my fredcard debit funds), no cats to knock my stuff off my dresser. the downs are: its FREEZING, there's ice everywhere, theres too much snow, i miss my cats, i miss not having class, i cant sleep in all the time, i dont have my boyfriend or long island friends here, the food isnt that great, and i dont have access to a car. oh and the internet doesnt always work in my room. oh and its FRIGID all the time!!!!!!!
ok enough complaining...back to farming, then back to the building for my last class of the day. intermediate fiction writing woooot!
until next time,
~sam
Sunday, January 23, 2011
is this alaska?
back to school...the train ride up here to lovely western new york made upstate look like the arctic tundra. all the flat land was snow covered, as were the trees and i seriously thought i was in alaska for a while. doesnt help that the temperature is in the single digits..NOT including wind chill. gonna be one hell of a semester. i'll survive unless i freeze to death!!!!!
first day of class tomorrow. layering up to prevent hypothermia. hope the dog sled doesnt leave without me because i dont know if i can walk in this blizzard.
until tomorrow, if we get that far!
~sam
first day of class tomorrow. layering up to prevent hypothermia. hope the dog sled doesnt leave without me because i dont know if i can walk in this blizzard.
until tomorrow, if we get that far!
~sam
Saturday, January 22, 2011
farewell long island
my fellow islanders... i bid thee a very fond farewell, for i must be going now.
back to college, that is. i am so mixed..on the one hand, i have my boyfriend here at home whom i love so much its crazy. he's a wonderful guy and treats me so well and hangs out with my family and everything. not seeing him for weeks on end really REALLY blows and the few times a year i get to come home i like to make the most out of it. it seems like these 5 weeks really just flew by!! its so not fair. and what kills me is most people get to see their significant others everyday and have awful relationships, full of cheating and lying and fighting. its ironic that i found my soulmate and only get to see him for thanksgiving, xmas, and spring break (summers too thank god!) and the occasional weekend he visits, if he can get off from work and school and if i dont have a million projects to do that weekend and if we can find someone willing to get him from buffalo and bring him to campus.. a million what ifs. it sucks. he left just a half hour ago and i miss him like crazy already. thank god we have skype and unlimited texting, otherwise id go crazy. but at least i can hear his voice and see his face when im almost 9 hours away.
i'll also miss my insanely comfy bed...my own room...my library...my cats (ha..sorta) and good home cooked food. plus the DVR its so nice to have it here. i'll miss long island bagels and long island pizza and long island coffee, long island fast food late night runs, long island adventures with my long island friends..long island weather (but not this winter, it was colder here than upstate i think). i'll basically miss long island. even the traffic, even the rude drivers and even having to do more laundry, dishes, and cleaning of the room than i ever have to do at school.
i'm glad to see my friends again, and my suitemates and roommate, they're great girls. and the swim team of course :) i'll be happy to not get yelled at for staying up late to watch the teen mom 2 reruns at 2am, and being able to basically get free starbucks and magazines, courtesy of my FredCard and all points meal plan! yayyy for mochas and breakfast sandwiches 24/7 again.
but again, i'll miss being woken up to a cup of tea all ready brewed for me by my dad, and the daily papers left by my chair (dad reads them hours before i emerge from my slumber haha). i'll miss having the house to myself from 1pm when dad lays down for his nap til 3 and 4 when kevin and my mom come home from school. thats my "me time" and its a blessing to have it. i'll miss my mom cracking up at my brother's imitations of his teachers, etc. and her treating me to getting my nails done as a reward for doing her a huge favor this past year haha. i'll even miss kevin, for as annoying as he can be, he's hilarious and we always have a ton of new funny youtube vids to show each other whenever im home for a break. btw, check out my bf's channel on youtube, under "diglio" and for some food-related laughs, search "epic mealtime"...so funny!
honestly..this semester will be good. i'm taking great classes, applying for the internship!!! YAY!! (details later this week) and turning 21!!!!!!!!!!!! hell yea! but who's gonna take care of the cats for me? no one inmy house likes poor pippin because she likes to cuddle too much, and tink kinda smells and im the only one who lets her sit on my lap.. those poor kitties. i hope they dont miss me too much. and harry even started to like me for the first time ever..now all the progress we made is shot to shit, as they say. he wont remember me when im back in march and he'll hate me again as usal lol.
i really am gonna miss my parents brother friends and mike more than any of the other good stuff long island has to offer. its the people you surround yourself with that makes life fun and awesome. i cant wait til its spring break and im home for a week in march!!!
ok time for bed, i have a long ass train ride ahead of me tomorrow!!
until next post =)
~sam
back to college, that is. i am so mixed..on the one hand, i have my boyfriend here at home whom i love so much its crazy. he's a wonderful guy and treats me so well and hangs out with my family and everything. not seeing him for weeks on end really REALLY blows and the few times a year i get to come home i like to make the most out of it. it seems like these 5 weeks really just flew by!! its so not fair. and what kills me is most people get to see their significant others everyday and have awful relationships, full of cheating and lying and fighting. its ironic that i found my soulmate and only get to see him for thanksgiving, xmas, and spring break (summers too thank god!) and the occasional weekend he visits, if he can get off from work and school and if i dont have a million projects to do that weekend and if we can find someone willing to get him from buffalo and bring him to campus.. a million what ifs. it sucks. he left just a half hour ago and i miss him like crazy already. thank god we have skype and unlimited texting, otherwise id go crazy. but at least i can hear his voice and see his face when im almost 9 hours away.
i'll also miss my insanely comfy bed...my own room...my library...my cats (ha..sorta) and good home cooked food. plus the DVR its so nice to have it here. i'll miss long island bagels and long island pizza and long island coffee, long island fast food late night runs, long island adventures with my long island friends..long island weather (but not this winter, it was colder here than upstate i think). i'll basically miss long island. even the traffic, even the rude drivers and even having to do more laundry, dishes, and cleaning of the room than i ever have to do at school.
i'm glad to see my friends again, and my suitemates and roommate, they're great girls. and the swim team of course :) i'll be happy to not get yelled at for staying up late to watch the teen mom 2 reruns at 2am, and being able to basically get free starbucks and magazines, courtesy of my FredCard and all points meal plan! yayyy for mochas and breakfast sandwiches 24/7 again.
but again, i'll miss being woken up to a cup of tea all ready brewed for me by my dad, and the daily papers left by my chair (dad reads them hours before i emerge from my slumber haha). i'll miss having the house to myself from 1pm when dad lays down for his nap til 3 and 4 when kevin and my mom come home from school. thats my "me time" and its a blessing to have it. i'll miss my mom cracking up at my brother's imitations of his teachers, etc. and her treating me to getting my nails done as a reward for doing her a huge favor this past year haha. i'll even miss kevin, for as annoying as he can be, he's hilarious and we always have a ton of new funny youtube vids to show each other whenever im home for a break. btw, check out my bf's channel on youtube, under "diglio" and for some food-related laughs, search "epic mealtime"...so funny!
honestly..this semester will be good. i'm taking great classes, applying for the internship!!! YAY!! (details later this week) and turning 21!!!!!!!!!!!! hell yea! but who's gonna take care of the cats for me? no one inmy house likes poor pippin because she likes to cuddle too much, and tink kinda smells and im the only one who lets her sit on my lap.. those poor kitties. i hope they dont miss me too much. and harry even started to like me for the first time ever..now all the progress we made is shot to shit, as they say. he wont remember me when im back in march and he'll hate me again as usal lol.
i really am gonna miss my parents brother friends and mike more than any of the other good stuff long island has to offer. its the people you surround yourself with that makes life fun and awesome. i cant wait til its spring break and im home for a week in march!!!
ok time for bed, i have a long ass train ride ahead of me tomorrow!!
until next post =)
~sam
Thursday, January 20, 2011
cats on crack..i mean catnip
hey comrades... ok. so cats. for those of u who dont know, i have 3. we adopted two (sisters) from a shelter in christmas of 2007. they are pippin (yea from lord of the rings lol) and tinkerbell. i named tink. then in october of 07 we found this tiny white kitten meowing pitifully outside our window and my mo took it in and when i came home from school i saw the cutest little kitty who would be harry (after harry potter, since they are both orphans) and i fell in love. we had to keep him--i mean this kitten could fit on one hand and was just so precious.
its been a few years, and not much has changed. harry's the general of the house, constantly patrolling the windows of the house so he can hiss at the neighborhood strays. hes also the sweetest cat and cuddles on most peoples laps at any given time. he has some gay traits--he has a very high pitched meow, and he plays with pink hair curlers. touch his hair curler and he'll draw blood. seriously. the best is if you put one in your pocket so it sticks out a little bit; he'll jump up and hit it with his paw til it falls on the ground, and then he picks it up in his mouth and runs away with it. he also harasses the other cats and likes to jump on them when they're sleeping and then take over their nap spot.
pippins the prettiest, all gray tabby with green eyes. only thing is, shes an attention whore. she has the loudest most annoying meow ever and if you dont stop to pet, feed, or cuddle with her, she lets the whole damn house know about it. other than that shes nice--she sleeps with me every night and its cute, but shes a bed hog.
tink is..special. some of my work friends call her 'sprinkles' after angela's cat on the show the office. shes very interesting. overweight, strangley colored, a deep grunt for a meow and with these HUGE yellow eyes, she indeed looks weird. she often stares at walls or inanimate objects for fun. she usually smells like cat poop and if she sits on your lap she always puts her ass in your face, giving you a lovely wiff of cat butt. when shes not busy smelling bad and staring at you with her huge eyes, shes quite funny. she has a toy football (soft) that she bats around like you wouldnt believe. there might be catnip (crack for cats) in it or something. shes very cuddly also. the funniest things she does are: 1) she has to knock her catfood out of the dish before she eats it, and she eats the pieces one by one; 2) if you annoy her she takes her paw and will hit you. im talking, bitch-slap you. i will tap her back sometimes and the look in her giant eyes is great, because she gets madder and hits you again. 3 minutes later she wants to cuddle..so strange!
anyway im NOT a crazy cat person, but i do love my cats. theyre very funny and do the quirkiest things. pippin prefers to nap in the linen closet, on the towels, sometimes nestled in them. harry stalks the other cats and harasses them, and then tries to cuddle with them later on my bed. tink...anything she does is funny, especially the time she ran on some shirts i was decorating with fabric paint and her back leg, which is white, was bright blue for a few days!
so yea, those are my crazy cats. oh and my dad hates all of them and loves to find new things to do to them that they dislike..like laser guns that make sounds, loud music...its great
until next post,
~sam
its been a few years, and not much has changed. harry's the general of the house, constantly patrolling the windows of the house so he can hiss at the neighborhood strays. hes also the sweetest cat and cuddles on most peoples laps at any given time. he has some gay traits--he has a very high pitched meow, and he plays with pink hair curlers. touch his hair curler and he'll draw blood. seriously. the best is if you put one in your pocket so it sticks out a little bit; he'll jump up and hit it with his paw til it falls on the ground, and then he picks it up in his mouth and runs away with it. he also harasses the other cats and likes to jump on them when they're sleeping and then take over their nap spot.
pippins the prettiest, all gray tabby with green eyes. only thing is, shes an attention whore. she has the loudest most annoying meow ever and if you dont stop to pet, feed, or cuddle with her, she lets the whole damn house know about it. other than that shes nice--she sleeps with me every night and its cute, but shes a bed hog.
tink is..special. some of my work friends call her 'sprinkles' after angela's cat on the show the office. shes very interesting. overweight, strangley colored, a deep grunt for a meow and with these HUGE yellow eyes, she indeed looks weird. she often stares at walls or inanimate objects for fun. she usually smells like cat poop and if she sits on your lap she always puts her ass in your face, giving you a lovely wiff of cat butt. when shes not busy smelling bad and staring at you with her huge eyes, shes quite funny. she has a toy football (soft) that she bats around like you wouldnt believe. there might be catnip (crack for cats) in it or something. shes very cuddly also. the funniest things she does are: 1) she has to knock her catfood out of the dish before she eats it, and she eats the pieces one by one; 2) if you annoy her she takes her paw and will hit you. im talking, bitch-slap you. i will tap her back sometimes and the look in her giant eyes is great, because she gets madder and hits you again. 3 minutes later she wants to cuddle..so strange!
anyway im NOT a crazy cat person, but i do love my cats. theyre very funny and do the quirkiest things. pippin prefers to nap in the linen closet, on the towels, sometimes nestled in them. harry stalks the other cats and harasses them, and then tries to cuddle with them later on my bed. tink...anything she does is funny, especially the time she ran on some shirts i was decorating with fabric paint and her back leg, which is white, was bright blue for a few days!
so yea, those are my crazy cats. oh and my dad hates all of them and loves to find new things to do to them that they dislike..like laser guns that make sounds, loud music...its great
until next post,
~sam
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
you know what really grinds my gears?
so facebook. probably single-handedly responsible for the demise of americans being able to communicate with others in actual settings. but thats not the issue i have with facebook--i have family in england and alabama so facebook allows me to talk to them more often and less expensively than a long distance phone call. well less expensively as in freely since you dont pay for facebook. also when im upstate at school its much easier for me to see how my long island peeps are doing because of the social networking site.
first and formost, facebook leads to fights. lets say someone who likes your man posts something flirty on his wall. you get annoyed, of course. its not his fault but you get mad that he didnt delete it. right there, facebook is affecting your personal life.
thats another thing..what happens when u break up? everyone on fb hears about it, including your mom, your extended family in california, your old high school teachers, your ex's family and all your old acquaintances. hence, it allows creepers to move in and get all flirty with u. plus its negative attention. a public messy facebook breakup for your closest 635 friends to witness is not ideal.
adults on facebook are also interesting. sometimes its fine--my mom has one, and uses it to keep me in check. she goes on occasionally, not obsessively. in the past she has messaged me to remove a certain picture or delete a comment that was offensive and could hurt me in the long run. thats fine. also, like i said above, we have family all over the world, so fb is a easier way to see how everyones doing. i understand if adults are networking for their jobs or using it to stay connected with far away family. but when you get moms or aunts or worse..dads! that go crazy with picture comments, or, still worse...FACEBOOK GAMES..then you have a problem! A girl i know from high school has a boyfriend who travels a lot. he puts up pix of his adventures. ok, thats fine. but his mom and aunt comment on every.single.one. necessary? maybe not.
facebook games..im one to talk because im addicted to farmville (thankfully i kicked the mafia wars addiction last year haha). but when your over the age of, say, 25..get a life! stop playing games, do something with your life. get a hobby, clean your house, upload family pictures or something, but stop publishing to your profile that you go the newest high score in family feud or need help building this horse stable. i play when i need a distraction from college homework, and so do a lot of others. when you have a real job, or at least are old enough to have a real job, its pathetic to still be addicted to zynga games. your an adult and your soooo immature! grow up!!!
i really think everyone should limit their usage of this social networking site. yes, its great to see pictures from when your friends traveled abroad and to congratulate someone when they become an aunt, but really, try to stop with the profile stalking and obsessively checking =)
until next time,
~sam
first and formost, facebook leads to fights. lets say someone who likes your man posts something flirty on his wall. you get annoyed, of course. its not his fault but you get mad that he didnt delete it. right there, facebook is affecting your personal life.
thats another thing..what happens when u break up? everyone on fb hears about it, including your mom, your extended family in california, your old high school teachers, your ex's family and all your old acquaintances. hence, it allows creepers to move in and get all flirty with u. plus its negative attention. a public messy facebook breakup for your closest 635 friends to witness is not ideal.
adults on facebook are also interesting. sometimes its fine--my mom has one, and uses it to keep me in check. she goes on occasionally, not obsessively. in the past she has messaged me to remove a certain picture or delete a comment that was offensive and could hurt me in the long run. thats fine. also, like i said above, we have family all over the world, so fb is a easier way to see how everyones doing. i understand if adults are networking for their jobs or using it to stay connected with far away family. but when you get moms or aunts or worse..dads! that go crazy with picture comments, or, still worse...FACEBOOK GAMES..then you have a problem! A girl i know from high school has a boyfriend who travels a lot. he puts up pix of his adventures. ok, thats fine. but his mom and aunt comment on every.single.one. necessary? maybe not.
facebook games..im one to talk because im addicted to farmville (thankfully i kicked the mafia wars addiction last year haha). but when your over the age of, say, 25..get a life! stop playing games, do something with your life. get a hobby, clean your house, upload family pictures or something, but stop publishing to your profile that you go the newest high score in family feud or need help building this horse stable. i play when i need a distraction from college homework, and so do a lot of others. when you have a real job, or at least are old enough to have a real job, its pathetic to still be addicted to zynga games. your an adult and your soooo immature! grow up!!!
i really think everyone should limit their usage of this social networking site. yes, its great to see pictures from when your friends traveled abroad and to congratulate someone when they become an aunt, but really, try to stop with the profile stalking and obsessively checking =)
until next time,
~sam
Monday, January 17, 2011
snow-mageddon
wow, long island...just wow. what happened to having mild winters? what happened to having a few inches, max, of snow? what happened to schools closing at the first hint of flurries? why did you have to go all snow-pocalypse on us? we do NOT appreciate three blizzards in one season! is this because we only have two winters left before the world ends in december of 2012? are you preparing us for the inevitable, mother nature? cause id really appreciate it if you rewarded us with mild winters and less heat waves in the summers instead of catastrophic extremes.
anyway this snow now is supposedly turning into sleet or rain tomorrow. really hope so cause rain means its warmer and warmer weather means melting snow. hopefully. im sick of this shit--NO ONE can park on side streets anywhere because the plows did a horrible job for blizzard #1, and when #2 came around the snow was on top of frozen snow, which meant the plows still couldnt remove all the snow. so dumb, mama earth, so dumb.
i need to move to florida or something, but they have hurricanes. the midwest has twisters and tornadoes and crap, and california has earthquakes and is too close to asia. just kidding. but it does have the pacific ocean, which is notorious for whirlpools, rip tides, the largest population of tiger sharks in the world and is rumored to be the home of the mysterious giant squid. haha. so im basically stuck in some sort of extreme weather element wherever i go. ughhhhh.
ok im done ranting about dumb freezing weather and snow.
until the next time i get so worked up about something,
~sam
anyway this snow now is supposedly turning into sleet or rain tomorrow. really hope so cause rain means its warmer and warmer weather means melting snow. hopefully. im sick of this shit--NO ONE can park on side streets anywhere because the plows did a horrible job for blizzard #1, and when #2 came around the snow was on top of frozen snow, which meant the plows still couldnt remove all the snow. so dumb, mama earth, so dumb.
i need to move to florida or something, but they have hurricanes. the midwest has twisters and tornadoes and crap, and california has earthquakes and is too close to asia. just kidding. but it does have the pacific ocean, which is notorious for whirlpools, rip tides, the largest population of tiger sharks in the world and is rumored to be the home of the mysterious giant squid. haha. so im basically stuck in some sort of extreme weather element wherever i go. ughhhhh.
ok im done ranting about dumb freezing weather and snow.
until the next time i get so worked up about something,
~sam
the adventures of sam and friends
thai excursion post! finally! as promisd, i said i would recap my adventures in brooklyn with my black friends last week. rosie, ilunga, tatiana, helen, jen and i were the ones who went.
our reunion was AWESOME! honestly, its been almost 3 years but it feels lke i saw them yesterday. no forced conversation, nothing was awkward, it was sooo nice! i really had missed that crew so it was awesoe to spend several hours with them. the initial trip into brooklyn was fun--they picked me up almost 40 minutes after they had originally planned to...they were SOOO on black people time haha! we got a lil lost but got to "Sea" at around 7. we had to wait because it was mad crowded, but totally worth it. the reataraunt had dim lighting and techno music, very trendy, and had cool decorations inside. a good place for a date, in my opinion. the bar looked nice too, and we all kind of thought about ordering drinks (since it looked like they didnt ID) but we figured we would wait til we're 21. rosie turns 21 the day before i do, so i definitely want to go out with her for our birthdays somewhere.
the appretizers were sooo good--'tup tim fritters' haha funny name, amazing shrimp crab roll thingys that you dipped in a sweet chili sauce of some kind. omg soooo good! then there were chicken wings, and some kind of beef that was dipped in a soy sauce concotion that was also amazing. for my entree i had shrimp pad thai-NOTE: if you have never tried thai food before, i suggest chicken or shrimp pad thai, as it isnt as crazy spicy as some other thai dishes, and is quite delicious.
dessert was incredible!! molten chocolate cake--this warm delicious cake with warm delicious dark chocolate sauce and warm delicious raspberry sauce drizzled over the huge cake. also, you got pistachio ice cream on the side!! together it was something i would request as my last meal if i was on Death Row.
after that i got several text messages form my lifeguard friends, patricia and mike, and they proeeded to follow me to the restaraunt! i thought they were kidding but they really did, and have photographic "evidence" to prove it. they're crazy haha. we sucessfulyl evaded them and went into manhattan, where some dumbass rent-a-cop screamed at rosie for having her brighs on by accident as we came to the midtown tunnel. geez, he needs to get a new job or a hobby cause its not that serious. teenagers can make mistakes, and seriously officer, it WAS that dark where we were in brooklyn. so yes we did need them on.
and then magnolias bakery was closed =/ ive never been, but one day i will! it looked amazing from the outside. the most fun part was going through the midtown tunel playing the music from "inception" haha it was sooo epic!
anyways, the night sadly came to a close a little after 1am, and it was soooooo needed! great to hear who hates who, who's a train wreck, whos still friends, who has a baby, who got kicked out of school, etc. oh and who turned into an even bigger, fatter, uglier bitch! haha in your face you psycho skank! lmao. sorry only the 6 of us kow who im referring to and its staying that way!
anyways, time to shower before i go out...well i gotta pack for school first! leaving in a week =/
until next time!
~sam
our reunion was AWESOME! honestly, its been almost 3 years but it feels lke i saw them yesterday. no forced conversation, nothing was awkward, it was sooo nice! i really had missed that crew so it was awesoe to spend several hours with them. the initial trip into brooklyn was fun--they picked me up almost 40 minutes after they had originally planned to...they were SOOO on black people time haha! we got a lil lost but got to "Sea" at around 7. we had to wait because it was mad crowded, but totally worth it. the reataraunt had dim lighting and techno music, very trendy, and had cool decorations inside. a good place for a date, in my opinion. the bar looked nice too, and we all kind of thought about ordering drinks (since it looked like they didnt ID) but we figured we would wait til we're 21. rosie turns 21 the day before i do, so i definitely want to go out with her for our birthdays somewhere.
the appretizers were sooo good--'tup tim fritters' haha funny name, amazing shrimp crab roll thingys that you dipped in a sweet chili sauce of some kind. omg soooo good! then there were chicken wings, and some kind of beef that was dipped in a soy sauce concotion that was also amazing. for my entree i had shrimp pad thai-NOTE: if you have never tried thai food before, i suggest chicken or shrimp pad thai, as it isnt as crazy spicy as some other thai dishes, and is quite delicious.
dessert was incredible!! molten chocolate cake--this warm delicious cake with warm delicious dark chocolate sauce and warm delicious raspberry sauce drizzled over the huge cake. also, you got pistachio ice cream on the side!! together it was something i would request as my last meal if i was on Death Row.
after that i got several text messages form my lifeguard friends, patricia and mike, and they proeeded to follow me to the restaraunt! i thought they were kidding but they really did, and have photographic "evidence" to prove it. they're crazy haha. we sucessfulyl evaded them and went into manhattan, where some dumbass rent-a-cop screamed at rosie for having her brighs on by accident as we came to the midtown tunnel. geez, he needs to get a new job or a hobby cause its not that serious. teenagers can make mistakes, and seriously officer, it WAS that dark where we were in brooklyn. so yes we did need them on.
and then magnolias bakery was closed =/ ive never been, but one day i will! it looked amazing from the outside. the most fun part was going through the midtown tunel playing the music from "inception" haha it was sooo epic!
anyways, the night sadly came to a close a little after 1am, and it was soooooo needed! great to hear who hates who, who's a train wreck, whos still friends, who has a baby, who got kicked out of school, etc. oh and who turned into an even bigger, fatter, uglier bitch! haha in your face you psycho skank! lmao. sorry only the 6 of us kow who im referring to and its staying that way!
anyways, time to shower before i go out...well i gotta pack for school first! leaving in a week =/
until next time!
~sam
Sunday, January 16, 2011
extreme couponing..not kidding
so before i go into detail about my wonderful thai excursion, please excuse this brief interruption to tell you about how ridiculous some americans are. or maybe they're genius. anyway, these people are called "extreme couponers" and they are so hardcore they make the marines look bad. they research coupons and calculate insane levels of math and pretty much their lives are run by good deals on bulk items. one woman spent over a grand of groceries but only paid $54. pretty good, but she didnt beat this one chick who had $673 of groceries and only spent two bucks. TWO! not even joking. i wish i knew her so she could save me this kind of money, but if she was really smart she'd sell all her free crap and make a ton more money...and then she could go buy some more groceries with the money earned from selling free groceries.
honestly, it really is sacrilege for them to pay full retail price for something. but imagine they paid top dollar for clothes, makeup, cars, etc? that would just be the most ironic thing..mad cheap on food, but lets get some Prada outfits that wont be in style by the summer.
and "my strange addiction" OMG wow..so scary. this chick ate soap and laundry detergent when she was stressed. ok not only is that sick mentally but its disgusting physically..unless her insides are sparkly clean, in which case shes the cleanest person ever. but still, so weird. what if she went out on a date to a nice restaraunt and had to go to the bathroom multiple times to eat the soap there because the date stressed her out? like, for real..i cant even take it seriously. i watched it with my friends and the jokes didnt stop all night.
speaking of my friends, they're a motley crew, and this summer we are planning to spend $500 at a store (to buy pranking supplies) but use coupons and see if we can spend less than ten bucks. if we accomplish this it will be one of the proudest/dumbest things i have ever done in my life. and i will brag about it to my children.
anyway im off to try out the new softsoap my mom got yesterday..watermelon scented, bet it tastes juicy and delicious!
...just kidding
until next time, thats the way sam sees it!
honestly, it really is sacrilege for them to pay full retail price for something. but imagine they paid top dollar for clothes, makeup, cars, etc? that would just be the most ironic thing..mad cheap on food, but lets get some Prada outfits that wont be in style by the summer.
and "my strange addiction" OMG wow..so scary. this chick ate soap and laundry detergent when she was stressed. ok not only is that sick mentally but its disgusting physically..unless her insides are sparkly clean, in which case shes the cleanest person ever. but still, so weird. what if she went out on a date to a nice restaraunt and had to go to the bathroom multiple times to eat the soap there because the date stressed her out? like, for real..i cant even take it seriously. i watched it with my friends and the jokes didnt stop all night.
speaking of my friends, they're a motley crew, and this summer we are planning to spend $500 at a store (to buy pranking supplies) but use coupons and see if we can spend less than ten bucks. if we accomplish this it will be one of the proudest/dumbest things i have ever done in my life. and i will brag about it to my children.
anyway im off to try out the new softsoap my mom got yesterday..watermelon scented, bet it tastes juicy and delicious!
...just kidding
until next time, thats the way sam sees it!
Friday, January 14, 2011
soooo sleeeeppyyy
thank god its a decent hour and im tired..just got home from the thai place, will post about it tomorrow as im about to pass out! yay!
until tomorrow,
sam <3
until tomorrow,
sam <3
remember when they eat the moroccan food in along came polly?
well, as you can tell from my title, this has something to do with exotic food. i am currently waiting to get picked up by my friends from high school that i havent seen in foreverrr! and we are going out for thai food to some place in brooklyn. ive never actually had thai food, and seeing as i woke up with a stomach ache that never went away this morning, im a little nervous that what happened to the guy in "along came polly" will happen to me.. hope it doesnt! how embarassing, i will post later tonight after im home and let ya know how it went.
im sooo glad im seeing these girls, also.. i miss them! we all got so caught up with school and stuff so we never really had time to go out and catch up since we graduated. they were my "smart friends" aka the black and indian girls in my AP classes in high school. mad cool girls, and every single one of them wrote in my yearbook how i was their "favorite white girl" haha. yes, im white in case you didnt know or dont already know me.
they also told me to be ready at 6pm and its currently 6:14pm. and rosie promised they wouldnt be on "colored people time" as she calls it hahaha! but i knew better. oh well, at least im ready when they get here! got my nice new outfit on that i got for christmas, an abercrombie tank and sweater thingy and my dark skinnies from american eagle. and my new neckelace from forever 21 and a huge glitzy cocktail ring, also from forever 21. i love to accessorize haha. its frigid outside tho so instead of my cute flats or my silver heels, im going with uggs.
allright im probably boring you with my clothing desription... will post later on tonight and recap the evening!
until next time,
Sam <3
im sooo glad im seeing these girls, also.. i miss them! we all got so caught up with school and stuff so we never really had time to go out and catch up since we graduated. they were my "smart friends" aka the black and indian girls in my AP classes in high school. mad cool girls, and every single one of them wrote in my yearbook how i was their "favorite white girl" haha. yes, im white in case you didnt know or dont already know me.
they also told me to be ready at 6pm and its currently 6:14pm. and rosie promised they wouldnt be on "colored people time" as she calls it hahaha! but i knew better. oh well, at least im ready when they get here! got my nice new outfit on that i got for christmas, an abercrombie tank and sweater thingy and my dark skinnies from american eagle. and my new neckelace from forever 21 and a huge glitzy cocktail ring, also from forever 21. i love to accessorize haha. its frigid outside tho so instead of my cute flats or my silver heels, im going with uggs.
allright im probably boring you with my clothing desription... will post later on tonight and recap the evening!
until next time,
Sam <3
Thursday, January 13, 2011
america runs on dunkin
allrighty then..i am back, people. i never actually left though, so there. haha. i suppose the caffeine got to me because im slightly delirious. i spent yet another night of my life in dunkin donuts, and it was quite enjoyable as always. i had my iced coffee, only 99 cents with the coupon from mom. shes one of the worlds best coupon clippers, and the womn never throws them out even when they expire. one time she used an expired coupon and the salesperson let her use it even though it expired the day before. now she thinks that will happen EVERY time she uses an expired coupon. i take them from her and throw them out secretly so i dont hurt her feelings. but the non-expired ones i always use.
its interesting that dunkin donuts has become a popular hangout for kids at night. theres not a whole lot for kids to do on long island in winter as it is, and when you add that i'm not yet 21 and very few of my friends are, that shortens the list considerably. you can only go to the movies so many tims before you get sick of them, and sick of the ridiculous prices at the box office.
dunkin donuts is a pretty safe place for kids to hang, anyway. almost every night i spend there, a cop or three come in and sit down. im not one of those people who hate cops because they get pulled over for speeding (i have sucessfully talked my way out of a ticket the ONE time i got pulled over and only speed in areas i know cops dont patrol; im not an idiot when it comes to how fast i drive). the kids who hang there always seem normal, and i often run into friends at the 2 i frequent. its nice to go there with my boyfriend mike and we usually sit there for hours, just talking and enjoying our coffee and bagels with creamcheese..chives in my cream cheese is how i like it but every dunkin donuts seems to be out of chive cream cheese or gives me a different flavor by mistake.
its almost 3am, im doing so well on my road to curing my insomnia. oh well. im up early tomorrow to work on my resume for an internship, then a nap, then out to dinner for a high school reunion with some awesome girls i havent seen since graduation!! cant wait for that =)
until next time,
Sam <3
its interesting that dunkin donuts has become a popular hangout for kids at night. theres not a whole lot for kids to do on long island in winter as it is, and when you add that i'm not yet 21 and very few of my friends are, that shortens the list considerably. you can only go to the movies so many tims before you get sick of them, and sick of the ridiculous prices at the box office.
dunkin donuts is a pretty safe place for kids to hang, anyway. almost every night i spend there, a cop or three come in and sit down. im not one of those people who hate cops because they get pulled over for speeding (i have sucessfully talked my way out of a ticket the ONE time i got pulled over and only speed in areas i know cops dont patrol; im not an idiot when it comes to how fast i drive). the kids who hang there always seem normal, and i often run into friends at the 2 i frequent. its nice to go there with my boyfriend mike and we usually sit there for hours, just talking and enjoying our coffee and bagels with creamcheese..chives in my cream cheese is how i like it but every dunkin donuts seems to be out of chive cream cheese or gives me a different flavor by mistake.
its almost 3am, im doing so well on my road to curing my insomnia. oh well. im up early tomorrow to work on my resume for an internship, then a nap, then out to dinner for a high school reunion with some awesome girls i havent seen since graduation!! cant wait for that =)
until next time,
Sam <3
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
live, from long island its..really late
currently 2:35 am and i have yet t o shut off my laptop or end my convo's im having on facebook.. im so successful at doing the things i say i will, like going to bed at a scent hour =/
is it insomnia? or am i dreaming i cant sleep?
cue the inception soundtrack... i have insomnia, i think. sometimes i wake up (or i dream i wake up, really not sure) several times during the night. sometimes i doze off but the million or so thoughts in my head prevent me from actually sleeping. this has been going on for months and i honestly cannot recall the last time i slept through then night, for more than 2 hours. its awful. i've tried reading, using lavender scented things to relax me, working out hardcore and then taking a hot shower, even resorted to tylenol PM and nyquil to make it stop. nothing helps... im constantly up til 4am or later and sleeping in til past 1pm sometimes.
on another related note, the movie inception has been a topic of discussion around the house lately. i saw it when it came out with some friends and loved it. my brother saw it too, and i got it for him for christmas because he loved it so much. we watched it with my family and my mom was hilarious--she had NO idea what went on, no matter how many times we paused it to explain! by the end she was a little more understanding, but not by much. funny thing is, my dads a lot older than her and he followed it pretty accurately. he only stopped us once to confirm something.
the concept is fascinating, if not realistic; but the realistic part is how far planting a seed in someone's mind can take hold on them. like, from the begininning of elementary school, i was decent at math but it took me a little bit longer to grasp concepts. people like my peers and teachers said "she's not a math person" and i started to believe it. fast forward a few grades, and i was ecstatic to get a 65% (lowest passing grade) on the Math B regents. hearing that i wasnt a math person made me think i wasnt one and could never be one. that phrase, that idea, took hold of me. think about that the next time you want to belittle someone who's struggling with stuff.
anyway, these blogs are so random haha i have no idea what direction to take them in. i guess i'll just blog about whatever i feel like every day and see if any thread develops. i just like writing here because it helps me hone my skill for writing anything thats not poetry. believe me, i dont need help writing poetry--i am more than capable of writing good poetry that will be published on my own. my fiction is crap, my short stories weak, and my thoughts are quite scattered. the only thing besides poetry that doesnt need help is my prose, which is an in between of poetry and fiction. also my inner monologue that's constantly running through my head isnt too shabby.. its actually kind of funny. my inner voice is incedibly sarcastic and cynical, even if im not always like that.
alllllrighty then, seeing as its 2am and my insomnia is kicking in (come on, tylenol PM, its been ten minutes please please kick in!!) im going to TRY to go to sleep..early. yea, this is early for me haha.
goodnight bloggers, until next time!
~sam
on another related note, the movie inception has been a topic of discussion around the house lately. i saw it when it came out with some friends and loved it. my brother saw it too, and i got it for him for christmas because he loved it so much. we watched it with my family and my mom was hilarious--she had NO idea what went on, no matter how many times we paused it to explain! by the end she was a little more understanding, but not by much. funny thing is, my dads a lot older than her and he followed it pretty accurately. he only stopped us once to confirm something.
the concept is fascinating, if not realistic; but the realistic part is how far planting a seed in someone's mind can take hold on them. like, from the begininning of elementary school, i was decent at math but it took me a little bit longer to grasp concepts. people like my peers and teachers said "she's not a math person" and i started to believe it. fast forward a few grades, and i was ecstatic to get a 65% (lowest passing grade) on the Math B regents. hearing that i wasnt a math person made me think i wasnt one and could never be one. that phrase, that idea, took hold of me. think about that the next time you want to belittle someone who's struggling with stuff.
anyway, these blogs are so random haha i have no idea what direction to take them in. i guess i'll just blog about whatever i feel like every day and see if any thread develops. i just like writing here because it helps me hone my skill for writing anything thats not poetry. believe me, i dont need help writing poetry--i am more than capable of writing good poetry that will be published on my own. my fiction is crap, my short stories weak, and my thoughts are quite scattered. the only thing besides poetry that doesnt need help is my prose, which is an in between of poetry and fiction. also my inner monologue that's constantly running through my head isnt too shabby.. its actually kind of funny. my inner voice is incedibly sarcastic and cynical, even if im not always like that.
alllllrighty then, seeing as its 2am and my insomnia is kicking in (come on, tylenol PM, its been ten minutes please please kick in!!) im going to TRY to go to sleep..early. yea, this is early for me haha.
goodnight bloggers, until next time!
~sam
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
let it snow..but then plow it please!
i like when it snows, i really do..but i liked it better when it meant i had a day off from school. now that i (or my friends) have to drive everywhere and a drive a decent distance to see my friends, im starting to hate it. i mean, i go to school upstate where there's a TON of snow, from october to april. but they know how to plow the streets near buffalo. here, when long island has the occasional flurries, people panic. now that we're on blizzard numero dos, in 2 weeks, people are ready for another snowpocalypse. its ridiculous, really. 12-15 inches isnt usual for long island, but its not unheard of. and it doesnt mean you should stock up on food--this isn't nazi germany, you dont need to hide out in your basement like there's an air raid going on.
and dear idiots across the state--when you park on the street, it means the snow plows CANNOT plow the whole street. it means they miss huge chunks of snow, that freezes, and then people trying to drive down narrow streets or backing out of driveways can't get anywhere. its inconsiderate--and its hard enough for people to drive on slushy, icy roads. not everyone has 4-wheel drive!
why do so many people park on the streets when it snows? it seems like they all got a letter or something telling them to be as stupid as possible when we have a winter storm warning in effect. they all park their stupid cars in the street, and then park in the driveways a few days later. so we and every other block in the state has icebergs on their streets. its bad enough that the plows from one town only plow the first 10 feet of our block (our street is partially one town, mostly in the next town over) and the other plows come when they feel like it. which is pretty much never. so we're lucky if we even get plowed in the first place, but still--make it so the plows can actually move the snow. seriously, its not that hard.
sorry i complain so much! haha this will soon change, i plan to blog about sports (the ones i did in high school and college) tomorrow as i enjoy the day snowed in.
until next time, enjoy yourselves!
sam =)
and dear idiots across the state--when you park on the street, it means the snow plows CANNOT plow the whole street. it means they miss huge chunks of snow, that freezes, and then people trying to drive down narrow streets or backing out of driveways can't get anywhere. its inconsiderate--and its hard enough for people to drive on slushy, icy roads. not everyone has 4-wheel drive!
why do so many people park on the streets when it snows? it seems like they all got a letter or something telling them to be as stupid as possible when we have a winter storm warning in effect. they all park their stupid cars in the street, and then park in the driveways a few days later. so we and every other block in the state has icebergs on their streets. its bad enough that the plows from one town only plow the first 10 feet of our block (our street is partially one town, mostly in the next town over) and the other plows come when they feel like it. which is pretty much never. so we're lucky if we even get plowed in the first place, but still--make it so the plows can actually move the snow. seriously, its not that hard.
sorry i complain so much! haha this will soon change, i plan to blog about sports (the ones i did in high school and college) tomorrow as i enjoy the day snowed in.
until next time, enjoy yourselves!
sam =)
Monday, January 10, 2011
first blog
hi this is my first post! very excited to join the blogging world, as i hope it will make me write everyday and keep up with practicing.. so anyway. i set this up tonight because recently i have been having my doubts with humanity and its downward spiral. i'm not talking about obesity, murder rates, and political strife.. maybe this isn't as important as those issues, but i feel it deserves some light.
children and technology are, quite possible, the WORST mix of two elements. when there are 6 year old girls who have 3 different pairs of Ugg boots, Pandora bracelets (yes, thats plural), the new DS system, a laptop and a cell phone..something's REALLY wrong with our society!! why do they need it all??? i work to earn my spending money, and i've earned by lifeguading, babysitting, teaching private swimming lessons, coaching a swim team, and becoming the new Sports Announcer at my college for the swim meets. it's a lot of time i spend with my odd jobs and the money isnt always great but it's something. and since i got a job at 16 and have never been without one, i know the value of a dollar. i got my first pair of ugg boots last year--as a birthday present. i understand big gifts on a birthday or christmas, but really--what mom gets their kid blue and pink uggs just because some other kids at the elemetnary school have them???
my mom never stood for that crap. she taught my brother and i how to save money for things you want, and we only got big things (aka anything more than $50 was big to us) on a special occasion.christmas, birthdays, graduations, and really good accomplishments once in a while. (when i was first published in a magazine for a poem, i got to pick out a piece of jewelry.) the reward system is fine for kids as long as they actually earn what you give them. my little brother recently got into the Virginia Tech architecture program (no small feat, they take 90 out of 1,200 applicants) which would be a cause for a reward. awesome accomplishments = deserving of rewards. being born into money does not = deserving of rewards for no reason.
but seriously..when little kids are well off because of their parents' success, they don't learn to value anything. i can't tell you how often i see kids in restaraunts on their cell phones or DS', blatantly unaware of what goes on around them. its awful. the art of conversation is lost because the parents would rather their child sit down and shut up for an hour than involve them in communicating with adults. thats a good skill to learn, and because i was talking to adults at age 5, i'm a pretty damn good "people person." my dad works in a restaraunt and wont serve people until their kid stops being anti-social. he said he tells them "i'll come back to take your order when he's done," he said to a family the other night whos' 11 year old was engrossed in a game on his iPhone. yes, the child has an iPhone. why? what is the point?
i just dont get it.. i have a cheap phone i got with my family plan upgrade, and its fine. it makes calls, looks nice, has a keyboard, sends texts, and i even got picture messaging on it. but why am i content with my one pair of Uggs and my HP laptop and a 12 year old NEEEEDS the newest mac, the iPhone 4, an xbox AND a ps3, and expensive clothes they will outgrow in a year to be happy?? what happened to the parents? why dont they stop over-indulging and teach their kids the value of a dollar, or how to earn something????? kids are becoming way too materialistic, and ever evolving technology feeds their needs. this is why im calling them the "gimme generation" because no amount of expensive high-end products will ever be enough for these spoiled brats.
dont get me wrong-- i LOVE designer clothes and purses and jewelry and of course shoes. but i dont go out buying it all or asking for every new trend that comes out.
children and technology are, quite possible, the WORST mix of two elements. when there are 6 year old girls who have 3 different pairs of Ugg boots, Pandora bracelets (yes, thats plural), the new DS system, a laptop and a cell phone..something's REALLY wrong with our society!! why do they need it all??? i work to earn my spending money, and i've earned by lifeguading, babysitting, teaching private swimming lessons, coaching a swim team, and becoming the new Sports Announcer at my college for the swim meets. it's a lot of time i spend with my odd jobs and the money isnt always great but it's something. and since i got a job at 16 and have never been without one, i know the value of a dollar. i got my first pair of ugg boots last year--as a birthday present. i understand big gifts on a birthday or christmas, but really--what mom gets their kid blue and pink uggs just because some other kids at the elemetnary school have them???
my mom never stood for that crap. she taught my brother and i how to save money for things you want, and we only got big things (aka anything more than $50 was big to us) on a special occasion.christmas, birthdays, graduations, and really good accomplishments once in a while. (when i was first published in a magazine for a poem, i got to pick out a piece of jewelry.) the reward system is fine for kids as long as they actually earn what you give them. my little brother recently got into the Virginia Tech architecture program (no small feat, they take 90 out of 1,200 applicants) which would be a cause for a reward. awesome accomplishments = deserving of rewards. being born into money does not = deserving of rewards for no reason.
but seriously..when little kids are well off because of their parents' success, they don't learn to value anything. i can't tell you how often i see kids in restaraunts on their cell phones or DS', blatantly unaware of what goes on around them. its awful. the art of conversation is lost because the parents would rather their child sit down and shut up for an hour than involve them in communicating with adults. thats a good skill to learn, and because i was talking to adults at age 5, i'm a pretty damn good "people person." my dad works in a restaraunt and wont serve people until their kid stops being anti-social. he said he tells them "i'll come back to take your order when he's done," he said to a family the other night whos' 11 year old was engrossed in a game on his iPhone. yes, the child has an iPhone. why? what is the point?
i just dont get it.. i have a cheap phone i got with my family plan upgrade, and its fine. it makes calls, looks nice, has a keyboard, sends texts, and i even got picture messaging on it. but why am i content with my one pair of Uggs and my HP laptop and a 12 year old NEEEEDS the newest mac, the iPhone 4, an xbox AND a ps3, and expensive clothes they will outgrow in a year to be happy?? what happened to the parents? why dont they stop over-indulging and teach their kids the value of a dollar, or how to earn something????? kids are becoming way too materialistic, and ever evolving technology feeds their needs. this is why im calling them the "gimme generation" because no amount of expensive high-end products will ever be enough for these spoiled brats.
dont get me wrong-- i LOVE designer clothes and purses and jewelry and of course shoes. but i dont go out buying it all or asking for every new trend that comes out.
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