late birthday blog!

i know i'm six whole days late telling you guys about my awesome birthday. i apologize.

BUT IT WAS AWESOME.

i wanted to take some pics of the presents i got, but my old camera needs some new batteries. sad. D:

so, my birthday started a little before midnight last thursday, when my dude arrived carrying not one, but TWO awesome cakes for me! i had to wait until after midnight to look at them, but here's a little peek at them:

it's my armadillo cake! i have wanted an armadillo cake since the very first time i saw it in the movie 'steel magnolias' (which is a movie i HATE, but i love the cake), i've asked for it years! i can't believe chris actually produced one! that why i love my dude!

but this. i am totally in freakin' love with. i love my dude so much!!!

and just so you know, we're not just piggies. chris is actually not a fan of the cream cheese icing that covers the armadillo, so he brought a smaller regular whipped icing cake. good thing too, turns out mom and dad preferred it to the armadillo as well. he was a little on the sweet and sugary side, but that's why he was delicious!

as far as presents, i got a bunch! i'm gonna try to gather them together and get a nice pic of my birthday haul.

so, spent my actual birthday with my dude. we did a little shopping (finally found the giraffe silly band of my dreams at hot topic!!), picked up my paycheck and got a bunch of work 'happy birthday's', came back home to have some cake with the family, mainly the buglette, before everyone started heading to bed. had the greatest dinner at rafferety's, made our waitress laugh when i told chris that hopefully neither one of us would have a heart attack after demolishing a plate of cheese fries (so good though!). chris was even nice enough to ask me if i wanted to be embarrassed to get free desert. i declined, seeing as we had two cakes sitting at home. :3

needless to say, my chris treated me like a queen all day! it was awesome!

saturday, everybody had to work. sad panda. D:

sunday was spent as an awesome family dinner day, got some delicious potato soup. i even had a giant spoonful of bacon in mine, like even the soup was sayin' happy birthday!

well, don't know what else to blog, other than that i had an amazing birthday with my family and my favorite dude in the world!

peace!

happy blog.

had an awesome couple of days. :D

got a few birthday presents to myself. of course i'm poor not, but i don't care! my birthday is coming up and i know these are things i would not receive so i bought them myself! two awesome pairs of shoes and pokemon soul silver! and yes, i keep the pokewalker in my pocket like a giant nerd. I DON'T CARE. (side note: just mentioning the pokewalker made me take it out of my pocket and try to catch something. caught me a wooper. :D) pokemon has been my video game obsession since i was in seventh grade, i never get bored of it.

soul silver makes me so happy though. when the game came out my freshman year of high school my mom had to go to wal-mart early because i had pre-ordered it. she brought it home and i did not move from the couch for hours! it was just so amazing! i was like 'OMG THIS ONE IS NEW AND ALL THE PLACES AND FJKLS:DFJKL'. i loved it.

alright, enough about pokemon. even though i love it.

me and chris also had an awesome date night. did a little mall walking, which is always fun. didn't actually buy anything but i can't not be happy while in a mall. did some trivia at buffalo wild wings. i actually didn't get to play much since we were too far away from the tv and i couldn't read the questions. i was also trying to use the buzztime playmaker app on my iPod and it was hard to get used to. chris loved it though. there were a lot of people playing that night too, which makes it so much more fun! me and chris usually go late at night and are the only ones playing,

so one of us gets to gloat and one of us gets to sad face. no in between.

also saw scott pilgrim vs the world! YES AGAIN. it's that awesome! if you haven't seen it, go see it now! i wish i was as cool as this movie! here's a trailer, watch it then go watch the movie!!

how could you NOT LOVE THIS!?

i was afraid i might be bored seeing it a second time, but it was still awesome! i just had time to see all the little details that i missed the first time. so great!

in other news, haven't gotten to drive a lot this week. though i did drive chris's truck to my granny's house. his truck is so weird though. D: but the point is we made it all in one piece so i must be doing something right. :3

gotta post homework now.

peace.

hello bloggy.

sorry it's been a bit blog! i still love ya!

just spent an awesome four days with my dude! we had so much fun playing around, and i got to show him how much better i'm getting at driving, and we made a giant cuppycake and some little regular sized cuppycakes and then instead of eating either of those things we had tasty coke floats instead. we played with kittens and kept the craiggy company (he gets so lonely!), made sure all the animals were fed and taken care of (even the fish, though nobody actually told me to feed the fish) and otherwise just had a snuggly cuddly time.

i actually feel bad for having fun, since the reason me and chris had so much alone time was that my family was at a funeral. i hope you don't think of me as an awful person for not going. it was the memorial of my great aunt bonnie, my granny's sister. even though they would visit maybe once or twice a year, i just didn't really know her and honestly was never really comfortable when they whole group would come and visit. they were always there to see granny and never really interested in what the rest of us were doing.

bug however, was slightly devastated. she loved her aunt bonnie. i think because she was just like granny.

don't get me wrong, i am sad about her death. but i think my sadness lies more with the fact that my granny lost her sister and that my mom lost her aunt. i just would have felt incredibly awkward being there. . .

so anyway, had adventures in being home alone. spent almost all of tuesday by myself. everybody left at about eight o'clock in the morning. chris had to be to work at one so he left about 11:30 to get back to shelbyville. managed to make me some breakfast, do laundry and be ready for work extra early. had plenty of time for a mini freak-out when my uncle forgot he was supposed to give me a ride. had an uneventful work day, then had a couple more hours to spend by myself before chris came home.

next two days were much much better. just snugglin' time, movies and cooking and baking. so fun. i miss my dude already.

in other news, i think i'm finally gonna make it this time and get my license! i've been doing SO MUCH DRIVING, much more than ever before. and i must be doing well since dad has actually let me drive into e-town, which has never happened before! i can make it all the way to mandy's work without much trouble. i can get to papa johns with pretty much no trouble at all. i'm still not good at parking, but i'll just park like my mommy and park out in the boonies with no other cars and just walk the rest of the way. :P

in fact, one of my coworkers saw me pull up the other day. he asked me if it was my first time parking cuz i did it so slow. he said i was 'very hesitant'. i just didn't want to hit the concrete bumper thing, i don't know how to judge where it is yet!

that's the hardest part of me driving. and it's hard to explain to other people because they just don't see the way i do. i just have fucked up eyes and kinda have to learn from experience where things are.

like, say i'm at a stop sign and there's a car coming across the other way. to dad, the car if far enough away that i can go. to me, the car looks a lot closer than it is. so i wait. and when about five seconds later the car still hasn't reached me, then i see that i could have gone. but of course by then i really do have to wait for the car to go. and if there's a car behind me, that car is pissed.

so it's basically the experience of other cars being mad at to me that teaches me when it's alright to go. next time i'm at the stop sign and see the car that i think is too close, i'll remember that it wasn't too close and the other car was mad, so i should go.

that seems like a sucky way to have to learn, though. oh well.

think that's it for now.

love you, bloggy.

peace.

a gencon bloggy!

had an awesome time at gencon this year in indianapolis! even though we only got to stay two days instead of the full four much fun was still had. here's just a couple of highlights. :3

a whole dr. who booth in the dealers room! look at that tardis. i snuggled that tardis. i snuggled it so hard. so much stuff, i didn't even imagine this thing would have so much merchandise! action figures, books, puzzles, kitchen stuff, audio, statues EVERYTHING. was awesome.

plenty of these things around for awesome photo ops. i basically tried to get chris to pretend to be eaten by all of them. i had fun, anyway. :P

except in this one, where he's being smooshed. my poor baby. being smooshed in some tentacles.

POWERLIFTER (which is spelled in all caps, i'm not yelling at you i promised) played an awesome show. a show awesome enough to make me jump out of my chair (which i was sitting in in extreme back and leg pain) and jump around (actually i jumped my spine back in to place, win for me!). POWERLIFTER's music is played entirely on gameboys. check them out if you get a chance. the music video for 'buffalo' (my favorite) is on the youtube, go watch it. i'll wait. you can tell me all about it later.

the best tenth doctor cosplayer! look at him bein' all like david tennant only not! he deserves hugs and cookies.

my new d20s for my awesome necklace. i get so many compliments on it, so i definitely had to get it some new colors!

took a short chainmailing class and created some teddy bear armor! much easier than it looks but about ten times more time consuming. bethany ended up finishing it for me while i was at another event with chris, plus i couldn't really get it together right. . .if it wasn't for her my bear would only have a chainmail belt.

the magical badge that can get you anywhere! and it has MY name on it this year. long story, but needless to say, i was not myself last year. . .

basically a lot of nerdy fun was had, i'd recommend it to anyone who has even just a tiny bit of geek in them. there's games and awesome obscure stuff to be found, lots of people in costumes and not to mention that indy is just a sooper awesome fun town that welcomes gen con with open arms every year! it's so great!

lots of love, peace and nerdiness. :3

a freaky dream blog.

slept in late again today/yesterday because of a freaky dream.

as always, here's some back story for this dream. at about ten o'clock this morning, mom comes in my room with bug and tells me she's taking mandy to work and that bug wants to go back to sleep. so of course bug just climbs up in my bed, takes most of my blanket and somehow manages to cover half my bed with her little six-year-old body. at little after eleven or so, she hears the van pull up, hops out of bed and goes to find mom.

and i go back to sleep.

and in my dream, i wake up in my room and chris is sleeping next to me. i roll over, look at him, and ask him why he was here and not at work. he tells me he called in because he just really wanted to see me. so we have a lovey-dovey moment, then chris sneezes and i notice his eye looks funny. when he sneezes it looks like it's about to pop out.

a little more back story: there was a time, not super long after we started dating when chris was complaining that his eye was twitching. we would talk about whether or not we should be concerned, and my response was usually 'it's not like it's gonna pop out or anything'.

i wasn't freaked out about it, though. probably because of that bit of back story. his eye was watering, so i gave him some tissues to hold over his eye and told him i was going to the kitchen to get him an ice pack. dream logic told me that would definitely help.

i walk out of my room and in the bathroom i see mom and mandy trying to get bug's hair done. mom sees me and immediately starts yelling at me for not letting bug sleep with me when she took mandy to work. my defense was 'yes i did, what's wrong with you?!' and 'i have to take chris to the ER.'

i head to the kitchen and she's still yelling at me. there were a bunch of people in the kitchen, in my dream i knew they were family and one of the people i did recognize as soni, but outside dream world none of these people were familiar. i grab an ziplock bag out of the pantry and open the freezer to find some ice. apparently the freezer wasn't working, because there was no ice, but lots of water. i kept trying to find anything that was frozen to make an ice pack with. i came across one of those blue gel packs, but it was squishy and totally not good for an ice pack. i also happened on a bag of some sort of frozen pasta dinner in a bag, and i tried to pull out the noodles which were still frozen, but they would thaw out as i pulled them out of the bag. chris comes out into the kitchen and tells me to look at his eye, it was really red and i told him to cover it back up. i told him that the ER wasn't far and a pretty straight shot so if he could help me watch for the other cars that i could drive him.

after that i woke up. for a minute.

after that i woke up in my dream, back in my bed. i immediately know that i'm dreaming because i turn to my right and there is a table sitting next to my bed with my cell phone on it and i know that in real life i don't have a table anymore and that my cell phone sits on the chair.

i got up, looked around and willed myself to wake up.

and i did. for a minute.

i wake up again in my dream with that table sitting next to the bed and am incredibly frustrated that i keep having this dream. i'm fully aware that this is a dream and it pissed me off because i hate dreaming about places that are too realistic. and other than that fucking table my room was exactly the way it should be.

so i willed myself to wake up again.

and i did. for a minute.

then i wake up again in that dream with the stupid table and the cell phone only this time i'm fighting for my life against a vampire that's trying to bite me. i thank my brain for at least giving me a real dream this time.

peace.

sad no music blog.

i miss my iPod so much! all of my music! ALL OF IT. eaten by an old piece of technology.

look at this thing. they don't even make these anymore. D: this may as well be an iPod dinosaur. somebody's gonna find a fossil of my little iPod mini like a thousand years from now and be like 'oh, wow! a primitive iPod! i'm gonna sell this to the museum!' and they'll walk off with their iPod robot man-servants that also happen to play all of their favorite music.

sad face.

my only spot of happy at the moment is that gen con is almost here! it's so close that i can almost smell the sweaty nerds! i can't wait!! i hope the tardis is gonna be there again, i have to take lots of pictures with it so mandy can be jealous. hee hee hee. i am an evil tiffers. :P

i guess that's about it. random bored-without-my-iPod blog.

peace.

oh blog.

i'm actually pretty sure i've had some awesome times since the last time i blogged, but i can't remember! i really need to blog these things while they're fresh in my memory.

me and my face are having an awful time lately though. first of all, i have these nice areas of melasma on the sides of my face. it looks like i have a funky tan line, but it's actually a build-up of melanin caused by the extra hormones that i'm making because of my birth control plus sun exposure. so after the first time in a really long time that i decided being outside in the summer was a good idea i have to lock myself back up in my room. D:

also, i decided that i should try to remember to wash my face before i go to bed. wake up the next morning with a horrible rash that i can only assume came from my twenty dpllar neutrogena set. D:

spend all of yesterday rearranging my room so that i could have an awesome poofy armchair only too find out that this awesome poofy armchair is WAY TO BIG for my room. had to sacrifice a small bookshelf and a set of storage drawers. the drawers, however, still have a lot of stuff in them that i need, so i have to find a way to get them back in. in better news, this chair is a much more comfortable place to laptop from. it makes writing long boring essays more comfortable (but sadly not any more fun).

speaking of boring essays, history and analysis of design is just as boring as it sounds. but then again i find no joy in any course that has the work history in the title. i understand that you should know the history of something you want to do as a career, but OMG is it boring. luckily now that i have my info, this essay will be pretty easy, but still not any fun.

after finishing this essay i have about a billion picture frames i have to get back up somewhere on the wall. don't know quite where yet, but dammit they are getting off my floor.

peace.