These heels were NOT made for walking

Today was a day of MANY firsts. I really need to stop eating from this bag of granola. Part of me wishes I had just gone to Gypsys and bought pasta. But when I got home, all I wanted to do was crawl on my hands and knees to the front door and shower.

- I curled my hair! The right side was VERY EASY and came out ok. Then when I switched to the left side I got confused and I'm pretty sure that I was curling it the wrong way for about ten minutes. X_X Curling hair takes so much time. No wonder girls are always running late

- I used someone's ID and got into a 21+ event! THANKS LAURA YOU ARE BOMB. I feel like I could do so many things now ... but I must return your ID soon. NOOO TRIPLE ROCK BREWERRYYYYY!!! It is a Thursday too! Kristen informed me that you should only ever go to Triple Rock Brewery on Thursday because that is when they serve "monkeyhead." All I want is their Bruschetta Rock ... mmmmmmmmm. Now Kristen wants me to go to Bear's Lair with her and Naomi tomorrow. Perhaps I will be returning your ID a bit later than expected, Laura. I love how I'm talking to her through my blog. BECAUSE I KNOW SHE READS THIS

- I went to the California Academy of Sciences. It's like ... a museum? In Golden Gate Park. It was WAY cooler than the long beach aquarium, I have to say. They had tons of crazy cool fish and other things too! So what happens is once every week (I think) after the museum closes they bring out alcohol, close it off to 21+, and have a DJ. People come in and it's exactly like going to the museum during the day, only it's actually CHEAPER and you can DRINK. They also have interesting lectures and the tickets sell out real quick. We weren't even able to get those. We had to buy the non-lecture tickets to get into the museum online.

It was PRETTY COOL. I can't believe someone was so smart to think of the idea - turning a boring learning place into a cooler adult hangout place. There were a LOT of people there our age. I think I check out people WAYYYY too obviously. I catch myself staring sometimes. If you were on the lookout and knew what kind of people I am into, I think it would be incredibly easy to tell when I was checking someone out. Anyhoo, I bought a Heineken for SEVEN dollars. And I totally clutched onto that bottle with all my life. My first ... ok fine still not legal drink. And not even the first drink I have bought (this was). But it WAS my first walk-around-drinking-alcohol-in-public alcohol! ^_^

The museum was pretty cool too. The best thing was when people started dancing. Not lame dancing but like CLUB dancing. No, the BEST thing was all the COUGARS dancing. I love cougars. I really respect them. They look great for their age and who says you have to stop partying past a certain age? They are typically fitter than I am and have years of experience and less inhibition. One day, I aspire to be a cougar.

- Walked barefoot through SF. Not as romantic as one would think. Each stepped was marked with EXTREME pain. My Nine West heels that I had blogged about TWICE are pretty good, but they're not magical, and after four hours of walking and standing, I wanted to saw off my feet. The walk back to the car was filled with choices: shoes on or off? Walk on pavement or walk on grass? As I said, "this was the worst pain imaginable. WORSE THAN WATERBOADING"

In the future, I am going to buy a wonderful pair of flats, remember to bring my pepcid AC, and then we are going to do this RIGHT. We failed to go out to bars/lounges/clubs after the museum, because my feet hurt so much. Other failures include: Christina SLEEPING THROUGH the entire thing, our leaving an HOUR late, my NOT HAVING MY TICKET and having to buy another one, missing an exit on the freeway and having to go on the 101North DURING RUSH HOUR, Paget leaving her ID in the car (at this point, it was just hilarious how many things had gone wrong)...

Oh gosh. These past few Thursdays have been really busy. I don't like how Thursday is the new Friday. It makes Friday TERRIBLE! I remember last week, I was like WHAT?! CLASS?! But I had fun yesteday! Isn't it supposed to be the weekend?!

- The first time I ever appreciated SF houses. I used to think (as I'm sure a LOT of people do) that the houses in SF are pretty damn fugly. I didn't really get the appeal of ghetto looking houses with no yard or space between neighbors. But today, while we were driving through the streets of SF, I could kind of see into the houses (ok sounding kind of stalkerish, yes) and I would catch glimpses of the decor inside, and it just felt very ... nice? To get a sense of the life inside those houses without knowing the people at all. It was interesting to imagine what kinds of lives these people led. And when passing by so many of these houses that looked so similar yet all looked slightly different from one another, I just kept wondering like "who lives in there or there or there? I wonder if the people living there could be like my best friends ... or people I work with in the future or bump into randomly"

I really hope I get to live in SF. The city is so awesome. Like, this Cal Academy of Science Nightlife thing was the first real city-ish thing I have ever done. There aren't many under 21 things that have a very city feeling to them, I think. If I don't get a job ... I don't really know what will happen but I doubt I will be able to afford rent in SF while unemployed. Sigh. Life.

Well I have to freaking STUDY FOR 102B, WRITE MY DAMN INTERNSHIP APPS, do RCSA Cal day and ROHP stuff, hang out with Alvin, hang out with Chrystal, etc etc.

Me! In a museum! With curled hair! Drinking beer! Three unlikeleys in one picture

I can cook!

I went to Trader Joe's today and bought ... A GIANT BOTTLE OF CANOLA OIL! The world of cooking is now open to me. What can I make on a pan? Mmm ... I should have bought eggs. Damn it. Another trip to Trader Joe's is in order. Seeing as how I have a bus pass, I could totally go every day.


Things I want to make:
- Salmon burgers! Trader Joe's sells four patties for a little over $4 which is a little expensive but sounds easy enough to make.
- Grilled cheese sandwiches! OMG MY FAVORITE
- Scrambled eggs!

Mmm... I don't know any others. How exciting. I should also buy a saucepan. I want to make mac&cheese but I don't think that's possible with a frying pan.

Superbowl Sunday

I watched the superbowl for the first time today. Not only that, but it's probably the longest I've ever watched a football game. I didn't even watch it in its entirety. Alvin came over and we kept switching between that and Mythbusters. I also stopped watching when there was only 2:45 left in the 4th quarter, which was the most important part of the entire game. I was sitting in bed reading when I heard a room down the hall yell and I thought "damn ... I probably should have just finished the game." Oh well. Football is fun to watch. I've always wanted to throw some sort of Superbowl party but I don't have friends to invite. My current friends would just change the channel or exit the living room to do other things. Which is why I think if I were to move in with someone, I would want them to like sports so we could invite friends over for a sports game party.

Alvin is sleeping on my floor right now. It's 8:05 pm. I was supposed to do all my homework yesterday but I haven't done any. I also didn't do laundry or go swimming. HEHE But today was for a good reason. Frances C came up! She laughed at the message I left on her voicemail because I had missed her call and I called back with "HI FRANCES! SORRY I MISSED YOUR CALL! I WAS AT THE GYM! I have to shower! Call me back around 10:30" and she and Alvin thought it was funny that I had already gotten up and gone to the gym by 10am. "It's like 'Sorry! I just got back from skiing!'" I walked extremely quickly to Dwinelle to meet up with her and took her to Raleigh's, where I've eaten like ... 3x in the past week. They have the best Caesar salad ever. Alvin came and we hung out in my room and then we went downstairs to get Ryno's and walked around campus. Frozen yogurt is TERRIBLE with skittles, as Alvin found out. Three hours later, she had to leave :( The last I ever saw of her was on Telegraph, as she was climbing into a Toyota Hybrid.

Alvin just kicked a bag and I looked over and he smiled and waved at me and then started snoring again. Watching Alvin sleep is like watching a baby sleep. It's very cute.

Aw! I wish my friends could visit more often. It's really not that far! A 5 hr drive ... at select times of the day. I love walking around campus, but it's even more fun when I'm walking around with friends. It's also a great excuse to eat out, and I've probably eaten out more often when friends come up.

I hate my women's studies class, which should be expected since I chose it because it "sounded interesting." I don't care about the class and I'm not willing to spend any money on it, which is very bad considering I have two reading assignments due and I have not yet gotten the $50 reader. Eff that! I don't want to get a reader! However, if I don't I won't be able to write the paper about the readings. Dilemma.

I'm reading a surprisingly good book called "Love and other impossible pursuits" which I have to return to the libary by 2/11. It's kind of embarassing to borrow these kind of girly books from the library, but whatever.

I've gotten extremely lazy about school. I need to remind myself that I planned to get a 4.0 this semester, and also that I planned to have a really flat stomach by 2/22.

Happy Birthday Frances

Wow I can't believe it but winter break is over for most people, which means that it's time for me to visit colleges. I'm happy that I have people who enjoy me enough to let me stay with them. Otherwise, I'm not quite sure what I'd be doing. I'm waiting for webshots to finish uploading my pics, and not only is it slow, but it makes my computer extremely laggy. It can't even process what I type instantaneously. Anyway, I'm very tired and I have to wake up early (earlier than I've been waking lately, at least) to leave for SD. As of now, I wake up around 11am, 3 hours later than I'm used to in college. I'm also sporting a significantly larger stomach and eating more than usual. So, even though my winter break has not ended, I will begin what I should have begun long ago. A DIET REGIMEN.

I'm also incredibly low on cash right now. I might have spent well over $200 since December 20th which was not too long ago. I just can't stop spending money.

Firsts of the day:
1) Driving in the rain. Oddly, it was pouring, POURING, when Alvin drove me back to get my car, but at some point, it just suddenly stopped. So it wasn't too bad, but Alvin was really nice and followed behind me all the way back home to make sure nothing happened. Hearts for Alvin.

2) Parking in a public parking lot without my parents. I think? Well, I ended up running over the same curb. Twice. I don't really feel all that embarrassed inside but I keep remembering how I looked behind me and people were laughing their asses off at me. Tears for me.

3) TMV person goes past the #teens! So bizarre. And already, two years before it even occurs, our intended 21st combined birthday bash in Vegas is breaking apart because Eric will be studying abroad at the time. Tears for us all.