Just give me all the bacon and eggs you have

Everybody's always trying to get me to blog, and I always say the same thing when the ridiculous amount of sassing piles up- I blog when I choose to, not because people want me to. That's the only way I ever enjoy it. I'm not blogging because it's my job, I do it because I want to when I want to. I absolutely do not care whether you're happy with how often/not often I update.

My niece, Laney Fae was born since I last posted. I've been able to spend a fair amount of time with her, considering I'm at school most of the time. She's an adorable little thing. She looks just like my brother. Everyone is pretty excited to have her here.

This isn't the best photo. I haven't been able to get good photos on my phone of her.

Also, I turned 21 a few weeks ago. I'd be lying if I didn't say that I truly appreciate being able to order alcohol in a restaurant if I choose, and be able to buy it for myself. I have a bottle of Merlot in my pantry right now. It shall be delicious.

And for my birthday, a certain individual who shall remain nameless, sent me 21 red roses over three days at school, for my birthday, as well as other incredibly awesome gifts. Whoever this person is, they sound awesome, right?

Again, this isn't a very good picture, but it's the best one I have. They're all dead now, of course. I think it would be a little morbid to post pictures of 21 dead roses.

no dungeonmaster worth his weight in geldings goes anywhere without his 20 sided die

Ugh, y'all, I've been so obnoxiously proud/obsessed with myself this week and my healthy eating. Having a kitchenette is what my life has been missing. Having a very small crock pot is what my life has been missing. Apparently my life has been missing many things, which are now found. Going back to my days of veganism/vegetarianism (which have not been forgotten, just put on hold, working my way back there) and capitalizing on my recent purchase of a 10 dollar crock pot from target I've been feeding myself this week from one meal for dinner. Supplementing with Costco purchases (a place I frickin love more than life itself) I've gotten groceries from the co-op this week (produce, sale grocery items) on the cheaps and have been, as previously stated, obnoxiously proud of myself to say the least. I find when I'm at school and I have a more selective crop of foods to work with, I'm much more innovative. Which makes me more nutritious. But this weekend I plan to eat pizza. And ice cream. Which is whatevs, it somewhat negates the healthiness of this week, but baby steps, my friends.

These Days

Ugh, having a blog is liek, hard work y'allz. I usually only update when I'm depressed, or bored, or being productive, or extremely happy, which I have been all of those at some point or another this summer, but I don't ever update when I'm at home. All the people who read this are home and I see them most any day anyways.

few things:

-I'm moved into my apartment

-I started classes, whatevs

-I need to stop forgetting that I hate tomatoes, and buying them and cooking them in things, and then just picking them out anyway. Unless it's pasta. Icks.

-Like, a whole lot of other stuff that I'm not going to get into on my public blog. But I've been busy this summer.

It's alright it's alright it's alright

At this time last year, I was home, I had served jury duty, I was done with my freshman year of College, I was so happy to be home in my city, and I didn't have a job.

Now, I'm done with Sophomore year, which was arguably worse in terms of having classes that I really hated, but 20 times better socially. I will forever love my awesome roommate, who I won't be living with again in the near future, but we'll still hang out all the time. I didn't serve jury duty this summer, but looking back, jury duty is awesome, people. I'm happy to be home, but I still miss Menomonie, and...people. Which I never thought I'd say. And I have a job.

he left the bloodstains on the carpet

There's like...a lot of days in April. I don't think I'm going to keep going with the 'I Loves' just because I missed so many days. But I did love a lot of things, and still do.

I'll just make a non-descript list of things I love to even things out:

I love diet pop, I love Michael Scott, I love Twitter, I love tumblr, I love David Bowie, I love magazines, I love my parents, I love my cabin, I love riding my bike in the summer, I love my school chums, I love my home chums, I love my phone when it works, I love The Mighty Boosh, and I love my novelty t-shirts.

come on let your colors burst

And this one is a total contradiction to my last post:

32. I love the Christmas-Easter cheesy potatoes.

They were my favorite food growing up. They're really yummy, and I was excited to be able to eat them on Easter, although it took me awhile to work up the courage to eat dairy. I'm going to try to craft a vegan version this summer. We'll see how that turns out..

Who Dat Ninja?

Ugh, I know that I'M the one who set out expectations for this month, but things got away from me, as they often do. It could often be considered a good thing if I'm not blogging, because that means I'm of good mental health. Which I have been these past few weeks. Extremely good mental health.

31. I think my thing for this day was I Love Being Vegan?

This was the day before Easter, and I'm the type of person who does Lent all the way until Easter, so it was my last day of veganism. Although I can tell you that I've eaten some animal products since Lent has been over, I really really enjoyed veganism. I'll probably end up doing it for the rest of my life at some point. I know it's a selfish and lazy attitude to be like "I'll get around to doing it at some point, but it's not practical right now." It's actually quite practical, all the time, but I think in order to not drive myself crazy, I'm going to loosen up a little bit at least while I'm still not an official grown-up.

The amount of crap give Vegan diets is just so ridiculous and unjust. Have these people ever TRIED living vegan? It's wonderful, and you feel so much better all the time (you obviously have to be smart about it), but people cry if you take away their daily cheeseburger. People can act so entitled to eating animal products and it's just so backwards.

My poor parents are going to have to suffer through their youngest daughters "enlightened socially conscious phase" this summer. But they'll eat black bean burgers if it kills them.

Last night I dreamt somebody loved me

30. I love my cat.

He can be a total jerk sometimes, and really annoying, and he has really sharp claws, and he can be standoffish, and he kills squirrels a lot in the summer, but he's really the best cat ever. I think after that kind of description, only my sister and I could still love him as much as we do.

here in my car

29. I love being home.

I didn't post because I was home. And I was distracted. And I didn't really feel like it. But I really love being home. Mostly it's just associated with the feeling of not having any responsibilities, and sleep. Lots of sleep. Also, my house is bigger than my dorm room. Which is always a plus, I guess..

How many things do we really have control over?

We watched this video today in Anthropology, and I think it's really well done. And I think everyone should watch it. It's 20 minutes long, but it holds your attention well.

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

Earn It.

28. I love Spaghetti.

I know I've been doing a lot of food related things (remind anyone of the 365 project? I just read through some of those recently, and y'all had a right to complain- I did a bunch of food related ones) but I don't care! I love Spaghetti. I made like half a box for dinner tonight, and I'm currently eating it for dinner (and since the whole box only cost one dollar, that's 50 cents, my friends. Fiscally that's good, morally- not so much. More on that later) with spaghetti sauce. It's a perfect comfort vegan dinner since I already love it so much. Literally when I'm starving I could just eat a huge bowl of spaghetti and I'd be good to go.

And I'm in a really good mood today! Yayy. And I'm staying up all night, because I'm on a REALLY weird sleep schedule right now. And I need to get stuff done.

When I first came to London, I was only sixteen.

27. I love skittles.

Did I already do this one? I don't think so. But I love skittles. They're one of the few candies I can eat right now, as long as they're not the ones with gelatin. I'm in a weird, bitter, despondent mood today/right now, so roommate bought me some skittles from the machine downstairs. And, as I mentioned before, they were the tropical kind, but somehow they tasted a little better this time.

As much as exercises in positive thinking can help improve your mood, it sucks to force myself to love something when there are so many things I don't love. I don't love having a really late registration date; I get inconvenienced every semester when I'm registering for classes because certain classes I need are offered at stupid times or are filled up, or classes that are listed that I can take that I get really excited about don't show up when I search for them. You get these professors who get mad at you for taking their class just to fulfill a requirement, which I get, but if I have no choice, and I'm stuck taking a class that was not on my radar at all, I feel like I'm completely disadvantaged. I don't like taking classes that I would not choose to take, and I'm sorry, as much as I try to improve my attitude about it, there is a certain level of my mental health that I have absolutely no control over. I guess I get to look forward to another semester taking classes I don't enjoy. Although, I shouldn't say that, I'll be taking Letterform, which I'm looking forward to, and Beth is taking it too, and I'll be taking Pres. Tech. at the same as one of my other roommates, which is always nice. It's always convenient to take classes with or at the same time as your best friends/roommates.

Conflict of the Orders

26. I love having the luxury of being able to sleep in until one in the afternoon four days in a row.

Scoff if you will. You'll recall my earlier post on loving to sleep, and loving having fridays off. This is like a culmination of those two. Sue me, I stay up late, and I sleep in. But this is exactly what happened this weekend. I stay up later than I should- I'm fully aware that it's a contradiction to the healthy life I try to lead. HOWEVER, when you have a roommate and other such external forces, it's difficult to always keep yourself on a sleeping schedge. That being said, even after staying up until 3 am on Saturday watching Bourne Identity with people, I still chose to stay up until 4 am to finish watching Raiders of the Lost Ark on my laptop.

Oh and in case anyone is wondering, I don't have class until 2:30 on Mondays, which is what makes this little arrangement possible.

waiting for a flash of enlightenment in all this blood and thunder

25. I love Amy's Organic.

I love this brand. I don't think I've ever eaten an Amy's product that I haven't been satisfied with. For those who have never eaten Amy's, it's an organic frozen and prepackaged food company that only sells vegetarian meals (and vegan). I always really liked their Mac and Cheese until I realized it had about 15 grams of fat. They make really good non-dairy bean and rice burritos and sell a variety of different cuisines. Currently, my favorite product of theirs would have to be the California Veggie Burger, which is the best Vegan burger substitute I've tasted, and maybe the best burger substitute overall (maybe just besides Morningstar Farms' Spicy Black Bean Burger). If you've not tried Amy's before, I'd totally recommend it. Although I'm not super into the idea of advocating buying stuff with a lot of packaging, (and it's a little more expensive than normal frozen fare), it's really convenient if, like me, you live in a dorm room and don't get the opportunity to cook quite that often.

Also, I went grocery shopping today and I'm proud of myself for being able to get so much stuff on the cheap: a box of whole wheat spaghetti, pasta sauce, 2 cans of chili beans, flatbreads, and spinach= 9 dollars. I was going to get bananas, too, but I put them back, and this is the time when I regret that decision, especially since they were so cheap, but I was worried about running out of money. It's my goal to not eat from the food place at school this week (funds are low there, too) and force myself to live cheaply and happily on my healthy food victories.

Alone here in the kitchen, I feel there's something missing.

Vegan brownies will never be a good decision. At least not the way I made them tonight. I will need a nuclear explosion to get them out of the pan.

They taste okay, though.

Dear I fear we're facing a problem

24. I love ridiculous dreams.

I had a dream last night where I was in New York maybe for some reason? and I had to go move the car, so I was driving around, and I think maybe the mob might have been after me, but it wasn't a big deal at all. And then I guess I might have been at school or something, and my cousin Sam went to Stout and lived across the street, and cousin Maggie lived with him, and cousin Sarah visited them a lot, too. And Sarah had given birth to a goldfish, but Sam took care of it. And then he made me babysit it, and it told me it wanted an ice cream cone, so I fed it some ice cream with a tiny teaspoon. I realized how ridiculous this was even in a dream, so to be really self-aware and ridiculous I put as my facebook status: "just fed my nephew goldfish ice cream with a tiny spoon, and now going with a bunch of giraffes to go see Gattacca in the theaters- guess which one I actually did?" If that seems confusing, then good. I don't want to live in a world where that dream makes sense.

Every day's an endless stream of cigarettes and magazines

23. I love when the vending machine gives you two of something.

If that seems really random, then it is. I went down the vending machines in my basement tonight with the hopes of getting some skittles, and the machine spit out one bag, and the next bag seemed so close to coming out, so my roommate and I "coaxed" the machine a little bit, and what do you know? Free skittles. But too bad they were the tropical kind, and not regular. That would have been better. But I won't argue with free candy gifted to me by the universe.

It's not considered a very good idea to take a taxi to the scene of a crime

22. I love Skype.

I do not love Skype's technical errors. But last night Tianna and I had the chance to talk for about two hours. We had the video going for awhile, but it wasn't working, so we just talked. Which is nicer than talking on the phone, because you get your hands free. It was nice to just talk. I got to complain to her about a bunch of things, as did she to me. It makes me excited to think that I'll be home in less than a week, and when I come back I'll only have a few weeks of school left.

Control yourself- take only what you need from it

21. I love Indiana Jones.

I love him I love him I love him.

On Wednesday there was a hockey game that my roommate had on the TV, and since I worked in the art building after my class was finished, I didn't have any homework. I needed a distraction, and the night before I had gotten a ridiculous urge to watch The Last Crusade. Whenever anyone mentions optical illusions, or I see an example of an illusory correlation I automatically want to watch Last Crusade (there are examples of both in the movie) (and I know that's a really dorky thing to know). I just love Indiana Jones so much. Watching those movies gives me the greatest comfort I could ever ask for. Behind The Princess Bride, it's probably the movie I've watched the most in my life. Last Crusade, that is. It's my second favorite movie of all time. First being Back to the Future, of course. People always think that Star Wars is my favorite movie trilogy, and they'd be close, but Indiana Jones takes it. Although I do have a lot more Star Wars memorabilia, it's easier to have R2D2 t-shirts than to have a souvenir whip.

When I get lonely, I visit the Indiana Jones Wikipedia page.

Down and Out in Paris and London

Hey, remember the other day when I made a slammin' apple crisp? Of course you do. Well, EDIT, I made another one tonight and it was even better. I was working in the art building until about 10 tonight so I came back and had a veggie burger, but needed a sweet. This time I made it more elaborate with flax seeds and almonds. I get excited at how culinary I can be sometimes. I won't post a picture though, because my roommate is "sleeping".