busy...busy...

So I have been a little lame about my blog posting! School has been piling up this week and chaos has in sued so...I promise that tomorrow I will be back in action with a good post, you know, one that doesn't include a rant about hyphens!

Oh and I am up to FOUR followers!! Yay...I love all of you who take the time to read my blog! You are all awesomespice...

until tomorrow...

what-the-hyphen?!

I love grammar. I love English. I love books. On a daily basis I think that I should have been an English major...and nixed the whole psychology major idea. You wouldn't be able to tell from my awesome use of appropriate grammar on this blog...but I heart it big time.

This brings me to something I read today...in the newest edition of the 'Shorter Oxford English Dictionary' 16,000 words have lost their hypens!! What-the-effspice? I love hyphens. I hyphenate words constantly...heck I even hypenate whole sentences when I am feeling a little crazy...and what has all of this led to? My beloved hyphens going extinct...

For example the word 'bumble-bee' will now be 'bumblebee' and 'ice-cream' will now be 'ice cream'...I know crazy right?! I bet all of you are as outraged as I am...right?....Right?! I bet all of you are dying to know why this is happening...well no worries I will hip you to the genius reasoning behind this move.

"People are not confident about using hyphens anymore, they're not really sure what they are for…Printed writing is very much design-led these days in adverts and Web sites, and people feel that hyphens mess up the look of a nice bit of typography. The hyphen is seen as messy looking and old-fashioned." Yep....this gem of a quote came from the editor of the Shorter OED...so basically people are getting lazy and can't be bothered to use a 'messy-looking hyphen'...whatevs...

I blame texting and twitter for this...even though I love my texting I so blame it for the extinction of the hyphen.

And-now-I-am-done-with-this-because-I-bet-I-am-the-only-person-in-the-world-who-is-going-to-miss-the-hyphen-but-do-not-fear-blog-friends-the-hyphen-is-alive-and-well-on-Always-Alexandria.

story time...

Get ready to be sicked out to the extreme. Does everyone remember me talking about the sicknast sheep brain that I have to dissect for my biological psychology course? No? Ok...well go here and here...and then you will be all caught up.

Onto the story of the day. There are four lab tables in this class...four people to each table...one nasty sheep brain per table. I am here representing Table Numero Dos...we are located right next to Table Numero Uno. Table Numero Uno is where this debacle took place...

So on Tuesday I am sitting in class minding my own business, I am taking notes...while trying to cover my nose, not look at the actual brain or the slides of the brain, AND trying to control my gag reflex (yep! go me! i am such an amazing multi-tasker). I hear the most blood-curdling screech I have ever heard in my life. It was coming from Table Numero Uno...I look up and the poor girl sitting two people away from me is SPITTING OUT A CHUNK OF THE CEREBELLUM OF THE SHEEP BRAIN!! Spitting it out!! Spitting it out of her MOUTH ...along with what looked like a vomit-inducing mixture of saliva and formaldehyde...

I honestly thought I was going to throw up...needless to say the poor girl who was munching on a sheep brain did throw up...although how she made it out of the classroom before vomiting I will never know...

So...what have we learned from this post? Let's review...

Moral #1: Do not become a psychology major...because you will be forced to take biological psychology and you will have to dissect something gross.

Moral #2: Do not talk or open your mouth for ANY reason, if you are unfortunate enough to already be enrolled in a class like this, or are already a psychology major and it is too late to go back.

keep this shut at all times while dissecting anything...trust me you will thank me later...

Moral #3: If you are going to puke at school...try your hardest to make it out of the classroom before doing so...(trust me, I thank that girl for not causing a chain-vomit-reaction).

So I am done with this post now...because I am re-grossed out just thinking about the 'incident' and I am sure you are all just as grossed out...

I am off to go watch: Project Runway, The Vampire Diaries, and GREY'S-freakin-ANATOMY...yep you are right...I rock at life...

question and answer...

It's that time again kids...I have nothing clever to go on about so I turn to a 'The Book of Questions' post. I wish I had like a theme song for these posts...maybe I will write one and then record it (with my AWESOME singing voice....trust me the people who play Guitar Hero with me know that I am SO the next American Idol) and then I will post it on here for all of you to enjoy and you can play it while you read and it will be like the jeopardy music...SA-WEET! It's a plan....

*Drum roll as I flip through the book......*

Question #25 (also known as the most lamespice question 'eva. I really want to flip to another one...but I said I would answer whichever question I flipped to and I have integrity and would feel bad if I was lying to all of you...so basically it is YOUR fault I am doing this question...does anyone else love the fact that I use a bazillion ellipses per post and create the most ridiculous run on sentences in the history of run on sentences?)

Ok let's jump back on track...

Question #25: For an all-expense paid, one-week vacation anywhere in the world, would you be willing to kill a beautiful butterfly by pulling off its wings? What about stepping on a cockroach?

Answer: Um...the long and short of it...yes, and hells-to-the-yes! Seriously, no joke. Listen, I know all Gods creatures are equal but see this thing right here...

it's pretty right? I even searched photobucket until I found a REALLY unique, pretty butterfly to post. It's got great color...and I would totes rip off them wings for an all-expense paid week in Europe. Sorry...but that is the truth...and sometimes the truth hurts (ha! that's what the butterfly said! ok so now I need to go and make reservations at 'Dante's Inferno' because I am SO heading there after that horrible butterfly-torturing pun!)

And as for this sick little cockroach fool...

I would grind his little cockroach-bones (do they have bones?) into cockroach dust...I would even do it with my favorite shoes... then I would wipe off said shoes and pack them in my bag for my lovely free week long vacation....saonaira sucka!

Okay truth time bloggers...would you destroy these little buggie friends for a FREE week-long trip ANYWHERE you wanted? C'mon be honest...(if your answer is yes I will add you too my party when I make my reservations in the fiery pits!)

One last thing...there is a crucial poll going on right as we speak...a hot or not poll! It is a fight to the death between Robert Pattinson and Paul Wesley...so make your way over to Busy Bee Lauren and vote your booty's off! (also, if you do NOT vote for R-patz...I will block all of your future comments on this blog...just kidding! but c'mon he is a HOTTNESS MONSTER!)

stayin' alive...

Happy Monday blog-land...ok, yes, whatever, it's Monday and it sucks but hey that is life my friends!

So as you can see I did NOT melt into a puddle this weekend. It was not quite as hot as I thought it was going to be...yes, 'tis true...sometimes I error on the side of the dramatic...but only occasionally!

All in all the weekend was a pretty darn good one...minus the headache that started Friday and STILL is making my head throb, other than that my weekend was golden!

Friday I wrapped up the school week and came home and finally finished 'The Vampire Diaries' (sidenote: for the best Vamp Diaries recap...check out Busy Bee Lauren it is hilar! And I almost like it better than the actual show...plus she is famous, Logan Nietzel from Project Runway tweeted her...yeah awesome!) The books were okay...no 'Twilight' but still aight!

On Saturday I hung out with the loveo'mylife niece who is a riot and a half!

and yes, those are flamingos on her shoes, or better yet as she calls them her 'mamingo shoes' uh-huh she rocks at life...

Then my lovely brother Jonathan and his even-lovelier girlfriend Christina took my mother, niece, and myself out to eat at one of those super fun hibachi girl (okay so I totes meant to write 'Hibachi GRILL' but I wrote girl and I am leaving it because it made me chuckle!) places where they cook your food right at the table and do all that crazy, flippy,choppy, throwing food business...it was a blast. The food was super yummy, and the chef was pretty entertaining (minus the part where he lit the ENTIRE grill on fire without warning and my niece literally crawled up my brothers ENTIRE body and Christina and I both almost threw our necks out when we thought our faces had caught on fire!)

I bet right now you are all wondering where all the pictures from this great meal are...yep well I am a bad-blogger (feel free to smack me on the hand) and I left my camera all alone at home...yep epic blog fail!

After stuffing our faces...we all decided that ice cream sounded like a great idea. We went downtown which of course led to me and Bastina sprinting across the street to go shopping. Yeah that is right...we went shopping and THEN got gelato...uh huh shopping first, gelato second we have our priorities ok?!

Sunday wasn't that much fun...but was quite productive...I did ALL of my laundry, ALL of my homework, and caught up on season 3 of Dexter...Micheal C. Hall is foxy...he is a total dime piece (a ten...get it?! Ha!)...yet he still didn't get an Emmy...bummer.

Since I failed with the pictures of the goings-on of my weekend I will try to make up for it...

this is the lovely brother who took us out and fed us...love him for that...don't love him for the lack of oxygen I was receiving in this photo...and the red face it caused...

this is another photo of the big brother with my niece...playing Guitar Hero...yep it isn't a family Christmas if Guitar Hero isn't around...and yes he is gangsta'...

a fun fact about this brother...for some reason no one in our family pronounces his name correctly. his name is Jonathan...and for some reason we ALL pronounce it Jon-than...i never realized this until someone pointed it out to me...odd.

this is my brothers girlfriend. this is also one of my favorite pictures 'eva. yep she is crazy...yep she fits in the family well...also from here on out any mention of her she will be called Bastina...because that is what we call her. actually it is Bastina Balicious. Bastina came from my nieces' inability to pronounce her name...and Balicious came after WAY too many hours of us all in a car driving to Disneyland...

since I absolutely LOVE posting embarrassing pictures of people on here...I also like to counteract them with a good picture...so then my friends and family members don't want to throw down the next time I see them...your welcome Bastina!

awww...cute Jon-than and Bastina...thanks for the yummy food guys! (Oh and Bastina...hopefully you are reading this...we need to go back to Artifax...I want that purse!!)

Yep...pretty good weekend...and I am completely enticed to sign off with my lamespice Gossip Girl joke...but I will resist for everyone's sanity...oh and don't forget...WATCH 'The Vampire Diaries' on Thursday and then go and read Busy Bee Lauren's recap...and then come back here and thank me...

i love california, but...

I am a California gal. I was born here and will live here probably my entire life...and I heart it. We have the best beaches, we have a plethora of Sprinkles Cupcakes (although none close enough to where I live). We have Napa...which hello is bee-you-ti-ful! We have San Francisco which is a mecca of shopping and awesomeness. We totes have Disneyland...it is awesomespice. We are home of fresh avocados, even though I hate them they are still around if I want the option. Also, it is a blue state...so I know that I won't be asked to leave anytime soon due to my bleeding heart liberal politics!

However, as of late I have been hating on California. Why, you may ask? IT IS TOO HOT, AND I AM O-V-E-R It. So I know it isn't the hottest state in the world but I hate the heat...like 90 degrees and I am so tapping out. But I buck up and deal with it knowing that when winter comes it will be lovely and cold and rainy and I can bust out my cute hats, scarves, and hoodies. However, fall is starting in like a week and we have NO sign of a cool down...like 105 all next week. Sick. Ew. Die.

So...don't be concerned if my blog is suddenly lights out next week. You know in case I melt into a puddle or cook myself to death in my oven-um-I-mean-my-car. And yes Jil for the millionth time you can have my sunglasses as soon as I kick!

On this happy note...have a good weekend bloggity bloggers!

xoxo....Gossip Girl...(I know, I know, that is like too many cheesy jokes in one week! I will try to tone them down a bit, scouts honor!!)

short but sheep...

A couple of weeks ago I made a vow..a vow to all of you and to myself. I vowed that there was no chance in hell that I would be placing my hands ANYWHERE near my sheep brain for my biological psychology class. I promised my lab group that I would take ALL the notes and share them with everyone if they didn't make me participate in dissection.

Well...that was the plan up until yesterday morning. We had our gloves on, our charts open, and our dissection trays in front of us...and I realized that the only male in our group full of females is *ahem* a little bit of an idiot. I am so not trying to be mean but I am 99% sure he spends 100% of his time high as a kite...and it shows! This person was not listening to our professor and was MUTILATING our sheep brain...not cool. We get graded on this so it has to be right...

Of course me being the patient and un-controlling person that I am I guided him kindly and helped him out....by ripping the scissors out of his hands and saying I will just do it myself (yes, I know I have control issues...I do not deny the truth). It was the most S-I-C-K-N-A-S-T thing ever. I totes gagged the entire time I was cutting the meninges off the brain...*vomit*!

Oh and just in case you wondering...this isn't my groups brain but the picture still works...

I bet that you are ALL absolutely starving right now aren't you? Yep...like a nice lamb sandwich sounds delish right? Ya. No. Puke.

*Oh and please forgive me for my oh-so-lame pun intended title...it's not funny and I am aware! lol Now GO make those sandwiches!!!

This is going to be a looooong semester...yuck, sick, EW!

chicken wings, ikea, and inappropriate laughter with the girls...

Last post I mentioned my plans for margaritas with the girls...that was the plan...it got a teeny bit sidetracked.

Let me start off by saying there is a certain restaurant that I love. Not because of the insanely tacky orange leather booths,or the twenty TVs going at once, or the skank-tastic girls that work there. I love it purely because it serves THE best chicken wings and my favorite artery clogging dish of FRIED PICKLES!

Yes, my friends...I photographed this greasy food that this picture features: the amazingly yummy pickles (and their delish onion strings).

Anywho...back to the tale of the cancelled margaritas! My mother mentioned Saturday morning that she was thinking of heading down to Sacramento with a friend of hers...a light bulb went off in my head *ding*!! I immediately sent a text to my friend Jil and suggested cancelling our Saturday night drinks and replacing them with a trip to one of our favorite fine dining establishments (which happens to be in Sacramento where my mother was heading). She was in...obvi...I totally had her at 'fried pickles'.

So Sunday afternoon the four of us gals headed off to Sacramento...with our bellies a'grumbling to this LOVELY place..

Yep...you read that right. I love Hooters...it is a haven of greasy deliciousness. It is also, unfortunately, the haven of waitresses in polyester orange shorts and tube socks...sicknast.

Needless to say the four of us gals ate until we felt sick, laughed our butts off, and then headed off to Ikea to do some shopping. Overall, a great day and SO much better than margaritas!

Yes that is right I LOVE Hooters (the restaurant! get your head outta the gutters!). Don't judge what you do not understand!

So, any of you have totally gross guilty pleasures like fried pickles?? Do share...

a good book+mango margaritas+time with the girls=awesomespice mood...

Let's face it...it has been a rough week. Why? Who knows...I just had one of those weeks were every little thing made me freak out and it was stressful. So, how am I blowing off steam at 10:30 on a Friday night you may ask? Well first...I am reading every ones blogs and as soon as I am done with this I am hopping into my nice cozy bed to finish up 'The Vampire Diaries'....yep I will spend tonight in bed with Stefan and Damon...and some ice cream!

Also in an effort to turn my pissyspice mood into an awesomespice mood...I will be meeting the girls out for a mango margarita (yes that is right only one) and some gossip. I mean really what on this earth is better than mango margaritas, girls night, and lots of chit chat? Nothing. That's what! Well...Robert Pattinson could join us and THAT would probably make it better...but I won't keep my hopes up!

So have a fun, relaxing weekend all! Hopefully I will come back with a much better attitude for a Monday post! Cheers!

furlough days...

Furlough Days are making me lose my mind. No really...my brain is slowly trickling out of my ears (and just a side note it looks remarkably similar to the memory stuff from Harry Potter...if only I had a pensieve...okay back on track) sorry about that!

Oh are you wondering what a furlough day is? Do you think it sounds fun, sorta like a vacation? Yeah...no it isn't. Due to the awesome handling of budget matters out here in good ol' California our tuition was raised 30%!!! After they raised our tuition they then decided that every professor was required to take nine furlough days off. A furlough day off means they cannot step foot on campus; no classes; no time in their offices; no answering students e-mails; and no returning phone calls. Yeah they can't even check their e-mail (if they do they get a $675 dollar fine) how crazy is THAT?

Okay so nine days doesn't seem like that big of a deal....and really it isn't. The thing that is making me lose my mind is that only 3 days are campus-wide. Which means on those three days every teacher/school employee is gone and the school is totes shut down. The rest of the six days are teachers choice...so each teacher picks six random days that they will cancel all their classes.

Doesn't sound too bad...the bad part is trying to figure out which of my six teachers cancelled class for which day...and they keep changing it. I got an e-mail from a teacher last night saying that they switched all their days to accomodate a vacation so to 'disregard' her previous schedule?!?!

WHAT?! I already inked all that business into my planner (theloveo'mylife planner; that I cannot function without).

Grrr...okay sorry this was a bit of a rant...which I do sometimes...sorry you all had to read it!

So tell me what is making you crazy today?!?!

my favorite person ever...

I consider myself pretty lucky in the family and friends area. I am surrounded by plenty of amazing people in my everyday life...and not to pick favorites but...

this kid happens to be my favorite person in the history of all people. *Yes, I know I have used this picture on my blog once already but, get used to it because it happens to be my favorite picture ever...kthanksbye! She is my favorite niece ever (also my only niece).

So you may be wondering why I love this kid so much...well let me school you...

1.) She is a fashionista in training...

I mean honestly you know you are all jealous wishing you could rock that bathing suit with those boots while digging in your yard...work it!

2.) She is the smartest four-year-old I have ever encountered...

I don't have a picture to document her super human brain power (so I will just post a super cute one); but the kid is smart...like almost too dang smart for her own good!

Examples of her exceptional genius:
*She is only four and is a proud card carrying *cough*brainwashed*cough* Democrat, or as she says it "A Democrack".

*When I ask her why she is so smart...she sighs at me and says, "Um because I just know everything, silly!"

*The best example of all would be when she wrangled me and two others into baking her birthday cupcakes for her preschool class with the promise that she would of course help us...this lead to me, my friend Jil, and my mother spending hours cranking out these babies...

Yeah this is only half of them...we made about one million (give or take about 999,975). So while we worked our bootay's off where was my lovely niece? She helped decorate half a cupcake and then patted us on the back told us we were doing a good job and hightailed it into the living room to watch 'Yo Gabba Gabba'...yep smartest kid EVER!

3.) She just is...

The sweetest...

Most carefree...

Silliest (yes, those are her unds on her head, she is a genius remember?!)...

Most hilarious...

Fashionable...

Best addition to our family EVER...

Okay readers...you can wake up now! I may have gone a little overboard....but I just loves me some Jordan Lee!

my children...

It came to me the other day that I have been blogging for a couple of weeks now, with absolutely NO mention of my kids! How lamespice is that? So without further ado...

This is Versace...he is my first born (but so not my favorite) HEY do not judge me...I know you all have favorite kids you just don't admit it! I adopted him from an exotic place called, "Sunglass Hut" *and by adopted I mean I shelled out $375 bones to call them MINE!!!* Oh you want a front view? Not a problem...

Now...I had another child (Versace #2)...but sorry to say it...he was ugly and way TOO gold and a little too J-Lo for my own style so...I sold him on the black market...in order to adopt another...Say "how-do-ya-do?" to Jimmy...Jimmy Choo that is. He is my favorite hands down...I love him like Edward loves Bella...oh the front? Yes...no problem...*Please forgive my SO non-professional picture taking abilities I totally just rocked these out in like two minutes via my kitchen table as the backdrop...ain't no thing!

So children...blog world. Blog world, children...shake hands and play nice!

Okay world...what is your vice? The one thing you will spend insane amounts of money on no matter what? Mine obviously is severely overpriced designer shades...share yours!!

irk of the day...

So I have this professor...he has a PhD...he teaches my 'cross-cultural psychology' course...and he is a bit of a moron.

Yeah that is right...I just said that.

He says about ten times per lecture, "I seen"

As in, "When I was in Russia I seen how much the children tend to help their parents financially"

Or, "The other day I was walking around campus and I seen these kids running around like crazy folk."

"I seen, I seen, I seen"

Like hello, what happened to grammar and proper english? Anyone...anyone?

It makes me crazy....

*And please do not point out the fact that I do follow the rules of grammar on this blog...it's a blog and I don't have to! kthanksbye!

i want...

he gives me heart palpitations...

and he is a stone cold fox...

he even makes this uber-disgusting habit hot...

you are welcome...

question and answer...

It is time for another 'Book of Questions' post...because after this particular school day my thinking prowess is not functioning all that well. So, basically I am tired and lazy and this is all you get...on we go! I flipped to a random page and this was the question...

Question #156: On an airplane you are talking pleasantly to a stranger of average appearance. Unexpectedly, the person offers you $10,000 for one night of sex. Knowing that there is no danger and that payment is certain, would you accept the offer?

Answer: Um...no way in H-E-L-L!! Like no way, would not even consider it. Okay I would probably take like five seconds to be like 10,000 bucks in my bank would be SO awesome, and then I would be like NO WAY. I value myself a little bit more than that...that is some seriously skeezy business going on. So, no random Plane Pervert I will not be joining you for a PAID roll in hay.

By the way...wouldn't that technically be prostitution? As in illegal? Yep...I think so!

Okay...so does anyone want to throw in their two cents? Would any of YOU pocket the 10 grand and hit the sack with The Plane Pervert? If you had starving kids at home and no other options, would you partake in this wager? Discuss amongst yourselves...oh and this blog is a no judgment zone!