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?!?!