Happy Halloween!

So... that's just about all the Halloween spirit I have. CL and I are invited to a party tonight, I'm not sure yet if we're going or not. It's at CK's apartment. I love CK, but I'm not such a big fan of her roommate and her roommate's boyfriend, and I think they're the main ones throwing this party. I guess I'll see if CL is going to go. If she is, then I'll go with her. Otherwise I think I'll just stay home and watch scary movies. It looks like there's some good stuff lined up on PBS for anyone that's interested. Here's the schedule tonight:

• 8 pm Masterpiece Theatre: Dracula
• 9:28 pm: Carrie

Yes, they're actually showing Carrie on PBS... that's why I love them. Speaking of PBS, CL and I watched a pretty awesome documentary on Charles Schultz last night. It made us cry. It was that good. And yes, I realize I'm a huge nerd. It's ok.

Well, I have some serious stuff to get done this afternoon before Chem. lab. Here's to productivity!

love, allie

On blogging

I've been spending much of my precious procrastination time (which takes up about 10% of my waking hours, I'd estimate) checking out new blogs, reading old ones, etc. I'm not sure what it is, but all of a sudden, I'm completely enthralled by all of the wonderful things I can read about on other people's blogs. It also makes me want to make my own blog f-ing awesome so that everyone wants to read it... but I'm not sure how to do that. Any ideas?

For any of you that are curious, here are some of the blogs I've been looking at lately:

• I am Fashion
• Girl Dates London (thanks CR)
• TierneyLab
• The Caffeinated Librarian

While writing this, I'm currently watching the Packers-Broncos game on Monday night football. I'm not really a huge football fan, to be honest, I really just have it on for the background noise. Besides, I bet the bf $5 that the Packers would lose. I thought he would almost break up with me when I bet against his team, haha... so cute. In reality I hope that the Packers do win today, it will just make my life so much easier.

I think I've become so into reading the blogs of others because my own life is so stressful right now. Between classes, grad school applications, my two jobs... where do I really have time to relax? I guess that's why I'm creating time to, but that time is taken away from other things I should be doing right now. Maybe cleaning the apartment... CL has been very patient with my huge mess, but I can tell that's it's starting to get to her. I'm sorry CL, if you're reading this!

Ok, time to close this up. I'm going to try to do the dishes before CL comes home from the library. Then maybe I'll make myself some tea and read the newspaper. Yes, that would be nice.

love, allie

All I need in life

Well, I took the GRE yesterday*. The weird thing about the GRE is that, since it's entirely computer-based, you receive your scores instantly. I know, it's so convenient, and you don't have to worry that you won't get your scores in time, but for me that was the scariest part of the whole damn thing. Turns out I did... ok. Yep, just ok. To clarify - for me, "ok" means that I don't have to worry about not getting into grad school based on these scores... but they're not as high as I'd like. Maybe it has to do with my bringing up. I'm simply not satisfied with being merely average. Check that. I'm not satisfied with being merely above average. I need to work on this pesky perfectionist complex. Damn it.

Now I've just got the rest of the application process for grad schools ahead of me. And that's quite a task in itself. Any suggestions?

In other news, the bf was extremely nice to me all day yesterday even when I freaked out about my merely above-average score. What a nice guy. Plus, I figured out all it takes to make me happy! Here's the short list:

• pizza (preferably Papa Murphy's... mmm, home-baked)
• beer - andI got the good stuff, Hoegaarden (which, I learned recently is pronounced "who-garden" not "hoe-garden", FYI)
  
• chocolate truffles
  
• caramel apple

love, allie

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*"yesterday" in the section above actually refers to Wednesday, not actually yesterday yesterday. Finishing the post took longer than I thought. oops!

drinking games

tonight, instead of homework or other general productivity, caro, the bf and i played drinking games while watching tv shows. awesome sunday night! we started with the antiques roadshow drinking game (find it here), which is apparently inspired by frasier? let me know if you know anything about that one. then we changed the channel to abc (yes, no cable for us!) and started watching extreme makeover: home edition... probably the cheesiest television show ever made. That made us decided that it would make an excellent drinking game. bear with us, these rules may seem kind of mean, especially since most of the people on the show are terminally ill... but come on, if they didn't want people to make fun of it they shouldn't make it so damn cheesy!

here are the official rules for the extreme makeover: home edition drinking game:

• drink every time ty uses that annoying megaphone
• drink every time anyone says that something or someone is "special" or "inspirational"
• drink every time anyone hugs anyone else
• drink every time anyone cries - if they audibly squeak or make another weird noise, chug the rest of your beer

in an hour-long episode, you should make it through at least 2-3 beers. this game will get you significantly drunker than will the antiques roadshow drinking game, and is therefore much better.

in other news... the dreaded gre is coming up this week. i'm taking the test on wednesday and dreading it more than i have anything in a long time. i haven't really studied much, so i'll just have to hope for a good score. i figure, i didn't really study for the act and i did pretty good, so why should the gre be any different? i know, that's probably pretty awful reasoning, and my vocabulary is apparently shit, as far as my stupid gre study books have shown me. so for now, i'm just hoping that other people do worse than i do. also mean - i'm in a mean mood tonight, aren't i?

oh well, i should go soon. more stuff to do tonight that's not drinking or blogging (sad!). such is life.

love, allie

yay!

i'm so excited for panama!

...that's all.

love, allie

friends and lovers

what a weekend! CR was up here, and we had an awesome time as usual whenever she's in town. sitting at luna, lingerie shopping, cosmos, and football... does it get any better than this? yes it does, because she got me the bestest birthday gift ever - pretty tea! see, there it is! isn't it pretty? haha, CR - i've had two of them already and they're not only pretty, they're damn good, too! yay!

speaking of good, those cosmos we made were amazing! triple sec and limes make every drink taste like heaven. for the record, here is the best cosmopolitan recipe you will ever have:

• 2 oz. vodka
• 1 oz. triple sec
• 3 oz. cranberry juice
• 1/2 oz. fresh lime juice

shake with ice and pour into your best excuse for a martini glass! seriously, once you have this recipe you will never want to drink anything else. ever. ok, so we didn't have fancy glassware like that (yeah, they were in wine glasses), but they still tasted awesome!

oh yeah, and the football game was awesome, too. there's nothing like pbr at 10am. mmm... better than coffee. what a great way to have girl time before miss meg leaves the country! by the way, that is coming up way faster than i'd expected. wow. we'll miss her so much!

in other news, the bf and i were invited but not invited to a wedding this friday - and we finally received the invitation a few days ago. confusing, i know. good news: i just bought awesome shoes and a sweater to go with my dress, so i'll look pretty! bad news: i didn't realize that the wedding was going to be so early (3pm on a friday - wtf?)... and i still haven't found anyone to work for me. i'm supposed to be closing that night (i.e. working until 6:30, which clearly won't work). ah, i know they get pissed at me when i ask off work so much, but i can't help it. i'm a busy girl. if worst comes to worst, i'll just find someone to close for me and i'll skip out on the ceremony and just meet rob at the reception. that's not in bad taste... is it? i hope not. i mean, if they can't get a wedding invite out to me more than a week before the wedding i can't be expected to be at their beck and call.

enough.

other crappy news: our wireless connection is being snooty and not letting me on. hmph. oh wireless, you think you're too good for me. well you're not. i disconnect you!

ok, i've done nothing with my night except try on pretty dresses and stalk people on facebook... oh yeah, and write this lovely post. i should try to at least get something done now that's it's almost 11pm.

love, allie

it's grey in l.a. (or is it gray in l.a.?)

when it's grey in l.a. i sure like it that way
'cause there's way too much sunshine 'round here
i don't know about you,
i get so sick of blue skies wherever they always appear.

and i sure love the sound of the rain pouring down
on my carport roof made out of tin
if there's a flood then there's gonna be mudslides
we all have to pay for our sins

and i suppose that they'll close canyon roads
and the freeways will all start to clog
and the waters will rise and you won't be surprised
when your whole house smells like a wet dog

yay, i love loudon wainwright... almost as much as i love rufus wainwright. today made me think of that song because it actually was grey/ay here for about 5 minutes, and i was loving it... now it's all sunny and 80 degrees and crappy again. boo. seriously, it needs to be about 45but degrees and overcast. then i can wear my brand new vest from the gap that i got for my birthday. see - that's the one!

speaking of my birthday, i'm so f-ing old now. i can't believe i'm 22 already. i know, i know, later in life i'll realize how not old 22 is... but that time isn't now. pretty soon the bf will be 22 also, and then he'll be able to commiserate with me. until then, he just keeps calling me old. it's not helping.

in other news, good news - i'm going to panama! i got accepted, and i'll be there for two weeks between december and january. i'm still very sad that rob won't be going with me, but i don't know what i can do about it. he says i should just bring him back a monkey that can fetch him beer whenever he wants it. i guess that'll have to do. so far on my to-do list for panama:

• take lots of pictures
• find a beer-fetching monkey and get him back to the u.s. for the bf
  

will do!

i guess that's about it. i have to go do some serious laundry tonight. you know when you haven't done laundry in about a month and there's only the clothes you hate left in your closet and they don't even match each other. yeah, that's where we're at.

h'ok so... laundry.

love, allie

1, 2, 3, 4, tell me that you love me more

yay ipod commercials! haha, everytime the bf sees that one now he's like "hey, i have one of those." yes, my boyfriend is the most spoiled guy in the whole world because for our anniversary (3 years... scary) i bought him the new ipod nano. in black. the manly color (as he says). and yeah, it's pretty awesome, but i personally think that the song on the commercials is really the best part. it's my new favorite song... just like apple wants it to be. boo.


so the good news is that i finished my environmental science thesis project (finally) today. the bad news is that all the e.s. profs felt the need to completely grill me on everything i've learned in science these past few years... and i left without having a clue how i did. they made me leave before them, saying that they needed to discuss a few things. i hate it when people in authority feel that they need to "discuss things" - because it's never good things! oh well, hopefully i did alright and hopefully it doesn't affect whether or not i'll be able to go to panama... but we'll see. i just wish it was easier to tell with these kinds of things. stupid professors and their stupid "classify the largemouth bass" questions. wtf. seriously. wtf. whatever - what's done is done.

that's about all for now, the 'rents are coming up to visit tomorrow and the place is still kind of a mess. but maybe i should just go to bed and do it in the morning. we'll see.

the end.

love, allie