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This is how I get my groove back
Things have been fairly interesting around the house the past couple of weeks and I’ve had a lot of things on my mind, none of which are exactly bloggable per my arbitrary privacy policy. So I guess there really wasn’t any reason to mention that huh?
Anywho, my mind has been on other things and not the blog. I didn’t even have the motivation to blog about much of anything besides what I thought about Wicked, which I already did – a day late. But I got it done. Barely.
So what have I missed covering? To be honest, a whole lot of nothing. Lindsey’s trip home is ending [she flies back down tomorrow] and I did get my final grades from my accounting and operations management classes. Apparently I did well enough on the finals since I pulled down an A- in both classes!
I am so excited, especially after I had to quit Accounting the first time I took it at Michigan since I was struggling so hard. I don’t know if this class was just way easier or if my basic foundation made it easier [I think it’s a combination of both] but I pretty much breezed through this class. Which was such a relief since that means I’ve upheld my end of the conditional admission now can stay in the program.
To be honest, those conditions had me sweating bullets because I wanted to so badly to stay in the program. It was just unfortunate that my quantitative scores on the GMAT weren’t impressive at all. Well, that’s not entirely true; the most impressive thing about my quantitative scores was the massive increase I made during the second exam. But thanks to some awesome professors and helpful classmates I made it through. Amen.
Other than that, I’ve been enjoying my break from school. Saw Wicked, as you know, and am now prepping for my church’s Resurrection services as I’ve been tapped for the drama ministries skits during the week. I’m bummed that I missed out on another season of snowboarding but I’m heavily anticipating this season’s surfing opportunities. I really want to be good enough to use a fiberglass board.
One day. One day.
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It’s finally Thursday. Ahh. Just one more day to the week and then it’s the weekend where I’ll be sleeping in and working on my take home final and studying for the other one.
Wait what?
I had the chance to go to Tahoe for some snowboarding but I had to turn it down. With my teaching Sunday School this week [and it’s notoriously impossible to find a replacement for a teacher] and finals coming up I just couldn’t validate taking the weekend to go up north, no matter how badly I wanted to go. And I so did. Sigh.
But I need to stay focused on my school and space things out. I don’t want to rush and try to complete everything next weekend, especially not when I already have plans to spend time with the bf on our anniversary. Nope, not gonna do it. So there will be no fun adventures in the snow for me this season. Again.
Them be the breaks.
I suddenly have the urge to travel. I want to go somewhere. I revived the attempt to apply for a passport and I think I’m actually going to do it this time. Even went as far as to print out the application [again] which took me much less time to fill out this time around than last time. Why is that?
Now I must decide whether or not I want to apply for a passport card in addition to the book. Hmm. It would be handy to take along whenever I make those trips to say, Mexico, Canada and the Bahamas and Caribbean. Oh wait, I DON’T regularly make those trips. Ever. So maybe I’ll save myself the twenty bucks and go without? But it’s only twenty bucks and what if I do go and I don’t want to lug my book around? Or maybe it’s just a clever marketing ploy by the federal government to put more cards in my wallet. Hmm.
Or maybe if I lived in or near a border town and made regular trips across or even a frequent cruiser then it would make sense. So in the interest of keeping it simple I won’t apply for one.
I can hear my bf sighing in relief at my personal growth. I didn’t get something just because. Take that clutter!
So yesterday was pretty insanely cool…I was featured on Tastespotting.com. I had made it a secret mission to make something cool enough to be featured and my strawberry cupcakes were the ticket! I was so excited when I got the acceptance email. I seriously flipped out [silently and in my head – I was at work after all!] I couldn’t believe it. You best believe I took a screenshot of that thing [even though there is a permalink available]. I still can’t believe it but its there. All because I failed at making cupcakes. Nice.
I was thinking about not mentioning it here, you know, all “act like you’ve been here before” y’all knew I couldn’t do that. I’m totally geeking out about it [still, after a day and probably forever and forever].
Besides, you know I totally tweeted it anyway.
Which led to this.
Which led to me being all giddy again because they said “better-than-sprinkles.” That’s just too cool.
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Today is picture day here at the office for our new badges. We switch them out every year for security reasons – we have a lot of day of event staff turnover so to keep them from keeping their old badges and getting in free later on, we change the layout every year. Anywho, it’s always reminds me of picture day at school because everyone wears their nicest shirt, makes sure their hair is perfect, and looks so put together. It amuses me to no end.
It’s also raining here in the Bay Area. FINALLY. While I was enjoying the unusual summer-like temperature the past two weeks, it’s kind of scary the way the weather’s been. It’s below freezing back east while we’re walking around in shorts out west. In San Francisco no less! In January! But to be honest, I had been praying for rain, not just because we need it, but also because I really want to go snowboarding. I don’t know if I will be going at all this season but I’d like that option.
Which means I need to go shopping for a new jacket since I always just borrowed Lindsey’s.
This is random, I know, but I feel like it should be said. Who are the people responsible for nominating movies for Oscars and such? Because The Curious Case of Benjamin Button going up for 13 awards? Really? Especially as “Motion Picture of the Year?” Really? Because I saw that and I just don’t get the hullabaloo. It was an okay movie [obviously it’s opinion based] but I just didn’t see anything Oscar worthy about it. Sure, individual performances but overall, not so grand. The movie was very slowly paced…it took 3 LONG HOURS for it to finally wind it’s way down. There’s really only so much Brad Pitt I can take when he’s not involved in some cheeky scheme to bust a casino. And there was A LOT of Brad in this movie. Like, more Brad than I needed. Ever.
Which is kind of hard to avoid considering it was his movie. But at one point I wished it would hurry up and be Brad and then sat and wondered how much longer Brad could possibly still be in the movie? It was that long and draggy.
Sure I laughed out loud at parts and it was sad in a tragic kind of way and I did tear up at the end, but I’m a sap. I cried during Wall-E remember? I’ll cry at just about every death scene if I don’t hate the character. I cried at the end of the Bucket List and I KNEW they were going to die.
Is it because it’s Brad Pitt? Is that why it’s being considered for Best Motion Picture? Or am I completely missing the point of the movie?
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