Monday, December 3, 2012

MMMBop????

(((I wrote all this last night, btw)))

Hey blog readers!!

My internet is being really weird right now, so lots of websites aren’t working.  I sort of figured that it was fate telling me to write on my blog, but now blogger isn’t working either so I’m typing this on Microsoft Word.

All the interesting/cool/fun sites are down right now, but there are 2 working right now.  The first is Facebook, which doesn’t exactly tickle my fancy so I’m not paying it much attention.

The second site that is working is a page that Stumbleupon sent me to right when the internet broke.  On this page is the music video for the song “MMMBop” by Hanson from 1997.

Really, internet?  Is that the only thing you can give me?

For those of you not familiar with “MMMBop”, imagine Rebecca Black’s “Friday” but multiplied by like 15.  I watched the music video for the first time just now, and it left me extremely confused.  (Also saddened by the downfall of good music in our world.)

Here's a link to the confusing video.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHozn0YXAeE

To add to the unfortunateness of the day, “MMMBop” is now stuck in my head.  I would pay like 10 bucks to get it out of my head right now.

Bleh.  I hope the internet comes back soon.  Maybe this is fate telling me to read.  Right now I’m reading The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver, and I’m enjoying it quite a lot.

Have a super great night, and sleep tightly.

<3/Laura

Friday, November 30, 2012

Things I'm Thankful For::::

I started writing this list on Thanksgiving morning, but then my family picked me up and took me to Cedar City to see my grandparents for the weekend.  They don't have wifi and I don't like their weird oldie computer, so I put off publishing this.  Now I'm back, so here it is... A (partial) list of the things I'm thankful for.
  1. My awesome family
  2. My amazing friends
  3. Amanda Fatty Epic Fail Gail Brown :):)
  4. Mayday Parade
  5. Cars
  6. My opportunities to go to a good school and the generous scholarship that the U gave me
  7. Music
  8. Electricity and furnaces and hot water and such
  9. Supermarkets
  10. The internet and Google and cell phones and my GPS
  11. The super cool Brigham Domino's crew :D
  12. Police officers and firefighters
  13. Having a good job
  14. My blog
  15. Dr. Seuss
  16. Being alive in 2012 (instead of like 1300 or something cause that would SUCK)
  17. Lots more as well.
I hope you all had a good Thanksgiving!!

<3/Laura

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Mayday Parade, TMNT, Jell-O, etc.

There are consequences to not blogging regularly, one of them being that I miss all of you.
Another consequence is crazy blog titles (see above) and LOTS of things to cram into one blog post.  Often when this happens, I feel bad for making my post super huge, so I try to shorten it by skipping things.  Then I speed over everything and it sound horrible and I get frustrated, so I don't blog for a long time and it happens all over again.  I will try not to let that happen.

MAYDAY PARADE CONCERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3
Twas Mayday Parade and The Maine in SLC, November 17 and I went to it with my amazing best friend Fatty Epic Fail!!
And it was fantastic!  They were even better live and it was so much fun! :D:D
And The Maine is pretty good too. :)
Here's a picture of us going to the concert::::

 
To continue the awesomeness, the woman I live with, Peggy, is super great at knitting.  And would you like to know what she knitted?!?  NINJA TURTLES!!!!
 
 
Is that not the coolest thing you have ever seen??  I really want them....
 
The other day I found something else cool... a Phineas and Ferb Jell-O mold at Walmart. :)
Today I decided to use it, and I discovered why the dang thing only cost $1.
I CANNOT GET THE FREAKING JELLO OUT.
I have tried to get it out for like half an hour now, and I tried some tricks I found on Google, but that mold sure loves that Jell-O and it won't let go of it.  And if I'm too vicious, it won't be Phineas and Ferb shaped anymore.  I already messed up the Candace one, but nobody likes Candace anyway.
 
Here's some other information about my life:
I made vegetarian chili a few days ago, and it's quite nommy.
I'm going to Cedar City tomorrow to have Thanksgiving with my grandparents.  I quite miss them!!
I dislike almost all Thanksgiving food.  It's blecky.
 
Have a super great night!! :)
<3/Laura


Sunday, November 11, 2012

Tofurky deli slices :)

I have a confession.
Yesterday I broke my vegetarianism.
I was doing so well!!  Wanna know what it was that destroyed me?
Lunchables.
Pathetic, right?
Well I secretly have a thing for cheese and crackers, and I wanted some for the drive back to Salt Lake last night.  And all I could find (without purchasing a crazy big amount of product) was lunchables, and I felt bad throwing away the ham cause that would be more disrespectful to the piggies than eating the meat.  So I ate it.
I feel kind of bad.... I was doing pretty well.
Oh well.

So we had a massive storm that left like two feet of snow at the bachelorette pad.  And I discovered that my car is HORRIBLE at driving in the snow!!  Driving home last night was pretty scary, and the whole freeway was going 15 mph cause it was so bad.  Then when I got into town my car kept skidding down hills and stuff on the slush, so it was pretty bad.  Today I drove about 100 feet and it was so scary that I turned around and parked at home and walked to church.
All this blizzardy stuff also made the power go out.... the bachelorette pad lost power around midnight last night and I got it back about an hour ago.  All my frozen stuff is kinda soggy :( I hope it's okay.

To repay for my meat-eating last night, I decided to try a new food... Tofurky deli slices.  They're vegan meat-ish things made for sandwiches, and I got some from Whole Foods last week.  I'd been hesitant to try them because they look.. well... disgusting.  But I put on my big girl panties and decided to try it out. :)

 
Here's what the package looks like. 
 
 

 
And here's what the product looks like when it's all globbed up before you sandwichize it.
 
So it really doesn't look too appetizing, but it made a dang good sandwich!!  I thought it was very yummy. :)  Do not, however, use as many slices as they do in the picture on the package.  One serving size is supposed to be 5 slices, but I only used 3 and it was plenty.  Also, don't eat it plain.  It's not really meat so it doesn't really taste like meat. 
 
Ya'all can see Tofurky's deli slice site RIGHT HERE.
 
All in all, this was fantastic and I'm quite happy with it.  I'm also happy to have my power back on.



 (haha I used shredded cheese on my sandwich cause that's all I have... Ima poor college student)

All ya'all have a good day. :)
<3/Laura

Friday, November 9, 2012

RIP Wilbur

I was reading an article a few seconds ago about ways to improve your blog.  The woman writing the article says that for each hour she spends writing blog posts, she spends three editing them.  (WOW)  I want all ya'all to know that I have never and will never edit my blog posts, as messy and unpolished as they may look or sound.  The only blog post I even took a second glance at before publishing was the first one I ever wrote on here!  Some people have way too much time!!

I consider this blog to be quite journal-ish, and that's probably why I don't edit it.  I used to try to keep a real journal, but it's never really worked out too well for me.  But I'm usually pretty okay at writing on my blog consistently (if you squint your eyes over the long gaps of my non-blogging...) so it works as a pretty good journal.

Mehh.  I don't know why I just wrote all that.

I'm at my Brigham house right now, but I have to go back to Salt Lake tonight because I have work.  And mostly I don't mind working because I really like my job and I love making pizza, but today I feel quite lazy and I'd rather just hang out with my friends in Brigham.  Dang adulthood.

My fish died yesterday.  I don't think I ever really blogged about him, but a few months ago I was at a Petco and bought a betta (plus a bunch of betta stuff) for pretty much no reason.  I named my fishie Wilbur and I tried to take good care of him, however he got fin rot or something and I had to buy him medicine for that.  The medicine didn't do too much, so I think the fin rot is what killed him. :(
I'm having a funeral for him tomorrow.  I really miss Wilbur.. :(:(

Alrightie, well I'm gonna head out and get some stuff done.  Have a super awesome day! :)

<3/Laura

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

How did this happen?!?

I AM SO SORRY!!!!
How did I end up ditching my blog?
I am a blogging failure!
Don't worry... I will try to be better at blogging.

I have a long list of excuses as to why I haven't been posting, but they're not very good excuses and I'm sure you wouldn't like to hear them.

Life's been okay since my last post.  Just been going to school and work and stuff.... nothing too fancy.  I've been trying to take pictures of stuff I've been doing to put up on here, so hopefully I can post those tomorrow.  I think that they're mostly pictures of cool things I've bought/eaten recently... :(

Gahhhhhh why can't I sleep?  I've been having the craziest sleeping problems lately.

If your name is Mariah, Emma, or Kemyla then you need to hang out with me because I miss you tons!  Text me.  Or facebooky-message me.  Or call me if you want to be old-school.  Or send me a letter if you want to be really old-school.  But you'll have to text me to get my address cause I'm not putting it on here.

Ya'all have a good night.
<3/Laura

Thursday, October 4, 2012

12:43 AM and I am writing a paper :/

I need to write a paper.
By tomorrow at noon.
Bleh.
It's not very hard at all, but I can't get going.

I've been doing this for more than an hour.
Here's how it's been going.

Open Microsoft Word.
Get diet coke.
Change settings to Times New Roman 12, double spaced.
Watch a youtube video.
Check blog stats.
Write name and date on document.
Find class syllabus.
Stumbleupon.
Read part of syllabus.
Make a page for the bibliography.
Open easybib.com.  (this site rocks... I would have failed high school without it)
Check to see if Hulu/Netflix has 7th Heaven.
Youtube video.
Look at blank Microsoft Word page.
Think about adjusting margins so pages will contain less text; determine that I cannot pull it off.
Write on blog.

Now I really am going to write my paper hopefully.

After this class tomorrow, my fall break officially begins!! :)
Have a good night.
<3/Laura


***UPDATE***
It is now 1:56 AM and my paper is done!!  Except it hasn't been proofread or edited.... but that can wait until morning.  1,081 words, 5 pages, 6 perfect MLA references (thanks to easybib), spellchecked, saved, and written with love (or hatred.. too tired to interpret feelings).
I'm dang psyched for fall break.
<3/Laura

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Congratulations, you succeeded at naming your book

Yesterday night I innocently stopped by a Barnes & Noble, and quickly discovered that it was a mistake for the following reasons:
1. I really enjoy reading and bookstores and buying books.
2. I don't have time for reading.
3. I don't have money to buy books.
4. When I read good books I turn into an obsessive, antisocial curmudgeon until the book is finished.

Most of the books didn't capture my attention because the staff picks and bestsellers are all getting more Twilight-ish qualities, so I didn't think I was in too much danger.  But as I browsed, I found a book in the young adult section that I'd heard was good from a couple people.  It's Looking for Alaska by John Green.

Dear Mr. Green,
Congratulations, sir, you have succeeded at naming your book.
I am definitely a cover-judger, so if your book had a lame name I would have never picked it up.
But you chose a good title, so I opened it and read a random page for about 15 seconds.
And now Barnes & Noble has my $10, and you have whatever percentage you make from that.
I'm really enjoying this book.  You're good at writing too.
<3/Laura

I don't look at books with dumb names.  I only read The Hunger Games because I wanted to know what a dang hunger game was, and that turned out to be fantastic.  But I'm sure there are plenty of great books with bad titles too.

I've been reading Looking for Alaska like a crazy person since I bought it, and I really like it so far.  This book caused me to get only 2 hours of sleep last night, and after I finish this post I intend to read until my eyes won't stay open anymore.  That'll probably give me like 2 hours tonight.  And I have my economics midterm tomorrow.

Have a fantastic night!
<3/Laura

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

October = Vegetarian Month :)

Hey blog readers,

Today is World Vegetarian Day, and the first day of Vegetarian Awareness Month!
There's a bunch more information about it RIGHT HERE.

So, I've been posting about this stuff a lot lately.  Mostly this was in THIS BLOG POST RIGHT HERE as well as a few other blog posts surrounding it.
But I feel like animals are alive and all life is important, so this should be taken seriously no matter how you choose to live.
I've been really enjoying Meatless Mondays (CHECK IT OUT BY CLICKING HERE), but I feel like I should do more for October since it's extra special to vegetarians.

I've decided that I'm going to be a vegetarian for all of October.  And since I'd like Meatless Mondays to continue to be special, I've decided that I'm going to eat vegan every Monday in October.  Not only will this help out some cute little animals, but it will give me ideas for future Meatless Monday meals.

I don't think this will be too hard, because I don't eat very much meat as it is.  But we'll see, I guess.  I'm going to try to keep it more balanced this time, because if you read my vegan story then you know that my first go-around at this wasn't too healthy.

Here's what I ate for dinner:

 
This is my vegan dinner, because it is Monday of course.  I made gnocchi with red sauce and mushrooms (and parsley so I can pretend I'm classy haha) with some corn and peas and diet coke.  This is just a rearrangement of stuff I had canned/frozen at the bachelorette pad, but it was very yummy from a hungry college student's perspective. :)
Today I celebrated World Vegetarian Day by having a vegan taco (refried beans instead of meat, no cheese, no sour cream; still very yummy) and I tried vegan cupcakes (they were fantastic).

While I was eating dinner, I got thinking about how everything I was eating (excluding the diet coke) was just a clever arrangement of different kinds of plants.  Just goes to show how awesome human beings are. :D

Anyone who reads this is invited to participate in Vegetarian Awareness Month with me!! :)

Have a great Meatless Monday! :]
<3/Laura

Monday, October 1, 2012

Being Real: Making Decisions to Change Your Life

 
 
I've been at a loss for words lately.
I haven't forgotten you; I go on my blog several times a day and try to write something, but for the past week nothing I write seems like the right thing to post so I just delete it.
 
My blog is usually me being silly or complaining or just having fun, but today I'm being real.
 
A million other people will tell you this, but I'll be a million and one.  Because I'm honestly learning this myself and it's great so I think you'd like it too.
 
 
You can change your life.
Nothing is permanent.
 
Each day you make thousands of decisions, and the life you currently lead is a compilation of those decisions.
If everything is always the same for you, it's because you choose for it to be the same.  And if that doesn't make you happy, you can choose for it to be different.
 
If you're unhappy with your life, you can make choices to change things.
Also, if you're happy with your life, poor choices can just as easily drag you down.
 
Lots of people have told me this before, and I've always sort of subconsciously thought, "Of course that's true for other people, but I can't change the situation I'm in.  I'm stuck with this forever."
And I'm sure there are lots of other people out there who feel the same way.
But the coolest part of all of this is that you are in control of nearly every aspect of your life!
 
I've been really unhappy recently.  But after I started catching on to this idea, I started making decisions to change my life.  I'm removing some of the bad things from my life, and changing perspectives on other things I thought were bad before.  I'm bringing in more good things and more things that make me happy.  This is really hard because I'm a VERY change-resistant person.  But nobody said it'd be easy.
 
If you're not happy with your life, then do something to change it. :)
 
 
That's me being real.
<3/Laura
 


Monday, September 24, 2012

National Punctuation Day

Good morning, blog-readers!

Today is National Punctuation Day, and to honor it I am going to try to use proper punctuation in this post.  I really do try to punctuate well on my blog, but I understand that I miss some commas sometimes and stuff like that.  I'm going to try really hard on this post.  Also, my usual smiley faces are not correct punctuation.  Colons and parentheses were not invented to be used for such things.  So this post is going to contain ABSOLUTELY NO HAPPY FACES.  Sad, right?

Here is a website (given to me by StumbleUpon) all about National Punctuation Day:
http://www.nationalpunctuationday.com/

And here are some famous quotes about punctuation:
http://strangewondrous.net/browse/subject/p/punctuation

"No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place." - Isaac Babel
That one is probably my favorite, however I only read about half of them because I have homework to get done.

In my sophomore year of high school, I had English with Mr. Yates.  One of our assignements in his class was to memorize the 20ish rules of comma usage and be able to recite them.  So guess what I did... I WROTE A COMMA SONG!  That song rocked.  Unfortunately I remember less than half of it now, and I don't do public singing performances, so none of you get to hear it.
On the plus side, I found you another punctuation song, and this one is starring singing cats. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MIhxBg7zp4

In this blog post I've tried to include each type of punctiation discussed on the National Punctuation Day website, however I've neglected to include brackets because I couldn't find a place to put them.  Everything else is in this post though, although I may have misused the ellipsis that I snuck in.

Have a fantastic National Punctuation Day.
Love, Laura
(I don't think my regular sign-off is good punctuation either...)  (Is that proper use of an ellipsis?)

Sunday, September 23, 2012


I need this to be my phone's wallpaper.
<3/Laura

Saturday, September 22, 2012

I can't finish The Hunger Games!!!!

Hiya bloggers,

So if you remember THIS POST RIGHT HERE, then you'll know that I have issues finishing movies that I watch late at night.
Tonight I'm watching The Hunger Games, and I thought I'd be okay on this one because I really like this movie and I don't have pressure to wake up early tomorrow morning.
But it's happening again!!!!
Katniss and Peeta are just starting to get all googely-eyed at each other and Peeta's leg is all healed and stuff, and I CANNOT WATCH THIS MOVIE ANYMORE.  Bleh.
So I'm gonna read a book or something until I'm tired.
Which won't be for a while because I woke up crazy late this morning, and I'm used to staying awake for 20 hours at a time.
If anyone out there has any ideas to help me finish movies in one sitting, please tell me because I'd really like to know.

Have a good night/early morning.  (I'd usually be awake by now :/)
<3/Laura

P.S.
Gale is way better than Peeta.

Friday, September 21, 2012

Running out of gas and my sleeping in problem

Hey blog-readers!!
It's friday friday gotta get down on friday!!!! :D
And I love fridays cause I have no classes so I get to sleep in!
But last night I fell asleep at like 10:30, and usually I don't get to sleep till like 12 or 1, so my body decided that it would be acceptable to wake up at school time today.
So even though my alarms were all off, I woke up at 4:00 this morning and had to pretty much force myself to go back to sleep.  And then I kept waking up periodically until about 8, and then I really went back to sleep and slept until 12:15.  And I only woke up now because my bladder was going to explode.  But I'm satisfied with sleeping for 14 hours cause that's almost 4x's more than what I normally get.

My car ran out of gas yesterday when I was feeding ducks.  And I don't have a gas can in my car, so I went on an epic journey trying to find someone in the park who would let me borrow their gas can.  None of them had one but I had a bunch of people look at me like I was retarded.  I walked to 7-11 so I could buy a gas can and then some gas, but they didn't even have any gas cans.  But the 7-11 worker guy felt bad for me so he gave me the gas can from his car.  I walked back to my car with gas and the day was saved. :)

Guess what I got in the mail yesterday......
Mayday Parade shirts!!!! :)
I'm so excited for their concert!

Have a fantastic friday!
<3/Laura

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Ice cream haiku

Hey blog readers.
I'm in School & Society right now, and I never post from this class cause it's usually really interesting.  But I'm feeling kinda burnt out today, so I don't want to discuss racial discrimination in the job market or whatever today's thing is.  I really do usually like this class though.

As soon as this class is done, my weekend gets to start. :)  That's cause I'm not going to my chem lab discussion tonight, cause I already read over my lab for next week and it's not worth sitting around until 6:00 just to go to that.  This weekend I'm going to clean my bachelorette pad, and I'm very excited for it to be all spick and span again.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spick-and-span
Read that.  It was kind of interesting.

1 more hour of this class.  I should write do something to pass the time.  I'll write a haiku.

Ice cream is so good
Especially chocolate
But it makes me fat.

I made that up like on the spot.  If that's not skills then I don't know what is. :)
Mehh.. this post is done.
58 more minutes of this class.

<3/Laura

Laundry ramble

Dear blog readers,

It is 1:02 AM and no longer Talk Like a Pirate Day, so I can put my facebook back on regular English and type this like a regular person.
I'm waking up at 4:30 AM because my first class starts at 7ish and I need to shower and study and find some clean clothes before I attend that class.
Speaking of clean clothes, remember how I said I haven't done laundry for a while?  (Did I say that?  I remember thinking about blogging about that, but I don't remember if I actually did or not... if not, I haven't done laundry for a while!!)
Well here are some more details on my laundry for those of you concerned:

I do laundry in a very special way that nobody else truly understands, therefore I don't let anyone else touch my laundry.  I didn't just make this up for fun.. it's actually like a real thing.  Like one day my mom wanted to be nice so she washed all my laundry while I was at school, and I freaked out in my head and washed it all again the Laura way.  But I didn't tell her that because I didn't want to hurt her feelings, so if you're reading this, Mom, I love you and thank you for washing my laundry that one day.
The bad part is that washing laundry the Laura way is VERY time-consuming and I don't happen to be be dripping with free time now that I've started college and adultiness.  So I convinced my head that it's okay to cheat the Laura laundry system for 3 things: jeans, my Domino's uniform, and towels.  I've never been worried about any of these things getting hurt/bleeding/shrinking in the wash, so convincing my head wasn't too bad.  Also these things are all in short supply, so I have to wash them frequently and it's good that I can wash them like a normal person.
It turns out that besides washing jeans, my Domino's uniform, and towels, I haven't done any laundry since I moved here.  Like I said, I'm crazy busy.  Ever wonder why most of my posts come from me sitting in a class?  That's why.
The not-so-cool part about this is that I now have a mountain of clothes in my hamper/falling onto my floor from 5 weeks of living here.
The cool part is that I still have some shirts left.  Like, they're definitely not my best choices, but it's not like I'm wearing anything dirty or torn or too small or stained or anything like that.  I didn't think I owned so many shirts, however that would explain how I kept running out of hangers when I moved.
I also have a large array of jackets to choose from in case I get sick of my shirts.
Don't think I'm a richie little snob... I get all my clothes for DIRT CHEAP!!  Or I borrow **cough cough** steal **cough** them from my sister.
I'm doing laundry on friday.  It's been so long since I've worn something with ninja turtles on it......

I'm gonna go sleep for like 3 hours.  Cause this post is getting rambly.  And my internet connection is being weird.

Have a super dooper night.
<3/Laura

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Talk Like a Pirate Day

Ahoy, mateys!
Today be Talk Like a Pirate Day, so all we landlubbers must be talkin' like pirates. :)
I en't too good at me pirate-talkin', so ye'll have to batten down the hatches bear with me.. savvy??
I only was learnin about this day yesterday, when I stopped by Whole Foods again to visit me new matey and I met an old salt named Sean who told me of it existin.  Now I don't want to be missin out on anya tha' fun, so I've been spendin' the day pretendin to be a true buccaneer.  Aarrrr!!

Alright, so I've used up pretty much every usable pirate phrase on this site RIGHT HERE.... AARRRRRR!!  And like I said, I'm not too good at the pirate thing.  Shiver me timbers!  So I'm just going to add random pirate phrases into this blog post; coherence doesn't matter to pirates anyway.
Also, as much as I've been trying to pirate-talk, it doesn't work because I haven't really talked to anyone.  I gave up trying to text in pirate-talk, and I haven't talked to anyone on campus today.  However, I did order at a Burger King drive-thru today speaking fluent pirate!!  (I planned everything I was going to say beforehand haha)
I've also celebrated by changing my facebook language to pirate, however that's like secret celebration because it's not like anybody else can see which language my facebook is set to.  Thar she blows!!  I enjoy reading it though.

Talk Like a Pirate Day has its own website!
http://www.talklikeapirate.com/

Here are some more pirate links for you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6oKjuvA55g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bnJuUl415w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI6CfKcMhjY&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfN-T9iU2OE

You scallywags have a good day. :)
<3/Captain Laura

Epic pants story :D

I accidentally slept in a bit this morning, so I was worried about getting to my chemistry lab on time.  The thing is, I can't speed when I drive to school in the morning because when I'm in town there's tons of traffic and when I'm on the freeway my car won't exceed 65 mph.  So getting to school can't be accelerated in any way.  However, I got ready for school pretty quickly, so through that and good driving decisions I managed to make it to chem lab exactly on time.
But then I discovered the fatal error I'd made.
In getting ready for school so quickly, I forgot that I'm not allowed to wear shorts to chem lab... just in case I accidentally spill hydrochloric acid on my legs.  So I wore shorts today because I was in a hurry and because I was so happy that I shaved my legs last night.
Long story short, the teacher kicked me out.  She said I had 15 mins to find a pair of long pants or I couldn't participate in the lab today.
Now I thought that this would be just fine, because I parked pretty close to the chemistry building.  And I'm constantly changing clothes in my car, so I was pretty convinced that there would be a pair of pants in there, even just pj pants or dirty work pants.  But when I got there, there were none!!  2 pairs of shorts and 3 jackets and some socks and a pair of shoes and about a million shirts were in my backseat and trunk, but no pants. :(
So what with me being a genius and all, I ran my little tail off to the campus bookstore because I know they sell sweatpants.  So I figured I'd just buy a pair of sweatpants and leave the tag on them and then return them after.  (Dishonest, I know, but karma will get me and all will be well....)
Wanna know how much a pair of girls sweatpants cost at the bookstore?  $50.  And I knew I didn't have $50 on my debit card and I sure didn't have that much in cash.
So I looked in the guys section.  I purchased the very ugliest/cheapest pair of guys sweatpants for $30.  Bleh.  At least I can still take them back.
So then I ran back to my car, realized I accidentally left my purse at the bookstore, strip changed in the parking lot, and ran to chem lab.
This entire thing took 14 minutes.  Pwned. :)
After chem lab I had to run back to my car, strip change again so the pants won't acquire any evidence that I actually wore them, run back to the bookstore and locate my purse which was unharmed, and then run back to my car to move it cause my parking time limit was up.
All this running must've earned me an ice cream cone or a little somethin somethin like that.

Now I'm at the park feeding ducks.  I think they're starting to recognize me.  But that's good because I'm always really nice to them.. I never try to pick them up or chase them around like some people.

I realized today just how messy I've become.  I've been so busy that I haven't had time to do laundry or wash dishes or clean out my car or anything.  I'm sensing a weekend of anal-retentive OCD cleaning.

I have a pretty intense list of stuff to get done today, so I'd better get working on it.  But I'll post again later today.  I promise.

Have a super awesome day!
<3/Laura

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Weird ending to the staring movie

That movie had the weirdest ending.
Like, I don't know how to feel now.
Weird.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-ZV-bwZmBw
There's even staring in the trailer.

Like Crazy and staring scenes

I'm practicing my multitasking by blogging while watching a movie.  The movie is called Like Crazy, and if you've seen it you'll know that it's awfully cute but also really confusing.  There's lots of scenes that make you think "Now what exactly are they doing?" or "How is this at all relevant to the storyline?"  Also, there's lots of scenes where the boy and the girl just stare at each other for like a minute straight.  If I skipped all the staring scenes, the movie would probably be like 25% shorter.

I think I'm going to get my hair cut on Friday.  But I guess that won't even really matter because I don't think that many of you actually know what I look like.

Whoa, the guy in the movie just called his not-so-good new girlfriend his old-but-way-better-and-British girlfriend's name.  And she's secretly pissed.  Dang.
At least they don't stare at each other.

I have work tonight I think, but I'm not sure because my manager at Sandy Domino's is really bad at making our schedule.  Here's our conversation when I left work on Sunday.
Courtney: "I think I'll probably schedule you for Tuesday, so show up then."
Me: "Okay, what time?"
Courtney: "Well I haven't started schedule yet.... Umm I'm guessing 5."
Me thinking: I wish that I were at BC Domino's with Billy who does the schedule on Fridays so I always know when I'm working.

Awww... the guy married the British girl in the movie. :)
And they're staring at each other again.

Bleh.  I'm out.
<3/Laura

Optimism and awesomeness

Hey blog readers,

Do something awesome today.
I'm gonna do something awesome today, but my awesome thing is secret for the time being.  If all goes well, I'll tell you about it someday.

Really you should do something awesome every day, becuase it is YOU AND ONLY YOU who has the power to make each day awesome.  Of course there are losers who will try their darndest to make your day not awesome by cutting you off in traffic or yelling at you or invading your personal space, but you don't have to let them ruin your awesomeness.

That's the optimistic speech of the day.  Because my awesome but secret thing that I'm going to do may or may not be somewhat crazy.. I honestly don't know.  But typing all that made me feel quite better and it took away that impending doom feeling that you get occasionally.  I'm trying to be happier with my life, thanks to Lindsay from BC Domino's and all the other great people in my life.  Optimism is honestly really hard for me.

Here is a quote for you:

"If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad; I don't have my left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed." but most of us would say something more along the lines of "Aaaaa!  My arm!  My arm!" - Lemony Snicket

I think I'm gonna go do that secret awesome thing.
Have an awesome and happy day.
<3/Laura

Monday, September 17, 2012

Winnie the Pooh :)


Whoever you are, whatever is going on in your life, I hope that this made it a little bit better.

<3/Laura

Puppies!!!! xD

I decided that I really really really really really want a puppy.  Like crazy bad.  I want a puppy that has already been trained not to pee on my carpet, but one that will stay puppy-sized and puppy-adorable forever.  Sadly, I don't have time to take care of a puppy.  I'm barely home as it is, so the puppy would just sit in my bachelorette pad and be sad and lonely.  Maybe I should get a houseplant.

I'm in biology right now, but I'm thinking I might leave soon because I already know all the things that this lady is teaching so all I'm doing is blogging and eating and stumbleuponing and looking up puppies on ksl.com.

That's it.  I'm leaving.  Sue me.

I'll talk to all ya'all later.
<3/Laura

A mental breakdown and chemistry class

My lunch today was ice cream, which is 100% meat-free.
Then I had a mental breakdown about my life.
Then I told myself to grow up and tried to get over my mental breakdown.
Then some random guy that I don't know informed me that he thinks I'm fat.
Mehh.  So much for growing up.

I'm in chemistry class right now.  Chemistry is my least favorite class, because I'm not too good at chemistry and the class is enormous and the teacher is ineffective and the textbook is poorly written and the desks are gross and there are no outlets to charge my computer so it's always nearly dead so I have to choose between blogging and taking notes on Microsoft Word.  But I feel the need to vent today, so all my notes are gonna be old-school notebook style.  It's a good think I have sweet pencils or this would really mess up my day.

My chemistry teacher is from Austria.  Every day at the start of class, he says "please get out your clickers", but his accent makes it sound like "puh-leeze git out yo cleekers".
Now whenever anyone says the word clickers in front of me I hear cleekers in my professor's voice in my head.

Bleh.  My computer is dying.  I'm going to turn it off and plug it in when I get to biology.

I don't know who looks at/reads this blog, but if you do then I want you to know that I appreciate you.  And you should follow this blog so I know that you're here and don't feel like I'm typing at nobody.  And you should tell your friends how cool I am (with lots of exaggeration) so they'll come read/follow this blog too.

<3/Laura

Introducing: Meatless Mondays :)

Hey, blog readers. :)
It's Monday Funday, and I don't really mean that because if you read my last post then you know that I only slept for like 2 hours last night.  But I figure that an ounce of optimism can't hurt, so I'm trying to incorporate some fun into my Monday.

But this morning I thought of something better than Monday Funday, and that is Meatless Mondays!! :D
I want all ya'all to know that I was under the impression that I invented this entire concept myself, but to stop myself from looking dumb on my blog I googled this idea just couple minutes ago, and it turns out that I am definitely not the first person to think of this.  Check out the site below, and you can read all about the people who sort of own Meatless Mondays.
http://www.meatlessmonday.com/

So I'm still sort of on this health food thing... my original rant can be found IN THIS LINK RIGHT HERE.
And if you remember last week, I talked to some PETA reps at school and they gave me a yummy vegan cookie.  They also gave me some pamplets, and when I was looking over them I saw that one said, "If every American skipped one meal of chicken per week, the carbon dioxide savings would be the same as taking more than a half-million cars off U.S. roads." and "You save more water by not eating a pound of beef than you do by not showering for six months."  (Direct quotes... fancy, right?)

So I figure that even though I'm not going to go veg, I at least can cut back.  So from now on (at least until I forget or give up) I'm going veg on mondays.  Vegetarian every monday, and maybe vegan on special mondays when I have time to sit around and read ingredient lists on packages all day.

Mondays rock for this, firstly because of the sweet alliteration in Meatless Monday.  It's kinda fun to say.  Secondly because nobody really does fun stuff on monday (even though it's also Monday Funday :D) so I won't be put in situations involving restaurants or barbecues or other meat-related places.  It'll just be me and my microwave/hot plate.

Anyone else reading this blog, I invite you to go 1/7 veg and observe Meatless Monday with me.  Twill be fun.

For more stats on meat and vegetarianism, check out this site RIGHT HERE.
Are these stats accurate?  Maybe.  They could be stretched more or less to make a point.
Either way, it's something to think about.

Have a super great Meatless Monday Funday. :)
<3/Laura

Can't sleep because of my computer

I can't sleep right now.
That's mostly because I haven't put my computer away yet.  Usually I'll get sleepy doing homework and have to make myself finish it, but I've still got some weekend on me so the sleepiness hasn't hit quite yet.  Once I put my computer to bed then hopefully I'll be able to fall asleep pretty soon, but each time I'm about to put it away I think of something I was going to look up or something I want to learn about quick... ya know, stuff like that.  And it doesn't help that for once I don't feel like dumping blogging to the bottom of the list, so here I am.  (Telling you about my problems, of course.)
This is bad because I'm supposed to wake up at 4:30 tomorrow morning.
Weekends mess me up.  I wish it were always the weekend so I can really sleep every day.
I can't wait for fall break.

After I hit the publish button for this blog post, I'm going to go look at my blog's stats really fast and then look at stumbleupon for 5 or less minutes.  Then I'm going to sleep.  At least that's my goal.

Have fun sleeping.
<3/Laura

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Vegans and the organic hype

So I honestly thought I wasn't going to finish Footloose, but I did just now so 1 point for me. :)

I tried to sleep today but ended up feeling guilty about it and doing homework.
Then I went to work.  At work, one of the drivers, Sean, mentioned Whole Foods Market to me while we were making pizza.  Then for the next couple hours after he brought that up, all I could think about was the super yummy pasta salad that I sampled at Whole Foods last time I was there.  So after work I meandered my way down to the Whole Foods by my house, hoping for some nommy free samples and double-hoping for a nommy sample of pasta salad or their nommy-but-psycho-expensive cake.

All this got me thinking about organic and vegan stuff.
I was a vegan for like 2 months (minus 2 days that I cheated, but that's a pretty good track record) and a vegetarian for a while after that.  I did it for a school project that was essentially reseaching veggie culture, so it included the whole PETA package that comes with it.  PETA2 (the more fun, teen and young adult-designed side of PETA) still sends me friendly texts on holidays and stickers in the mail sometimes.  Being vegan was just fine, except that I was really busy when I went veg so I didn't really have time to go somewhere like Whole Foods and get anything like THIS.  And regular grocery stores in lil ol' Brigham City don't have that kind of stuff.  So I pretty much spent 2 months eating breakfast cereal (with soy milk, of course.... not too nommy but okay) and PB&J sandwiches.  Then I got my job at Domino's and started eating pizza, so the vegan thing ended.

Here's what I learned from being vegan:

1. You don't need meat to make you happy or to make you healthy.
I ate peanut butter and got a bunch of protein from that, and I never really missed meat all that much.

2. Just because you are vegan does not mean that you are healthy/sick.
Many people who enjoy foods with meat/butter/eggs/etc. tried to convince me that removing these things from my diet would automatically destroy my health and well-being.  On the other hand, the PETA site tells you loads about how healthy vegans are and how they never have high blood pressure or diabetes or heart failure.  Neither of these are the case.  I know a bunch of vegans/vegetarians who are very healthy, but I wasn't being healthy at all when I was vegan because half of what I ate was peanut butter (fat) and jelly (sugar).  And the concept of veganism is fairly new, so saying that non-vegans are unhealthy suggests that nobody in the world has ever been healthy before the invention of veganness.

3. Your excuses to not be vegan are mostly pathetic, so I'd think of some new ones if I were you.
It's cool if you do/don't want to be a vegan, especially with me because I don't even know who you are.  You could eat only rice pudding and it's not my problem and I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.
But here's the most pathetic think I heard from people when I told them about my vegan project: "I could never do that.. I just love meat/(insert any other animal product here) too much."  When you say this, you imply that every person who chooses to be vegan does not enjoy eating meat.  Here's a fun fact for you: **Most vegans were not born vegan.**
Now I know what you're thinking, and that is "Wait a second, Laura.. do you mean to tell me that most of these veggie people were raised eating what I think of as regular food, and they made a lifestyle choice when they decided how they were going to eat?"
Yes, that is what I'm saying.
There are some other excuses that I heard that also sucked, but I don't need to go into that.
Before you make an excuse for why you're not something that is unfamiliar to you, think it over first.  That way you won't embarrass yourself.

4. Vegans are cool.
So are skaters and geeks and emos and nerds and pretty much any other stereotypical group we can dump people in.  Of course some specific people suck; that's life.  But don't judge groups because that's very unfantastic of you.
Here's a secret.  Every time you stereotype or judge someone, The Seuss Project sends a text message to me telling me who you are, where you live, and what I'll most enjoy dumping in your hair while you sleep.  I've been receiving far too many of these texts and I feel like it's time to go dump some stuff in some sleeping people's hair.  (If you don't have hair by choice then I will accomodate.  If you don't have hair because of old age then shame on you; your wisdom should have taught you not to judge people by now.  If you don't have hair but instead have cancer, I will not do anything to you; keep up the good work but don't judge people.)

5. Go veg for a good reason.
Want to lose weight really fast?  Bad reason.
Want to follow a crowd/be a snob?  Bad reason.
Want to take care of your body in a way that you think will be best for you?  Good reason.
Want to help animals/the environment?  Good reason.


Now the organic hype.
Lots of the foods in Whole Foods aren't actually vegan (disregarding the produce section, of course).  I'd think that this is because it would be hard to recreate foods that are traditionally nonvegan in a vegan way.  But many (maybe all) of the foods in Whole Foods are organic.
If you are reading this in a country where the word organic means nothing special to you, then organic = "no crap was used to grow this product; only legit product stuff."

Besides having a reputation in our society as being healthier, organic food is also known for being crazy expensive.  This is why I don't actually buy anything at Whole Foods; buying one meal can easily take up 2 days worth of food budget without blinking an eye.  So the real question is, are the benefits worth the price?

Don't google this.  You'll either find one site and believe it forever, or you'll get ambitious and dig through all the crap until you're just confused.  Pretty much any site you can read on this will be either very liberal or very conservative about this, so none of the facts will match up.

The answer is maybe.

It's recently been published in the Annals of Internal Medicine that "organic food in neither more nutritious or any less prone to bacterial contamination than corresponding, conventionally grown foods."

However, there are flaws in that statement.  Firstly, I don't know who published that and for all I know he could be one of the conservatives so his evidence could be a little bit topsy-turvy.  Secondly, nutrition and bacterial contamination are only a couple of the benefits associated with eating organic.  Others include pesticide contamination and environmental factors, which this statement doesn't mention.

Also, one more thought.  Organic does not automatically mean healthy, same as my vegan point #2.  You can make an organic Big Mac with no problem, as long as you start with only organic ingredients.  That won't stop it from having 700 calories and 50 grams of fat.  This is about making lots of good decisions; you can't just make one decision and then everything's fine.

Through all the blah-blah, here's my conclusion.  I cannot afford to eat organic because I'm a poor college student, so I will continue to eat pesticide-exposed apples from Smith's.  However, if you feel differently, then go for it.  The Whole Foods crew are really nice and I'm sure they'll be thrilled to see you shop there.  But don't go and make a decision about what you're going to put into your body based on an MSN article or something a guy at a farmer's market tells you or what your friends are doing.  Do some research and make an educated decision.

I don't think I'll ever eat 100% organic or anything like that, but someday when I have real spending money I'm definitely coming back to Whole Foods for their yummy organic pasta salad.

This post was not supposed to be so long.  I was actually worried that I wouldn't have enough to say about this and that this would be another useless post.
Maybe it's still useless, but it's not short.
And my opinions are out of my head, so my rant is now complete.  And I can go on to more important things in my life like finally getting to sleep.

There's more to my Whole Foods adventure (which does NOT involve me eating a pasta salad sample... *sadness*) and I was going to add it to this post, but now I'm not cause I'm really tired.  I'll try to post about it tomorrow, but as you may know by now there's like a 70% chance I'll forget.  But it is pretty interesting so maybe I'll try to remind myself.

Have a super wonderful morning.  (I say that because this is the time I'd be getting up on a school day...)
<3/Laura

Saturday, September 15, 2012

My movie-watching problem

Here's my problem:
When I watch movies at night, I can't finish them.
Like if I really sat down in front of a real TV with a quilt and a diet coke, then I can finish any movie with no problem.
But if I'm in bed and watching a movie on my laptop or a mini DVD player or something, I cannot get to the end.  I watch it about 2/3 of the way through, until it gets to that kinda slowish part right before the actiony exciting part.  But then I decide that I'm done watching for the night and I'll finish it the next day.  But then I never finish it.
I've done this for pretty much my whole life.

So tonight I've been watching Footloose (the new one) and I really do like that movie.
But now Willard knows how to dance and Ren is trying to write his speech and he's all sad about his mom and leukemia and the slow/sad music is playing, and I'm so done watching this.  But part of me wants to see the end.  Bleh.  I'm conflicted.

Solution to my movie-watching problem:
Watch movies during the daytime.
I never do this during daytime.  Like ever.
Sadly this solution won't really work because I spend all of my daytime as well as a large portion of my nighttime doing school-related stuff, leaving me no time for movies.

Solution to the problem with my solution to my movie-watching problem:
Drop out of school and work for Domino's forever.  And spend my daytimes watching movies.

I'm gonna sleep.  I'll watch the end of Footloose tomorrow.
Have a fun night.
<3/Laura

Friday, September 14, 2012

So I feel like this blog has become like 70% me complaining about my life.
When I check out the stats, I know that nobody's really reading it, so I thought it was okay.
But today I had this thought.  "I'm giving away a fair amount of personal information on this blog.  Someone creepy could potentially compile the information and use it to kidnap me."
I'm not actually too concerned about this happening, however if it does I'd prefer that the blog stalker actually had to read through some real, decent blog posts to find me instead of just a bunch of whiney mumbo-jumbo.
I don't know if that makes any sense.
Also, if I post things that show that I'm an interesting person that someone would want to use their precious time to read about online, maybe more people will read my blog.

So to help me complain less, I'm going to skip over all of the crazy bad parts of yesterday (and there were several) and just mention the good stuff.

For starters, I met a very nice man yesterday who told me that he's a retired elementary school teacher.  He gave me some very good advice and cheered me up a lot.  I like cool people like that.

I'm back in Brigham City right now. :D  I got to visit my family and some friends and dye my hair and visit Brigham Domino's and other fun things.

I bought Mayday Parade shirts!!!! :):)  (Don't you dare tell me I can't afford them.)

Speaking of shirts, I really like the shirt right HERE.  It brings a smile to my face.

I started writing this blog post like 45 minutes ago, and then ended up screwing around on the internet for most of that time.  So I'm gonna go do something less internetish and enjoy my last bit of time in Brigham for a while.  Then I'm headed back to the bachelorette pad and then to Sandy Domino's.

<3/Laura

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Essay is done :)

Alright, so it's not the best essay I've ever written, but it's also not the worst.
And considering that 2 hours ago I didn't even know what my topic was.... well that's pretty impressive.
Six pages isn't all that much but I'm pretty dang proud of myself.
I've got one more bit of homework to get done tonight and then I get to sleep till like 4.
But at least I'm not failing the class yet. :)
<3/Laura

Writing an essay and wishing I were asleep

Here is a letter from a loving Laura fan:

Dear Laura,
I'm a big fan of your work.  I also think you're super cool.
However I have a question for you.
Why are you awake and writing an essay when it is clearly 1:00 in the morning?
Love, Steven


Dear Steven,
I'm awake at 1:00 in the morning writing an essay BECAUSE I'M STUPID.
There, I said it.  Bask in my fallen ego.
Love, Laura

Maybe someday someone will send me a real question to answer.. haha

So... yeah.  I have an essay.  And it is due at 7 AM.
But did I write it before now?
Nope.
Because I'm stupid.

I was kind of good at faking essays in high school but I don't know how that will fare in college.
I guess a sort-of essay is better than no essay at all.

Wanna know what my essay is about?
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech.
If you're unfamiliar with that, it's like a less popular version of "I Have a Dream", most likely less popular because it's far less interesting.

I've been reading/writing for about an hour now and I've got three pages.  But that's double spaced, so it's not all that much.  I don't know how long the stupid essay is supposed to be, but I'm guessing around five or six pages.... nothing too bad.  So I think I'll write until I have nothing else to say, and if it's more than six pages I'll go through and remove all the crap from it.  And if it's less than five pages I'll go through and add some crap to it.  Either way I'm getting this stupid essay done.

I'm not cut out for college.
I should just work at Brigham City Domino's forever.  That'd rock.  Except I'd be poor.

So I've pretty much already written an entire page's worth of stuff on this blog, and that's only taken me ten minutes.  I wish that writing essays were this easy.  Some days I really don't know what to say to the blogging world, so I end up sounding dumb or I just don't post.  But other days are like this (like when I can reject the responsiblity of writing essays at 1 AM and instead write crap for the internet) and I can type stuff nonstop.  But I can't ever really type essays nonstop.  Unless they're for Mr. McConkie, who was my high school teacher.  If I gave McConkie a crap essay, I'd get like a 95.  And if I worked my little tail off and gave him a good essay, I'd get like a 97 at best.  Or usually just another 95.

Whoa, I just got more fan mail. :)  Here ya' go...

Dear Laura,
Go work on your boring essay and stop writing crap all over your blog.
Nobody even reads your blog.
And if someone did read your blog, they wouldn't read this far in your super-long post anyway.
Love, Steven

Thank you, Steven.  **full of sarcasm and tiredness and annoyance and sadness that this is actually true**

Okay, well I'm gonna go write the essay.  And then hopefully sleep.
Have a good night.  And have fun sleeping... :(

<3/Laura

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Boring biology class

Let's not talk about that chemistry test.....

Here are the good parts of my day:  (Do not take this to mean that I had a good day... I'm trying to be an optimist here but it's really not legit)

1. Ate a vegan cookie, courtesy of the PETA people who came to the U today.  It was very yummy.
2. Got to biology on time.  Chemistry was short because of the test so I beat rush hour.
3. Discovered a new method of relaxation/happiness in my life.  Feeding ducks. :D  Awesome, right?  It was very fun.
4. I get to go back to Brigham tomorrow night. :)
5. Decided to pretend I have spending money and hit up Menchie's Frozen Yogurt after class.  Today was stressful, so I've convinced myself that I deserve it.

I'm in biology right now, at the Sandy U campus.  My teacher's teaching stuff that I already know, so I feel really dumb taking notes.  But then I don't want to get carried away not paying attention, so I'm doing my best to say off of facebook/youtube/sites with yummy-looking recipes/etc.  Blogging seems okay though.  I might start doing this more.

I just looked up the vegan cookie company... those little suckers cost $2 each!!  That makes me awful sad, cause I honestly felt good about eating such a yummy cookie without harming any animals.  I guess I'm not getting any more.  Thanks, PETA, for paying a crapload for me to have a vegan cookie.

Eukaryotes.  Phospholipid bilayer.  Blah blah blah.  I pretty much took the same class in high school.

I can't wait for this class to go on a break, cause I really need to pee.
That's cause I was so happy my chemistry test was done, I bought a big diet coke from Sonic on my way to Sandy.  And now I've digested all of it and it's going to make me explode.

Wanna know the great thing about my blog?  If I ever realize that all the stuff I post on here is stupid and embarassing, I can go edit it and all ya'all will never know.

I'm going to try to take some notes or something.
Have a fantastic day.
Especially to those of you who are in Russia, because my blog stats have been telling me that there are lots of Russians reading The Seuss Project.

<3/Laura

Stupid quantum mechanics have to mess up my life....

I have my first chemistry test in 4 hours.
Until I started this class, I was under the impression that I was pretty okay at chemistry.
But college has squashed that impression and all chemistry-related self-esteem from my system.
I don't understand the quantum mechanics stuff in it.
I didn't learn any of that in high school. :\
And I asked a chemistry major to explain it to me, and he just said a whole bunch of mumbo-jumbo that made no sense and then left.
Hopefully I can figure some of this out before my test.
<3/Laura

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Mehh I dunno what to call this

Dear blog readers,

Yesterday was CRAZY busy.
I drove back to Brigham and spent all day running around trying to get things done.

Here's the good parts of yesterday:
Toured the Brigham City Temple (after standing in a massive line for like 2 hours)
Got my dad to fill my gas tank :)
Convinced my mom to take me grocery shopping.. now have food for the next week
Saw some people that I really miss :D

Today's not quite so good, but I'm not gonna go into that....

I'm headed to work at 5.  Hopefully it'll be good.

<3/Laura

Friday, August 31, 2012

Super awesome Friday :):)

Hey guys,

So as of a few minutes ago, it is officially FRIDAY FRIDAY GOTTA GET DOWN ON FRIDAY!! :D
So today I'm going to finish writing this blog post, and then I'm going to sleep.
Then I'll wake up and do some homework and boring stuff like that, and then I'm going to Lagoon with Cheychey! :)
So, as most of you have probably heard, tonight is a blue moon.  That's actually not very special; at least it's not fun to look at or anything.  But Chey always says "Once in a blue moon" to me, so perhaps this can be used to my advantage.
I'm also considering today Steven's birthday, even though I actually got him on September 2 of last year.  Because I got him at Lagoon Day with Chey last year.
If you don't know who Steven is, you can learn all about him right HERE.

School was really demanding and exhausting this week, so I'm super excited to have a break.
And I get Monday off too for Labor Day, so I get to head back to Brigham and hang out.  (And steal some food from the house....)

Have a super good Friday!!!!
<3/Laura

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Food cravings

Hey blog readers,

So today, I've been having these crazy food cravings.  There's pretty much a huge list of stuff that I want really really bad all at the same time.  Here's part of that list:

  • Potato salad
  • Apple crisp with ice cream
  • Chicken pot pie
  • Plain pasta
  • Chocolate pop-tarts
  • Banana cream pie
  • Breadsticks dipped in ranch dressing
  • Reese's peanut butter cups
  • PB&J sandwich
  • And more....
Seriously, that's pretty much all I thought about all day.  Between classes when I should have been doing homework, I went to different food vendors on campus and tried to find someone selling one of these things.  Then I looked up chicken pot pie recipes.
I don't even like some of these foods.
But today they all sound so dang good.....

But would you like to know what sounded the best all day?
Jell-O. :)
So I bought some Jell-O today, and I made it after work.
I even put it in the freezer so it would set faster.
Then I ate the entire package. :D
It was fantastic, so don't you dare think mean things about me.

Bad news of today: Fell asleep in class, have to do homework now instead of sleeping
Good news of today: I bought more than one package of Jell-O so I can make some tomorrow night too.  And I know how to make chicken pot pie now too. :)

I'm going home for Labor Day. :)
If I stay alive till then.... college is killing me.

Goodnight, lucky losers who get to sleep.
<3/Laura

Monday, August 27, 2012

Crazy drive to school/my week in 1 paragraph

Hey guys.
I'm at school right now, waiting for my first class to start.
I got up bright and early (4:30) this morning and took a shower and ate, just to find out that my class didn't start until 9:40.  So me being stupid and tired, I went back to bed for a while.
When I woke up and actually left for school, I discovered that there was method to my madness in getting up so early, and that is the drive to school.
Driving here sucked today because the streets were crammed with other commuting students, and then I had to park really really far away and that's gonna suck later.
But now here I am, sitting with a bunch of strangers waiting for my social statistics lab so start.
I don't even know what we do in social statistics lab.
Breakfast made me sick.
I should study something.

Here's my week:
M: School, homework
T: School, work, homework
W: School, homework
T: School, homework
F: Homework, going to LAGOON!! Whoop whoop :D
S: Homework, clean my basement, maybe work

I'm kinda greatful for the Lagoon part of that, because if it weren't for that then cleaning my bathroom would be the most interesting part of my week.

Have a super good day. :)
And to the USU/BYU students who start school today, good luck.
<3/Laura

Sunday, August 26, 2012

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Today's really bad.
I dunno what I'm gonna do with myself.

Fortunately, my iTunes is on shuffle and it happens to be picking excellent angry music for me.

<3/Laura

Saturday, August 25, 2012

wtf did I just watch?

There are not too many words for this.
If you'd like a very, umm, unique way to spend 4 minutes of your time, then click the link below.
Marilyn Manson - The Beautiful People

Don't get me wrong; I like Marilyn Manson as much as any regular person ought to, but that made my tummy flip a little bit.

Have a good night.
<3/Laura

College, week 1

So it's been a week since I began college.  And I guess it's okay.  Or maybe I'm sadly mistaken and it's not okay at all.

Unfortunately, I have no motivation to do homework today.  Like, I've been cleaning my room to avoid homework.  And usually I don't mind homework too much; sometimes I quite enjoy it because I'm a nerd at heart.  But today I really don't want to do it.  I guess I have to.  Bleh.

I secretly really want to go grocery shopping.  A while ago, my friend told me that grocery shopping was really fun but I didn't believe her.  But now I really want to go because I've learned that it is quite fun.  Especially when you have money (and I don't have too much of that...)..

Tomorrow I'm going to work, and the next day I have school once again.  Sociology lab, US economics, chemistry lecture, and biology on mondays.

Watch this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9NF2edxy-M
I thought it was pretty cool.

Have a good no-homework day. :)
<3/Laura

P.S.
I really want some popcorn.
Carmel popcorn.
All I have here is tortillas and macaroni and canned soup. :(
This must be some kind of karma.

Monday, August 20, 2012

First day of college, part 2

The other part of my day was less interesting than part 1.  I researched social security for my economics class, and then went to chemistry.  My teacher in that class is from Austria.  It was pretty boring.  Then I had to go to biology, which is in the Sandy campus instead of the Salt Lake one.  So I had to drive in rush hour, attempting to be on time to class (which I was not).  It was pretty psycho.  I like my biology teacher though.  Then I went to walmart and bought some stuff I need for school and work.  It cost $100 and unfortunately I don't really have $100 dollars to spend on crap that I need but don't at all want.  So that ticked me off quite a bit.  Now I'm doing homework.  And tomorrow I have a whole slew of new classes to go experience.
Have a good night.
<3/Laura

First day of college :D part 1

Hey guys! :D
Ima sittin' here in the library at University of Utah, enjoying/still dreading my first day of college!!

Here's what's happened so far today:
  1. Arrived at school at about 9ish in attempt to get a good parking spot.  (or goodish.. there are no good parking spots at the U)
  2. Not early enough.. got a bad parking spot
  3. Saw someone I know from high school.  Thought about saying hi, but remembered that she's a pretentious little snot and then ignored her.
  4. Explored library and other cool things on campus for a bit
  5. Had a mental breakdown
  6. Went to my first class!!
  7. Bought a diet coke.  Called Cheychey and had another mental breakdown.
  8. Back in library blogging.
Here's all about my first class:  (If you don't care to read, skip to next paragraph.)
It's History of US Economics 1750, and there's about 100 people in it.  The teacher was born and raised in Pakistan, and he's actually a PhD student and not a professor.  I can't pronounce his real name but he told us to call him Zane.  Going over the syllabus lasted about 5 minutes, and then the class took a dramatic turn towards middle school.... Remember my first post?  If not, you can see it if you click right here.  Zane told the class, "Now I want each of you to stand up and tell me your name, where you came here from, your major, and your favorite sports team."  Isn't college supposed to be a little more, I dunno, collegy?  All I know is that I spend way too much time working and studying to have a favorite sports team.  But, alas, I stood up and said, "My name is Laura Stratton; I came from Brigham City, Utah; I'm majoring in biology with premedical; and I like the Pittsburgh Steelers."  My good friend Miss Mandi taught me to say that.  She also taught me to say "Troy Polamalu, #43" but I don't actually know what any of it means.  Thank you for saving me, Mandi.

The bad thing is that I don't have another class until 4.  This will hopefully be good in the future because it will give me time to study up and work on homework inbetween classes.  But right now it's pretty lame cause I don't even have my economics book yet, so I can't work on the homework I just got.  And my diet coke is running out and I'm too poor to buy another one.  (Okay, okay, I was too poor to buy the first one too.... sue me.)

There are LOTS of Asians here.  And not many of them speak English.  I wonder how they take notes and stuff.

Bleh.  I miss my house and my friends and Brigham Domino's and all the free food in my house and my lack of responsibility and my paychecks that I could spend on diet coke and fun.  Dang adulthood.

Have a study-ful day.
<3/Laura

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Another letter and some boring stuff

Dear Jenn,
It's okay that you didn't come see me today.  Your situation was appropriate.
Love, Laura

Today was quite uninteresting.
Cooked some ground beef.  Ate a brownie.  Took a shower.  Same old, same old.
But tomorrow is my first day of college. :)
I'm 15% excited and 85% terrified.
Hopefully all will be well.

Have a less-uninteresting-than-my-day day. :)
<3/Laura

Saturday, August 18, 2012

Stuff I did, stuff I'm going to do, and a letter :)

Hey guys.
I'm posting this post from my house, not my college-dormish-basement place.  That's right, I'm at home mooching of the ol' parents. :)
Well sort of.. I went to my old work yesterday and I'm going again today, so I guess I'm not completely useless.  But when I got here I convinced my mom that she needed to go to the grocery store and then she ended up buying me brownie mix and tortillas and stuff. :D
Unfortunately, I don't have any oil or eggs to cook my brownies with at my collegey-basement, so I'll probably have to steal some from the house before I leave tonight.

So for the rest of the day, I'm going to clean my room, get my hair cut, go visit Cheychey, go to work, steal some food from my kitchen, drive back to SLC, and hopefully clean it a bit before I pass out.  Cause I'm exhausted.

Here is a letter to my friend Jenn, who will probably never read it but ya know.

Dear Jenn,
I'm glad we're friends.
Sorry for waking you up last night.  I didn't mean to.
If you don't come visit me tomorrow, I will likely cry from loneliness.  So you should come.
Love, Laura

Sigh.. I'm gonna leave the comfort of my cozy bed so I can get my desperately-needed haircut.  Hopefully I'll be better at writing on this blog. :)

<3/Laura

P.S.
I made this post purple xD ya like?

Thursday, August 16, 2012

WHY CAN'T I JUST BLOG?!?!

I seriously think about this blog all the time.  I was just born to be a procrastinating person.  It's not that I just never thought about posting... In the beginning I just put it off.  Then I was too lazy to write a post about everything I'd done in my life since I'd last posted.  And that's how this monster gap between March and August came to be.  I apologize.

Since I'm lazy, ya'all get the quickie version of my life since March.
Here's what happened.  (May or may not be in chronological order)

  1. Graduated high school :D whoop whoop
  2. Went to Kissimmee, Florida with mi familia
  3. Went to HARRY POTTER LAND!!!!!!!! :):)
  4. Worked a whole freaking ton.
  5. Got yelled at by Miss-Bossy-Pants Manager for working too much... punched a box of pepperoni out of anger and frustration that such a horrible person would be allowed to exist for so long
  6. Did some other cool and not-so-cool stuff
  7. Moved out of mi casa and into my very own sort-of-apartment :D (double whoop whoop)
  8. Ran out of money :/ donations now accepted.
Yeppers.  That's pretty much it.  Oh, did I ever post about my car?  I think so.... I have a new car now.  His name is Artie.  He was born in 1982.  Here is our most common conversation:  (umm this is for dramatic effect and all ya'all should know that I don't actually speak to my car very much)

Laura: "Good morning, Artie! :)"
Artie: "Morning.  You should clean me."
Laura: "Maybe later.  Got places to go."
Artie: "That's what you think!!  I decided I'm not going to start today!! :)"
Laura: "Dang you, Artie.  You'd better start."
Artie: *Makes the 'car trying to start but not succeeding' sound a lot but doesn't start*
Laura: *Looks at car engine.  Realizes she knows nothing about car engines.*
Artie: *Laughs and enjoys making Laura late*
Laura: *Thinks* Perhaps this could be good and I can convince Dad that I need a new car...
Artie: "Just kidding!!!!  I'm going to start now.  I'm just going to make scary sounds and shake when you drive me over 40 mph! :)"
Laura: :(

That dang car.

Here's what I did today:

  1. Woke up at 6 AM
  2. Hit alarm off button
  3. Slept till 10
  4. Showered and stuffs..
  5. Drove to the university and found all my classes.  This was VERY exhausting.
  6. Got a parking permit and a school ID card
  7. Drove home
  8. Cut my finger on a pair of scissors.  Fortunately I'd previously bought some sweet superhero band-aids so now Wolverine is protecting my cut :)
  9. Tried to finish unpacking
  10. Slept
  11. Blogged :)
I decided I'm not too cut out for college life yet.  But hopefully I'll get better at it.  In the meantime, I'm headed home tomorrow to see my dear old friend Cheyenne and pick up some extra hours at my old work.  So while I'm there, I can secretly steal some food from my house and forget about grocery shopping for a while. :)


Here's a picture of me and my two amazing friends graduating!


This is my OCD sandcastle at Cocoa Beach Pier in Florida.


Have a super live-on-your-own-eating-stolen-food day!! :)

<3/Laura

Monday, March 26, 2012

Hey guys.
I'm sluffing school today.
It's like Ferris Beuler's Day Off, except my mom doesn't think I'm sick.
And I'm not really doing anything fun.
I just need to chill for a bit.

Work tonight.
Maybe going shopping.
Maybe sleeping.
Talk to ya'all later.

Love, Laura

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Hey guys.
How are you?
Super dooper, I hope.

Here are some of the good things that have happened to me since I last posted:
1. I'm getting a free car!! :):)  Long story... I'll explain when I actually get it.
2. Rocked my biology test today :)
3. Got my paycheck.
4. Made it through 2 weeks of the trimester without procratinating any significant assignments.
5. I'm getting dang good at reciting 1 Fish 2 Fish Red Fish Blue Fish.
6. 70 days till I graduate!! :D

Here are some of the good things that WILL happen to me quite soon:
1. Get another paycheck tomorrow. :)
2. Going to The Hunger Games on Friday!!
3. I shall post pictures of my future living quarters for when I am in college.

Here are some of the bad things that have happened to me since I last posted:
1. Been way busy.  You can tell when I'm busy because I don't post on my blog.
2. 70 days till I graduate. O_O
3. And some more that I can't think of.

Have an awesome day.

Love, Laura

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Dear blog readers,

I'm in American Sign Language right now.
I'm sitting next to Ricky, who touches my desk during class and it bugs me. :P

I got two new textbooks. :)
My biology book came in the mail yesterday, and I got another calculus book today.
Too bad I have to work today.. :(

Hope you all had a great Daylight Savings Day.
I was tired and cranky all day. :P

Have a good day.
Love, Laura

Friday, March 2, 2012

Happy birthday Dr. Seuss!! :D

Today is Dr. Suess's birthday, which is also Read Across America day in honor of Dr. Seuss. :)
So all over America, elementary schools are reading and throwing green eggs and ham parties!! (both of which are fantastic things...)
I was supposed to have a green eggs and ham party today, but it turned out to also be the last day of the trimester so I was tying up a bunch of loose ends before final grades went in.
I was also going to buy a birthday cake for him, but I didn't do that either.
That means I'll have to do twice as well next year.
Hold me to that.


I did go buy myself a copy of The Lorax today, halfway cause it's his birthday and halfway because I really wanted one.
It's printed on recycled paper -- the Lorax and Dr. Seuss would be proud of me. :)
The movie of The Lorax also comes out today!!  I hope it's good and not stupid.  I'll probably go see it on Monday and I'll tell ya'all how it is.


Have a happy birthday, Dr. Seuss!!!! :D




(you may not think this looks all that great, but I did it on picnik on a laptop so I'm pretty proud of my self... I suck at using those trackpad things)
(supposed to be a birthday hat on his head, but it didn't fit....)


Love, Laura