st. patty's day, initiation, and zombies

currently I am...

listening to "here is gone" ~goo goo dolls, 

sitting on my bed watching the rain and enjoying a nice cool breeze, 

drinking my third camelbak of water,

and procrastinating because I don't want to do my food and nutrition project :)

Just some updates from the last week:

St. Patty's Day festivities...

getting ready before the SAE party

Lindsey, Sarah, me, and Sasja!

I love my aphi sisters

Saturday morning we had Alpha Phi Initiation in War Memorial Chapel

ITS OFFICIAL!   ΑΦ

a very pasty big/lil pic <3

This week is Sigma Chi's philanthropy and one of their events is roller derby. Our theme was zombies from Call of Duty (we knew our audience)

How to make the costume: rip a white tshirt, make mud outside, get red paint, scrounge for leaves, hairspray and tease hair and cake on tons of white and black make up...basically we were really scary!!

spring '11 zombies

In a little while I am...
going to TOTS to set up for the concert tonight sponsored by Relay For Life
then, working at the concert
and then, coming to my room and passing out

Tomorrow I am...
running on the treadmill for 30 minutes
then, meeting with my advisor! (i'm nervous that i'll walk in and change my mind for the millionth time)

it's jake and amir

Back to school...

I've been back at tech for 4 days and already feeling the pressure!! Fortunately this week was not as awful as I had imagined it over my pleasant-do-nothing-spring break. Unfortunately, hell week will commence at approximately 9am Monday morning (not forgetting to mention the frantic weekend I will have trying to prepare for hell week woo!).

This is the perfect time to blog about my good friends Jake and Amir. Whenever I'm feeling a little stressed, sad, lonely, or overwhelmed I simply go to www.jakeandamir.com/random or just search for some of my favorite videos, although this takes time because there are a lot of those. Jake and Amir, for those of you uniformed, are just two best friends working together and video blogging about their daily adventures in the offices of College Humor.

Another reason why I just loveee these videos is because they bring me back to the days where my friends and I would 1) go through their whole archive until we watched every video and 2) recite our favorites lines that just got us every time. This may be why I like to refer Jake and Amir as my friends, because they brought me closer to my friends and we will forever have this special bond!

While being at college I have been slacking in trying to keep up with their new videos, but fear you not there are plenty to watch, laugh at, and cry over (let me be clear thats crying from too much laughter).

the first is Scared, the best video we could show our AP US history teacher because it was the cleanest and its just down right funny.

Bowling for Soup gave me and my friends an awesome new dance move, I call it "Her name is Nona, she's a rocker with a nose ring"

I will never get over 4th of July, "jake jake jake jake jake jake jake jake"

and of course the series of Ace and Jocelyn (this is only part 2 because its my fave)

No joke I wish I could post about twenty more videos but for simplicities sake just go to Jake and Amir (or youtube will do the trick) and in the search bar enter:
~breakfast
~secretary
~Interpretors (part 2 is my fave)
~baby
~friend quiz
~church
~sneaky
~burp
~cookie
~rapping

alright i'll stop :)

life, love, and happiness

"When the rain is blowing in your face

And the whole world is on your case

I could offer you a warm embrace

To make you feel my love"

-Adele 

Taylor Swift :: Speak Now

Luda.

When I was 13, I had my first love.

There was nobody that compared to my baby,

And nobody came between us or could ever come above.

She had me goin' crazy,

Oh I was starstruck,

She woke me up daily,

Don't need no Starbucks.

all i want is the beach and summer and flip flops and summer dresses 

An Education 

"When sky blue gets dark enough
To see the colors of the city lights
A trail of ruby red and diamond white
Hits her like a sunrise"
-John Mayer

i'm a sucker for bieber...

stay foolish, stay hungry

Quote of the Day: "Opportunity does not knock, then knock again, and then leave a note saying, 'sorry I missed you'." -That 70's show.  

Well, I'm not sure that what I have done the past week is really worthy to blog about so I will try to spice things up! To sum up my week so far I have slept (alot!), visited Dede (my grandmother), spent time with a few friends who are home, been to the gym, rode my bike on the canal and watched lots and lots of movies! It may also be worthy to mention that I have attempted some homework. On top of all these crazy things I've done, I managed to find time to shop around online, find new music, and discover some great quotes...

                                      I added this song to my "chill" playlist

On Saturday I decided to make my famous cupcakes (by famous I mean I made them once before over Christmas break but they seemed to be a hit!) I stuck to the original vanilla cupcake, but I was told by both my cousin and my mom that I could never be a housewife until I perfected my frosting skills!

(my cousin, Lindsay, with my beautiful cupcakes!)

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, which is what I do. And that enables you to laugh at life's realities."-Dr. Suess



 Sunday was yucky and rainy so I decided to have a pixar movie marathon! Although the marathon only consisted of two movies (Monsters, INC and Finding Nemo) because by the end of the second one I was ready for a nap!

"I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist."  ~Tammy Faye Bakker

Found the perfect white dress for initiation!

I stumbled upon these Tory Burch flats 65% off the original price!

OPI Black Shatter by Katy Perry 

One thing that I wish I had made time for was going to the barn to ride. Horseback riding is a passion of mine and although I don't get to ride as often as I would like it is still a big part of my life. Just a year ago I was in the middle of show season when I finally achieved my goal of earning Grand Champion at a show. I miss my pony Joey and I know that if I were lucky enough to still be showing with him, he would have won us Grand Champion a long time ago!

A few words from Steve Job's commencement address at Standford University (2005):

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."


xoxo
em