Rubik's cube party!

Here are a couple of photos from a few weekends ago. For one of my friends birthdays, we had a "Rubik's Cube Party." It was my first experience with one so, just in case it is also your first experience with one, here are the basic rules:

1.) Wear all of the colors of Rubik's cube.
2.) Be prepared to do a little clothing swap throughout the night.
3.) Get solved! (End up in one color by the end of the night!)

It was a riot. Literally. When you're older, I'll tell you stories.

Sarah and I in our "before" outfits!A couple of my favorite girls! Sarah, Katie, Val and ISarah and Anne - it was her birthday party!This is the closest to "solved" we have a picture of. I'm pretty sure I was wearing 4 shirts at this time.Ahhh a few of my favorite people - Alex and Sarah!

And these are only the few pictures I have of the beginning of the night. Riot, I tell ya. Hope your week started off well!

wishful thinking.

Such a good song, and this is a great cover. Originally seen here.

Last night my friend Sarah and I ordered enough Chinese for a large family and devoured quite a bit of it, along with Special K bars/Scotcharoos (the name all depends on where you're from) that I had made because of a craving I had for them earlier this week.

I've been a busy bee lately, hence shorter posts and lots of good music instead of text. I've definitely overloaded myself this semester (who? me...nahhh) which my friends all warned me about, but I told them I could handle it. Each day I seem to agree to do something extra, when I really should learn to say something along the lines of "I just really can't fit that into my schedule, but I support you doing it!"

I guess I am that person who overloads herself to a point of no return, but the thing is, I've always been able to work myself out of it. King of Wishful Thinking? Nah. Queen of Wishful Thinking is more like it.

Mumford...

is a cool name. Mumford and Sons is even better. I've heard some buzz about this band this week and finally listened to them a little bit this afternoon. They are incredible, and definitely worthy of the reviews they have been getting. My friend Xavier even blogged about them here and was told about them from our mutual friend Beth from what I understand! She has excellent taste. They both do, really.

Here are a couple songs to get you hooked:






Listen to more here or here. I'm hooked. (And they will be at Sasquatch!)

omg. omg. omg.

I want to go this even more than I want to go to Bonnaroo. The Sasquatch Music Festival's lineup was announced today and I'm drooling. Tickets don't go on sale until February 20th, so I have a few days to decide if I can actually make this happen or not, yet. Anyone want to go with me?

you know those days?

You know those days that you try and try and call and email and try again to get someone to either answer your call or call you back or email you back or even acknowledge the fact that you are asking for something in a very nice, Midwestern manner while they are overtaken by the kindness and actually put off by it so they just hang up in your face? I've had a lot of those days.

And then there are the days when you wake up in a good mood and decide that TODAY IS THE DAY that I will not take no for an answer and we will get a housing site in my city because I am going to be responsible for 42 other people and myself in a strange city in less than a month and that is a pretty incredible responsibility and dang it, it's time to get this figured out.

A few days ago, someone asked me what I do everyday. Instead of going through the list of things I try to cram into each 24 hour period, and it can get long, I answered "cold call and hope to make it through to the next one."

That about sums it up.

p.s. I think we have housing!

ASHLEY LISTEN!

I was going to post this song/video to my friend Ashley's Facebook wall, and then I realized that the last two posts she had were both links from me. This is my attempt at not making myself look like a Facebook stalker of one of my favorite people. (Wait, what do you mean the title of this post means I still am a crazy person?) I do think others will enjoy this song, as well.

And my friend Alyssa deserves a shout out for re-reminding me of Matisyahu today!

Happy day!

from here.

Happy Valentine's Day to you, friends and family. Do something special for yourself. I'm going to a movie and getting popcorn, because it is an unwritten rule in my world that if you go to a movie on Valentine's Day, a little extra butter is in order. I think my valentine already knows and expects this, which makes it even better.