college kids fascinate me

i was walking to class a while ago, and i saw this on the steps. 
maybe it's just me, but it struck me as really funny.

frozen dinners

beer

margarine

set for the month.

my tree was up til march.

which really isn't that bad, considering i didn't put it up til christmas day (which was after our christmas...)

and then i couldn't wait for it to be gone.  because march is supposed to be spring.  ok, maybe not it wyoming, but no matter how long i have lived here, my biological clock, or my circadian rhythm, or something, just tells me it should be spring.
is that what they call spring fever?  i've never really understood all those 'fevers.'
spring fever = can't wait til spring?
cabin fever = can't wait to get away from the cabin?
scarlet fever = red rash and red tongue?
yeesh, so confusing.

well, it was really tricky, not to mention prickly, taking the lights down.

and then it looked like this - after i had swept up a whole tree's worth of crispy needles.  another tree's worth of needles ended up in the hallway.  another ended up on the stairs.

don't ask how one tree had at least three times the normal amount of needles...

and now this is what that little corner looks like.  it only took me 3 weeks to sweep and mop and wax the floors, just so i could rearrange the furniture.

(just imagine the last picture, but with a little crate/bookshelf thing in the middle.  i'm in the process of "cleaning", where instead of getting in the right "clean" place, everything just seems to move around, until you can't even tell that i was cleaning to begin with...which means that it will finally be how i want it in about, oh, three and a half months.)

it was a rough winter.

i happened to be talking to my old italian flatmate about it i guess, because a few weeks later, i got a suprise from her in the mail!
perfect little pick me up!

the two on the bottom left are the ones she gave me.

her and her friend also gave me the three on the top right for my 21st birthday when we were in venice.

my little geranium. plus a little adhd.

my little geranium is having a hard time.  because i don't know how to be a gardener. 
so it hasn't had flowers since, well, since i cut some cuttings off my sissy's dying geranium, i'm pretty sure.

and it finally got a flower, but i had to cut it off because it looked like some bushes were growing out of some sticks.
here is what i mean:

it actually looks worse than this.

way worse.

i'm actually pretty impressed with how good this looks!

what can i say?  my computer paint skills are just that amazing...

and look what happens when you x-ray vision it!!!! 

wowww!!  paint is amazing!

anyways.  that is not the story.

this is:

i cut the flower off, because i was cutting the plant off at the twigs.

and now it looks like this:

in very high hopes that it will soon look like this:

wish me luck.

back to the flower.

i took some photos.

the end.

oh.  you want to see them, you say?

here.

cats, cats, i love cats.

i even got a cat tattoo for halloween. 

calm down, calm down.  it came in a card.

from my mommy, actually.

pretty clever, eh?

a work chronicles ps.

remember when i started my work chronicles?
ya, well.
i'm pretty much quitting. 

maybe when the summer rolls around (roles around?)  (how in the world do you spell that kind of roll??)
anyways.  maybe when summer comes, i will be more inspired by the summer bunch of weirdos than i am by the winter bunch of weirdos.
mostly i'm just sick of the winter bunch of weirdos.
mostly i'm just sick of the winter.


the doctor is back today, so now playing office feels like this:

Guess What I Maaade!

i made a smoothie this morning!
but without the yogurt and ice because i had no ice, so i had to substitute ice cream...
poor me.

i may or may not have already given the recipe...

but i will again, just in case. 

everyone needs to try it!

RECIPE FOR DELICIOUS SMOOTHIE/SHAKE

some blueberries (frozen or not)

some peaches (by not frozen, i mean fresh, but as it is WINTER...)

here is where it gets tricky:

EITHER

greek yogurt (fresh is best)

honey

ice cubes

OR

ice cream (vanilla bean is delicious)

milk (i love vitamin d milk because it is creamy and delicious)

did you notice that the theme for this smoothie shake is DELICIOUS??

good.

playing for real

playing office for reals isn't all it's cracked up to be.
ask anyone.

what playing office looks like in my head

what playing office really is like

guess what

dear sarah.
you will be pleased, possibly even ecstatic, to know that i have not used my oven to heat my house since i got a job over winter break.
which means since december.
which means 3 and a half months of carbon monoxide free air.
the end.

cute, what can i say?

these made me think of my sissy when i saw them:

they're made out of cloth and stuff!

i saw them when i was walking to a class in the ag building.  who knew.