L is for the way you look at me...like I'm crazy

O is for the only one I see....reading this.
V is very very extraordinary...in that it's Thursday.
E is even more than anyone that you adore...but why you would adore me is beyond me...

Happy Feminine Mind Control Day! I hope it will treat you all wonderfully. Eat lots of chocolate (providing you didn't give it up for Lent) and make sure to get back to work on a diamond-studded chocolate shoe as soon as you have the time.

Back to Before

So the gorgeous flowers you can now view to the right of my "eloquent" postings was taken on my coffee table this past Saturday. The beauties were given to my household by our neighbors this past Friday. The guys live two doors down from us and are in a Christian rock band. I guess they had a bunch of vases of flowers like this from a photo shoot and our mutual landlord suggested that they give us a vase of them. So late Friday night (while I was elsewhere) Jerry brought the flowers over.
If you examine the picture closely, you'll notice the presence of several tie-dyed roses. These roses were $30 per stem, imported from the Netherlands. I'm sitting here now looking at the flowers and they make me so happy. I love flowers and these ones are just so colorful and cheerful.

Beyond the flowers, my life continues in its usually drudgery...I'm working something like 20 hours this week, which is busy but really good. I need the money. I was sad, very sad, to see the Patriots lose, but I guess that it's a reminder that no one is perfect.
Feminine Mind Control Day is quickly approaching. I can't wait for it to end; I'm sick of all the pink and red crap in the stores.

Read it and weep!

This announcement was found on the website Grand Valley State University.
All campuses and regional centers of Grand Valley State University are closed today, January 30, 2008, due to severe weather conditions. Only essential employees report to work.

I'm enjoying my wondrous snow day. I hope you're all having a great day too.

News of the best possible sort

So yesterday I mentioned that my application to study abroad at the Universidad de Deusto en Bilbao, Espana was pending approval. Well, as of today, that is no longer true. I have been accepted to study abroad from September to December of 2008 at the Universidad de Deusto. Bilbao is in northern Spain and is home to the Guggenheim Museum as well as many other beautiful buildings including several gorgeous churches, which I intend on visiting. Also, included among Bilbao's sister cities are Pittsburgh, PA in the U.S.
My classes in Bilbao will start on September 2 and go until December 12. So I'll be gone by Labor Day weekend. I'm going to be taking four or five classes focusing in Spanish Language and Culture. Apparently, the climate is relatively temperate and this is not a place with winters like ours; their average temperature in December is 10 degrees Celsius. So umm...I'll be leaving my winter coat in Michigan, thank you very much.
I'm so excited!

What is this world coming to?

Okay, so classes started today. I'm taking 18 credits, which is 6 classes, but one of them is online and Lauren is in another one of them, so life is beautiful. But I was sad to return to classes this morning because it meant the end of break. I've loved my break; it was great. I watched movies, drank coffee, hung out with friends especially Jenny Pink, and had an amazing weekend at the UCO/SPO Winter Conference in Columbus, Ohio. God is still good.
But then I returned to class this morning. Although, apparently, this poor Mexican child had a much harder time dealing with that concept than I did. I would NEVER glue myself to a bed to avoid school. It sucks but it's not THAT bad. And then he had to go to school anyway. That was not worth the trouble involved.

In other news, my study abroad application is now being processed, so please keep that in your prayers.

Indescribably Weird

I really had no plans on blogging anytime in the near future or perhaps at all until I return to Grand Rapids in January. (I came home a bit earlier than expected due to no hours available at BABs and my great-aunt's unexpected death.)
But then I stumbled upon this bit of news and I knew I had to blog at least one last time. I mean this story is better than the story about Matthew Pan Hiasl, everyone's favorite "person."
During Long Lake this summer, Jenny and I had a long, late night discussion about bigamy, polygamy, and David's wives. David had eight wives: Michal, Abigail, Bathsheba, Ahinoam, Maachah, Haggith, Abital, and Eglah. For more information on this, please feel free to see the most reliable source on the internet.
But here's the thing; David only had eight wives; this lady had TEN husbands. What do you do with ten husbands? I mean, okay, besides the obvious... I mean, I like guys as much as the next straight girl, but dude...that's just weird. Okay, so she was probably doing it for more money than anything else but why would you want to marry ten men? Wouldn't it get confusing? I mean, I have enough trouble keeping a couple of guys' names straight in my mind and they're just my friends. What on earth would I do if I had ten men whose names I HAD to keep straight? I guess name tags could be an option or you could number them but all of that is a bit excessive. Which leads us to....
Reason #874 why Bigamy/Polygamy are a bad idea: How do you keep their names straight?

The end of an era...or at least a semester

I'm currently sitting on my couch looking at my Christmas tree and listening to music from the movie Aladdin. The music is not putting me in the Christmas spirit but rather is relaxing me as I prepare to go to GVSU Language Resource Center and watch my classmates' and my final projects for our Spanish class. Now you may wonder about the significance of this. This will be my last school-related activity of the semester besides selling my textbooks tomorrow.
I'm looking forward to the end of the semester. Granted, I am staying out in Grand Rapids for a while longer to make a little more money in the bagel/coffee industry. But I'm just ready for classes and that stuff to be over.
Speaking of the bagel/coffee industry, the other day I invented a new drink....Raspberry-Cheesecake Hot Chocolate. It was sweet and awesome. I'm thinking about inventing more drinks the next time I'm working and I have some free/down time. I want to make either a tiramisu mocha or a tiramisu hot chocolate drink. Or maybe both...we shall see.

And in three hours or so, I'll be free....
Then I'll be able to work and earn money and invent more drinks if people come to visit me at work. Also, let me know if you think up any brilliant drinks I should invent.