it's officially friday which means my last plan didn't work out too well. c'est la vie.

I'm going to do my best to get on the blog bandwagon again. to be honest, I really miss LiveJournal. That feels like my blog home. It's strange how I feel sentimental with an internet page. I was doing so well on blogspot for a while, and then it sort of ceased to be. I think everything in my life has become something that is short and mediocre. One of the things I've learned here in Seattle is that I have a lot of trouble sticking with things I feel passionate about, thus I end up doing them half fast with little to no ddevotion. This blog is an awful example, but other things pertain to this statement. Things like music. I simply give up on them and feel no remorse. Why can't I miss the things that once ruled my life?
I essentially define a with person with commitment issues, which worries me if I ever get a serious boyfriend. ha. But I don't think that'll happen anytime soon. Anyways, the point is, slowly but surely, I'm growing up. i need to get it together and stick with something. It's the right thing to do in life, and I fear of ultimately choosing the wrong path.
Well, with that said. I'm going to try to blog everyday for the next month. Vamos a ver.
Anyways, here's a fun picture, enjoy! <3

these are my main friends from seattle. aren't they pretty? :)
noha from egypt.
stevan from serbia.
chloe from italy.
and olimpija from macedonia.
it's cool knowing i have friends all over the world now. they are so nice. i'm lucky to have met them. they made me seattle experience unique and fun.

Prvi Maj--the first of may, was really fun. it's a holiday celebrated amongst the world (except in the united states, of course) but in the balkans they kick it off with a picnic. i went with a seattle bosnian family to the beach! i learned about bosnian history and decided that i understand serbian.

good food and fun people. it was one of my favorite days in seattle thus far. :D

I woke up and it was sunny. I did my hair in honor of the sun because i haven't done my hair in foreverrrrr in fear of the rain.

By 5 it begins pouring and i'm on the totally other side of campus. UGH!
NOW LOOK AT MY HAIR!!!!

i think this defines devastation...

hello blog!!!!
sorry about not having posted in ages! i feel guilty because i check other people's blogs regularly, yet never post myself. shame on me.
well,
life has been spectacular lately. i don't even know where to begin!

in fact, it's a little overwhelming thinking of how to recap that past couple of weeks on here. so i'll try to get the most important parts.

Jia moved out. she didn't tell me, or the RA, or anyone for that matter. one sunday i came home from the gym, and all her stuff was packed. all she said was "i'm moving."
it was a strange goodbye.

so i invited olimpija to be my roommate. she was having major issues with her last roommate and she's pretty much my bestie over here, so i figured, what the heck!? i knew if i were having problems with my roommate, she would do the same thing.
inviting her to my room was a wise move!
EVERYTHING is happy now! she brings flowers home that she picks around school and puts them on the desk. we dance to fun Balkan music and get dressed up to go out now. we chat. we watch sex and the city and eat ice cream. we study. i looooooove having her as a roomie! it's amazing.

and our room is the most adorable thing ever now! it has SO MUCH MORE character. look at our desks:


isn't it adorable?! i love it!
i love coming home now. i actually call this dorm a home now. haha sillyz.

umm...okay so there was that.
OH!
my cousin came to town this weekend too! i looove her.
I HAD ONE OF THE BEST WEEKENDS OF MY FREAKING LIFE.
i don't want to say everything that happened. i've told basically everyone that reads this blog already and i don't want to get others jealous. :P

but seriously, you should envy my coolness.
listen to pink martini: (this is a big hint of my weekend)
do you like them? i do! (i sort of fell in love with martin, one of the purcussionists this weekend. lol he's cute and tiny and HILARIOUS. if anything, i'd like to become his bestie.)
i don't know how to post youtube videos so hopefully this works:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjtekYzkZD4
that's one of my least favorite songs by them, but there ya go.

oh! and oli and i got a FREE HOTEL ROOM. downtown!!!!
so awesome. i went to bed at 5 am. we felt so cool. it was a deluxe sweet. no big deal or anything.





hmmm WHAT ELSE!
oh i'm in love!
also no big deal.
the fates have been working out for me and today, after almost five months of seeing him seemingly EVERYWHERE (!!!) i got him to laugh. that's a big step.

the next time i see him somewhere in this city maybe i'll even talk to him. :P
but don't you think it's strange that i keep running into him throughout different parts of the city? i do!


classes have been going well too!


OH AND OAXACA.


i forgot about that too!
this fall, i am applying to study in oaxaca mexico. it's not official yet, but omg, pray that they accept me!


ahhhh MAN THE SWEET LIFE.

now to go watch glee, read ts eliot, and work out.
strange combinations are the story of my life.

before


after



well i got a haircut. i wanted to look different than anyone else. my hair was pretty bland. so i got bangs!

otherwise, not much is happening.

my goal this weekend is to write 3 short stories--one for friday! one for saturday! one for sunday!!!!!!

let's see if i can do it.

i've watched the office for the past...5 hours. i need to get a life, kinda.

man, i've been busy!!!!! eirgjierghu5hteuirghghikerghirughrughn
and i'm only about to get busier! yikes.

here are some pictures from spring break, which had it's ups and downs.

well i just watched the days of wine and roses. i rented it because it won oscars and i was in the mood for an old fashioned movie. i didn't even read what it would be about.
little did i know it was about alcoholics.

GAH. why didn't jesus warn me against it!?!?!?!?
:(

i've never been so affected by a movie in my life. there were points where i had to pause it and walk around for a break. i feel very uneasy now and extremely sad. WAHWAH

this weekend has been mediocre. tomorrow i have 2 essays due. yikes!
and then a final wednesday night AND I AM DONE!
yaaaaaaay

i'm excited for next quarter. all my classes will be fun i think.
last night i didn't go to bed until 5!

SUMMER!!!!!!

and today i went swimming in our schools gym. so fun! they provide swimsuits, towels, lockers, everything! thanks, expensive tuition. -_-
they don't however, provide goggles. and my eyes hate me for it now.

i went to trader joes today too and bought some yummy foods! i'm so excited to cook without a dining plan next year. and grocery shop! GAH now that's something i absolutely love.

saturday oli and i went downtown. i bought a watch and the two of us bought matching shirts. when it gets warm, i'm really excited to wear it! it'll be a nice thing to remind me of oli after she moves back.

here are a couple pics of the brazilian dinner with the foreign folks and coffee with oli the next day








on another note, oli taught me how to change language settings on my computer! now i can have áccént márks whérévér ì wañt thém tó bé.

this week has been so great!
tonight i'm going to dinner with a bunch of egyptian/italian/balkan students. we're gonna have brazilian food!
but really, i feel so utterly content.

this is me, in current picture form, oily hair and all:


lol, i'm silly and this picture should not be posted in my blog. meh, too happy to care.

LOOP just got accepted into UCLA!
he just texted me!!!!!

aw man, now i'm sad i'm not there celebrating with him. :-/
he called me today, and made me talk to mr. herrera in real time. (real time=via telephone)
it was funny and awkward. and i'm still in love with mr. h. hahaha

hello blog world! sorry it's been so long.

p-town was fun, but not as fun as i was expecting to. i loved taking the greyhound though! i met a super nice guy on my way there and we talked all three hours. he was a missionary that had just gotten back from india. interesting views! i didn't really agree with him on a lot, but he was still interesting.
my ride back SUCKED. but that's okay.

i stayed with my cousin the whole time. i don't know her well at all, but we got along surprisingly well. she got me mad a lot too though, but that's okay. i still had a lot of fun with her.
i took a bunch of pictures, but she's one of those people that likes being in front of the camera instead of behind it, so i don't really have any pictures of me. that's fine, i just wish i had one or two pics of me from portland. but whatevs. i'll be back there in less than 2 weeks.










one thing that was surprisingly cool was that...
okay, so these pictures don't really do her justice, she's makeupless and all grubbed out, but my cousin is absolutely beautiful. she may be one of the prettiest people i know.
and i guess i've never hung out with anyone as pretty as her before, but EVERYTHING, and i mean EVERYTHING was free. SO AWESOME.
she's such a free spirit. we were walking down the street, for example, and she randomly wanted tea. so we went into this indian food stand (portland has food carts moreso than actual restaurants, which are sooooo delicious), and asked for tea. first of all, tea wasn't even on their menu. but they made it special for us. AND IT WAS THE YUMMIEST THING EVER.
2 teas came out to one dollar. it has sweetened condensed milk and everything,
then as we were waiting we said it smelled really good, but we couldn't eat because we were eating later with her mom (my aunt)
so they "awwww'ed" us and gave us a free dish on the house!!!!!!!! and it was soooooooo good. and it was just like a normal thing for my cousin!
and shit like that happened all freaking weekend. being pretty really gets you places.

we saw alice in wonderland in 3d. it wasn't that good. :-/
we had more fun playing in the arcade. we told all the random people (everyone talked to us...everyone talked to her, because she was so pretty.) that were flirting with us that we had more fun killing people in the arcade than the movie. which is so true.



so that's all i'm gonna say about that. wish i had more pictures. :-/

um....
today, since one of my classes was cancelled, i came home early.
i baked 2 loaves of bread from scratch!!!! i had never done that before! SO MUCH FUN. i love kneading the bread!!!
and waiting patiently forever and a day for the dough to rise. it was fun but really time consuming.
i basically did it for oli because one of the things she misses most about home is the food. she always talks about how her mama bakes fresh bread and they eat it with fresh feta and tomatoes and stuff.
so by the time she got home, i had just put it in the oven. it smelled so SO good!

and when it came out of the oven, the look on her face was just pure bliss. seeing her that happy made me happy. so we pigged out and ate a whole loaf with fresh feta and tomatoes. DELISH! i was so proud of baking, i can't even tell you. especially since i had never done it before.
what was sweet was oli said she was lucky to have found a friend like me. so sweet.
pics from today (i look so ridiculous, and chubby. whatevaaaa):












and my roomie got lunch with me! she never goes out! so nice to finally have bonding time with her!!!

and i have an official friend! (besides oli)
we text each other and plan on hanging out soon.
things are looking up, i'm telling you. it's because it's march



tomorrow's my papa's bday. i miss him. 51!


i see him and my mama in a week and 1 day! pretty nice.

Today was a swell day!
first, it was nice because i got to talk to me bestie all day. she has no idea how much i miss her.
she's the greatest. i love her, but i need more recent pictures! even so, i love this picture of her. she's so mad and small. too adorable.


second, was my school! so much protesting!
i was thoroughly proud of my fellow comrades. they even took over the AVE! (if i ever refer to "the ave" it's kinda the main street of the UW district of Seattle. there's a ton of restaurants, clothes shops, smoke shops...college stuff)
it would be the ONE DAY that i forget to bring my camera to school. bahhhhh! but i'm going to steal some pictures from facebook, and show you what's up at UW today.
they even went in some of our 200+ lecture halls. so good!
all in all there were an estimated 4-500 people. yay for lack of apathy






but my true protesting heart is in california. i grew up with all the issues of this state, and now that they're getting even worse, i feel all the more attached to them. but the UC's did not disappoint!
even RCC got involved!
here are some old MUN friends' (whom i miss very much) pictures of the day:





and since i'm keeping it local i won't forget about UCR:



and although i'm about 99% sure none of these people look at this silly blog, just in case,
thanks to amy (seattle), dane (rcc) and sam (ucr) for the pics. :)




days like today, with inspirational protests also makes me miss my other bestie (who is the brother of my true true bestie), Ryan. I rarely talk to him anymore now that he's in Ireland, but i know he's having a great time. i think about him all the time, especially today. he would have absolutely loved today.
here he is wearing PJ's with yours truly:


tomorrow is a busy day. i hope to chronicle my portland adventure! but we'll see how it goes.