Black Beauty a.k.a. "The Godfather"

So I just have to post because I don't want to lose all the great comments this new car I've gotten is getting. First. You need to know what this car looks like.



Now, as you can see... worthy of many comments. The email thread between the extended family looks something like this:

Sue:
It isn't every college girl that gets such a great car...


Scott:
No You Did Not… That is hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No more “Pimp Daddy” now it’s Pimp Momma.

I huge gold medallion is a must hanging from the rear view mirror.


Gram:
Wow, now that is a cool car..

Good luck at the new job Haley..

What a way to go to work, with the windows rolled down and cruising.


Tim:
Does that come with a tanker truck for on-road re-fueling?

Maybe Lance should take the “Lounge Lizard” and Haley can have Penny!


Sally:
Let's not take a black light to the inside of that car......holy!


Sherry:
Did it come equipped with "Gwetto"!

Very nice Haley. The trailer court in the background is perfect!


Steve:
You know, the funny part is that originally, Sue was not too interested in 'Black Beauty'. Lucky for Haley I was around or she would be driving some nondescript old Corolla or something like that with no personality at all.


Scott:
Now I can definitely see Lance driving the Lizard.

His long hair, gold chains and pants riding down around his knees. Don’t forget the Flavor Flav pumping’ on the stereo.


Sue:
Black Beauty sure does have personality, possibly even a few STDs. :O


Haley:
I do have a shank... that makes me gangsta, right? I'm going to go around flashing my brights at people. I know. It's a little scary what I've become.


Sue:
I just hope nobody approaches you to buy crack or meth or pot. You just may need a shank.

I think I'll get you a gold cap for one of your front teeth. :)


Lance has informed me:
Yup shes mint took'r for a ride some guy downtown gave me a thumbs up, could have been about the car or just the driver.

So we shall see what comes about when hit the road in Black Beauty..

THE CIRCLE

The spring semester of 2011 has begun! There's always this period at the beginning of the semester where I am still in the mindset left over from the end of last semester. I can't really wrap my mind around the idea that I really, truly am caught up on homework, even for next week. I keep thinking I've forgotten something somehow. But nope! All the homework is complete!

At the same time, there's this ominous threat hanging over you.

Scene: You're at the beach, having a blast with your friends, frolicking in the water. Suddenly you look behind you. There's a monstrous wave, reaching so high above you it blocks out the sun! It's growing and picking up speed as you watch helplessly. You start running through the chest deep water, feeling like you're hardly moving. You use your hands to give you more momentum but the water still weighs you down. All the time you keep taking peeks behind you, realizing the wave is quickly overtaking you. You struggle harder, and now the water is only waist deep. But then the wave crashes down on you, forcing you bitterly underneath the surface and you're swept around, feeling overwhelmed and as though you'll never taste oxygen again. You fight through it, refusing to give in, and eventually break free and emerge victorious, coughing up salt water and then raising your arms victoriously in the air! TAKE THAT WORLD! I SURVIVED!! RUAAAGGGH!

You and your friends skip off happily into the sunset.

End scene.

k, I know that was really lame. But kind of a good simile, ya know?

On to the good stuff!!!

Motivation or Boredom?

I know it's been much too long for this to be acceptable, but hey! Here we are! I can't quite explain the reason for this. It's one of the two in the title I think. Either I'm feeling extremely motivated to do stuff, or I'm extremely bored and therefore doing stuff.

Finished painting my room today! It looks good, but where the wall meets the ceiling, (I feel like there should be a name for that but anywho) there are spots where I missed. Most people I point it out to roll their eyes and walk away. But a tiny bit of the wall is white still and THE WALLS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE GREEN. Twitch. All I can look at are those stupid white wall-ceiling-cracks! It will be fixed. Otherwise I will go insane.

Here are my ten favorite pics from Cali... the order means nothing. I like them all for very different reasons.
























Yes, there are 11 pictures. Deal with it.

I Forgive You

Went to Green Lake with P House! It was a rainy, cool weekend but we still had a great time... a lot of it spent outside.

Of course there had to be an ice breaker... who would have thought something involving balloons could get so violent. This was Kira before the battle. Doesn't she look happy and peaceful?


This was Hannah after the battle. Please compare.


What transpired between these two pics? Two teams went up against each other. There was one person on each team that had balloons taped to them. There were four other people who tried to protect their own person and steal balloons from the other team's balloon person.

It was hard core.

People were rolling around on the ground trying to grab balloons and run them over to their person, pens were used to pop balloons, at least two people were bleeding at the end of it... it was pretty bad.

My favorite mental image was when I looked over and Hannah was huddled in the corner, clutching the one sole balloon we had left in her arms as if cradling her most precious possession.

Oooh babay! Look at that bokeh!


There's this huge tower up on top of this hill. There's 120 stairs to get up the hill, and then within the tower there's this cramped spiral staircase that goes up forever and ever. Just when you assume you'll never make it to the top... it takes five more minutes.

This is the hill leading to the tower.


It's a really pretty view... but through a wire fence.








Now they don't want this tower to be broken into so there's a key you have to get at the lobby which opens up the padlock so you can go in. Eric had the brilliant idea, when half of us headed down, to lock the rest of everyone in. Don't they look diabolical? This is us hiding quietly right around the corner so we could hear them but they couldn't see us.


Then Connor, who had the key, threw it so it was just out of arm reach, but still visible. Can you see it lying on the ground? It's there.


Some of us then played ultimate frisbee! I lost every single game (we played three). Of course, this was when we wanted it to rain and mother nature refused us.


Chris was pretty hard core. Very willing to dive and catch the frisbee.


Chris is my fav part of this pic.


Precious. As always.


I do believe this is Maria the stick girl.

Is That Your Friend?

So I think I might be a real estate major. But I figure I shouldn't declare yet, because as soon as I do I'm going to decide I want to be a... pet psychologist or a plummer or something.

We're not even going to talk about my absenteeism. I'll try to be better. See what's inspiring me right now is this guy named Peter Raisch. He spoke at an LRCR event all about social networking and it was awesome. So, I'm restarting twitter, restarting my blog, and about to join LinkedIn.

We have begun a hot guy wall. Flashback to freshman year... for more than just that reason.

I feel extremely lazy with only 13 credits. It's weird having free time. I don't know if I like it.

These are some of my favorite pics!










Starting out slow. Maybe my next post will be better. :) No promises.

Swing Those Mustard Hips!

Week "two" down! Surprisingly, we still haven't had a Monday of classes yet. Weird, right?

I tried getting a picture of my lecture halls but it just wasn't working out. I'm going to have to try harder in the future. Here's what I have as of now... this is at my Finance lecture. Someone said they were kind of afraid of the business lectures because they're like huge pits, and now that I take a step back and look at it, they really are kind of intimidating. I've just gotten used to them.


So real estate is kind of freaking me out. She said multiple multiple times, "There is a ton of math, if you don't like math, get out now." And although I'm ok with math, I'm not exactly an avid fan of math. Especially when I have Finance this semester as well.

This week seems to have been inundated with Pres House events, which can be daunting at times, although they are always fun. The major event of the week was the "Kickoff Carnival". We had sno cones, a photo booth, mustard bowling, balloon hats, marshmallow golf... the list goes on. It was a lot of fun. :)

Along with the mustard bowling, Hannah also had a mustard costume. Christy pretty much rocked it.


So if the name didn't tip you off, Mustard bowling is like bowling, only using (empty) mustard containers. Of course, there are other uses for mustard containers.


She would.


Then of course there were the balloon hats...








Then there was the marriage of the two... mustard AND balloon hats? Always a good idea.


And after 2.5 hours of doing nothing but socializing and eating sno cones, cotton candy, cookies, frosting, and lemonade... there was a lot of hyperactivity to wear off. Therefore dancing ended up going down. It really was a beautiful sight. Surreal almost.






Sexy, isn't it?


This is our upstairs neighbor, David.


On Friday, Mandy and her roommates were having a party. A huge party. There were 115 confirmed guests on the facebook invite. Way too huge. But, we felt obligated to go. Right when we got there they ran out of cups; they had already sold all 150 that they'd bought. So we attempted to go into the house. Let me tell you, I might have enjoyed this as a Freshman, but I am long past the point where this would be fun. There were hundreds of bodies packed into the dark (it was a highlighter/black light party) sweaty, smelly basement. Why are the images so foggy? Because it was a nice cool night outside, but when we went inside there was probably a 20 degree difference and my camera lens fogged up and we didn't stay down in the mess long enough for it to de-fog.






On the upside, Mandy showed us around her room/apartment that wasn't full of people and it's really adorable.