I love the days when I don't wear underwear. Full commando!

I have two episodes left on my Glee DVD. I'm so sad. I need to figure out when the next DVD set comes out, because I am OBSESSED. However, according to bn.com, it won't be available until September 14th. What?!? Gahh must have it NOW. I guess the next solution is just keep on checking the TV Guide to see where Fox is in the re-runs.

I'm not going to lie, way back when, when the Times-Picayune TV reviewer was talking about upcoming fall shows, and he mentioned how much he loved Glee, I read the article and I thought, OK, I love music, but this just seems so far-fetched! How could it work?? Well, they made it work.*


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Also, am in love with Puck.


*Tim Gunn? Anyone?

So Fresh and So Clean

So it’s going on about five days now. Five days that I have made my bed. You see, I’m not the best at keeping my room tidy. As in, I never make my bed. And I have a tendency to try on half my closet while getting ready to go out, and then neglecting to put the rejects back where they belong. And letting my clean, folded clothes sit around, until they, too become scattered around the room. And gosh, my desk. For once, it’s just my laptop, lamp and other essentials, and not 500 pieces of papers and pens cluttering it up.

And I’m going to try to keep this up. I do feel somewhat calmer without stuff everywhere. And it really is just stuff (although I have such a hard time letting go with any of it!).

However, I cannot vouch for my room at school starting in August. That’s just a whole ‘nother story.

High Skool

Yesterday I had a hankering to find my senior yearbook (mainly to tally up how many girls are in sororities - 21 out of 40, fyi), and then I got distracted looking at our senior candids.

My friends Shelby and Hannah wrote the caption, and they truly deserve an award. If I had a computer scanner I would put it here, but alas I don't. Just picture me, in ugly glasses, as a book nerd. That really is all.

But anyway, what I REALLY wanted to share from high school was this. I was cleaning out my room over the weekend and found a bunch of papers from my senior year Creative Writing class. There were truly some gems. Honestly, I crack myself up! I think this is from the 'free writing' session we'd usually do at the beginning of class.

"Honestly, why is there a tree in the classroom. Next thing you know, another one will pop up; soon after, the whole place will be a forest. We'll be trying to learn with woodland creatures underfoot. And then one of us will be eaten by a bear. It'll probably be me, because I'm slow and have no street smarts. I always though that I would rather die by bear than alligator or crocidile, since I am absolutely terrified by those, But I'd probably die a lot faster. One chomp and you're gone. A beat most likely would rip me to shreds while I'm still alive."

What! Why? Who knows...

And then there was a list of things that was wrong with my life at the moment (gosh I can be such a Negative Nancy). I'll spare you most of the idiocy, but the last item on the list: "I'm wearing an ugly, oversized bowling shirt!"

Hahahaha, glad that was included. Thanks, high school me!

PB & J Cookies

So last Saturday night I got bit by the baking bug. Which was really weird, because I'd just gotten home from eating my weight in lebanese food, but who knows. Actually, I'd spent the better part of my afternoon poking around We Are Not Martha (love this blog!) so guess I was in the creative, baking mood.

So I made these simple Peanut Butter and Jelly cookies, from Joy the Baker. Now, I bookmark a lot of recipes, and rarely do I get around to making them. But ever since I saw these sometime last week, I just couldn't get them off my mind! And there's so few ingredients involved, that I couldn't not make them.

So here's what you need:


From L - R: Raspberry preserves (although you can use any jam, jelly or preserves you want), peanut butter, an egg, sugar and baking power. See? Very simple ingredients.



The peanut butter and sugar are beaten together (which was rather difficult, damn sticky PB).



And then the egg and baking powder was added. Yummm it's starting to look real delish!

So after much licking of the beaters (cue me feeling sick but it was so worth it) I scooped out the dough onto the baking sheet, which was interesting, since the dough was so crumbly and had to be rolled into a lil' ball.



And then I got to stick my finger into it (hence the term thumbpring cookies)...



And spoon on the jelly!



Out of the oven!



And about to go in my mouth...

So that was my Saturday night. Makin' cookies while listening to the Beyonce station on Pandora. Pretty sweet, eh?

"So ... read any good books lately?"

Lame-o line. Don't say this to people at parties, they'll think your lame. Unless it's like a librarian party or something.

BUT. I have read a lot of good books lately! I am so lame, in fact, that I look foward to summer vacation as a time to read for fun! Something I definitely do not do enough of during the school year.

I'm even keeping a summer reading list, just like we would have to do in school! And I'll share it at the end of the summer! So (stupid) cool, right?

Here's a poem that I wrote in the fourth grade. Yes, I have it memorized.

Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high!
Oh, how I love them,
Oh, how I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

We can't die tonight, I'm wearing my mother's underwear!

Last night was a good night, my friends. It was the night that I found my Grease 2 DVD!

About a year and half ago, I thought it missing. I was devastated. Couldn't understand, how could I lose such a precious item?? And if someone had stolen it from me - who would take such a bad* movie from me?!

But last night, I got the hankering to watch Heathers. And what do ya know, inside the case is not just the Heathers DVD, but Grease 2!

It's the little things, people. Finding a long lost DVD, that was pretty much the best ever.

*I admit, it's pretty bad

I did it!

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This afternoon, I bit the bullet ... and I bought the Glee DVD!!

After several drunken promises to buy the DVD the next day so I could get prepared to start off on the right foot next season (including after a particularly moving moment in which Jordan almost got down on her knees in shock after hearing I'd never watched this show*), it took a text from Hannah that John Stamos will be on it sometime next season!


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Oh, John Stamos, my love. So glad you're working on television again, but let's face it, not everyone gets to go see him on Broadway in 'Bye, Bye, Birdie' (cough, Julia, cough).

So when it arrives in the mail in 2 to 6 business days, I will watch the first episode and discover what all the fuss is about. Can't wait!

*What does this say about me, that everyone is so surprised? I guess the tag of musical theatre freak never truly fades ...

Why?

I'm sick. An unfortunate cough. Made even more unfortunate by the fact that I'm taking the LSAT tomorrow. Why?! I must be being punished for something. Only logical explanation.

Although, this way when I make a not-so-hot score, I'll have the excuse of "Well, I was coughing so painfully that I couldn't possibly concentrate on all those reading passages..." or something like that.

Happy Day of Rest!

Hey, Hey Daddy!

The LSAT is on Monday. I'm kinda sorta freaked out.

I can bring a quart sized ziplock with an assortment of things including my number two pencils, a small snack, and photo id!

Gah. Why did I decide to take this on again?

Go youtube Usher's "Daddy's Home." Classic.