summer, etc.

Well since my mom is in Wisconsin for this whole month and my boyf is working hard, my days are quite boring.

To stay busy I:

• read


• lay out WITH SUNSCREEN (I am not interested in skin cancer)


• swim aka do "water olympics" which I made up when I was 9, they have been slightly altered because I used to have toys like hoops and those noodle things but they are long gone


• watch movies (yesterday it was Elephant and Little Black Book)


• take care of my high-maintenance pets: this requires sitting with my dogs to make sure they don't eat each others food and talking Garp for his bi-, sometimes tri-daily walk.


• make elaborate snacks


• hang out with Chris during the day

Starting Monday my boredom will significantly decrease, I will begin my new summer job, hopefully not as horrific as last summer's.
I am working at "Earth Camp" with Shreveport Green, at Walker B. Jacobs nature park (mosquitoes, poison ivy, snakes) with 7-10 year old kiddies. I'm a little nervous because I've never had authority over 30+ kids before, and I know nothing about what I'm doing... BUT I am excited because I get to do crafts and... I think it will be fun, we'll see!

There's a film festival at Robinson Film Center today/tonight. I want to go but me and Chris are both pretty broke and well, he has to work anyway. Blahh

OH I have some fab Andy Bloxham pics to share with my blog community... they aren't edited yet.

Here is one. and the rest will arrive shortly.

something cute:

Good Morning Starshine

The earth says hello!

Please notice the time of post.

I have begun a new routine of waking up super early to run with my dog. I've been up since 5:40... only now it's hard to go back to sleep so I decided a blog was an acceptable alternative.

Not quite sure why, but I am in a good mood. I think it has something to do with watching Scrubs last night. Scrubs is good.

Today is my dad's birthday! He doesn't like Scrubs because he says in real life doctors don't wear stethoscopes around their necks because it is impractical.

aand my boyf is returning home tonight/tomorrow :0)

things I feel like having:

Here is a basic list of things that I wouldn't mind having, and would greatly appreciate if anyone bought any of these things for me....

1.

The car, not the man

2.

Ok so I'm technically not allowing myself to have any new clothes. But I would gladly trade in one of my current t-shirts for this tote tite tee.

3.

This is probably one of the coolest bags ever to exist and I must own it.

4.

Miniature things are cute!

5.

Of course I need this.

Who says you need a record player to collect records?

6.

Shoes don't count as clothes.

7.

Need it!

I guess that's about it, pretty reasonable I'd say.

I foresee a new blog (perhaps tomorrow) featuring the random pictures I have saved on my computer for various reasons.

ways to be productive during the summer:

I just finished watching all The Hills episodes I missed during the school year... I like that show too much for my own good.
Does anyone else like it? I feel the need to discuss it and my dislike for Lo (even though I liked her during Laguna Beach) but my new love of Stephanie. Isn't Stephanie cool?

ANYWAY
today:

• watch a movie I rented from the library
• CLEAN MY ROOM, at least a significant part
• read a big chunk of AHWOSG so I can move on to the million other books on my list
• look through awkward pictures from middle school so I can show Tina and we can make fun of 12-year-old-me together

I love summer

noise

I'm sorry but why is anyone shooting fireworks tonight? Is it a special holiday? No I don't think... well.... according to my calendar it is "Armed Forces Day" but this really doesn't need celebration! I hate fireworks because 1) they're loud and annoying, 2) they scare my cats and 3) I'm afraid one will come zooming through my window and blow up my bedroom.

There are other possible explanations for the loud booming noises. It could easily be a giant monster terrorizing the city such as King Kong, Godzilla, or the Cloverfield monster (or something like them of course). I really hope not and I don't know what I would do in that situation, which is lucky because I'm pretty sure it's fireworks.

Oh it just occured to me that this could be thunder? Oh... right.
Well that is bad also! These storms are crazy lately. I am happy that I live upstairs in case the whole damn street floods again. I would probably miss my car... and surely I would need to run downstairs to gather the pets and bring them up here with me... but it's unlikely to flood all the way upstairs. That is just absurd.. Lizzie, you are being ridiculous, and you should just go to sleep.

yes, yes

I am going to H-town today. For you lame-os who don't know the lingo, that's Houston.
This means:
fondue at The Melting Pot
American Apparel on a budget
Urban Outfitters on an EXTREME budget
a new Swatch Watch (my end-of-semester gift to myself)
probably a lot of delicious feasts b/c Houston has good restaurants
fun fun fun
and above all, a 3 day escape from the troubles of SHLA

Also today I got a job, it's from June 2-July 25 working with tasty children doing outdoor things. After that, California here I come.
But we have a while to go.

hello

I'm gonna need my non-anorexic friends to update a little more frequently, so I can spy on your lives. It's reciprocity!

kthx

officially creeped out

After discussing Alan *. ***** with my acquaintances, I was forced to go back and delete his real name from my blog "NO WAY" just in case he ever does a google search for himself and finds me and rapes and murders me. This guy really is bad news, making his rounds through the parks, stalking photogenic girls with glasses.

This last week was the worst ever. I complain a lot.
I had finals. My Animal Behavior final was so completely horrible that by the end of the 12 pages, I couldn't remember if the word was "lost" or "lossed". I'm anxiously awaiting my grades to be posted, b/c if I failed this could put a damper on my life plans. All I have so far is A is Literature and the Environment and Environmental Studies (how the hell did I pull that off?), B in Statistics and A in Stats Lab. I'm expecting an A in Worldviews and hopefully hopefully a D in Animal Behavior!
Also I had one particular day where every little thing went wrong. I kept losing things/leaving things behind/dropping my entire box of tampons in the toilet.
My theatre banquet was "ok I guess", it's one of those things that you wait and wait for and get all dressed up and then when it comes it's just blah.
Also due to some difficult circumstances which were not under my control, I have been rather grumpy and angry at the world lately.

Oh Chris and I played cupid and set up our friends Jesse and Allison on a blind date. My intentions were not for them to act like such complete sluts, but eh it's whatever they want to do I guess.

But now summer is here! And I am ready to get over the horrible news which has kept me falling apart lately. Maybe I should sleep for a full day, then wake up, cry for a full day, then sleep for another full day and I'll be ok.

I think tomorrow I am going to a bridal shower and the BPCC theatre banquet. I just want to wear my purple dress.
TONIGHT maybe Chris and I are going to the Robinson Film Center.
Don't read this Alan, don't stalk me!!

FINALLY

Dear blog community,

I am done with all my hard finals. Now all I have is an easy one tomorrow, then I'm done for the summer.

Sorry for slacking on the bloggin, I know you all check this multiple times a day to see if I've updated.

Forch, I will probably have a fabulous blog tomorrow when I really am done.

Now hopefully I didn't fail Animal Behavior because that would really suck and screw up my life plans.

Sincerely,
Shizzie

I just typed this whole thing but it did not save

OK TRY AGAIN LIZZIE

I woke up at approx. 4AM and thought WHAT A GREAT TIME TO STUDY STATISTICS so I did.
I heard my mom wake up at 5:30 so I went downstairs to say hello/play with my rabbit and my poodle. I drank some delicious V8 Splash and took a vitamin because I always forget to take my vitamin!
This proved to be a horrible idea because after I decided to go back to sleep at 6, I was JOLTED awake and had to rush to the bathroom to projectile vomit my V8 Splash.
Later I was able to go back to sleep, this is the dream I had:

I was walking down Line Ave. attempting to walk toward Southfield but somehow I got completely turned around and was almost at Stoner when I finally realized I was going the wrong way. I was really confused about how I didn't notice that I was going the wrong direction. I saw someone I knew and told them about how I was disoriented. I was about to walk back home but she said "why don't you take the bus!" which happened to be RIGHT THERE (so convenient in dreams).
On the bus I saw Emily Birdwell, she told the bus driver to take me to my house. Not just my street, but my house. And Emily came with me.
While on the bus, or maybe while I was walking, I received a text message from Crystal that said "lizard dieies" which clearly meant that my lizard had died. (I don't know anyone named Crystal.)
When I got home, there was a party in my backyard and I had to step over people to get inside. I went to check on Oz, my lizard, and there were flies flying around his little cave. Then he started crawling around his cage and breaking into little pieces. I felt really bad.
I decided to take a shower, and Emily decided to sit in my bathroom on a nonexistent chair to look at magazines from my magazine tower (which isn't real). I kept having to go downstairs about 500 times to get shampoo because I kept getting the wrong kinds when I wanted "Massive Attack" brand. btw, I don't think that is a real brand and I certainly don't use it if it is. Why was my shampoo downstairs anyway?
Sometime around then I woke up, and I saw what appeared to be a tiny glowing alien pod in my dresser.

Then I went to get stats help from Dr. Weeks.

Now I am probably going to go back to sleep again after I watch this show about rescuing sea turtles on Animal Planet. They get caught up in barbed lines (for fishing) and sometimes they die.
This is awful and needs to be stopped. Sea turtles are far too cute to be killed like that.