Sunshine makes the world a happier place.

I just got back from another great weekend in Fayetteville.  It was a spur-of-the moment decision to go.  I decided to go Thursday morning and left Thursday afternoon.  I'm addicted to Fayetteville and I need to wean myself from its awesomeness.  Some of the highlights of this weekend were laying in the beautiful sunshine at Wilson Park with Nellie Beall, seeing Hunter Buwick, going on a motorcycle ride with Kyle Jones, helping Jordan Hurst groom himself, and going to Fast Lanes with my fun friends.

I haven't posted in awhile, so this post might be pretty random.  

One thing I really like about my class schedule is that I don't have class Wednesdays or Fridays.  My goal is to use those days to catch up on homework.  Hopefully I'll be diligent, but I doubt I will.  One of my fortes is being a procrastinator.  

I went to the Little Rock Public Library last week.  There was no free parking so I had to pay five dollars. Lame. I applied for a Pulaski County Library card.  While filling out my paperwork, the librarian was telling me what all I could do with my new card.  Apparently I can check out 200 library books out at one time, seems a bit excessive, but I guess it's handy to know.

I stared a new budget for myself online.  Mint.com. It's pretty cool.  It's completely safe.  It looks at your bank statements and tells you where most of your money is going. It also helps you create goals and tells you how to save to reach those goals.  I feel like a grown up.

Illness came knocking on my door last weekend.  I would like to say that when my immune system opened the door, it gave it a swift round-house kick to the face and yelled "Get off my property" while holding a shotgun. But instead, my immune system was very polite and invited the illness to stay for a couple of days.  Thankfully it was only a cold, and I'm feeling much better.

There's a new health movement coming about that I'm totally going to try.  It's called No-Poo.  Its all about not using shampoo anymore because shampoo is bad.  I'll produce more info on another post.  I don't plan on doing it until I run out of my stock-pile of shampoo anyway, so it's going to be awhile.  

My room is STILL MESSY!! uuuggghhh.  My major goal this week is to clean my room.  I have to, or else I might go crazy.....crazier.

I think it's time I invest in a new umbrella.

Well congratulations Fayetteville on yet another snow day.  All we got in Little rock was an obnoxious wintry mix that did diddly-squat.  It was sleeting/blizzarding/raining on my walk to school.  The sleet was light enough so that the wind would blow it up under my umbrella and pelt me in the face.  Then the wind blew so hard, it turned my umbrella inside out AND THEN my umbrella broke off of the pole and blew away down the sidewalk.  So I ended up running down the sidewalk with my umbrella pole trying to catch the actual umbrella. I'm sure I was quite the entertainment for the people waiting at the bus stop.  Needless to say, by the time I got to class I was soaked.

 My room is a mess so I'm trying to organize everything, so I can make more room.  I've realized that I have way too much makeup.  I have three different containers.  I don't know how I have accumulated this much over my short time of wearing makeup.  One container is for makeup I never wear, the second is for makeup I sometimes wear, and the third is stuff I wear regularly. I went through all of the containers making sure they were there for a reason.  I came across a foundation from the first container that was five times too orange.  I will never be that color, and I hope I never become that color so I threw it away.  I'm sure you're thinking that if I have a container of makeup that I know I never wear, why don't I throw it all of it away?  I can't. I feel like I might need that silver glitter gel or blue mascara or lime green eyeshadow someday for Halloween.  That is how I am with ugly/weird clothes; I keep them just in case I need them for a costume in the future.  That is also why I have a hair crimper. Yes, you read that correctly.  I have a hair crimper that has come in very handy when I've needed to dress up from the 80s.  All in all, I didn't throw much away, but I did find a lip gloss in my first container that I really like, so it got promoted to the third container.  It was like finding a 5 dollar bill in my pocket.

I'm Back!

Okay!!! So as most of you know I already had a blog, but it was a secret blog.  So, I deleted it!!! Don't worry, I did it on purpose, and I saved my posts on my computer.  I wanted a blog that everybody could read.  Besides, I'm an extremely private person and my previous blog was very personal.  But I really loved blogging; it was way more fun than I imagined it could be.  My life is going through a weird phase right now, so I feel like I have some interesting stories. Also, since I am in the lonely city of Little Rock, blogging lets everybody in Fayetteville know what I do on a day to day basis. Now with my blog being out in the open, people can follow me publicly!  I'm really excited about that aspect of the blog, it's like having groupies.

Now on to my story:
Last night I came back to Little Rock from my 5 week (MUCH NEEDED) vacation in Fayetteville. I was really stressed in the beginning of December.  Grad School was getting ridiculously busy and my roommates are crazy.  One of the things my roommates and I tend to disagree on is temperature.  I prefer a chilly indoor atmosphere to a stuffy indoor  atmosphere, but if we are talking about outdoors I want it to be summer all year long.  Anyway, I like it to be on the cold side, because if I get cold, I put on a sweatshirt. If it gets too stuffy, I freak out. I either strip off as much clothing as possible (while still keeping an appropriate level of decency), run out side, or run to the fridge and stand in front of an open freezer.  I can't handle it.  I feel like throwing up or passing out.  My roommates must be frigid icicle aliens because no matter what the temperature is, they are cold.  One lovely fall day last semester, I go back to my apartment after class and the heater is set to 82 degrees. That is silly, so I turned it down to a reasonable 73.  Since then, I have fortunately kept my vent shut.  Apparently my roommates took advantage of me not being home for 5 weeks, because when I walked through the door last night it felt like Death Valley.  The thermostat was set to 90 degrees!  Not only that but the oven was wide open turned on to 400 degrees!  My apartment was literally turning into a furnace.  Even though my vent was shut it was still warm in my room. So warm, that last night I slept in shorts and a tank top, no blankets, the ceiling fan on high, and my window open even though the outside temperature was in the 30s.  Crazy.

Ok. That's it.  I'm glad to be back in the blogging world.  Follow me publicly so it will make me look cool.
Arielle