Excessively Long Spring Break Synopsis

My two week spring break in Fayetteville was lovely.  My most common activity was eating at restaurants.  I pretty much dined out for every meal.  I've never really done that before, and I was surprised at how expensive it became.  I arrived in Fayetteville on Tuesday afternoon, I went straight to The Papaya to get my eyebrows waxed which is weirdly one of my favorite things ever...seriously.  Wednesday I had lunch with Tuesday Julius.  We ate at Feltner Brothers.  I had the best corn dog of my life and we split a basket of chili cheese fries.  We decided to walk off the food by exploring all of the houses right off Dickson Street. It was a lovely adventure. Then I went to the mall to find a green shirt for St. Patrick's.  FAIL.  Apparently green is not popular; however teal, turquoise, and robin's egg blue are quite the rage. But I ran into my bestest westest friend Rebekah Mann, who was there for a haircut.  I ended up buying a white shirt.   Thursday was lunch with Kate Sbarra at Common Grounds.  Yummy.  Then we went to Wal-Mart where I bought green dye, four ramekins, and a blow torch.  Went home to dye my shirt then I hung out with Corie Dawson and Rebekah for St. Patrick's.  Friday I went to Wilson Park with Nellie Beall.  But it was not park weather; it was cloudy, cold, and windy.  We sat on a blanket, wrapped up in blankets.  We had a long entertaining conversation like always.  Then I went to the mall with Staci Coston and then to Kara Moore's Birthday at Red Robin.  I love their campfire sauce.  Everybody's most used quote was "Can we get more campfire sauce?"  Saturday I went to my Dad's where I learned that Digger Bees exist and make tunnels in the ground and that my Dad's back yard has an infestation, they looked like overgrown anthills.  It looked like his yard had chicken pox.  Then Kyle Jones took me on a bike ride out to Lake Wedington, it was very pretty and fun. Then I had steaks at Staci and Corey's house.  Delish as usual.  Then went to a belated St. Patty's party at my friend Stephen and Brian's house.  

WEEK #2

Sunday, MY BIRTHDAY.  I woke up, walked into the hallway where my mom jumped out in front of me and excitedly told me happy birthday.  Then lead me to the dining room where she brought out a chocolate cake with candles and sang happy birthday and let me open my present (Vera Bradley Weekender in Lemon Parfait...super excited to use it).  So, I knew it was going to be a happy birthday since I had chocolate cake for breakfast.  Went to a new church, Grace Harbor. Kyle is on the praise team there so Staci, Corey and I went to support him.  One of the friendliest churches ever.  It felt like a family and that is what I think church should feel like. Then they took me out to Johnny Carino's for lunch.  I asked for crayons and the kid’s game menu so I got to play while I waited for my food.  Then I went home and made Crème Brulees.  It was very tasty.  Here are some pics of the torching process.

Me in Mom's awesome Robo-Cop glasses. Safety first friends.

Then I went to Small Group that had a St. Patrick's theme.  I had corned beef and cabbage for the first time.  I love cabbage.  Monday...I have no idea, I'm sure I did something.  On Tuesday Staci and Corey invited everybody over and we had breakfast for supper.  So good!  Then we played Rock Band and Dance Central.  Then I drove home. (Here is the sad part of the blog)  When I got home I noticed my window was cut. Then I realized my wallet was not in my center consul, then I realized my gps was not in there either.  So I had to call Arvest, and then the Police.  I had to tell them everything in my wallet.  (Here is the saddest part)  since I had just had my birthday, I had a lot of gift cards in there.  So the thief pretty much stole all my birthday presents.  Doesn't that just sound so pitiful?

This is the cut.  I had just gotten this soft top in December.  

Wednesday: Nelle and I drove to get me a new driver's license and then to the bank where I had to close my account and open a new one.  I more annoyed at the hassle this has caused me then the fact that my stuff got stolen.  I don't like the idea that people feel entitled to the things that I have worked for.  Lame.  Then I had dinner with Libby at Farrel's. So good to see her. She is seriously the busiest person on the planet.  Thursday I had an eye appointment, when I was leaving the office (the one in the mall, next to Lens Crafters) I managed to trip over the coffee table, knock it over along with the centerpiece made of candles and rocks.  The rocks managed to go into the hallway of the mall, a leg of the coffee table fell off, I was on the floor saying "I BROKE YOUR TABLE! I'M SO SORRY" while trying to pick up the rocks. I was so embarrassed.  Then all of the Lens Crafters people came over to see what all of the commotion was about.  Then I had to assure the doctor that yes, the contacts he gave me were the correct prescription.  Then I went to Devil's Den to go off roading with Stephen Baccus and his friends.  I've never really taken full advantage of having a jeep wrangler. It was a lot of fun. I let the boys drive my jeep when we got in too precarious of situations (which was pretty much the whole time) but they did make me drive in the beginning and taught me about 4 wheel drive high, 1st and 2nd gear.  It was very exciting and educational. 

Here is Lil' Jeepie properly muddy after the day's excursions.

then I ate dinner with Corie at La Huerta and then I went bowling.  Did not do so hot in the beginning but almost got a turkey.  That would have been so cool.  Friday I had dinner with Corey and Staci, because Melissa, Drew and JP were in town.  It was good to see them.  I'm glad they are moving to Fayetteville, but I'm sad they won't be so close to me anymore.

Saturday I watched way too much HGTV with mom and then went to Cafe Delta Soul which is a catfish/creole/steak/burger place.  I was kind of nervous because usually catfish places serve frog legs and I have made an oath that the next time I'm at a place that serves frog legs I would order them because I've never had them before. I was relieved to find that this place did not.  I had the jambalaya instead. Sunday I went to first service and then to a Ladies Class that I really enjoyed.  Then a group went to Ruby Tuesday for brunch.  It was very tasty.  Who knew.  Then 12 of my sweet friends surprised me with a $250 gift card to help pay for my wallet, gps, and window.  I almost started crying, but I didn't want to because I HATE crying in public, so I didn't let myself, but it was hard not to.  I did cry on the way home. It is nice to know i have such generous, thoughtful friends.  Then mom and I did a little shopping, then I packed, went to Dad's for an hour and then drove back to Little Rock. I'll try to blog more often so the lengths of these blogs stop being so ridiculous.  Thanks for reading my blog if you made it all the way to the end! 

  

Spring!!!

I love all of the seasons.  I'm always ready for the next one to come.  Summer because of going swimming and wearing shorts, not wearing shoes, catching fireflies, shooting off fireworks! Fall because of all the pretty colors of the trees, stepping on crunchy leaves, the way the air smells, wearing boots.  Winter because of snow, getting to see my family over Christmas, opening presents, getting to start fresh with a New Year.  But the season that I hold dearest to my heart is Spring.  I am more ready for spring to come than any other season.  The first day of Spring falls on my birthday (March 20th).   People like to argue with me and tell me that the vernal equinox is on the 21st, they are mistaken.  I would know, it's my birthday people.  My birthday also happens to be during Spring Break every year.  Happy Birthday to me.  This year my last class of the week has been cancelled, therefore my spring break will start Tuesday the 15th at 10:00am and end Sunday the 27th.  That is 13th days!!  If I could have it my way, I would ship all my friends to Miami (Where I spent spring break '08, and was by far the best spring break ever!) but that would be a bit expensive, so instead I am going to ship myself to Fayetteville for 13 days.  Happy Birthday to me.  Here are some things I am excited about:
1. Seeing all of my friends!
2. Staci and Erin's bakery to make me some tasty birthday cupcakes!
3. Having my mom feed me 3 square meals a day with snacks in between!
4. I love my mom.  So does everybody else because she's awesome. SHOUT OUT TO MS. GAIL!
5. Making a birthday wish!
6. Having Tyler King sing happy birthday to me because it is obvious he sings it from the bottom of his heart :)
7. Drew and Melissa are pretty sure they are going to have a girl.  I'm pretty sure that with their genes combined, God could quite possibly make the prettiest girl ever.  She is going to melt Drew's heart, you just wait.
8. Ivan and Ariel are having a baby girl in April.  I know for sure that I am going to think she is the prettiest girl ever. I'm going to be an aunt and that's pretty cool.

Overall, I like Fayetteville much more than Little Rock. But LR has Fayetteville beat in two areas.
1. The Weather.  It gets warmer here faster.  The grass is already green and the trees bloomed a couple of weeks ago.  Also, it stays warmer waaayyy longer.
2. The police.  LR Police have much bigger fish to fry than catching people going 10 over the speed limit.  I'm not a big speeder, Lil' Jeepie can only take so much, but it's nice to know that I don't have to get nervous when I pass a cop like I do in Fayetteville.

I deserve a nice pat on the back because I have been doing ALL of my assigned reading for the past two weeks.  Which is A LOT!!! With that note I must go.  It's 11:30 at night.  I am going to make some scrambled eggs, and finish my reading for the day.  I should blog more often.  I never think I have anything to write about but I am obviously wrong from the length of this post.

On March 20, 2011, at precisely 7:21 P.M. EDT (March 20, 23:21 Universal Time), the Sun will cross directly over the Earth's equator. This moment is known as the vernal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere.  
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This and That

I don't really have anything exciting to post about, but since it has been a while, I feel rather obligated to post something.  I spent the weekend in Cotter.  It was fun and delicious.  I am always guaranteed amazing feasts whenever I visit the Hurst Household.  I spent my time there stripping off wallpaper from walls, eating, painting hallways, playing mario kart, eating, laughing at jokes all of the boys made, asking where Jordan went, and eating and trying to get little JP to say "Earl". It was a success and I plan to go back in a couple of weeks.
The weather in Little Rock is lovely.  It almost feels like sandal weather so I gave myself a pedicure today.  I also thought I should do a little spring cleaning, so I put biore pore strips all over my face.  Speaking of spring cleaning, I still need to clean my room.  Every post I have written so far mentions me needing to clean my room.  Maybe when I'm old and on my death bed I will be able to post something about my room being clean.
I have found a renewed love of eggs.  I eat them all the time.  Scrambled, fried, omelettes, hard-boiled, bird-in-the-nests. Love them.
My sister sent me a lovely bouquet of flowers for Valentines day.  They are beautiful.  They came with a HOT pink vase so it spices up my room quite a bit.
One of my new favorite songs is Jealous Guy by John Lennon.  My family listened to his Hits CD during Christimas break a lot and now I youtube that song all the time.  He is a whistling Rock Star.
When it snowed here, pretty much half of my apartment complex got into a massive snowball war.  It was intense.  Me and my roommates actually ran into a strangers apartment so we could seek refuge from the fight.  We caught our breaths and then ran for our lives.  Those boys have good aim and can run fast.  My apartment complex may be on the sketch side of things but they definitely know how to take advantage of the snow. That is all I have.
Arielle

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