Bucket List

I'm tired of someday wanting to do this. Why not now?

1. Go on a road trip.
2. See the white cliffs of Dover.
3. See some blue ice. (It's freakin awesome if you didn't know)
4. Hold my breath under water for a minute.
5. Go to Argentina.
6. Pet a sloth.
7. Attend a good concert.
8. Put a sugar glider in my pocket.
9. Run a mile in under 5 minutes.
10. Design a T-shirt
11. See Peyton Manning play in Colts arena.
12. Hold a picket sign.
13. See (and maybe shake his hand) President Obama.
14. See an olympic game.
15. Go to Africa.
16. See a constellation and know what it is.
17. Jerk.
18. Type over 100 words per minute.
19. Make all A's one semester.
20. Go on a mission trip.
21. Holi festival.
22. Finish a sporcle quiz without cheating. (DONE)

Ohh bang bang

The Olympics are here and have brought with them me not wanting to do anything productive. But that's probably not because of the Olympics... I don't usually enjoy watching winter sports but how can you not? Vampire diaries isn't on until march and the office has been postponed because of the games (which frankly makes me a little angry!) so there is little else to choose from! I really enjoy curling but many people... cough cough my roommates think that the sport of scooting a rock is boring! What? Curling MAKES the Olympics, its makes them!

Anyways, spring break is coming up and I would really like to go on a road trip, where? I'm not sure, someplace different and fun. It's not often that I travel, honestly it's never when I travel but I would really like to change that! America is full of some of the most interesting places in the world and I would like to get a taste of that! ha, ideas anyone? For the three people that occasionally read my blog maybe you can enlighten me! For now, this is all.

Valetine Schmalentine

So keeping warm from the freezing cold weather outside has done nothing to thaw my feelings toward Valentine's Day. In fact, it's done the complete opposite. Myself and most single people in the world feel that this terrible holiday was made for our own personal torture. The paper mache hearts and cupids only serve as a grim reminder of the desperate search for a significant other. Okay, so maybe I'm being a bit dramatic but the sentiment is still there!

Apart from of course work, my weekend is looking pretty dull, oh wait, that should include work... I'm planning on going home and getting my new computer, joy. Maybe this one won't be a complete piece of crap! Word to the wise, do not buy dell and do not buy through staples.

Looking Forward

Apart from lack of sleep, constant hunger, and the permanent layer of snow and ice on the ground school is going pretty good. I work a lot and it doesn't leave me a lot of time to be lethargic. And I really enjoy lethargy, a lot.

It's currently snowing big fat snowflakes and I'm counting on classes and Wednesday's accounting test to be canceled. I need some time to chill out. To put my feet up and enjoy a good book, eat a vegan friendly meal and laugh. Maybe that sounds really stupid but it's what I need most in my life right now.

And now to go off track a little bit, I want to speak about the impending release of "Percy Jackson and the Olympians." I'm sure people have heard about the movie coming out but they may not know about the series of books that it is based on. If you haven't read them I would highly encourage it. I'm almost done with the second book in the five installment series.

The book follows the life of a boy named Percy who's father is Poseidon, god of the seas. In the book, the ancient Olympian gods still live on a mobile mount Olympus that is stationed over the Empire State Building. Oh and Hades is in Los Angeles, go figure.

Going green?

So everyone talks about the benefits of going green. What does green actually mean though? Eating green, living green, buying green. There simply can't be a way to buy everything "green." I recently made a drastic diet change to veganism. While it's quite possibly one of the hardest and most challenging tasks I've ever done I'm proud to say that I'm making one small change to help the environment.

The effects of going green...

I don't really like talking about being vegan because I feel like people's perception of who we are is so skewed that they don't know what to do with that
information. The conversation always goes something like, "oh you're vegan? so that means..." "yeah, it means that I don't eat anything with dairy, meat, or any animal product."

I think that people conceive us as these mindless pushy hippies who are trying to get people to agree with us. Maybe it's because of the notion that milk doesn't kill the animal, rather it saves them from infection and a lot of pain. However it's so much more than that. I'll spare you from pictures of animal cruelty but I encourage anyone reading this to take the time to search up some information for yourself, you be the judge.

I don't think that everyone should become vegan, that's not the point, plus it's a ridiculous notion. I do however, think that if people were to consume less meat and otherwise overly processed food a person's individual carbon footprint could be drastically reduced! Calculate your carbon footprint with this link below:
http://www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx

Okay, so I'm getting off my high horse now. I'm hoping that maybe I'll get some comments?? haha have some sort of modern public forum with a really cool discussion. Anyways, please follow!

Superbowl Sunday

Hey, so who knew? Today just kind of crept up on me! Usually when my beloved colts even come near the superbowl I'm breaking out my jersey and wearing it with pride. This year, I don't know what it was, but I had no interest. I don't like to admit that because I consider myself to be a die-hard Manning fan. Die. Hard.

Even with my lack of interest, I'm still going to forecast my predictions for today's game. Of course I believe that the colts are the far superior team to the saints. Manning is one of the best quarter backs ever to have played the game, not to mention a sense of humor most should be jealous of.

Random Findings on the Internet

Okay, so hopefully you're not drunk and reading my blog but if you are maybe this house looks normal. It's called "The Crooked House" and it's located in Sopot, Poland. It's pretty cool looking but it kind of gives me a headache just looking at it!

Here are some more random fun facts and bits of random information that I've found:

1. If your throat tickles, scratch your ear.Here's a better way to scratch your itch: "When the nerves in the ear are stimulated, it creates a reflex in the throat that can cause a muscle spasm," says Scott Schaffer, M.D., president of an ear, nose and throat specialty center in Gibbsboro, New Jersey. "This spasm relieves the tickle."

2. If you're like most people, when you run, you exhale as your right foot hits the ground. This puts downward pressure on your liver (which lives on your right side), which then tugs at the diaphragm and creates a side stitch, according to The Doctors Book of Home Remedies for Men. The fix: Exhale as your left foot strikes the ground.

3. "If you're giving a speech the next day, review it before falling asleep," says Candi Heimgartner, an instructor of biological sciences at the University of Idaho. Since most memory consolidation happens during sleep, anything you read right before bed is more likely to be encoded as long-term memory.



Isn't this the cutest thing ever!? I really would like to have one of these so that I can scare people with my ice cubes!

Fun with Friends

We decided to have one last group picture before we came back inside! We were freezing and soaking wet from the sleet!



We tried to have fun even though the weather was beyond terrible!

Time for some photos

Today I woke up around 8 am. I always hate getting out of my bed but today was especially hard for me. When I looked outside I was immediately blinded by all the snow that covered every place I looked. I ran into the living room and checked my email only to discover that classes ALL day were canceled! I cannot even remember the last time ASU canceled a whole day's worth of classes. You can imagine how happy I was to just be able to climb back into my warm bed and sleep for a few more hours.

Today was filled with laziness and yet very fun. It's only 10:40 but I'm beyond exhausted! Playing in the snow and then taking countless photos and making videos with the coolest girls in the world!! The branch in the picture became victim of the incessant sleet fest that is going on outside the window and has been for an entire day.

Hopefully things will get better soon... I could really use a day where I don't have to wear 1134587 layers just to be able to stay warm here on top of the mountain.

New facebook?

So whoever uses facebook, which I'm sure almost all young people may have noticed a change on the website recently... After a recent total change to the networking site, they've changed everything about it again. While somethings are easier including photo upload which allows you to browse facebook while they upload in the bottom corner, some are going to take some serious getting used to. The creators have completely overhauled the home page! The search bar, applications, and online chat option are all over the place. Some people haven't yet felt the change of the new facebook and one can only assume that the change will happen in a trickle effect... yay.

Snow! (and nasty sleet)

Public Forums are so much fun and sophisticated... says who? Says everybody of course. I'm currently editing photos from today's most recent snow storm in my snuggie watching the Fun Run episode of the office. I don't even know what to blog about. I wouldn't want to read this, so why are you?