Now that Christmas break is almost over...

Okay. How about I sum up the past month and a half as painlessly as possible...
Finals week- Finals suck, but most were easy. Leaving everyone for 5 weeks was harder. I like that there's no class, but damn. My life is at WKU now. Go home on Friday to make it to work on Saturday after Lynn begs me through Facebook. Was planning on staying Friday night to keep someone company, but BBW calls.
Week before Christmas- work nonstop. People are crazy. Some nights we didn't close until midnight and left the store around1;30 am. Nuts.
Christmas- Kick ass. Nice relaxing day. Chilled out with family and friends and drank some beer that my parents got me for the holiday. That was kick ass.
Day after... Work. OMG, worked a four hour shift from 1 to 5 and then back again at 10 til 4;30 am to do a new floorset. Nuts again. Then off to IHOP with a couple of the managers and my cousin. The waitress sucked ass.
Somewhere between X-mas and New Years- Lots of work, mostly work and sleep. Went to do the Hacienda thing w/ Audra. Mudslides are good shit.
New Years Eve/New Years Day- Worked an 8 hour shift then drove to BG for a New Years party. If it wasn't for Jon I probably would have stayed home. So that was good times. There were ton of people I had never seen before, but things got better. Had been suffering from cuddle withdrawls so that got fixed. Hell yes for that. New Years Day.. another goodbye and a long trip home.
Between New Years and Now - work has slowed, so its been a cycle of sleep, workout, guitar/ps2/whatever, dinner, movie, sleep with work mixed in there somewhere. I haven't had the urge to go out much. I've just been enjoying company from my parents and dog. So if you feel ignored by me this break, no worries, everyone is getting equal treatment. Somewhere in there I recorded a little stuff for The Pathetic Pool. Ridiculous shit really. Oh and my karate class got cancelled for the semester. Suck on it to however that happened.
All in All - It's no longer that I'm just bored and want to go back to school. No, I really need to go back. I miss everyone: you know who you are and the quirky reasons I miss you so much. People get so jealous when I say that I've had 5 weeks off. Well, the grass is always greener...I'm done working for the break so all I have to concentrate now is getting all my shit back together and finishing up a few things at home. 4 more days bitches...
P.S. It is definitely party time when we get back.

Turkey Day and other crazy shit

Okay, Thanksgiving break was a doozy. Went home on Tuesday night after the night class so I'd have all of Wednesday to do whatever I wanted. Ha, well, I was out most of the day. Did Wal-mart with Keri, ran to the library to work on some speech stuff, and then went to grab a few things at target. When I did come home, I got a lot accomplished. Not much in the way of relaxing, but it's all good. Thursday I went to the usual Thanksgiving lunch with the family and came back to work on more shit. Then Friday rolled around... black Friday. Scary shit. I walked in to Bath and Body Works at 7:40 to find we'd been open sice 6 A.M. That is scary enough. Lucky me, I got the task of filling the walls and tables that had the $5 special Wallflower sale. People were grabbing shit out of my hands. That 8 hour shift about killed me. The next day was more of the same, and by the end of the shift I thought my feet were going to detatch themselves because they were pissed. By Sunday, it was time to pack up and come back. It was definitely a short break.
Sunday night was a bit on the awkward side. I'm not going to go into a ton of details, so you'll just get the basics. Most of you that actually read know what's going on anyway. Here's the deal, Jon asked me out on a date. The situation is awkward because Jon dated Annie at the beginning of the year and both of us are her friends. I told her on Thursday night ( he asked on Monday night, but there was speculation that he might ask starting Saturday night). Well Sunday I knew she was pissed so I tried talking with her about the situation. I know we both tried to stay as calm as possible, but things were throw around and feelings were getting hurt. After we went full circle with the situation I went to bed in hopes that we'd discuss it again on Monday night. Well Monday rolls around and she comes downstairs to find Jon and myself sitting together watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with Kimi and Whitney. A really hurtful looks was given and then the door was promptly slammed and she disappeared up the stairs. I sat in the room completely drained for a minute. This situation was not what I had in mind, ever. Obviously I haven't given the complete story, but I'm just going to lay out my views/feelings/etc. Most of you know I have a difficult time communicating my feelings so bear with me please. The situation I'm in, crossing into a potential dating situation while reaching for anything to maintain a true friendship, wears on me. I've always been told that I'm bad about trying to please everyone. I understand I cannot do that, but I don't necessarily think it's a bad quality--especially in this situation. I'm not about to break my system to just go for an all or nothing situation. That is just ridiculous. You do that with shopping, "Oh, do I get the really bitchin' shoes and no sweet hat, such a decision." No, see, that sounds stupid, too (go for the hat). Anyway, I can find a way to compromise for any situation. But you say, "Why should you have to compromise-- it will only hurt everyone?" If there's no compromise, no one reaches any progress. So if compromise is what I need to do to hold on to what I have, then there's no question as to what I'll do. I realize I've written in fairly general terms, so I'll try to be specific. Bottom line: I want my friendship with Annie to grow from this situation. I want a shot with Jon. I want for there to be no doubt in my mind. I want to see some smiles again. Here's what I know: I know things have changed, are changing, and will change. I know this isn't easy. I know I will have doubts. I know it will take awhile to see those smiles again. But most of all, I know what I want.

Haaaahh holy shit y'all

Wow. Okay. This past week or so has been crazy as hell. I got back here after I got my hurr did. (shut up) It went over quite well. I really like it. Granted, it's gotten quite a bit lighter since I did it, but it's still good. But the entire week was crazy... if I wasn't studying for tests and shit, I'd have something else going...such as kicking Jon's ass in 1080 snowboarding. Thursday I actually woke up on time for my Chemistry test so hooray for that. Thursday night was a nice turkey dinner in fresh food. Good shit right there. Friday night I went with Whitney and Jon to go see the new Harry Potter, which kicks ass by the way. Then that night we went over to PFT for whiskey whiskey Friday with Hubbs, thus began the weekend blitz. That was a good deal of interesting. Then we crashed in on Annie at the station for a bit. Saturday was just a big ball of fun. We were all excited because it was the last night that Chris would have a party for the semester (gotta get all serious for finals and shit). So it was a blast. Find some pictures at the picture trail. We all pretty much felt like shit on Sunday so it was a mission accomplished. Thanks Chris for having kick ass parties!
So this week (2 days of class) is just chill for me... no tests, nothing really. So I was just doing my rounds online here and I made my usual stop at the Howie site. Well, I found some new tour dates...holy shit, Howie's gonna be in Nashvegas the weekend we were planning on going anyway. I read on a bit further to see it was the Acoustic Christmas with Natasha Beddingfield and Switchfoot hosted by 107.5 The River. Too bad the only way to attend the show is to win tickets. Well, we switched on the radio today and listened in for chances to win. We tried a couple times and decided to go to dinner and be back for the chance at 6:06 to win. Well, we hear the cue and Kim, Whitney, and myself all whip out the cellular devices. We're all redialing like crazy and then Kimi's eyes light up... apparently the phone was ringing. Her mouth drops open and hands me the phone. WE FREAKIN' WON TICKETS! Holy hell. So this thanksgiving I'm thankful for Kim's phone service. I'm about to piss myself by the way. Howie, acoustic, small show, FREE! Kick ass. Until next time...

Comin' home

I'll be headed home Friday and coming back to WKU on Saturday. I know it seems weird that I'm going home for only a day and just a couple weeks before thanksgiving, but I HAVE to get my hair cut and dyed. I kept my nasty ass roots growing out for my Halloween costume, and I'm tired of the blonde thing so it's time for something new. I will get a chance to hang out with some of my people back at home for awhile so that is good too. I'm definitely uber excited little miss "I'm engaged" Katie since I haven't seen her since, damn spring break I think. So I'll see some of you at home tomorrow and Saturday; others, I'll see you when I get back. Be on the look out for the new hair color, too. Until next time....

Most ridiculous things from surveys and such...EVER!

Okay, I started out motivated when I came back from broadcasting but I got side-tracked in there somewhere so I started filling out stupid surveys to figure out everything about myself...haha yea whatever, right. Anyway here's some highlights of what I found today...

My pimp name = Pimp Mama Skillz

My Inner Hair color = Pink (Hyper, insane, and a boatload of fun.You're a traveling party that everyone loves to follow. )

My Ideal Career = Artistic (You are expressive, original, and independent.Your talents lie in your artistic abilities: creative writing, drama, crafts, music, or art.) You would make an excellent:Actor - Art Teacher - Book Editor Clothes Designer - Comedian - Composer Dancer - DJ - Graphic DesignerIllustrator - Musician - Sculptor
The worst career options for your are conventional careers, like bank teller or secretary.

My Hawaiian Name = Okelani Kamea (I expect to be called only by this name from this point forward.)

The type of rocker I am = Chick Rocker. You're living proof that chicks can rock. You're inspired by Joan Jett and the Donnas And when you rock, you rock hard(Plus, you get all the cute guy groupies you want!) Hell freakin' yes I do

My monster name = Hungry Demon
You Feast On: Pickles. You Lurk Around In: Flocks of Freshmen. You Especially Like to Torment: Republicans

My rejected crayon color = spousal abuse blue

I share my musical tastes with Kelly Clarkson

What kind of candy are you? = Reeses Peanut Butter Cups
Very popular, one of you is not enough

Type of food I am = Thai Food. Trendy yet complex.People seek you out - though they're not sure why. (hahahahahhahahahahh I'm not too sure why either)

The (apparent) keys to my heart = You are attracted to good manners and elegance.In love, you feel the most alive when things are straight-forward, and you're told that you're loved. You'd like to your lover to think you are loyal and faithful... that you'll never change. You would be forced to break up with someone who was emotional, moody, and difficult to please. Your ideal relationship is lasting. You want a relationship that looks to the future... one you can grow with. Your risk of cheating is zero. You care about society and morality. You would never break a commitment. You think of marriage as something that will confine you. You are afraid of marriage. In this moment, you think of love as something you thirst for. You'll do anything for love, but you won't fall for it easily.

In a past life I was... An Evil Cannibal. Where You Lived: Ontario. How You Died: Consumption.

I will die at Age: 82... You're stuck with me for awhile bitches

I am: 30% left brained (logic and shit) 70% right brained (creative and flexible)

What kind of puppy am I: Husky puppy. Sweet, affectionate, and docile.But when you see a cat or chicken, it's kill kill kill!!!

What crappy gift am I: A crappy Christmas sweater. Over the top, colorful, and totally flashy.You're not afraid to be a little tacky.

I'm a Type A- Personality: You are one of the most balanced people aroundMotivated and focused, you are good at getting what you wantYou rule at success, but success doesn't rule you.When it's playtime, you really know how to kick backWhether it's hanging out with friends or doing something you love!You live life to the fullest - encorporating the best of both worlds

Extreme sport I should try: Sandboarding

My celeb sisters: Mary-Kate and Ashley (no joke) Funky, eccentric, and offbeatYou're not a good girl or a bad girl, just a weird girl. (As Trixie I don't claim them)

Haha I need to work on a paper now. I'm gonna compare Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" to Drop Dead Gorgeous. Until next time...

Best Idea EVER

Okay, I just want to rave about the best idea that's hit our room to date. So a dorm room is our home for a good portion of the day. We can't burn candles or burn incense because that would just be too horrible for anyone to deal with... in other words, stupid people did stupid things in the past to bring about stupid rules like these. Anyway, people will try anything to keep the room smelling fresh, from extravagant room sprays to those cone looking room deodorizers. Sure, those work, but who wants to smell tropical citrus all the time, especially when it gets mixed with a tangy room spray? Not us. This is where the best idea ever comes in. We continually run a fan in the room to have air circulating constantly. Hooray for fresh air right? Now, what we do is tie two little strips of a washcloth to the fan's outer cage. This is entertaining as well, you know, little towlettes dancing about all the time. Fun shit. Back to the point: we traveled to Wal-mart and headed to the gift sets of fragrances... not just any fragrances--men's cologne. We purchased a gift set of three 1 o.z. cologne bottles, including Gravity, Aspen, and Preferred Stock all for 9 bucks. Hell freakin' yes. All we do is spray or drop a bit of the cologne of choice on the flying towel pieces and Shazaam! A heaping pile of sex platter all over the room. We repeat this process twice, maybe three times a day. It kicks so much ass. Plus, if you really want a little boost, get your body pillow and splash a bit of that on there. Naps have never been better. Until next time...

Weeken update

Okay, Friday was the 5 hour trip to the mall with the bitches in 602 just so Annie could find a dress for a wedding. She found one, but wants it to fit a little better, so I'm now her personal ass-kicker. I'm not gonna go all nazi on her or anything, but I'll get into it. My deal is that I do whatever she does. The elevator is broken to her for the next month so I'm a stairs only kind of person. I just remind her of the episode of Friends where Monica is Chandler's personal trainer--I'm not that bad. If nothing else, it should be fun.
Saturday was the NSCS induction for Whitney and me. I think everyone pretty much fell asleep. My parentals came down to watch and then we went out to eat afterwards. Then it was camping time. The four of us went out to beach bend campground. It was a bit on the ghetto side, but we could handle that. My dad sent us firewood which lasted a whole 2 hours. Whooo. Firemaster Kim kept it going pretty well most of the night though. At one point there was about 8 people there and we were just joking and having a good time and all of a sudden this lady comes up in our area and says "is anyone here an adult...of drinking age, because I have no problem calling someone!" My immediate response (besides what the hell) was "Call the po-po ho! I ain't scared of no po-po!" She just assumed that we were underage kids coming out to camp and get wasted. That was not the case-- A) there were 5 of 8 of us that are all over 21, and 2) NO ONE WAS DRINKING YOU WHORE! So she walked around and called in license plate numbers for no apparent reason. Keith Urban got pretty fired up and took the father role trying to get this lady to chill out and be reasonable, but she just chose the dumb redneck route. No one ever showed up to "bust" our party. We were ready for someone to show up too. I was planning to pass a breathalizer and offer the po-po a smore or something. Dumb assholes. Later that night Phil climbed a tree for more firewood, some drunk people on a golf cart gave us firewood, and then it stormed hardcore overnight. All in all, bitchin' trip. You know where you can find pictures.
When I woke up, Annie told me that her Mom saw that there was a tornado that hit back home in e-ville. I went to get my phone to find a voicemail. It was Chris letting me know the same news as well. Thanks you guys for passing that message on, I really do appreciate it hardcore. So I call home to find that my parents didn't even know about it, but it pretty much destroyed Ellis Park and parts of Newburgh. Sounds like everything is okay back at home, I'll be coming home this weekend to see some of the damage, well, that and get my hair cut and dyed. That's all for now. Until next time...

Giant update

Ok let's start of with the Halloween extravaganza. Thursday night we went out to the first Halloween party for the weekend at Chris's. I was under the impression that more people would be dressed up, but to see keith urban dressed up as a metro-ninja was good enough for me. The four of us were all pimped out in our costumes, though. I decided thursday was gonna be the drinking night for me since the other places I was planning on going would probably get busted. So that night was fun. I got ragged on because I missed a lot of the party though. Hey, don't give me crap about it. By the end of the night we had stacked a plastic bench with two stools on top of sleepy Wes's head and drew fun things on his face. Find pictures at http://www.picturetrail.com/mojowku325.
So Friday I decided to go ahead to class even though I think I got 4 hours of sleep, tops. Oh well, I looked like hell, whatever. Friday night I was supposed to go to college suites with jennifer and james but I never heard back from her as to where and when the party started. I don't really know what happened there, but I did end up at College suites... granted it was to pick up a slightly drunk Ghostbuster, Jon. Kim went out on a date that night... and we didn't see her again until about 24 hours later. Haha, good one.
Saturday was Phil's party. I was hella excited for this one because I knew a lot of people would be dressed up. It was indeed a lot of fun. I handed out my (trixie's) business card (which i strategically placed my cell number on) to some of the man folk at the party. That was a lot of fun. Everyone for the most part was dressed up and having a great time. I engaged in a candy necklace eating contest with annie, in which we competed to see who could get the candy eaten off their necklace the quickest... well, hers disappeared faster than mine, but i had a bit more of a variety of those chomping on the necklace. I call it a tie.
Monday, Halloween is kinda old by this point but that doesn't stop us. We had the bright idea to borrow annie's ladybug costume so i could wear around the neighborhoods and go trick or treating. haha, that's right. I put a bunch of glitter on my face and the costume on a ran for it. jon drove while whitney and kim laughed their asses off in the car while i ran amok (hocus pocus reference there). I scored enough candy to split 5 ways. it was sweet.
Wednesday and Thursday sucked ass. I had a speech on wednesday, which i was readily prepared for but several things went wrong in my presentation such as my audio failed to work in places, i stuttered, and i forgot to pass out picks at the end of the speech. somehow, however, i pulled a 199/200 on the thing. ha, whatever. anyway, i studied the rest of the day for my chem test and broadcasting test set for thursday. I get to bed around 3 after studying, joking in 602, and watchin some viva la bam with the bitch. I hit the hay and wake up at 9;50... 25 minutes after my chem class started. fuck, i just slept through my exam. so i run to class only to find that everyone had assembled in lab. I track down the sub for the day and he instructs me to go ahead and do the lab and contact my professor. as of now, no answer. worst case scenario--he inserts my lowest test grade (88%) in that slot and i have to take the final, which wouldn't be terrible, but it's 50% of the overall grade. screw that shit. so then i take my bcom exam, not terrible, but definitely room for improvement. got back to do econ, shower, eat and then head out to chris's to watch episode 3. so we watched and then came the time for me to finally let him know where i stand with our dating situation. i had come to the conclusion that we have fun together, but i couldn't see a connection strong enough to last and turn into a long term sort of thing. we tried, and i really enjoyed hanging out with him and all, but i've never found that connection to someone that i really seem to be searching for right now. i really felt awful because he is one of the nicest guys i've dated/met, and he has some really great qualities, but i couldn't find that connection. so i came back to the dorm feeling pretty lousy so i picked up my guitar and had some therapy time.
on a brighter note, we're going camping tomorrow after my shitty national honor society induction thing. i'll get to see and eat with the parentals and then it's campin time. granted it's only 10 minutes up the road, but hell its all cool. p.s. if you are in the bowling green area, feel free to call me and i'll give you some directions to where we'll be at. oh, and some more really kick ass news... my girl katie and her boy brian are now engaged! holy shit and congrats to that! and after not seeing her all summer (actually, i dont think i've seen her since spring break) i'll get to see her next weekend when i go home to get my hair cut and dyed, which i'm super psyched about. okay, well i'm gonna try to update more so i can give it all to you guys in smaller bites. i'm not much to read a whole bunch of rambling myself, so i can understand if these long ass posts are frustrating. so i commend you for reading this entire message. you should go get a cookie. until next time...

Trapt concert and other shit

First and foremost, I suck at updating, but then again you all suck at comments so I say we call it even. Anyway, last Thursday was the Trapt concert. Dan came in town around 3 and we chilled around the dorm until about 5 when we (Kimi, Whitney, Dan, and myself) stolled down to Diddle to get in line. I anticipated a line forming at around 3 or so, because damn, it's Trapt and they just released a new kick ass album recently. Well, we arrive and there's no one in sight minus 103.7 The Point trailer that's blaring music. The doors are locked, but someone meanders out of the building and I sneak in. The guys from the point said we should probably head back outside before someone came by and clubbed us or something. Back outside we went to take a quick lap around the building. When we came back there were a couple kids playing hackey sack by the doors so we decided to just park it for 2 hours since the doors weren't set to open until 7. So at 7 the doors open and somehow we didnt make it to the front of the line and were in the second row in the floor. Aphasia, whom I'd never really heard of took the stage at 8 and rocked out for 30 minutes. We were right in front of the really cute guitar player who played barefoot, not to mention the angry asian drummer--he kicked bunches of ass. I reaaaaaally liked their set. Next up, a set change before Blindside. A dumbass couple excused themselves to stand right in front of me. Not cool, I'm short, yall know. I tapped them and explained this set-up was not going to work so they let me in front of them, but not for long. Blindside hit the stage and the crowd went nuts. The guy next to me kept jumping up and down and running into me, so I got a few shoves in. Blindside was okay; their sound wasn't perfection and I think it might have been a bit too much for my taste, even if I really like their song "Pitiful". So for further annoyance this couple stood in front of me once again while the crew set up the stage for Trapt. My short fuse kicked in again so I told the guy again, this would not work. He left after a couple minutes, but his girlfriend had snaked her way up on the rail and remained in place. After a few persuasions by Kim to elbow the girl in the head, I decided to take a different approach. So tapped the girl and explained that I had been in line since 5, and I didn't recall seeing her there at 5. I told her I came here to see Trapt and I'm going to be on that rail. I scared her enough to gain my spot on that rail. Trapt came on and kicked much ass. People were moshing and crowd surfing all over the place. It was insane. Dan ended up getting pulled in to mosh and dropped while crowd surfing. I came out of the show pleased and barely a voice.
It was rumored that Trapt would be coming out to sign stuff so we stuck around for a bit. While roaming around to figure out where merchandise was being sold and where the band might set up I spotted the cute guitarist from Aphasia behind me. I turned to him and congratulated him on an excellent show. I headed on to buy my merchandise and spotted him and the drummer again on the wall. I bought their cd so I asked them to sign it and had a quick conversation with the entire band and compared tattoos. Whitney snapped a quick pic with the drummer, guitarist and myself and we got in line to meet Trapt. Got to meet the band and they all signed my shirt. It was by far the best 11 bucks I've spent here at Western by far.
So in the past week I've made a rather major decision about my college career. My original plan was to major in mass communications and minor in marketing and possibly english. Well, this Econ class that I'm in right now has been kicking my ass hardcore and I just don't enjoy it. After reviewing the requirements for a Marketing minor, I saw that I needed several classes that were really gonna suck if I hated this Econ class now. So I made the decision to drop the marketing minor and replace it with an English (writing) minor. I think I'll be much happier with this decision. Classes this semester haven't been all that hard, but they've been much more demanding than I expected. It's getting a bit stressful, actually. So I'm definintely looking forward to the weekend because I'm gonna get a bit of my "me time". I haven't had all that much this semester, because I really haven't needed any. This weekend is due for some me time though.
In other news, I finally shot some stuff for the show PFT last night. I got to wear my dress which I lovingly call my "whore dress". I'm pretty excited to see how it turned out. It was a lot of fun, I guess mostly because I'd never done anything like that. I'll let you all know when it shows. Ah, well, I think I need to get on studying for Econ since everything isn't completely clear to me just yet. I'm updating pics from the Trapt concert so check out my picture trail at http://www.picturetrail.com/mojowku325 and until next time...