Trick or Treat!

Current mood:	ecstatic
Current music:	Here Comes The Rain Again, by The Eurythmics

Well, the state of agony has come to an end at last! I asked Jason to the Christmas banquet by fashioning a "fake" transfer menu thingy, as seen here:

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. -Benjamin Franklin

Christmas Banquet Menu

David Aaron Peter Tyler Caddy Beisner Jason (Circle desires “toppings”) Bought attire –OR- Rented stuff Tuxedo Sneakers T-shirt Dress Jeans Spandex Bow Tie Shorts

Name Please:

Available upgrades: v $1 extra for Boutonniere for you v $1 extra for That was mean v $0.50 extra for Forget & Disregard that :)

Granted, the fonts and spacing are a little funkified here, so it doesn't look exactly as it should, but believe me - it was hilarious to see everybody's face when they saw it. (BTW, the quote at the top really is on the top of the actual transfer menu, I just never noticed it before. haha) I had sized it and cut it out to be the perfect match of any normal transfer menu... and it drove me nuts in the process! I printed it out four times before I got it just how I wanted it. Anyway, I circled Jason's name, along with the supposed toppings "tuxedo" and "bow tie," and gave the slip of paper to Peter to put up with all of the other orders. When Jason came to work, he saw it, and right as I was beginning to think he was hiding away in the kitchen, he came out to where I was sitting with a plate in hand and said "Your order's up, Sherry" - at which time I looked at the plate, and BOOM! there it was:



I laughed, it was so awesome! So yeah, afterward Michelle and I took some pictures, this one being on her lovely bedspread, lol. This way I can keep the memory but not have to keep the mayonnaise around to rot, lol. Lucky Jason gets to keep his and show it to people in all of its amusement. But now mine's immortalized in film, so yay for that! I'm happy. So now I'm going to go do the homework I couldn't concentrate on earlier, hah. G'night, my loves. ^_^

P.S. After wearing our dresses (and my cape) all day, to classes and all, Michelle and I went trick-or-treating to Woodlee South (where we got mostly tricks in the form of used boxers, garbage, and containers full of mold growths that apparently have names, being "pet" mold), the Fendrich household (now THAT was amusing - Caleb coming to the door, slamming it shut, and then both of them coming again to the door once we knocked again, this time with weapons... and candy ^_^), and then Eric's house, weeee! Anyway NOW, I'm really going to go do homework!

Baby carrots with rosemary... HAHA, yikes!

Current mood:	devious
Current music:	Did My Time, by Korn

Yay for last night! Went to Peter's house after dinner and watched the rest of Saikano (which turned out to be so incredibly depressing that even Peter wasn't sure he could handle it, lol), and then I got him started on Fruits Basket. I figured he'd probably die from cuteness overload after the first episode, but he actually lasted through two and thought it was maybe pretty funny..... so we'll see how he likes the rest, perhaps today. Anyway, after that, I made my way back to campus and went with Sarah to rent some horror movies from Blockbuster for our Dingograhaween. We ended up getting A Nightmare on Elm Street and Rosemary's Baby, neither of which scared me. The latter was actually more on the freaking WEIRD side than scary... and now I don't like old people. Thanks a lot, Roman Polanksi.

So after the movies, we went to sleep...... and Sarah got up around 10 to go to church, so I got up with her. Apparently, I was talking in my sleep last night, and I hope none of it was understandable, seeing as how I was dreaming about a BOY *gasp*. Actually, it was a hilarious dream, now that I look back at it. The guy comes out of Woodlee and I'm up on top of the small hill (??) that is the Triangle - why the Triangle is a hill in my dream, I'll never know, save that it resembled my front yard a good bit. Anyway, he walks out, and I'm sitting with Bethany Perseghetti and Matt Smith, and we call to him... so he comes up, and I pretty much cross my arms and scowl at him because I'm upset with him. (Anyone who was at the dinner table with me last night knows who I'm talking about.) Some side notes: I distinctly remember a box of Life cereal beside me, which is quite amusing... I guess I've been eating too much Life lately if I'm starting to see the box in my dreams!! Plus I just finished my box yesterday, so that might be the reason. Weird, no? Man, if I see the infamous "him" today at lunch, I'm gonna.... well, probably just gonna cross my arms and scowl like in my dream. *sigh* I talk big like I'm going to kick some tush, but all I really ever end up doing is glaring.

***EDIT***
I never get tired of this.

Herman's Hermit

Current mood:	discontent
Current music:	Forsaken, by Disturbed

I am being a recluse and a hermit today! I'm not leaving my room, not even for lunch... until dinner, at which time I'll feast on the *coughNOTcough* wonderful cafeteria and then make my way down to Peter's house to watch the last disc of Saikano with him. And then I'll go to Sarah's room and have our Dingograhaween, watching horror movies till the wee hours of morn.

But for the moment, I am sad. Do not ask me why. I'd not be able to tell you. Well, I suppose maybe I could offer some contributing factors, but yeah.... I feel strange, like I'm alone even though I know I could probably find something to do with someone today if I really went looking for it. Maybe I'm just in a weird mood cuz I just finished Fruits Basket (and I always get kinda sad when I finish an anime series, cuz it's over *tear*).

Good news, though. Peter did, in fact, come up to visit me after all and brought Tyler with him! Although Jason didn't come, I was disappointed but not surprised; when I had invited him, he said he might come and, as I've learned from my other guy friends, that generally translates to "no, I'm not coming, but I'm not going to say no cuz I don't want you to cry or hurt me or something." *sigh* Boys. Ah well, back to the story. Tyler left a while afterward to visit someone else, and Peter and I just watched AMVs (anime music videos) while my roommate, her boyfriend, her sister, and then the momentary Matt and Amy watched Corky Romano. Eventually, Peter and I decided to go down to the house and watch some anime - and his choice was Saikano - so we watched two of the three discs last night.

Anyway, today is my day of seclusion. A day that shall consist of nothing but homework, sleep, and anime... until tonight, that is. In its own right, I suppose I will remain in seclusion to a certain extent, right? After all, I'll only be with one other person at those times, and doubtful that anyone else will see me. Either way, I'm done babbling about it here.

Isn't it ironic?

Current mood:	bored
Current music:	Blue Dress, by Depeche Mode

Since no guys are coming to my room for open dorm AS USUAL, I'm messing around on my compy in utter boredom. So here:

Your Haloween Costume Should Be

A Bumble Bee

What Should You Be For Halloween?

This is ironic, given the events of Halloween my freshman year.... Becca C. knows..... HHAHAHAHAHA and I have pictures!


...and then we have...

You Are 25 Years Old

Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe. 13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world. 20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences. 30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more! 40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.

What Age Do You Act?

*HAPPY TEARS*

Current mood:	jubilant
Current music:	Time Of My Life, by Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes

Tony surpised Dayna by showing up and proposing to her at 10 AM this morning!!! Everybody who has been close to the two of them gathered around and watched it all happen.. and, of course, I cried. It was so sweeeeeeettttt!! I'm going to make Matt send me copies of the pictures he took, lol, at which time I will post a few of them here.

I would go into the details of last weekend - finally - but... I'm not going to cuz I'm just that lazy. And I want to watch anime till lunch. I was going to take a nap... but like I can now!!

Postal-service-y goodness!

Current mood:	excited
Current music:	Flamboyant, by Pet Shop Boys

Checking my mail has never been so exciting!! I opened my box, and what was waiting for me? A package slip -- signifying the LONG-awaited arrival of my Pet Shop Boys' "PopArt: The Hits" CD from the UK to home to school -- and my paycheck from the one day of work at McMennamy-Nafziger over Fall Break. Money and two discs of sweet-A music. Suddenly life if making a turn-around. Funny how that works, no?

I think in music videos.

Current mood:	thoughtful
Current music:	TNT For The Brain, by Enigma

A friend of mine once said, "I think in lyrics." After some random thought, I realized that I think (or, most often, daydream) in music videos. I see random 'clips' of memories in my mind and I can almost at times hear music with it. Weird, I know, but it is quite so. Maybe that will explain why I usually feel the need to have music in my ears wherever I go.

Anyway, I was thinking today in the cafe about something. I don't know why exactly, but I was extremely sad after dinner. I felt like my heart was being crushed in a vice, and for what reason, I'll never know. But that led me to ask why. Why God made me to feel with my heart like I do. Why I feel so deeply, no matter what the feeling may be. I have yet to gain a complete answer, but through the thoughts of a friend I was brought to understand that at least it isn't always a bad thing. All people have the capacity to feel this deeply, but they simply shut off that part of their heart. Perhaps this is true, but it doesn't make me feel any less abnormal for it. Oh well, that's just one of my thoughts for the day.

Anyway, I'm going to try to go to bed before 2 AM for a change, so I'm going to go nurse my foot (I opened the lounge door on it and got a lovely, deep bruise across the side of it) and get ready for bed. G'night, my friends. As always, it was a pleasure.

Eh.. *shrugs*

Current mood:	blank
Current music:	Wanna Be Startin Something, by Michael Jackson

I'm back at school... just in case anyone was wondering where I went, though I highly doubt it. Some interesting stuff has happened, as well as some uninteresting stuff. I am only ever so slightly depressed today for some reason, and I'm physically ill. Last night my head was hurting so bad I cried. And today.... yikes. No headaches, but lots of other trouble. Apparently, my digestive system was not ready to come back to cafeteria food! And I don't blame it. But yeah, I've been feeling kinda funky all day. Just a little update, and now I'm back to work/play.

Reality bites.

Current mood: hopeful


Current music: Just Like Heaven, by The Cure (haha, yep ~_^)

No really. I just realized that it's Thursday, my break is more than half over, I'm working tomorrow from 8:30 to 4 or 5, and I still haven't done the whole unpacking-my-summer-clothes-and-repacking-winter-stuff thing yet! Plus, several different people are vying for my time and attention before I go back to school and I don't know what I'm going to do! lol Anyway, it's all good. I just have to make some executive decisions... which will probably be made during the hours of doing nothing at work but waiting for the phone to ring, lol. (geez, I hope I remember how to do everything, now that I think of it...)

Mom and I went and saw Just Like Heaven, and it was a much needed chick-flick-fix! I loved it. I absolutely loved it. And I don't care what anybody else thinks, mwahahaha. Seriously, though, if anybody doesn't want to see it in theaters but wants to see it at all, I can assure you that I'll be buying it as soon as it comes out on DVD. Tonight - actually, in an hour - both my parents and I are going to see Flightplan and then eating dinner at Olive Garden (yaaaay!). If Flightplan is as good as I'm hoping it will be, then I will have a three-days-of-awesome-movies streak, weeeee! Here's hoping.... and now I'm off to the shower!

Where There Is Faith

Current mood:	thoughtful
Current music:	Where There Is Faith, by 4HIM

It was a restful weekend, the perfect start to a wonderful week of Fall Break. I've still got a great deal on my mind, but at least now I have the time and the extra brain space since midterms are, for the most part, over and I don't have classes for a week. I now have the time to sit and reflect on the most recent happenings all around us. We are surrounded. Surrounded by disaster and death. Every time I flip on the TV, more people are reported dead. Hurricanes in the southeastern US, mudslides in Guatemala, the deadly bird flu in Asia that may become pandemic, earthquakes in Pakistan killing thousands... So much death all at once. Sometimes it is hard not to despair, but then I think back on all of the wonderful, Heaven-blessed things that have also happened recently. I mean, one thing that has remained in my thoughts since the beginning of the semester is the fact that a good friend of mine named Adam has been able to be here (at Bryan, that is) with us all this time -- all because of a great donation made by a relatively poor man who took the money out of his equity loan. As long as people like that still roam the earth, I have hope. I only pray that I might be even half the person he is. I see pain and suffering everywhere I turn, but the fact remains that God is with us. Always.

P.S. Tomorrow's the date with Jared ^.^ -- and don't worry, Christina, I won't tell you how Serenity ends, I promise. LoL

Shopping list (cuz if I don't put it here, I WILL forget by the time I get back to school):

4x6 index cards

winter baby clothes (cuz Andrea's due on Jan. 27th!)

flour tortillas

grated cheese

hairstyling gel

Thorn In My Side!

Current mood:	disappointed
Current music:	The sounds of Beth, Michelle, and Christina studying in here

So I found out the hard way, after rushing through Escaflowne and wasting 20 minutes of my life trying to find the right channel downstairs, that House did not come on tonight... -_-. Why me? lol

You guys, I think my blood hates me and is trying to escape!

Current mood:	curious
Current music:	Claire de Lune, by Claude DeBussey

Seriously, though... not only has my foot exploded inside, but I now have a couple bruises on my legs, and I just found another one this morning on my right forearm! And I really don't know where they came from. o.O So yeah, I think my body is gradually exploding.

P.S. What, whaaat??

A Walk To Remember

Current mood:	ponderous
Current music:	Pretear OST

Actually, not just the walk across the field, but the entire weekend was very memorable. On Friday, I did the whole recitation of Shakespeare for the Homecoming Court Talent Show in chapel... and although I messed up on the fast stuff, everybody loved it! According to everyone I talked to, the messing up made it even more funny. So all was well. ^_^ Then of course Andy, Michelle, Kim, Peter, Matt, Blaschke, and I went to Hamilton Place to see Tim Burton's Corpse Bride - which was, by the way, freakin awesome!! Peter says it was the first romantic comedy he liked. LoL. I also came to the conclusion while I was watching it that I am the Corpse Bride. I am Emily. (Cue the line: "I love you, Victor... but you're not mine.")

Anyway, after the movie, we went wandering around downtown Chatty, eventually crossing the walking bridge... and right before that, we were looking at the view from a part of the Hunter Museum, and suddenly I felt an excrutiating stinging pain in my right foot, on the side of the pad right below my big toe. I was freaking out (silently, so as not to upset the group) and wondering what got me, especially in light of my last little run-in with tiny painful insects. Did I ever tell the ants story, btw?? Remind me if I haven't yet. Anyway, I kept it to myself and only told Andy at first, so we kept walking over to Coolidge Park - and then Jared called me, so I talked to him for a while as I walked ^_^. We had such an interesting conversation going, as always, but then we're about to get back into Andy's car, so Michelle was all like "you're not going to talk to him in the car, are you?" *sigh* I was actually already saying goodbye reluctantly to him, so that was kind of another jab in my ribs, but oh well.

When we got back to Dayton, we went to Peter's house for a while and played Mafia and talked with whoever was already there, and I actually officially met the younger Fendrich brother now residing at the house - Drew. Well, when I was sitting on the couch, I looked down at my foot and saw that the part that had been stinging so badly was PURPLE!!! That was when I found out what really happened. A blood vessel that ran across the bone at that part got busted.... so pretty much my foot 'sploded!!!! OW. It still hurts when I run into stuff (obviously) but I have no trouble walking, so it's all good. I guess. It's gross to think about though, hahaha.

Saturday was one big, long blur. Got up and went down to the soccer field to rehearse the half time Homecoming Court walk, went back to my room, napped for 20 minutes, showered, dressed, went to Christina's room to get my hair and makeup done, then went to the Student Life building (cuz we had to meet at 1:45 to ride down to the field). We stood out in the hot sun and sweat to death for the first half of the game (haha), walked out at half time, then left (or at least I did). I went down to Peter's house so he could see the dress and stuff, then I changed down there, came back up and ate dinner in the cafe, then hung out with Michelle, Kim, Ashley, Adam, Laura, Katie, Michelle (yes, a different one), Joe, Adam's mom and sister for the rest of the night - playing Apples to Apples. ^_^

Today, I went to the Hunter Museum with Heidi and Becca to get in my first fine arts critique event, since it's due by the 7th and I definitely won't be able to do anything in Atlanta before then. Then we went to Clumpie's and I got CHAI ICE CREAM in a waffle cone! CHAI ICE CREAM!!! OOOOH, it was soooo good. Be jealous, Mom! lol jk ...but yeah, so then when I got back to my room, I collapsed into my bed... and fell asleep. Didn't wake up in time for dinner either, not that I mind missing Sunday dinner EVER. *gag* but David missed it too, and when he told me he was going to eat mac n cheese and I expressed interest, he totally brought me some to make too ^_^. Yaaaay! And now that I have recounted the events of the weekend and kept you all out of the dark, I go to do homework. This week is gonna SUCK, what with midterms and all... but that will make the next week that much better! O Fall Break... wait for me! lol

By the way, I've got something on my mind, and it's making me very sad, so just pray I either find someone to spill my heart to or get a big hug from, or at least that somehow I won't slip into another depression over it. Don't worry, it's not about me, it's just that my heart is breaking for someone else... ;_; Pray for their heart more than mine, actually.