Sooo Busy....too much to do before Saturday....I know I'm getting coal in my blogger stocking, but I'll update ASAP!

I Just Woke Up...

Because my Christmas break has officially begun. Yahoo! No more class or tests for a month. I'm so pumped!

In other breaking news...

MY PCAT SCORES ARE IN! My composite score was 83. That is 3 points higher than the average score of applicants to UAMS last year. I'm so relieved.

I'm so ready for Christmas! My sisters from Colorado are coming to visit and we're gonna have tons of fun. On Monday I'll be starting the Christmas baking extravaganza. I'm working up all the plans right now. Since I'm on break I can do a lot of hanging out with you Little Rock folk too. Yea!

Busy As a Bee

I don't think I could have crammed anything else into this weekend!

Friday:
I started the day with off with a five hour super endurance Christmas gift shopping spree. It was hard, but I'm glad to only have 3 gifts left to purchase. Later on I met up with Brooke and company at Reno's Argenta Cafe (her cousin's new restaurant). I had a fabulous sandwich and some very tasty potato salad. Then we went back to her house to play card games and throw back some beers.

Saturday:
I decorated the mini-tree that I purchased while I was out on Friday. I think it is so cute. (It's color coded of course, cause that's just how I am.) I even bought two little stockings for Blue and I. Since we don't really have a real mantle, I just hung them on the tree.

Sunday:

Blue woke up with the worst flu ever, so I took care of him most of the day along with studying for my upcoming finals and cooking for the Survivor party. I made southwestern chicken salad in corn tortilla cups and a chocolate peanut butter tart (see below). The dessert turned out really well if I do say so myself. It was the first time I tried the recipe. It's definitely a keeper. Thanks again for hosting Karl and Kat!

As I mentioned, I've got finals this week. I have one on Mon. and two on Wed. (one of which is my cumulative Organic Chem final (stinkey to the max!)). I've been procrastinating on the studying, so I'm probably gonna get stressed out and am likely not to post again until after the tests on Wed. Till then...

Just a Taste...

Well it snowed here in C-town, but we don't have much to show for it (see pics below). To me, this is just a dusting of snow. I mean come on, the streets weren't even affected. I'm used to waking up to 3 feet of snow from my time spent up North. But hey, beggars can't be choosers. I'll take whatever I can get at this point. So, if you have snow where you are, go out and play in it!

Let the Baking Begin!

Now that the PCAT is over, I'm ready to dive into Christmas preparations. I'm in charge of baking the Christmas cookies for my family's celebrations this year. I'm planning on doing a big tray of several different kinds of unique cookies in order to create a fabulous presentation. The only problem is I have a list of 11 different kinds of cookies and I can't decide which ones to cut. I need your help. They are listed below with a photo of each. Let me know what you think looks good and what you think I should leave out. Yea for Christmas!










Maple Pecan Thumbprints....................................Cranberry Orange Cookies










Creme de Menthe Truffles..............Gingerbread Pumpkin Bars










Chocolate Vanille Creme Cookies.......................Fig Swirls










Elf Bites (shortbread squares w/
colored sprinkles in the dough)........................Cherry Rum Ribbons













Chocolate Peanut Butter
Shortbread.........................................................Almond Wreaths

Vanilla Walnut Shortbread Sticks

Ahhhhh! The PCAT (re-test, those jerks) is tomorrow!

Don't you just hate getting attacked by the post office?

I was out running errands today and stopped off at the post office. As I was walking in, somehow my hand hit this large piece of metal sticking out near the door. Man, was it painful! It was one of those moments when there is a loud sound and everyone turns to look at you, so you have to keep a straight face and carry on about your business so people don't think you are a clutz. My eyes were watering as I tried to keep myself from yelping in pain. Then I got to go stand in line for ten minutes while the ugly bruise to your right developed on my hand. No fun!

On the sunnier side, another one of my errands included picking up some pictures from some old 35mm film that I found the other day. Turns out it was like 3 years old. Along with some pictures of a trip I took to California and Halloween from two years ago was the picture of Mozart shown below. I'm still laughing! Its a wonder PETA hasn't tracked me down and started protesting outside my house for all crazy things I make this dog do.

Mozart Phone Home!

The Things We Do For Love...

So, me and my trusty old Toyota Camry spent the latter part of the evening towing Blue's car behind us through the streets of Conway. He was out doing deliveries tonight when he called me at around 9:30 and told me his car had broken down (he drives an '82 Nissan 280ZX). He then proceeded to convince me to come and meet him (he was at a gas station on Oak street for those of you who know Conway) and have me tow his car home with my car. I don't know why, but I agreed to it. He tied the cars together with the webbing (flat, rope-like stuff that I used when I used to rock climb) that I brought, and then I proceeded to drive through the town with a dead car in tow. It took about 30 minutes for us to get home (about 1 mile). I know you guys who are reading this probably think this is no big deal, but I'm not used to doing weird stuff with my car, so I got a little stressed. Luckily, we made it home in one piece. It's either the alternator or the battery. I guess we'll find tomorrow when he shows off his mechanic skills. Boys!!

Shhhh! I'm blogging in class!

Thanksgiving break was fabulous. I'm still eating Thanksgiving dinner. (My mom sent me home with about 50 pounds of left-overs!) We did the usual dinner thing on Thursday, and then we went to see Harry Potter that evening. Like everyone else has already said, it is the best one yet--soooo goood! Friday I met up with all the Little Rock kids and had a fun time. I got to see Blake and Matty P., both of whom I haven't seen in quite a while, so that was good too. Saturday I stayed in and rented movies. If you haven't seen Bad Santa, you should. It's one of my favorite movies to watch during the holiday season. I rent it every year. HI-larious! It's a little raunchy, but hey, it also makes you laugh. We also rented High Tension and watched it last night. DO NOT rent this movie. First of all it's totally gross. Second of all, it's totally unbelievable. No good.
Man oh man, do I have Christmas fever. I've already started planning out all the stuff I'm gonna bake this year. So...don't be surprised if there is a lot of Christams talk in the upcoming posts. Happy Holidays People!

Yea! My Thanksgiving Break has Officially Started!

Sweet! Because I don't have class on Tuesday, I get to start my break one day before everyone else at school. I love it. I have a lot in store for myself this break. I plan on reading three novels, knitting four scarves, baking four desserts for my fam's thanksgiving dinner, writing two papers, seeing the new Harry Potter film, and preparing for the PCAT (again, ARRRGH!). Whew! I better go to bed early tonight. For all of you who will be traveling, be safe. Happy Turkey Day everybody!!

Grey's Anatomy Fans, Take Note...

So, you know how they've put out a "soundtrack" to the show? It actually has some really good songs on it. I'll be honest, I didn't go out and actually buy it. I downloaded the songs. It actually worked to my advantage to do it this way because there are a lot more song from the show on the internet than there are on the CD. So, if you have some spare time and file sharing software, I recommend getting these tunes. (Or you can be the responsible, copyright observing citizen and go purchase the disc.) Either way, it's good stuff.

On a side note, What's your opinion:

Should Dr. McDreamy dump his annoying wife and get back together with Meredith
OR
Should George confess his true feelings for her (Meredith) and then they will eventually fall in love, but in the mean time cause lots of drama?

P.S. Thanks to those who left comments of support concerning my PCAT debacle...somehow I'll make it through.

Un-FREAKING-Believable!!!!!

Check out this e-mail that I got today:

Dear PCAT Examinee,

Due to a courier service handling error, Harcourt Assessment did not receive your scorable answer documents from the October 2005 administration. We have made every effort to recover your answer documents. In consideration of the difficulty of this unfortunate situation, we are rescheduling a makeup exam on December 3, 2005 at the University ofArkansas testing center. The makeup exam will be at no charge to you and will allow 3 additional weeks for preparation and review. We will expedite scoring so that your transcripts and personal reports are delivered quickly.

If you are not available to retest in December, we will be happyto reschedule you for our January 21, 2006 exam. The reporting location and time are listed below:

Reporting location:
Dickinson Hall, Room 100
2801 S. University Avenue
Little Rock, AR 72204

Reporting Time: 08:30:00 AM

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Rest assured that thisi s not a common occurrence and the cause of this one incident is being thoroughly investigated. Should you have any questions, please email us atScoring.Services@harcourt.com, or call us at 800-622-3231.

Sincerely,
Post-Secondary Customer Relations
800-622-3231
888-211-8276 fax

I'm speechless! (though I will say that several swear words are continuously running through my brain)

This made me laugh today so I thought I'd pass it along:

Nice dress George.

Weekend Update

Nothing amazingly exciting...just a good all-around weekend full of fun times.

On Friday, I had a dinner and a movie date with my mom. We went to see Shopgirl. I highly recommend it--very good. It is one of those movies, though, where you have to want to watch it because it's pretty deep, but in a good way. It hits you right there.

Then we went to Cozymel's for dinner. We both had delicious salads and to top it off we swung through Shakey's for pumpkin custard on the way home. I love all things pumpkin. The stomach ache was totally worth it.

After that I met up with Elizabeth and we spent some time at Pizza D's drinking beer and catching up on all the goings on.

Sat. and Sun. were a mixture of homework, knitting, cooking, and cleaning. I finished a new scarf (see below) (it's for one of my sisters for Christmas). We also had some more blooms on some of our other rose bushes. (I know I put up pictures of roses on my last post, but I love that they are blooming again and I love flowers, so just humor me.)

A great way to end the week...

Princess Mozart!

(And I wonder why we don't get along.)

On another note, I am soooo pleased that another cold front has finally moved in. Hopefully this time it's here to stay. With all of this crazy unseasonable warmth we've had recently our rose bushes were tricked into blooming one more time. Check it out. Insanity!

Skoowel is Kroowel!

School is still taking up all of my time and I know you don't want to hear about it so this is what I've got for you...

Check out my Superhero profile:

Your Superhero Profile

Your Superhero Name is The Rocket Gorilla Your Superpower is X-Ray Vision Your Weakness is Salt Your Weapon is Your Air Bazooka Your Mode of Transportation is Portal

What's your Superhero Name?

I think I should definitely have a t-shirt made that has my Superhero name on it---it would be totally sweet! I would wear it every day. The only thing I don't like is that my weakness is salt. I love salt! I put it on everything! (I'm sure there'll be an upcoming post about how I've developed hypertension because of this. :) ) Is your superhero name as good as mine??

Eeeeeeewww, Grooooossssss!

I HAVE RINGWORM! AAAAHHHH!
This morning when I got out of the shower, I felt a sudden itchiness on my arm. I went to scratch it and noticed two bright red rings. I've also noticed this weird round red patch of scaley skin on my left hip. After consulting WebMD, I made the official diagnosis: tinea corporis (ringworm in laymen's terms). I've never had this before and it's making me cringe everytime I think about it (cringe!). I don't really know how I got it. You have to come in contact with it to catch it (cringe!). Blue doens't have it. I'm thinking it came from Mozart (cringe!), but he doesn't have any of the signs of canine ringworm. The kind that you get from animals tends to be more severe(cringe!), so hopefully he's not the culprit. I did learn that the name is a misnomer. It's not actually a worm at all. It's a type of fungus (cringe!) that lives on the surface of the skin and according to some of the pictures that were shown, if you don't treat it, it can get pretty icky. I thought about posting a photo of mine (cringe!), but I figured it might make some of you out there gag (mine's really not that bad). Anyway, as soon as I got out of class today, I went straight to the store to purchase some super-duper strength antifungal cream which I will be applying for the next two weeks (it's supposed to go away in a few days, but you have to keep treating the infected areas so that it doesn't come back). Grossola!!! (cringe!)

You'll Never Guess What I had for Dinner Tonight...

That's right folks...I had one of the classic 1950's fried chicken TV dinners that comes with corn and mashed potatoes. Who would have thought! Anyway, here's the story behind it all. So, I was at the grocery store picking up the usual...dog food, tea, fruit...when I started thinking about what to have for dinner tonight. Fried chicken crossed my mind and sounded good since I haven't eaten it in about a year, but then I thought no, because it's so messy to make. I happened to be in the frozen food isle and saw the frozen dinners out of the corner of my eye. I haven't had one since I was like 6, so I figured what the heck. Surprisingly, it was good (in a sick kind of way.) I'll probably be waiting until 18 more years from now to have another one though. What'd you have for dinner?

I know, I know...

I've been a bad blogger lately and deserve to be punished! Not to make excuses, but since there are only 6 weeks left in the semester (Yea!), my professors have decided to pile on the work. I'll get back in the swing of blogging soon, I swear. Don't give up on me!

Happy Halloween!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

I'm still recovering, so this is all I can give right now. Have a good one.