Random Thoughts

I haven't posted for a wee bit so I thought I would today. Mostly I just want to add a few thoughts I've had lately. #1: The farmers market. I love the farmers market. A couple reasons why I like it is because of all the fresh fruit, veggies, and baked goods you find. But another reason is to people watch. The farmer's market has such a dichotomy of people. For example, I saw a woman and her two daughters who I am convinced are polygamists. They were wearing pioneer dresses and all. Unless there was a pioneer parade going down the street somewhere and they got lost, which I doubt then they were polygamists. Another couple people I saw were hippies through and through. Now I love the hippies. They just crack me up. Why? I'm not quite sure. But these three guys were trying to convince this poor girl that she was wasting the worlds water by taking regular showers and that she needed to do what they did and bath in the river. Right...I'm sorry but you can think you are clean by scrubbing yourself with a rock but I can smell you all the way on the other side of the sidewalk. I'll stick to soap and a warm shower thanks. Now the last person I saw was my absolute favorite! It was this guy standing in front of the band that was playing totally jamming. Now that is not necessarily odd but let me tell you what he was wearing. A loin cloth...yup..that was it. No pants, no shirt, no shoes...no service! He was this pasty white, pot bellied man. Needless to say when he walked by me I scooted over quickly...you never know what a man in a loin cloth might do. Thought #2 car shopping and my liability to disclose defects...yes I'm law-nerding out right now...that's what my consumer law professor calls it. I got a new car because my poor little subaru passed on to the great beyond. I ended up getting a 2004 Jeep Liberty. I know an SUV, stupid thing to get with gas prices and all. But here's the thing this area is mountainy and snowy so people get SUV's and only new cars. So that was all I could afford. Also I kind of wanted a car that would last me past school for a while. So I let the car dealership drive my subaru to figure out what I could get for a trade in. While the manager was taking it out I told the sales manager about my transmission problem and he said..."ummm...I'm not going to tell them that." I was figuring I disclosed the problem and the next person they sell it to will have a claim against the dealer and not me. :) But that got me thinking that if you go shopping for a car request a carfax and test drive the car up hills and everything. I am not a fan of car dealers. Thought #3 grasshoppers...again. Now I mentioned in an earlier post about grasshoppers and how I hate them. Well the other day I was out for my run and I ran past this huge grasshopper that has partially smashed but still alive. I felt bad for him but I kept running, but I couldn't stop thinking about him and how I needed to put him out of his misery. So on my way back I decided to stomp on him completely and help him out. So I found him and realized that I couldn't do it. I couldn't stomp on the beady eyed gross thing. I wasted 20 minutes trying to figure out how to kill this poor grasshopper...I even tromped around in a wheat field looking for a stick...which I couldn't find. So my solution was to take a running start, close my eyes and step on him pretending I didn't see him. But I heard and felt the crunch. *shudder* it was gross. So my thought on that is that no matter how much I hate the gross little things I decided that I still feel bad when little creatures get hurt. So I'm not as heartless as I thought. Thought #4 This sign:
Now I found this sign in Elk River, Idaho...which is about an hour East of me. Honestly when you see this sign what do you think? Me...I'm not so sure, I mean are they serious are they being sarcastic? What? But it helped me decide that I will not be tromping through those woods anytime soon only to get mistaken for an elk and shot at. Yes Elk and I look incredibly similiar in the dusk light. You'd be surprised at how many times I have to chase deer away from me. Ahem anyway, moving on. Last and final thought #5: Mustaches. This guy asked me to dance with him at a dance on Friday. This guy is all cowboy and he made me dance to a country song...gag... He has a mustache! Let me see if I can find a similarish type picture of him.
Ha! Yeah right if he looked like Orlando Bloom I'd get over the mustache problem. No no here we go.
So here are my thoughts on mustaches. This guy first off is really nice and everything but I seriously thought he was 40. He looks 40 with the stach! So I sly asked questions at church on Sunday to find out his age because I was really curious. He's around 30. The little rat on your upper lip makes you look forty. It needs to go. Unless you are a motorcycle police office in the days of 47 parade you don't need a mustache. I told my friend she should start dating him and then make him lose a bet and make him shave it off. Oh and one last thing to add to that. Don't ask me to dance to a "two step" country song please. Do I look like the type of girl that knows how to dance to any country? No I don't. Ok that's enough random thoughts for one post. I'm going to go do my homework. Word!

So close, yet...

Well I was so close to being a car owner...meaning I almost had my car paid off. I had it budgeted and everything to be paid off by February. Well...no dice. I'm having car troubles. So I got it looked at and they told me that my car could be fixed; First, by buying two new tires, with a Subaru and an AWD car you have to buy all four tires even if its only one that is shot. So on our way home from Florida I had some axle issues and my dad thought it was the tires so we bought two tires in Chattanooga. I told him we needed to get all four. He didn't believe me. So on to the second thing I'd have to buy, a new transmission. Yup...a new transmission. The repair shop told me the problem was because we didn't have the same tread on all four tires. They say that it keeps the car in AWD all the time which is harmful I guess. But my dad thinks its the driving across country twice hauling a Uhaul. Which I'd have to agree. So they told me that it would cost $3500-$4000. I only owe $3000 on my car. So I decided that it would be better to just get a new car. However, the cheapest half way decent car that will last me through law school and a few years after is $9000. But can I just say that I HATE car shopping. I always feel like I'm being taken for a ride. Here's a great example. I went to a car dealership that had a 2002 Honda Civic for $12,000. So they tell me that they would take my car and reduce the car to $10,950. So then they add all the "taxes, fees, travel expenses, and location fees," and suddenly the car is now $14,000! How the heck does it jump $4,000 in fees? So I left and I was mad! So the next place I went had a 2004 Jeep Liberty for $11,280. So they would take my car for $3500 making the price $8345 or something and with fees it would end up being $8910. Hello! That is not $4,000. Stupid dealership. I'm thinking about the Liberty but then there is a 2003 Ford Escape for $9988. That's without the trade in of my car. So I'm hoping I can pull Escape down. Because I'm a Consumer Report nerd and they said that both cars are decent but the Escape is a little better. So we'll see. Anyway, that was my great day. Stupid car shopping. I had just registered my car in Idaho and everything on Tuesday. Dang it. But that's how things always happen. One good thing though my issue with FAMU has been solved. FAMU was trying to tell me that they could keep 75% of my tuition which would be $11,000. I had only gone to class for 6 bloody days there is no way that they could keep that much money. So I threatened and kept bugging them and finally they sent me an email today that said I'd get a 100% refund on my tuition! Wahoo! I was really worried on how to get $11,000 more dollars. So that was a great thing to hear! Wahoo again! I'll be going back to car shopping again tomorrow after my class. Boo for class on a saturday. Oh well! Well I'm going to go play around and then go to bed so I can hit the farmers market before class. Ok I'm out.

Grasshoppers v. Lizards

So that sounds like a Japanese cartoon. Killer grasshoppers against monster lizards. But no, no that's not what I'm going to blog about. This is about the little gross beady eyed little bugs. When I was Orlando my runs would involve watching lizards run across the pavement. Well here my runs involve jumps and dodges of horrid little grasshoppers. So I'm trying to decide what one I'd rather have, the lizards or the grasshoppers. I decided that I'd rather have the lizards. I hate grasshoppers! I think it goes back to when I lived in Price as a kid. I hate them. A bug's Life is full of it as well. There is no way that grasshoppers are smart enough to force ants to collect food for them. If the stupid grasshopper thinks that its way of escaping is by jumping INTO the person that is their enemy then they need a new attack plan. Whenever I'd see smashed lizards on the pavement I'd feel bad for them. But when I see a smashed one here I laugh! Horrid little bugs. Well I got a new roomie tonight. I'll let you know how it goes. She seems like a nice girl. I expect her to be engaged by the end of the year so no worries. :) Well anyway, I'm off to watch Newsradio.

Добро пожаловать в Москву

That means "welcome to Moscow" in Russian. At least that's what freetranslate.com said it means. Who knows they could be lying to me. I'd have no idea. Well I've moved. To Moscow. Ha! You wished it was something cool like Moscow, Russia. Ok I wish it was something cool like that. No, no I've moved to Moscow, Idaho. I was sitting in my apartment in Orlando a week and half ago waiting for Fay to come, classes got canceled, so I was in my house when I got a call at about 8:00 at night when University of Idaho called and said that I'd been accepted as a transfer. So I stayed up until 6:00 AM packing up my apartment and cleaning it. I went and withdrew from school that morning and then picked my dad up at the airport, we got a uhaul, and got started packing it up when Fay came in all her bloody glory. Let me tell you it sucks to move during a freaking hurricane! All my stuff was soaked. We finally finished up at about 10:30 PM and headed out. My car had some car trouble and we had to stop in Chattanooga to get it fixed. So that took a little while. After that we were off and we drove straight through. We only stopped for gas. I'm telling you that is not a fun drive! 35 hours in a car non-stop. *shudder* I do not want to do that again. So I made it to Moscow on sunday night, went to class Monday morning and thankfully found a place that day. I'm in a cute little townhome a little outside the town. It has two bed rooms so I'm getting a roommate. Which that story is really odd. So I went by the institute on campus to see if any apartment listings were there. So I'm walking around the building and this kid says "hey are you new?" "yes" "great! i've been waiting for you." Uh what? So he explains that he talked to Bishop Lingren...Who? I've never heard of this man. So it turns out this kids girlfriend is moving up her on the 5th and she wanted a place to live with a member of the church. It was so weird. When I found my place this girl called and she had this kid come over and check it out. So he does and now we're roommates. It was all really weird. I don't know how I feel about having a roommate after not for so long. Oh well she'll probably be married soon anyway. "Why so gloomy? Its better than being butcher." "I like being butcher. You know who your killing...and why." If anyone can name the movie I'm currently watching I'll give you ten bucks the next time I see you. Ok back to what I'm talking about. Moscow is interesting, its weird to live in a town that is completely quiet at 10:00PM...well except around the frat houses. I had friends in Orlando who wouldn't even go out until midnight. But I'm learning to really like the Northwest. Its colder than Florida, obviously, but there are a lot of recreational things to do and I'm excited to really get into them. I'm going to buy a bike soon and I already have a few trails that I want to try out. I'm an hour and half away from Spokane so for Labor day I'm going to go check it out. So a few things that I really like about Moscow. 1: Moscow Co-op, this great store has all things organic! Its a great little grocery store. I love getting vegetables there and my cheese. The other great thing is that its all locally grown. I'm totally into buying local. 2: my running route. Around my house there is this great trail that goes through town into the country. I ran part of it on Thursday and ran more today. I ran 4 miles on it today and I have no idea where it ends or begins. Its really good though. 3: My school. I really like my school, granted there are a few things that I miss about FAMU, but overall University of Idaho (McCain's VP Palin graduated from my school...just a little political info for you.) Law school is great. My main reason for transferring was the immigration clinic they have. So I'm excited to get started on that next summer. 4: The weather. I know its cold but honestly I'm excited for the four seasons. I really missed not having fall last year. They also tell me that it snows here but doesn't really last. But I guess last year it was bad. So we'll see. and finally 5: the car registration. I know that sounds funny but honestly I'm happy that they don't have safety or emissions here. I can register my car here in Idaho for $20. Seriously $20 and no safety or emissions inspection. I got a ticket in Florida for $91 for expired registration. So I'm glad that I can get my car registered and no more tickets. One last thing. I went and donated blood on Friday and I filled the whole bag of blood in less than 5 minutes! That's quick! I like donating blood for a few reasons, first its a great things to do and also its a great way for me to check my health. :) For example yesterday my resting heart rate was 50 and my bp was 107/70. Which is really low. I'm glad. I haven't been working out that well lately...mostly because of the moving. So it was good to hear that I'm not a complete slob. Well anyway, I'm going to get back to watching my movie. So I'm out! word!

Boy Bands and Hurricanes

I've been channeling my inner teenager these past two days and its been great! I don't know why but yesterday I really wanted to hear some Backstreet Boys. Weird I know. So I went to good 'ole Itunes and downloaded some Backstreet Boys, Nsync, and BBMAK. I've been jamming to them all day today! While I cleaned my house, while I studied and my drive to and from school. Its been fun. I remember going to every BBMAK concert while they preformed at Disneyland on concert choir tour with school. We camped out just to get front stage with them. It was awesome! Then I remember I bought a cassette tape, yes a cassette tape, of them for my crappy little car and Janelle and i used to drive around and listen to that tape until it died. It was great fun. I'm going to sound like an old lady for a second but music that high school kids like now sucks! I mean there are so many bands and singers that all sound the same. What happened to the Foo Fighters and Red Hot Chili Peppers? I even remember Nirvana before Kurt kicked it. Those are good bands that have been around forever. Granted the Foo Fighters didn't come around until after Kurt kicked it because Dave Grohl was part of Nirvana. But still! I thank my brothers for their influence on my music choices...because with out them I probably would have been in the Whitney, Phil Collins, country group...shudder! But thanks to my brother scaring me half to death with Metallica's Inner Sandman I am now more music wise. :) Seriously that song made me not want to go to sleep as a little kid. Love it now but not then. I'm also going to be an old lady and admit that I have hit the point in my life where some stores are just too young for me. You've seen them the stores that you thought you could shop in but once you go in you realize that you are the oldest one there by almost 6 years. Well that was my experience on Saturday at the Florida Mall. I went into Areopostal looked at some clothes and the people...no,no the kids and walked out. I'm way to old to try to pull that off! However, I realized that me wearing indoor soccer shoes, a tshirt and this certain pair of jeans makes me look like a teenager. I was walking out to my car this morning on my way to class when this girl asked me if I was a senior like her at Ocoee High. What?! I do not look 17! I decided I should try a little harder not to be so casual.
Now on to hurricanes. We have one coming and I am so excited! I'm strange I know but I've never been in one and I kind of want to see what they are like. So class got canceled tomorrow and possibly wednesday because of it. I've been looking at the radar and I decided its lying. I'm also looking out my window and there are a few clouds but really nothing. I'm pretty bummed! I want some rain and wind the whole works! Don't think I'm too crazy though, its probably going to be down graded to a tropical storm once it actually hits land. If that was like a category 5 hurricane I would not be so cool about it. But either way I'm ready for Fay! My friend described being in a hurricane like being in a fish tank. I'm interested to see if that's what its like. Well now that I have a free night I'm going to go make dinner, by the way I'm screwed on the food thing if this turns out to be bigger than it is...I have food for maybe two days...if I eat my shoe along with it...anyway I'm going to make dinner, read a novel and write a little in a novel I'm writing. So....see ya!

Trip Home

So I had an exciting trip home. I was scheduled to leave for a direct flight to Orlando on saturday at 4:46. I had confirmed my seat online. However it didn't work for some reason. Annoying. So I went to the gate and they had over sold the flight by six people. They were offering a flight voucher if you took a different flight. So I took it. I left for my flight to Boston at 5:00. I was to stay in Boston over night and then finish on to Orlando on sunday morning. So I flew to Boston first class! Man was that nice! They give you a full dinner. So I had mushroom and sundried tomato pasta, a salad, a roll, and citrus cheesecake. The cheesecake was tasty! There was a lot of room and we got free headphones to watch Kung Fu Panda. However I read Breaking Dawn the whole way. Man am I sad that that series is over. So I got to Boston and had a hotel voucher to stay in Boston. So I hauled myself and luggage to the hotel they had assigned and surprise they were booked. So I headed back to the airport o find another one. They set me up with one and got me a taxi that they paid for it and all. So I got a nice little drive through Boston at one AM. :) Nice city I'd like to go back and tour sometime. Maybe to run the Boston Marathon! Ha! Yeah right. Anyway, so I got to the airport to fly back to Orlando and I was on first class again! It was great! So Steve picked me up at the airport. That was a little weird but then all good once we got going. I honestly don't know what to think of him. I sat by him and his so called "girlfriend" but he talked more to me than her. It was odd. But anyway, classes started today. It was ok. I really want to move to a different school but I don't see that happening so I better suck it up. Right? I already feel better about my health since I've been home. The working out has happened yet but the eating has been ten times better. I have to figure out the schedule to get the workouts in. Once I get classes figured out I can get my runs in. I'm going to train for a triathlon too. So we'll see how it goes. Anyway, that's it. See ya!

Quick Post

I haven't posted for a little bit so I thought I'd do a quick one. So I'm leaving for Florida on Saturday. I have mixed feelings about it. I'm excited to get back to my own house, with my nice bed, quiet house and car. I am also excited because I have been horrible eating and working out this summer so I'll be happy to be back to my routine. I also read that they are opening a 24Hour Fitness in Orlando so I can sign up there again and get back to 24Set, Cycling, and yoga! YAY!!! I am sad to leave again though. Its hard every time but I figure I only have one more summer left because the next summer I'll have been graduated. Hopefully! I had Kevin set me up a budget for this year too. I went a little crazy last year and I'm paying for it now. I'm in so much debt! For dumb things too! Thankfully he helped me out and helped me get a plan going in which I can pay my car off in about 6 months and my credit card in 13 months. I just need to stick to it. I actually HAVE to stick to it or I'm screwed. So that fact that I have a plan now on how to get it going is a big relief to me. It takes a lot of stress off. Its nice. So those were my goals today...get a budget set up and do better with my health. I got on the sparkpeople.com after what? three months and I entered all my food. Surprisingly I was under...which makes me wonder if I missed something. I am hopefully going to get up tomorrow to run. Even if its only 20 minutes and I walk part of it I have to do it! I also am going to take Monica's bridal photos. I hope the turn out well! I like taking people's photos but there is a lot of stress that goes along with it. Well anyway its late, I'm tired and I said this would be short. So I'm out!