Playing With Light

It's hard to spell your name backwards...



We made oatmeal, peanut butter, chocolate chip cookies. Best. Cookies. Ever! Thanks to Ashley for the recipe! Pretty sure I'm gonna puke, though, after eating so many...







We tried to outline each other with the light. This was fun...



But you can see what a difference changing the batteries in the flashlight made!





We live in Cloud 9. NOT Apartment 9. Especially if Natalie's around.



Smiley face with the giant nose... Ashley said it looked like an upside down question mark.



The Thinker. Or at least an attempt...



I tried to do Mickey Mouse. Because, you know, I'm me. It turned out to more resemble Pooh Bear, though. Actually, it doesn't really resemble anything really well...




Me in my fail of a "gangsta" pose.



This is what Ashley and I would look like if we were one person. Kinda creepy, I know.

Stupid Cold

When I worked in Florida, they didn't like to tell us the exact numbers of how many people were in the park. But because I worked parades, we had to have at least a bit of an estimate. So one of my coordinators had a meter that she would base her idea of how many people were in the park.

The lowest end of this meter was just "Busy." Halfway up the meter would be "Stupid Busy." And the most busy we had was "Omigosh-Why-Am-I-Here Busy." Usually we were just "stupid busy" with occasional bouts of "ohmigosh-why-am-I-here busy" days in there.

Well, I can't help but use that same meter to determine how cold it is outside here in Idaho.

Forget numbers... it is stupid cold today. And I'm sick of it.

Tests...

I miss multiple choice exams. I miss them a lot. None of me teachers believe in them anymore.

Instead it's all research papers, fill in the blank, or worst... essay questions.

Blech.

Monopoly With Ashley

Ashley and I played Monopoly last night. And I lost. A lot.

This is my face before I looked down and realized how many properties I had mortgaged.



Annnnd, this is my face after I realized how much trouble I was really in.



And here is Ashley's "I won" pose.



And that's how much she won by. Sort of. It's how much she would have won by if I had had the extra 7.5 million dollars that I owed her.



I wouldn't allow the game to be over until she landed on my hotel. She did, but like two turns before I landed on her spot for the final time and lost. She owed me 2.5 million for landing here. I owed her 7.5 million for landing on her spot. This sucks.



I was the camel. She's the sumo wrestler.



And some more fun photos from the rest of the night:

I Love It!

My friend who's from China was asking me to help her edit some reference letters from her Chinese teachers.



I love how she makes me think of English in different ways. It's so second nature to me, and yet it's so hard for others. It makes me feel better about sucking at Spanish. Jean's English is actually really, really good.

Just Dance

I just wanted to see if this would actually work...

Natalie got this new dance game in the mail today and we tried it out for FHE. Yes, I tried it too... just not in this video.

When Natalie Plays With Monica...

And that's my life...

Chocolate, Chocolate, and a Little More Chocolate!

Our Bountiful Basket this week. I really don't know that it's "excess of farmers in the area." That's why I wrote "or something" at the end of that sentence. All I really know about it is it's run by farmers and I thought it had something to do with "excess." I don't know though... they're obviously not super duper fresh. Anyway, here's a picture. :)



And now for our chocolate-fest! We decided (okay, Natalie decided) that for Valentine's Day (slash Monica and Stanzie's birthdays since they both had birthdays yesterday) that we would have a chocolate party! Everyone had to make a chocolate dish (Ashley made two) for the apartment to share.

We also made guacamole, salsa, and chips for our "appetizer" for dinner. Then Natalie made some of the best chicken enchiladas ever for dinner.



And by "some" I mean TONS! We didn't even make it through one of these pans. We're going to be eating a LOT of enchiladas over the next few days...



Then the chocolate-fest began! Monica wasn't here (she went to Missouri-ish this weekend) so Cami came instead. Cami is friends with Teresa and Natalie from work, but we also happen to have the same class on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so I kind of knew her too... kind of.

This is Cami, Teresa, and Ashley enjoying the chips and homemade dip!



Ashley making her super rich truffles!



Natalie, putting her finishing touches on her chocolate cheesecake! Sort of...



I say sort of because someone kind of ate a piece before it was time... and that same someone filled it in with whipped cream to "cover it up." Smooth, Natalie, very smooth.



We fed that piece to Teresa later...



Stanzie made the salsa and the "Brigadero." I think that's what it was called...





Teresa made cherry hot chocolate. And I made the carmelitas (the ones being passed around in this pic)! Ashley's second thing was the trifle (the one with chocolate chips on top).



So after stuffing myself of guacamole and enchiladas, this is my dessert plate! Sooooo yummy!



Cami with the desserts. Taking Monica's place. Okay, so actually this picture is to show you a better photo of my carmelitas. Don't they look delicious!?



And just to be sure there's pictures of all of my roommates in this post, here is one of Natalie, Ashley, and Monica.

Good News, Semi-Bad News, and More Semi-Bad News

I got accepted to the Disney College Program!!!! Again. Yay! It's still exciting, the third time!

The semi-bad news is that my first choice was Costuming and I got my second choice which was Attractions. That's a long story, but overall it's probably better this way.

The other semi-bad news is that the fee for the program is three times what it was in previous years. It used to be $100. Now it's $300 because they added in a $200 "Housing and Administration Fee" which I think means that instead of having two weeks of rent pulled out of our pay check the second week, we pay up front. That way all those kids who cheat out the program by staying for one week, pretending they're going to work, and then leaving before they even finish training because all they wanted was to take advantage of the free tickets will not get quite as good a deal as they think. At least, I think that's what it is.

Anyway, I'm still stuck on the good news that I get to go back! I hope I get a fun attraction, though, like the Jungle Safari in Animal Kingdom or the Great Movie Ride in Hollywood. Actually, I'm mostly hoping for DAK or HS since those are the two parks I haven't officially "worked" in. Although, I was deployed to HS for a few weeks my first year, so DAK would be slightly preferable, which is ironic because my first year DAK was the only park I did NOT want to work in.

It'll be fun, though. I'm so excited!

Pilates

It's very convenient that my final year of college I get to be roommates with one of my favorite roommates ever. Stanzie is more like me than any other roommate I've ever had. Except she's better than I am. She's the person I wish I would be. Which is good because she encourages me to be that good too. Particularly when it comes to exercising.

Tonight, she talked me into going with her to Pilates. I've often thought about doing the on-campus exercise classes, but never really got around to it. Well, I went today. Pilates is like yoga except it focuses on making your muscles stronger, particularly your abs. (By the way, I've never done yoga either... the only reason I compare it to yoga is because that's what the teacher told us at the beginning). Anyway, it was fun but it burned! It was a good burn though, and afterward my legs felt really good... kind of as if they had a massage or something. It made me want to run but I had to go to the Spori and finish a project that's due tomorrow.

I thought I had finished the project... chapters 5 and 6. Then it turned out I found out at the last minute I had to do chapters 7 and 8 as well, and the project can only be completed on campus on the Macs. Blech. Hate it when that happens. But I finished, thank goodness!

Anyway, that's why I only did Pilates and not Pilates and Zumba which is what Stanzie did. Maybe next week I'll attend both. We'll see.

Oh, and by the way, Stanzie's name does not rhyme with "pansy," but it does rhyme with "Fonzie." And yes, she answers to "The Stanz."

It's Too Cold

It was -23 this morning. Cold enough to cancel schools. Public schools that is. Not our school.

When I go outside it takes about three seconds for me to be able to breathe the air. My lungs don't want to take in the cold so they try to cough it out but there's no air in my lungs to cough out so I kind of gag for a few seconds before my body gets used to it.

And this is why I totally plan on living in Florida when this is all over.

The good news is the Groundhog didn't see his shadow! Yay for early spring!

Also, cool random fact. I had a friend in Disney who was from Punxsutawney, PA. The end.