Hot Like Ebola!!!: January 2006

Remove the blog in the top spot from the following list and bump everyone up one place. Then add your blog to the bottom slot, like so.

1) Overread
2) BrightStar
3) dr four eyes
4) corndog
5) Jeni

Next select five people to tag

1) anastasia
2) kayla
3) gravy
4) miranda
5) my sister

What were you doing 10 years ago?

January 1996: Hmm... I was 12, in the middle of 7th grade (one of the worst years), spending my time riding horses and getting slammed into lockers.

What were you doing 1 year ago?

January 2005: I was 21, 1/2way through my 1st year of marriage, wishing that water aerobics wasn't over

Five snacks you enjoy:

A. Terra Chips
B. Tim's Cascade Style Potato Chips
C. Nachos
D. Muddy Buddies
E. Popcorn

Five songs you know all the words to:

A. "Take It All Away" -Cake
B. "Sky Falls Down"- Third Day
C. "I'm Alright"- Jars of Clay (and every other Jars song)
D. "The Fox"- Nickel Creek
E. "Blackbird"- The Beatles

Five things you would do if you were a millionaire:
A. Go to vet school, debt free
B. Feed some people
C. Pay off my parents' debts
D. donate a wad toward a new science building at whitworth
E. retirement fund?

Five bad habits:
A. Chewing nails/ cuticles
B. Being self deprecating
C. eating junk food
D. Worrying too much
E. Hyperbole

Five things you enjoy doing:
A. Reading
B. Horseback riding
C. singing
D. Loving my husband
E. Baking

Five things you would never wear again:
A. tapered leg jeans
B. sideways ponytail
C. bermuda shorts
D. sweater vests
E. shirts that are more than 2 sizes too big

Five favorite toys:
A. Larivee acoustic guitar
B. Stubben Eidelweiss
C. Board games
D. Laptop
E. iPod

:: submitted by Jenevieve, 8:20 PM | link |

26 January 2006

I should go to sleep

3 pathogens detected

I am nerdier than 76% of all people. Are you nerdier? Click here to find out!

:: submitted by Jenevieve, 6:36 AM | link |

Like You Didn't Know

1 pathogens detected

The Stupid Quiz said I am "Totally Smart!" How stupid are you? Click here to find out!

:: submitted by Jenevieve, 6:15 AM | link |

25 January 2006

The Good, The Bad, and The Badder

1 pathogens detected

The Good:
-I found out that the people who work where I work out don't really care if I come in without a current i.d. card. Yay! Now I don't have to pay $250 in startup costs just to work out!
-As a result, I have worked out 3x in the past week. I would have gone again today, but I decided I needed a day off.
-Matt is learning a piece on guitar that is so beautiful it makes me want to do inappropriate things...
-I have now slept at least 6 hours, 2 nights in a row. I am 100% sure this is due to the Prayer Warriors that I call my Bible study.

The Bad
-I got rejected from WSU. This is the only school where I could have recieved in state tuition, so now vet school will cost $30,000 a year.
-Before said sleep, I had gone 8 nights without sleeping. Now I feel sick. Coincidence? I think not.

The Badder
-For the past 7 years, my grandparents have assured me they would pay for my vet school. At pretty much every junction in my life, that assurance has been repeated. Well, I called my nana to tell her the aforementioned news about admissions costs, and she seemed nonplussed by that information. However, when I called my grandfather, he basically said I must have been lying about how well I was doing in school, otherwise I would have gotten into WSU. He then said several more ugly things to me, including the opinion that the other schools were way to expensive and there was no way he was going to help me pay for it.

So, if anyone has a spare $240,000 (tuition plus living expenses for four years) laying around, let me know!

:: submitted by Jenevieve, 10:34 PM | link |

23 January 2006

iLove iTunes

5 pathogens detected

From everybody's favorite, APL

Total number of tracks in iTunes:
4,407

Sort by song title
First song: 'Round Midnight, Thelonious Monk
Last song: Zooropa, U2

Sort by time
Shortest song: 0:00, it's actually not a song but an audio clip of Matt saying "I"
Longest song: 49:00, a podcast of NPR's "Le Show"

Sort by artist
First: Aerosmith
Last: X

Sort by album
First: ...somewhere more familiar, Sister hazel
Last: Zooropa, U2

10 most played songs
10 Cake songs. Does it matter which ones?

First five songs that come up on Party Shuffle
1. Freedom, Rage Against the Machine
2. I am Mine, Pearl Jam
3. Spirits in the Material World, The Police
4. Halloween, Dave Matthews Band
5. The Wind Cries Mary, Jimi Hendrix
(Hmm... Party shuffle doesn't much reflect my tastes!)

Number of search returns for:
sex: 39
love:155
you: 409
death: 7
hate: 10
wish: 25
life: 33

Last 10 Played:
Same as 10 most played

:: submitted by Jenevieve, 1:50 AM | link |

22 January 2006

Wow, shocking

4 pathogens detected

You scored as Biology. You should be a Biology major! You are passionate about the sciences, and you enjoy studying cell growth and evolutionary concepts which enable living organisms to survive. Pursue that!

Chemistry

92%

Linguistics

92%

Biology

92%

English

83%

Engineering

83%

Sociology

67%

Philosophy

58%

Psychology

58%

Mathematics

58%

Dance

50%

Journalism

50%

Theater

50%

Anthropology

42%

Art

25%

What is your Perfect Major? (PLEASE RATE ME!!<3)
created with QuizFarm.com

:: submitted by Jenevieve, 7:09 PM | link |

19 January 2006

Almost Forgot

2 pathogens detected

Andrew showed me this over break, and I thought it was pretty awesome.

:: submitted by Jenevieve, 6:57 PM | link |

18 January 2006

Update

3 pathogens detected

Acceptances
-University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Interviews
-University of Glasgow, Scotland

Pending (with notification of continued progress)
-Michigan State University

Pending (no notification)
-Washington State University
-University of Pennsylvania

Rejections
-North Carolina State University
-University of California, Davis
-Cornell University
-Purdue University, Indiana

:: submitted by Jenevieve, 1:49 AM | link |

17 January 2006

Ah, Snack

6 pathogens detected

So the Bible study I go to on Monday night delegates someone every week to do snack. By delegates, I mean that someone volunteers. This week, we have two volunteers, and I am one of them.

First, I had grand plans of using my new KITCHENAID ARTISAN STAND MIXER IN EMPIRE RED to make honey-bran muffins. However, I went to the store and found out that the Safeway near our house doesn't sell wheat bran! What?!??!?

So then I decided to make some Chex mix (sadly, without using the KASMiER). Then, while walking through the store, I realized why people just buy the pre-made stuff now. Those ingredients are danged expensive! Pretzels-3 bucks! Bagel chips- 3 bucks! Mixed nuts- 4 bucks! Chex- 5 dollars a box!

Anyway, I bought about 1/2 the ingredients, and decided I could jimmy it together. Turns out, I could! Ah, the wonders of habanero hot sauce and garlic powder. It worked out so well, in fact, that Matt and I accidentally ate 1/2 of it while playing several rounds of Milles-Bornes.

So, I decided to make some Muddy Buddies instead. Ah, that shining bastion of pre-menstrual comfort foods. They turned out well, except I learned 2 things:
1. Muddy Buddies really are easier to make with someone helping you, and
2. They are more difficult to make when one hand is holding a cell phone and you are trying to act as your mom's tech support at the same time. My wedding ring never looked so chocolately!

So, tonight's snack is 1/2 bag of spicy chex snacky mix and 1 bag of very muddy buddies. That was way harder than it should have been.

Why do I sometimes feel like Anne Glamore?

:: submitted by Jenevieve, 1:26 AM | link |

15 January 2006

Things that are better when you're drunk

2 pathogens detected

Matt and I played Scrabble while drinking (around the equivalent of three shots for each of us). The result? We each won one game, him with a score of 320 and me with a score of 328. Sweet!!!

:: submitted by Jenevieve, 8:37 AM | link |

14 January 2006

Just out of curiousity...

2 pathogens detected

Do any of you blogger buddies live in NYC, Princeton, Washington, D.C., or Philadelphia? 'Cause I'm going to be in all of those places the first week of February...

:: submitted by Jenevieve, 7:49 PM | link |

13 January 2006

grrr

4 pathogens detected

Cornell- REJECTED

*Update: Lacey got rejected, too. Muh.

:: submitted by Jenevieve, 7:14 PM | link |

11 January 2006

I burnt the cakes!

6 pathogens detected

So, yeah. Maybe I haven't existed on Blogger lately. I've been busy, alright? First I was in L.A. (blech and double blech, except for horseback riding and seeing my sister, and Kayla) for two weeks. Then we got back here, and had houseguests for the past week! A.J. and Rachelle came to Spokevegas to visit us, much to my delight. They really are the Coolest Freaking People in the universe. Some highlights:
-Playing a billion games of Scrabble, Upwords, Fluxx, and one memorable game of Clue
-Hanging out at Riverfront Park
-Going to visit Dr. Mike and Teri at the farm
-Watching *Guess Who's Coming to Dinner* and marveling at Sidney Poitier's hotness
-Eating Tomato Street, Thai Bamboo, Europa, Dick's, Clayton Burger, and Twigs, and making baked goods
-Spending time with two wonderful people that I am blessed to call friends. I even call one of them family! Hopefully, both of them will one day share that title... ahem. sorry. stepping off the yenta podium.

Yay! I also went back to the clinic, which is good. In addition, I have been giving myself ulcers about vet schools. Here's the breakdown:

Acceptances
-University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Interviews
-University of Glasgow, Scotland

Pending (with notification of continued progress)
-Michigan State University
-Purdue University, Indiana

Pending (no notification)
-Cornell University
-Washington State University
-University of Pennsylvania

Rejections
-North Carolina State University
-University of California, Davis

There, are you happy? I just realized that the cake I was baking had accidentally been set at 400 instead of 350. Dang it! Burnt cake!

:: submitted by Jenevieve, 3:58 AM | link |