Well...

OK sooo I've always wondered how in movies the couples can kiss first thing in the morning. But I enjoy your bad breath! Don't worry. It's probly some sort of cosmic/magic thing. You'll see. Just give it time. I don't even feel awkward around you like I do around most everyone else. So I just wish I could see you once in a while. I just don't want to live out those lyrics by my favorite man again,

"...Took all winter, to get through the summer"

-Tom Petty

you invade my dreams, camp out in the corners of my mind, and occupy my heart. (and that makes me happy)

:o)

My new fave Menom. Bar

So I have been up at school this weekend when there really isn't anyone up here. I came back on Thursday night after thanksgiving to work on Black Friday. It was nice to have some random free time on my hands while I was alone at my house. I got some pants hemmed, some hw done(not enough) and watched some 90s movies that i wasn't allowed to see when they came out. (Night at the Roxbury and Superstar). Something fun I got to do was to go out with a co-worker. It was fun. We went out on Friday, and then again on Saturday along with this cute blonde friend of mine. This coworker is the one who introduced me to the OB. She talked about it as a kind of slummy bar where you go at the end of the night to dance. (Someplace Else, but less classy??) Anywho, I made us go there last night. And there was a HUGE bar fight there. Pool Ques were being thrown around, and there were just a TON of people in on this fight. And then a pool ball came rolling over by us! It was scary. There was a guy with blood dripping down his face from either a pool que.. or maybe that ball that came rolling by. I have no idea what the fight was about, but the mob came over towards us, and I'm not sure if the police were there the whole time, but I noticed that there were two police people in the midst of the mob. I think they were trying to control the crowd... (very unsuccessful attempt) I saw this little woman hit the cop for trying to keep people under control. It was like something you see in a movie or something. It was a sight to see, and thank God I'm here to talk about it.

Dance

This video is amazing. Pam Chu went to the same dance studio as me. I took a class from her and had the privilege to see her dance up close. She danced with the most feeling and desperation i have ever seen from someone. She was so inspiring it brought me to tears. The dance she taught us was to Breathe Me by Sia. I highly recommend the song, and the dance was amazing. !!! This is her dancing to John Mayer, with another amazing dancer Ben Susak, and choreographed by Wade Robson who is amazing. He choreographs for So You Think You Can Dance now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oSL1Uy7PIg&feature=fvw

Friends

So last night before I drifted off to sleep, I watched an episode of Friends. Actually, pretty much all night last night I had been watching Friends. I then fell asleep with my phone next to me, and my computer next to me, playing Iron and Wine, which I love to fall asleep to. (Lovesong of the Buzzard is my fave from them right now.) So I was sleeping with my electronics, which I often do. I enjoy this, I think because it is cozy. There is room in my bed for them, so I invite them in, and both my phone and computer took me up on my offer. So my dream was about Friends basically. It was about Rachel trying to cook. She had a bunch of knives on a tray, and she was putting them in the oven. Then, we all decided to dig a really big hole. Chandler, Joey, and I all ended up really far down into the earth, where it is all molten lava. We didn't get hurt, because suddenly we were encased in these metal spheres. So there we are, inside these metal balls, zooming through the core of the earth. It was pretttyyyy cool. :) Weird.

Hanson

So last night I had a dream that I can't get out of my head. I was feeling desperate because all of my relationships (I use that word loosely) lately have been failures. So I signed up for some sort of internet dating service. I apparently met a man who I was compatible with and crazy about. Turns out he used to be in a boy band when he was younger. Turns out his name was Taylor Hanson. Man was I in love with him. The only problem being that I have never been one of those girls who was in love with the band Hanson in elementary school. In fact I was anti-Hanson. I recall this seeming to be a slight problem in my head, but we still continued to date. I could only see him when I was up here at school, so our time was limited (I am not sure exactly why because I am always up at school). He told me he was from little Canada. So I was talking to someone about how I was dating a Minnesotan, when Taylor corrected me and said he was from the country of Canada. After I woke up I had some thoughts about this: why would he call Canada little? Or did he misunderstand where he was from? Or, was he part of the witness protection program (hiding from his past as part of a horrible boy band) and couldn't remember where he was "supposed" to be from? I think the case is that last choice. So him and I went on a little excursion which was kind of like a fair/festival. Oh and it was springtime in the dream. We walked over the cutest bridge to go to the fair, and in the pond below someone had written (don't ask me how) "I love you Danielle" And in my dream it was this girl I went to high school with. Which is weird because I haven't seen her since I randomly bumped into her in Eau Claire last semester. Well at the far we were sitting on the ground by a statue with Taylor's two brothers (the other 2/3 of the boy band) when I noticed his feet. ! He had a LOT of warts on them. There were these bumpy, multicolored lumps that were meshing together on the tops of his feet. It was really not gross at all (In the dream....). So naturally I counted his bumps on his feet. I think this may be reflecting my fear that my cute feet are getting beat up lately. I wore new heels out to the bars on Thursday and came back with two huge blisters on the bottom/sides of my feet which are still bugging me today. I have been in heels all weekend for work, and my feet hurt/aren't happy. Looks like Taylor and I were really made for each other...

weekEND

Well it's Monday, and that means I'm back to trying to avoid doing homework. I actually am a little short on homework this week (I know I still have projects that I could be getting a head start on). My hardest teacher is off to a conference this week, so I don't have those two classes, and just have projects to work on for her classes. Tonight has been the opposite of productive, so I thought I could share some sleeping thoughts from the weekend:

Maybe its because I was, but my dreams were drunk this weekend. I was boarding a plane on some sort of class trip. I don't know if it was a college or high school class trip because I'm not sure who the other people on the plane were. In the dream I knew them however. I was very scared boarding the plane, as I always get when I fly. I had my ipod, I remember that. The next thing I knew, I was in Colorado. It wasn't cold though. I remember seeing a bunch of people I knew that were not on the class trip. I remember thinking to myself that I knew these people because there were a lot of teaching jobs available in Colorado, and many people from Oakwood Express had transferred to this Colorado store. Then I was playing with a bunch of kids, and we had a bunch of equipment out on this hill. We eventually had to clean it all up, which we were told by our parents who were on top of the hill. I of course did all the work, and none of the other kids helped. So there was one more thing to be put away, and I was going to make the other kids clean that up, and I climbed the hill to where our parents were. I think I was being kind of a tattle tale, and they told me to finish picking up. I whined naturally. Then the father of a child of ethnic descent started to tell me about how I had nothing to whine about and that he and his child had it much harder.

Then, he taught me this valuable lesson by taking me through a maze on the way down the hill. It was made of tiny weak pieces of wood, with tiny areas about 1 foot tall that we had to get in between. I made it though, don't worry.

My friend and I were discussing this dream, and he said, well now we have to interpret it. I guess I don't do that very often. What he came up with is that the maze means I'm confused. I said .. YES, I am, I didn't need that weird dream to tell me that. Actually I think I said, yeah...

NEW PUPPY

My parents got a new puppy and I got to see it over the weekend! He is soo cute, this pic does not do him justice... He is sooo tiny, and so soft, and sooo wiggly! Love him. :)

I wanted to tuck him away in my bag and take him back here. Apparently my big fat cat Winston is scared of him. Eli wanted to play and Winny runs away. It's cute.

Home again

So this weekend I went home to visit family. I decided that since I did not work (RARE) I would go home and visit family. Also, it is my mother's birthday today, so we celebrated over the weekend! Happy Birthday MOM!! :) Also, I won't be able to be home over thanksgiving very much, so I thought this was a nice opportunity to see family and friends that I wouldn't see over thanksgiving. So I got to see an old friend who I haven't seen in forever (an ex), and barely got to see my best friend. :( I hung out with my family which was nice. The weekend went SUPER fast, and I of course did not get everything I wanted to done. My mother is very upset about this new job taking up a lot of my traditional "winter break" time. I am upset too, but this is a very important thing to me right now. I feel like a lot of people have accomplished a lot already that I am jealous of: photographing weddings professionally, making logos for companies(being paid to do so), making amazing clothing designs, or making amazing graphic design pieces. So this job is very important to me, professionally and for me to know that I am accomplishing SOMETHING. :/ It makes me very proud.

I can't wait until this weekend though; because I want to have a lot of Menomonie fun. Woo

Slipping Dreams

So I hate that feeling when you are having an amazing dream, and even though you know its not gonna last, and its not real; you are SO upset when it ends. Or leaves, and you still want to snuggle :(

SICK!

It is not enough to question authority, you have to speak with it too. Taylor Mali

So lately I have been sick. It feels like weeks now, many weeks. I have had a cough and cold-ish thing for the past few weeks, and then on Saturday got real nauseous and had a migraine that was debilitating. This was a Saturday/Sunday thing, just enough to make me miss work on Saturday which was SUCH a disaster, almost leading to the loss of my bar job, which I love and pays reaaalll good. Also, I didn't get to go out on Saturday for Halloween. This would have been fun, and also I often feel left out from my roomies, which is something I want to work on because they are cool kids.

I keep telling myself that next semester will be better, because I only have 12 credits next semester. And I won't have to take winterm. I had to drop my winterm classes so that I could have enough credits to be full time next semester. wonderful :)

So on Monday I felt fine and dandy (for the most part) and I thought I was totally over my sickness. Then Tuesday night I started feeling feverish and weak and nauseous again.

SOOO Weds morning I called health services to see if I had h1n1. Seemed like I did, so I contacted dean of students to email all my professors. Weds. are my busiest days; I go from 9-5:30, so It was a win/lose situation. I had an assignment due in one class, a lesson to implement in another, and missed a discussion and 2 lectures. So I feel like I'm ok, I just have to turn in my assigns Friday hopefully. I feel like I will be able to get to school on Friday. I hate feeling like I'm missing important info in class. It makes me worried.

So since I was sick... this is what I've been doing...

-Sleeping (my favorite!!)

-Having VERY weird dreams

-Lounging around in my snuggie (see pic-that was when I was well however)

-Trying to do hw. One of my teachers said.. "well since you are sick what else can you do but homework?" umm... that's why we are at home, because we are too sick to do anything else!!

..that's about it!

I am headed home this weekend, and I hope it's not too crammed like most of my weekends home seem to be. I want to shop, but I seem to be losing money left and right (I know I'm spending it, but only on necessities) hang out with my BFF, and possibly my friend I have reconnected with now that he is not on heroin... its still a decision I am making.