happy new year!

I hope everyone has a fabulous new year's eve!

Abbey and Amelia - Christmas Eve

These are the two girls I babysit on Christmas eve! LOVE!

Holiday Bowl

Everyone break out your purple and gold! The Huskies are playing in the Holiday Bowl tonight vs Nebraska. GO HUSKIES!

funnies thing

watch this first:


then this:

frat party

here is some advice I've obtained from my friend Frat Party in the last 24 hours:

1.PARTY TIP: to succeed you need three things:
music, passion, and something to drink!!
2. take a shower with your sunglasses on
it's WAY more intense than you'd expect!

And here is a picture of Frat Party and I at Sharkez in Newport Beach, Cali last summer:

P.S. I nicknamed Drew "frat party" because he personified a frat party. The morning after this picture was taken the cops found frat party in a ditch and took him to the hospital. He was fine and definitely rallied the next night. Like a champ!

Story Time: London Assault

On Saturday night I went to my BFF Katie's apartment for a classy little holiday party. It was just us girls and we dressed up in heels and dresses and ate some good food. We were talking about traveling in Europe and of course this reminded Katie and I of the time we were assaulted in London. It was an awful experience but a good story, let me tell you about it:

So two days after I turned 21 I got on an airplane for the 2nd time in my life and headed to Europe (England specifically) to visit Katie, who was living there as an Au Pair. I hadn't slept in a few days because of the fact that I just turned 21 (par-tay) and the fact that I was really nervous about flying the night before my early morning departure- planes scare me, a lot. This sleepless was not helped by the fact that I was seated next to a French man on the plane who smelled like B.O. and who kept me awkwardly pressed up against the window for the entire 8 hour flight from Seattle to Paris.

When I finally made it to London it was morning there and Katie met me at the airport. We took a train into London where we were planning on staying at the Piccadelli Backpacker's Hostel. After getting off the London Underground I dragged my HUGE piece of luggage up, out of the subway system, into the middle of London. We wandered around Piccadelli Square (which is similar to NY's time square I guess) for a while. We finally found our hostel, locked our things in our shared, 4 person hostel room and wandered out into the city. We did some shopping (hello H&M for the first time ever - little did I know how much my love for H&M would grow over the years, especially when H&M came to Seattle), I heard "young folks" for the first time ever while shopping for Christmas ornaments, we ate Indian food, and I went to Harrod's for the first (and only so far) time ever. It was a really nice day.

Finally, we wandered back to our hostel and then to a nearby pub to grab a beer before bed. After one strong beer I was a little tipsy - I blame the lack of sleep - and the bar was closing so we walked out into the alleyway. As we were walking along, being loud and taking picture we came upon two guys who were about our age. It was one of their birthday, they felt the need to tell us, and I told them that it was just my birthday too, WOW! So we started talking and decided to wander with the random men to go get falafels or some other delicious street food.

While walking along with the boys we learned that they were from Amsterdam and they were a little out of control. We soon told them that we were tired and needed to head back to our hostel and quickly found out that, hey, they were staying at the same hostel as us. So they walked us back. They then invited us to their room for drinks. We were hesitant, being two innocent 21 year old girls from a small town in Washington, and so we said that we first wanted to our room to drop our things, planning on ditching out on the boys like little cowards. This is when we met, for the first time, our hostel roommates. After meeting them and realizing that one of them was not very friendly we decided to go have a drink with our new "friends". We went to their room and when we discovered that they were simply taking pulls from a bottle of liquor and talking about how going to prison in Amsterdam isn't nearly as bad as going to prison in America - because you don't have to worry about dropping the soap and getting it in the butt - we decided that maybe taking our chances with the hostel roommates really was the superior option. So, Katie and I, after about 5 minutes decided that we should tell the boys that we were tired and wanted to go. They wouldn't have this... So then we told them that we had to go to the bathroom, excused ourselves and ran back to our room.

Back at the room we had our first real conversation with our hostel roommies. One of them asked me why we were in England, I told him I was there for Thanksgiving break visiting Katie who was living there. The other roommie then told us that he hated Americans. AWESOME. With fear in my heart I told him I was Native American so I kind of hated Americans too... it was really all I had. Super shaken up, I then grabbed my toothbrush and gave Katie the look. She and I then went to the bathroom to brush our teeth and more importantly devised a plan to sleep together in one twin sized bottom bunk bed so that if we were to get attacked/raped in our sleep at least the other one would know and we could fight the American-hater-scary-roommate off of us and scream really loud for help, or something.

We hesitantly went back into our room, quickly crawled into a bed together and said goodnight. Not two minutes later we heard knocking on our door. We told the roommates that these guys were being weird to us and to just not answer it. They kept knocking and we could hear the boys from Amsterdam talking outside. After a few minutes they left and we thought we were in the clear. We thought wrong. Just a few moment later we hear their heavily accented voices approaching our door once again and then they started yelling at us to come our of our room. When we didn't answer, the crazy Amsterdam boys KICKED IN the door.

The door flies open and the roommate who didn't seem to hate Americans as much as the other, like a sweet sweet angle, swiftly jumped off the top bunk, ran after the boys and tackled one in the hall. The other Amsterdam boy bolted down the stairwell and ran back to his room. The American hater roommate went up to the office with us to get the manager while the favorite roommate held down crazy Amsterdam boy #1. The manager told us to stay in a room his office and went down to get the boys. We were in tears, hiding in a small little room in a hostel in a foreign country after having crazy foreign boys (who were most likely on drugs) kick in our door. After only being able to find the tackled Amsterdam boy, because the other was hiding like a little biatch in his room, the manager asked us if we knew what room they were in. We told him. Amsterdam boy #2 was apprehended and then the police came. Katie didn't want to give a statement because she had over-stayed her visit in the fine country of England and didn't want to be deported so we told them that we didn't want to press charges.

Needless to say, we got moved to a double room, the Amsterdam boys were kicked out of the hostel in the early hours of the morning, we had fear in our heart that they were going to come back and kick our door in again, and I definitely barely slept that night. I woke up the next morning feeling like I had the worst hangover ever (thanks to severe sleep deprivation and jetlag that lasted my entire week long trio), and a pretty good story about the time I was assaulted in a backpacker hostel in London.

red mill burgers

Sunday afternoon I went to Red Mill Burger on Phinney Ridge for lunch with Dustin. this was after I slept from midnight to 1:20pm. Finals just really wore me out. Anyway it was super delish (per usual). I got the blue cheese bacon burger with chicken breast instead of a beef patty. We also split some onion rings which were amazing. Post-finals satisfaction with my fav boy who took some candid shots of me eating my huge burger:

happy holidays everybody

rediscovered gems

I heart these pictures and my BFF and my brother!

finals with a kitty

CLICK HERE

The above link is EXACTLY my life during finals.
haha
I love Fluffy Face

déjà vu

Never in my life have I had as much déjà vu as I have had this week. It's really weird. But I'm just going to take it as a positive thing, a la the Ken theory: when you get déjà vu it means you're where you're supposed to be and you're doing what you're supposed to be doing.

I got my latest bought of déjà vu while I was driving home today.

This morning I woke up after a nice 10 hour night of sleep and got ready for my day while wishing that I had an infinite amount of leggings, big sweaters, scarves and boots to wear during finals because they're super comfy but more attractive than sweats (and looking like shit for two weeks straight makes me feel like shit). During this I decided that I should make an appointment at the apple store because my phone has been acting up in a big way for the last day or so (especially late last night). So I made the appointment, went in and had them tell me that apart from buying a new phone there was nothing I could do. Fail. I then called my wonderful mom to vent, and she told me that if I wanted they would buy me a new phone as my christmas present. Best parents.

I then went to the library where I studied for a few hours. Then I met Leslie at Honey Hole for a little break and some lunch. We then went to Online Coffee for more studying + coffee. I finished my constitutional law outline there, and I feel pretty good about it.

Then, as I was driving home I started to stress out about the fact that I'm not stressing out over finals. Is this really all I have to stress over? haha. I actually feel really relaxed about the whole finals process this time around, which is a drastic difference from last year's finals. I mean, HUGE difference. And then I started feelign the déjà vu. Then I began to think that maybe this is how it's supposed to be. I mean, this is how I felt before my crim law final last year, and I did pretty well on that. Maybe I shouldn't be overly stressed? I'm not sure but I like this feeling and I like the déjà vu too.

I also think I may be able to attribute the low stress level to others who make my heart happy.... and déjà vu with them makes my heart happy too.

hopeless

this made me LOL



P.S. my favorite parts are near the end. good late night finals study distraction!

finals happiness

and I had a wonderful weekend despite the fact that it's finals time. I'm going to give most of the credit for this to one of my [new] favorite people... and to the UW win -- we're going to a bowl game!
anyway... favorite parts of the weekend:
leny's and a house party and jokes about walingford's acorns friday night
saturday apple cup win then tangletown then wine and the hangover (duh)
sunday sleeping in, delish breakfast made for me, study time with awesome playlist and company then venison din with the bestie in west seattle.
now it's time to get re-motivated and study study.

I heart Heather

for sharing this video with me. It's a pretty worthy study distraction (almost as worthy as the two men playing magic cards at the table next to Leslie and I... I wanted to fit into their HUGE backpack and go alone with them on their journey. I think it would have been more fun than outlining for Constitutional Law!)

I want...

...this bathroom!

It's amazing how right on your horoscope can be some days. I was honestly just thinking about how I need to re-center. I feel physically & especially emotionally off balance. I need to get back in center before finals really kick in.

December 1st:
You may find your emotions difficult to deal with, Scorpio, especially later in the day. Consider taking an intellectual instead of emotional approach. Your feelings could send you into a drastic mood swing from one end of the spectrum to the other. The thing you really need right now - especially tonight - is balance. Tie up any loose ends to maintain more equilibrium.