A good day to read

Late afternoon was misty and really reminded me of Seattle. Except that in Seattle this would be normal and I'd be used to it. After how many years away from Washington, it just made me tired and want to curl up with a good book.


So I brewed myself another cup of tea in my lovely new tea tumbler and did just that. I downloaded Eat, Pray, Love for my nook the day before yesterday, but only made it to the 6th bead. Now I'm up to the 27th, and really want to go to Italy and do nothing but eat for 4 months!

Snow!

I have a love/hate relationship with snow. Living in Wisconsin probably doesn't help much, since we tend to get a ton of the stuff, but there's not a lot I can do about that.

Tuesday
It started snowing late Tuesday afternoon, but it never really got past this.


Kind of disappointing, this is one of those times that I hate snow. What a tease!

Wednesday
Promised more snow, it still didn't even cover the grass.


And this after "snowing" the entire morning and afternoon! If I didn't know better, I'd think I was back in Washington.

Thursday
No snow on Thursday, but we're promised a lot for tonight, which left me thinking yesterday afternoon. What am I going to do when it's all cold and snowy and the sidewalks are terrible and I'm stuck inside? And then I remembered.


Between Netflix and Hulu, I can catch up on all of the tv I've been missing/ told I absolutely NEED to see. Starting with Lie to Me. I'd started watching the first season my first year at college, because it was on after House, the only thing my roommate and I did together. I missed all of second season last year, though, and the first few episodes of the current season. So between this, Heroes, and Firefly, I should be set for awhile :)

Ok, I'm behind again

Here's the thing. We're getting dangerously close to Thanksgiving break. Which means that everybody and their mother is just piling the homework on. I didn't take pictures this weekend. Why? Because I was either sleeping or glued to The Tome. Remember that? It's still terrible. Here's the rest of last week:

Monday
Somehow, I naively, thought that I'd have time to do fun things this week, so I downloaded Plants vs. Zombies for my iPod.


Trust me when I say, it's pretty awesome. Who doesn't like plants that shoot peas at zombies and sunflowers that pop out little suns?

Tuesday
My roommate went home the same weekend I did. She came back with this:


If you think it's something you could get used to, or that after awhile it gets less creepy, you're wrong. Very, very wrong. Those eyes are so big that no matter where you are in the room, it's looking at you. And giving you one creeptastic smile.

Wednesday
I had a math test! (I got an 80!) It was also a really nice day out. However, this is Wisconsin, so I'm expecting snow any minute here.


I figured that this would be the last time I'm going to see green grass for a loooooooooooong time.

Thursday
It was a very sad day for Jon. He decided that, since he recently bought a computer (and they have cheaper and better games), and that he rarely uses his xbox anymore, that he would sell it.


Still, it was pretty sad to pack it up. He feels better that it's going to a good home- our friend's roommate NEEDED it so she could play Assassin's Creed. I don't get it, but whatever. Not a video game person.

Friday
This counted as the weekend, which I already explained was not photographed due to my being stuck with The Tome.

Goodbye, Bones!

Yesterday
Meet Bones. My roommate found him at the Dollar Tree and thought he'd make a good door dec for Halloween. Apparently the girls on our floor thought he needed some cash.


The CAs, however, thought Bones was a policy violation- he's covering both our room number and our spy hole. Since Halloween is over, I don't mind seeing him go.

Today
On campus, we have these things called TitanDollars- a campus currency that we can use at the Union, in vending machines, for laundry, at the bookstore, etc. It's been cold lately, and today it actually snowed a bit. Just a little. And none has stuck so far (for which I am INCREDIBLY thankful). So because it's been cold and it's now starting to snow, I ventured into the bookstore to see if I could find some mittens.


And I did find mittens. But even better than mittens- I found mittens that are also fingerless gloves! So I can still do things like unlock doors and unzip my backpack to get my keys while still being really warm (50/50 cotton/wool blend ftw)! Even more exciting! These are fair trade mitten/gloves, knit by women in Ecuador. Did you know that UW Oshkosh was the first fair trade university in the nation? (article here) It's just one of the things we do to be a more sustainable campus :)

Angry wind advisory

It's really windy today. I mean, it's usually windy on campus, because it somehow manages to act like a wind tunnel. But today, we have a high wind advisory. When I woke up and checked the weather this morning, this is what I saw:


I wasn't very excited. Then I went outside, because I had to get lunch.


And this is how I felt when I got back. All and all, I've left my dorm twice today, both times because I needed to eat. You have no idea how glad I was that I didn't have to walk to class today. Although, maybe the weight of my backpack would have helped me not get blown around so much?

Aftermath

Ever have those days where you wake up in kind of a haze and stumble around for a bit before you actually start paying attention to your surroundings (you know, like most school days)? That's what I did this morning. And this was the first thing I was awake enough to notice:


I believe the first thing I said this morning was something like, "Gross! Gross! Mom, did you SEE what the house next to us looks like?!! Gross!" Then Mom wished me a happy birthday, and I remembered it was my 21st birthday! So tomorrow night I'm going to go out with my friends and have fun, and probably have a really boring picture for the day. lol

TONS of Rain

It is absolutely crazy outside right now. It's been pouring for a couple of hours now, and raining on and off all the rest of the day. Take a look at the street outside my house:


See those shiny spots in the middle of the road? That's the part that isn't submerged. Now check out our backyard:



We have a river! Maybe it will be more convenient for kayaking?

Adventures in Target

Because various skincare items were needed, so Soph and I adventured over to Target this afternoon and had an adventure. We found some pretty sweet stuff, too. For example, a tamagotchi.


When was the last time anyone saw one of those?!! We also discovered a whack-a-mole game, which Soph really enjoyed.


You can tell she liked it by the way she's viciously assaulting the poor guys in this picture. lol. We also found a pretty awesome cowboy hat, which I kinda liked.


And, to round things off, we also got a picture of these lovely fluffy clouds on our way home:


They put me in the mood for cotton candy. Sadly, I have no idea where to get any other than at an amusement park.

New Roses

Ok, I know I JUST posted about the Sweetness Rose, but this is really exciting for me. More of the roses have started blooming, and they looked lovely this morning with the rain drops clinging to them after last night/this morning's showers.


I thought this one was particularly lovely. I like the softness of the pinkwhite color, but I also think this fiery orange is really pretty:


I don't remember which types these two are, but I'll look it up and post them sometime in the next couple of days.

Thunderstorms

We have had a TON of storms the last few days. Not to make excuses for my lack of updates, but it's meant a lot of internet outages. Monday and Tuesday pretty much both looked like this:


The only reason there's any light at all in that picture is because there was so much lightening. Since Tuesday was basically a repeat of Monday, I didn't take a picture. Instead, I drew a happy flamingo enjoying the sunshine wherever it is that flamingoes live. Because another storm picture would be depressing.


Yay flamingo!