The nicest day ever!

So today I begged and pleaded my way into getting to drive my grandpa's old Jeep. When he passed away he left it to my mom and I and it was sitting in her garage begging to be driven. It's an old 1979 CJ-7, maroon, with a bikini top and a V8 engine(and boy do those pipes rattle!). Needless to say, I'm in love! My mom, dad and I drove out to put a sign in the ground on one of the places they're selling and we drove around the lake coming back and it was awesome. It was just a really great, fun, simple day. One of those days where you just laugh and laugh. Great times!! Can't wait until the weather is more like this.

A couple of jokes for Friday :)

After the college boy delivered the pizza to Bud's trailer house, Bud asked, "What is the usual tip?"

"Well," replied the youth, "this is my first trip here, but the other guys say if I get a quarter out of you, I'll be doing great."

"Is that so?" snorted Bud. "Well, just to show them how wrong they are, here's five dollars."

"Thanks," replied the youth, "I'll put this in my school fund."

"What are you studying?" asked Bud.

The lad smiled and said, "Applied psychology."

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Joey was taking Calculus at UCLA. He struggled with it, and worried about failing. Final exam time came, and he studied and studied, but, still he was not ready.

The Professor passed out the exams and told the class that they had only 30 minutes. Every five minutes, he reminded the class how much time was left. This only made Joey more and more nervous.

Finally, after 30 minutes, the Professor said, "Stop! The exam is over. Turn them in!"

One by one, the papers were handed in. But, Joey just kept working on that exam. The Professor decided to wait it out and see how long it would take him.

After another 20 minutes, Joey turned in his exam. The Professor asked him, "What are you doing?"

Joey answered, "Turning in my exam."

The professor then told Joey, "The exam was over 20 minutes ago. You have failed!"

Joey then looked the Professor in the eye, and asked, "Do you know who I am?"

The professor answered, "No."

Then Joey asked, "You really don't know who I am, do you?" as if he were a very important person.

The Professor again, said, "No, I don't know who you are and I don't care!"

Then Joey shoved his exam right in the middle of the other exams, that were on the Professor's desk, and said, "Good!"

You gotta love it :)
Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Farscape Convention - Better kisser

It's that time of year again! Time for the FARSCAPE CONVENTION!!! Okay so the actual thing isn't until Novemember, but still it's exciting! The information about the convention is here, if anyone is interested. As I have been told before, I may be a little obsessed. But, I think everyone has something they are really into (reading, music, gardening) and I just happen to be really into sci-fi.

Friends

So does anyone have that one friend that no matter what you do, they don't listen to the advice they asked you for?? This annoys me sometimes. They ask for advice and then totally blow it off, it makes me wonder why they asked in the first place. I don't know. I think that sometimes they just want to hear someone agree with them. Usually when I ask for advice, I listen to the person because I trust them, otherwise I wouldn't be asking them in the first place. Maybe it's just me. Maybe I'm just tired, perhaps I am just tired of being asked the same question over and over. I think it's just been one of those weeks where if one more person asks me something I'm liable to scream. So here's to a better week. I hope everyone has a great week!!

Gratitude List, thanks Samie!

Samie posted a great message about a gratitude list, so I thought I would share my response here. A gratitude list! I love it! Check out Samie's blog and see if you can come up with your own list :)
Let's see, I'm thinking about this, I guess mine would go something like this,
1- The most wonderful parents in the world...even when they annoy me
2- An amazing 'adopted' little brother (he's acutally a really close friend we brought into the family)
3- An amazing best friend who's been there for me when anyone else would've rather drowned me than look at me ;)
4- The opportunity to get my Master's degree, thanks to my parents.
5- The creative ability to write, and write screenplays, inventing characters. I thank God for that often.
6- Music, I would be insane without a doubt by now without music.
7- Movies, I just don't think I could live without them either.
8- The ability to heal, physically and emotionally. I've been through some hard times recently and by the grace of God managed to survive.
9- clean breathable air, as you said, sometimes I wonder how the people in LA do it with all the smog.
10- everything else I've forgotten, but I'm sure I will add to later :)

Great question!!

An oldie but a goody!!

I was watching this old movie last night with my dad, Ben Hur. He absolutely loves it. I don't "love" it but I really like the chariot race, I could watch that over and over. It was a really advanced/expensive film for its time, I guess that's really why people are fascinated by it. I'm just not into the whole Roman thing as much as he is. I don't know I really get emotional watching it. There are certain instances with Judah that make you cry...maybe it's a girl thing. I like the time period, but I that movie is just tooooo long :) He likes Spartacus as well, but that one I can actually sit through. It has a more interesting story, I guess. Well maybe interesting is the wrong word, succinct?? It's easier to watch, for me. I feel so bad for Spartacus, what a life, hunh? I hadn't seen either one of them in so long, I was wondering if anyone else has seen them or likes them??

Thinking, thinking, thinking...

I am having one of those days where you have everything due at once! It's like the deadlines just crept up on me. I have three things due for my free lance writing job, and two papers due. SIGH!!! I knew the papers were due, but I was putting them off until we got a little more direction on where to go with it, because it's a theory paper. I have no problem doing that assignment, but it's all this other stuff. It's like I just can't get caught up...argh. On top of that, I still haven't finished paying off my tuition like I had planned because I had some other expenses come up. What a week; and it's only Wednesday. I'm sure it will all get better though because I have made the all-important "to=do" list and will start crossing things off soon. I have this picture right next to my desk:

And somedays....it's the only thing that gets me through!!! :-D