Turkey Day

I got to go home early this year for Thanksgiving and at first I was super excited but when I actually got home, I wished I hadn't. I love being at home sometimes but I love being at my apartment so much more. I used to think that I could never live on my own, I was soooo dependent on my parents. I mean, I still am financially but with cooking and stuff like that I'm getting better now, especially with the help of Amanda.

Anyways, despite my apartment-sickness, haha, Thanksgiving was great as usual :) Family parties are usually always great. I went into a food coma like twice. I had spring rolls, turkey, mashed potatoes, shrimp, fried rice, GERMAN CHOCOLATE CAKE, and a bitchton of other food. Amanda and I decided to pace ourselves but that didn't work out well haha.

The next day/yesterday was Black Friday. I've been going Black-Friday shopping since I was in like middle school but for the past two years or so, I haven't gone. Why? A) my mom is too lazy/tired haha. B) I have to work and C) i'm too lazy/tired haha.

Finally today, I'm going to go to lunch with Sami around 1 and then we're gonna watch the last Gopher Football home game! I'm really excited even though I'm gonna be freezing my butt off! I'm just excited to finally hang out with Sami and talk to her IN PERSON. and then afterwards, it's back to my apartment! I might go to the mall and shop but I haven't decided for sure yet... Right now I'm thinking yes.

- Ashley

well hello again

on a scale of 1-10 for how awesome this weekend was, i'd give it a 100. IT WAS SO BOMB. honestly, it was probably the best weekend i've ever had because a) all my friends were there / b) we never had to leave our apartment except for when we had to go get ppl / c) boy A was there! / d) i gained over 15 friends this weekend, which i'm excited about haha.

we probably had the best set up. we had all the lights off but we had christmas lights up everywhere so it gave the apartment a cool vibe. we had 3 posters of pictures of Caitlyn (bc it was her birthday!) and one poster for ppl to sign. and then we had FREE jello shots and cupcakes for everyone. oh and we also had a beer pong table and had a dance party going both nights! we were told that our party was the best one ppl have been to so far. i haven't heard a single person complain. even though we ran out of jello shots for saturday, everyone still loved the party.

friday night was really fun (despite the whole drama incident with Boy J in which we had another argument) but i definitely enjoyed saturday more because Boy A came to visit! i was so excited that he could make it :) i missed him so much. my roomies probably got sick of me talking bout him haha.

we hung around each other most of the night and also might have made out in front of everyone haha... oops. it was funny because everyone yelled "GIT SUM" when it happened. embarassing but we did that to every couple/guy and girl in the room haha.

overall, what a great weekend :)

- Ashley

Oh so lonely

I'm alone in my apartment right now and it's kind of depressing.... Come back roomies! I miss youuu.

Haha, anyways. Aside from this lonely moment, today was actually pretty good. I woke up at 10, well actually 8 but I went back to sleep. And then I relaxed for awhile before going out to lunch with Caitlyn at Jimmy John's. It was pretty good, but people were right when they said they have too much mayonnaise on it. After JJ, we chilled in the apartment for a bit before my mom came to pick me up to go volunteer at United Hospital in St. Paul (which I do every Friday). I actually really enjoyed it because all the people in the PDS (Patient Discharge Services) room were really awesome and nice. Oh and I saw Boy E haha. (I won't give out his name so we'll just call him that - hopefully he doesn't ever find this) He's this really cool, nice and smart guy who I found out goes to the U and his hometown is right next to mine! Crazy huh? Well, yeah you could say I kind of like him but I only see him on Fridays and talk to him at the hospital. So we'll see how that goes haha.

The second thing that made my day/night was that I found out Boy A (he's a boy from my hometown who I've known for like 8 years) is for sure coming up next weekend to watch HP 7 and party with me! I AM SO EXCITED, you have no idea. ...again I hope these guys don't read my blog because that'd be embarassing haha.

Well I'm going to go eat now, I'm starving!

- Ashley

1 Day Down

I successfully stayed off of Facebook for more than 24hours! However, I keep catching myself trying to click on the (now) non-existent tab on my bookmarks bar... mahhh bad haha. I'll forget about it over time, I have no doubt of it. For now, it's still so incredibly weird not having a Facebook. I feel like my social life is just... gone. Which is terrible because my social life should never be virtual.

Anyways, I feel like I haven't really talked about what has been going on in my life lately. Let's see... school-wise, it's going well. My classes are relatively easy and I actually LOVE all of my classes, especially Spanish. I didn't love it at first because I was annoyed that the class was pretty much a review of what I've learned in the past but now I'm really glad I'm taking it. I've become a stronger writer and have improved on my listening and speaking. Apparently I have one of the highest grades in the class and my professor wants to recommend me for a combination of a 1003 & 1004 class. Sweet!

Social life, well my social life really consists of hanging out with my roomies on the weekdays but I'm not complaining! I have a lot of fun with them. On the weekends, I hang out with mostly Amanda, Lynn, Urte and the crew at UST. I love hanging out with them! Mostly because it's drama-FREE and soooo chill. If you know about my year last year, you'd know that these people aren't the ones I hung out with last year but I won't go into detail about that. Things and people change, and life goes on. All I gotta say.

As for my love life... well let's just say it's pretty much non-existent as of right now. I've come to realize that things happen when you least expect it to. So I'm just going to sit back, not care and let fate do all the work :)

Everything happens for a reason.

- Ashley

My World Without Facebook

It's so weird not having a Facebook. Without it, I realize how much time I actually spent on it. I woke up this morning thinking to myself that there's no point in getting up at the normal time (9:30 - which is already pretty late) because I can't go on Facebook anymore. No! Bad Ashley. I shouldn't think like that. Facebook should not be the reason why I get up in the morning..... wow, that sounds wrong.

I'm going to try and see how long I last without Facebook. Partially because I also am curious to see how many people will find out (because they tried to creep on me) and text me about it, haha.

In the mean time, I'm going to preoccupy myself with BOOKS, Roswell, and this blog (most of the time, at least)

- Ashley

What up Blogger?

I deactivated my Facebook. Let's just say, I found something else that would consume my time. Therefore, the point of deactivating my Facebook (be more productive) has proven to be pointless. Oh well, I'm still going to see how long this lasts just for kicks.

As of right now, I am chilling with my roommates in the family room because we decided it'd be a good idea if all of us deactivated our Facebooks. We're awesome.

So, until I decide that I absolutely need Facebook again (which I give myself approximately a week), I will continue to blog everyday. Which, if I'm going to be honest, probably won't happen either because if you follow my Livejournal, you can see that I miserably failed at even posting monthly.

- Ashley