25 Random Things

Everyone has been tagging me on this thing on facebook, and I haven't been able to think of anything to write on my blog lately, so I thought this would be a more appropriate place to post 25 random facts about myself.

1. I check these four websites regularly:
http://foodgawker.com/
http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/
http://megduerksen.typepad.com/whatever/
http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

2. Ive been in a long distance relationship for 2.5 years. I cant wait for it to be over. The distance not the relationship haha.

3. I think I'm the only person in SLO who doesnt love it here.

4. I really want to live in San Francisco or Sunnyvale or San Diego. haha.

5. I would love to have a chihuahua but I'm not really sure if I'll ever get one cause Derek is allergic to dog and cat hair. So I think I'll get a teacup yorkie instead cause they are hypoallergenic and they are really cute too (and freaking expensiveeee ugh)!

6. As far as a career I have NO CLUE what I'm meant to do, but I do know that no matter where I am I'm meant to lead women to Jesus and serve God in whatever other ways He calls me to!

7. One time I was in San Francisco and I kid you not...I saw a man walking a dog with a cat on its back with a rat on the back of the cat.

8. I wish I had more time to make crafty things.

9. I like watching documentaries. I don't like chick flicks.

10. Last year I lived with 7 girls. Surprisingly there wasnt really any drama. Okay there was a little...but only with one person and it could have been better if I had a better attitude.

11. I love wearing leggings. When I wear them I think its really funny because Derek calls them stockings. They arent stockings!

12. I love Britney Spears.

13. I've run a half marathon (through disneyland!) and someday I hope to run a full marathon. But running really hurts my knees.

14. I loveeeee purses. Some girls collect shoes but if I had the money I would collect purses for suree.

15. I became a christian my first week of college.

16. I have a bad habit of biting my nails. I really wish I could stop but I've never been successful for more than a couple weeks.

17. I want a white SUV.

18. Watching americas next best dance crew makes me REALLY wish I could dance.

19. I love naps! I don't know anyone who sleeps as much as me except for Derek.

20. I really like white teeth.

21. I lovee watching john and kate plus 8. I feel like I can sortof identify with them for certain reasons...haha.

22. My favorite store by farrrrrrrrr is anthropologie, but I dont own a single item of clothing from there, or hardly ever even let myself go into the store, because its so expensive.

23. I really look forward to having kids someday.

24. I want to be good at cooking, but making recipes is hard when you only cook for one, so I dont have much practice yet.

25. Its taken me a week to write this list. I dont feel like I even chose 25 good things...

You wish Kim Todd was your BFF

Once upon a time...I moved to San Luis Obispo to go to Cal Poly. My roommate dropped out before the first round of midterms leaving me lonely and alone in my dorm room for nearly a whole quarter. One day I found a post it note on my dorm room door and it said something like "Hey I need a roommate we should meet up maybe we will like each other." The post-it was from Kim! I checked Kim out on facebook and she looked like a weirdo she had a picture of herself at an anime convention wearing some type of balloon thong looking thing over her pants. But I didnt care, I just wanted someone to keep me company! A few days later I met Kim and John for the first time at the Avenue. John was eating Chick Fillet and I wondered how Kim was already dating someone who must be a Senior at Cal Poly cause John looked old to me. I dont really know how I thought he looked so old cause he doesnt look that old to me now! I guess Kim decided she liked me because soon after our meeting she moved in. At this point in time I was on the swim team and I was super buff so I carried more of her boxes than John did. I dont know why I didnt think Kim and John were more weird because one of my earliest memories of them was them watching tarzan rubber band (not funny) and looking up XXX rated things on ebay. Gross! Kim was testing me. What a beezy. Luckily I'm cool and I didnt really mind. I remember lots of nights freshman year of John making rice and leaving our rice cooker a mess, and the three of us sharing ice cream, and me not letting Kim sleep because I wouldnt be able to stop talking before bed, and hating the dorms together, and one time we tried to play raquet ball. If Kim hadnt moved in I WOULD HAVE DIED, litteraly. Kim Todd you changed my life. I didnt like John so much back then, but now Im glad I met him. Haha. Then sophomore year Kim was an RA...I feel guilty that she had to have such a lame job cause I flaked out on her for living together. Her being an RA SUCKED cause she was always busy and I feel like we didnt get to hang out as much as I wanted. But sophomore year whenever I was bored on campus I would call Kim and John and then we would go get sandwhiches. (This quarter I get super bored on campus because during my breaks I have to eat alone. I sound like such a loner.) Now its our THIRD YEAR IN COLLEGE. Can someone please tell me how that happened so quickly? Kim and John are in Australia which is sweet for them but it means no more dance parties with strobe lights at Johns place and no more hangin with Kim when I dont want to study. Me and Kim never really do arts and crafts, but I have a million arts and crafts I want to do with her and I cant!! Such a disappointment. Someday I think me and Kim will both have kids and they will go to Kims house to be crazy and when they come to my house I will feed them vegetables and make them do knitting or something. We probably wont live in the same city so it will be exciting to road trip/fly away to visit each other. Kim is my BEST FRIEND in the world and I cant wait to do super cute stuff together when she gets back like having our spaceman party and having a tea party and baking cakes and making arts and crafts and talking about random stuff and going shopping downtown and going to the beach and going to the gym!

xoxo
-Aly

I need to get this out of my system

This is basically the busiest week EVER. I have two midterms tomorrow, one on Thursday, then I'm going home, then I'm flying to Oregon for my uncles funeral, then I have to come back and take another midterm on Monday! I'm sitting in Higher Groundz (a coffee shop) trying to study and I just can't stop looking at crafty projects that I wish I had the time to do! These are the things I want to make:

Skirt:


Sick set of coasters:


Super cute heart dress:



Decorate old shoesies:


xoxo
-Aly

what?

I think I want to go to law school. But I don't know if I'm really cut out for it.

Thats all.

xoxo
-Aly

having a superficial moment

This afternoon on a whim I decided to get a walk-in appointment for a much needed haircut at a random salon. The hairstylist was really easy to talk to, which I loved because usually I don't talk to the hairstylist AT ALL and it is so boring and so awkward. I L-O-V-E how he colored my hair...buuuut the actual cut is lamee-o. It is not the same length on both sides, the layers are incredibly choppy, he doubled the thickness of my bangs (nooot neccessary), and the ends are...blunt. I don't want to go back and complain, so I think I'll call Reveal tomorrow and see if someone can touch it up a bit. I found some pictures online of stuff I like so that I can better explain what I want cause I'm always really bad at that. I'm hoping when I go to Reveal they can get it to look something between these two styles:



Continuing to cut my hair is the last thing I want to do because: 1. its expensive and 2. I want long hair again!!! (seriously chopping it off was fun for like 4 months and then it was over) but this middle of growing it out phase is painful!

.......Okay now I have a pink blog that talks about hair and has a photo of a chihuahua on the side. Could this possibly be any more stereoTYPICAL?! I promise never to talk about my hair again (except maybe I'll write about how fantastic my hair turns out when it gets fixed next week).

I'm glad to say that when I started writing this I was not feeling to happy...But now I feel like a soon to be superstar like Ashley Aimpson-Wentz.

xoxo
-Aly

if my life were a color it would be pink

I should be reading right now. Clearly, I'm not. Welcome to my blog. Hello Kim and John my future craft creating-cake baking-dance party shaking-sandwich eating-roomies (I hope!) who are currently "down under?"--I dedicate this blog to you!

What shall I talk about next? I wrote a whole paragraph about ketchup and decided that it was SO GOOD that I can't bear to post it until I have a HUGE following for my blog. So stay tunned internet world! If you are like me and have a guilty pleasure of stalking people I do encourage you to continute checking in because let me tell you I will be filling this with tons of juicy information about my life.

Kinda kidding. This is awkward.

Today was a really pleasent day. I can't remember a moment in the whole day where I wasn't happy, and that means a lot cause I was doing calculus for like, 4 hours. In the morning I took a bath and read my Bible (*tmi?). My time spend on campus was productive (I wont bore you with details). Before going downtown for the night I visited Mcloud and Nichole, I'm pretty sure Mcloud was excited to see me because he imediately stoped playing left4dead when I walked in (kiiiiinda a big deal). For dinner I hung out with some friends at farmers AND to top it off while I was at starbucks I met a homeless man and he let me pray for him. AND I got a call from my best buddies. Amazing.

In Australia it's already tomorrow afternoon. Weird.

xoxo,
Aly

*Too much info?