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One more thing: I thought Michigan got a lucky break, what with snowstorms hitting everywhere but our state, but alas. Seems we have a Winter Storm Warning effective at daybreak tomorrow, all through Wednesday. Shall see if it actually amounts to anything. Maybe it will land me a snow day! Doubtful, as we're so accustomed to snow that we never get such luxuries, but a girl can dream.

I don't see how it's possible I had very restless sleep last night, was up way too early this morning, spent all day feeling exhausted, and am now unable to sleep at 2 am.

I've made some tea, and I'm cuddling up in bed, hoping the sandman visits.

While I'm feeling really stretched lately, I can feel a change in my productivity. I'm more attentive in class and I'm getting more work done. I can tell, for the first time in probably the last two or so years here, that I'm making some progress.

The two things that are actually suffering for it are my sleep and my job.

I'm not getting a lot of restful sleep these days. Either there just aren't enough hours, or my dreams involve something like being in a neverending Russian exam, so I wake up feeling too worn out to face the actual day. Maybe the fact that I hate my job now more than ever is related to my lack of rest. My patience and work ethic is at an all time low, and I think my boss is picking up on it. I need to step up my game, but I'm just feeling like I can't be bothered. School is the more important of the two, and my job just kind of is going through the motions. I really loathe that place, but I need the income.

I probably should try and sleep, make sure I get a few solid hours in. Even if I can't fall asleep, it's at least nice lying in the dark and the silence, under my warm blankets. :)

I have made a necklace this evening!

Or at least, I polished up a bead I liked and put some wire through it..I'm working on filing down the wire and setting it flush against the bead so that it is a bit more refined, but I wanted something really simple, since the bead is so striking.



It's really really dark purple (if you hold it to light it is somewhat transparent and looks more purple, in other lights it looks navy blue or black) with specks of gold and green. It makes me think of a starry sky. :)

I have been waiting for Massive Attack's Heligoland for fucking ever. And now, here it is.



Splitting the Atom, Atlas Air, and Rush Minute are my favorite tracks as of now.

Here's Splitting the Atom on youtube.

I am at that awkward point now where my hair is too long to be short, and too short to be long. It's that awful point of growing out short hair where it just looks weird no matter what.

It's grown out now long enough where it's starting to part, which I think gives me the "nerdy boy from high school" look (this is partially because of the glasses too):



So the question is: do I cut it and keep it short, or keep on trucking until it's long again? I don't know what is best. It's nice having short hair because it's so easy to care for and I think in general it looks good on me, but I am always jealous of long, wavy locks as well, so I can't decide. I come to you, friends, to pitch in please!

Man, I never thought that for homework I would be sitting here typing away on my laptop, required to write a blog about video gaming. But here I am.

I dislike having to use twitter for class purposes, though. That's not as much fun.

They follow my every move!

(Also I had a bagel in my hands)

I've got an extra motivation to work the fuck out and start lifting weights: next month my sister and I are taking surfing lessons.

Oh man oh man oh man I've always wanted to learn how to surf, it's gonna rule.

Just one more, as the sun started to set over the lake. :)

~WELCOME TO SUNNY MICHIGAN~



My younger sister and I went out to the beach of Lake Michigan in Holland, and it is practically Hoth right now.



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I'm absolutely frozen and demand hot chocolate immediately.

It's freezing in Michigan. For real freezing. This is the time of year I got frostbite last year, and it's not really any better this time around.

For example, what happens if you stick an ice cream cone to a tree in below-freezing temperatures? The result was just outside my dorm this morning.




If it's still there later I will try to get a shot of the whole tree for better context, but I thought it was cute anyway!

I think I have landed a wonderful, thoughtful, sexy husband, and I smile about this every day.

He steals a whole room when he's around. To me he is always the most entrancing person around...Even just seeing his name pop up on my pidgin buddy list in the morning makes my heart skip a beat.

I love that man. :)

I'm really interested in getting a DSLR camera. I'm starting to do some research on them, and the more I look at them the more I lust for one.

I'm certainly no pro-photographer, but I really enjoy photography, and it's gotten to the point where my point-and-shoot has started to feel really limiting to me. It's great for quick snapshots, but I don't like that I don't have the manual control that I really desire.I would love to have a manual zoom, for example! I want to broaden my knowledge and skills and see how I get on with it.

Any recommendations? Obviously my budget isn't huge, but I want to save up for a halfway decent one to see how it goes. Also, if you know of anyone who may be upgrading to a new one and might be willing to part with theirs, give me a heads up.

Anyway, relating some more to the title of this post, there are a bunch of things I've been really really wanting to do that I have been daydreaming about:

1. Living in a yurt.
2. Cage diving with sharks.
3. Going to Argentina/Antarctica.
4. Seeing the Northern Lights in Sweden/Norway.
5. Experiencing the midnight sun in, again, Sweden/Norway.

Ugh so much I want to dooooo. I must come up with something that will make me fabulously rich.

If you have a hated 9:00 class that's two miles away from where you live (and your options are to walk or catch a 30-minute bus ride, no driving!), and you wake up at about 7:30 to get ready, and the snow is coming down like rain and it's blistering cold...Don't get back into bed in the fetal position under your warm blankets because you have "10 minutes to kill, it will be fine."

Still, I'm a hero because I managed to roll myself out of bed a second time and I'm even here early. BOOSH. Willpower.

The worst thing really is that this class is in the one of the farthest south buildings on campus, which also happens to be a dormitory. I really loathe the people in my class that live in this building, and rock up a minute before class starts having literally just rolled out of bed.

Sharks rule, they are the best animal, my LJ icon must reflect this.

I hate you guys who are posting pictures of girl scout cookies, now I can not sleep until I have some. ;__________________;

1. Aquolina Pink Sugar hair perfume.

2. Double-fisting vodka-cranberries. Such a lush.

3. Soup.

4. Saturdays.

All of these things are related.

How is it that I didn't notice until an hour after leaving the house that I forgot to put a bra on this morning? How is that even possible?


FFFfff

Say I was in the market for my own .com. I really like the ease of use of wordpress, the dashboard, etc., but I don't like the idea of buying a domain through them because of their restrictions on embedding things, customization, etc. Say that this is for semi-professional purposes.

What is the best way to get the best of both worlds?

I'm feeling kind of low today, and the radio at work is playing the counting crows. This is a bad combination.