more freshy year

i wish i had something really interesting to post, but i don't. sorry.
this is Gary/Gotti, Maura's froggy friend. Originally named Gary by Jena (my roomie) after a total creeper. Maura was offended and disturbed and renamed him Gotti.
Jena and Gary.
Glow jewelry.
candid! lovelove Jenayyy so much
the Triple :) (please ignore Maura's hand)

Maura and me <3

L to R: Me, Jena, Maura (suitemate), Anne (suitemate's friend), and Dominique (suitemate)
we love our suites! <3

oh, college.

Tis' The Season

For My Favorite Purple BOOTIES!

I can't decide who's the bigger dork: me for taking pictures of my booties with my webcam or Jena, or more commonly referred to by me as "Jenaayy" (see "Forrest Gump" for reference), for jumping into the pictures.

college life.

Painting windows on our floor. Pictures to come of my window.
Lesson #13: Salsa con queso must me refrigerated.
Eating authentic Chinese food thanks to Steven's Chinese roomie.
Lifan Cai :) "My name is Li, but you can call me Blake. B-L-A-K-E." *bows*

he is absolutely adorable.

and when we thanked him for dinner he said: "No, no, no. It is my honor to cook for you."

awwwww!
Stephen and Steven.
Watching The Office from season one.
Jena's bed is top, mine is bottom. lovelove my Anthro bedspread!

This is me and Casey being bored....blissfully unaware that the video was going. ahahaha!

be inspired.

Irene Cara - What A Feeling (With Lyrics)

Album: What A Feelin' / Flashdance Soundtrack
Film: Flashdance (1983)
(C) Paramount Pictures

Happy Birthday, Sisseh!

thaank you Daniel Coulbourne for the very funny thing:

http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/7929/timemachine.jpg

ladies: where'd you get your body from?

all of this right here ->









<- got it all from my mama

i really respect people with hot pink hair

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcMyqLA-QdA

here's one of my favorite bands! and i'm one of their favorite groupies! myspace them! i am def their top friend =] yes. my crowning moment as a person.

Back from the Dead

Since Rachel is neglecting this, I'll try and breathe life into it again!

It's official, I'm headed to the 'Bury next summer... any suggestions of things to do? Leave your comments.

And for everyone's pleasure, I'll add a pretty old picture for your enjoyment.

Dying. Figuratively

Sin stricken humanity.
My body is weak.
My mind is weak.
My will is weak.
My heart is weak.
My words are weak.

Are you getting the general idea?

For (roughly) fourteen days my body has been cursed with sleepless nights and nauseous days.
I have struggled with sleeping at nights for over two years. Sometimes it gets better for a while and then it falls back into this dark pattern.
The nausea, however, is new.
There have been several theories, thus far:
1) My sufferings are a direct reaction to my dairy allergy. (Theory is nearly scratched out because of my habitual avoidance of named product)
2) Because of my short stature there is not a lot of space "for [my] guts" (quoting my mother) and, therefore, I am suffering from early reflux.
3) I suffer from anxiety.

In any case, I am EXHAUSTED. I know my English teachers would be appalled to see me using capital letters instead of adjectives to express my emotion, but it truly in necessary.

So these are the theories. We (meaning my parents and I) are in the process of testing each one carefully.
Any you would like to add?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Very best wishes to the Birthday girl!
I miss you so so much =]

Taking It All In

(sweet revenge!)



Life is so weird.
I am deciding whether I should make this abstract mumbo-jumbo or be straight with you..

Okay. So as I sit here just writing, thinking of what I am trying to say, I am feeling a little mixed up.

For those of you that know my current home situation concerning my parents (that's all I can say about this for now) then you know more of where I am finding myself.

I am sad inside because of some life issues that have been beating me up lately,
but I am also really happy. Happy for this week and all the possibilities of tomorrow.
Nervous too.

This week has so many adventures and so many stories in the making.
I am so excited to live each one!

Congrats Meadows and Foley!!

Sarah Meadows, the dear, has engaged herself to Peter Foley, from Colorado.
Congratulations lovely people! I am so happy for you both!

Charlie bit my finger! ++Remix

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On another note:

BLAST from the PAST

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Tibet, Life and Other Random Things

Thanks again Rachel, for letting me use your blog.

Some have been interested in what is going on in Tibet ect. Since Olympics are being held in China this year they are seeing this as a platform to get the 'freedom' they want. Protests are happening all over the world, including here. They are peaceful, yet the Chinese government wants them to put to an end quickly so they are charged with batons or whatever you call them ready to hit an demonstrator who can get on the end of it.

Life is grand, have found a wonderful church here! Makes a HUGE difference. Am helping plan a VBS they will have for three days. Should be exciting and am very happy to be serving the local church here. Actually brings a taste of home to my life, except everything is in a different language and a smaller scale. 30ish people attending services each Saturday.

Power outages are still a huge part of life. Frustrating but am used to it now and have come up with a schedule that allows me to make the most out of my time... always a good feeling.

I've become addicted if you will to Prison Break. I've seen the first two seasons.

Pray for me as I'm pretty sure that shortly I'll be gaining a lot of responsibility here as if finances isn't enough. Haha. It will be good though and cause me to run to Christ even more which is never bad.

Well, I'll bring this to a close as I've got nothing interesting to say. I'll try to update more often, which should be doable.

Ah yes, one other thing... we too celebrated Easter last Sunday. We aren't strange like Ukrainians. Met at the church at 6am for a short sermon and singing and then joined thousands of Christians marching together to the center of town where a big rally was held celebrating our risen Lord! It is so evident to see the joy of the Lord on the faces of believers here. Good times indeed.

Yours truly,
AnnaP

Happy Birthday, Best Friend.

We've had some amazing times, lovely!

Thought vs. Action

So I was originally going to post a ridiculously long post about mushrooms.
How as a child (two months ago) they were gross and slimy and the idea of eating fungus was not appealing. The idea of eating a fungus is STILL not appealing, however, I have acquired a taste for there pungent flavor and spongy texture.

But I am tired and want to go to bed. Plus I want to watch Rebbecca with AnnaP......ugh...life is weird.

annap and her alive-ness

Thanks to the generosity of a certain Miss. Rachel, I shall be trying to grace her blog with a post from me once a week.

For now, we're up to 8 hours a day of load shedding. It's 6am and power just went, will be out until 10am only to out again at 2pm and return at 6 in time for me to watch the top 12 perform on American Idol. Never seen it before, rather exciting. Not something I'd be watching if my precious sports channels weren't taken from me.

Anyway, thanks again Rachel!

Snazzily signed your one and only,
annap