The Okie College Girl

A few months ago I purchased a Flip Ulta.  There was a lot of hype about them around Christmas, so I made the leap off into the unknown.  I must say it’s the easiest video recorder I’ve ever used, literally it’s point and click.  My 5 year old cousin uses it when he visits and loves that he can immediately see the video after he records it, but I think he loves seeing it on my computer when I pull it off.  His face lights up and he says “I did that?”.  My Flip comes in handy when I need it, but it’s also an extra piece of equipment that I have to lug around all day.

Love my Christmas present.  I’ve used it a lot more than I thought I would.  My very tech savvy mother even bought one, actually more than one, and loves using them as well.  It’s easy to go out and shoot something, edit and post.  It’s just that simple.

I spent 6 hours outside today.  6 hours of pure yard work in a bikini.  It really wasn’t that hot outside, although it was a little sunny.  I wound up with one of the worst sunburns that I’ve had in awhile.  How did I get burned you ask?  To  be honest I’m not quite sure, other than I didn’t use Sun Block.  I barely used sunscreen in Florida and wound up with the perfect tan.  I want that tan back and pronto.  I look like a lobster, but my yard looks amazing.  I think this is going to be one of the best summers spent in Norman yet.

A new strap line.  Wasn’t what I was shooting for, but it sure did happen.  I of course had to take in all of the work I did outside so I sat back with Petunia the Pink Laptop and worked a bit on my blog.  I say a bit it was past 10pm when I finally came back inside, it felt awesome outside.

Yes, I realize you can almost see down my shirt, but you can’t. Ha.  It was the comfiest thing I could find that my newly singed skin could handle.  The burn doesn’t look horrid here, but you all may already know, you really don’t start to see the effects of a sunburn from later on to the next day even.  I’m getting ready to go to bed and my skin is on fire!  Extra Red and Extra Crispy.  O-u-c-h.

This evening while taking a shower I was thinking exactly how I’m going to finish this huge Blog project I’ve bitten off.  How?  There are so many aspects I want to look at and try.  Many aspects that while I thought about this in the shower, I put conditioner in my hair before the shampoo and then proceeded to shampoo my hair twice.  Oh yes, leave it to me to think so hard that I mess up my shower routine.

I then had the bright idea that I need bath crayons.  I need to jot down my ideas while they’re coming to me in the shower instead of trying to remember them or doing something like Rev. Run would do.  I’m leaving my Crackberry out of the water and opting for something  that doesn’t cost $500 to replace.  Hopefully I can find some bath crayons and finally put an end to this blog mayhem I seemed to have started in my brain.

At least I am thinking.  Thinking I don’t have the money to replace my Crackberry in case the bubbles creep into my phone, or Heaven forbid, I lose my toe grip at the end of the tub and fall into the water; that’s actually happened before.  My feet keep me afloat in the tub, because I’m just not tall enough to lock my legs and hold myself up otherwise.

Here they are!  Hopefully I can find some on a town outing later this week.  I would assume Wal-Mart, so I’ll try there first.  For all you blogging mommas, know where I can find a set of bath crayons?  This college girl needs them and you never know, I might start working out my Calculus equations while I bathe too.  That would be marvelous, wouldn’t it.

I’ll keep ya’ll posted on what I come up with.  Look for photos of my bath tub graffitied later on.  I’m sure I’ll shock the majority of my blog readers with the various I thoughts I have on a daily basis.

It really wasn’t an eventful day.  I mean I got out of the house & ran errands.  Roomie decided it would be fun if I dropped her off at class.  It was like JR high all over again.  When I was just a newbie driver,  I had to take not only her, but my brother to school when I first got my license.  What fun was that.  Instead of parking in OU’s lot, I just dropped her off on Elm.  I was able to get an entire 2 errands ran while she was in class.  One of them being the car wash.

Let’s just say that I will not being going to the Kangaroo Car Wash any more.  Seriously.  How is it that I can screw up an automatic car wash? …and not just once but three times!  I sure wish I were kidding.  I don’t make this stuff up people.  The first time I went through, my car jumped the track.  I’ve been to this car wash several times, my car has never just jumped the track.  I didn’t touch the break, didn’t turn the wheel, and I definitely didn’t switch the gears in my car.  No way, no how.  The attendant shuts the wash off & comes to my rescue.  We get my car back on the track & I drive out of the car wash, swing around & give it another try.  A second try.  Again, the same thing happens.  I think it’s just not my day.  I should’ve stayed in bed.  Again, the dude comes to my rescue & I drive around again.  Third time. We devise a plan on how to get my car through without this problem.  I have to hold onto my steering wheel in a certain direction.  Seriously, I love talking on the phone or texting or even turn up my radio super loud and just jam out.  Oh yes, I’m that girl.  I still wound up getting stuck on the third time.  I mean seriously, who gets stuck in an automatic car wash three times?  Crazy.  I did walk away with a semi-clean car.  The guy brought out paper towels & he helped dry off my car.  I’m just going to go to a spray wash later this week and shine up my car, hopefully I won’t have any problems then, but you just never know!

The car wash was enough excitement for me today.  Roomie & I did our grocery shopping.  Needless to say after we were done I had my car loaded with lots of good for you veggies.  I purchased an Eggplant, Butternut Squash, Zucchini, Onions, and a yummy French Onion Soup Mix.  I love eating healthy.

*Roomie did try my Twelve Alarm Chili as Mom has thoughtfully nicknamed it.  She really liked it.  When asked what I used in it, I told her it was a secret.  I actually added 5 or 6 types of beans, 2 cans of Green Chilies, lots of Cayenne, Paprika, 106 ozs. of blended tomatoes, Garlic, an ENTIRE cup of Crushed Red Pepper & other secret ingredients.  It’s probably the BEST Chili I’ve ever made, I swear it’ll blow my Dad’s masterpiece out of the water – except I’d hate to burst his bubble that I have a few concoctions of my own, because you know, he’s a Food Chemist & well you just don’t say things like my recipe is better than yours to a Food Chemist.  I learned that one the hard way.

You see, I have this obsession with PINK.  I wish I was kidding….but I can’t help it.  It just so happened I needed a new laptop to start the school year because Gizzy wasn’t up to standards for school.  As my luck would have it, my credit card has a reward system &I qualified for a gift card in quite a hefty amount – so I bought a laptop.
I compared brands back & forth, debated this & that, and even went to the Best Buy store to get a feel for the laptops there.  I am very very picky when it comes to the mouse & keyboard on the computer as well as how accessible every peripheral hook up is on the computer.  I have pity on the poor guy that one day tries to buy me a computer as a gift….poor guy he just doesn’t know what’s coming.   Seriously, I’m obsessed with computers….maybe that’s why I’m going into the field I’m going into?

So I picked this beauty and I have named her Petunia.  She’s a Sony Vaio CW & she’s perfect. Her specs include :: She plays Blu-Ray, she has a Webcam, she has 4GB of RAM & I can upgrade her to 8GB if I’d like.  She also has Bluetooth, and a HDMI port, but most importantly, she IS PINK!!
Hurry UPS Man….

I have been cleaning the kitchen for the past 3 hours.  I wish I could say that our kitchen was always clean, but it isn’t.  I have scrubbed more Crystal Light off the bar than possible.  I’m afraid of it staining the grout and thankfully none of it has.  I am nearly complete with this task of deep cleaning the Kitchen and then I will call it quits & head to bed.  I’m glad I’m finally making progress and getting things back in order just in time for school to start.

A minor mishap occurred earlier today.  Our Washing Machine broke.  I sure wish I was kidding.  I mopped up all the water that had leaked out of the bottom.  I pulled it out & left it alone for a bit…then took a long nap.  I managed to FIX whatever was broken.  After unplugging the washer & unhooking all the things that attach to it, I stuck my hand up under it (I’m brave) and tightened a few things – I’m assuming screw type things – and that fixed it.  I’m becoming quite the handy woman around the house these days.

Along with fixing things & cleaning I have gathered all the Christmas stuff up & will tackle putting it all away tomorrow.  I have to get boxes out of the attic & put everything back up.  I am very happy I didn’t drag a lot out, because I’m the one having to put it all away.

Just another few more weeks until school starts.  I’m looking forward to the end of this semester   I will be graduating – just not “walking” which is perfectly fine with me.  Hello Associates, next step Bachelors….only a little over a year left of school & I’m DONE…..

well until I decide to get my Masters in something…..

What is it that I was up to for over a week?  Why this!  I finished it a few weeks ago and I need a frame.  It’s a painting I did of Poppies.  It’s not my favorite, but I stayed up several nights painting til the sun came up.  I honestly had no idea what time it was, I was have THAT much fun painting.  Mom calls it my stress reliever & I think she’s right.  Although, I’m not too sure what else I can paint for my room – I’m not allowed to repaint the walls because we will wind up selling the house one day.  For now though – I’ll just cover the walls in various pictures & decor using push pins.

I found what I want for Christmas & it comes in Hot Pink!  While shopping for some new Shox I came across this little gizmo.  It’s called the Nike+ SportBand.  It will tie into my iPod Touch & keep track of all my jogging process.  I’ve been trying to jog every night or at least walk when my muscles are beyond sore.  It’s taken me awhile to get up to a good pace & I’m still working on it, but 2 months after my trip to NYC I’m amazed I am pushing myself to do this!!  It did take a couple of tries to get up to jogging half of my neighborhood, I’m still working on the full thing – but for now I’ll keep pushing until I can get the whole thing down.  Pretty impressive considering I haven’t been able to jog in over a year!

the Nike+ SportBand… in HOT PINK!!

After 3 years of living in the same house in Norman I decided it was finally time to pick a theme and decorate my bathroom.  It all started with the shower curtain & just grew from there.

Slowly but surely, my bathroom is transitioning.  It’s starting to look like a livable space, which excites me even further.  I spend a majority of my time in the bathroom in the mornings getting ready and I am going to love getting ready now.

A project that took me several days to complete.  They took much longer than I anticipated, but I got them done.  Yes, they’re completely original and no one has anything like how I’ve created.  Great, huh?

The finishing touches.  I believe I have added as much as I can to my bathroom.  I don’t think anything else will fit in my bathroom that has Zebra qualities or has the qualities that my bathroom has now.  I love how I get excited over my bathroom.