share.

i just thought i would share a couple other scrapbooking blogs that i visit because maybe you will enjoy them too. [i'm sorry i can't just make them into links. i use a mac and for some reason blogger doesn't yet allow linking for mac users. i don't get it, but that's what i found out a while ago.]

the effer dares: http://fortheloveofeffers.blogspot.com/
i've never actually done one of their challenges, but i find all those girls [the effers] pretty inspiring.

the number challenges: http://janellerichmond.typepad.com/itsallaboutthenumbers/
i did the first couple of these. this challenge blog started around the same time as the how much is too much? blog, and i got too busy and stopped doing both of them. i never started this one back up, but perhaps if i'm looking for inspiration sometime i will.

play.create.encourage: http://pcsmart.typepad.com/playcreateencourage/
i have this in my bookmarks, but i don't really visit it that often. there are some cute projects though.

page maps: http://www.pagemaps.com/
there are a lot of sites like this, i think. i've never used it, but it does seem like it could be very helpful to cure a case of scrapper's block.

i guess the main place i visit is twopeasinabucket.com... my day doesn't feel complete until i've had a little session of browsing on there. i know. it's a little sad. james makes fun of me for it too. :]

so yeah. just a couple of fun places to check out when you're bored. if you have any fun places, let me know.
oh. and if you have any good sources for black and white photography inspiration... i am greatly in need. i shot two rolls today of snowy landscape. i need some new ideas.

warm.

it's been snowing since last night here. i'd say we have 8-10 inches in my backyard. it's too cold to actually go out there and find out. so i am staying warm inside with my fleece pajama bottoms from old navy. they have these cute little snowmen on them. :] everyone keeps saying school should be canceled, but i don't know if the university has a such thing as "snow days." plus i have lab tomorrow, so it wouldn't be good for it to get canceled.

anyway. i made this tonight. i shouldn't have... i should have been doing something for school. i don't know what to do with myself. i can't stay away from my scrap desk. and it's always late at night when i'm drawn to it. well this page was totally just for fun. no challenge or anything this time. i am proud of myself. it's been so long since i've scrapped without a challenge in mind. i played with some things from the zingBOOM kit and also some of my new basic grey paper. the little robot stamp, the arrow paper, the yellow paper lacey stuff, and the little paper flower are from the kit. i love those little paper flowers. i feel bad in a way saying this, because some artist is making money to ?possibly? support herself selling those little beauties, but i could totally make them myself. just cut a few vague flower shapes and add an eyelet in the middle. i will probably make some of my own to coordinate with something in the future. in fact, i think i used to make them in art class as a kid. i need to remember more little things i made in art classes as a kid for my scrapbook pages! i had torn a page out of this little notebook to test the robot stamp on and then it looked so good i decided i had to make a page with the little test paper. haha. oh and the little graph paper looking stuff is actually from my biochem lab last semester. yes, i know, i'm strange... but i was cutting my plots down to fit in my notebook, and i had a bunch of little scraps. i just knew i had to save them to use at somepoint on a page. :] AND that little polaroid!! i think i mentioned it before... carol's sister has a mini polaroid camera. it makes little polaroids the size of a credit card. i need one of those cameras! [so basically i need to go to japan or korea.] that's the picture she took of us when we went to pf chang's, and it's just been sitting on my desk. i guess i've been saving it. :] oh and i'm almost out of the white heidi swapp chipboard alphabets. [note that i had to use some black ones.] i really need to look for some more. i haven't been able to find the white ones anywhere. so this is a lot of rambling for one page. i should stop and go to sleep! i guess one last note, i think i might make this into a two page layout. i don't have anymore of that cardstock... but i might be able to find something. i just have so much more that i could/want to say about this topic.

ok. well. i must go now.

susan.

i just saw your comment! how are you? i think you should start a blog too. that way alyssa, you, and me can all be blogger buds. :] and then one day, we can have a blogger bud reunion. [but it can't be in nevada. i want to travel somewhere new.]

i miss you guys!

24.

here i go again. how much is too much? #24

20 different manufactures. i was worried that i didn't even own that many. ha. sometimes i underestimate myself. :]

so i think i'll put the manufacturer and then in brackets i'll put what i used from them...
bazzill [cardstock.]
ki memories [pp.]
gin-x [pp.]
autumn leaves [pp.]
american crafts [pp.]
my minds eye [pp.]
heidi grace [pp.]
tinkering ink [pp.]
creative imaginations [pp.]
sassafrass lass [pp.]
michael miller [fabric pp.]
sei [pp.]
basic grey [pp.]
making memories [brads.]
hambly [transparency.]
mrs. grossman's [sticker.]
could 9 [rain dots.]
prima [flower.]
heidi swapp [chipboard letters & journaling circle.]
doodlebug [rub-on letters.]
ek success [fastenator.]
dymo [tag.]
stickles [glitter.]

plus the things that probably don't count like glue dots, adhesive, the white signo pen, and the black sakura pen. oh and some puffy paint too. :]

i seriously had so much fun making this. i might try to do more pages like this. it's really interesting to try to mix different lines. i mean... i love when things coordinate perfectly too, but this makes you use up more stuff that you might just let sit and it just kind of pushes you to look at things in a new way to coordinate them.

oh and i need to buy another scrapbook. i've already filled the one i got on my birthday... i had more layouts sitting around than i thought. i don't like just having my pages laying around. they can get dirty and plus, i don't always adhere my stuff the best, so little things can fall off. :[

ok. off to bed.

hmmm.

i have a lot that needs to get done. story of my life, right? and i never want to do any of it.

last night i finally went to the chocolate bar. i've been wanting to go there for a long time now. james, deepa, and rick went with me. i think i am the only one who really loved it. james will go back with me though. he liked it because he said it seems like something that would be in new york. :] after that, we went to vino's for 80s night. they were playing all the old 80s hits like from the smiths, the cure, madonna, and even some michael jackson. haha. we had fun. i am actually sore today from all the dancing.

today, i went to a movie with all the girls that i study with. we decided to make it a girls day. we went to see because i said so. it was pretty good. we all got a couple laughs out of it. they were going to eat sushi and i hate sushi, so i decided to pass. james and i went to dinner with carol and soo at the restraunt where carol's boyfriend works. he is actually a sushi chef, but this restraunt has all kinds of asian food [that's acutally edible. ha.]

afterwards, they came to meet the puppy. we all played for a while with helix and then they left and james and i went to get ice cream. funny thing because we had ice cream yesterday too. i can't help myself. i love sweets.

ok well i am off to book a hotel room for a night in san francisco. pretty excited to go there again. :]

fun.

i should have worked on my lab notebook, but instead i made this. :]

it's for the "how much is too much?" challenge #23. this is the same challenge that i made the "thankful" page for. you can check it out over at: http://hmitm.blogspot.com. i started out doing them when they first started, but i only did like the first 5 or something. [the old challenges can be found at: http://howmuchistoomuch.blogspot.com] now they have started back up for the new year with a new blog. so maybe i will keep up this time. [even though i shouldn't... i should let school fill that time instead. blah.]

i'll point out my 5 of each thing: the buttons are obvious. the tags are behind the buttons. [they say "you don't need the sun to make you shine."] the rub-ons are the little yellow letters that say "san francisco". the fabric-y items are: the green felt tag, the yellow fabric, the blue ribbon, the yellow ribbon, and the brown floss that is holding the buttons on the tags. the 5 colors are brown, green, blue, yellow, and white. [there is also some gold, orange, and red on there.]

ok. time for bed. :]

puppy.

so this is the little guy. he actually hates his bed. ha. if we try to get him in it, he will just get up and walk out and lay down right next to it. pretty funny. his favorite place is on a lap or on the couch.


i think this picture is super cute, and with james in there you can get a better idea of how small helix is.












and finally we are trying to get him used to his leash. he didn't like it at all at first, but james took him for a walk today while i was tutoring, and he said helix started to get the hang of it and would follow a bit more and was just less resistant.

so yeah. it's exciting to see him start to understand more and more. the first night he learned how to go up stairs, but was still too scared to go down them. yesterday, he learned how to go down them too. it's pretty cute.

blue.

i am terrible. i got sucked into this: www.thecolorcode.com

the color code personality test. it was pretty interesting. i kind of rushed though it because i am tired but i had to do it. i don't even know why though. ha. but i am a blue and this is what it said:

BLUES are motivated by INTIMACY. They seek to genuinely connect with others, and need to be understood and appreciated. Everything they do is quality-based. They are loyal friends, employers, and employees. Whatever or whomever they commit to is their sole (and soul) focus. They love to serve and give themselves freely in order to nurture others' lives.

BLUES have distinct preferences and have the most controlling personality. Their personal code of ethics is remarkably strong and they expect others to live honest, committed lives as well. They enjoy meaningful moments in conversation as well as paying close attention to special life events (e.g. birthdays and anniversaries). BLUES are dependable, thoughtful, and analytical; but can also be self-righteous, worry-prone, and moody. They are "sainted pit-bulls" who never let go of something or someone, once they are committed. When you deal with a BLUE, be sincere and make a genuine effort to understand and appreciate them.

some of it is extremely true, but i sort of feel like these things are a little bogus [like horoscopes.] they are fun, but i don't know if they really mean anything. i think i could have been a red and still thought "oooh that is so me!" you know? like they are just a bunch of random details. still a little interesting and entertaining though. good conversation starter if anything. :]

goodnight for real this time.

exhausted.

we got the puppy! a little red shiba inu. he's just 6 pounds and so cute. being the science nerds we are, we named him helix. :] he looks like a fox i guess. i took a bunch of pictures, but i am way too tried to go get my camera and upload them. i will post some tomorrow so you can see what a cutie he is.

so i stayed at james' house while he was getting ready for bed and got the puppy to fall asleep before i left. i don't know how long he will sleep for, but i wish james good luck on his first night with the little guy, and i hope he gets some sleep. helix doesn't make too much noise, but he did start whining when we first put him in the little gated off area by himself hoping he would settle down. [he didn't.]

i guess he had a pretty big and exciting day today. he had his first airplane ride, met his new owner, went to the vet, finally came home with james at 6pm, went to old navy [but stayed in the car], target, pets' mart, gandolfo's, then to make his first feline friend [we took him to nicole's house to play], next he had to go cheer up deepa because she's newly single and a little sad [he did the job pretty well], then he met james' brother and hung out with him while we went to get a puppy gate. yeah so he had a big day. it was exciting at nicole's house because he started getting pretty hyper and playful with the cat. he was really fun to watch.

ok i am so tired. the little guy really wore me out! [alyssa, i have so much respect for you... i can't even imagine what it will be like to have a baby.]

fixed?

i think i fixed the image below. i don't know what was wrong with it, so i just reloaded it.

oh and the letters are by making memories... they are glittery and i have seen them in black and silver also. you get a ton in the package with a good variety of font styles. i found them at a local scrap store, but i saw them at micheal's the other day too. besides the heidi swapp chipboard alphabets [that i use ALL the time] they are probably some of my favorites. :]

ok i was serioualy lazy this weekend and now i'm paying for it. it's going to be a late night of lab homework. good thing i got my sleep this weekend.

oh and tomorrow is *puppy day* and i am so excited. all weekend james and i have been reading up, and today we even visited pets' mart. i'll have to update tomorrow and let you know if james made a big purchase. we both really want a dog, but if the absolute right puppy isn't there, then he isn't going to get one just to get one.

ok. gotta get to work.

here.

this is the page i made tonight. :] the photo is another from our trip to san francisco. i think i should print more black and white photos. they are fun to work with. i guess this page looks a little valentines-ey, huh? i didn't really mean for it to be a valentines page, but i was in to mood for some red and pink. haha. so yeah. pretty simple page. just a little cardstock and paint, some stickers, scissors and black and white pens. i think it's one of my favorites.

thirsty.

well it's nearly midnight and i am aching for a tangerine frappuccino or a carmel apple cider. the problem? i am in my pajamas and my hair is a mess. i have a pet peeve about people who go out in public in their pajamas and i refuse to do it. even to go to starbucks at midnight. james is in carson so i can't talk him into going for me either. :[

today was a nice day of nothing. i only left the house one time to go eat japanese food with my mom and dad. i had thought about going to a scrapbooking store, but i was too lazy. haha. my mom brought me the february zingBOOM kit that finally arrived. it was part of my birthday present, but it took quite a while to arrive. there are some fun things in there that i'm excited to play with. it was my first time ordering a kit online. i don't know if i will ever do it again... it seems like there is always going to be some stuff in the kit that i will never use. i guess part of the point is to push you to use things that you wouldn't normally pick out. i'll have to see how i do on using things in this kit.

tonight i worked on a page for this blog: http://scrapjacked.blogspot.com/ and it's pretty much finished. now i just don't know if i want to post it for the challenge or keep it for myself. i love the page. it's a photo of james and me and some journaling about us. i'm just thinking now that it's kind of a personal page and i don't know if i want to put it out there or not. i might just do another one or not post one for the challenge at all. i'm being a little too analytical tonight maybe. ha.

oh! last night i found out that i won a little prize for the cardstock challenge [the page is posted here below somewhere.] that i made for the fiskateers page. i have never won anything scrapbook related, so i was super excited. i don't even know what i won, but it doesn't really matter. i'm excited either way. :]

tomorrow i need to work on my lab notebook. i let is slide this week because i was busy studying and whatnot, but i need to try to keep it up to date so that it's not overwhelming when i am trying to write my big lab report. [we don't have to keep a notebook, it's just to help us keep track of everything for when we have to write out the big reports. we don't turn in a report for each lab, since our labs build on each other. we just write three big reports for the whole semester. a little scary because you can't really mess one up without ruining your grade.] i also need to shoot some film. i don't have to shoot any for an assignment, but it would be good to get a little more practice.

ok. well i wish i had some fun photos to share or something to make this post a bit more interesting, but i don't have anything. maybe i will scan the page i made later and post it on here.

thankful.

ok. so i know several holidays have passed since this one, but we finally hooked up the new photo printer the other night and i printed this photo and it was just asking me to scrap it. :] so i did the new how much is too much challenge... 21 stickers, 14 flowers, 7 different papers. i used rain dots for the stickers and counted the letters since they are self-adhesive. i also counted the flowers in that little tag. so maybe i bent the rules a bit, but i'm happy with my page.

goodnight.

bummer.

well my molecular bio test didn't go as well as i would have liked. the essay question was to design a protocol to determine the size of prokaryotic okazaki fragments. you could use any mutant e. coli, any reagents, and any methods you want. i looked up when i got to this part and i only had 5 minutes left. i froze. so i am instantly down to an 89%. huge bummer, but hopefully i will take this disappointment and turn it into motivation to work harder.

my cell bio test went ok. we had two unexpected essay questions. in the past, my professor has just given multiple choice tests and occasionally an essay for extra credit. well these two essays were required. i think i got them both. one was about k14 in epithelial cells. we had to design an experiment to show its activity, so i talked about labeling it with biotin and using immunoflourescense. [i hope that is right!] in the other, we had to basically tell how to determine if vesicles are moving on microtubules or microfilaments. so i just talked about using all the different drugs like nocadozol to knock out activity and monitor the vesicles afterwards. my professor makes these questions really long, so it's kind of hard to pick out what you really need to write about, plus it's hard to practice for these. i think i am going to start reading and relying on the text much more and then rely much less on my notes and the lectures. most of the test material seemed to come from the text and not really from the lectures.

i don't know. in both cases it was my wake up call. i am going to try to organize a study group for molecular bio every friday. it helps so much to talk about the notes instead of just reading them to yourself and trying to make sense of it in your head. plus if we do it every week, it won't accumulate to where it is overwhelming. james agreed to do it, and i think a few of our friends will be interested too. i really want to pull out and A in that class. i think it's probably one of the most interesting classes i've taken, and i just want to do well in there.

so after my cell bio test today, i had to tutor. my head was hurting so bad. so i got there and aubrielle was the only one home. i helped her for a bit and then we sort of messed around hiding from her neighbors who wanted to play. haha. i felt like a kid again. it was so nice. then mindy called me and told me i could just go because she wouldn't be home with the boys for a bit. i was so happy. so i went to the scrapbooking store. :] i've had a punch card filled up for a long time now, but i never seem to find $25 worth of stuff at one time. well the had all the new basic grey papers already, so i splurged. i bought the whole phoebe line! eek. i don't use a whole lot of basic grey either... i have lots of it, but it's probably some of the hardest paper for me to scrap with. this phoebe line was just too pretty though, and i really think i can use it more easily than the traditional basic grey. this line is a little more bright and fun. :]

i only have molecular bio in the morning and then it's the three day weekend. :] i am so tempted to sleep in and make it a 4 day weekend, but i just can't do that. i still don't have the ability to miss school for no reason without feeling terribly guilty. for tonight though, i think i might be able to scrap on a school night and not feel too guilty. :]

freaking.

totally freaking out.

i hate this feeling when i am so overwhelmed can't even study. [and i know... it only makes things worse by not studying.]

i'm getting it two-fold right now though. my molecular biology material isn't too hard, there's just way too much of it. i have most of the principles down, but all the details are just a mess in my head. is it s1 that does 5' removal or exo 7? or maybe exo 7 is the one that does both 3' and 5'? do you have to use reverse transcriptase for RACE, or is that only when you are trying to use RNA? are alpha, sigma, and theta the core components of pol 3? or is there supposed to be an epsilon in there? blah! plus my professor is known for his exhausting tests. one of my friends from the honors program told me that when you get out of his test, you can't move, you can't think, and you just need to go home and sleep for a few hours. but i won't be able to go home and sleep for a few hours because i have to start studying for cell bio. there's a little problem there too. i don't even know what i am supposed to have learned/be learning because my professor is so confusing. i know we've been talking about actin and myosin... but i don't know what i need to know. :[

no school on monday though. that thought is getting me through these days. i am thinking maybe james and i can go snowboarding this weekend. i want to go away somewhere [like san francisco] but i don't think it will happen. snowboarding would be fun though. :]

ok. well i better do something else besides just complaining on here. just needed to freak out a bit. james gets out of class at 5:15 and i am supposed to have studied a lot by then so i can teach him some stuff. ha. usually it turns out that he just teaches me everything.

headache.

my head is pounding. i need to study. i think my head hurts because i am stressed about my tests this coming week. but with the pounding head, i can't study, which increases the stress. grr.

james and i almost bought a puppy friday and the day before. friday was a jack russel or a puggle. the day before was a shiba inu. we are having puppy fever so bad! everytime i go to a puppy store, i fall in love. the shiba was already sold. we were talking to the lady about buying it, and this other man came out and said it was sold already. bummer. we saw the puggle last week when carol bought her puppy and it was still there this week. so tempting. they had two jack russels that were absolutely tiny and so cute. one of them looked just like wishbone and i let him lick and bite my finger for a long time. he was so cute! james and i made ourselves leave the puppy store without a new friend and we came to my house. we were sort of sitting around and james kept saying "let's go get the puppy." ha. i looked into it a bit more and i don't think a jack russel would be the best option for us right now. plus they are hard to train. so it's better that we didn't buy it, but it's always so fun to go look.

friday night i went out again to a place called jungle vino. it was fun. more my scene than any of the casinos. it was just kind of mellow with good music playing. james and i just sat at the bar for a bit and waited for our friends to come and talked... i don't know it was just nice. i'm feeling more and more like an adult, which is scary, but i'll grow into liking it. the bartender made me an andes mint drink. haha. it was pretty good actually.

earlier on friday james and i went to rc willy to look at furniture. his roommate is moving out, so if he stays there he will need to buy a couch. we had fun looking around that store. it's huge! i kept testing his taste asking him what he liked to see if it matched my own taste. i think that is important because i've seen some battles when people get married about how to furnish the house. well i think james and i match up pretty well. :] oh but don't get the wrong idea! we aren't talking about getting married or anything. i was just having fun.

james and i saw a movie last night. it was definitely a boy movie... smokin' aces. it was pretty interesting and i would even say it was good, it just wasn't my type of movie at all. i had agreed to see it with him a long time ago though. plus the chance for movie theater popcorn isn't something i pass up.

i have no motivation to study. all i want to do is go scrapbook or clean. i did laundry yesterday and cleaned my room. i never seem to mind those chores when i have things like studying as my other option. i guess i better go try to get some things done though.

sleeping.

trouble sleeping = story of my life. so i made this tonight. of course it's for a challenge. i don't know what my deal is, but those things seem to be the only way i can scrap lately. when i go to my desk to just try to scrap, nothing happens. i get overwhelmed. but when i have a challenge... i don't know... i just can't leave until i make something. :]

so the challenge was to use no pattern paper at all. i don't find that too hard to do... they just usually take me a really long time to finish because i have to wait until i find something to spice it up and finish it off. in a normal page, pattern paper just really helps to spice it up.

ok. well i have to print some more cell bio notes and then try to sleep.

photos.

i just imported my birthday photos. i realize now that i didn't take very many, but there are some good ones, luckily. so here i am with james, deepa, and my sister. :] i found the cutest dress and i am so glad that i didn't chicken out on wearing it. i was going to wear something else and then deepa and james told me to put the dress on. i wore it with jeans so i wasn't cold. [ok and also so i didn't have to show anyone how pale my legs are. ha.]

last night james' roommate had a terrible flu. so today we are both crossing our fingers and hoping that we weren't exposed to it. i didn't sleep at all last night, so i'm feeling pretty crappy and just hoping that it's from the lack of sleep and not oncoming flu. i absolutely cannot get sick. i have lab tomorrow and i can't miss it.

i'm going to try to go take my photos now. we'll see how it goes. :]

nervous.

i just submitted my first page ever to a magazine. i am so nervous. i love my page though, so i am really going to try not to let this submission thing make me not like the page when it doesn't get picked. i didn't send in the page i originally made for this call, but i sent in another one instead. maybe i will post it at the end of the month when the calls go out for this page and mine isn't one of the chosen ones. haha.

today was a good day. i went back to the scrapbooking store and got my album. then i went to macy's with my mom and sister and found this cute sweater that i've been wanting on sale. :] then we had a little bbq at my house with some burgers and stuff and went out for ice cream. so it was a nice day. i got a new coach purse that i've been wanting, so that was exciting. otherwise, i didn't do any of the homework that i was supposed to work on, i didn't take my photos that i was supposed to take, and i didn't do my laundry that needs to be done. ha. oh well.

i guess i am off to try to get something done. i have to say, this has been one of my best birthdays ever. :]

21.

so i celebrated my birthday a little early today [meaning the 3rd, so i guess that's really yesterday] and then kicked off my real birthday tonight at midnight.

to start, i bought myself two new pairs of shoes. i am debating about returning one though. i went to the scrapbooking stores. i am going back tomorrow [or i guess today] because they told me i have to come on my real birthday to get 25% off. ahh well. so that was the day.

tonight i had a good dinner with my family, richard, the danes, my sister's friend, and of course deepa and james. carol and yenh had work and my other friends just didn't care or something. oh well. it was amazing to be with those who were able to be there. we got dressed up and stuff. :]

after that, my sister, her friend, deepa and james and i went downtown. we went to roxy and i had promised a while ago to have one drink on my birthday, so they told me i had to do it. right at midnight i tired some martini. it was absolutely disgusting. there is no way i could drink it, so i got a different one. the bartender made it just for me with lots of juices and only a tiny alcohol. :] it was better. then i was done. i fulfilled my one drink requirement and they rest of them continued. we went to another place called brew brothers where they had a band playing. i didn't like the band at all, but we tried to have a little fun and they all tried to make me dance a little bit. we were all getting pretty tired though. james said i had to play a table game to make it a complete 21st birthday. so he gave me $20 of chips and i played 2 hands of blackjack. i won one and then lost one and i just gave james the chips. so then he went to a different table and put all $50 of chips down and doubled it! so i made him leave before he lost that. haha. he said i am his good luck charm. :]

well i can't believe i am 21. it seems like there is nothing to look forward to now. and it seemed so weird tonight to be able to go all these places that i've never been allowed to go to before. not that i have been badly wanting to go to them. i really don't care. those places aren't really my scene, but it's just a funny feeling to walk up, show your id, and go in. i've never had a fake id or anything, so i've never felt that feeling of nervousness that other people feel when they try to get in... but it still felt to weird to be allowed into these places. i don't know... i realize that i am rambling here, but i can't find the right words to describe it. i guess that means it's time for bed. i have homework tomorrow and i need to shoot my film. plus it's the superbowl. i don't really plan to watch that though. haha.

sew.

i just finished this tonight for a challenge to use no adhesive. i've been wanting a sewing machine for a long time and now... after hand stitching all of that... i want one even worse. the pink felt is really hot pink, but my scanner decided it's pale pink for some reason. i don't know how to fix it. oh well.

tonight james and i had dinner with carol and her sister, sue. sue just got here about a month ago from korea. she is finishing her last semster of high school. i don't think i could do that... move to an entirely new country for my last semester of high school? she's pretty brave. anyway, carol and i are total picture-taking-nerds and sue is too! it's so exciting to be able to take out your camera to shoot some randomness and not have the people you are with think you are strange, but instead, get their cameras out too. like when we left pf changs tonight, there was water on the pavement perfectly in the shape of a heart. i thought it was totally photo worthy and they agreed. :]

tonight i finally settled my birthday dinner plans. well i still don't know who's coming, but we made the reservation and stuff.

tomorrow carol is going to come over to see my scrapbook pages and then i think we might do a little shopping for scrap stuff. i also kind of want to find an outfit for my birthday dinner. i found a cute dress, but i am thinking i might take it back and try to get something a little warmer.

ok. i better get some sleep so i'm not dozing off in molecular bio tomorrow. :]