New Semester in a Wet and Windy Week

It's been awhile since i've blogged and i do feel like i have let myself down. I said i was going to write one about 5 times before this week, now i've finally decided to sit down and write one!

In honor of the rain I decided to watch Poseidon :) I thought it seemed fitting.

I had to walk in the rain today, luckily I didn't get wet going to Math but on the way home the puddles in the street turned into a mini river. Needless to say my foot and bottom of my jeans got satcherated. Also I should mention I had an umbrella :) I was also able to wear my black trench coat.

This week classes started back up. I was super nervous Tuesday because i only had Math and i am super bad at it. Turns out we are starting at, like, kindergarten level maths - today we learnt about adding and subtracting. I'm being honest! Supposedly its going to get harder, and I hope so because I have it 4 days a week. I'm sitting at the middle table in the back with 2 guys, Eric and Sam. Eric is probably early 30s and Sam is my age. Yesterday this girl Lauren was sitting with us but she wasn't here today. I like Sam cos when he asked whereIi was from all he said was "All Blacks!!!" I was like "dude you rock!!" :) We should get along just fine.

Wednesday I had my 7:30am class which was Psych, I think i'm really going to enjoy that class. I didn't mind the early start and I picked a table with a fairly cute guy called Andy and Kimberley who said she's taking this class to hopefully get to know her teenage son better. Theres this other guy, Zack, who seems cute atm. :) Ha ha.

I also had my Public Speaking class on Wednesday at 10:30, I was surprised when I saw Doug waiting to go in as well. He was in my English 102 class this past semester! Unfortunately we were put in groups and he's not in mine, oh well. Theres actually a few cute guys in that class! I know one is called Skylar :) Unique name which is why i remember it.

Tomorrow I have Geology from 9am to 2:45pm... Long day for me. Hopefully we will get out early because the lecture ends at 11:45 and the lab doesn't start until 12pm but as it's the 1st day I doubt we will be doing anything else except going over the syllabus.

So, in my last blog i mentioned I was going to the doctors on Tuesday 12 to get my bloods drawn etc.. The bloods weren't as bad as I thought it would be, though when the results came back I found I have a slightly higher cholesterol than I should. Other than that everything is fine with me.

Since my last blog I had a movie night with RJ, we watched Invictus and Halloween 2. Admittedly I hid for pretty much all the scary parts but other than that Halloween 2 was okay. I didn't watch much of Invictus, I just couldn't get into it until the end where South Africa played NZ - then I was yelling at the TV. :) I should have picked Up In The Air with George Clooney but we can watch that next time. Oh, dad also insisted on meeting RJ before we left. It was awkward for me, he said it wasn't bad. No idea what dad thinks of him though, lol, doesn't actually matter. We're only friends. I love his mum and dad though, they are so much fun to chill with.

Nothing has changed on the job front either. I've lost count on how many places i've actually applied to though on Tuesday i filled out an online application for a part-time housekeeping job at The Marriott hotel which I would absolutely love to get! Talking to my (step) dad on Monday made me realize that I do want to work in the Travel & Tourism industry.

On Saturday 16 I had lunch with my dad, I knew what he wanted to talk about so I was able to have some answers already formed. He asked what I wanted to do in 1year and in 5years, where i saw myself career wise, job, University, etc.. Found out that I will be able to buy the car off dad for $500 when I get a job, will have to take out a loan but paying that back will give me credit and credit is everything here - good credit that is.

Dad and I went to, what I now like to call our place, The Codfather.. I had bangers and mash.. HEAVEN! I have not had that since mum last cooked it for me. I miss her cooking.

I also got to talk to my mummy!! She actually rang me. I was in shock that she did. It was good talking to her though, I miss her.

I went and saw Leap Year on Monday with Kelsey, Mel and 2 more friends of hers. Mel got me in for free because she works at that Harkins theatre. The movie was sooo freaking cute!! I posted this on Facebook after I got back home:

"Ah Leap Year was sooo cute!! Defo worth seeing it :) Plus that guy is wow. Hot! His accent... Mum, I think you should be worried if i go to Ireland :P"

And I stand by that.

On Monday I was also able to finish all 7 Harry Potter books :) I was sufficiently proud of myself. Ohh and i also bought The Half Blood Prince on Saturday.. I was driving past Walmart on my way home and I was like "I'm just gonna pop into Walmart" and I saw it and had to have it! Dad would have bought it but I had to get the special features whereas dad would just buy the movie.

Hayden's been making me jealous by sending me pictures of the snow he's getting. Dork. Told him to make me a snow angel today and pxt it to me, so far nothing. I also asked if he could build me a snowman.. Yep he didn't, though to be fair I think he was up the mountains skiing when i asked cos he said "It wasn't the right snow." I will continue asking though.

I think thats everything?

No doubt i will have missed certain things, but they were obviously not important enough to be included in todays blog.

Just Another Family Gathering

Got home about an hour ago from Ed and Rosalie's Christmas dinner which was fun until after dinner haha.

Here's the story:

Ed told me to grab a cup and he'd get me a drink, i was thinking he'd hand me a soda, he pulled out a bottle of white wine!! to say i was shocked was an understatement. So yeah, i got to have my wine on Christmas :)

Anyway it goes downhill after dinner. I take my plate into the kitchen with my glass for a refill (#3) and Phyllis tells me "What are you doing drinking? You know that your driving!".. I was floored. My eyes popped open and my mouth was an 'O'.

Phyllis then said "Didn't your dad tell you you were driving??"

"Uhmm NO!" I had to idea this was happening! She then yelled for dad, "Steve, Sam's drinking." And he looked at me like 'WHAT?' I left the kitchen after that. With my cup full i might add!

Told Grandma and she put my mind at ease saying that she would drive if they expected me to drive the van home.

Now, if i was by myself and had only drunk the amount i did, i would drive. If i had to! Absolutely had too. But i would have had my dad, Phyllis, and my brothers in the van. I did not want to drive with any alcohol in my body, no matter the amount! And for another thing, i had never driven the van before! So yeah, that was exciting. NOT.

Oh and then when we got home Phyllis asked to talk to me outside and i thought it would be about the drinking. No, it was about the fact that i was the main focus for gossip tonight. Ha-ha yup. I got up to get something from my grandma and i had the recliner which Jason immediately stole from me. I asked him nicely, then told him to get up! Threatened to sit on him, but ended up sharing the seat with my arm around his neck. Yeah, they apparently found it strange. I texted Jas straight away and asked if i had made him feel uncomfortable, he knew what i was talking about straight away, he said i didn't. Phew.

Oh and just so you know, I didn't drive.

My Long-Awaited Blog Post

So i know i have been soo very slack when it comes to blogging! And its not like i dont have things to share with all of you!! I do really. I've just been so busy with school.

On Monday i had to hand in a 4+ page definition essay. Mine was 5 plus the works cited. We also had to have 5 sources!! Ugh it was a lot of work.

Anyway in short... My life is good, on Sunday i have my final driving lesson with Chris! Which means thats the day im taking my driving test to get my license!! SCARY =S
Next Saturday i enrolled in a self-defense class for some unknown reason even to me! Though i figure it would be handy to know, dont you?

Classes have been fun especially Sociology! I love Jessica we have soo much fun! Today we both almost had to leave the room because we were laughing so much LOL.. Too funny. And i love English with Katy, shes freaking awesome!

Tomorrow im hanging with Kelsey who i havent seen in like over 2 months!! And i might be hanging out with Dustin tomorrow night though im not sure if Jess and Nabeal will be there as well... I hope so otherwise im not sure i'll want to hang out with him and some of his friends

I'm sorry this isn't longer but i really don't know what else to write until i post pics!

But i will tell you all this.. I think im going to start writing a FanFic, but i will let you know when i post anything! First i need to create an outline! Though i do have a plot idea :)

Driving

Today i have my FIRST ever driving lesson with an instructor and i am soo nervous! I mean i don't know what he's going to ask me to do. Will he want to take me on the freeway? Theres a good chance of that happening because it's a 2hr lesson.

Thats the reason as to my im kinda freaking out! My driving instructor gets here at 1:30 and get back around 3:30.

But at least this won't be my first time out driving. Dad took me out for the first time on Saturday for at least an hour, we also went out Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Hopefully dad will give me a pass tonight cos after 2hrs i'll be sick of driving!

Im also kind've worried about the directions, i mean i hope he tells me where to go and remember how we got there cos i'll get lost if its up to me. *sigh* this is why im nervous, i keep thinking about it and i need to relax!

Anyway thats all i wanted to say on that! Will tell you what happens either today or tomorrow.

Western Themed Bar's and DUI's

Happy Thursday (or if your in NZ then happy Friday) =) When i normally write my blog on Thursdays its always 1am! But not tonight, tonight its not even 8pm =)

Well last Thursday was the night that i went out with dad, Phyllis, and Mike (dad and phyl's best friend) for dinner and drinks. Grandma babysat the boys which was YAY haha.

We left home around 6ish for dinner at a Mexican restaurant - which i cannot remember the name for! - i got this grilled BBQ chicken pasta dish with a whole sh*t load of spices in it! Phyllis and i got the same dish so i knew it wasn't just me! But other than that the food was alright. But before we ordered the food we had to order drinks (of course) i asked for a frozen strawberry margarita which is what Phyllis got as well, well anyway he asked to see my ID! I mean we all know im not 21 but as i was with my dad and 2 other adults and it was for dinner, he still wouldn't serve it to me!! I had to order a virgin frozen strawberry margarita *pfft* but Phyl and I switched! I ended up drinking 2 of those during dinner and boy they were strong!

We finished dinner around 7:30 so it was still too early to go home so we headed off to a bar called "the Whiskey River" and when we walked in (no one was at the door to card me) everyone was on the dance floor learning how to dance country! So cool. Had 3-4 beers while there and got dragged out onto the dance floor by Phyllis before heading home around 11ish. After we got back home we all headed outside put on some music and continued drinking.

All in all it was a really fun night!

Pics from the Whickey River

AND i wasn't hungover on Friday but just very tired!
I had been up at 6am preparing for my Philosophy final.

Which im proud to say i got a B as my overall final grade!

Like Friday i had a lazy weekend. Phyllis rented New In Town with Renee Zellweger friday night. Saturday she went out with some girlfriends so she rented a movie for Nick to watch, Race to Witch Mountain, i enjoyed it too. After the boys went to bed i watched the movie she rented for me which was Last Chance Harvey with Dustin Hoffman - i have to say i really enjoyed that.

Now Monday, jury duty day =/ haha... Nahh it was actually kinda interesting!

Phyllis dropped me off at the courthouse at 8am, on the way we saw a car accident - turned out to have been fatal for the driver - i had to go through metal detectors then i headed to the Jury assembly room where we had orientation at 8:30.

It was a pretty nice room too. They played 4 movies throughout the day and i caught only 1 whole movie! They started off with Knowing with Nick Cage, about 40 minutes to the end i was called along with 23 other people for Panel #3 to go through the process of jury selection.

**Just to state the obvious 2 other Panels had already been called for court cases.**

This was around 10:30 i guess, so we headed up to courtroom 605 on the 6th floor and meet the Judge, defendant, his attorney and the state attorney. Now the defendant was pleading not guilty to 2 DUI's. And OMG he was colourful in his wardrobe choice!! Black suit which was fine but he had paired it with a green shirt and satin lime green tie with hot pink socks!! He soo must have been gay - he was gorgeous too.

Nice view right?

Anyway back to the case, we were asked group questions by the judge -which i can't remember- then after 45min we were asked to leave and wait outside were they asked for certain individuals to come back in. I wasn't one of them. We got to leave at 12 for lunch which was hour and a half long. I tagged along with John and Julie, who were also part of panel #3, to the Thai Elephant. So yummy =) We got back early and went back to the assembly room and i found out that they were playing Indy Jones 4!! Which i have'nt seen!! I was really annoyed by that!

Got back to the courtroom at 1:30 and we were all called back in because they had made there selection. I wasn't one of the 7 picked - neither was John and Julie, we were sent back downstairs to the assembly room and i caught the final 10min of Indy 4 before Iron Man started (that's the movie i watched all the way through). I wasn't called again when they picked Panel #4 which was lucky for me but Julie was called again. I played Sudoku for awhile before i went into the lounge to eat some of the doughnuts they had on offer and to get a coffee from the free machine, i first had a French Caramel cappuccino then i tried the English Toffee coffee, both were yummy.

Were we let out about 10min into National Treasure 2 which sucked but we were let out 45min before 5!

Out of the 10 scheduled court cases only 4 called for Jury's so the other 6 would have either been postponed, settled, or maybe even thrown out of court.

So there you go! The 2 big days i had have now been immortalized on my blog =)

In other news i have made my appointment for my first driving lesson! It'll be next Wednesday at 1:30. Dad says he'll take me out this weekend which will be good.

Also its your last chance to comment my Guess the Stupid Law blogpost because the answers will be posted tomorrow! Then i will post the next 5 up.

Please please please go and comment your answers and check back tomorrow to see if you got them right.

That's all from me for now.

xXx

Saturdays Funny

This kid is a genius though i kinda feel bad for the instructor =P

Elven Princess + Driving School + Harry Potter

Aloha bloggy babys.. I am watching LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring (extended edition). I love Legolas and Pippin the best. Who are your favourites?

The guy who plays Haldir, one of the Elven people who lives in the forrest, is kiwi actor Craig Parker.

This past week has been hectic but only in the form of my Philosophy class. Mr Dickerson seems to have his favourite students that he asks for answers to his questions- unfortunately i am one of those few! I have no idea why because i hardly answer his questions. Though some of the discussions are interesting, i will try and remember next week so i can share them with you all.
Though i do remember we were talking about the bible and Jesus and how he rose from the dead... well that's when Kayce leaned over and whispered "Jesus was a vampire?", that made me laugh! =) Come on it at least made you smile??

So im not sure if i mentioned it in a previous posting but i have my first ever Jury Summons coming up! August 10th to be exact. It was meant to be July 29th but i have class that day so me ans Phyllis changed it. Im nervous but excited.

I thought that i would be able to have a nice relaxing Saturday but yesterday dad told me i would be attending Driving School!! To get my permit!!! Majorly exciting =D =D then i can finally start learning to drive.

Also this Saturday dads taking me to go and see the new Harry Potter movie!! YAY! Haha i soo cannot wait. Eeep. Phyllis told dad he should take me to a movie because I've been very helpful and babysat a few times these past few weeks. I think he wants to see it too. But it'll be good- one on one time with my dad.

And I wrote about Harper's Island in a previous post.. I was right about the killer. =)

Tonight i babysat again, hence dad taking me to the movies Sat, which was fun. Nick challenged me to a rematch to the Mario game we played last time on the Wii (don't ask which one i have no clue) anyway i had won the last won. He won this won which he was happy about but then we played the same game but had Tag Teams instead of Battle. Hehe i won that! I was Princess Daisy (again0 was her last time) and my partner was Princess Peach, our team tame was Damsels in Success =) how cool. So its 2-1 and i can guarantee Nick will challenge me again soon. Plus he didn't like the fact that i bet him at his best games, where you shake the Wii remote.

**Will post pics tomorrow**

Hmm.. What else do i need to share?
I cannot think of anything else. Will do another blog with pics tomorrow and one after the movie and driving school.

Back to my movie. Onto the 2nd disc where they are staying in with the Lady of White, the Queen, played by Cate Blanchett. I like this scene because i love the Elves.
Doubt im going to watch all this tonight.

Night xx