Procrastination Because . . .

I'm being a bad English major. I should be writing my paper. Moll Flanders sits to my left and underneath it is the prompt. It's a paper about narration and such. I've got some ideas and I talked them out as I walked back from the admissions office this morning (note to readers: talking about narrative dialogue while walking alone with draw some very interesting looks). Anyway, it's just the actual linage of them that is the issue. I could write down my ideas but I've got a feeling that my professor would not be able to understand them because, without sharing the paper topics, this is how it would look:

Monkey, basketball, red, yellow, aooogaaa.

I shouldn't be worried though. I've got two days to perfect it and a page or so written. I'm being to hard on myself. I'm only a kinda-bad English major. I am not a fan of procrastination but I think it would be entertaining to list the ways that I, Samantha, procrastinate.

Top 5, get yaselves ready because this are definitely list-addition-worthy. *Note, these are in no particular order. I don't prefer one over the other, but for the purpose to organization I decided to list them.

1) Look up videos on YouTube. YouTube is a great and horrible invention. It is so accessible I can find almost anything I need for entertainment. The bad part, I can do this at anytime.
2) Surf the web for Anime pictures. I am a closet Anime guru.
3) Write blogs. Imagine that.
4) Distract my roommates with questions and conversation. Don't misunderstand, I love to chat with my roommates when I'm not procrastinating but I just find more interesting things to say when I'm trying not to do something.
5) Clean. Back home I used to vacuum or do the dishes. Here, I reorganize my desk, my bookshelf, my closet . . . just something to get me away from the computer.

Now that we've procrastinated together, it's back to the writing. Good luck in what you're doing. Hope you enjoyed and have yaselves a great week.

All these pictures come from Adventures at Red Bench. Basically, Ryan and I were bored and decided to play with the webcam on his computer. My favorite style is from the first picture. We got some really cool pictures and the color distortion of the Ginko tree was beautiful.

After Break Blues

It has been a while hasn't it? So sorry to keep ya'll waiting. I have a very unreliable internet connection at home and it is just frustrating to work so hard and then loose it all. It's much like doing laundry and then dropping your clean clothes into a pile of ick on the basement floor. It is not a practice I recommend.

I was home over Thanksgiving. I baked forty loaves of bread, two boxes of cookies, three pans of bar cookies, and two pans of brownies for the family's annual holiday food give away. It's our tradition to give a basket of baked goods to friends and neighbors around the holiday time. Thanksgiving is mega bake time where I take over the kitchen and throw flour and sugar and eggs into a bowl and make magic out of them. I love baking. It is my stress release.

The thing I probably miss the most about being at school is not having a convenient oven. Each dorm does have a kitchen facility but its just not the same as having your own kitchen.

Then Thanksgiving was spent with just the immediate family. We went out to dinner and boy was it a great one. My favorite were the sweet potatoes. I love sweet potatoes. If ya'll've never had sweet potato pie get one and eat it. It was better, I am using better because I believe it, than pumpkin pie (and trust me, I'm a huge pumpkin fan).

Hope ya'll had a great Thanksgiving and Happy December wishes as we start off the end of 2007.

Pictures: The first three are my steps to baking. Put all the ingredients into a bowl. Put those ingredients into the oven and like magic you get bread! Yay bread. I believe those are loaves of Gingerbread. It is excellent with cream cheese, whipped cream, or just by itself. Picture the last is of the kid and me at dinner. I love my sibling! And Gretchen is responsible for these pictures. Thanks Gretchen!

Wavy Hair

Hey all you readers of my lovely, inspirational, exciting, and overall fun to be around blog. I come to you at a reasonable hour this Tuesday morning to remind that it is in fact a Tuesday (which I though yesterday was but yesterday was a Monday) and to say that I has an amazing weekend.

I updated ya'll from Adele's bed last post and this week the posting comes from my desk chair. It's not as comfy as a bed. Sad, I know.

We had a lovely weekend with her family which included dinner (for her sister's b-day), playing Wii (I'm a Playstation gal, myself but Wii was wee), and making pumpkin cupcakes (mmm cupcakes). All in all it was a fun filled weekend with lots of doing.

As previously mentioned this is the last week before Thanksgiving break. OWU gives us the entire week off and I thank them for that. I need a couple day around this time of the year to just regroup and tell myself that I can make it to the holidays. Thanksgiving week is a good. I am not going anywhere except back to Cincy. That's got me happy to because once I get home, I want to stay home for a bit. I plan on reconnecting with Cincy people. I miss them.

And kitties! I get to sleep with my kitties! Plus it will be nice to get away from running campus. Between class, visit programs, and clubs, I feel like I haven't stopped running is weeks. But I am a need be busy person so this lifestyle works for me. OWU is nice for all types because there is no pressure to be involved. There are people who do everything and people who do nothing and still find there college experience great at OWU. I want to shout out to my tour groups yesterday and panel attenders. OWU visit days, check 'em out.

Have a great one.

This pictures come from the Michigan adventure because I've been too busy to get the ones from the weekend off my camera. Enjoy.

Traveling November

Hey all,

So sorry for my lack of updating. College life has finally caught up with me and the busyness is overwhelming. But do not fret. Coming now is a wonderful little update and what makes it even more wonderful than just the regular wonderfulness of my writing is the fact that it comes from the edge of Adele's bed. Yes, lovlies, I am home with Adele this weekend.

November has been a tripping month in a few different ways. Not drug ways . . . as I know some of you will think when you see tripping but in the journey and falling kind of way. Last weekend was Michigan with Zoe. Zoe lives in Ann Arbor and last Friday night we went to her house and then went to a comedy club in downtown Ann Arbor. Booyah funny. We had a wonderful laugh. The next day we met up with Ryan and Adele (Ryan is from Michigan too) and we adventured the state. Then, that evening, Ryan, Adele and I drove back to OWU because I was having dinner with Mike and Liv from Cincy.

And then this weekend I followed Adele home to Columbus. Not exactly the Michigan drive but it is a lovely little place and we are having a relaxing day.

This coming week is week the last before Thanksgiving break and I am not gonna lie, I want to go home. I miss home. I miss relaxing. Granted I'll have a bit to accomplish over break but just the ability to lay on a couch and not have to worry about roommates or anything . . . that is relaxing. You learn to appreciate relax time.

Have a great one.

Pictures: Picture number one is the view of Zoe's deck. The water is a lack section of the Heron river. Absolutely gorgeous. Ryan and Adele were just taking it all in. Second is of me fighting the camera during a traffic jam. We were visiting the weekend of the Michigan-Michigan State game. And the next two picture are from when the big kids found a playground to invade and invaded successfully. In picture number one of the playground is Adele, me, and Ryan on the slide. In the second picture is Adele, me and Zoe, again on the slide.