Lovely

Today has been lovely, and tonight will be lovely still. It has literally snowed all day. I woke up to pure white loveliness. Currently I'm cuddled up in a down blanket listening to Frank Sinatra croon Winter Wonderland and watching the snow fall and create its own blanket over my little campus. I know finals are the week after next and I should be reading for poly sci or history but instead I'm contemplating picking up Henry James' Portrait of a Lady or better yet the Wind in the Willows. I remember my grandma reading that to me when I was a little girl and I mentioned it on a trip to Barnes and Noble with the BF, low and behold it came to me for Valentines Day last year : ) I'm currently feeling unbelievably blessed and happy. The Christmas spirit has cracked into me and caught hold. 

Tonight the BF and I are get to spend time together and maybe play in the snow and I am completely content with the world.

Secret Blogs Suck, No One Reads Them

So it turns out I'm a failure at secret blogging too. I don't have near as many secrets as I would like to think which might be good, but it makes me feel a bit boring. However I suppose that's not too much of a surprise... I did enjoy choosing a color scheme though!

Anyway... I'd like to thank the BF even though he has abandoned reading my blog. I was having quite a terrible night yesterday evening. And then I chose to see a terrible movie. And as we walked out I met failure in a sad YMCA way. And then I turned on my cell to find 3 voicemails, each one asking me for something. It's just been a week when I feel like I spent a lot of time listening to other peoples problems but said people didn't seem that interested in my problems. I felt that way through a large portion of high school as well. Anyway, I seemed to have set out to ruin my evening and the evening of anyone who got in my way (the BF) but he was sweet and even let me skip out on hanging out after the date so I could have a girls night with of my BFF's that needed some listening to. All in all I'm a pretty lucky girl...

The Date

Soooo I said I'd blog about our date and that sounds much better than studying for finals, so here goes. Well I was looking very sassy, and my hair was pretty much perfect, and I know it's true because even before I got out the door I was told I was looking very "Chanel", only one of my fav designers! An even bigger compliment because nothing I was wearing cost more than $20! Oh and of course the bf was looking devastatingly handsome! (sounds like a romance novel!)  Anyway, we went to Casa's and had our favorite dishes and chatted, my favorite part however was when our waitress told me I looked just like "that girl in The Notebook!". Now I've gotten this before, a guy on my track team called me Allie my whole senior year, but it just makes me smile every time : ) So then we went and got our tickets for "Made of Honor" and had a mishap with the little machine that can give you your tickets, buuut it all worked out. We had some time so walked to some peanut shop and got some "oo-la-la" chocolates and chatted with the owner who was very nice, then it started raining so off to B&N, which truly is "our place". We walked around for a little while but soon it was time for the movie! Just for the record, there is no reason a large pop should cost $5.50, and even though the cashier guy was super nice I was not a happy camper. So the movie was adorable and McDreamy was as McHandsome as ever, not as funny as I had originally thought it would be though. But it's very good nonetheless! The guy McDreamy was up against is literally the perfect guy, pretty much, however sometimes perfect just isn't what you want! Just ask the bf! haha (That's supposed to mean I'm not perfect, not him, he is def perfect... : -D) The only problem was that there were three teeny boppers behind us that giggled and gasped and awwed louder than could ever be necessary and mainly just annoyed me, luckily the bf seemed to think my getting angry was funny which somehow kept me from saying anything to them, which I appreciate, sometimes I need someone to keep my passionate self quiet... So after the movie back to B&N because everything else was closed. Normally at B&N we have a routine, we look at the books in the circular display in the front, then go off to the right and look at coffee table books of castles and nature scenes and then to the dog section and nature section. Then philosophy and essays, then fiction and lastly whatever floats our boat that particular night. Yesterday we skipped the front and beelined for a table of books about Indiana's history (for both of us) and geology (for him). Then off to fiction for me and poetry for him. Then came the bathroom incident... After that we met us at travel and looked at Germany books because that's where I am going for Jan-Term junior year (I'm trying my best to get him to go but no luck so far... He's only wanted to go there since forever!) Lastly, the wedding section (not for us!!) so I could look up ideas for my friends bridal shower. Anyway, when B&N closed we went home, only the best ride home ever, and the night was over. But it was a wonderful date, and it's the last one we get before summer where dates last for a weekend and only happen every two weeks... 

The Bathroom at Barnes & Noble

So last night the bf and I got to go on our first date in about 3 weeks I think : ) and I have every intention of writing a very long blog about it later today, but right now I want to tell a little story. Well on this date the bf and I went to Barnes and Noble because it is our absolute favorite place in the world (well maybe it's my absolute favorite place, but he really loves it too!) Anyway, so while we were there I needed to use the bathroom, so I go and do my business and as I turn around to flush my hand hits my necklace and I hear something hit the floor. Well I only like to wear jewelry that has meaning to it generally, and I looove charms. My favorite necklace is this skinny gold chain with a gold cross from my grandparents, a charm that I found when we cleaned out my grandma's jewelry box after she passed away, and this little heart. That last one is my favorite. It's a tiny plastic heart with a mustard seed inside of it from my Pa. He gave it to me when I was very little and he told me that the mustard seed stands for eternity and that he would love me forever and that it's a symbol of Christianity. It's not a particularly nice piece of jewelry and the gold band that runs around it has been silver for years, but I still love it. Well that was the charm that hit the ground in that dirty B&N bathroom. It had skidded along the floor into the stall next to me. Well there was a girl in that stall so I couldn't very well just reach under a grab it, that might freak her out... So I left and washed my hands. Of course her snotty little high school friends were standing there waiting for her. I hate high school girls sometimes, I didn't even like them that much when I was one. Anyway so I waste as much time possible, I fixed my hair and put on some lip gloss but they still wouldn't leave! So in an effort to not look like a freak I left (and I swear they all broke into titters as I walked out and I couldn't for the life of me figure out why, I was looking especially sassy that night and there was no toilet paper stuck on my shoe, I checked!) and stood close to the bathroom looking at stationary, waiting for them to leave. Well of course, right as they left another lady went in! So I groaned and followed her in. She was in the stall I had been in so I went into the stall my charm was laying in, but I couldn't grab it because she would see my hand, and really, that would just be awkward. So I waited. This lady took forever! I played on my phone for awhile and when she finally left I grabbed my charm and ran for it!

Maybe you had to be there...

Clichéd

Right now I'm watching Frasier (that Daphne really cracks me up), blogging during the commercial breaks, and planning out my weekend. For the most part it doesn't look like I'm going to get to see my boyfriend very much which stinks but is not entirely unexpected. Between RHA and MAC our schedule for spring semester is pretty well packed. However, Saturday he was able to set aside some time for us to do something we've been taking about doing for ages. Well, I've mentioned in a past blog that I tend to leave the "love at first sight" to Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks (certainly the two most meant to be people in the entire world). Surely I could never pull off those romantic moments, those half smile glances looking out from underneath your eyelashes,  and those witty first meeting introductions. However, this weekends plan sounds perfectly amazing and may just rival Tom and Meg. Now, I'm wary to even say what it is for fear that some people might judge it, Hermione just looked at me in disgust and said, "That is so you two."  I decided to take it as a compliment. So this is the plan (withhold judgement until I make my complete argument). We're going to go to a State Park near campus to hike... and have a picnic... by a waterfall... Now give me a moment to explain myself! I know! Cliche! I get it. But you know what, for something to be "cliche" people have to think of it as unoriginal, but everything unoriginal was once original, and everyone though it was great then! I think just the fact that it is cliche now means that people don't do it anymore, so its back to being original! I just dare you to argue with that train of thought!  So I think that you have no right to judge it! I think the world needs a little more cliches. Now as Harry Potter and I are no Tom and Meg I fully expect that I will fall in a mud puddle, be rained on, and have frizzy hair. And I think that it is those imperfection in the fairy tale that make it suitable for real life, if everything was as perfect as the movies I think the world would most probably explode. 

Well, Frasier is over, which means it's time to go to class. I hope this blog opened your eyes to the wonderful world of cliches! I will now spend the rest of the day incessantly checking weather.com's 10 day forecast, so far so good, sunny, 65, 10% chance of rain....