i want it and i want it now!

if this doesn't melt your heart, i don't know what will.

I'm not dead.

It may seem as so, but I have not, in fact, fallen off the face of the blogging planet. I pretty much just suck at taking pictures and documenting my life. In the future, when Tomas and I are old(er) and wrinkly(er) and we want to look back on our life as a young, hip (ha) married couple, we won't have anything to look back on, because I suck. Maybe that should be my new year's resolution, to not suck anymore. Start taking pictures! The weird thing is, when I do take pictures, I love them, and I look at them all the time. That's a good resolution. I think I'll go with that one.

Soo...school got out, I didn't do too bad this semester. I would have liked to have done better, but I think I did alright. Christmas came, and it was really fun. Tomas got me a cooking class at Sur La Table with my bff Des, which was supposed to be tonight, but it ended up getting canceled. But nonetheless, I will be attending some sort of cooking class at Sur La Table soon. If you have never done one of these, and you like to cook, I can't stop recommending you take one! They are kind of expensive, but you feel like you are Martha Stewart and you have your own beautiful kitchen with staffers who clean all your dirty dishes for you, leaving you to cook as you please, eat as you please, and leave as you please. Its really fun.

Over Christmas, I didn't take any pictures, of course, but partly because Tomas and I were hit with probably the worst colds either of us has ever had, and I have just barely, as of last night, stopped taking cough syrup to quiet my incessant hacking. To top it off, Tomas also had an abscess on his tooth, went to the dentist and needed a root canal, but had to have a specialist do it, who was out of the office until Jan 4 or something like that. So he was home miserable, I was home miserable, and neither of us left the house for about a week and a half straight. Luckily his work set him up so he could work from home. To top my cold off, I also got a nasty gross eye infection. If you are queasy, don't read the next sentence. My eye was like, excreting crap constantly, and in the morning I couldn't even open it cuz it was so gooey and swollen and stuck together. GROSS! Seriously, I get the most random, disgusting things going wrong with me. Impetigo, eye infections...what will be next?? And I'm sorry to my entire family, whom I infected with my sickness.

The best part about being stuck at home was I experimented with some new culinary delights I had been wanting to try for a while. I made no knead bread, which, if I do say so myself, was AMAZING! and EASY! I also made Julia Child's boeuf bourguignon, which wasn't quite as easy, but not hard, but equally AMAZING. I got one of those awesome cast iron enamel casseroles for Christmas. I had been wanting one for a very long time, so I was thrilled I got it. And it has been put to good use!

Lastly, school is now back in full swing. I am taking some more chemistry, calculus, labs, and writing. The 18 year old kid who called me old is in my class again this semester though. Sigh. I actually am quite enjoying school. Third time really was a charm for me. It kicks my brain's butt (?) but I think I have found my little niche. I'm a science nerd, and I couldn't be any more proud of that fact.

someone help me please.

I don't know why I love this so much. Maybe it is that I am exhausted right now but can't seem to muster up the energy to get off my butt and into bed. Maybe its that it is finals week and my brain feels like mush. Maybe I really am just that weird. But I freaking love this shirt. It makes me giggle every time I see it. I kind of want to buy it for Tomas, but he would never wear it. hehehehe it would be oh, so funny though if he would. Maybe I should just buy it and stash it away somewhere in a hidden drawer, and pull it out when I need a good laugh.

I can't believe I didn't know about this!

You know that question, "If you could pick 3 people, living or not, to go to dinner with, who would it be?" I don't know about the other two, but number one for me would definitely be Martha Stewart! Everyone who knows me, knows I love all things Martha Stewart. I had a subscription to her magazine at age 15. I love the way she can make any ordinary household task glamorous and appealing. I love that she overdoes every holiday. I love her craft, food, and decorating ideas. I love the way she says, "It's a good thing." I even love that she went to prison.

I was just looking at her website and I discovered something I didn't know existed! She has a blog! A wonderful, martha-tastic blog filled with pictures of her amazing, beautiful farm, her cute dogs, and her impressive social life. Anywho, if you are ever bored, check it out here.

It really is a good thing.

wow.

i'm speechless.

hello.

remember me? I used to blog here, and you used to read my blogs. Then chemistry took over my life and I stopped blogging and started figuring out bond energies, gas evolution laws, and all sorts of chemistryish stuff.



I am here again for a moment to share with you my current nightmare.



Are you ready? It's pretty scary.



Here goes.





I HAVE A WRINKLE ON MY FOREHEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A real life, no kidding, no exaggerating, wrinkle! And because of my chemistry stress, I have also broken out! So at age 23, when I am supposed to be done breaking out, and not yet forming wrinkles, I am doing both. Are you KIDDING ME?!



I bought anti wrinkle stuff today. 18 dollars later, it better work or there will be heck to pay. I am really worried about this you guys! If I have a wrinkle already, what am I going to look like in ten years?

This?

I guess I need to get back on that Botox train.

sigh.

bad luck comes in streaks, doesn't it? because my laptop got a virus, and I am currently praying nonstop that my pictures aren't all lost to said virus. it is in the shop getting fixed as we speak.
in addition to computer problems, there was employment problems, which is a longer story than anyone wants to hear, but in a nutshell, the job i though was going to work out so perfectly... isn't.
i also have been lucky enough to join the latest craze. which craze is that, you ask? why the H1N1 craze, or better known as the swine flu. I am feeling mucho better now, but last night I was laying (lying? i never could figure that one out) in bed feeling as though my chest was about to cave in on my poor little lungs struggling to breathe. I was finally able to overcome that wonderful sensation, however, and am feeling much much much better today.

So bad luck comes in three's right? Right?

On a side note, I just have to say how sweet Tomas is. He went and rented me a plethora of dvd's to occupy myself with, got me cafe rio, and then went back to correct the incorrect cafe rio he got, and basically took really good care of me. Fluffing my pillows, doing the dishes, folding the laundry(even though i refolded it, because I have a touch of the OCD's), and staying home all weekend with me. I am so lucky to have him.

oh, and another side note. Mouse update. We caught one, I heard the trap go off at like, midnight one night and made tomas get out of bed to go make sure we caught the little sucker and then dispose of it. Then at like, 4 in the morning that same night, I heard another trap go off, so I woke tomas up and made him go check it, too. (my poor husband didn't know what he was getting himself into when he married me...) the sound of that second trap going off was just about as sad to me as telling a little kid christmas is cancelled. i had hoped we only had one mouse, but no, we had plural mice. so we got some DCON because our stupid landlords didn't think pest control was a good use of money, and haven't seen any since. they are probably decaying in the walls, but hey, what do I care, we are hoping to get out of this hell hole asap. excuse my language.

kind of a wordy post, most people will probably not even read it (its okay you can admit it) but there is an update on the boren household!