Happy Hump Day!

Man, I don't know about you guys, but I feel like this week has just been dragging on. Maybe it's because I'm still recovering from getting sick after vacation; or maybe it's because I'm actually on my own at work this week. Either way, I know I am ready for this weekend. I have some very exciting things coming up and I'm ready to start celebrating them!

I think this Friday will be my favorite part of the weekend though. I probably haven't mentioned this, but I have a third cousin who is very musically gifted. He has been playing at places around Tulsa for some time now. His name is Jason, and he has been doing all kinds of things to get his music out there, and he just recorded his first EP! Friday night is his CD release party at the Historic Cain's Ballroom here in Tulsa, and I couldn't be more excited, happy, and proud of him for accomplishing his dreams. Feel free to buy his EP, The Unicorn EPisode. It's available on iTunes [HERE] and it's also available on amazon [HERE]. Yep, I'm totally spamming my cousin. I think it's wonderful, but I KNOW I'm biased. And I'm okay with that.

Now for some goodies to help me (us) get over my (our) Wednesday woes. It's hump day people, we're on the downhill side to the weekend!

Here's to Thursday and hoping the weekend is as awesome as it's building itself up to be!

Weekend Recap

I really didn't get too crazy this weekend.

My hetero life partner went to Kansas with her boyfriend this weekend, so I was left to hang out at my house or with our friend Emily all weekend long. Initially, Emily and I had made plans to watch the OU football game together, but I flaked out :(

Friday after work, I decided that I was going to go with my grandmother to the high school football game this week. Part of the reason is because I am no longer going to homecoming (it's OU/TX weekend), and part is because I honestly did not have anything better to do. I went and cheered on my high school, and the boys unfortunately lost by one point. It was slightly heartbreaking. I did enjoy getting to chat with a few of my friends though, and it was a fun night hanging out with my grandma and my cousin.

Afterwards, I decided to go to bed early, as I had a funeral to attend Saturday morning. This funeral was the father of another close friend of the family. What makes me sad about this is to realize that the friend is not even 40 and now has neither parents living. But her father's health has been declining recently, and I honestly think that him not suffering anymore will help put her at a little bit of ease.

Saturday afternoon, I went with my aunt Annya to the meat markets to pick up stuff for their dinner(s). I then went up the hill to my aunt Jessica's house, where I began sorting through junk. My junk that has been stored in her attic since they moved into their house. I went through eight 5-gallon totes, and one 20-gallon tote full of crap. Seriously, it was all pretty much junk and clothes I haven't worn or even thought of in years.

I've been wanting to have a t-shirt quilt made, so I cut out logos of all the shirts I would like to have. 2 totes of t-shirts were dwindled down to not even a quarter of the 5 gallon tote. So that tote now has all my shirt logos (and I still have more to go through here) and quite a few of my keepsakes. I have one 5 gallon tote packed and ready to go to the apartment, and I'm working on what to put in my 20 gallon tote because too much stuff makes it too heavy. A total of three 5 gallon totes went back into the attic; one with the keepsakes and t-shirts, one with a bunch of purses, and one with books. Three totes are here with me, waiting to be packed with stuff for the apartment, and one still needs to be rinsed out to get rid of all the dust it's collected. I had a total of 6 (maybe 5) trashbags full of junk.

I did find some interesting stuff though. LIKE A GREEN AND PURPLE WALKMAN! AND MY BEANIE BABIES! I threw the walkman away. I was having a real hard time throwing away the beanie babies (even though they have no resale value whatsoever), and Jessica gave me a good "excuse" to keep them: take them to the apartment with me so my youngest cousin can have something to play with when she comes to visit. I GOT TO KEEP MY BEANIE BABIES! :)
One of them I was going to keep anyways. I apparently have liked squirrels for a while; I had the squirrel beanie baby. As soon as I saw it, I immediately put it into the tote to go to the apartment. I'm going to use it for decoration :)  [for those of you who don't know, my sorority's mascot was a squirrel]

I watched the game with my aunt, uncle, and cousins, and then came home and passed out.


Today was absolutely gorgeous outside, and I got to spend a FANTASTIC 2 hours sitting on a picnic blanket with my good friend Eli from college and APO. I had not seen him since December, so we had a great time just sitting and talking and enjoying the beautiful weather. I had my camera with me, and for some reason didn't take a picture of us. womp womp.

Afterwards, I went to work at the concession stand for a few hours. I had a good time visiting with Sean.

After dinner, I finally got to see Emily and Shawna. The three of us and Shawna's boyfriend Andrew met up for dinner at one of our favorite Mexican restaurants, and we spent the couple hours that we were there talking, laughing, eating, and comparing fantasy football teams. Which mine SUCKED this week, in case you were wondering.

Today was an AWESOME day filled with great friends from start to finish!
Now I must get to bed before I have to be at work tomorrow. And I get to continue packing in preparation for my big move that will be occurring in NINE DAYS! I'm super excited!

Weekend Recap

Oh man, did I have a good weekend!

A couple weeks ago, me and the girls I work with decided to go out to dinner together. We went over to a woman's house before dinner and she made us some yummy margaritas. We then went and ate at a restaurant called Cosmo located on Brookside in Tulsa. They have the BEST bruschetta EVER. Then we all had French bread pizza, and it was delicious as well. The food was amazing, but the company was better. There were only four of us in attendance, and the four of us had a great time talking and laughing over good food and good drinks. The restaurant was a little uppity for my liking, but the food definitely made up for it.

I had to work on Saturday, and then after work I pampered myself to a mani and pedi, and then got my eyebrow waxed because I definitely looked like I had caterpillars growing on my eyebrow bones. ha ha. but seriously. It was bad. I look like a human again now.

Then I went to the reception of my good friend Heather's wedding (that's right, reception. I unfortunately missed the wedding. #FAIL) Then late that night, I met up with an old friend from high school, and stayed up way too late. I had a great time, and it was an entertaining night for me!

Sunday, I SAW HARRY POTTER 7.2 IN 3D!!! with my uncle Ed, brother Jacob, and cousin Emma. Totally worth the extra dollars to see it in 3D! It was so good!!

That evening, I went to look for a chest of drawers for my room with my mom and Mimi, and then I got to talk on the phone to Jared. He only has a few weeks left of basic, and it was nice to talk to him!

And now, the official Ke$ha meet and greet photo:

You can be jealous of this one too.

oh, and that's boything on the right, for those of you who were wanting a picture of him

Weekend Recap

So I don't know if you've checked out my corner of the blogosphere lately, but last Thursday I changed everything up. I decided that I wanted a cleaner space that was super simple, so I got rid of my background and changed up my header. I somehow deleted my signature and can't seem to get it back, something about formatting my HTML and having things all wrong. Lamesauce. However, with the new header and layout also came some new buttons. These buttons are summer friendly buttons! The old ones still work if you have them, but I just wanted to give you newer options!

Okay, on to the weekend recap.

Friday, I went out to eat with my aunt, cousins, and brothers. Once we finished lunch, I went shopping with my aunt and cousins to attempt to find some new cleats for my cousin. While we were out, I ended up finding myself some new tennis shoes. They are some pretty sweet Nikes that are black and purple. You should know by now that I love me some purple :)
That evening I went to watch my brother play in his last football game (potentially). he was selected as a Green Country All-Star. His team won the game 30-0, and he played quite a bit of defense and was on special teams.

Saturday was a forever long day. When I was at the football game on Friday night, my mom and i were talking about my upcoming final interview. She asked if I had professional clothes, and I told her what I had...she basically said it wasn't good enough, and that she wanted to take me shopping to fix this. There is a store here called NBC, and it's basically a thrift store. It's a HUGE thrift store, and anytime you want to find stuff, you have to devote at least an hour to finding things. We were there from 11 to 12:30, I found about 10 pieces of clothing, and then we left to go to my second cousin's birthday party. We were there for about an hour and then headed to my cousin Emma's softball game.
Out of the ten articles of clothing I bought, I didn't get a blazer with sleeves. Although the sleeveless looking blazer is very pretty, there is no way that is professional enough for a very important interview. So AFTER the game, my mother and I headed over to Owasso to check out TJ Maxx and Ross. We had no luck there, except buying a super thick belt for the dress that I bought at NBC. However, I did enjoy perusing through the home decor section to see what I could potentially use to decorate my hypothetical apartment :)
With no luck for suits at either TJ Maxx or Ross, we went over JC Penney (they're all in the same shopping center) to look and see if we could find something there. I SUCCESSFULLY found 3 pieces to a suit (pants, skirt, blazer), and spent about $65. This girl knows how to shop.
After the successful trip to JCP, we went back to Emma's tournament.

Sunday, I got up early to go to Emma's first game of the day, and then went and watched my cousins Edith and MacKenzie play basketball for the remainder of the day. I got to hang out with my grandma all day, and she took us out to eat dinner at a local Mexican restaurant. It was delicious.
Once I was back home, I got my car and went to visit Katy since she will be leaving for an internship on Wednesday. I took my friend Sam with me and we stayed there until midnight. We were deliriously tired by the time we left and were being completely silly.

Today, I lounged around all day and did laundry. I'm also nervously awaiting my interview tomorrow. I got a phone call on Friday afternoon to confirm what is hopefully my final interview. Interview success = first big girl job = first big girl place = Mallori is all grown up. It'll be a huge change of scenery. I'm super excited for my potential apartment! I've already made plans about all kind of things!

Here's to looking professional, rocking an interview, landing the job, and being a semi-adult :)

Have a great (short) week!

I heart Fridays

Last night was a blast. I thoroughly enjoyed spending time with Michael, his two roommates, and all of their friends that I got to meet for the first time last night that I've heard so much about. We also had a few coworkers come out to the restaurant and have some drinks with him, so it was nice to visit with everyone! I'd like to say he had a great time on his birthday too, and there aren't any embarrassing stories to tell!

I stayed over at his apartment WAY too late last night, and got a very early phone call this morning from my aunt to discuss graduation plans. I was kind of out of it and I'm sure she could tell. I think she's going to be calling me after class gets out, but I can't remember when she said she would call me back.

I slept for about 7 hours until 11:30 this morning, and decided that I needed to get out of bed or I would sleep all day. I dropped roommate off at a luncheon she had, and then came back to the house and ate lunch, then went to my favorite crafting store to buy some paint for the top of my graduation cap. (Katy and I aren't talking about that word anymore.) I think it was my big Erika that suggested that I do an acorn for the top of my cap, and since I am not very creative at all I decided to go with it. I was going to do an acorn in my favorite color of purple, but then realized that purple would not show up very well on black. So instead, I decided to do it in my school colors. You can see the crappy quality picture that I tweeted here. I'm not very crafty/creative by any means, but I'm very happy with the way it turned out.

Oh, and I just realized you have no idea why an acorn. I'm in a sorority (in case you've forgotten), and we have a mascot. Our mascot is the squirrel for some pretty cool reasons that I'm not entirely sure if I'm allowed to speak of or not so it's better to be safe than sorry and just say the reasons are legit. Anyways, squirrels eat acorns, and an acorn is a whole heck of a lot easier to draw than a squirrel. Especially when you have the artistic talents of a 3 year old. I swear I have ADD today.

Anywho, now I'm going to the Health and Exercise Sciences Student Association picnic to enjoy a relaxing barbecue and some volleyball and what not while throwing back a couple cold brewskies. Then it's studying and packing almost all weekend to ensure that I don't fail and not get a diploma!

Happy weekending friends!

Happy Friday!

I'm so excited for today! I'm just about finishing up my guest post that will be featured in a couple weeks (I'll share where it's at once it's published!).

I got some much needed rest last night and slept wayyy to hard. My roommate even got up this morning and I was so out of it that I never heard her leave. I got the capstone paper done last night, caught up on my google reader FINALLY, and got some stuff typed up for college bowl. responsibility champion!

I am also very much looking forward to around 5:30 this afternoon. I have an aunt, her husband, and my two cousins Edith and MacKenzie coming in town for a softball tournament. If you haven't figured it out by now, I'm a HUGE family person and unfortunately I haven't gotten to go home as often as I would have liked to this semester. But both I and my family are slightly okay with it because we all know that this is my last semester and I want to have as much fun as possible :)

Anyways, I will be spending the entire weekend at a softball field, cheering for Mac and a bunch of other girls I don't know. I can't wait to see them, it's been since my appendix surgery in February, and quite frankly that's been too long for me!

What are you excited about for Fridays? This weekend?

Have a great weekend friends!

p.s. bleh, I fail and also forgot to remind you all to link up to TexaGermaNadian's blog hop. It's one of the best :)

I gotta say, I'm pretty pleased =)

So I was a little worried with the last paper I had to write. It was over Emmett Till if you have read my entries before, and it was kinda hard for me to do. I felt like I had so much information I wanted to share and not enough space to do it in. But when we got our papers back yesterday, I made a 96 on it!! I'm so excited!

this weekend was SO much fun! I'm the GM at O'Brien for scorekeepers, and on Thursday night I was calling everyone to try to find people to work for me. so I asked my friend here from school, Flip if he would come and spend the weekend with me and work for me. He came, and Friday night we didn't even have time to go home and drop our stuff off before we started working. So Friday after the games were over, I took him around Sperry (not very big at all) and showed him where I go to church, and my high school and all that stuff. He's from Houston, so being in a small town with hardly any lights kinda creeped him out. So just for giggles I took him out to where Bobby lives because it's really dark out there!

then Saturday after work, Bobby came over and the 3 of us went and drove by the Indian cemetery, the witch's cemetery, and the cult house. It made me and Bobby laugh because Flip was like "THIS is what y'all do for fun?!" It was actually hilarious.

well, I made good money this weekend, $15 a game! The bad thing about it is that I didn't get back here in Norman until almost midnight though (the "if" game was played. bleh).

I'm so excited because there's only 9 more days of class, and then finals week! I absolutely cannot wait for summer break! and the weekend after finals, I'm staying the night with Becky and getting a tattoo! and then I have graduations to attend...it's gonna be busy!

I WOKE UP THIS MORNING AND HAD A TIMMY!

If you are wondering what a Timmy is, it's a pimple that is so big it has it's own name! It's really irritating too because it is on my chin, so it's not like I can hide it or anything..grr..

in other news, I was on time to all my classes today! You know, I really, really hate my Choctaw class..I don't feel like I'm learning anything, and I feel like it is a waste of my time and money.

Shane stayed at my house last night..that would have been awkward if I was home.

so it looks as if I won't be going on a date this weekend..Amanda told me that if Ashlynn doesn't come by Friday, she has to go in to be induced. which means I'll be going home this weekend *sigh* I was really looking forward to getting to hang out with Daniel, and maybe try something new =)

Our intermural basketball team is amazing. we are 2-1, and the one loss is when we only had four girls show up. you only have to win 3 in your pool to qualify for playoffs, and we have another game this week! I'm pumped!

I really don't want my friends to get salmonella.

RaNdOm facts about my life at the moment.

1. Lisa is sleeping on my bed right next to me after a long night of fun.

2. Today is Katie's 19th birthday and her parents came up and brought us cake =)

3. I'm seriously thinking about not talking to high schoolers so much. I have had some unnecessary drama in my life the last couple of days.

4. I had a great weekend with my friends, but now the reality has set in and I have to return to school tomorrow.

5. I chickened out and told a boy I think he is cute online. Not in person.

6. I don't know how Bobby will take that last one.

7. I'm going to be a godmother any day now. My godbaby was due yesterday.

8. I'm actually hoping to go on a date this next weekend =)

9. Honestly, I don't know what I want to do with my life right now.

10. Caroline may have salmonella poisoning from peanut butter =(

11. I'm so sick of hearing of Anna Nicole Smith and her death. Seriously, I could punch you in the face if you bring it up around me. =)

12. I'm not a liar. I don't have a reason to lie to you. And no it doesn't make me "feel good" to start stuff between you two. It wouldn't be started if you had told me the right story.

13. I started my weekend on Thursday as soon as I got done with my math class.

14. I really need to do my homework.

15. I want to get a tattoo.

16. You want to find your way to my heart? bring me Mountain Dew and cheesecake.

17. Honestly, I have the most gorgeous friends on campus. It's true, no one else has as beautiful of friends as I do:



18. I did pretty good on my first tests for Zoology and Pre-Calculus. I wish I had done better on Zoology though.

19. My friends helped me point out that I have a thing for "Daniel's" this weekend. (yes, the boy I'm hoping to go on a date with is named Daniel)

20. The people on my hall are so freaking loud sometimes, and then there's a group of people that play a card game called Pit and it keeps all of us awake they are so loud.