Frost... scratch that, Snow on the Pumpkins....

So I realize that it has been forever since my last blog post, and I am hear to tell you that you can stop holding your breath, as I am sure all of you are doing. But here it is, my 5th blog post... and it is going to be an update of all that I have been holding out on you.



First, since last I blogged, I have no further problems with my computer (knock on wood). And for the first few days I gave it the Ole' college try to only check my facebook 2 times a day... Then I was in desperate need for a distraction... FACEBOOK TO THE RESCUE!! So, oh well. Everyone has their little addictions and facebook is currently mine.



On another note completely, I turned 21 since my last blog. Here's how that went... I awoke at the early hour of 6:45 to get ready to go to class. Classes started at 8 and continued until 12. I then returned to my apartment to wait for my roommates to come back from class. At about 1, my roommates, Brooke and Kyle, and my friend Danielle all went to Carlos O'Kelly's for my birthday lunch. We were seated and our waitress asked for our drink order. It was as follows: "water, water, water, Strawberry Margarita please." I proudly whipped out my ID and smiled. She asked what size I had. I then came back to my apartment and relaxed. Then about 7 p.m. my friends Mindy and Amanda took me downtown to a bar called Cheap Shots. Where I received my birthday shot ,Carmel Apple, and then Amanda bought a round of shots for all three of us. We looked at the list of shots and decided on one called "Used Condom". I am here to tell you that a "Used Condom" is delicious. We then paid our HUGE bar tab and left. I then walked down the street to Jeff and Jim's Pizza. Picked up the 2 pizza's I had ordered for my roommates and I, and went home. My roomate Kyle and I at pizza and watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer for the rest of the night. It was not the usual 21st birthday, but it seemed to fit me so I cannot complain... too much.



Now, today I woke up, walked outside to find snow falling from the sky. This is most upsetting because it is the 12th of October!! Where did fall go? So not only am I freezing, but my favorite season has run away from me! :( Does this mean that in order for me to carve my pumpkin I will have to use and ice pick? As interesting and fun as that sounds I am going to miss fall. Maybe I will have to just eat a lot of fall things to make me feel better. You know things like pumpkin muffins, pie, cookies, cake, and warm apple cider. But I somehow feel that no matter what I do to make it seem like fall, it will not be the same. :*(



So that is my life in a nutshell for right now. Just party after party. Drink after drink. Life without pumpkins and full of snow... for those of you who know me know that just isn't so! (Corny i know but give me a break!)

Hi I'm Nissa, and I'm a facebookaholic....

This is how my first week back to college ends...

my computer had decided to act like the 3 year old computer it is...

So what's a resourceful college student to do? Why, try everything known under the sun to try and fix it by myself of course.... And when that didn't work, bring it in to the on-campus IT guys...

Now at this point I think it is safe to say that I had NO IDEA how essential a computer is to a college student... now I know, and if you don't want to live vicariously through through me that is just fine.

So anyway, I obviously got my computer fixed, and I have spent the last few hours doing what I call "catching up with my life", a.k.a. checking email, twitter, and of course facebook.

They say the first step to overcoming a problem is admitting you have a problem.... and I am telling you today... that the 8 days that my computer was not working were the hard, not because I could not do my homework from home, but because I could not check my facebook....

I know it's sad, and that got me thinking, so from this day forward, I am going to try to check my facebook only 2 times a day... it will be hard but I feel that I can do it!!

Yay friends...

In the past I have thanked and encouraged the people in my life to be honest with me, and sometimes brutally honest. For me, if my friends could tell me anything, ( and I do mean ANYTHING) that meant that not only, did we feel comfortable with each other, but that also meant that somewhere deep down inside, whatever my friends told me I already knew...

For example, if I were to be wearing ugly shoes and my friend were to mention how unappealing they were, I would have to agree, because I would have already known that the shoes in question really were just really crappy shoes.

However, because of a recent chain of events, I have begun to question my own trust and confidence in my brutally honest friends.

Is there a line that one must draw in the sand of friendship that we cannot cross? Or am I just reading to much into statements? All of this thinking really has me thinking and questioning the friendships which I hold so dear.

Is there such a thing as a pure, undying, tell each other everything, hold nothing back, tell each other their faults friendship? Or must we all learn when to be brutally honest and when to tap dance around our friends sensitivities?

My First Blog EVER!

So it is now 2 a.m., there is nothing on t.v., my book is complete, and no one is online... So what am I doing up?

Your guess is probably as good as mine...

With nothing else to do, and with no intention to sleep, it must be a great time to get this blog thing off the ground. Which, to be honest, I have been dreading...a little bit.

Why fear writing a blog you ask? Well people of the Internet, I do not intend to change the world with my words. I do not intend to dazzle people with my wit, and I certainly do not feel that blogging is my claim to fame. I have, however, felt a familiar wave of nervousness for the last week when I wanted to start an entry. Questions popping in and out of my head....

"What will be my blog about?"
"What point-of-view should I write my blog from?"
"Should I end all of my blogs with a question? Or is that too much like a certain Sex in the City Journalist?"

So here I am... 2 a.m., writing my first blog entry... EVER, and I do not care. So perhaps that will be my hook. I will just stay up until there is nothing else to do but blog...

I doubt it.

So whatever my hook will end up being (if I ever get one), I can always remember that my first blog entry was written while I was sitting at my desk, in the dark, at 2 in the morning, with Chris Rock telling his jokes about strippers... now if that just doesn't want you to go out and scrapbook, I don't know what will.

Perhaps it is time to sleep .... just maybe

Nissa
"Don't get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny." ~Kathryn Carpenter

(BRIAN I DID IT!!!)