Tag Archive: NorEaster


1. Guess what?  I get to leave for Colorado tomorrow for Thanksgiving break!!!  Yaaaa!!!  Four whole days and one half-day in the great state of CO!!!!!  I get to see my parentals, my Uncle and his fam, my cat and the new Harry Potter movie!!  So excited!!!!!!!  Yaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2. This is from my PR book in the chapter about  writing ~ “Writing is easy,” said U.S. journalist and playwright Gene Fowler. “All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”  (and a little later)  Nobel Prize-winning novelist Ernest Hemingway declared, “Writing is easy.  Just open a vein and bleed on paper.”  ~ I laughed at both of those quotations  :D

3. I thought my mom would enjoy this one – this is from my Twitter feed there was this little movement the other day where people would tweet something that they would have told their 16-yr-old self and this one came from someone who posts as Lord Voldemort from Harry Potter ~ Lord_Voldemort7 #tweetyour16yearoldself Choose Neville Longbottom! Choose Neville Longbottom!

4. I’ve been watching waaaaaay too many Westerns, the other night I dreamt that I was part of a cattle drive (the cattle were owned by my dad) and that I trained my own horse (she was beautiful though, I liked that part of it).  Wow.

5. I looked out my peephole the other morning and it took me a few minutes to realize that what I was seeing wasn’t the sun shining brightly but was in fact bright, white snow on the ground…damn snow (and winter) has arrived in SoDak.  That wasn’t so bad though because it was a light snowfall and was mostly gone by nightfall.  I’m hoping that any blizzard-type weather waits until I’m not living in the state anymore…

6. You know I might have been able to handle living away from the mountains of CO and farther away from family if it weren’t for the damn wind in this state, it’s unbelievable!

7. Days to graduation = 17

w/ weekends and holidays = 25

w/o holidays = 21, by the next week-in-a-flash this one won’t be necessary because the number will be the same as w/ weekends and holidays…hmmm…

8. Bored, excited, stressed, tired…I am so eager to just be done already.

9. I wonder if, sometimes, my strong reactions to things and my passions come off as bitchiness…*sigh* why is it so hard to talk to people about hot button issues without it dissolving into an argument?  I just don’t understand, I mean I understand being passionate about an issue and wanting to convey to people the reason for that passion but that doesn’t mean you have to dismiss someonelse’s viewpoint, does it?  That’s what I don’t understand, I don’t understand being so locked into an opinion that anytime someone raises an opposing view you are unable to proceed in the discussion and remain polite…I try, I really try to remain open-minded while still retaining my views and beliefs and I try to give other people’s views and opinions a fair shake but I also like, adore engaging in discussion and debate. I like it when people disagree with me, I like it when someone has a different point of view but dammit I don’t like it when people are so set in their ways and so locked in the status quo that they dismiss me out of hand.  I just wish that I could find a way to engage in discussion and debate with others that doesn’t end in an argument…that’s all.

10. The song and the video brought me to tears, so beautiful!

11. This was too awesome not to share, read and enjoy! http://thenoreaster.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/sunbeams-12/

12. I have a professor who can’t remember my name in class but when I pass this professor in the hallways they call me by name and say hi..wierd, maybe there’s some sort of memory vortex in the classroom…

13. Yesterday I looked outside and it was…well, I guess it depends on how much you like snow, it was either a winter wonderland or an arctic tundra.  I prefer arctic tundra.  (btw #5 happened either Wednesday or Thursday of last week, completely unrelated).

week in a flash (week 13)

1. Did I mention yet that I really hate packing?

2. With that said everything that can be packed at this point has been…that’s pretty much everything other than food I need for the rest of the week and all the stuff I’m keeping with me for the next four months.

3. By this time next week I’ll be in my new home, that ‘new home’ being the hotel kitchenette room I’ll be living in for the next four months.

4. Do you notice a trend of four months?  That’s because that is how long I have until I graduate college.

5. I swear I must be the only person on the planet who absolutely hates the Geico cavemen, I happen to think that the Gecko and their new series of commercials that start out “Can switching to Geico save you 15% or more…” and then ask a rhetorical question like “Does a former drill sargeant make a really terrible therapist?” (my favorite one).  Those are funny…the cavemen just irritate the hell out of me.

6. By this time next week I’ll also be one day away from starting school…or is it two?  Either way I’ll be starting school next week…

7. So, some bad news for those of you who saw my announcement a few weeks ago about my friend Noreaster and his storm stories series – it has been cancelled.  He’s going through a really rough time.  Please pray for him.

8. I am going to try to start posting on some songs that are important to me (I mentioned it a few weeks ago), I’ve compiled a list and I have enough to keep it up for a long time so that’ll start soon.

9. Although I love this “week-in-a-flash” and look forward to the songs I want you guys to know that most of this is just being done because I like blogging and I need to have something to keep me doing it for a while until (if) things settle down.  Eventually I’ll start posting stories and other such things again, for now though this is what I have.

10. Why did God create cockroaches?  Seriously, why?