I’ve been tagged. Here is a nice little Meme on Thanksgiving. I was nominated by girlrobot.

Here are the rules:
1. Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 random and or weird things about yourself.
3. Tag 7 random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs.
4. Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

1. I recently became obsessed with the game Wedding Dash from Yahoo.

2. I am staked out in my room trying to avoid being guilted into going to my Grandmother’s house for Thanksgiving because I really don’t enjoy the company of my mom’s side of the family.

3. I do however enjoy going to my Aunt’s house and I will be heading over there later on today and partaking in much wine. Hoorah!

4. The smell of freshly cut grass is one of my favorite smells in the world.

5. I love to watch movies, but I don’t like seeing new movies because I’m worried I won’t like them. Sometimes if I think it looks REALLY good I will force myself to go. (I do usually end up liking them.)

6. I think that I love candy, but whenever I buy it I usually end up having it sit around until throw it away.

7. This is a big one. I’m very impulsive, I love to get presents and I have been a little lonely lately. Those three things helped contribute to…I got a bunny!!!!!!! (Shhhh! This is so secret. I have only told one person. It will be a good indicator of who is reading my website if someone else finds out. Don’t worry I have a back-up plan.) Anyway! Her name is Penelope and she is AMAZING. She is so sweet and loving. She does VERY well with being picked up. She is also very calm in her new surroundings. She is only 14 weeks old. She is a mini-lop so she’ll get to be about 4 - 6lbs. She eats Alfalfa hay right now as her main diet. She also had tried some radish leaves and a Brussels sprout. She seemed to enjoy both. I also gave her a grape as a special treat and I bought a little Kale for her to try. She is supposed to have three different veggies everyday and at least one should have vitamin A and a small sampling of fruit. I have a list of everything that is good for her to have.

She also seems to be already litter trained. I thought I was really going to have to work on that, but so far she has been going in there on her own. The only poops she doesn’t put in the litter pan are her marking her cage and food territory. That’s great!

I know it is a blogging sin to post new info like this with no picture. I do have some I just need to find my damn cord and get them uploaded. She is little and grey and perfect. <3 I also built her a little bunny palace in my room and she looks so cute and at home there. She is fantastic.

It is miserable out today. I am huddled in my office peering out my little window into the rainy grey. It’s not a day that I feel like parking my car and spend 20 minutes walking to class. My office is also cold because my space-heater was taken away because (maybe) I left it on again after leaving. Is that such a crime! I am told this will start a fire. However right now I feel like I could build an igloo and my boss complains that he is hot. The insanity of the elderly!

I can’t possibly complain too much because I am attempting to cover my bare arms and warm myself with a large deep wine colored cashmere COACH scarf. YES! I know! I would insert a picture here if I hadn’t sold my camera last month like a fool. I also can only find this scarf in other colors on eBay so I can’t link to it there…trust me though. It’s lovely. It’s an early Christmas present from Kasey because I am not good with surprises and she isn’t good with making me wait for them.

Other than rubbing cashmere on my face I have been spending the morning plotting not going to class today. I know I shouldn’t because I have off from my classes all next week, but the cold rain and knowing that alternately I could be napping at Kasey’s house is so tempting. Now mind you I am going to go…it’s just nice to think about not going.

That is one thing about High School. I loved to skip class. LOVED it. It’s like a drug. You start missing a few and then every time you go to class you can’t stop thinking about all the other fantastic things you can be doing. Bonus points for missing school all together. Now, of course, in school I never ever got good grades so it really didn’t matter if I was there or not and I was so disruptive that I think my teachers were happy when I wasn’t there. College isn’t like that. When I go to class I’m always glad I went. I am enjoying my classes. I am also even getting…wait for it…As! People! I have gotten a 0 on a multiple choice test before. Now I realize that I am taking classes I really love right now, but still. An A is an A. That was my midterm grade for Women’s Studies. I actually looked at it and got concerned. See I was expecting a number and I had a W for Biology (withdraw) an I for Women & Politics (She didn’t submit our grades) and then this A. My first thought was, “Oh god. What does this stand for.” Then it sunk in that my first semester of my college experience I had an A on my mid-term report. This from the girl who only made the honor roll once in her entire school career before this.

I thought about telling my parents, but somehow I don’t think they will really care. That’s the thing. I feel like my parents could pretty much care less about anything going on with me. I mean…in the end I am still a liberal, feminist, lesbian dating a black girl. Who really cares if I’m getting good grades, right? Who cares about most of what I do? Don’t get me wrong my parent’s aren’t mean to me they are just pretty much apathetic to my life. My mom sometimes says I look sad and wants to talk to me, but whenever I do talk to her I feel like she doesn’t want to know. A common complaint from my parents about Kasey and myself is that we laugh too much. My parents, my father in particular find laughing very annoying. I can’t help it if I am happy when I am around Kasey. She is pretty much the only person that brings happiness into my life these days. I get this complaint from my sister too. We’re telling each other jokes and then my sister wants to know what is so funny, then I try to explain the joke to her and then she gives me a look like, you-guys-are-so-ridiculous. It just ruins the whole thing. I don’t know. I think it’s living with my parents again and the fact that my sister has been working with me a few days a week lately. It’s a little too much. My parents seem to love and adore my sister no matter what she does. She and my mom are all buddy buddy and they have what I call The Mother/Daughter Club and my mom always seems to really care what is going on in her life.

I just need to get out of their house and on my own again. Hopefully I can manage to do that soon. I will be so much happier when I am on my own. I just feel a lot more at ease when I am in my own space.

Side Note - Sorry that my writing has been so sparse…it’s not just time. I am having a lot of strong feelings right now. Feelings I wish would just leave me so that I could be blissfully indifferent. They won’t. Or, at least, they haven’t yet. Since my break-up I have been feeling a lot more private. I try to get my feelings out still as best I can on this site, but never before have I felt this need to keep my true feelings so safe and secure. Maybe it will pass. I hope it does. Maybe I will have another update on the whole thing, maybe I won’t. Who knows. The more and more the days pass the better it gets. So hopefully time will keep passing and I will keep getting further away from that crazy time in my life. I kept a private journal during the later half of my relationship with my ex and I also documented the days before and after the break-up. I went over it a few days ago to help myself make sense of it all. It marvels me to see how much I used to overlook. How different in spirit I was. I don’t think anyone had any idea what I was going through emotionally. I don’t think they ever will. I don’t think they care to know and honestly maybe we’re all like that. Maybe we don’t truly want to know our friends.

In any case I have been spending the last few days getting a few things straightened out and in order and deleting certain people from my various pages to give myself a greater sense of privacy. I realize how that may sound considering this website and my Flickr account, but I do keep more information on my Myspace and Facebook pages and I am just glad to have them more private.

Okay. I’m done for the day. I almost forgot I went to Philadelphia for the weekend last month and didn’t write about it yet! I am also reviewing an awesome children’s toy website tomorrow and you won’t want to miss that! The site is seriously the cutest and the owner couldn’t be nicer!

Kasey just bought me Sarah Jessica Parker’s fragrance Lovely. I have to say that I LOVE this fragrance. I want it to be my new signature scent. I used to use Jennifer Lopez’s Glow, but that scent is way too much after a while. This one is nice and light and I can see wearing it for a while. I also love reading about the notes in certain fragrances.

Here are the notes in this one: Lavender, orchid and amber mingle with apple martini, paper whites and musk.

I also want to get her new fragrance Covet. The notes in that one are: chocolate, magnolia, and amber musks. Which sounds weird, but the reviews so far are really good.

I must say I have started having a SJP obsession since she launched her line Bitten in Steve & Barry’s. It is rocking my world. Kasey bought me 8 tops, 2 sweaters for herself and a shirt for herself for $82!!!! That averages out to $7.50 an item. I also want to add that the two sweaters were the only things on sale.

Today I am wearing a pink Bitten shirt with the Eiffel Tower on it and the word Paris on it. $7.95 not on sale! I love this stuff! I still didn’t get the Houndstooth coat that has been in all the fashion magazines, but when I do it will be $19.95 not on sale. I hope you all have a Steve & Barry’s near you. How sweet it is!

I suck.

When bad things start to happen I tend to overlook them and think that while they are horrible for other people they will not affect me. I also usually don’t want to know if they will effect me. I don’t want the news because I can’t really handle it. The stories make me sad and depressed and it’s not uncommon for me to cry if I watch the news. Then I get filled with dread about all the really terrible things that can happen to me and it makes me not want to go outside anymore or interact with others. So really I have been pretty solid in the past about my news watching preferences. Except that I go to college now and I am at an age where people expect you to know things about the world and not just what gets filtered to you through The View or the occasional Oprah. So…maybe I’ll start reading a paper? I tend to like the New York Times, but then again I read the magazine, style section, book section and travel section and throw the rest out. What do you guys do? How do you get your news?

In any case I am thinking about this for the completely self absorbed reason that Grey’s Anatomy is in on this writer’s strike even though I somehow didn’t think they would be and production will hault after episode 11. They are asking that people stop watching free episodes online at places like abc.com and nbc.com, which I totally used to do. I hope that whoever takes these writer’s seriously. I mean…give them whatever the hell they want! I need my Grey’s!

Also I haven’t gotten a chance to read sites this week and I haven’t had an opportunity to respond to my lovely comments, which I hate it when I’m not able to do that. I will though and you guys know how much your comments mean to me.

It snowed today! Not enough to even dust the ground, but still. Snow. I love it at the very beginning of the season when it is still new and magical. It’s nice to be able to enjoy the snow a bit like this until it gets all stormy and crazy.

I watch a lot of Vacation Home Search now and man do these people know how to complain. If you want everything in your dream home you are going to have to expect to pay more. I still watch it though. I love seeing all those houses.

I need to work more on my poetry project. Woo!

I actually just went to bed without posting. I had to get back up and come downstairs because I didn’t bring my computer home with me. Truely it will be a miracle if I make it through this month.

Kasey surprised me with a Get Well Soon goodie bag. It had a chic-lit book (Confessions of a Shopaholic) for some light reading, The Chipmunk Christmas Movie (the original one!), the movie Love, Actually, A box of tissues for my desk, travel tissues, Hot Cocoa mix and the most adorable pink travel mug. I took the travel mug with me to school today and it was so perfect. She also got me some more oil paints so I can make a new painting. So exciting! I was very greatful for that.

Today I feel worse than ever and I might take the say off of work tomorrow if it continues.

I saw Bee Movie last night and I LOVED it. I will definately buy that when it comes out. Next up on my TO SEE list is Martian Child.

Okay…going back to bed.

If you would like to feel like you are being dried into some sort of human husk I suggest you take Mucinex. I also think they are kidding when they say cough suppressant.

I am ending up spending a good deal of my full day at work finishing up some Women’s Studies work I have been neglecting. It feels good to finish assignments. I like the feeling of accomplishment.

If you find your Shift key suddenly not functioning properly and leaving your writing sprinkled with no capitols where capitols should be, might I suggest taking the key off and cleaning it? It’s a great solution! Hey, do people actually take all their keys off and clean their keyboards regularly? I hope not. That little one felt like a lot of work. Or it could be that everything feels like a lot of work today.

I’m pretty excited about tomorrow and actually having time to do my post.

Today my cousin and I had a scary movie night today in honor of Halloween. We watched The Skeleton Key and Saw. Both were interesting. I don’t think I am a fan of the Saw movies. I’m pretty sure I won’t be watching the other ones. It was my second time watching The Skeleton Key and it was still really creepy. I wouldn’t watch it again, but I though my cousin would enjoy it. She did.

I’m still feeling really sick. I have cough drops, echinachea tea, Mucinex, and Theraflu. Something has to work.

Right now I am watching Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

It’s killing me this year. I just got back from NJ with Kasey when I noticed the time. I guess I just made it. Here is a poem I have to do a presentation on for Women’s Studies. (The presentation is actually on Marge Piercy, but this is a poem I am to focus on.)

The Friend

We sat across the table.
he said, cut off your hands.
they are always poking at things.
they might touch me.
I said yes.

Food grew cold on the table.
he said, burn your body.
it is not clean and smells like sex.
it rubs my mind sore.
I said yes.

I love you, I said.
That’s very nice, he said
I like to be loved,
that makes me happy.
Have you cut off your hands yet?

I hope you guys are doing better than I am!