You're a Hoser

Well 'ello chaps! I'm here to bring you the latest snippet of fun nerdery. Today it relates to Shakespeare. Exciting, right?!

Top 5 Modern Movies Based on Shakespeare Plays

(For reals.)

5. She's the Man (Twelfth Night)

4.The Lion King (Hamlet)

3. 10 Things I Hate About You (The Taming of the Shrew)

2. Strange Brew (Hamlet)

 

1. Get Over It (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

To Kill a Mockingbird? Is that an instruction manual?

Here is a nice labeled picture for all of you that [I feel] aptly describes the title of this post.

Ok. Quickbreakdown:

The window belongs to my bedroom.
The tree is the {main} cause of all my problems.
The owl resides somewhere in the arbitrary blue circular area.

Sometimes when I'm minding my business, just trying to sleep, right up to the point where in T-minus 5 seconds I'll be out like trout, ALL I can hear is: tap...tap...tappity...tappitytaptap. The tree is hitting the window. Again. This happens when it's windy. This happens when it's rainy. This happens basically anytime the world is revolving.

Then, when none of the above things are happening and it is nice and warm and generally a good night (or early morning), the owl decides to come out and play. By play I mean 'hoot' at about 37 second intervals. 

Yeah. So if it's not the tree, it's the owl. Ohmygoodness. That's the story of the day of how trees and owls are the bane of my existence.

Easily relateable to this:

Moving on, I love Something Corporate, so here's a song for y'all:

GRADUATION!!!...belated

YEAH BUDDY! I graduated. I also haven't had internet at my house for the past week so I haven't posted any pictures or made the sweet list you're all about to see because, as neato as the Blogger app is, it does not let me link stuff or post videos or any cool shtuff like that. Here we go.

The Top 5 List for Best Graduation Songs of All Time According to Moi:

5. Good Riddance by Green Day

4. Graduation Day by Head Automatica

3. Senioritis by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus (not really about graduation, but whatevs. This is my list.)

2. These Are the Days by Natalie and Ten Thousand Maniacs. This had to make an appearance as it was the song that played during my high school graduation. It probs wouldn't have made the list otherwise.

1. Graduation (Friends Forever) by Vitamin C. YEAH BUDDY! Once again reaffirming my love of 90s music. Bahahaaaa.

Hope you liked the list. Another thing I missed was Mother's Day! So a shout out to my lovely, lovely mom, without whom I would not be here nor would this blog. Sad. But alas! Thank you mama! I love you lots! Happy Mother's Day!

Whoa

I just realized how many posts I write but never post. Curious. However, now I've installed a Blogger app on my phone and that makes it easier to post stuff. Whoo!!! And here is a fantastic picture for you all:

(sorry it's so pixelated. That would be courtesy of the photo editing program on my phone from which I am currently typing)

Almost there!

One final and one interview and then I am DONE! How fantastic. That and I got a nap in today. Spectacular :)

An Invaluable List of Stuff to Know

**I was taking a gander through all of my unpublished posts and found this little beauty; I wrote it sometime last semester. Enjoy!**

Lists, lists, lists...I heart making lists. This particular one is about something that has had me thinking lately--that and it's easy to update this sucker when making lists because there are sooo many possibilities. However, that in itself is a topic for a different day. Here we are today, with TOPIC at hand:

Stuff I didn't learn until I came to college (being in year #4 I figure I should have a pretty good grasp on this):

• When single, the fridge door will become a smorgasbord of wedding and baby announcements, weird crap from your friends, and pizza coupons
• While shopping at Costco seems like a good idea, there is no actual way to eat 64 tortillas by yourself
• Packing lunches is cool
• 1 a.m. is a perfectly acceptable time to go grocery shopping
• $8 of free printing is worth more than any other $8 you will ever have. Ever.  
• All great ideas and profound wisdom occur between 2 and 4 a.m...right alongside some of the worst decisions you will ever make (ie. headbutting contest at 3 a.m.)
• 8 hours of sleep a day actually is achievable, but only because of naps
• Eating a meal of cereal (without milk), crackers and Easy Cheese, ramen, and lemonade is perfectly acceptable
• It is quite possible to write a 5 page paper in two hours and have an in depth discussion on something you never read
• There is never an hour of freedom sweeter than that of a canceled class. This hour will also be promptly wasted.
• Setting only one alarm is not effective. 
• Being sick will become the default status of your health when more than 2 days a week are spent on campus.
• The expiration date on milk is more of a suggestion. 
• **Updated** Find more here.

Welp, hope y'all enjoyed that. 

I love me a bonfire

EasterEasterEaster. So today marks a momentous occasion, it's the first Easter of my life when I have not gotten ANY Easter candy. AT ALL. Sad day. But it was still I think one of the best ones yet. Why???

• Breakfast with Big Sis
• Church
• Sunday nap (lovely, just lovely)
• Dinner with the ward
• Bonfire. Yes bonfire. Oh my. I heart bonfires. 

That's about all. Now for the marketing nerdery lesson of the day: origins of the phrase "When it rains it pours". This actually originated with Morton Salt. Traditionally salt would harden when it would rain due to the condensation and thus, would not pour out of its container. Then Morton all came along and developed a new kind of salt that would pour out of the nifty little round blue container even in humid and damp climates. Word. Because of how innovative this non-hardening salt was, they needed a totally rad slogan to promote this addition to the salt industry. Cue "When it rains it pours", which now has come to have an entirely different meaning, but whatevs, now you know :D

Happy Easter my lovelies!

Songs for the late nights

This is the choice of the day:

Ooh yeah, baby. It's 5:02 a.m. and I have to be on campus in three hours. However, due to some very poor judgment, I've drank a Rockstar AND and Amp within the last 8 hours. Translation: I don't think sleep is happening tonight. Oops.

For those of you not running on inordinately large amounts of caffeine, here is a more mellow song for your late night:

I like this song. Umm, g'night.

I should have started my homework 3 hours ago

So. Something you should know about me: I can never, ever, ever, never return a movie on time. It's hopeless. Really it is. Anywho, moving on.

Recently I was asked what the hardest thing I'd ever done was and I had no answer. Now I think I do--life right now. Not that life itself is hard, but just trying to figure out where to go from here. Everything is up in the air and now I have to make a decision about what to do (versus when I came to college and didn't really have to choose anything, seeing as how MSU was the only school to which I applied). Right. First big life decision where I actually have to choose between options. Kind of intimidating. On that note: picture of the day:

Entirely new topic: school. 25 days until sweet, sweet freedom and hopefully warm weather with snow nowhere in the future. Wahoo! Also, I just got a Droid X. That phone is schweet! Even if I don't know how to use it ;)

Buenos noches amigos!

Procrastination: Lesson #1

Things I would apparently rather do than Spanish homework ('cause I've done all this and not started the Spanish):

• Sleep
• Wash my blankets and sheets
• Take a shower
• Do other homework
• Play Angry Birds
• Cook dinner (Yes, I did actually cook. Weird)
• Clean the kitchen
• Play guitar
• Develop film
• Sit on my couch
• Pay bills
• Walk around campus
• Make more food
• Write this blog post
• Think about going to the Verizon store to get all my numbers transferred to my new phone (but it's kinda fun having random numbers text me and then play the game where I try to figure out who it is)
• Take pictures
• Watch a movie
• Go to class
• Not go to class
• Shovel off the porch

I think that's a good enough list. But seriously, I don't want to do this homework. Can you tell? It's not bad, I've just lost all motivation. Which brings me to my next point!

I got an email about the Honors graduation and they have put together a nice little slide show with all the graduates in it. It's the normal kind, you know, a few pictures, our major, what we were involved in, future plans, etc. The Honors lady putting it all together sent a confirmation email back to make sure all the information was correct. The last line of mine read:

"Future Plans: My plans are undecided at this point."

I'm not sure if that should be liberating (meaning I can now go do whatever I want because I'm done with college) OR frightening (because at the current moment I have no job using the degree I just spent 4 years of my life on). Right. I'm glad we've had this discussion. Anywho, guess I'd better go start on Spanish. BUT! not before I leave you with....this. This video is as 90s-tastic as the song is awesome. Maybe it's just his turtleneck that is. I don't know.