One Up!

So this thing has been happening lately. Annie and I have been participating in "one upping" each other. I thought one of the best ways to carry out a one up is to write a blog about it.

Ok, one upping works like this. One person says or does something and then the next person tries to say or do something that betters that. For example, Annie heard that Cedar was one of the coldest places in like America one day. I in turn sent her a picture of my bike piled up with snow. I one upped.

Also, one downing can be done too. This one is tougher to do. You must be able to take what the other person did or said and bring it down a notch and be able to make them feel sympathetic when you're done. For example,
Taylor: "Hey Annie! Guess what? My teacher made us caramel apples!
Annie: "Oh, that's nice. One of my teachers just gave us a small piece of candy... I wish I had a caramel apple."

So, now that I've done this blog about one upping, I think I just one upped Annie's comment on Megan's blog. One Up!

Some of the memories in this blog have been embellished because I can't really remember how they exactly went down.

Great Day!

My day was so terrific I just had to share! So, the week started out pretty miserable. I had a presentaion due on Monday and we had to do a class activity with it and no one participated... that quickly became awkward. Then, I had to go to my three hour chem lab where I didn't do the write-up because I didn't get it. While in lab, one of the stockroom "proper attire police" came in and pulled me out of class. Apparently, my shoes looked permeable so she gave me a written warning and made me wear booties over my shoes. And, of course when I walked back in the room everyone wants to know why they took me out so all eyes zoomed in on my booties.

Besides that, I had an interview that I hadn't done that the conversation had to be typed up and a 5 page paper written on it. I had a ten point extra credit due in health because I went to take the online quiz 30 minutes after it closed so I got a zero. Also, I had a test in chemistry and those are the kind of tests where people were shocked and amazed at my genius when I got an 80 on the last one.

So, this blog is titled Great Day! and what I've previously described may not sound great, but here is where it gets good. Yesterday, my Health class got cancelled because of the snow so I got to sleep in for an extra hour and a half! I didn't even wake up unitl 8. Then, I went to take my test later that day and when I got done, I felt like I knew the right answer to most of the questions! (Actual score still pending) And this morning (this is where it gets really good), I went to Chemistry and we had a fun quiz question about if the Rams were going to win the football game tomorrow. The next, question asked how we would feel if class were cancelled for the day. And, he was serious! He gave us points for answering the questions and then we got to leave. My next class of the day was public speaking. We took less that half a page of notes and then we had a competition. We got in groups of four and tried to convince each other that we needed the ten extra bonus points that he was offering. Each group selected one person to speak in front of the class to fight for the points. The guy from our group won and then we found out the group he was in also got 5 points each! It's like could this get any better? Oh yes, it can... just before we left our professor also announced that he made caramel apples for all of us. And, he didn't even skimp on the caramel, they're fully coated.

Ah sigh.

Life is good:)

The North Face

Here in Fort Collins, there are two types of people: those who have The North Face and those who don't. I am one of those who don't but, it seems that at least half of the people here are either sporting their coats, zip-ups, gloves, backpacks, or hats. It's insanity! To put it into perspective... If Fort Collins were the 90s, The North Face would be Doc Martens.

The Plaza

So, here at CSU we have this place called the Plaza (at least I'm pretty sure that's what it's called). Anyway, this is just the main area where people walk between classes. It's usually loaded with people walking to and from class and at times people taking surveys, protesting (meat eaters beware), promoting a cause (gay rights), or giving away free stuff (frisbees, coupons). So, me being the type of person who doesn't like to talk (even if it's for something good) and has an issue of saying "no", I've developed some strategies for getting through the Plaza safely.

1. A great one is the fake phone call. Prep yourself before entering the Plaza by having phone in hand. If you see an attack brewing, bring up the phone and start chatting like nobody's business.

2. I also like what I call the box out. Time your walking with someone else so that they create a barrier between yourself and the person trying to wrangle people in. When they leech on to the barrier, take that chance to get out of there.

3. Last but not least, just run like the dickens. It's hard to hand a pamphlet to someone who's a blur whizzing by.

My New Career

So, the last two days I've engaged in activities that have me wanting to find a new career path. First off, I attended a step aerobics class. And while I'm glad this moment in my life wasn't witnessed by anyone I knew, it was kind of fun and our instructor had so much energy. That leads me to my career, I'd like to be a step class instructor because A) why would I not want to be as happy as those people.(Maybe its the endorphins I found it annoying at first, but why would happiness be a bad thing. Really, it's not. And B) I would stay in shape. Working out would be my job, duh.












So, that's what I'll be doing during the day. At night, I want to be a Hibachi chef! Their skills are actually incredible. I was thinking about if they screwed up when they were spinning a steaming hot spatula around, there could be some serious injuries. Also, I could say cool things like "Japanese egg roll" (spinning egg in shell), "Japanese coke" (soy sauce), and "Japanese microwave" (upside down bowl on the grill) and people would laugh. An added bonus is that neither one of these careers would require me to take anymore chemistry.

Today in class I was offered a cinnamon flavored Australian chewing stick... I thought it wise to decline.

Happy Birthday to ME

This year for my birthday I would like to get...
1. an umbrella
2. some waterproof boots
3. a rad raincoat with a hood

I want these items because today was pouring rain when I woke up so my roommate was nice enough to drive me to school. But, getting there was the easy part. Once there, you still have to get to class and perhaps if I had either one or more of the above mentioned gifts, I wouldn't have been so cold and wet on my journey to class. And perhaps if I hadn't gotten so cold and wet, I would not have had the urge to get a hot cider. And maybe if I hadn't had the urge for hot cider, I wouldn't have taken the sip of cider the same temperature as magma and burned my tongue to uselessness.