Feeling Classy

For the past month I haven't been wearing makeup so my eyelids could get back to normal, and today for the first time in what has felt like quite a while I wore makeup. Today I actually spent time on my hair and I wore makeup! I feel quite accomplished! And I am looking the classiest I have in about a month haha. Good thing I got all dressed up for the day so I can look super fancy for my day of intensive studying! But in all seriousness, it is nice to have my face back to normal again. Greatest feeling in the world!

College: Year One

I guess I have kind of been neglecting my poor blog this month. That's what working a part time job and going to school full time will do to you haha. But seriously this semester has been the busiest of my life. I don't think I have ever worked so hard before, but I love it. Although exhausting, and lacking in a social life, these past few months have been some of the most fulfilling of my life. I have learned to support myself financially, with hardly any help, I feel like I am really on my way to being a full blown adult haha. I really have bittersweet feelings about moving back home for the summer next week. I am so excited to go home and see all of my friends and family, but I am really sad to leave behind the many friends, especially my spectacular roommates, that I have up here. This has been one of the biggest years of my life, and I am really sad for it all to end. I look back to the time at the beginning of the year when I was sad and scared about being away from home, and now in completely different shoes I am sad to leave this place that once had me frightened out of my wits. College really is one of the best experiences of my life, and I can say whole-heartedly that my first year was phenomenal. I definitely look forward to coming back in the fall. But in the meantime I will enjoy going home to my friends and family and soaking up some summer sun!

My Name is Danielle, and I am a Pinterest Addict

After months of denial, I finally have to announce that I have a bad case of Pinterest addiction. It is bad! Multiple times a day I get on and make pin after pin. I've got a problem, friends. And the thing is, I don't think I want to stop. This extraordinary website has sucked me into its black hole of recipes, fashion, books, and the most addicting of all, movies and celebrities. How can I resist going and looking at shirtless pictures of Ryan Gosling, or saucy pictures of Josh Hutcherson in black vintage glasses. Curse you, my weakness for attractive men in glasses! Pinterest has targeted all of my obsessions and put them all into one place. It's like the person who invented Pinterest was like, "Oh, how about I make this website so that Danielle will never get anything done ever again." Pretty sure that is an accurate description. So there, now that I have admitted by daily folly I can start going forth in a step process to recovery. But then again, Jason Segel posing with a fish bowl...I don't stand a chance.

Give the Piano Man His Song!

The other day at work the song Piano Man came onto the radio. And of course, me being the enormous Billy Joel fan that I am, was singing along word for word. When it came to the time when he sings about John at the bar, it cut out an entire section of the song! It was like John at the bar is a friend of mine...then cut to the chorus. How are people supposed to know he wants to be a movie star, I ask you?? Come on Kool 103.9, just play the whole song! I mean, you play the entirety of American Pie, you can play the entirety of Piano Man. I am pretty sure that Billy Joel has risen to the point in his career that you shouldn't go cut off his most quintessential song. I mean listen to the his song he wrote at the beginning of his career, The Entertainer. "It was a beautiful song, but it ran too long. If you're gonna have a hit, you've gotta make it fit. So they cut it down to 3:05." Yep, he was talking about Piano Man. And apparently Kool 103.9 is stuck in the seventies, because every other radio channel plays the entire song now. Geez. Well there is my rant....now you can adequately know how crazy I am haha (if you hadn't already caught on that is.)

Feeling Very Argentine

Last night Keiana and I had some boys over who had served their missions in Argentina, and they introduced us to a drink called mate. It is this mixture of dried chopped herbs that you put in this metal cup with a leather outside, and a silver straw with teeny tiny little holes on the bottom to suck up the water. You put a spoon full of sugar on top of the herbs and then poor hot water into the mixture and then sip it out through the fancy straw. And then you basically just keep continually keep doing this until everyone has drank the flavor out of it. It was quite good, and it was a fun little activity to get to know people and I was able to find out quite a bit about the Argentine culture.

But the thing is, when you have about five cup fulls of this thing, with a spoon full of sugar per helping, you get quite a sugar rush! Keiana and I literally could not calm ourselves down enough to go to sleep until about 2:00 in the morning! Now, Keiana and I are both probably crazy out of our minds on our own, but when you get the two of us hyper at the same time, you've got trouble. Needless to say we were pretty dang funny at 2:00 in the morning, we for sure got some good quotes on our quote board haha.

Yes, Danielle, We Know You Love Boy Meets World!

What? Danielle is doing a Boy Meets World blog post AGAIN??
Yes. Yes I am. I have said it before and I will say it again. Boy Meets World is by and far my favorite show of all time! So much so that I find small moments of my life each day in which I use quotes from it.

Exhibit A:
Everyday when I go to put my underwear on, I go into my underwear drawer and say, "UNDERPANTS!" like Cory Matthews.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXFLpND4Q_g

Exhibit B:
The other day when I was blowing my nose, I randomly quoted Mr. Turner when he tells Cory, "What if one day you rose your hand in class and I said, 'What do you want Booger?!'"

Exhibit C:
When I go to get my cereal in the morning I quote Cory Matthews and say, "There's no such thing as good news until I've had my Grape Nuts." But instead of Grape Nuts I usually say Cheerios.

Exhibit D:
Sometimes I will just start yelling the Feeny call to myself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-BB-Xk9xYY

So there are just a few ways in which my life will never be the same thanks to Boy Meets World. Maybe I am a bit obsessed.

Going Au Naturale

So for the past...forever...I have been struggling with having intensely dry, itchy, swollen, and bright red eyelids. I have basically tried every moisturizer known to man, and tried every method that I found that could possible help me. Some days I would wake up and my eyes would be so swollen and red that I was quite positive that I was probably Quasi Modo's twin. Or another morning when my eyelids are so incredibly fiery red that I told Gavin that I looked like a raccoon if they had red around their eyes instead. This week it finally got to the point where I finally broke down and saw a doctor. Unfortunately there is no real diagnosis for it, all I can do is be incredibly careful about what products I use. And one of the products the doctor told me not to use was my makeup! Heaven knows I love to put on makeup, and you know I don't put on like a ton, I just think it is fun to put on and I enjoy wearing it. But all this week I have been completely out of my comfort zone and have been hitting the town everyday with my face au naturale. After trying this out, I have decided that every girl should try this out every once and a while. Nowadays we all depend so much on makeup and artificial beauty and hardly ever simply give the original palette that God gave us a try. It is kind of this awesome confidence booster, that initially saves you a lot of time, because I never realized how much time I spend putting on my makeup until I wasn't putting it on anymore. And I have already noticed a difference in my eyelids, and honestly if maybe looking like a bum to the rest of the world will take me out of misery I will gladly oblige. And in the meantime I will enjoy the glorious free time I have gained in the mornings.

No more puffy redness!! And no more makeup.