Three whole years!?

I've been dating Josh for three years now. This is my all time favorite photo of us, and being the cute people that we are, we have lots of cute ones. I won't make you suffer through all that preciousness, don't worry. Tonight we're going out! What better way to celebrate than with Subway and Zombieland!? I have no idea, but I could not be more excited.

Earlier today my friend Julia's status on Facebook said, "Rent a Puppy!? Only at college!?" And of course I immediately looked into renting a puppy. Some fraternity was renting puppies from the humane society for a fundraiser, and I think it's basically the greatest idea ever. Josh, being the lovely boyfriend that he is, bought us thirty minutes of puppy playtime with this cute lil' fella. Yes, his picture is bigger than Josh's, so

what!? I wish I'd gotten a better picture, but camera phones are poor quality and puppies are squirmy. We named him Milo for the half an hour he belonged to us. He got lots of belly rubs and smiles. It was the greatest anniversary gift EVER.

These are a few of my favorite things.

About being home that is.

Best fran.

Hilarious near death experiences with my sister.

My momma hen.

Bella Boo.

Noli Bear pretending she's a person. And people treating her like a person.

My record player. Chai woodwick candle! My whale sheets.

My favorite things in Springfield recently: Fall time, my new programmable coffee maker, getting a kick ass grade on my first math test, snuggle time, Halloween costume shopping, cute little 24 hour coffee shops, the most precious indie movie theater ever, getting to wear my new Ugg Cardy boots, pumpkin spice lattes from Starbucks, and the fact that my best friends are coming to see me in two days! Ah!

Birthdays.

This weekend I went to Joplin to celebrate my lovely sister Jill's birthday. I bought her cowboy boots, a Tom Petty book, and an adorable little dish set from the flea market. Giving perfect gifts for my favorite people is my absolute favorite thing. We hung out. Explored the wonderful city of Joplin, Missouri. Josh sang some Salt-N-Pepa. I told my mom about his Schwans man cougar fantasy. He got very defensive. We ate at Olive Garden. Jill got free wine. It was the most amazing twenty four hours I've had in a long time.

Today was my RA, Abby's, twenty first birthday as well. I made her chocolate kahlua cupcakes. Last night, Abby, Lindsey, and I went tie dyed some more shirts, walked to Break Time for a delicious cappuccino, and saw Away We Go for free. It was beyond adorable. I hope my husband is someday like John Krasinski, or John Krasinski himself. I'm flexible.

Prior to wearing Jill's "Keep your hands off my buns!" apron.

Tonight my floormate Addison and I made puppy chow. It was an adventure, but it turned out amazing. We seriously discussed creating "College Cooking with Emily and Addison." Stay tuned. We hung out in Abby's adorable room and ate puppy chow. And made virgin Strawberry Daquiris and Pina Coladas. And talked and talked. And it was perfect.

From left: Liz, Addison, me, Abby, Adrianne, Amy, and Lindsey.

P.S. Mom, please be excited that this post is extraordinarily long due to lack of updates.

Sleepy Sunday!

Today I did laundry. Laundry in Hammons Hall takes about twelve hours. Not only do you have to wait at least thirty minutes for a dryer to open up, the dryers are so old school they take about two hours to dry your clothes. I made some nice friends. Josh had quite a time trying to put my duvet cover back on my duvet. He decided he wants to be a duvet cover for Halloween.

Josh, Josh's roommate, Brad, and I went to Chipotle for free burritos! I was so full! One of Amy's friends let us steal his HBO, so I got to watch the season finale of True Blood, it was incredible. As you can tell I've had such an eventful weekend. Not.

Full belly!

Turning Japanese.

Today I visited my lovely sister in Joplin to make sushi. It was an interesting experience, but a very fun one. Our soundtrack featured Turning Japanese of course. And we took plenty of politically incorrect pictures. Jill's going to be embarrassed I'm putting them on here. We went to Walmart, bought some orange rolls, and I ate like four due to lack of dinner in my belly. We took some silly pictures. I love having her close. I missed my sister.

P.S. School is good. I study sometimes.

Oh, sister.

John McCain came on tv. Jill said "YOOO JOHN!" right when I took the picture. Apparently I look disgusted when I see John McCain..

Teenage Angst!

Home.

I drove back to the 816 on Friday with Josh. We listened to old cds we made for each other. Josh knows every word to a DMX song, and it's hilarious. Then I got to see my Anna Bear! We had to park super far away, but we saw Weezer and Blink 182! It was everything I ever hoped and dreamed. And I still think Rivers Cuomo is the cutest man ever. He's just so little and precious!

Yesterday I went shopping with my daddy in Lawrence. We ate at a cute little Mexican restaurant. And we went to Love Garden, a record store. I found Regina Spektor and Common. I was happy.

We went to an antique store and I dug and dug and dug for some Tom Petty, but no such luck. I did get Elton John's greatist hits, which I already have, but it's all gross and won't play. Nothing is as gratifying as digging through piles and piles of ridiculous album artwork just to find something worth while. I love it.

My dad is so cool. On a boring Saturday afternoon he suggests going to Lawrence, which he knows I love. He listens to good music and quizzes me on classic rock. He laughs at my jokes. Except for when we jaywalked I said, "Rock Chalk Jaywalk!" He did not laugh. I love being home.

Thirsty Thursday.

I'm not really thirsty today. Especially for what everyone else in college is thirsty for. But apparently it's a really big deal and I was mocked for never hearing the term "Thirsty Thursday" before. Today was very relaxing. I've been in a horrible mood all week unfortunately. I dyed my hair today (see picture). We also discovered someone on our floor has swine flu. Katie called me and said "WE'RE GOING TO DIE!" She also texted me telling me to wash my hands and "stay safe champ!" I'm gonna go get a pumpkin spice latte from Starbucks, because it only comes once a year, and it's my favorite. And it will make me feel better.

Tired Tuesday.

For some reason I am completely exhausted today. I went to gym, took my blood pressure, discovered I've lost four pounds since I've been in college, got a haircut (see left), and went to math.

A few days ago I emailed the Springfield Roller Derby league asking about try outs and what not, and they are having a practice tonight. I think I'm gonna go. I'll probably make a fool out of myself, BUT at least I will know if I am terrible or amazing at roller derby. I really don't want to go alone though. Hmm.

I think I'm going to take a nap now.

Edit!

Lots of things went wrong today. I didn't have time to do anything I planned for, including my laundry. No one wanted to come with me to Roller Derby. I had a mix up with this stupid little remote I have to have for one of my classes, costing me about $30. My loan has not yet gone through, and I do not have $2,750. My desk chair keeps falling over because my backpack is too heavy. My posters fall on me in my sleep. At least one per night. My thermostat is set as warm as it will go and it is still freezing. End rant.

Here's a list of things I really enjoyed about today, yay for being positive!

Things I liked about today:

I have been listening to music of my choice all evening, no screamo!

Tasty tea.

Walking downtown for my haircut.

Sending people I love cards.

Making friends with people on my floor.

Not being late for math class.

It's only eleven, and I'm actually almost ready to sleep.

Tomorrow I will have had at least eight hours of sleep.

My friend is emailing me a leaked version of the new Brand New album.

My cozy bed and jersey sheets.

Josh pretending like he knows sign language.

My cute new haircut!

Day 10

I told Katie this was day 10 of living together, she got all excited and said, "IT'S OUR ANNIVERSARY!" We are going to celebrate by going to Walmart to get allergy medicine for Katie, going to Barnes and Noble to get my best fran her birthday present, making cupcake pops, passing cupcake pops to the girls on our floor, studying, doing laundry, and hanging out. Hopefully we have time to do all of this. It seems unlikely. This weekend we've been to a couple parties. And the frat party was everything I expected. Like getting beer spilled all over my cute new top from Forever 21 by some drunk girl while she was making out. How cliche is that? And disgusting. I still haven't gone downtown. But I found a hair place called Studio 417 and they give 50% off to first time students and it looks super cute. I'm going Tuesday between classes. I'm getting bangs again, like this. Zooey Deschanel is the cutest girl ever. Like I kind of have a girl crush on her. Don't worry grandma, I'm not a lesbian.

Our cute going out clothes (please ignore the fact that I look like I'm thirty)

Tie Dye Thursday!

Today I went to gym, took a three hour nap, ate some Simply Asia, went to math, studied at the Potters House, and they have the greatest smoothies in the world, tie dyed some shirts, ate some din, and did some laundry. I washed my new shirts, they turned out awesome (see pictures). While my laundry was going, I read like twenty pages of history. It was very interesting, only not. And now I'm hanging out with my man. Everyone else is out, we're just chillin. And I'm getting a foot rub while I'm writing this. He's so sweet.

Drinkin' some smoothays.

Artsy fartsy.

I am a tie dyeing foooool.

Wednesday!

Today was a long, long day. I had five classes. After class, Katie and I went exploring Springfield. We went to Scrapbook Generation. I bought some paper to make cards, if you're lucky, you might receive one! Then Walmart to get V necks for our tie dye party tomorrow! Walmart was out of V necks. So we bought wholly guacamole, chips, strawberries, cool whip, Kool aid, notebooks, and gum instead. So then went to Target to get the shirts we went for in the first place. I dislike not having a job. We went to After Hours dining and ate some french toast. Sat around with the Blair Shannon boys, who we call the BS boys because we think it's funny. Paul decided to give us an impromptu tour of the campus, even though he is from New York and knows nothing about it. We discovered the football field is open all the time, so we had a nice game of ultimate frisbee at midnight. I love being in college. Here's some random pictures!

Out getting ice cream!

Being silly

Being silly continued.

Our mirror that we were so excited about shattered. :(

My really awful attempt at a laptop case.

First day of school!

Today was my first day of classes. Me and Katie (roommate) took a nerdy/cute/cliche first day of school picture. Mondays I have Intro to University Life, which seems fairly easy/boring. And it's twice a week and I only get one credit. Lame.

My second class is Computer Science, which I have with my boyfran. It is gonna be super fun, our teacher seems really cool. And we get to work on a blog!

At lunch I ate with Katie, our new friend Kirsten, Yoshwa, his roommate Brad, Josh's almost roommate Paul, Paul's roommate Chris, who also is Katie's brother. It's a crazy small world.

I have History Honors after lunch time. It's really intimidating because everyone else is an upper classman and everyone seems really smart.

My last class on Mondays is Geology, I honestly can't tell you too much about it because it really only lasted twenty minutes. My teacher seems like he likes rock climbing, eating granola, having long intellectual conversations about global warming at Starbucks, etc.

Me and Katie sat in front of the fountains and talked for about an hour and a half. It's been super nice outside. We shared our hatred of panic attacks and mean people.

I attempted to make a laptop case, it did not work. Now it's bed time! :)