Pita chips for dinner= totally acceptable and completely awesome.

I am beyond exhausted– the wedding was beautiful, the raspberry/almond cake was outta this world, my waffle at Waffle House this morning was one of the best I’ve ever had.  I also had two scrambled eggs which were beyond yum– scrambled eggs are one of my top five favorite foods, did you know that?!?!

Also, I’ve officially decided that when that day comes for myself, I will be married in Vegas.  Not necessarily in some blacked out state at 3 am by an Elvis impersonator, but definitely in Vegas, definitely In-n-Out Burger as the reception food.  Feed each other french fries and a shake instead of cake, that kinda thing.

I just KNOW you’re wondering “But how was the rehearsal dinner barbecue, Brittney?!”  so I’ll TELL YOU.  Amazing.  Holy ribs and BBQ sauce.  My uncle can smoke some meeeeean ribs.  Also, Jack Stack’s  in KC makes some of the best baked beans I’ve ever had the privilege of inhaling– there’s pieces of brisket in the beans. 

The dryer was broken at home so the two baskets of dirty laundry I lugged home got lugged back untouched.  Thanks for the quarters though, Ma– now I just have to find the motivation to actually get ‘em in the washer. 

My friend finally got a headstone after only, oh.. eleven months– it’s really nice and its got a picture of him and says “Boner” on it and it made me very sad. 

Goodwill and Second Act were both closed by the time I got back, so I stopped at the specialty Halloween shop just to see what I could find.  SIXTY DOLLARS for a Halloween costume?!  No, thank you– I have booze groceries to buy.  Bestie and I are going to scrounge around for something to wear, anything… anything at all.  I brought home some dress-up clothes from home, but I’m not sure what we can make out of two pairs of suspenders, five pairs of ladies’ gloves and a can of temporary blonde hair color.

Oh, and in case you hadn’t heard… 8-0, FIRST TIME IN SCHOOL HISTORY.  Me being the Negative Nancy I am, thought we had zero chance at winning, and we barely did, but WAYTOGO Stanzi for those final two seconds.  I was getting minute-by-minute texts updating me on the score during the reception, and we’d all written us off until I got the “hawks win” text and I went be-serk.  The home game this weekend should be beyond insane.

I have now come to a crossroads in my life: 1.) take a nap, possibly (ohmygoodnes it’d be so amazing) just sleep til class tomorrow or 2.) do homework.  This homework will not be hard, I am in no way going to put in even what could remotely be mistaken for effort, yet it needs to get done.  I was following someone today with an license plate frame that said Alumni and I actually had a thought along the lines of “they did their time…” and then realized I was equating college to prison.  College is no way a prison– well, the classes are, they are absolutely mind-numbingly not awesome at all, so in some ways I absolutely do feel like I’m just biding my time til my four years are up.  The extracurriculars though (and not so much the leadership experience one puts on their resume) make me never, never wanna leave.

Occasionally I wonder if that when I’m a real adult I’ll still drink directly from the milk jug.  I don’t see this practice ending any time soon, and in case I meet someone worthy of my awesomeness, he’ll obviously have to be someone who can’t be bothered with trivial things like wasting  a clean glass just for milk either.  Hopefully we won’t have a lot of house guests or breakfast will be kind of awkward.

How ’bout them Hawkeyes?! I thought we were going to lose.  Mostly because I think we’re going to lose everytime.  I’m most definitely a glass half-empty type person.  This is not such a bad thing however because then when we win I can drink more honestly say I didn’t see it coming.

I just made pumpkin muffins.  Do not ask why I was up at 9 am on a Sunday after Homecoming– I don’t know either.  I realllllly wanted some Hamburg/Lou Henri’s/Perkin’s (okay, not really because the Iowa City location totally blows) but the amount of alumni mixed with sheer lack of funds & motivation to leave the apartment left me to fend for myself.  Shout out to T-Bone for bringing me PUMPKIN PANCAKE/MUFFIN MIX on my parents’ epic & not-oft’ traversed journey east.  I’m quite certain I put in way more mix than needed so it was kind of like eating flour rocks, but Sophie had pumpkin butter which made.them.awesome.  You could put pumpkin butter on anything & I’d eat it– QUOTE ME.

Apparently it’s midterm week.  Apparently I didn’t get the memo (MILEY!!!!!!!!!).  In retrospect, I have a laughably easy semester.  Only one of my classes gives us tests.  One of my classes is over in three weeks.  While this may sound like a fast-track to good grades this semester, nay nay.  Maybe it’s the whole pessimism thing, but in about two weeks I am certain to have some sort of mild to moderate freak out where I am just SURE I am failing all of my classes and I am just SURE I should drop out of college because why would they let in someone who can’t probably measure 2 cups of mix to make her freakin’ pumpkin muffins.  Hopefully this will pass with minimal psychological damage.  It always has & I usually make pretty nice grades (save for second semester freshman year when SOMEONE discovered that she could use her friends’ 19-year-olds i.d.’s downtown even though she was still only 18– shaaaaaaame.)

In closing, I really need to brush my teeth.  And go back to bed.  If I’m still feeling domestic, I might even put on my flannel sheets (and by “put on” I mean “lay over the mattress and hope I don’t kick around too much in the night since I don’t actually have sheets that properly fit my mattress”) because it’s approximately 18 degrees in our apartment.

BUT HOW FREAKIN’ EXCITED ARE YOU FOR CHRISTMAS?!?!?! Perhaps I’ll start a countdown.  2 months & 14 days.  Exactly 2 months til Hanukkah.  Apparently that’s on time.  I have no idea what that means.  But you should probably stop by our apartment when it comes because we are going to have one odd mish-mash of holiday decor!