Things That Annoy Me About Chick Flicks

So I'm finally done with exams. Hallelujah! I get home, feeling all empowered and ready to change the world with all of my new free time. "I think I'll sit down and check my facebook before I clean my room", I think, totally meaning it. But oooh my bed felt so good. And after all, I've worked sooo hard this week.... My room will still look like a hell hole tomorrow...I can clean it then...I've got the whooollllleee day tomorrow (this will probably not happen then either.) So I decide to sit for a little while and pop in 13 Going On 30. This got me thinking about chick flicks and how annoyingly perfect they are. So I decided to use my xanga to rant.

I love chick flicks, I mean I have an entire collection of them and I've been known to watch them repeatedly with my girlfriends, giggling and sighing and wishing I was in one, but they sure can annoy the crap out of me sometimes.

1. Why does the girl never realize that she's in love with the perfect guy right in front of her nose until the very end of the movie?
If any of us met these leading hunks in real life, we would instantly swoon and start trying to win them over. But the leading girls always try to deny their feelings right up until the end, finding every excuse to not admit that they have found the perfect guy until they ALMOST lose them but...wait...hold on...he's coming back! *Sigh* She gets a second chance...all's well that ends well. It finally dawns on her that he's the one and boom! they are a couple. No complications. No more drama. Just a kiss and then the end credits. We don't even get to see what they are like once they are a couple!

How do they roll out of the bed looking so glam? It only serves to depress me when I wake up in the morning with bags under my eyes and half of my hair in weird frizzy curly q's and half stick straight with a weird crimp in the middle.

6. They skip over all of the boring stuff. Which makes for a good movie, but makes your life seem pretty boring in comparison. You are not always going to be hanging out with your girlfriends, running into Mister Right, or going to a party in a beautiful gown. Sometimes you have to stay home and do homework/work stuff, sometimes there's nothing going on in a weekend, sometimes you have to settle for a blockbuster night.

7. You take off a girl's glasses and straighten her hair and all of the sudden she's the most popular girl in school? What?

8. Highschool is not THAT bad. For the most part it's pretty boring and everybody is on the same level. That girl in every movie who is the most popular girl in school and everybody loves but she's a total biatch? There's no such thing. Urban myth. Nobody is going to worship someone who is so mean to everyone. Yet this character shows up in EVERY chick flick!

9. How do guys always seem to sense when the main girl is in trouble? Unless he is stalking her which is very unlikely since the cute ones never seem to be the stalking type. How do they always sweep in right in time to save the damsel in distress?

Ok. Not a chick flick. But very chick flick-ish

The Rules of Feminism...and Globs of Toothpaste

So I woke up this morning and found out my roomie was already in the shower, leaving me with no time to take one. So I had to go to class all gross with my hair in a ponytail. Worst part is, this really cute guy sits behind me in this particular class so I was worried my hair was going to smell or something and the fumes would waft back towards him. So I spend class self consciously patting my hair to make sure it is all in place and not grungy looking and at one point, while I'm running my fingers through the back part behind my ear, I feel something sticky. SOMEHOW I ended up with a glob of toothpaste in my hair! Did Cute Boy Who Sits Behind Me see this toothpaste glob? I guess I will never know...

I kind of want to ask this guy to Pi Phi winter formal also but I can't decide if it's morally right to do so. I've known him as an acquaintance since Freshmen year but didn't really get to know him until we had class together this semester. He was dating someone for the entire year that I was dating Clayton and apparently he broke up with her the same week that Clayton and I broke up. I knew of his girlfriend too but we had never hung out, we have just always waved and smiled at each other in passing because we have some mutual friends. But at the homecoming carnival she ran up to me and poured out her story of how they had just broken up the same week Clayton and I had broken up. She seemed really torn up about it and I felt guilty for always secretly thinking he was so cute. But I haven't talked to her since, and I see him every day and he gets cuter and friendlier every time I see him. Should I ask him to formal? or should I have respect for this really sweet girl who I hardly know? I'm trying to put myself in her shoes and think how I would feel if she was asking Clayton to something and I guess I would be absolutely furious. "The Rules of Feminism" (as Gretchen from Mean Girls says) just suck sometimes.

What do you girls think?

P.S. does anybody know how to change the profile picture? Because mine is still from senior year! lol

The Bug

 I have a stomach bug. And not just any stomach bug, a stomach bug that decided to ruin my life last night. I'm not going into too many details but here's the gist. I went to the neon nights party last night and was having a really good time! Here's a picture of some of us before the party:

Look how nice and normal I looked when the night started, where did this bug come from? That's what I'd like to know! I ended up getting sick in the bathroom of the club and then in an alley with  Clayton and Kristen holding my hair at 2 a.m. while I was dry heaving! I've never been so embarassed in my life. Then the bus left us and we were alone in down town Fort Worth in the freezing cold night. Luckily a cab pulled up pretty quickly but I started to feel sick again right before I got on, so Clayton (who I've barely seen since we broke up two months ago) insisted on sticking his fingers down my throat to induce the sickness but I ended up freaking out and clawing his poor hand up like "GET YOUR FINGERS OUT OF MY THROAT!!!" Then we get in the taxi cab which smells disgusting like pot. I was going to be polite and not say anything but Kristen goes, "This cab smells like pot." to the drivers. I asked if they had a bag for me to be sick in. They handed me a smelly mcdonalds bag to stick my face in. Ugh I'm still shuddering just thinking about it. Miraculously I made it all the way home without getting sick.  Kristen and Clayton are the best for taking care of me like they did.

Torture

Catching Up!

  Ok who's excited for Thanksgiving? Because I can not wait! When is everyone coming home? (Feel free to comment on my spiffy comment box, geez I missed this site!)

Miranda, Kudos to you for already posting. YOU are my new favorite friend because you jumped on the bandwagon so quickly! :)

So I moved into a house in Fort Worth and this is what it looks like...

 Totally kidding...It looks more like this:

Kind of looks like a rainbow threw up right? But I love it. One time a guy was standing on that blue shag rug and he said, "I feel like I'm walking on that big blue monster from Monsters Inc."  

These are my roomies:

Kristen, (you know me), Sara, Ashley

We don't usually wear costumes, this was taken on Halloween. Guess what I am? nobody could guess but I thought it was really obvious that I was a belly dancer!

Ummm what else?

Ooh I opened for the Ying Yang twins this semester at a Fort Worth Concert:

They were so messed up I'm not even sure how they took these pictures.

I also had like a 2 minute speaking part in Friday Night Lights!

You can go ahead and start making fun of my outfit....now.

The wardrobe lady really had it out for me I guess. But oh well. I tried to bring my own clothes and she literally laughed in my face. She goes, "That is not what you wear to a rodeo, THIS" and she pulls out the most hideous batch of clothes you've ever seen, "is what you wear to a rodeo."

The other girl in the picture got to bring her own clothes! No fair!

But I got to meet this kid

"Cash the Rodeo Cowboy" Such a cutie.

I can't think of anything else interesting that's happened this semester. Ok I want to hear you guys' stories now. Quit reading my blog and go post your own!