Poodle pigeon!



I visited my friend and her little sister, who is one of my favorite people on Planet Earth.





My favorite toppings are strawberries, bananas, cookie dough, and Captain Crunch



There was a ring around the full moon one night



This is our new Chinese Owl. Their feathers grow inverted, so that's why they all are curled upward. I thought it was funny that while I was holding her, they hid her face and eyes.







My finger found its way into this one, but I still really like it





Star Wars shirt + bow = a classy lady

This week I:

-named a giant Indian Fantail Arnold
-cuddled with the poodle pigeon pictured above
-I got an awesome book called Birdology, a documentary about ferret breeders called The Pursuit of Excellence: Ferrets, and an Iphone case with a seal and a rainbow on it in the mail
-cancelled my Netflix DVD service so I only pay for streaming now
-flipped my shit due to stress, but now everything is fine
-I'm getting paid next semester, yay!
-watched the original Star Trek and liked it. Also spazzed because I realized the theme music was what the Space Mountain soundtrack is based off of
-went to IKEA with Natal, I bought tumblers for my freshman roommate's wedding
-had quite a few ups and downs, but it was all okay in the end
-got frozen yogurt even though it was freezing outside
-was bitten by a dead, half-skinned cat because I accidentally jammed my hand into its open mouth somehow (I'm learning muscles, I'm not a serial killer)
-ate tea and cake
-cuddled with my cockatiel
-played Set with franz

Tomorrow I'm going out to breakfast with Sunny, going to the football game against UCLA, and then Sunday is craft day with Natal. This is going to be a good weekend!

cheer up time

I'm feeling down again, mostly because I keep being foolish and naive, so here are some peppy photos from my tumblr to spread some cheer.





























And for the grand finale...

a moment of disbelief

Today in media and pop culture we watched this video.



When the professor asked the class what the overall message of the video was, the entire room was silent. I myself take at least a few seconds to pluck up the courage to say something in the void of silence in front of my classmates, so as I was preparing to tell him what I thought, someone else spoke up. He said that the video was about consumption.

The professor looked at him incredulously. I looked at him in complete and utter disbelief. Did people really not see the message of this video? Or did he just feel the need to say something because he was on the spot? The professor asked him to elaborate and he said that the presence of magazines in the video showed that America was obsessed with consumption.

Yes, that is a problem in America, but ultimately NOT what this video is about. Some other people said it was about how beauty has a price. To an extent, but what we see in this video is that AMERICA HAS CREATED AN UNREALISTIC AND UNATTAINABLE VISAGE OF BEAUTY. The video portrays the truths of girls who are obsessed with weight and image and the pressures that lead them to drastic ends such as eating disorders. After a couple more shout outs about eating disorders I finally said really loudly, "IT'S ABOUT AN UNATTAINABLE IMAGE!" I was just amazed that more people didn't say the same thing.

I hang out with a lot of really intelligent people who are constantly discussing current events and controversial topics (which sometimes goes over my head, to be honest), so it was surprising to be in a classroom full of people who didn't seem to get to the heart of a video depicting an incredibly important and heartbreaking topic. The class went on to further my disbelief when we learned the statistic that less then 10% of the US population reads books. Instead, they opt for TV. Apparently most Americans spend less than 15 minutes outside each day and spend an average of 7 hours in front of the TV each day.

It is my goal to NEVER be like this. I might be pretty damn obsessed with the internet (case in point, this blog) and Netflix, but thank God I don't have cable TV because I can at least pull myself away from the internet and internet TV to go outside for more than 15 minutes a day.

Today has also made me realize that I am a smart cookie, despite not knowing what my friends are talking about sometimes when they discuss politics. I am knowledgeable and I do have an opinion that is important and deserves to be shared. It took an entire class's silence to remind me of that.

weekend roundup

Um I just died watching this video. I am a little obsessed at the moment (aka all the time, you should see my room because apparently I have a lot more merchandise than I originally thought).

Anyways, GOD THE IPHONE IS COOL. I can use it to look up youtube videos in a flash when I trying to describe Sexy Sax Man to my friends or to play Fruit Ninja when I'm waiting in line for something or to take instagram photos of EVERYTHING. Here are some pictures from my weekend (I was a fool and forgot to take pictures at the biggest events though...woops)









This one is my favorite



I also like this one

After Friday's weird sickness my weekend got a lot more fun. Saturday was spent, of course, getting my new phone and getting my eyes checked out. Turns out I have astigmatism in my right eye and that's why my vision has felt weird for the past week when wearing my contacts. I got a new astigmatism contact for it that's weighted, so it felt a little weird at first but now I'm used to it :) Saturday night was our Guy Fawkes Party at Lisa's house. She made a delicious tortellini soup full of vegetables and her friend Bri (maybe Bree, not sure how to spell it) came over and brought a salad and I brought over lemon bars, so we had a feast while we drank screwdrivers (Lisa drank a bloody mary to be especially english, but she let me taste some of it and I wanted to throw up) and watched V for Vendetta.



I forgot how GOOD it was. I saw it when it first came out in theaters, which was before I was 17 because I remember my friend's mom had to come with us and she snuck beer into the theater since she doesn't like soda. Anyways, I loved it. Now I feel all rebellious and want to stick it to the man and/or overthrow something. After V for Vendetta I was feeling pretty drunk since I'd had two screwdrivers at that point and was making my way through a vodka tonic with half a lemon in it. We took a break to talk and eat lemon bars and then started in on Ghostbusters, which I had brought with me. I passed out a quarter of the way through it, however. Sunday was spent unpacking the last of my stuff, throwing things that need to be donated into my car, doing my homework early (impressive, no?), and then hanging out with Sunny. We watched Rio, which I LOVED.



THE BABY BIRDS ARE SO CUTE!!! I basically screamed through the entire movie. Ugh it was adorable. They got the crazy bird people down PAT, as well as the movements of pet parrots. The way Blue walked and climbed and his mannerisms were all perfect. Also I'm glad that a movie was done about biodiversity conservation, especially aimed at macaws since 14 out of the 17 species of macaws are endangered. It's a movie after my own heart. The only thing that super bugged me was the parrots did not have zygodactyl feet in the movie. It's a technicality that only a bird nerd would hate, but that's me. We started Beauty in the Beast, but everyone else was asleep while I sang the songs grandly to myself, so I decided to leave halfway through.

Now I'm about to watch the rest of Ghostbusters to end this loverly weekend.

satuday splendors

Guess what I got today...



I was going to go for the cheap phone, but I saw that the Iphone 4 is actually fairly cheap right now (like $150 down from the original price) and I had a weird sort of brain spasm and said I'LL TAKE IT. So now I've got that. The first thing I'm going to do is customize my ringtones (you can't customize text alerts though, which makes me sort of sad) and then I'm going to buy Fruit Ninja and play it all the days.

fill ins and photos

Friday Fill-In

1. In November, I most look forward to the mashed potatoes at Thanksgiving.

2. Emotions...phew!

3. It's right there, in the facebook archives.

4. Drawing and watching childhood movies is a great way to achieve peace of mind.

5. Water is one of my greatest loves in life.

6. Suck it up, get tough is what my grandmother used to say!

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to resting, tomorrow my plans include getting new contacts, getting a new cell phone, and having a Guy Fawkes Day party with Lisa and Sunday, I'm going to do homework and hang out with Sunny!

I am slightly upset right now because my brother gave me a fat lip. Not from actually punching me in the face, but by throwing something at me really hard. And so I'm a little enraged.

I have an extensive collection of pictures I collect from around the internet. Tonight, I would like to share some of them to make myself feel better.







I love bats.





Somebody make this for me please.





This is me. This is me you guys.



The Derpmare before Derpmas <3

LITTLE BBS <3 <3 <3

Yes



Why am I basically Moe?









I want this bed. So much. I don't think you realize how much I want this bed.

I'm feeling a little sick again because I slept for basically an hour last night because a) I once again failed to actually study my test due to distractions AGAIN (almost identical distractions too, I suck) and b) it was terrifyingly windy last night, so I missed the pigeon fair. We were going to go as a whole lab family, but stuff led to me ending up just hanging out at home. Which is fine.

missing you

So I may or may not have been looking at a Disneyland employee's youtube videos of Jack and Sally (since I just watched the movie and am being super fangirl and never got to actually meet them) and I found THIS



4:15 is where the amazing DR. DANCE (aka Eckert I guess) shows up. This captures his glory I think. Also at the end, is he not a pimp?

This was the other video I was watching and cooing over



They're SO CUTE