Childhood, revisited.

     Yesterday I revisited my childhood by spending time in the neatest place in the whole world. I volunteered at Kaleidoscope with Alternative Breaks, and now I'm itching to create something. Kaleidoscope was a wonderland. The entire time I was dying to ditch all responsibility and create anything and everything I could come up with. As a little girl I adored using my creativity. I was crafty, I was imaginative, and I was full of energy and enthusiasm. The result of this was that my room and eventually my house was full of things I had created. Granted, none of them were particularly excellent quality... I didn't have a hidden talent for art, after all. But I loved it, and I still do. I only wish I had more time to be creative, but on my own time. I would hate being a design major... I would resent being told what to create, when to create it by, and then have it mercilessly judged and assigned a fairly arbitrary grade. No thank you. I'd rather be crafty and give it as gifts, or be crafty and make something useful, or just be uselessly crafty for kicks.
      Maybe one day I'll be a stay at home mom and have gobs of time to scrapbook and sew and quilt and knit and embroider and craft and whatever else my creative little spirit latches on to. The problem is, I'm horrible at finishing a project I begin. The fatal flaw. For now I'll stick to creating food. Useful, tasty, and generally necessary. I've got a project I've been mulling over for awhile for my mom's birthday, but I have yet to actually create it. I told my sister we should do it together. I've never actually done a project with another person, so we'll see how this goes. For now I'll settle with patching up a giant rip in my Guatemalan bag and then talk myself into doing some homework. We'll see.

Back to blogging? We'll see.

          After my birthday post I forgot about this blog as thoroughly as I have ever forgotten about anything. That's how it goes with things like this, especially considering I started it on a whim with no direction and no goal beyond self-reflection and directional procrastination.
          This semester has been a whirlwind of altruistic involvement. Dance Marathon happened on Saturday; I am still recovering, which meant skipping Chemistry this morning in order to get some more much-needed sleep. Or maybe it was because I was having a crazy dream about Harry Potter and just couldn't bear to see it end. That must be it.
          Yesterday Hailey and I finally got our Relay for Life team organized, handed out team member packets, and brainstormed some excellent fundraising ideas. What a relief to see that project off the ground and headed somewhere. If only I was as organized with my alternative breaks group as I am with Relay. I guess that's what I get for halfway being in charge of too many things at once... a scattered brain and a handful of things I've forgotten to do.
          I finally watched Julie and Julia, after which I feel the need to give this blog some direction. It might take the form of a blog that follows my first-time experience co-site leading an alternative breaks group and co-captaining a Relay for Life group. Boring for everyone except me. Hmm... we'll see. I guess this blog really isn't for anyone but myself anyway, so it really doesn't have to be interesting, except that if someone accidentally stumbles upon it they'll think "This chick is so dull. Who let her have her own blog?" Disclaimer: I'm not that boring. Scout's honor.

Happy birthday to me!

I am officially 19 years old. Trouble is, there is nothing exciting about being 19. I already had all the rights of being an adult, I'm not yet in my 20's, and drinking is still illegal. If any, 19 would be the perfect age to skip right over. But alas, I still have another year until my birthdays are exciting again for 20 and 21, and then I begin the process of barely registering the fact that I've gained another year. I bet when I'm in my 30's I'll sometimes forget how old I am. That's a little depressing.

Food for the day:
Breakfast: cereal with rice milk
Lunch: More Thanksgiving- turkey, yams, stuffing
Mid-afternoon snack: more cereal and rice milk
Snack #2: applesauce, a banana
Dinner: Birthday dinner- Tilapia, shrimp, scallops, green beans, mashed potatoes, sweet potato fries
Dessert: Birthday cookie and ice cream

Ok, dessert was a splurge. But hey... it's my birthday. I think I'm allowed.

I am a sloth.

          I actually didn't know it was possible for one human being to be so utterly worthless as I was yesterday. I literally read for about eight straight hours and then went to work. I was a little bit disgusted with myself, but it did mean I finished The Lost Symbol in two days flat.

          My first day of work as a shot girl was so disappointing. I showed up, stood around for an hour waiting for people to arrive, then was cut because there were going to be no people to sell shots to. I didn't even take a tray out because there was nobody to sell to. Plus side: I met a charming marine with fantastic muscles. All's well that ends well.

          Yesterday's food:
Breakfast: smart start cereal
Lunch: Pizza, an orange
Dinner: beans and rice, a smoothie, an egg with an english muffin
This food list screams "Kayla's rapidly running out of food". That was my last egg, the last of the pizza, the last english muffin, the last soymilk, and the last of the yogurt. I actually don't know how I will feed myself for the next two days.

          Today's food:
Breakfast: applesauce. I told you the situation was desperate. I am hungover, starving, and am desperately craving breakfast food. Guess I'll suck it up and eat the beans and rice and realize that in most of the world my food stock is enormous and will last me for weeks. I am a spoiled American. Dammit.
Breakfast #2: beans and rice
Lunch: the rest of the beef stew, a bowl of cereal
Dinner: Watkins thanksgiving! Turkey, mashed potatoes, yams, green bean casserole, a roll, pie, ice cream. I suppose that makes up for the rest of the day.
Dinner #2 (embarrassing): Another roll, a stuffed half of a butternut squash. Weird, but actually delicious, especially at 9:30 at night.

Birthday Cupcakes!

Fun fact of the day: I milk my birthday like nobody's business. The four or five days preceding my birthday is generally referred to as "my birthday". So, even though it's only Friday and my real birthday's on Monday, we celebrated. And by we, I mean my roommates and pseudo roommates, Ramona and Kerra. We went shopping, and I bought adorable birthday heels. Then shopping, then ordering pizza, and then... surprise birthday cupcakes! Hailey and Leslie came in with a tray of cupcakes shaped in a K, plus a little plate of cupcakes with walnuts on top. They were homemade and absolutely delicious. That was the sweetest thing that has happened to me in a long, long time. :) We're about to play a precious game of boggle and awaiting our awesome cheeseburger bacon pizza. Viva birthday weeks!

Food
Breakfast: smart start cereal
Lunch: vegetable curry over couscous, grapes
Dinner: Pineapple Chicken- frozen dinner
Dinner #2: Pizza, cupcakes.
          Note: It's my birthday. I'm allowed.

Leisure time?!

Today I read a book. It wasn't for school, it wasn't mandated, and I didn't have to read it. It was awesome. I've been dying to read this book since I finished The DiVinci Code, and now I've finally had the chance to start it! Of course, the whole series is rather formulaic, so I can easily lay out the format of the rest of the novel, but still... it's a good formula. It works. And it's entertaining. So I'm not complaining.

Food log time!
Breakfast: Smart start cereal
Midday snack: Caesar salad, cornbread muffin (thank you, late plate.)
Lunch: Half a bowl of beef stew, half a cornbread muffin (again... thanks, free food on my shelf).
Afternoon food: spicy caribbean chicken
Dinner: Singapore noodles from Zen Zero with Jon and a JuiceStop smoothie!

Not bad. Not good, but not bad. I was totally going to run today. Didn't happen. I blame phone duty. But enough about my body- rumor has it the Chateau staff likes my ass, so we're golden.

Ok, enough of this.

Crazy New Idea

I have decided that I am slowly becoming a lard. And that's disgusting. So, I'm going to change this. How, you ask? By: a) jogging. b) eating less. c) eating better. and d) writing down what I eat. This is where this blog comes in. As uninteresting as my dining habits might be to anyone that happens to stumble upon this blog, it'll help me eat less awful, because I'll have to admit to the entire internet that I ate three pieces of pizza for dinner tonight. Which is actually true.
This new idea is starting... NOW.
Breakfast: smart start + kashi cereal (soymilk)
Lunch: tofu stir fry
Lunch #2: the rest of the tofu stir fry (which is where things get embarrassing.)
Dinner: Three pieces of pizza and a shit ton of fruit.

Things only get ugly around dinnertime. And I never eat pizza unless it's free and handed to me, both of which happened tonight. Damnit, honors events, you're making me huge.

That's all. Time for a Morale meeting and then a loooooong night of studying.