Do-It-Yourself

http://lifestyle.msn.com/your-home/staticslideshowrs.aspx?cp-documentid=21889122

I'm mostly posting this for myself. I came across this on MSN this morning and really like using everyday items for other purposes, so I'm saving this link :)

At work this summer I learned how to recycle glass bottles...mix Elmer's glue w/ water, brush some on clean, dry glass bottles of various shapes and sizes, stick on torn-up pieces of colored tissue paper, let dry, and VOILA! You have a cute flower vase. :) Decorate w/ stickers, ribbon, glitter, etc.

:)

All the ants in my apartment are dead.
Aggies beat the Lobos on Saturday.
Cowboys beat the Panthers yesterday.
A + on my Spanish test.
Got my car in to get fixed.
Saw my family over the weekend.

Life is good.

The ants go marching one by one....

....and they don't know they'll soon be dead hoorah! hoorah!
A couple weeks ago I noticed a few ants here and there in my kitchen, and I started seeing at least a few at a time consistently since then and saw them coming out from some floorboards in the storage closet by my kitchen, so yesterday I bought some ant traps and set two in my closet and two in my kitchen. They have poisonous bait within them, and the ants are drawn to it, and take some of it back with them to the queen ant, wherever they live. Then they all start dying one by one, hoorah.... AND THE ENTIRE COLONY IS DESTROYED MUAHAHAHA. Anyway this morning when I woke up and went to make my much-needed coffee, I saw lots and lots of ants in a line going to and from one of the traps. At first I admired them for their communication and never-ending work hours, then I sniggered to myself and said to them, "Little do you know..." then felt a little bit evil. It's tempting to squish them all as they trek across the tile floor, in easy destroying vicinity, to save them from suffering from the poison, and to save me from having to see this infestation in clear view, where I cook and eat, but I'm pretty sure that that traps will only work if they are consistently taking the bait to their home, and lots of it. I hope that they'll start dying soon, because I'm not sure how long I can stand to see yucky little creatures in the area where all my food is.

The second story of my day is that I got an estimate on my car finally, and will be taking it in to get fixed on Tuesday. This weekend I am going to visit my brother, and we're going to the UNM-NMSU game. Battle of I-25. Dun dun dun. Both teams kinda suck this year, so it will be interesting. I'm looking forward to seeing him.

Have a great Wednesday!
:)

Cowboys lost.

Therefore I will be depressed for approximately..............................until they win again.

Leave me alone.

Take cover!!!!

I was thinking about going to the NMSU-UTEP game, as UTEP is one of our two big rivals, and could not for the life of me decide if I really wanted to or not or not. God decided for me and has cast an epic thunder/lightning storm upon Las Cruces in the last ten minutes. There is thunder every 5 to 10 seconds. SO awesome!!! In fact, the lightning is starting to scare me cuz it's so close, so I think I'll get off the computer for a bit.....

*several hours later*

I had bagel bites for dinner this evening. Bagel bites (the pepperoni kind) are my favorite midnight snack ever. This craze started about two years ago, not long after Jake and I started dating. One night we were hanging out at my apartment really late at night watching cheesy ghost hunter/most haunted shows and got the late-night munchies, but couldn't figure out what sounded good. We opened my freezer, saw a Sam's club bulk pack of bagel bites, looked at each other and simultaneously said "BAGEL BITES!!!" Since then bagel bites have been the ultimate go-to in the wee hours or just when nothing else in particular sounds good.
I went to go visit Danielle for a little while, and the rain was so bad that even as I was going 50 mph on the interstate (15 under because of the sheets of rain), my car started skidding around a bit. So down to 40 mph I went. It probably would have been smarter just to stay home, but I'd been home all day and needed a friend break. The lightning was awesome though, a handful of ginormous flashes straight across the sky.
Thank God for the rain.

I started to do homework...

...then I realized it was the weekly two-hour Friends marathon on TBS. Moral of the story, I didn't get any more homework done.

This is very random, but I really cannot stand those Geico commercials, with the stack of money and the big eyes, and the annoying music, and the "That's the money you could be saving with Geico." I think those commercials are not funny at all.

However, the At&t Rollover minutes commercials crack me up every time I see them. Here are my favorite two:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmIj7_0-1kg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUyUvq3dsKc

Hehehe....just thought I'd share what makes me laugh :)

The other day Jake and I had a total know-exactly-what-you're-thinking moment. We were walking to Spanish together on a nice sunny day, and this girl was walking toward us with an umbrella. Now, this umbrella was bright pink and had lots of pink and purple sequins on it, so as she held it over her head to block the sun's rays, the glare of all the sequins hit Jake and I in the face. Immediately, without even looking at him, I could feel the tension of both of us trying to hold in our laughs. As soon as we were out of hearing range, he looked at me and saw the strained look on my face, and we both just broke down as cause of the overkill umbrella.

:)

Monday's Musings!

My grandma is already back at her home, thank God. She is doing better, but I'm sure she'd appreciate it if prayers are being said for her for her still :)

Tennis was super fun today. We've been playing doubles the past two classes, and I'm finally getting the hang of serving the ball into the correct area (more or less). I love having that class first thing in the morning, because it wakes me up and gets me energized for the rest of the day. However, this class has been a friendly reminder to me that I do NOT like being corrected or told what to do unless, a) I ask for it, or b) the person correcting me is an actual instructor. Jake kept innocently trying to help me on how to make my forehand swing better, and telling me what I was doing that was messing me up a few times, and I would glare at him through my sunglasses or grit my teeth and say something like "I know" or "I'm trying" or just flat out ignore him. Poor guy. I later explained the reasoning behind my irritation toward him, and said that's just how I am, and he was like, "Yeah, I've noticed that." Ha. Sigh...oh well. I think he'll forgive me of this flaw.

I made two loaves of zucchini bread the other day...and all I have to say is that I live alone, and yet both loaves will probably be gone soon. It's so yummy for breakfast with yogurt and Costa Rican coffee :) I think I'll go nibble on some now...