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Gaaaaaah! I didn't update yesterday! ... Here's all the things I was thankful for yesterday:

1) Steve Bryne
2) Sane/Nice people on Greyhound
3) Bus drivers who make cruel jokes about Canadians
4) Getting to see Jon drunk
5) Chicken pot pie
6) "Julie and Julia" for inspiring me to learn to cook
7) The fan made prequel to Doctor Horrible... Horrible Turn (click here to watch!) Slow at first, but it picks up.
8) Kenny Hammerstein... see #7


And here's that I'm thankful for today!

1) Demetri Martin
2) St. Mary's Academy
3) Hot Cocoa Trio's from Seattle's Best
4) Amanda
5) Ms. Nyland and her obsession with my hair
6) Warm coats
7) Having the house to myself
8) Christmas decorations


Today Amanda and I stopped by good old St. Mary's Academy and tormented some teachers... and by some, I mean almost all of them. It was so nice to see them all, even the one's I wasn't particularly fond of when I was in high school. I was surprised that the number one comment I got was about how great I look and how much more mature I am now... which is a nice way of saying I now have a fancy haircut, a thinner waist, nicer clothes, and boobs.

My wisdom teeth come out tomorrow. Do not want.

I learned the hard way today that I should never ever bring up boys with my Dad, because he will subtly/inappropriately/awkwardly ask me if I've slept with my current crush. And the sad thing is he doesn't seem to understand what he said to me was awkward. I just kept saying, "No, no, no. We are not having this conversation. Not now, not ever." I wasn't covering anything up (there's not anything to cover up at this point), I just simply refuse to talk about my (imaginary) sex life with my father.

Right. I need to go finish unpacking, and then I'm going to do my daily work out. Then I'm going to find some recipes for drinks and soft foods on the internet. As I said in my 'Thankful For...' section, I really want to learn to cook, so I figured this would be an easy way to start out. Find foods I can eat after I get my wisdom teeth take out. Awesome... except for the wisdom teeth removal part.

Eight things I'm thankful for today:

1) Patton Oswalt
2) Warm, comfy, cozy beds
3) Sweet Cal/Gillian moments on Lie to Me
4) Bacon for breakfast
5) Lazy days
6) Very large suitcases to hold all my crap
7) Leftovers
8) Conan O'Brien and Andy Richter's friendship

Those eight things sum up the entirety of my day. Eating, packing, and sitting on my ass in bed watching hulu/youtube (mainly Patton Oswalt). The only thing I left out was Jim Gaffigan, but that's because I was thankful for him yesterday... can I be extra thankful for him?

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Okay, brace yourselves, people. It's another installment of 'Julia-rants-about-a-guy-in-her-life'. You can either keep reading or choose to ignore it. (On a brief note, I'm going to try not to go too over the top with this. I looked at some of my guy rants from last year and, yeech, they're sort of embarrassing. I'm going to keep it brief.)

So. Isaac.

I've had a crush on Isaac for over a year now. I mentioned him in previous journal entries (this one comes to mind). I first took notice of him when he was in a showcase of Dead Man's Cellphone. He then became that upperclassmen who I'd see and think, "Oh, he's so cute, too bad he never notices me." Thus life went on. Blah blah blah, school year ended, blah blah, I fell for Nick over this summer, blah blah blah. Skip to fall term of this school year and not only is Isaac in my Stagecraft class, but he's also in Tongues and joined improv club. So we saw each other six times a week. For the first half of the term I basically made googly eyes at him and wished he would talk to me. Eventually, I got tired of that, so I started talking to him. By the week before Thanksgiving break we were having real conversations.

Here's where all the cute shit starts happening. At the Tongues cast party I got really drunk and made it blatantly obvious to Isaac I liked him (I was hanging all over him, I kept telling him he was cute, and at one point I lay down on top of him). The next morning I was terrified he was never going to speak to me again because of how I acted, but then that night we both ended up at another cast party together, and guess what? We danced the entire time. Granted, neither of us can dance, but that's not the point. It was so much fun. And he gave me a piggyback ride home and we sang "The Prayer" (drunkenly) together and had so many more cute moments. Then Thanksgiving break happened, which killed me because I missed him so much. Then the Wednesday after we got back from the break I did a very brave thing. I asked him out. To his face. And he said yes. So on our first date we drove around Medford for an hour looking for a restaurant he'd heard of... but didn't know where it was... Needless to say, we didn't find it. But we ended up eating at a smaller restaurant and we talked a lot. It was really nice. Then I pretty much didn't see him for a few days, due to finals week. This drove me insane, so I ended up asking him out again, but this time over facebook (you gotta do what you gotta do). And he said yes again. So we spent yesterday doing such things as: walking across town to get to his car, walking through Lithia Park, walking on top of a frozen duck pond, making fun of ducks for at least an hour, eating pizza, and doing dishes at his place (when he asked if I wanted to come back to his place I was sort of thinking other things would happen... oh well (EDIT: I meant make out. I wanted us to make out. Nothing more. :P )). It was a ridiculously fun four hours.

But now it's Christmas break and I have a sinking feeling I'm not going to hear from him for three weeks. He doesn't text and he's never on facebook. It's aggravating... It also doesn't help that he's terribly shy. Terribly. I'm always the one making the first moves. My friend, Winston, is determined to get us together. At the cast party (where Isaac and I danced and had fun) he kept telling us to make out. Which we didn't. And then Winston, at another party that I was at, gave me this long lecture about how I'm going to have to kiss him first and someday I'm going to be the one to prepose... oh Winston. So silly. But, the point is, I really like Isaac. A lot. And it looks like it's going in the right direction... So we'll see.

... Shit. So much for being brief... This is why I should keep updating livejournal, because then I don't have to throw a shit storm of randomness that's been going on in my life at all of you all at once.

( Some pictures of Isaac )

Gah. I've got to finish packing. I'm leaving for Portland in T-minus twelve hours. I'm not looking forward to Greyhound at all... Blargity. I'll finish packing in the morning.

So, I have three goals over Christmas break: 1) get my hair cut, 2) organize my computer, and 3) get back onto LJ. I seriously don't know why I've stopped posting on here. It's not like my life is too busy or not interesting enough. I guess I'm just lazy... really, really, really lazy.

Anyway, the plan is that I'm going to slowly make my way back onto livejournal. I will do so by doing what I did last year. From now until Christmas, everyday I'm going to post eight things I am thankful for. They'll mostly have to do with whatever I did the day I post them, but oh well. Here's what I'm thankful for today:

1) Jim Gaffigan
2) Ice skating with new friends
3) Great American Pizza Company pizza
4) Duck ponds in the winter that are so frozen you can walk across them
5) Making fun of ducks... with a crush
6) Walks through Lithia park... with a crush
7) Doing dishes... with a crush (it's seriously more fun than it sounds)
8) Ridiculously cute/awkward/funny guys... <3


So, except for the first few, I'm thankful for Isaac... Aka, the most awkward/adorable guy on the face of the planet. Aka, the guy I've been head over heels for the past three months. Aka, the guy I've been on two dates with... yes... Note to self: write an entry about him very soon.

Okay, I'm going to go work out now. I shall post eight more things I am thankful for tomorrow, and maybe I'll start looking at my friend's LJ entries again... God, I'm lazy.