Party! Party! Party!!

My sister-in-law's birthday is comin' up! Saturday October 9th we will be celebrating her 30th birthday. I'm excited to have family party to go to this weekend. I will be making a giant pan of my famous baked mac 'n cheese!
This summer, I learned how awesome yet difficult parties can be to put together. My brother Mike and I decided to throw a pool party at our house. I also thought I would make a great hostess, but didn't realize the stress that came along with it. We sent out facebook invites and only received a few replies which terrified me that the party would be lame. The Hendricks family could never live down having a lame party. My parents threw some of the best birthday bashes and 4th of July parties, we could not let them down!
I decided to cook EVERYTHING, which means I bought all the food. That added on a lot of stress. I never made pulled pork, but decided it was a great idea to have at the party. Luckily, I just put it in the crock pot and cooked it for over 6 hours. It came out tender and delicious! For a late night snack, we grilled some hot dogs! People gave great praise to the cook.
We got the food right, but what about the fun?? The pool made the 'fun' aspect easy, along with alcohol and beer pong and flip cup. The music was also an issue. Mike and I have extremely different taste in music. I tend to go for the more poppy dance music while Mike likes the singers who scream lyrics about butterflies and falling stars. Eric helped with that by unplugging the ipods and putting on the radio. Everyone was so drunk they didn't even notice. My friend and I had a little 2 person dance party!
Overall the party went smoothly and everyone had a blast. I hope to be the host of more parties in the future; by future I mean next summer.

I can do better.

I was recently reading over my old blogs and noticed how poorly I write. I am an English major and that should be portrayed in my writing. However, when I write these blogs I don't really care about grammar, comma splices or witty comments. And my transitions are wretched!!
Now that I'm back in school, I have to improve my writing skills! I've already written a few papers for classes, and I must say they are lovely. Seeing that I can actually form fluid sentences with vivid descriptions and coherent ideas makes me want to write better blogs. Once I have something better to blog about, I promise it will be well-written and interesting.

So my next blog will be amazingly fantastic with detailed descriptions, no over usage of commas and plenty of clever phrases that will make you smile with glee and never wince in pain over those long ass run-on sentences that everybody hates especially English majors and their professors.

P.S. I hate reading over things I write.

I don't normally do this....

but stuff happens, mixed with being in school which seems to make me feel more creative. I might make this longer for a possible assignment.

One body,
Too many faces.
Which should I see?
Who do I believe?
Faces of lying happiness,
of sadness,
of warmth,
of love.
Which should I see?
Who do I believe?
Faces of true anger,
of hate
of frustration
of malice.
Now I see.
Now I believe.

Not bad

First day of school was today and it went surprising well. I only had one class and it started at 1:05! I decided to arrive at school an hour early due to the nightmare parking situation. I lucked out and found a spot within ten minutes of being there! I've had the teacher before and she remembered me from two years ago. Nice. However, the class is an introduction to English and I've taken 400 level English classes already, so I was a little embarrassed, but another girl was in the same boat.
Tomorrow is a full day of classes starting at 9:55 and ending at 2:20. I have about 20 minutes between the classes, luckily they are all in the same building.
I'm hoping that I will love all my classes this semester. So far so good.

p.s. I forgot to buy folders! I got plenty of notebooks but no damn folders.

Starting something new.

I'm ready to start something new. I think I want to write a book. I have an idea that is actually somewhat confusing and hard to put on paper. I've ran it by Eric and he finds the concept interesting. I want to write something epic. Something for a younger crowd but not Twilight. I'm not sure I would even consider Twilight as epic anyway. I would consider Harry Potter or those Narnia books as epic. Stories about a whole other world where young kids are the heroes and for some reason animals can speak. Actually, I don't get the whole talking animal thing. Something touching and kids can relate to. Sounds difficult, but I might as well try to start writing  it and see where it leads me.

I'm not fishing.

The summer I turned 21 I was jogging everyday to get in shape for Vegas. Well, when Vegas vacation ended the jogging ended. I wasn't super thin or anything, just not flabby. Now, I'm feeling a little flabby. I by no means define myself as fat or overweight. I want to tone my arms and have a flatter stomach. I'm not looking for a 6 pack of abs and size 2 pants. I like food way too much to be a size 2. Oh, and drinking. I really enjoy a goodnight of drinking. That sounds a little bad. Monday's have become mine and Eric's new Friday. We go downtown and drink.....a lot. Since we usually only drink once a week, 2 days at most, I don't think that's bad. I also want to completely cut out soda, but I've tried several times in the past and always end up with a coke in my hand. Since work is so hot I drink much more water there which is where I drink most of my pop. So that's a plus.
When this surge of work out motivation ends I hope to look a little more toned. Actually, it would be better if it didn't end.

Shiz

I'm just sittin' here waiting for my mom to finish burning straightening her hair so I can shower. I'm all sweaty and gross with a slight scent of bacon because of work.
Nothing new is really going on......I submitted my script to Script P.I.M.P over a week ago. Everything went smoothly. I checked the status and it had a blue circle with a check mark inside. I met all the criteria so the script will be up for consideration. I plan on submitting it to the other contest by the end of this week. Well, I have to since the deadline is June 1st. I should know if I won anything in July. I won't get my hopes up.
I also received a document of registration from WGAW. It's kinda cool actually. It says I am the writer of The Jawbreaker Story. It looks like an award certificate. Eric wants to frame it.
I think that's all for now!
Peace and hair grease.