Owls!!!

Okay--this is the cutest thing ever.

So I walked into Urban Outfitters the other day, and I found this little basket that was full of owls. The cutest owls ever. They weren't outrageously expensive, and it's almost Christmas. I owe my friends gifts that are cute (just like them) that'll make them smile and think of me whenever they see them. These owls were perfect.

So I decided to buy all of them.

Bear in mind--everyone else is here for the designer dresses or boots/scarves, some of the coolest winter fashion ever. Imagine the cashier's face when I piled 11 little pastel-colored stuffed owls up at register. Shopping lines are deadly this close to Christmas, and my arms were getting sore from hugging all those owls without dropping them. I kind of just...let them spill on the desk. And they rolled around a bit. So freaking unbelievably CUTE.

I think the guy working at the desk just stared for a second, and then he said something like, "That's a lot of owls." To which I replied cheerfully, "Yup." So I took home 11 owls.

And then I realized they were too cute to give up. So I'm keeping 5 of them. I got my other friends (who aren't getting owls) scarves.

The green owls are my favorite. The tag on it says "Harley+Boss" (that's the brand I assume) and then "This is not a toy, it's for adult collectors." And then this is what gets me. At the bottom it says "Made in China" but at the top it says "ToyTokyo." So it's not a toy but it's made by a company called ToyTokyo. And It's ToyTokyo but it's made in China. Hmm...

The three different colors. There was only 1 yellow left.

Everyone tumbling out of the bag.

Group photo.

Awwwwww!

And then I looked at the bag again and realized that I forgot one!!!

Everybody.


Yeah, I know. I'm totally crazy to get so excited over a bunch of stuffed owls and snap a million photos of them on my phone. But I'm so excited about them!!! Partly because of the sheer randomness. The five I'm keeping are sitting on my desk right now against the tissue box and the calendar. One of them is tangled in my AC adapter cord. They are so unbelievably cute!!! I don't think I've been this excited over stuffed animals since I was three...

On the subject of randomness and photos, I also need to share my anglerfish experience.

I had this totally whacked conversation with Michelle last night. I'm not sure what made me so hyper, but we were webcamming. And then we split off (with the webcam still on). I worked on TRTP while Mich IMed guys on GChat while we shared music through the Yahoo! Messenger box (That's what I love about YIM. You can watch videos together).

And then randomly, I decided to become an anglerfish! (Which means, I tied a small lock hair up and attached a tea light to it--an electronic tea light. For a second, Mich thought I lit my hair on fire.) I can only tell you one thing: Being an anglerfish is awesome.

Today, when I was driving down Highway 280 (I think), I saw the sign that said "Adopt a Highway: A Random Act of Kindness." I went home and searched up what A Random Act of Kindness was. I discovered RAK. It's awesome. Check it out.

Hmm. I think from now until Christmas, I'm going to try one of those out every day. The only one I don't agree with is "Clean up graffiti." I know graffiti is wrong and it's a form of vandalism, but I'm an urban decay girl and to me, graffiti is pretty and artistic.

RAK also has inspirational quotes. Here's one:
"Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it." -Charles L. Allen

And on that note, time for me to finish studying Calculus. Tomorrow is the last day of formal school for 2010. And then four finals and I'm FREE.

Yay.

Rainy Day

So, some interesting things from today:

1. If you dream about asparagus, something unpleasant will happen. (http://dreammoods.com/cgibin/dreamdictionarysearch.pl?method=exact&header=dreamsymbol&search=asparagus)

2. They sell purple Christmas trees at Borders. They were also 30% off. I wonder why...
2.5 Met a really cool staff worker at Borders. She introduced me to a book that made it to my TBR list.

3. Our neighbors have started smoking again, and the smoke filters through my balcony window and kills me.

4. I have a To Be Read list ready!!! Can't wait to go out to Borders and buy all that stuff once I amass enough gift cards from Secret Santas and such.

5. Halfway through Clockwork Angel by Cassandre Clare, and I'm LOVING IT!!! It took a few chapters for the action to really start rolling, but once it did, I can't put that book down!

6. The hazelnut praline crunch topping from Pinkberry is DEATHLY GOOD, even if they charge you an extra 50 cents for it. So is the pumpkin froyo.

7. There's this little cafe in Santana Row with the BEST mini creme brulees ever.

8. This is about yesterday, but I attended Mom's Microsoft party in SF last night. Not as fun to be the only teenager dancing in a sea of adults.
9. Thanks to Glee,  I'm now addicted to "The Time of My Life" from Dirty Dancing. Sam and Quinn are the best. And Santana's hot despite her evilness.

Okay, so the story behind the story about the asparagus. :P I have an option from 5 promps for my essay on The Scarlet Letter. Since I didn't start this essay until 11 p.m. the night before it was due (which was approx. 57 minutes ago), I decided to go with the easiest topic, which was to pick a word that started with "A" that we thought the literal scarlet letter stood for. I googled "cool words that start with a" and ended up at a dream dictionary  with REALLY COOL WORDS such as abalone, acne, abortion, and the abominable snowman. I also ready about pin cushions and platypi (platypuses?).

Okay. I really need to stop so i can get back to work. :P

Before that, quick update on TRTP. I didn't win NaNo :( I deleted too much stuff along the way and school ante-Finals is like HELL. I ended at a sad net count of somewhere around 25,000 words? Halfway. Eek. I also, right after that, scrapped 23 pages and rewrote them. I'm 2 pages away from finishing those re-written 23 pages now. Let's just say that recently, my google searches have included items such as "mangled bicycle, burning christmas tree, dead tree, burning city, destroyed city, destroyed city with tiger, broken telephone pole, overturned jeep." You get my gist. And I must've watched the music video for "Run This Town" three times (I know, that's barely anything--but usually I only listen to music in the background while I write. I never scrutinize every detail such as exactly how the backup dancers clap their tin crowbars together)

I'm happy with what I got done though!

And now I have to finish my TSL essay. So far I have 13 words, aka an MLA header and the title which says "To Be Announced."

XPPPPP It's just kind of impossible to write an English essay after I wrote/extensively edited 10 pages of TRTP yesterday and Friday.

Hundredth Page Party!

Yeah! It's 12:26 a.m. and you know what I just realized? (After an on and off 20 minute violin practice session. In case you were wondering what I do during the "off" intervals, I sit on the floor and ruminate about TRTP. Typical, huh?) I REACHED PAGE ONE HUNDRED YESTERDAY. AND I DIDN'T NOTICE IN TERMS OF MY USUAL "OMG I'M ONE FOURTH OF THE WAY DONE!!!"

So I'll say it now.

I REACHED PAGE 100. Yes!!!

Okay, so what does that entail?

Here are some of the things it entails. I spelled "scarlet" in The Scarlet Letter wrong again today while I was writing my mini English essay. And I just spelled it wrong again while typing that a minute ago. Now I wish I chose Scarlet to be her name instead of Scarlett...but too late. I'd just watched Gone with the Wind when I added Scarlett's character to the story, so too bad. I did it on my pop quiz too last Wednesday... My teacher probably thinks I'm crazy.

Yay. And now ending on that positive note, my eyelids feel like rocks. Good night!