next summer you will find me...

IN IRELAND! hopefully. I've started looking at programs from St. Kate's website and figuring out expenses. Once school starts up I'm going to start going to meetings and figuring out what I really need to do in order to go. I want to sooooooooooooooooooo freaking bad though!
Who knows, maybe I'll meet a hot irish man and end up living over in Ireland for the rest of my life. I'd be ok with that :) (coming back to visit the family often though I suppose =P)
But seriously, I have always wanted to study abroad and I had thought it would be in Australia. But lately my heart is set on Ireland and I think it'll be more beneficial for me to go somewhere that isn't so close to the American culture like Australia is.
so, the program I'm looking at I'd be taking 2 classes, for a total of 6 credits. Each class would be 2 hours long, 4 days a week. so 4 hours a day of classes total. One is an Irish History/Politics class and the other is an Irish Literature class. Both of them sound extremely interesting to me. It lasts 6 weeks, and from what I've seen it would be somewhere around end of June until early August. so not too long, but long enough :)
AGH the more I look at info about it, the more it seems perfect for me.

Here's to hoping things pull through and I can actually go. My mom said she'll do whatever she can to get me there, so there's an extremely good chance. I have a friend who goes to Milwaukee, and will also be able to go on this program through her school and she's really looking at it too, so I wouldn't be completely out of my element if she went with me!

so, there's my good news. is it next summer yet?!

this world ain't gonna catch me going down..

I have been cleaning so much these past few days I've worn myself out and haven't had time to blog. So, I am now!
We're finally doing a mass house cleaning which we should have done years and years ago! this house cleaning is taking place in our basement and we're working our way up the house. So, the other day I was putting empty containers into the garage just to store for the time being. I was moving a box that was on top of the containers and as I was walking back to the empty containers, my BAREFEET stepped on something. What was it are you wondering? A FREAKIN DEAD MOUSE! in my garage. i have never ever ever screamed so loud in my life and i ran back into my house, thinking the dead mouse was going to attack me. I don't know why I ran, I knew immediately it was dead. But still, I ran. hahahaha
Also, I saved my mom's life from a centipede in our basement. So, I'm kinda scared to continue this mass cleaning binge. I have no idea what other creatures lurk down in the basement. I guess we'll find out soon enough!

I FOUND A DRESS FOR VEGAS!!! I'm so freakin' excited! I got it at Von Maur, which is probably my new favorite store. Seriously, they have so many cute dresses! I now know where to go when I need a dress for something. I'm not going to post a picture of it because I want people to be surprised, so you'll just have to see it when i upload my Vegas pictures =P (you can try going on the von maur website, but i already checked and it's not listed. sooo muahahaha)

I was at target a few days ago and found Ferngully AND Hook for 5 bucks on dvd. so naturally i had to buy them. Seriously, Ferngully is probably one of the best movies EVER. same with Hook.

any good book recommendations? i'm reading the Time Traveler's Wife right now. I really can't get into it at all, and thank God I saw the movie otherwise I'd be completely lost in the book. It's super confusing. So I'm thinking of taking a library trip sometime this week for something. Maybe I'll just reread Twilight since it's been years since I read that. hahaha!

here's a bit of a rant...

I just heard from someone who I was hoping I'd never hear from again. Who was once an amazing friend of mine within moments had turned into someone I never wanted to talk to again. Why you might ask? Let's just say, a few months ago this person had said some nasty stuff about annie. I think the exact words were along the lines of "she just uses her dad's death as an excuse to be mean to people" First off, how does one use a death as an excuse? It amazes me how someone I was once close with could turn into someone I didn't even know. Bringing my dad's death into some stupid drama she had is not ok with me. I don't care who you are, it is NEVER ok to say that. I'm shocked this person would stoop to that level to bring annie down. Now, lets fast forward from then to yesterday, when this person i/ms me on facebook. She said it seems like I don't want to talk to her or hang out with her anymore because we don't talk like we used to. REALLY?! are you serious? of course i don't want to talk or hang out with you. you said probably one of the meanest things anyone could ever say to my twin sister. I'm sorry, but how you think I'd want anything to do with you amazes me. you can bring your high school drama to other people but I'm done with it. And after confronting her about it around the time she said it, she had lied to both me and annie (naturally...) and said she would never say that. Ok, then why a few weeks ago were you bragging to a friend of mine (yeah, smart) about all the things you said, and you were PROUD of saying it. i'm done with lies, and high school drama. i'm going to be 21 in 2 months and i can choose not to deal with this. so i'm not.

aaaaand that feels good to get off my chest

onto some good things, i did 5 miles on the elliptical in 30 minutes. i'm proud of myself :)

that's all for now, time to shower and relax!
later duuudes!