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First order of business - Happy Halloween! (I googled 'Happy Halloween' and the computer-bots found me this picture).

Tonight I dressed up as a girl in sweat pants studying for the CPA exam after a long day at work. I'd say it was a very authentic-looking costume.

Tomorrow is November! A tip to the gentlemen: Don't not shave. Thanks.

An Easy How-To Guide

Ten Steps to be Crazy-Efficient (emphasis on the crazy)

I made the executive decision that I needed more study time at night, so I pushed my start time at work up to 7am. That's right folks, when you are probably still asleep, I'm already working on my spreadsheets.

Anyways, I didn't really want to compromise my 6:30 wake up time, so I decided that instead I would become crazy-efficient. Here are the steps:

1. Pick out all your outfits for the week on Sunday*. Yes, I currently have all my outfits and shooz lined up in my closet, so when that zombie-me reaches into the closet in the morning darkenss, no fashion mistakes will be made.

2. Live really really ridiculously close to work. It eliminates the variable of traffic. After work is another story, but let's not get into that because it puts me in a bad mood.

3. In the morning. Wake up, wash face.

4. While face is drying, eat vitamins.

5. While chewing vitamins, put on face lotion.

6. While face lotion is drying, and vitamins are done being chewed, brush teeth.

7. ESSENTIAL STEP: Brushing your teeth only requires one hand, so while one hand brushes teeth, use the other to make your bed.

8. Get dressed.

9. Grab pre-packed lunch from fridge.

10. Once at work, clock in and pat yourself on the back for getting out the door in 15 minutes, Then eat a tiny bowl of oatmeal at your desk. Then, realize that you are still hungry, and eat 1 or 2 more packets. Then work 10 1/2 hours, come home, study, sleep, repeat.

Hope that was informative. Now back to my studiez.

*This only applies if you work at a place that cares how you dress. If not, less steps for you!

Hopefully the grossest post I ever write

I am trying to figure out how to plunge a toilet.

I am also trying to decide whether I would rather pass out or throw up if it should become necessary, though the latter wouldn't do much to help the mess.

My options: continue to try and plunge this fucking toilet or go back to studying for my fucking test.

Ugh. Grosssssss. Ugh



Epilogue: It got worse. So much worse that I won't even tell you what happened. As my roommate said when I told him the story: "shit happens." Yes it does.

Song of the day/week/2 weeks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq2ekIMMYXA

I heard this song on the radio while driving. Honestly, the first minute isn't that exciting, but then going into a modernish take on 50s do-wop, and THEN ends with a Journey-ish sound. It goes everywhere (it's a long song), which is why it is my song of the day/week/2 weeks.

Warning: I didn't watch the video, so I don't know if it's the real music video or something weird.

Nostalgia?

Sorry it's been, like, forever since I've written anything. The part of my brain that has profound thoughts and ideas has been on vacation.

Today is my birthday. This evening, as I was eating dinner with friends, they asked if I tend to get nostalgic before or on my birthday, and at that moment, I realized that I don't. My nostalgia-time occurs on New Years Eve. I'm not sure why (a collective milestone for everyone at the same time?), but it's a lot easier to reflect upon a calendar year than the 365 days that occur between birthdays.

The only thing about getting older is that I have to remember to mentally update my age in my 'mental personal profile' so I don't accidentally tell them how old I used to be when they ask. Kind of like the first three months of a new year, I often write the previous year when I write the date.

Hmm. I will try to think more often so I can return to blogging.