why i’m awesome/not awesome

I am awesome because:

-I have (as of today) mailed out completed applications for two grad schools.
-I finally went to the bank, deposited checks, and paid my cell phone bill
-Carrie is coming to visit on Saturday! For five days! Carrie!
-I found a place to live in California! There will undoubtedly be a “moving into the apartment where I’ll be renting a room for 8 months” post. (Although I hope I can come up with a better title than that when the time comes.)
-I got xmas presents in the mail from my dad today. I heart my dad.
-I am wrapped up in the softest blanket I have ever felt in my life. I would like to take this opportunity to give a shout out to Frankie and say THANK YOU for getting me the pink nap/cuddle blanket from Brookstone that I have wanted for YEARS.
-The one huge pan of baked ziti that I made has lasted for days and days and is continuously feeding my insatiable need for pasta. (Oooh, so this is why I’m gaining weight? Right, got it.)
-I might be driving cross-country with Jessica on January 7th!!! Stay tuned for updates on this situation and cross your fingers that it happens, because thinking of it makes my brain do this: lsdkfdflkgjlkj
-My half birthday is tomorrow (I acknowledge that this means nothing and am unsure about why I even wrote it)
-I made the below pictured three dimensional Santa Claus cake* (remember when I hinted at it and you were all dying to see pictures? No? This didn’t happen? Oh well too bad here you go…)

*It has been brought to my attention (by The Boyfriend) that due to a dark cake mix and insufficient amounts of red food coloring, I have created a strange and yet politically correct Arab Santa wearing a pink coat/dress. Whatever- this is totally what I was going for.

I am not so awesome because:

-I still have 8 more grad school applications to mail out
-I have only recently started to consider what will happen if I don’t get into to any of the MFA programs that I’m applying to. (I haven’t reached any conclusions, as this thought makes me want to gag.)
-My tonsils are the size of golf balls (again) and I am feverish and dizzy and all around sick (again)
-I’ve been trying to diagnose myself on webmd and am now convinced I have both pneumonia and cancer.
-I just had to spell check the word pneumonia.
-I’m afraid that the inevitable pneumonia and cancer will prevent me from getting insanely drunk having fun with Carrie
-I leave for California in 26 days. (WHAT?!)
-I still haven’t figured out what to do about a car in California. 8 months is too short of a time to lease a car for, I can’t afford to buy even a cheap car and then resell it, I can’t afford to rent a car, etc etc. DILEMMA.
-My mom has changed her plans from “going to see my dad from whom she’s separating for Christmas” to “MOVING back to Arizona.” Um, what? This clearly could be its own post, but because along with not letting my mom occupy all of my time with Hillary, I am no longer going to let her monopolize my blog, it’s not going to be.

~ by nicoleantoinette on December 12, 2007.