i really can't wait until my room is done being remodeled. then maybe i can feel organized and responsible.

tonight i made this recipe and it was the tastiest thing ever, but half way through preparation, i realized i was out of a key ingredient and had to run to giant eagle. literally, as i was walking into giant eagle, i thought, hmm. what shoes am i wearing? i looked down. they were no shoes at all, but my house slippers. i guess maybe this wouldn't be a huge deal to normal people, but not so much when your slippers look like this:











i know, right? why do i even have these ridiculous slippers? but i really like owls and i really like slippers and i really like things on sale at target. and i guess a really big part of me is still twelve.
i felt like a total moron wearing them in giant eagle.

i started downloading the 'this american life' podcast recently. i love it for the same reason i like things like npr and the magazine mental floss: it's way too intelligent for me, but i learn stuff and its often witty and quirky, so i'm good to go. and i learn just enough to start conversations like, "mom! did you know that people who work for the fdic are basically like secret agents? because they have to buy out banks that are failing and they can't tell anyone about it so they get secret identities when they're on the job and stuff."
and i also use the information i gather so that i can appear not like a total reject when talking to people who actually know things about our society, because in most cases i do not.

i think mostly people who listen to npr and read magazines like mental floss just sit there listening or reading and nodding their heads in either fond agreement, saying things like, oh yes. oh yes. mmmhmmm. or shaking their heads in disgust and running to their computers to write a snarky email about their disagreement.
and then there's me, who just thinks stuff i don't really know about is so totally cool.

and how i spent a half hour today taking quizzes on mentalfloss.com like: name that sesame street song, computer virus or celebrity baby name?, and discontinued ben and jerry's flavor or band i found on myspace?

so this is what i've been doing with my time.
and watching episodes of house.

i also love how the little girl i babysit for can literally spend hours coloring. coloring is seriously my favorite thing ever. i love it. so much. i cannot even say how much satisfaction i get from staying in the lines while making an image come to life. okay. but seriously, i colored three cabbage patch kids pages today. it was great.

so i've been cooking, listening to smart things, wasting my time on the internet, watching doctor shows, and coloring with five year olds.
this is where my college degree has taken me.