usually, i don't like mondays, and i want to shoot the whole day down

-but today, i didn't!!-

the weekend. (can i think back that far??) on saturday, Hurricane Noel came to Newport, so there wasn't much that i could do with my parents. i learned later that poor Claire couldn't even go to Salem with her friend from hs...but at least they got to see each other in Boston. my mom and i went to my new favorite store...Christmas Tree Shops!! the discounts were unbelievably amazing and i actually started Christmas shopping. i mostly bought tissue paper and bags, b/c i won't be able to use Mom's stuff when i'm wrapping presents for my Salve friends. so now i have home gift wrap and college gift wrap. lovely. then we went back to the hotel, and my mom and i literally crawled back into bed, just like when i was a kid. it felt so, so good and i wondered how i can ever be too old to crawl back into bed with my mommy and just lay there. i never get to do that anymore. i'm always running everywhere and i'm always thinking about schoolwork/maccers/chorus/campus min/need to lose weight/my friends that i just never, ever get to just relax. and most def not with my mom, considering i didn't see her for two weeks. you do come to appreciate your parents even more when you go to college, and they learn to appreciate you more. i've realized what a bitch i've been to my mom throughout my hormonal years...and i still am sometimes. i'm always running her around to do favors for me or when we plan to do something the two of us, one of my friends usually manages to work themselves in...or i manage to work them in. my mom, being the saint that she is, will always say that it's ok if someone joins us, but i know that she's just being nice. on saturday there were no interruptions, even if it was just for an hour or so. i think she really appreciated it, and i realized how much i missed her.

wow...long tangent, but that's what a blog is for, right?? around 230 we went out to brave Noel (my dad included), went to marshalls to buy me some much needed intimate apparel, and they got me starbucks. then i came back to good ol' Miley to get ready for...my first college choral concert! poor Kerri had yet to pick up her concert dress from Carey Mansion (which is a 15 min walk from Miley, on a sunny day) and had, unknown to me, twisted her ankle on Friday at her bf's house. so she had to get a security guard to open Carey up for her, walk the 15 mins in the rain with her ankle, and walk the 15 minutes back to Miley. by the time the poor girl got to my room to get ready, i was amazed that she was already wearing her dress. we actually had fun getting ready, because we are just that cool. Karou's friend, Asako, was also here, and i was making everyone laugh...i won't go into details, it's kinda X-Rated. we then braved Noel yet again when Kerri and I had to walk to Ochre Court in our dresses and pray the we didn't ruin our freshly straightened hair. the concert, once we warmed up and putting the great duct tape saga aside, was amazing. Kerri, Tim, Cezanne, Steph, Ann, and I had a lot of fun backstage, and aside from getting a little lost in Exaultate Deo, we sang well. my parents were really impressed, Kerri FINALLY met my father, and Noel FINALLY let up by the time my parents and i headed for Brick Alley for dinner. :-)

Sunday- i went to Mass at 1130 because my parents weren't going to be there for the later Mass and we wanted to go the three of us, just like it used to be. we went to brunch at Annie's and we continued to be all cliched and say how much we loved each other. then they came back up to my room with me and helped me clean up. amazingly, i didn't cry when they left. i made myself stop. i went down to Miley Mart and kept Ann company while she was working. we tried to do hw...lost cause at some point, then Emilie showed up and Ann read Patricia Polacco books that she was using for one of her cool elementary ed reports. then i had rehearsal for Maccers and cried a bit after my scene because the whole premise freaked me out. as the doctor, i had to keep the tears down b/c the doctor wouldn't cry in a spot like the one that Lady Macbeth was in at the moment. my mom said that makes me a first class actor. i so wish that was the truth. then i came back, did hw, and had great convos with Gauri and Bevin :-)

Monday- went to jazzman's with Claire per usual. portal. history (and i got an A- on the DBQ that i did in 1 night and taped House for!) and then i realized that i lost one earring. i told Mrs. Murphy to keep her eyes out for it, and then i retraced my steps all the way back to O'Hare. i finally found it when one professor who i have no idea who he is or what he teaches, picked up something on the path that led to O'Hare and McAuley...i immediately stopped him and said THAT'S MINE!! unfortunately the really cool piece of shell that the gold part of the earring rests on was gone, but i can prob take that part off the mate and then i can wear them again. then i had lunch, did laundry, talked to my mom for over an hour, then did some hw and then Dani and i went to sky ranch for dinner. we really opened up about our respective past lives, and of course we managed to laugh when we came back to my room to watch last week's House and we brought Shane a mallomar. i think i cheered her up too. (i heart Dani, in case anyone doesn't know.) then Erinne and Nicole came over and we did the bio take home quiz, then i talked to Bevin and Sam, practiced singing, and voila. and somehow i managed to buy the SNL episode on iTunes that was hosted by none other than Mr. Hugh Laurie :-) and I'm going to bed before one!!!! WOW.

a small snippet from a Gracie/Gauri moment:
coolsmartmaya (12:25:28 AM): yeah we would have had this moment where we would have looked at each other and then there would be like loud snicker and we'd burst out laughing and i'd start coughing and people would look at us and we'd be like "but...you....don't....ahahahahaaaaaa" and not finished our sentences because we'd be coughing so hard
coolsmartmaya (12:25:39 AM): and laughing so hard
coolsmartmaya (12:25:55 AM): and then when we'd stop and explain it, nobody would laugh.
coolsmartmaya (12:26:21 AM): And that Ladies and Gentlemen, is a typical Gracie-Gauri inside joke/memory.

and a small snippet from a Gracie/Bevin convo:
"I love our conversations because you and I can have conversations where one minute we're crying and the next minute we're bursting out in laughter."

did i mention how much i miss my friends and how much i love them??