Halloween is Approaching!! (and so is my birthday).

Before we get into this Halloween/my birthday business, I'd like to say that I am finally a new, proud owner of a Macbook Pro! Oonst. I have to gloat, but not too much because if I used my very own money for this computer I would be in your face. (P.S. I'm in Biology right now. Obviously you can tell that I'm going to pass this class...)

The Story of How I Convinced My Grandparents To Buy Me This Very Expensive Piece of Equipment.
- One day, I went over to my grandparents bungalow to eat dinner. We were eatin, everything was good, and then BAM! My grandma asked me and my sister what we want for our birthdays (which is on October 21st in case you wanted to know.) So my sister pipes in about her windows need to be tinted and whatnot....and I'm sitting over here like....fuck...the only thing I want is like super expensive, but besides this I want nothing. So I say nothing and such and then finally my grandma turns to me and is like....and what about you? So as you can see...she PUSHED me to tell her I want this thousand + dollar computer and nothing else.

So basically that's how it went.  And even though it isn't my birthday for another 20 days, I have my computer at this moment, typing away to you all.

Moving on to HALLOWEEN!!!!!! 
My sister, neighbor, and I decorated the yard the other day for Halloween.

Yeah okay it's lame, but basically I'm dad-less (poor me) and so we compensate by doing it ourselves! So it's pretty good lookin' for a couple of girls. If you've ever decorated your yard and there are plugs involved....then you know it's complicated.

STORY!!!!
So, I was out in my yard and all and obviously I yam struggling with these stoopid cords trying to get them to extend out enough to reach the outlet....and this guy who is like jogging by stops in the walkway of my house and is all like......"ya need help?" and I'm all like....no? cause I'm not supposed to talk to strangers OR invite them in my yard, and my huge big black dog is outside and didn't even get up to try and protect me from said stranger....so the guy continues to watch me struggle for like 2 whole minutes before suggesting an extension cord. But I'm not even paying attention to what he said because the fact that he is still watching me from the walkway is creeping me out some. So I'm all like..yeah yeah thanks dude, and he starts jogging away...and THEN my dog decides to bark once whilst laying down. So as you can see...I almost got kidnapped....


That's all about Halloween....except I did get my dog a Halloween costume! She looks sooo cute...except the Velcro doesn't latch under her stomach because shes kinda fat, so shes on a diet right now to try and fit into this costume by Halloween.


MY BIRTHDAY!!
- Is in 12 days and ya know what? I'm not excited. I'll be 20! Not only is that so effing old, but I wont be a teenager anymore :(. I can no longer blame my ignorance, stupidity, and thoughtless actions on the fact that I'm a teenager and this is what we do. Now I'm old. This sucks.


Okay now look at this video cause it's freakin hilarious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIoG4PlEPtY&feature=related

Blinded by a Jalapeno

So, two days ago, I blinded myself with a jalapeno. How? Who really cares how....the real question is...ARE YOU OKAY GABY??!?! No! I yam not okay! I yam in pain and blind. Not blind enough to not tell you people about it, but blind enough where I need driving assistance and such. But, for you nosy people, I will tell the story. Make fun if you will....but it could have happened to ANYONE. Seriously. Total fluke.


4:00 P.M.
Gaby gets the bright idea to make tamales!!

4:20 P.M
Gaby writes her grocery list, grabs her mothers credit card, and dashes out the door too the grocery where she buys one SINGLE lonely jalapeno.

4:45 P.M.
Gaby gets home and starts chopping away at the jalapeno  whilst watching Kidd Kraddic live from her HP.

5:00 P.M
No later than 3 whole minutes...she is done with chopping and  washes her hands because that's the sensible thing to do.

5:07 P.M.
GABY WIPES HER FACE WITH HER HAND THAT SHE JUST CUT A LONELY JALAPENO WITH AND STARTS SCREAMING!

Yes, so at 5:07 P.M. I am like running around my kitchen calling for my mom who JUST LEFT (convenient right? Like I dropped out of culinary school here woman..don't leave me alone in a kitchen) and my sister starts from the top of the steps in a groggy, sleepy, CALM voice....
(picture below so you can match a face to the voice...)

What's wrong?

So I then sprint up the steps and tell her I got a jalapeno in my eye and I start taking contact solution and squirting the whole bottle of it in my eye ball while my sister calls my mom. So my mom is seriously all calm about it while I am on fire and honest to God thought I was going to go blind and she says...."take your contacts out!"

So by this point my eye was red and huge and swollen and in pain so I pry said eye open and grab my contact which is covered in jalapeno goop and it starts my burning process all over again.

**********So after touching the infected contact and in all my brilliant-ness, I  wipe my other eye and it ingulfs in flames as well.********

I thought I was going to pass out from the pain.

Eventually I stop freaking out and get use to the fact that I am idiot who's blind and totally fucked. I have no extra contacts here (which wont come in any use because I for serious burned by corneas and wont be able to put them in for a while) and my glasses are up at college (an hour and 15 minutes away).

So basically I go the rest of the day unable to see and the next morning at 6 am I have a break down because I CANT SEE and I now feel  for blind people cuz it really sucks to be blind an all. So my mom whom is a very very kinda woman offered to drive me to college...(.an hour and 15 minutes away)....in the rain... and she did. I can see kinda now!

and I know this was a long ass story, but thanks for sticking with. P.S. I have decided to get laser eye surgery so I go see a doctor on the 11th so this NEVER happens again...the whole contact bullshit thing...not the jalapeno thing cause I am sure it will happen again.

College Life at a new Skewl

Hey hey heeeeeey!

So...currently I yam in my dorm room

Pretty sweet huh?

No....it's not. Do you see these brick walls?!

I didn't write the God stuff. I wrote this though...

Yuppp.

I'm suppose to have 3 roommates, but I only have two. They're nice though, so that's good cause I was all worried I would have crazy creepy roommates cause ya know that would be my luck an all, but I don't. So yay! I don't have someone in the bed by me though which is sad cause I don't really have anyone to socialize with except my God loving brick wall. Sad.

UPDATE:
Okay, the above text was a draft of mine from last week, so naturally, life goes on and things happen between weeks and so on....I moved to a different dorm because of the issues I failed to mention about pissy roommates, LOUD boys above my room, quite possibly even an ancient elevator that was so incredibly squeeky and old that I felt I would literally fall through the bottom or it would just die on me forever and that would be the end of Gaby. But no. I'm not a snobby whiny baby who is all like...."oh my god my dorm looks like a jail cell and my roommates are mean mean people!" No....I simply asked Mr. Kim (man to see about your dorm) if there was another room available preferably no where near my current dorm that I could move into due to a mix of complications. He, of course, said sure, because, well...I'm that charming.   (<~~ lots of unnecessary commas used in this sentence here. Just thought i'd point that out.)

So, I get this room change and a room change comes with new roommates. I've yet to meet my suite mates, but my roommate is fun times.

This is me after class....(for real picture). I have a nose ring...that's not a pimple...just saying.

P.S. Here is a pizza my mom came home with....

It was pretty awesome. Yup.

My contributuion to the Vlog Brothers & PostSecret

Hola,

I'm trying to learn Spanish, cuz everyone speaks Spanish and I don't like being out of the loop so I bought a book and audio CD. It isn't going well though. It's weird too cause I took Spanish from 2nd to 8th grade since my skewl (<~ purposely spelt wrong for dramatic purposes) required I take Spanish for that amount of time. I only learned Hola, Buenos Dias, and Como Estas and some song that I know all the words to, but no idea what it is saying. I guess if I had the option instead of the demand to take Spanish in school it would have been different, but I saw it as my off period where I usually slept, passed notes, or chewed gum and then made little figure out of it.

So, I leave in 7 days from tomorrow. I am getting very anxious to start my summer, but really sad I wont get to see my friends from here anymore :(. But I will be moving on to bigger and better things. AND I am going to brag to all of yoohz when I say I have been accepted into 3 major colleges this fall. I'm still waiting on the last 2 to send me a yes or no, but I have a good feeling. Options are wonderful :D, but I am pretty sure I know where I am going.

So my friend brought me to this spice shop yesterday, and I have never been to one, cause? Why would I? I mean, I figured since I am now almost officially a culinary school drop out I should steer clear of these things, but nope. So I went in and its shelves and shelves and walls and walls of spices from all over America. I went nuts, cause my head went spaztic and skept thinking of all the kinds of things I can make with all these weird spices. I even got lavender to make lavender ice cream! (cause my mom bought me an ice cream machine! Woot!). So yeah, I spent a lot more money than I probably should have there. But I mean come on, they had Espresso, blueberry, AND raspberry SUGAR. Like? Amazing!

Okay now for the reason for this blog!
We all know the very awesome Vlog Brothers right? Like the absolute best people on YouTube? Well I am here to promote them and Post Secret, because they have both done a lot for me. So I planted Hank a tree for his birthday :D and  there isn't much I can do for post secret except continue to help promote the community project. BUT John has a new book out called Will Grayson, Will Grayson which is really good. I strongly recommend it. So I dedicate my very unimportant blog to them, and here is todays Post Secret.

College....and life...the usual..

Okay,

So, I have been really frustrated lately on a lot of things which is why I have kinda stayed away from Facebook and Blogspot. But if it's one thing I truly hate, is Facebook drama. Facebook is not a way to tell everyone your problems, because no one cares, and I don't like logging onto my account just to see people complain about their lives and drama. Save it for myspace. Not my twitter though cause in case you haven't noticed, you can post that you're taking a crap and it's totally acceptable.(Not that I posted that I was taking a crap....cause girls don't do that sort of thing. Taking a crap I mean). <~~~joke.

Speaking on such, some guy (who I know, who is 23) asked me if girls pick their nose? I was like....why wouldn't we? I mean, in private anyway, but it just made me more aware of how different girls mannerisms are to guys...

So I would just like to say that if you have never been to Co. Co. Sala, it's the best thing EVER. It's a chocolate bar. A CHOCOLATE BAR! I ate so much sugar, I thought I was seeing the hershey man. I went there with some of my friends last night in DC, and when we were done we walked around a little cause Sarah really had to pee and we couldn't find anything non-ghetto or non-crowded. So, we are walking around and these people, like a shit ton of them, have on these blue and orange bands around their a arms and they're running around and pushing us out of the way. So this one chick like barrels though us and this guy is chasing her  I am like, hell no, she better have a good reason for this nonsense. So I turn around and ask these guys why they're wearing these colored arm bands and they explain that it's a city wide game of Zombies verses Humans. Yeah... ya see, in Louisiana, we play Quittich....ya know, like on Harry Potter. I'm being dead serious. We have people running around on broom sticks, and hoops, and even a seeker (a guy on a broom running around with a sock in his pocket.) Actual Footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSxPFNny4A4&feature=related, but zombies verses humans is just plum ridiculous. 

So, anyways Co. Co. Sala was good times. We got personalize cocoa, mine was peanut butter. And 5 course desserts. It was good times. AND our waiter was a hottie, so that's a plus.



I very much strayed away from why I am frustrated, so back on track. A lot of people know by now that I am moving back home, and leaving the art institute, and I keep getting calls, texts, Facebook messages, from my friends and family all concerned and whatnot. I wasn't answering anyone's questions at the time. Well, I haven't really talked to anyone about it except my mother and basically my reasons are these. I came up to DC for college for culinary arts, and I was very apprehensive about moving up here and unfortunately I let other people convince me it was something I wanted to do, when I knew it wasn't. I did though, try my best when I came up here. I had a positive attitude and I did my best in school, which I can't complain about my grades, because they're really good, but being here a year has been really crazy. I loved living with my sister, but I just don't think Virginia and Washington is my kind of place. I can honestly say the school I go to really blows, the administration is awful, and the teachers are not good. I have lost any interest I had in culinary, and sadly that was what I thought I really wanted to do with my life. I can say though, is that I made a really good group of friends. I'm really going to miss them.

 I'm not dropping out of college though. I have been accepted into multiple University's in Louisiana as a transfer student and I will start my fall quarter back home where I feel I will be most happy. I hope this clears up a lot of questions about whats going on. I haven't really talked to anyone about this because I wasn't ready to answer questions. I have been doing a lot of thinking, just trying to re-group myself which has been harder than I expected. I don't know what I will do in college as far as majors go. I can't call my time here wasted exactly, but more of an experience. All I can say is that (any really not trying to be sappy) you should really do what you want to with your life, or what you know you should. I let other people convince me that I had no other choice, which was not the case now that I look back, and I ended up going in the wrong direction.

Basically, that is it. 

Holes In Muhh Pants :O

Yup!

I have a story! About holes in muhh pants!

So, I was at the grocery store a few days ago picking up some Kix, cause seriously I have an addiction with those tiny bread balls. I eat a giant box once a week. Yup. So I was in the cereal isle at Giant and I was searching for my Kix and this old guy comes down the isle and I didn't notice him or anything so it's not like when you know you make eye contact with a stranger and look away, or don't look away, but they think it's okay to say whats on their mind like for example....wow it's hot in here! Or whoops, dropped my chapstick! No this never happened so it was even more odd, cause if we would have had made brief eye contact then I wouldn't find this so strange. Anyway, so I was looking for Kix and this old guy comes up the isle all hunch backed and skinny like they are sometimes (I love old people...like grandparents, they're cute so I am not all against old people cause old people are awesome) and he says something super low and I got the feeling he was talking to me (cause he was....and cause I was the only person in the isle) and I said, "what?" (in a nice tone) and he said........"I'm going to buy you a new pair of pants," and I stood there confused for a second, cause who wouldn't be? And then I was like, "huh?" and he said, "yours have holes in them, I am going to buy you a new pair!" and he laughed which was good cause if he was serious I might have yelled rape or something. So I laughed too cause my jeans do have holes in the knees. Then he just stood there waiting for me to say something so I told him that my legs are super white so I would be too embarrassed to wear shorts right now, but it's too hot outside to wear full on jeans and these were my compromise, because they have ventilation. So he accepted this and moved on to his shopping. The End.

So, my oldest sister had a 30---something birthday on Saturday, and I made her a cake! I was rushed so it doesn't exactly look all that nice, but it was lemon. I like lemon. Who doesn't really?

Yup. ALSO, I would like to show you how strange my school is. Seriously, they're super ghetto which is why I am leaving in 2 months.

They're tampons. Just sittin out in the middle of the hall by the student lounge on a table. Like, ?


Some stuff to check:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJsJ5dW7jHo (if you ever do anything for the rest of your life, you need to watch this.)

ALSO, this kid I found on Youtube, who isn't so interesting, but his hair amazes me. http://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialBAMF#p/u/12/XTB0LFtuheo  

Po0o0oooooooost Secret! (cause I'm ghetto like that)

Everyone knows I am a big advocater for PostSecret because it's helped me in a lot of ways. Mostly personal, but I like to share one every week that I find applies to my life. Lately their have been few that I have found, but I would appreciate if you could show your support and watch THIS VIDEO HERE. (<~click). Thanksssss....