Relaxing Saturday Soup

I'm sitting here at my desk, with the wind blowing through my window and Ellen playing on the television. I'm currently about a month behind on my Ellen Show episodes, but I'm getting quite caught up this weekend. Today was pretty busy. I went to 341's last night and got pretty toasted, so I was passed out at about 9:45. I got a good night's sleep, though! Woke up this morning at about 6:30 and hit the ground running! I retook some quizzes for my Poetry class; aced all of those and then went to the grocery store and spent over a $100 smacks! Eeesh, I'm supposed to be trying to save money for our BFF trip to Chicago in two weeks, but I needed all kinds of crap. It's been quite some time since I went to the grocery store. It's a bad economy, in case you had'nt heard, and I'm feeling it ova heah!

So, I finished my last little bit of homework after the grocer's, so I'm free of homework for the rest of the weekend, which is auss!! This evening, I can chill and watch television and of course, tomorrow is BFF Sunday. Did I mention I love being able to sit at my desk and feel the breeze coming through the window? It makes sitting at my computer so much better. It feels so open here. I'm glad I decided to move the desk this morning. Makes a lotta difference. It also makes my apartment seem a lot roomier. Me likee!

I can't decide what I wanna do this evening. Currently, it's around 4:30 and I'm chilling right now, drinking a glass of iced tea (a Texas thang, ya know.) and trying to decide if I wanna start with a glass of wine or whether I should wait and start later, just in case I wanna go out. Decisions, decisions......hmmm...well, there's no hurry. I'll decide soon. Right now, though, it's me and Ellen. I love that chick. She makes me laugh everyday. We have the same spirit, I think; always loving to laugh and spread positive energy. She's my favorite! I can always turn her on and feel even more amazingly happy. She truly has a gift and has the right job, spreading happiness and fun into people lives. Her guest right now is Shawn Johnson, the Olympic gymnast, and by the way, she does not look like she's gonna be winning Dancing with the Stars this year. I'm just saying....sister looks quite uncomfortable doing those twirls, but anyhoo, that's just my opinion.

I'm loving American Idol night over at Larry and Jared's. We've got this Idol bingo game going on every week and it makes things so much more interesting. We pay a dollar per bingo card and whoever "bingos", get's the pot. Nobody won last week, so it goes into the kitty for next week. It's up to a whopping $9.00 so far! LOL There were only four of last week, though, so we didn't have a major pot, but next week some f*cker's gonna be lucky! I came so close last week, too. If only Simon hadn't made Ryan sign a contract saying he wouldn't touch him on screen!! Eeeesh! F*ckers! Why don't they just sleep together and be done wiff it!! ;-) Oh well, my luck continues to stay the course.

I'm kinda bummed about my class schedule for summer. I only need 3 more courses before I move on to the next level toward my degree, but I don't see any of them being offered in the summer! Which means I have to put off taking my classes til the Fall, and then in the fall, one of the English classes that I need is only held from 12 in the afternoon til 1:50. How the hell am I supposed to go to that class and work at the same time!! I hope I can talk to a counselor who can help. They must offer some courses on Saturdays or in the evenings sometime!! I hope I don't have to wait, because my loan money is contingent on me being in class without taking a 6 month break. This had better work out. Of course, I'll keep you posted on what I find out.

I am doing pretty well in my two current classes, though. Since I've redone the quizzes in Poetry, I now have an A average in both Poetry and Oceanography. O is a really interesting class and I know more about the ocean than I ever have before. I've always loved water and knowing how it works is a serious trip. I can name all the oceans now and know how ocean basins are formed and how there are more unicellular organisms in the ocean than there are people in the world; pretty cool stuff. I now want to be a marine biologist! PSYCHE!! LOL. It ain't that interesting, but it's good stuff.

So, I think I'm just gonna watch the news here at 5:00 and then dial up the final of the Sony Ericsson Open final. Serena Williams is playing my new emerging favorite player, Victoria Azarenka. I really think this girl is gonna make a huge name for herself. She just recently broke into the top 10, but she has all the potential in the world to go higher than that. Watch out for her. Anyway, I like her a lot and hopes she beats the pants off of Serena. Don't get me wrong. I like Serena, but I don't appreciate her as a player. She's practically unbeatable when she's playing her best, that's a given, and Victoria is gonna have her hands full all the way, but when she's getting beaten, she's pitiful. Her body language sucks, she's practically in tears and she just looks so clumsy. She used to be one of my favorites, but nah, not so much. I love Maria Sharapova, who hasn't played singles in about 6 to 8 months (I miss her like crazy), and I love Venus Williams, who is completely the opposite of her sister, very strong mentally, very poker-faced, and always playing with great athleticism, even when she's down. And of course, there's Victoria. Anyway, what was I sayin before I went off on a tangent......?

OH, yeah!! I'm gonna dial up the tennis match and then depending on how I feel after the match, I do have a movie that I can watch...Samuel L. Jackson's Lakeview Terrace where he plays a f*cked up cop living next door to an interracial couple. So, that's an option. It's due back at Blockbuster tomorrow, so if I don't watch it tonite, it won't get watched. While I watch that, I'll probably have a martini or a couple glasses of wine and then after that, I'll reassess what I'm feeling like. Will I be too drunk to go hang and dance tonite or will I get my ass in gear and go shake a tailfeather? Usually, what happens is I'll put on my iPod and start jamming around the house and get to grooving so hard that the only thing that will satisfy my groove fever is to hit the club. I did download a new CD the other day, too, Keri Hilson's "In a Perfect World", and I gotta say, it took that b*tch a while to get that CD released, but it is off the chain. Not perfect, but very very good. And I just downloaded this beautiful track by Musiq Soulchild, called "So Beautiful". I think it's the best track he's ever done. As a matter of fact, I think I'm gonna go listen to that right now before the news comes on! I enjoyed blogging today! This window right next to my workspace makes all the difference in the world!!

Later!