I never make blogs WHY

I realize I'm lacking in the blog area of my life, but I'm not super creative when it comes to this thing! I don't know if I'm just sounding boring, writing about my not-so-exciting life...I'm struggling here, you guys. Like really, give me a topic to write about and I'll blog away...I'm bad at just coming up with interesting posts on the spot though. So I'm going to pull a facebook and give you one of those "25 Random Thingz About Me Yo" lists. Here you go:

1. I have a baby and her name is Canon Rebel (it's a camera guys don't freak out I would never name my baby Canon Rebel).
2. I've made a promise to myself (and everyone else) that I will never read or watch the Twilight books or movies. I ain't gonna be part of this system! Just kidding I just think they're lame.
3. I'm a nail biter :(
4. I'd love to just chop off my hair and have a cool pixie cut or whatever, but I know that I don't have the right hair for it and it'd be a huge mistake. But I could buy a wig and wear that until it grows back...or get extensions. I mean, I have options here. But I don't think I can do it!
5. I love Kris Allen for letting me know how many seconds there are are in the day in his song "Live Like We're Dying." I know I learned that a million times in like math or science class but this song actually helps me remember.
6. I think Snuggies are one of the smartest ideas ever conceived.
7. I know all of the words to one of the FreeCreditReport.com commercials ("well I was shopping for a new car, which one's me: a cool convertible or an SUV...(and so on).....F.R.E.E. that spells free, credit report.com baby." That one.)
8. I have said song on my iPod, and am learning the words to another one (the one about having to be a pirate waiter "selling fish to tourists in t-shirts").
9. I'm a chapstickaholic. I always need my chapstick within arms reach from me. OCD? maybe. A necessity of life? Absolutely.
10. I have this fuzzy warm hat that I love but am always embarrassed whenever I wear it. I'm wearing it now because I am alone.
11. I always have nightmares/a hard time falling asleep after watching scary movies, but I'll never stop watching them.
12. I'll never turn down an offer to have a dance party. I'll bring the strobe light!
13. We have all these fish in my dorm room and I (don't care about them I'm sorry that sounds really mean but I think my roomie would agree with me, they DON'T DO ANYTHING and they are just getting super fat and stare ahead like zombies and their fish food smells really bad and they are NOT FUN!! There, I said it. It's out. On that note, any one want a free pet fish any time after June 12?)
14. I believe in the Seahawks. :)
15. I love my huge glasses that I wore for my Gleek costume on Halloween and I wear them while doing homework a lot. And for fun.
16. The dorms at Western let you listen to the iTunes libraries of people living around you through share folders, which I love. I feel like I know the people around me better even if I don't know them at all. I've been listening to a ton of Weezer lately and I don't know why I didn't love them before! I mean I liked them, but hadn't heard enough of their stuff to love them, which I now do thanks to these folders.
17. I always draw this giraffe named Brad in birthday cards or yearbooks or other things, and it has looked the same since like 6th grade. Which can either be a good thing that I have been consistent all these years, and my friends know that it's "Brad the Giraffe" whenever I draw him, or it can be super sad that my giraffe-drawing skills haven't improved at all since I was 11.
18. I was fully prepared to go to a Homecoming Dance at Western last weekend, even bringing many dress and heel options back with me from home...until I was told that it was Homocoming. No wonder the flier said "Come and be gay with us!" I just thought they meant happy...
19. I learned the Jai Ho dance from Slumdog Millionaire for the Tolo Dance this year and I still like to practice it. It's fun! Try it for reals.
20. I feel like I've already listed 70 facts about myself. I don't know what else to say! I have asthma, how about that?
21. I WILL be on The Amazing Race one day (once my wombmate and I turn 21 and can officially apply)!
22. Origami looks so fun but I don't know how to make anything except for those fortune teller things and are those even fun anymore?
23. Every time I watch Juno I want to dress like her. Not like wear maternity clothes or anything, just her style of clothing. I watched it today then changed into a plaid long-sleeved shirt with a hoodie over it along with my converse sneakers to go to dinner. I felt like Juno but not pregnant.
24. Since I've been at college, I need my iPod to go to sleep. Even when I go back home. I put it on the 30 minute sleep timer and fall asleep after the 3rd or 4th song usually every time.
25. LAST QUESTION YES: I just discovered how to make words clickable in blogs, so I went through this post and attached links to many of the words!

That is all, loves!

Court

Arrested Development: The Movie

It's going to happen! It's going to happen!



"STEVE HOLT!"

My Necklace

Endless,
Complex,
Ridiculous,
Tangled Necklace

ARE YOU EVEN WORTH IT?




Court

Twilight

I don't get it.

Court

Memoirs of a Gleek

Unless you have a life, you are probably obsessed with the television show "Glee" like I am. It is about a high school Glee Club full of nerds, cheerleaders, football players and handicapped people, run by a Spanish teacher. I know, you're probably dying to watch it right now, but sadly, you can't until November 10 when the show returns. It took a break because of baseball playoffs. I can't help but feel a little Gleemo. :'(

"Glee" is full of quirky, awkward, hilarious moments and amazing music that makes it unlike any show I've ever seen before. I CAN'T GET ENOUGH.

So for Halloween, my friend Hana and I decided to be "Gleeks." There was a dance at one of the dorms with a costume contest and we wanted to enter it. The night of the dance we bought big glasses, black shirts and colorful letters. It was an adventure and we didn't get back on the bus to campus until the dance had already started, and we still had to iron on the letters! We made it to the dance a little unfashionably late, but it didn't matter. People loved our costumes! We stood in front of everyone and waited for the judges to make their decision on the winners of the $10 Fred Meyer gift cards. The whole room cheered "Gleeks! Gleeks! Gleeks!" Needless to say, it was one of the prouder moments of my life :)

But we didn't win.
So we entered in the next category.
And lost again.



But people still cheered for us! And a bunch of people wanted pictures with us afterward. It was wonderful.

And a few days later, My roommate's friend who writes for the school paper asked to interview Hana and I and have a photo shoot! Her story on "last-minute Halloween costumes" would possibly make it into the paper! We had a blast and I don't know if we were in the paper or not, but all I can say is, it pays to be a Gleek :)

Glee is on FOX, Wednesdays at 9 pm. Watch it!


EDIT: WE MADE IT IN THE NEWSPAPER!!!
http://westernfrontonline.net/2009103011502/arts-life/costume-conundrum/

my name is spelled wrong but I don't care!

Court

Things I've Realized

The past month has filled me with many realizations. Some totally random, and others...actually they're all pretty stinking random. Here they are:

-I've realized that the Freshman Fifteen totally exists. I've gained 2 pounds since I've been at college, despite all the hills I've walked up.
-I've realized that the disgusting worm-like ceiling in my room looks that way for a reason: it is soundproof! I'll never complain again.
-I've realized that Ultimate Frisbee is a totally serious, hardcore sport. Don't make fun of it!
-I've realized that high fives are an important part of life. I took them for granted before college. I can honestly only think of 2 occasions that I've been high-fived here at Western, and one of them was an air high five, so I don't even think that counts. A high five at the right time (or from the right person) could seriously make one's day, at least in my experience it has. They're a necessity of life! And I'm deprived here you guys.
-I've realized that I miss high school Psychology class! Psych 101 here fully consists of taking notes for 80 minutes and having an exam on the notes every few weeks. Not fun. We played with goldfish last year, and watched Seinfeld and made colorful posters! I guess I've realized that I don't like lecture halls, because it lacks the hands-on experience that a small classroom has.
-I've realized that last week I saw 6 movies in the theater within 8 days.
-I've realized that Cup of Noodles will soon become one of my best friends.

-And finally, I've realized that I miss everyone who's not at Western so much, so so much. That's kind of a duh-realization, but I thought I'd include it anyway.

I've realized much more than what's on this list, but this would be one boring blog if I included them all.

Advice for the day: Give someone a high five!!! And look at their elbow while doing so, if you want it to be a successful one.

Court

Automobiiiiile?

If you didn't already know this about me, I have a thing for 80s movies. And music. But really movies. Ask me my favorite actor and I'll say "John Cusack in the 80s."

I'll always be jealous of my parents, who were teens in the 80s and got to see movies like "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "The Breakfast Club" in theaters. ah!

What is it about this decade that is so appealing to me? I have no idea, maybe it was the fact that the female main character in "Say Anything..." was named Diane Court, and my name is Court(ney) Diane. Or perhaps the time I lip synced to "Twist and Shout" on that parade float in downtown Seattle with hundreds of people cheering for me made me feel like Ferris Bueller. Oh wait that didn't happen (yet).


Whatever it is, I love it. I love how John Hughes could take an idea like detention or prom or skipping school and turn it into a major adventure that could be loved and related to by generation after generation.

It's just totally boss, so radical dude.

Court


P.S. If you haven't seen the movie Better Off Dead, you absolutely have to. I don't even want to write on what it's about, it's something you need to watch with an open mind. Really, let me know if you haven't seen it and we'll watch it together. For reals. Here are some pics to get you excited for it:




















P.P.S. I went to an 80s dance party the other day, thought this would be the right blog to post this picture in!

It makes me feel as tall as a giraffe

Let's do this. Let's blog.

I'm probably a little late on the whole blogging thing, but better late than never!

On the days leading up to becoming an official college kid, millions of questions were running through my mind. Will I make any friends? How hard will the classes be? Did I make the right college decision? Is it normal for someone my age to have gone to Chuck E. Cheese's 3 times in the past month? Am I at all prepared to make the transition from high schooler to college student? Am I mature enough to be living on my own, without my family? Without my warm bed, or my mom's homemade mac 'n' cheese?

Needless to say, I was a bit of a wreck on the inside.

Well, I'm happy to say, the past week and a half of college has been a blast and a half (didn't mean to write "and a half" twice in one sentence). Better than I could have hoped for. here is a list:
Courtney's list of wonderful college happenings since Sunday, September 20 (move-in day):
-Movie party with new friends on the first night
-Shopping at Fred Meyer at midnight (they opened it up for Western students only. Madness.)
-The Inn (Christian club, reminded me so much of Westminster. It was great!)
-Football at 1 am with a glow in the dark football
-Glee parties on Wednesdays
-Ultimate Frisbee team! I'm in love with it :)
-Swing Dancing club (super awkward but overall fun)
-Joined a small group through The Inn
-Painted sweet mugs with said group
-80's dance party!
-Bought 3 fish with my roomie Rachel. One of them is adorable and the other 2 are dumb
-So many other things that I can't think of or don't feel like adding to the list

Obviously, the week hasn't been perfect. Here is another list:
Courtney's list of less-than-wonderful happenings since move-in day:
-I woke up one morning, looked in the mirror and saw part of the ceiling in my hair!
-The ceilings are scary. They look like angel hair pasta made out of ceiling material. At night they look like worms, and the only thing that makes it better is the fact that there's tons of glow in the dark stars that somebody stuck there. But still.
-Sunday night, my friend Hana and I took the bus to downtown Bellingham because we didn't make it to dinner in time. We didn't know that the buses downtown stop running earlier than the rest of the week, so we were stranded. We met a concerned lady who had called a taxi for herself. We waited with her and the taxi turned out to be a van, so we asked for a ride to Western, which was on the way. It was all good until we got back to campus. We owed the driver $4.50 or so, and Hana and I had 2 dollars each and were gathering up the change. After about 10 seconds the driver growled "just give me 5 bucks and get out of my cab." eek.
-Creepy, persistent guy during swing dancing. I don't really feel like elaborating. It just needed to be on the list.
-I slipped down a wet grassy hill on the way to frisbee practice, yelped with terror on the way down, and was greeted by the sympathetic looks of the whole team at the bottom.

The good things definitely outweigh (and outnumber) the bad. So I love college. I think I made the right choice, and I feel like this is where God wants me to be right now. I'm coming home this weekend though so I'm pumped for that. Kirkland (1st home) and Westminster (2nd home), here I come!

That's my first 12 days of college in a nutshell. A giant nutshell, because this was a pretty lengthy blog. You're awesome if you're still reading this. You're a true friend :) And I probably miss you a lot. Unless you are a Western student reading this. In which case, I'll see you soon :)

Court