Happy Halloween Errrrrybody

Halloween is here.

Honestly this is one of my least favorite holidays...(because everyone uses today as an excuse to dress skanky and gross)but with some persuading I ended up making a costume, again! and carving pumpkins. I had a good time hanging with my friends. Whatever.Here is my costume from this year 07.

I bought 2 of these sweatshirts from walmart ($5 each) and converted them into this slimfit hoodie with ears and a care bear power belly. I'm bedtime bear because I still have a bedtime (it's 9 oclock). It was the perfect idea for a kid like me who is not really into it. I was bearly dressed up but everyone knew I was a care bear character. (I tried to be the opposite of skanky and think I succeeded quite well)

Here is what I did last year. I was really excited for it and spent a LOT of time on it.

I'm a flamingo.
I shortened my Senior Prom Dress and added feathers all over it, made a mask and dyed my tights yellow (a lot of that dye ended up on the carpet of my dorm room, never to come up)

Pumpkins I have less luck with...Not nearly as cute or creative, I copied my design this year from someone who put theres on Craftster.

I'm a bad roommate

So lately there have been a lot of little bugs in the house that I share with 4 lovely young women. I never really thought much about it. They kind of look like fruit flies. I know one of my roommates will sometimes eat half of a piece of fruit and then leave it out on the counter unprotected. You can understand when I saw fruit flies I didn’t feel the need to go investigate. Every time I went into the kitchen there was no fruit to be seen so I just left the issue.

Just a few days ago I was in the kitchen fixing dinner with my roomies Kate and Erin. Kate is across the room and looks at the fridge and says, “Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh!” in a very startled and scared voice. Erin and I cautiously inquire what she is freaking out about. Kate then gets the step ladder out and says I think I saw a creature on top of the fridge. (A CREATURE!?!? What does that mean I am wondering) Kate slowly goes up the step ladder and then after she sees what it is she starts laughing hysterically. Erin and I take a look too and here is what we find….

Then Erin and Kate start having a discussion about the fruit flies and the decaying stench coming from the fridge. I just stared at them for a long time and then said, “It was ME! I’m sorry! I forgot I had one banana left.” The banana had been there for two weeks. I think the banana was bad in the first place. Does fruit really shrink that much?
For the first time I felt like the bad inconsiderate roommate. I don’t think they'll hold it against me.

Where did all the research go?

"Looky Looky I got Hooky"

Just joking, but seriously look at what I've done with my new home. Well, I'd rather call it a temporary home. For the dining room I painted and recovered the chairs and brought in this lovely center piece. I still need some candles for it.

The bathroom, I painted the border and added a chandelier. I love chandeliers!

This is the big kahoona! My bedroom where I spend most of my time. My mufatha (mix of Mufassa and Father, you should use this cool new word I made up) and bf (aka Brian-the-boyfriend) made my two desks. I love it! I can lean agains the desks when I'm in bed and reading. The desk on the left is for school work. The desk on the right is for crafts. I need to put something where the Franz poster is. I'm not sure what. The floor cusion folds out so someone can sleep on it, but it is for people to sit on when they come talk to me. I really like my room. It is really hot though! Last night it got down to 40 degrees and I slept with my windows all the way open, it was heavenly.

For more pictures check out my flickr here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kayleighkirkland/

Blogs=free spirits

I haven’t written a blog in a long time. I have to admit that I love reading them. I love reading about what everyone spills out over the internet.

Why is it so easy to let your guard down over the internet and so hard to say what you want to people’s faces? I blame my shyness and decided that I have more trouble with this than anyone else. I don’t think that’s true though. But watch out I just let my guard down. I hope I doesn’t land on anyone’s head…

As I get older (21, I know I’m very young) I’ve decided to not put up with crap anymore. I’m changing a lot. I do whatever I want to. And you know what, it’s not really working to my benefit. An example of this would be my relationships with my friends at school… Last year I went to restaurants that give me tummy trouble, movies that offend me, sporting events that bored me to tears, and parties that made me feel uncomfortable. A while back I took a stand for myself. I used to think, “Oh I should go hangout with these people, and they are my friends.” But WHY? Why should I feel like I have to do things that I don’t want to do. I’m not doing it anymore.

This year my friends all went to go see Superbad. I hate stupid comedy, as I like to call it, I end up offended and grossed out. I don’t want to see crude images or ideas on a big screen. It isn’t fun for me. So I didn’t go. Yea me! Right?

Here is what has happened since the movie and many other situations like it…
Those friends don’t hang out with me anymore.

I guess I need to realize that we just never had anything in common and I was just trying to convince myself that we did. It’s not that we aren’t friends anymore. We are. We do an occasional get-together here and there. I just never found that great group of college friends that are the friends you have forever. I do have great friends that I love, don’t misunderstand me. This isn’t a “feel sorry for me I have no friends “ blog. This is a "I thought college would be filled with people like me, intellectuals interested in the same books, music, religion, pop-culture" blog. I was wrong.

But I also expected to figure out what kind of person I would become; maybe I have to go through this process to figure that out.