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I feel like I start practically all of my blog posts with "So..." I guess it's because that's how I start conversations in real life and it just carries over into my super awesome blog writing. I'm pretty sure I had a couple of english teachers in high school tell me not to write like I talk. But I think that's backwards, I mean if you don't write like you talk/think then how on earth are you supposed to set yourself apart from what everyone else writes?

Oh wait, this post wasn't going to be about writing.

So I'll move on...

It's Friday afternoonish and I'm sitting at work, blogging (shhh!) and also surfing the interwebs (shhh!) and in my perusing I came across Kim Kardashian's fashion tips. Professional, I know. Anyways, she totally said that black and white stripes are in right now and that got me super excited because that means my black and white striped sweater is in!

* Please disregard the axe in Kristofer's hand. And know that no one was harmed on this night :)

So suck it everyone who says I look like an inmate! Kim Kardashian said it's totally the thing to wear!

And besides, I'm pretty sure that sweater cost me like 5 bucks at forever21. So I'm going to wear the mess out of it.

I just thought this was funny because I normally don't shop for or wear "trendy" clothes. I go more for the, "what will go with these great jeans and tennis shoes I'm wearing right now?" look.

I love dressing up and looking nice, but holy cow dressing nice is expensive for a poor college student like myself! I always see features in magazines that will show the super expensive dress and then "cheap" alternative that still costs $90. Seriously, that's a month of groceries for me. I just can't justify spending a lot of money on things like clothes and purses and shoes.

Don't get me wrong, I dream about it.

It's just that I am the daughter of a man who used to make me give him powerpoint slideshows to prove to him that I NEEDED whatever I was asking for. Thanks a lot, Dad. I still go over those powerpoints in my head while I'm shopping today.

Dad drives me NUTS because he thinks I am the most expensive property he has. And then I have to take him to Apple.com and just show him how lucky he is that I showed restraint and didn't ask him for that new computer I wanted for graduation. And then I take him to the mall and point out the purses girls are carrying and how much they paid for them. And then he's all, oh wow Mary you are so right, I love you. And then five minutes later he tells me my hamburger cost too much.

Feel sorry for me, people.

Remember when?

When I was about 8 years old, my mom was driving me and my friend, Haley to gymnastics class and on the way we were probably having some sort of 8 year old conversation when all of a sudden I blurted...out of thin air..."Mufasa."

What had happened though was...I had been thinking about The Lion King movie and the part where the three hyenas are talking about Mufasa and I thought it was so funny how they said it. And then I apparently wanted to try to say it for myself. Out loud.

Haley has never ever let me forget that.

I have the weirdest memory. Ever. I can't remember something I just read or how to drive from point A to point B after I've done it 437 times, but I can remember things like music artists, childhood memories, restaurants, food I've eaten, believe me, the list goes on. And on.

Oh and birthdays. If you tell me your birthday once, I'll remember it forever.

Taylor told me I was weird, but I know he's really happy because he never has to remember anything useless ever again.

I don't have a super memory or anything, I just remember the things everyone else filters out. Like what my mother had for breakfast.

Hopefully you all still love me after this. Oh wait, is anybody there? Anybody?

Anyways, because every post is better with a picture...

Here's Taylor and I over New Years making fun of our first picture picture together.

Raise your hand if you missed me

....anybody? Nah, didn't think so.

Let's see. Since I last posted on this thing I have....

Obtained my beautiful golden ring of goodness...aka my Aggie Ring.

Dunked (poured out) said golden ring of goodness in the world's most disgusting form of hydration. Seriously, if you love me, you will never ever let me smell that stuff* again as long as I live.

*calling it stuff because I have yet to reach a certain legal milestone.

 

Strangled Showed my boyfriend how thankful I am during Thanksgiving break in Lubbock.

Had an absolute blast with some of the best people I know for the 3rd year in a row over New Years.

*Ryan doesn't take those glasses off.

Skiied down a mountain without dislocating any hips or doing any face plants. Just kidding about that last one.

Somewhere in between all of that I managed to finish my very last fall semester at A&M, convince my family that they are much weirder than I am, and as of Tuesday, I started my last semester at A&M. (Here's to hoping they let me graduate!)

Quick little side note- I have been in Aggieland for 3 spring semesters and I have managed to score myself 3 parking tickets on the first day of every spring semester. I do believe that is talent.

Also, if you are my Facebook friend, then you will have on several occasions seen my statuses concerning my upstairs neighbors. Really, I would like to refer to them as roommates now because I am involved in every.single.one.of their conversations. While I acknowledge the fact that our living rooms are tiled, these ladies have absolutely NO volume control.

Trying to decide on what to eat for dinner? Let's discuss it from opposite ends of the house while the dishwasher is on.

That boy you went home with? We should talk about him in full detail over the sound of the TV.

Not kidding people.

Oh and they like to rearrange furniture around midnight and then vacuum. And they wear heels pretty often. And they just got a dog who poops in front of my door.

My mother told me to bang on my ceiling with a broom.  Buuuut, I think I'll resist being the crazy woman downstairs with a broom. For now.

Maybe I should have saved that last little jewel for a "shout-outs and call outs" post. Oh well, stay tuned for more Mary's Law moments...