Weeks that go fast?

I realize that it has been almost a week since my last post! This week went SOO fast! I had lots to do during the week and then the weekend just flew like the flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz. Linzy, Jessie, and Zeffy came down to visit me at good ol' UC :) We had a blast friday through sunday, at which point I got to spend time with my family! It was so nice! The best memorial day weekend ever!!! I'm glad the week went by fast so summer can arrive, but I don't want freshman year to be over!! Oh the conflicts. I'm so excited for class to be over and to be with my home frie(nd)s. 


I packed up a bunch of stuff from my dorm and sent it home with my parents. It was bitter sweet (like chocolate chips.) I can NOT believe this year is almost over (less than 2 weeks.) It's nonsense I say; we just moved in like 2 days ago!! I've had a GREAT year. Learned a lot about life, people, and myself. I am super happy and have made some truly wonderful friends :D AND I MADE A BLOG! Heck yes. 


This weekend involved a lot of things that I love...
1. Friends of old and new (loving each other)
2. Family
3. Tacos
4. Ice cream (Graeter's)
5. Skyline
6. Jungle Jim's
7. Parties
8. Papa Dino's cheese fries with ranch
9. Bushes
10. Driving
11. Yes - LMFAO
12. Urban Dictionary
13. Nippert Stadium

I love lying down on the football field at night :) Right on the C-paw

yummmm

Summer Dusk

Dusk is my favorite time of day. There is so much potential left in the night, not to mention it is beautiful, especially on a day like today when the weather was PERFECT! It also is a great time to just relax and reflect on your day or prep for the events of the evening, both of which are enjoyable. I even saw a lightening bug today :) I wanted to catch it in a jar.

Summer has arrived in Cincinnati. I love the feeling of the warm sun rays on my skin. It is so nice after months of cold weather.  I just love all the seasons, but especially the transitions. The first warm day or the first snow flake or the first leaf to change color is always a sweet surprise for me, yet I am sad to see the last season go. I guess that's why I like dusk; it's the transition from day to night; you have to say goodbye to the day, but there is so much potential ahead. 

I also love the smell of summer air. At dusk today the air smelled perfect, had the perfect humidity, and was the perfect temperature/amount of breeze. I was just takin it all in after a day of hot sunshine. This whole day was amazing, although it went way too fast with the daylight lasting so long. The night goes by TOO fast. Summer here I come!!

"Come come summer time. Love love hold my hand." - Shwayze

Jungle Jim's

If you have not been to Jungle Jim's, you have not lived. I am so serious. It is the best place ever. If you don't know, it's a ginormous grocery store in Fairfield Ohio, but it is not JUST a grocery store! It is THE ULTIMATE grocery store with anything and everything you could possibly imagine (food wise). 

I went with my cousin Sarah who is in town from Delewhere?, her "boyfriend" Ben, her friend Gillian, and my brother Dom. We bought LOTS of stuff (well I don't have the much money so I didn't get that much, but the others did :)) We rode in Ben's dad's company car which is an Infinity. That was also fun :) 


So... about the food... I at a LOT!! Mostly samples and such. I don't even know where to start! I wrote down all of the stuff that everyone bought :) I guess I could start there.We all chowed down on this stuff.


1. Mozzarella, basil, and garlic in olive oil (probably the best thing we had! Yummm)
2. Italian bread (eaten with olive oil from mozzarella and fresh cracked prepper! One of my favorite foods in the world!!)
3. Pepperoni and Mozzarella rolled - Though this was bought packaged, they actually have a mozzarella station where you can get things like this hand rolled to your liking :)
4. Bremner cracked wheat crackers
5. Scottish Cheddar cheese - so good! Gillian is from Scotland! So we wanted to get something Scottish!
6. Fennel Taralli
7. Italian dry salami
8. Kettle Brand Jalepeno Potato Chips
9. English Smiley Face Cheese
10. Lindt 90% Cocoa - GROSS!!! Tasted like cocoa powder.
11. Toblerone chocolate 
12. Kinder Chocolate - had a really happy German kid on the front :) Love it.
13. Marabou Mjolk Choklad (Sweden))
14. Haribou Candy - Twin Cherries, Brix, Strawberries and Cream, and Fizzy Cola
15. Root Beer Jelly Bellies
16. Frosted Pretzels
17. Pop Chips - BBQ and Salt & Pepper
18. Kettle Chips New York Cheddar with Herbs
19. New Leaf Lemon Blue Tea
20. Pizza Crust Mix - Weisenberger - only $1! Just add water!!
21. Vosges M'os Bacon Bar - bacon and chocolate
22. Irn Bru (Scottish Soda)
23. Cadburry Buttons
24. Kalamata Greek Olives
25. Traditional French Candy
26. SILLY BANDZ - sea animals and dinos! IN THE SAME PACK! And they are multicolored! woah! Also, I got a fruit pack and a ROCKER pack! The rocker pack is so cool!

The cheese aisle is the BEST!!

Wow... no wonder we were so full!

Chemistry Tests

I absolutely love chemistry tests. WHEN THEY ARE OVER! I missed two days of posts! For what you ask? Must I say it? CHEMISTRY! Booooo. Hopefully I did well. I'm not gonna say anything about it because I don't want to jinx myself (but I feel like I did a lot better than last time.) Well this is probably the most boring thing ever. I'm Carrie and I'm talking about my chemistry test... but I have some advice to give you!


LISTEN TO SOMETHING REALLY EMOTIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL RIGHT BEFORE YOUR TEST!!
On the way to class I listened to Defying Gravity from Wicked. It actually came on my shuffle on my iPod and I got super excited! I was ready for the test! Let me tell you. In my mind I was like "i''mmmm defyyying chemistry teeeests!" I'm sorry. I'm aware this is super lame, but I am who I am, and you know you're gonna try it now.

I get goosebumps just thinking about Wicked! It was the first show I ever saw on Broadway in NEW YORK CITY annnnd the ORIGINAL CAST! Heck yes. That means I saw Idina Menzel! Soooo amazing! 

Speaking of musicals (nice transition eh?), I saw Legally Blonde the Musical with my pi phi sisters last night :) I cannot stop singing "Oh my God! Oh my God you guys!" Yes the musical is that ridiculous AND that amazing! I had a great time. LOVE the UPS guy ;) That was probably my favorite part of the show, and I swear the girl playing Elle Woods looked exactly like Reese Witherspoon. She even sounded like her. Oh and the dogs in the show were incredible and oh so cute. I'd have to say the crowd reacted most to the dogs. haha nice. I had a great time :)

I'll have to say more about my love for musicals another time. Love you all! Love Life! Love that my chemistry test is over and I get to spend some time with my cousin Sarah this weekend, fresh off the plane from Phili! I also get to go to my brother's defense of his thesis on Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy. Oh yeah! Peace dawgs. ☮

My First Kiss

Lovin 3OH!3's new song featuring none other than Ke$ha!! That's right 3OH!3 and my girl Ke$ha! It's kinda like when 3OH!3 was featured in Ke$ha's song Blah Blah Blah
My first kiss went a little like this! (smooch) AND TWIST (smooch smooch) AND TWIST! Ha ha Ke$ha totally rocks!


Some other awesome Ke$ha songs:
1. DINOSAUR***
2. Kiss n' Tell***
3. of course... Tik Tok**
4. Stephen**
5. Your Love is My Drug**
6. Take it Off*
7. Animal
8. Boots n' Boys
9. Party at a Rick Dude's House
10. Backstabber
11. Blind
12. Hungover
13. Dancing with Tear in My Eyes


*** = FAVE
** = fave, but not as fave as ***
* = fave but not as fave as **


Yeah so that I think includes all the songs on the Animal CD :) 

I also love how Ke$ha always wears glitter and holds her hair. hahaha. All year I've been talking about throwing a glitter party where it is required that you wear glitter to get in and in the party there will be glitter everywhere! The problem is where exactly to throw this glitter party... after all, there will be glitter everywhere and that MIGHT be difficult to clean up. Some day it'll happen. You'll see. Glitter party inspired by Ke$ha. And I'll be playing Ke$ha music, especially 'Take it Off' because the lyrics include "there's glitter on the floor." Oh yeah!! Glitter Party USA!

                       

✌ peace out ✌

TAZA

Lately I've been dying to try TAZA, this coffee shop right by my dorm. Well today I finally got here and it's great! (except it's really hot in here) Why have I not been here before today? I just don't know...

Haley and I came here to work on some homework and get some good coffee! She got a latte and I got an Americano, both of which are absolutely superb tasting and look beautiful! Sorry we already had a few sips by the time I took this picture with my computer :) so you can't see the pretty swirls and everything.

So the amazingness of this place: we watched the guy grind the coffee right before making the drinks and the coffee is bold bold bold and good good good! AND they have this thing called a "bottomless ugly mug" and you can fill it as much as you want! I think I might be getting that one next time! Although, the guy at the counter did admit not ALL the mugs are ugly anymore. OH well. 

You can't really capture the atmosphere and coolness of this place by these pictures, but that's the refill station there and the counter. The architecture and interior design of this place is really cool. I'm a fan of the brick wall and loft/high ceiling There's a really chill vibe and cool art and stuff everywhere. Definitely not your typical Starbucks coffee shop.

Ok, I just walked upstairs to check it out, and there are more tables and some cool chairs. It's like a loft up there with some games (like apples to apples :)) and even the bathroom was cool! Big bowl sinks and soft soap! Soft soap is the bomb. 


Aw man, I'm almost done with my Americano. Should've gotten an ugly mug... well now I know. There are a lot more things to explore here, but I feel like an idiot wandering around.. sooo I'll let you know some other time, Maybe I can get some more pictures in here... or you can just come yourself! I'll go! Haley said there is a huge hanging tv upstairs... I did not even see that. I guess I'm just overwhelmed. haha. oh man. Welp, time to do some chemistry homework in my cool new hang ;)
Catch ya on the flip side!

Punch Lines

I love a lot of really stupid stuff. Like some of these AMAZING jokes. 

My classic go-to jokes (from my dad):

     Q: Did you hear about the circus fire?

     A: It was in TENTS (like intense.. get it? hahaha) 

     Q: Where de bees go to the bathroom?

     A: The BP station

That joke reminds me of this one:

     Q: Why did the turtle cross the road?

     A: To get to the shell station.

     

Here are some I just recently found. I don't remember where:

     Q: If april showers bring may flowers, then what do may flowers bring?

     A: Pilgrims.

     Q:If pilgrims were still alive today, what would they be most famous for?

     A: Their age.

     Q: Why did the chicken cross the plate?

     A: To get to the other side DISH.

Prepare yourself for this one... oh I'm laughing already just thinking about it. 

     Q: Why did the girl fall of the swing?

     A: Because she didn't have any arms. 

HAHAHAHAHA that is just too funny.

Some other funnies:

There are two muffins sitting in the oven. The first muffin says "Is it just me or is it getting pretty hot in here?" The second  muffin screams "AHHH!!!! A TALKING MUFFIN!"

This one is super nerdy. I don't even know if anyone will get it... Star Trek? Anyone? Whatever, at least my parents will get it...

     Q: What did Spock find in the toilet of the Starship Enterprise?

     A: The Captain's Log.

This next one made me laugh out loud... but I am completely aware that it is not funny.

     Q: What is green and has wheels?

     A: Grass. I lied about the wheels.

     Q: What did the farmer say when he lost his tractor?

     A: Where's my tractor?

Linzy's Jokes: 

     Q: How do you make a tissue dance?

     A: Put a little boogie in it!     

     Q: What did the fish say when he ran into a wall?

     A: Dam.

     

     Q: What do you call a sheep with no legs?

     A: A cloud!

And a Carl one

     Q: A man hit a woman with his car. Who's fault was it?

     A: The man's! What was he doing with a car in the kitchen?

And just an Office Quote that I love: (maybe I'll have to do another post specifically about quotes... ok yeah definitely gonna do that... but here goes this one anyways.)

     "I'm not superstitious, but I'm a little stitious." - Michael Scott

The "Milk and Cereal" Song (Original)

All that cereal and milk talk got me thinking about this video I used to watch all the time :) haha love it!

Cinnamon Toast Crunch - the taste you can see!

Note of Warning
So I'm thinking a lot of my posts are going to be about food. I really like food. It is great and it is rare to find a food that I don't like. So... if you don't like food then that is extremely unfortunate for you.


Cereal
I just love cereal in general! It is amazing. But especially cinnamon toast crunch man! When they have that stuff in the dining hall, sometimes it's like my dreams have come true. I personally am a fan of soy milk.. which may be a little weird, but hey, I like it and it doesn't hurt my tummy like dairy often does. HOWEVER, the dairy thing does NOT stop me from putting a little soft serve ice cream on top of my bowl of cereal :) mmmmm. I'm imagining the sugary, cinnamony goodness with the creamy milk and a little (just a plop) of cold ice cream! Delicious!!

See the taste?? Do ya? Do you see the cinnamon swirls of goodness??! 

Do you remember those commercials?

Top 10 Cereals (not necessarily in order, but kind of):
1. Cinnamon Toast Crunch
2. Lucky Charms
3. Grape Nuts
4. Frosted Mini Wheats
5. Life
6. Waffle Crisp 
7. Kix with Berries
8. Raisin Bran
9. Multigrain Chex
10. Cocoa Puffs - Kara and Jasmine eat them all the time with chocolate milk. Woah. That's intense. I personally like them to turn my soy milk chocolaty :) Did you know chocolaty is a real word? It doesn't seem like it should be a real word to me, but I'm glad it is!


Fruity Pebbles
I also really used to like Fruity Pebbles; however, I haven't eaten them since I had braces around eighth grade. I swear it took an hour to clean my mouth of the stuff. I still have a permanent retainer on the bottom, and I just don't want deal with the chaos of eating Fruity Pebbles.

Rice Krispie Treat Cereal
Have you ever had rice krispie treat CEREAL? No, it's not rice krispies, and it is not rice krispie treats; it is rice krispie treat cereal! I think it used to be the bomb! It was like rice krispie treats.. but better.. in cereal. They stopped making them, or at least I couldn't find them, but now they are not quite as good. Still good, but not AS good.

Cheerios with Honey vs. Honey Nut Cheerios
Just a little trick I learned from my favorite big brother, Dominic. It's way better to put honey on your plain cheerios than to eat honey nut cheerios. Just sayin. 

  

OH MY GOSH I'M GOING TO STOP BLOGGING BECAUSE WE ARE GOING TO CHIPOTLE RIGHT NOW! YESSSS.

Chipotle Sauce

And there it is! The oh so beautifully delicious Tabasco Chipotle Sauce. You could say I am a fan of chipotle. I think it has hit me more lately than ever before. I usually am pretty neutral about eating chipotle until the occasion when I CRAVE it! These cravings have been occurring more and more frequently of late!! For example, I want it right now! Although, I know none that want chipotle as much as Kara ♥ who could probably eat it every day. Well last time I was there I got my norm, a veggie burrito bowl with:

• rice
• black beans
• roasted peppers
• tomato salsa (sometimes I get mild, too)
• corn (sometimes I don't get corn because it kind of freaks me out, but that is another story)
• sour cream
• lettuce
• guacamole :) yummm
• and cheese please

Oh my goodness my mouth is watering! Ok let's just throw in a picture here...

Ok, so that one is missing the cheese, sour cream, and lettuce, but hey, it still looks pretty appetizing to me. I love love love how every bite is different! And I like the burrito bowl because I like eating it with a fork. The best bites are those with lots of sour cream and cheese, or is it the bites with corn and guac? OR maybe its the beans and tomatoes?? I gosh I don't know; I just love it all!!

So back to the chipotle sauce story, I got my veggie burrito bowl and last time I had been at Chipotle I tried the green Tobasco sauce (jalapeno) and it was superb! So this time I though I'd grab the jalapeno and the chipotle Tobasco bottles for our table. BEST DECISION EVER! The chipotle sauce was ridiculous. It was soooooo gooooood! It was like all the goodness of barbeque sauce mixed with all the goodness of hot sauce in my mouth along with burrito bowl?? Is that even fair?? It's also good to eat the burrito bowl with some chips and with BOTH sauces! Woah! Don't even try to stop me now! Welp, I've talked myself into it; looks like I'm gonna have to go get that again very very soon. I know Kara was always go with me :) Ha ha she just asked if I wanted to go tomorrow. We shall see what the day brings. If it brings Chipotle sauce it's gotta be a good one!

Care (That's Me)

Care (That's Me)

As I was strolling through the blogs, something I love doing, and I happened to stumble upon this one called Care's Finds. I was originally drawn in by the title because I'm Care! My family and some close friends call me Care... it's just my name.. Care, Care Bear, ya know.. Carrie Barone... get it? Anywho, I scrolled down a little and what did I find but a very familiar picture of an outfit. Why familiar you ask? Because it's from Anthropologie, my FAVORITE store ever!! Too bad I can never buy anything there ($$$). Sometimes I go in there and cry just a little :'( But really I could spend ALL day in that place and I regularly visit the website... and i miiight just have a full shopping cart on the site of some of my favorite things, you know, just in case I suddenly get super rich ;) So back to Care's find. I love it! Her name is Carolyn, kinda like my name Caroline :) I guess I like the blog because it was very relatable for me and she has beautiful and cheerful posts. 

I also came across a blog called Becoming Carrie! They're talking about Carrie Bradshaw from Sex and the City! Heck yes to Sex and the City!! LOVE IT! It's my favorite show other than Boy Meets World. I'm surprised I didn't put it on my tops list. Someday me and my chicas are gonna live in New York, New York and live like the girls of Sex and the City minus all the sex part. We are women with morals! But the apartments, clothes, and fun are a go! Can't wait to see the movie Sex and the City 2 on May 28 when Linzy and Jessie are at UC!!!

This picture is the background on my 13' Mac Book Pro (which I love)

Inspired Pics
Yesterday, my roomies and I were inspired to take some pictures of our silly bandz :P so here they are

Jazzy Boo's rockin out with her 6 silly bandz! Woah! 

This is my arm/wrist area. Notice 3 silly bandz (the yellow one was given to my fellow Pi Phi new member, Alyssa Vah, today to further spread the fad!) and my Ingy bracelet! Ingy, the sister of one of my favorite people and very good friends, Carl, made me that bracelet after the first one she made me got completely worn out after wearing it all through my senior year! 

This is a dog and a dinosaur brawlin it out!

Just showin some love for my silver sandals from Forever 21

This is the cheerio found on my back after being bombarded by them hours before on the way back to the dorm from eating, courtesy of Christina Snyder

Shout Outs

There are a few people who want to be mentioned on the blog :) I appreciate the followers!! Big Thank You's to you all including my bestie Linzy, my roomies Jazzy Boo and Khanhi Poo and my Pi Phi sista Brittany Megan Moore!! Of course there's Adam Voegele who also gets a shout out, though I'm not sure he deserves it.. he's not even a follower... whatever I still love him and all my friends!!

Silly Bandz

Are you up on the newest FAD? That's right Silly Bandz are IT. They are colorful rubber bands that take the form of animals until you wear them as a bracelet and they just look like weird, squiggly rubber bands. And that's the beauty of it! Because someone says "Hey, what's that weird squiggly thing on your wrist?" and you're like "Oh! Let me show you ... it's a DINOSAUR!!" Yeah that's right! These things really are fantastic. I usually keep around 2 or 3 on my wrist so I can spread them wherever I go. I say "Hey wanna see something cool?" Then I rave about my dinosaur silly band and share one with someone else so they too can spread the fad. It's quite a fantastic system.

I personally am a fan of the dinosaur silly bandz, though they come in many varieties including SEA CREATURES which I have yet to encounter, but I'm pretty excited about them :)

I first encountered silly bandz when I went back to my high school for the first time since going off to college. A few of my friends were uber excited about this new fad that was going around the high school. All I could say was "why wasn't this a fad LAST year when I was here???" I couldn't believe it! They were just so awesome! So my friend Brendan sent me a pack of dinos in the mail after he came and visited UC :) He'll  want credit for this one fo sho. They were an instant hit in the dorm and all over campus! I've been trying to spread them around as well as I can! I even ordered more online. The bandz are definitely spreading! Oh happy day!

Here are some other good silly band varieties: (Oh and be aware that there are cheaper knock off silly bandz... I confess I do have some. If you're going to give these things away, you gotta get a little cheap)

I really like the Western ones! I don't really know why there are Western ones... and last one there is the "basic pack." Haha who decided on those shapes for basics? I'm thinking I might get the basic pack and the rock star pack so I can use the dollar sign, possibly the girl figure, and any combination of the rocker bandz to represent my girl Ke$ha. Oh which reminds me of a video I saw of her recently. Pure talent let me tell you!

And these are just some of them! There's also a spring pack and a pet pack! I also saw cars the other day at the store! Check 'em out!  www.sillybandz.com

SPREAD THE FAD!!! NIKE (Just Do It)

Kesha "Dinosaur." [Live] (MTV PUSH)

Tops

If you know me at all, you probably know of some of my top loves. I keep thinking about them and I don't want to forget to mention them at some point, so I'm just going to start by making a list of some of my 'main loves' :

• dinosaurs
• whales
• food - especially Italian - especially made by my Nana 
• oatmeal
• Shwayze
• Ke$ha
• Anthropologie
• wedding dresses
• Starbucks

... ok so I just realized I'm going to end up trying to write down everything I love on this list, so I'm just going to stop there. You should just be forewarned that these are some things I am known to love so they may be mentioned frequently.

DINOSAUR - Ke$ha