Stories that shall be remembered..

This year, ohhhh this year ha, is finally coming to an end THANKFULLY... Lemme just fill my readers in [errrr my mom and aunt.. yeaaah i'm a loser, no big deal] on some of the highlights to my freshman year in college. Warning: don't judge this blog, keep in mind it's my freshman year ha.

Firstly, let's just say some memories are better left not remembered for the sole purpose that they are completely and utterly embarrassing.. Like not, oh I peed my bed embarrassing, it's more like oh I peed my bed, threw up on the floor in the fetal position, and now i'm going to class in my pink Snuggie and heels. Ya know what, scratch embarrassing, more like classy!

Anywho, at the start of the year I was given a roommate who wasn't necessarily someone who I would get along with, due to the fact she was talkin smack on me while I was in the room and she didn't know, but we're past that.. Now we talk smack to each others faces. Okay not really cause we've made the decision to put up with each other another year and live together AGAIN. We're in love. Annnnnd i'm off track once again.. SO our first night of rekindling our new friendship for the second time ended in this:




Yes, she fell off her bunk bed onto an air conditioning vent and managed to almost fall out our window, on the 6th floor, and completely massacred our blinds with her flopping body on the way down. This is why I wanted to be her friend. Wouldn't you agree?

Another lovely memory was "THE SNUGGIE NIGHT".. Now I must not go into detail about this horrid night but let's just say I was able to do everything in my Panda slippers and Pink Snuggie.. And i'm down with that. This was oneeee expensive night, and a life learning lesson to say the least. All I gotta say was I was "that girl".. the one that ruins the party, or the girl that just kills the vibe when everyone's havin fun, the girl you just wanna kick write "kick me" on a slab of paper and slap it onto my back, ya know, THAT GIRL... The sight of 7th and Ivy still terrorizes my thoughts.


Don't we look oh so attractive? Pause..... Notttt... Borat, Anyone? Anyone? Okay or not.

Also, if being a Panda for halloween isn't grool then I don't know what is...

Not to mention a Panda doing the Stankyyy Leg... Super GROOL!

Oh and btw...

1. grool: great and cool put together
For example:
person one: Hey there is a party this friday, are you coming?
person two: ya totally
person one: Grool!!!!!!

[I HATE the word Grool.. It might be the most irrelevant word in urban dictionary but I felt it was appropriate for the situation at hand.... Oh and for all you "older generation" folks, go watch Mean Girls... You shall then understand...]


And back to my story.. THIS is when I fell into a GIANT MASSIVE EXPLOSIVE SICKY-SICKY-GNAR-GNAR mud puddle.. Who has a mud puddle behind the tarp of their get together, HONESTLY?!?! Completely ruined my pink walmart shoes. Those were the best 5 dollar investment ever and they were slaughtered by this inconspicuous and RUDE puddle. I still have a grudge to the 5th and Ivy house that ate my shoes.


Rest in Peace majestical shoes.

Anyways, I realized this blog isn't going to do justice to any of these experiences. They barely even express a chip of the hilarity these stories have shared with our floor. So, I shall depart this ship of reminiscing now. This fable is not up to par with the occurrences we have faced to this day BUT there will be more indeed. A lot can happen in the 19 days we have left here in this humble abode of Whitney Hall.

Stories that shall be remembered: Check! (:

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These Beautiful Creatures

are just the creme of the crop..

No wonder why we are friends. But we dearly missed Parka 4 who was on a date and could not attend this awful roadtrip.

Boredom is upon me once again. Too much drama on the floor so daily 6 hour naps have become a more common occurrence than not, staying up until 3 am to finish homework while everyone's asleep, and wearing pj's everywhere is my new agenda.. The dark bags under my eyes and fluffy hair sound attractive, I know, it's more majestical in person! Today I dreamed that I accidentally ran off with the Queen of England's ring, what a lucky grab!

Anyways, to escape this little rough patch of drama, I received an oh so uplifting text message saying "Hi Ashley, why don't you fly home for mothers day weekend?" SHE KNOWS ME TOO WELL!!!! (: Like number one, she can't go wrong with saying I need some mom time, the four phone calls a day justify's that.. But the fact she reminded me I'd be seeing my A.P.P. cause I miss her terribly was perfect!

This little A.P.P.

I surely miss her and our walks through bike jumps talking about flowers

She's just my favoriteeee twin there ever wasss!

Anywaaaays. I miss my mom. AND. I miss my A.P.P.. AND. I miss my daaaaaaaad. Sometimes Emily too, okay a lot more then sometimeeees. AND. Also my second family and being daughter number four (:

I'm going to go spend some time with my PARKAS

[I will talk more about them next time]

Blashiblahblah Blog: Check! (:

Roadtrip full of love

Oh how last minute road trip's end up to be absolutely blissful, exotic, and full of life. On this particular weekend, we jumped into a vehicle unaware of what was to lie ahead just hours later. We were, once again, off to another trek to St. Mary's to visit the one and only Brenden Kalfus, aka BBFF aka Alyssa's Boyfriend aka Brenbino [my new baseball name for him, inspired by the great bambino] aka that kid, or something. Anyways, I will try my best to make it feel as if you were there for the expedition. And we all know, Ashley Dods HAS to ALWAYS have a good time..

EXAMPLE ONE:

Yes, yes, yes, I know... "how dangerous hanging out of a window like that", "put your seatbelt on young lady", yadda yadda yadda. But, I had to lighten up the mood of the 3 hour car ride by taking my companion 'Rawry the Panda Pillow' and myself out for a little fresh air. We live life on the edge, CLEARLY. [Cough Cough, And later on out the sun roof, no big deal.. (: Cough.] Any who, after being D.J. for what seemed to be the time it took from the Renaissance era to Modern day, or an hour, which ever paints more of a vivid picture of the lengthiness of this segment, I moved on to bigger and better things. I decided to stay in the car and do some interpretive dancing. AND some serious fooling around.

EXAMPLE TWO:

Anne and I, yes the girl who's in every other one of my blogs, came across these beautiful ears in midst of our krumping. We thought it would be very very appropriate to take a snap of this disney-full discovery.

AND YAAAAY WE ARRIVED!

We then embarked onto the journey of going to San Francisco to watch Brenden play at the AT&T park. So, obvi, we had to do another fun ride on the BART! woooo! [also, we had to say goodbye to Anne so that she could go off to hang with her friends]

EXAMPLE THREE:

After getting there, we had to walk in circles and miles and roundabouts in order to find the stadium. Took long enough, ughhhh.

EXAMPLE FOUR:

We enjoyed this so much that we got a train on the way back. One of the wiser decisions we made that day.

TADAAAA! We made it!

EXAMPLE FIVE:

Surprisingly, it was amazing weather! And they had the cutest little bat boy that we fell in love with. The sad thing, for me, was I didn't even have service in the AT&T park.. It's like some sort of sick joke. Altogether, day one was a success and we were extremely exhausted... especially because I was running on three hours of sleep from the night before. College will do that to you.

We then woke up the next morning and did some shopping in Walnut Creek. We went to the Cheesecake Factory and HAD to go to Urban Outfitters while we were there. I scored on some, at the time, OMG-so-cute-and-inexpensive-I-MUST-get-this items, which ended up not being put to good use. One day though, one day! We then rushed back to watch another one of Brenden's games. Which they won, 5 to 1! Gooood Job Bren!

EXAMPLE SIX:

It was a beautiful day, aside from the puff puff's blowing all across the field the whole entire game. Unfortunately, my fun time ended here seeing how I got sick and became a pajama infested freak the rest of the day/night. Not really embarrassing or anything. I just wanted my mom, okay!?!?!?!

We drove home today and in the midst of the drive, I came up with a master plan...

EXAMPLE SEVEN:

[last and final example]

[Don't mind our award winning appearance]

We folded the seats and took a nap! Another unsafe but oh so fun idea!!! All in all, we had quite the adventure and now have to get back to our boring lives as students, BUUTTT

31 days left until summer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Adios amigos!

Roadtrip full of love: Check! (:

Just another day

Today was just one of those plain t-shirt and a little make-up, not rainy but not sunny, running on 4 hours of sleep, room's a mess, don't feel like going to the gym, lots of accidental naps, and omg-i-have-a-midterm-i-forgot-about type of days. Nothing big. Nothing exciting. Nothing coooool enough to make it on the blog. Or so I thought.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I love days like these. They're just lovely. For instance, I had a glorious lunch/catch up time with Alyssa, Anne, and Vivian in the not-so-cool BMU, attended a Charity Denim sale today in which proceeds went toward education, support, and research for diabetes [Alyssa, being a millionaire, was able to help towards that fund with buying a pair of snazzy jeans], and lastly, went into town for a little excursion to get out of the dorms.

But what really brightened my day was my daily Skype chat with a true angel; my mama. Her comparison of God to a computer was quite different from the norm. It's like I can almost still here her enthusiastic and genuinely adorable self saying "Ash Dod, I was thinking and what goes around comes around even works in positive ways. Look at it this way, the good feelings you get from doing good deeds is God talking to you. Imagine God being Facebook, every time you get something new, it's exciting!" She's just a peach! A little outta control but I like to keep her around. (:

-Which reminds me, just 35 days until I get to see her shining face!!!!! [yes, i'm counting down.]-

Anyways, I guess it's time to get back to being studious, or whatever you people think i'm doing up here. [Just kidding mom. I'm being my intellectual self. Don't you fret!] (:

Over and out ladies and gentleman.

Helping one find his way

If there has been any certain day that has made up for all of the countless hours of studying, long nights of staying in to cram, cleaning and re-cleaning my room every five minutes, the 600 loads of laundry that piles up under my bed, or eating the unbearable Whitney dining food, today was it.

On the way to dropping off my dear sweet best friend, Alyssa, to the bus station we ran into a little fella who was looking for directions.

This is Bill. Bless his soul, he left a bag of clothing on the bus so he needed help retrieving it. We gave him directions and sent him on his way. After saying auvoir to Alyssa, Anne and I started our trek back to the dorms. On our way, we saw Bill going in the wrong direction to who knows where! After chasing after him [yes, sprinting] we finally decided just to walk him to the station to make sure he got there safely.

Now, yes I know this is where other people would tell us that he could've been a rapist and my mother would say "What did I tell you about talking to strangers?" but I couldn't let this opportunity to make a difference in someone's day just pass me by, could I? NO! He told us his life story and was just the cutest elderly man we'd ever seen! He thanked us the whole journey there, showered us with compliments like "there should be more people in the world like you two", and insisted that he take us to the nicest place in town for some food. We couldn't even imagine taking anything else but his wisdom and friendliness that we denied the offer. Unfortunately, he was unable to retrieve the new clothes that he had bought in order to impress his family and prior job in the Army back in Texas. What a sweetie!

All in all, this encounter reassured me that there are opportunities one must take in order to change or better themselves. This was mine. I had never felt such a rush of joy and happiness such as this in quite some time. Bill managed to make a bigger impact on my life, in the 40 minutes that we spent with him, then most of the people I've known for years.

Helping one find his way: Check! (:

A Day Without Shoes

As some of you might already know, each time you purchase a pair of TOMS shoes, they provide a pair of shoes to a child in need. And on this special day, TOMS is trying to raise awareness by having as many people as possible not wear shoes. So, my dear friend Annebelle [Anne Towles] and Moi took our shoe-less feet on a trek through Chico.

We went near and far on our shoe-less voyage! Even downtown to the farmers market!

Yes, we might be a little crazy. Yes, everyone stared us thinking we were weirdo's. Yes, our feet are in agony. And, yes there are kids that go through this excruciating pain on a daily basis. But all in all, i'm thankful for my vans, rainbows, fluffy cheetah slippers, or whatever else I get to cover my feet with.

A day without shoes: Check! (: