Rowan's Dream

Plants and friends

2009-04-26T12:51:00.003-05:00

I put my houseplants outside this past week when it was nice hoping that they would be happy and thrive outside. I worry about the thunderstorms and the drastic change in temps. I hope that they will all survive. The ones I worry the most about are the babies, so small and fragile. Looking at my Purple Hart plant I can all ready see the change. They are supposed to have purple leaves, but my sad plant has only green leaves an long stems trying to reach to the sun. After 3 days outside the leaves have started to regain their purple color. Ah well I hope they grow.

On a similar note I have realized that I haven't been spending as much time and care on my friendships. I really need to make a personal effort to do so, but sometimes it is hard to put forth the effort. I think it would be worth it. It is hard for me to change and I hate loosing valued friendships. Ah well. I hope everyone will be patient with me. Love you all.

Tony

2009-04-17T21:38:00.002-05:00

Tony, my boyfriend, is bitching about not being in my blog, so to make him shut up...

I love you dear now shut up and play WoW.<3

Warm weather

2009-04-17T21:34:00.003-05:00

Yeay for warm weather. I can't wait to start working on my garden and yard. Happiness. One more month exactly. I get to play with plants all day then work take care of my own.

Shower Kitty

2009-02-28T17:03:00.003-06:00

I forgot some of the very cute and interesting things kittens can get into. Since getting my new little fuzzball I have discovered all of these things all over again. Things like kittens like to eat plants and they like are intrigued by anything that moves including their own tail, plastic bags, and closed shower curtains.
The other day when Tony was taking a shower Reggie, our cat, jumped at the shower curtain not realizing that it would give way and he would be dumped into the water. My boyfriend being who he is didn't automaticly open the curtain and let the poor soaked kitten out he just laughed himself sick. Reggie finally escaped and was giving Tony dirty looks the whole rest of the day.

Mina the Wonder Hamster

2009-02-01T13:58:00.002-06:00

I'm sad to report that Mina the wonder hamster has passed away recently. She lived at the Science Station until this summer's flooding, then I adopted her. She hadn't been doing so well this winter. A moment of silence for the beloved hamster.

2009-02-01T13:37:00.002-06:00

Hello all. I know that it has been a long time between posts. I thought I should try to update more. I just never know what to post. Oh well.

I have converted another person to the wonders of Dr. Who. It is great. I also found a really fun and addicting game. Dokapon Kingdom for the Wii. It is great.

Floods

2008-06-14T23:18:00.003-05:00

The river has gone crazy here in Cedar Rapids. I can't believe how much water we have in our city. It was originally suppose to crest at 20 feet but it went way over that and crested at 31.5 feet. It was so shocking to see the bridges underwater where there wasn't even ripples in the water. I hate the helpless feeling that this disaster has caused. I'm glad to see how many people have helped out. It got to the point where they didn't need any new volunteers, because they already had too many. I'm glad that most people followed the evacuations listed and got out while they could. Also I'm glad that all of my friends got moved to safer areas. I hope the river goes down so so we can start cleaning up and getting on with our lives. Everyone please stay safe. Over and out.

D&D forth Ed

2008-06-05T13:00:00.003-05:00

Hello again people. I return from my long break from posting.

Dungeons and Dragons forth Edition:

After a long struggle to pre-order the player's handbook I finally resorted to going to Barnes and Noble. Strangely enough it was cheaper to order online than it was to get it in the store. I have my pre-order done and apparently it is already being shipped, which makes me super happy. I will have it around the ninth. I hope the transition to the new system will be easy. I have already made my player piece for the game out of sculpy. I have to finish painting her.

In other news:

I need to start working on my Summer Camp stuff. I'm almost done, but of course I got distracted. Ah for putting things off. Oh well.

Sledding

2007-12-20T01:54:00.001-06:00

A friend of mine from work organized a sledding party last night. It was so much fun. Night sledding is the best. We used regular sleds, snow boards, dumpster lids, and even a plastic wading pool. Then we went to Perkins and I laughed so hard I was crying. It was awesome. I forgot how much fun sledding is. I think I made some new friends.

2007-12-15T00:22:00.000-06:00

2007-10-23T18:48:00.000-05:00

I have learned an important lesson. Never eat BBQ Ribs when watching Horror movies. It is slightly disturbing.

Cleaning

2007-09-26T17:34:00.000-05:00

I now know why I have such a large amount of clothes. It is so I can go a long time if necessary without doing laundry and still have clean clothes. I am now caught up on laundry and washing dishes. Yeay for cleaning.

I am now addicted to Wow. I'm also lvl 16 almost 17. Curse you guys for making me get WoW.

Stupid Tests

2007-09-24T13:45:00.000-05:00

I hate tests. I had a test in Vert. Phsy today and found out that I spent to much study time on the problems and the equations. Hopefully I did well enough to make up on that. Stupid first tests.

In other news...
As most of you know I have a new computer. In honer of Dr. Who's companion Rose and also the second collection of Utena I named my computer Black Rose. I now play WoW more than I should. I feel like I'm behind in levels, understanding of etiquette, and just the world in general. I apologize to everyone who played in the group last night. I honesty didn't know. Stupid new rules that I don't know. They need a manual or something.
My slight addiction to WoW may have impacted my grade on the test today. I take full responsibility for that though. I just need to find a ballance.

iGoogle

2007-08-28T10:37:00.000-05:00

I love my iGoogle. It is fabulous, cute, and helpful. Sam rocks for helping me get set up and for helping me with my computer. *glomp for Sam* The little pictures on the igoogle are really cute. Today they are braking boards. They are so focused and cute.

In other news I want a Kitty, but I don't think that I can have one. *pout*

2007-08-22T21:31:00.000-05:00

Yeay for not rebellious sinuses. I wish this week would end. It is taking forever. Grr Thats all for now.

Rush

2007-08-21T13:25:00.001-05:00

Ah, it is once again time for the students of UNI to a mass at the bookstore once again. Buy, returning, and exchanging books. The never seem to realize that they need to have their recepit to make a return or that I'm not responable for the prices of their books.
To add to the long hours of work my sinuses have decided to conjest and cause me massive amounts of pain. I love medication so that I can make it through class and work.
I love my ipod as well. I'm listing to London Calling by the Clash. Yeay monkeys.

Moving once again

2007-08-18T08:37:00.000-05:00

Sadly summer is over and I make my trek back to CF. I stayed up late last night packing and getting stuff moved into my car so this morning I could get up and move.
There was one small glitch in this process, well actually two. The first is that I thought that I left my keys in Serenity's car and was going to be forced to use the spare. I found the keys and all was well. This morning I had my alarm set and I actually woke up in a decent amount of time relative to the time that I planned on getting up.
Well anyway my father isn't up, so I can move the big heavy things into his truck. He usually has to get me up with threats of cold water or other such things. (People who have gone camping with me understand how hard it is to get me up in the mornings)
He now has awakened and now we can start moving the really heavy things. I think that I should let him finish is coffee. Bye for now.

It is surprising cooler this morning than I was expecting.

My fluffy

2007-07-22T01:38:00.002-05:00

I wanted to share my lovely hedgehog. She's so cute. If you click on her she jumps up and down.

adopt your own virtual pet!

Harry Potter

2007-07-21T19:36:00.000-05:00

Yeay for Harry Potter. Cascade and I went to the Barnes and Noble Harry Potter party last night. It was great fun. We both got sorted into Hufflepuff house. The costumes were great. There was a group of people dressed as the Gryffandor Quiddich team and a great one of the Fat Lady. Cascade scored a 100% on the Potter Quiz. I missed one. I took some pictures and I soon will have them developed. I will post them when I get them. Yeay pictures.

I finished the book in about 7 and a half hours. I of course talked back to the book as usual. It was a good time. I can't wait till others have read it and can talk about it with me. Yeay. Off to go do other stuff now. I'm glad that I gave up Dr. who to go to the party last night it was worth it. Happy reading everyone. *Hugs*

Summer

2007-07-19T13:48:00.000-05:00

Hello everyone,
Sorry about the long delay. I have been pretty busy at my internship at the nature center. Yeay for working summer camps. Today we taught them how to build fire. They did very well indeed.
I'm excited about the last Harry Potter book comming out. I hope that it will be fun at Barnes and Noble.

I must leave you now, for I'm still at work. I'm a bad chica. Hugs

Finals and studying

2007-04-29T18:23:00.000-05:00

Finals start tomorrow, so I should be studing right now but I'm not which is probley very bad of me. It is such a nice day out right now so it is hard to force myself to stop messing around and sit down to study. Ah well.
Serenity came up to visit me this weekend which was lots of fun. We went to Des Moines to visit some of her friends. We went to the University's Gardens and saw a whole room full of exotic butterflies. Then we walked around the gardens and rolled down a massive hill then laid there almost falling asleep. After that we went to the pond were there were some frogs croaking. I caught one and it kept tring to get away, but I put it back. We went to a stream and put our feet in until mine were freezing cold. Over all it was fun.
Now back to studying for me. *POUT*

Sadness over no BBC

2007-04-03T16:23:00.000-05:00

I wish that I could get the BBC here. They are showing a spin off of Dr. Who called Torchwood. It looks really good. They investigate paranormal mysteries. It may be like Angel, sort of. I guess that will have to wait till it comes out on DVD. I'm sad. They are supposed to have Captin Jack on in 2008.
Miss Serenity, I would love to share my addiction to Dr. Who with everyone, but saddly I don't own the New or Old series.

Captin Jack

2007-03-30T18:01:00.000-05:00

This is Captin Jack from Dr. Who. He is a con man from the future, he is bisexual, and he is fabulous. The picture on the right is him in his ship and on the left is just a really good picture I found. I love his interaction with Rose and the Doctor. You all should see the series.

David Tennant as the new Doctor

2007-03-30T17:49:00.000-05:00

I love David Tennant with the glasses. Very nerdy sexy. I thought that I should share the Doctor with you. I love both the new Doctors. I love this show.

Update

2007-03-28T15:19:00.000-05:00

Hello people. I know I'm a bad person for not posting more, but that whole school and work thing keeps getting in the way.
Well for a quick update. I survived yet another birthday I had great fun and got lots of presents. Only about a month left of school. *Happy dance* I got to see Blue-spotted salamanders today, which are endangered in Iowa. They look kind of like fishing bait.
Once again I'm watching the whole Angel series. Thank you Sam for lending them to me. *Hugs* I love Cordelia in Angel that is till season 4 then my love for her is less.
Also I'm watching the Second Season of the New Dr. Who I love the Doctor.
I must now depart and go look at books.

Oh, one last thing. The Fall Class schedules has a picture of a squirrel on it's hind legs with a backpack. It is so cute.

2007-02-24T19:18:00.000-06:00

Driving in this snow and ice might not been the best idea looking back on it now. We went out to eat at Chilli's which was great. The weather changed the plans tonight which is sad. I had hoped to get together with Scotty, but it was not to be tonight. We got to the movie bought the tickets and then the power went off. We drove back to the DG house and hung out. Yeay. More later and now back to your regularly scheduled program.

2007-02-18T18:48:00.000-06:00

I would like to appologies to everyone about my spaziness about meeting Scotty. Thank you all for your words of advise and encouragement. I love you all. *HUGS*

Snowy and blowy

2007-02-06T12:51:00.001-06:00

It is very snowy and blowy and very frecking cold here. It wouldn't be so bad if the bloody wind would die down ggrrr... Well anyways. We went to the Greenhouse for one of my classes. I love it so much. I was thinking about volnteering there for my class. We have to do 10 hours of volentering which isn't that much.
I'm looking for Intern jobs for the summer. I'm kind of open on where I want to go. I just want one, well for two reasons actually. One is that it looks great on a application. Two I have to have one for my minor. Darn requriments. So that is what I have been doing go me.
On Thursday for one of my classes we are taking a feild trip to Mississippi River Museum and we have to leave at 7 am which means that I will have to get up at 6am. As you know I'm not a morning person, I'm getting better though.
Ah well off to Geology lab.

2007-01-24T15:33:00.000-06:00

Sorry to all that are frusterated by my lack of posting. I have been kind of busy with school and work and things like that. I will strive to post more. *grin*

I have a quote for you. "Plagiarism is stealing an idea from one person, but stealing from more than one person is called Research."

I have to make a Power Point now. Hope you liked the post.

2006-12-16T18:24:00.000-06:00

No more finals. Yeay for Winter break. I had to work nine hours today, because of graduation. My feet and back are killing me.
In other news Ben And Jerry's rock my socks off, most especially Vermonty Python. It is most wonderful.

Last day of Lectures.

2006-12-07T13:06:00.000-06:00

My room is now clean, well cleaner. I still have a little left to do on it.
I just finshed my last class of this semester. Now I only have finals left to do. I don't have class or work tomorrow and I get paid. I will be a free and richer woman, happiness. I can't wait for finals to be over, but I refuse to panic about them.
Well not much else going on. I'm almost finshed makeing Christmas gifts. Well it will give me something to do during vacation other than work.
Well that is all I have to report. So long monkeys.

2006-11-10T21:56:00.000-06:00

Not much happening right now other than school and work. I have a bunch of things due next week. I have three tests and 2 papers due. Grrr.
In other news my cousin Hannah tried out for a competion volleyball team and made it. She also made it into a State girls choir. I'm so glad that she made it.
I can't believe the weather. 70 degrees a few days now snow, weird.
Well I'm off. So long fair well....*goes off into the distance singing*

Drama

2006-11-07T02:09:00.000-06:00

I'm sorry that it has been so long since my last post. I have been living in a Soap Opera. I seem to find myself standing in the middle of lots of drama. I'm not really big into drama for my life.
I have been asked to be a bridesmaid at my old roommate's wedding. I didn't think that I would ever find myself talking to her again for many reason. Serenity told me awhile ago to let go of the hurt that people have caused me in the past and I'm working on it. Sometimes it seems easier to keep ahold of the pain than to let go.
An ex-boyfriend, now friend, stationed in Japan told me today that he is indeed having a child and is getting married. He saw the ultrasound and suprisingly wanted to name the child after me if it was a girl. It didn't go over to well with his fiance. I never thought that I would have ever had that talk with him. I even helped him think of names. Man my life is weird. I don't even know what to do now.
Moving on and growing up sucks. I still want to kick and scream to get my own way like a child, but I can't I need to be grown up. Which sucks. I guess I'm not completely grown up. *grin*
Oh well time for something new.

2006-10-19T18:12:00.000-05:00

Thank you all for the comments. Yeay you guys. Shame on every body that read the post without commenting.
I think Sam's apathy is catching. I have had it all this week. Which isn't good when you have 3 tests. Well I think that I passed all of them yeay.
I went to Wal-Mart last night. Yes I know that it is a horrable place, but there is no Target around here. BAck to my point. I bought the Essental of Simon and Garfunkle (love them so much) and the soundtrack to the movie of Rent. I wish I could see the play in person. I'm told that the play is better than the movie. Which is usually true. Its like comparing books and movies. I'm tring to learn from Sam and judge them as seperate things its hard to do.
I'm putting off doing homework. Ah well I had put it off long enough. So long fair readers.
Oh Sam if you read this I have another movie for you to watch. You might have already seen it. Its called Dangerous Beauty. It is set in 1500's in Venice. The main character becomes a courtesan.

Yey Serenity

2006-10-10T22:07:00.000-05:00

It took a week for someone to make a comment on my blog.*sob* You all should be ashamed of yourselfs. Cookies to Serenity for her comment. I enjoyed the random glomp.
Not much has been happening in my life. I've had work and school. I'm actually trying to get my homework done like a day or so before it is due, not like my usually half hour before class. Yeay me. I have also be rediscovering my artistic side.
I have been doing printmaking with my grandmother. It is turning out well.
You should comment on this blog. Come on you know you want to. *poke*

In the words of Porky Pig "Tha-that's all folks"

Weekend

2006-09-29T21:06:00.000-05:00

Ah the weekend is here and what am I doing well right now I'm typing, but what should I be doing? That's right you lovely people guessed right.
I should be studing. I have a test on Monday for my Applied Orgainic and Tuesday for my Non-Western Culture Africa class. I get to go and study till my eyes bled. Oh why did I feel that I needed college?
On other subjects I watched Tristan and Isolde. It was a good movie, but very sad. Those of you that are reading my lovly post and have gotten this far. What did you think of the movie and do you feel that you would have made the same choices?
Far well readers. I must be off to study.

Fishing

2006-09-24T18:55:00.000-05:00

I went fishing with my dad today. We only caught four fish and lost only one lure. We had three skinny stripers and one little small mouth bass. It was beautiful on the lake. It was the perfect day for fishing.

For Serenity.

2006-09-23T23:16:00.000-05:00

Serenity this picture made me think of you. Let me know what you think about it.

Rock operas/ musicals

2006-09-23T21:56:00.000-05:00

I love the musical Rent. If you haven't seen it go and rent it. Go now drop what you are doing and go. If you are holding a laptop please set the computer down nicely or the computer gods will come and get you. (Its never pretty)
My mom watched with me and loved it. She said it reminded her of the musical Hair. I wasn't supprised that she would love it. My dad also watched and he didn't like it. I knew that he wouldn't. He thought it was weird.
This brought about a disscustion about rock operas/musicals. Mom loves Hair I have never seen it, but I know alot of the songs. I think that may have to go on my list of things to see. She thought that they were similar, because they delt with the issuse of the era. Hair was during the 60's and had war and free love among other issues to approch. Rent was during the 90's and adressed AIDS, poverty, being your self, and drugs.
I did a search for other rock operas/musicals and other popluar ones are Evita, Tommy, Grease, Jesus Christ Superstar, Godspell, Rocky Horror Picture Show, and many others.

And stuff.

2006-09-19T20:17:00.000-05:00

I hate changing seasons. I once agian have a sinus cold going on. grrr.

One of my roomate's boyfriend got his jaw broken the other day and it is now wired shut. I don't think that I could live with my jaw wired shut. I couldn't talk and you know how I feel about that and protein drinks suck they taste
It is predicted that he will loss 10-15 pounds. He is fairly skinny any way I don't think it would be good for him. Well any way.

Yeay for monkey pajamas!!!

Inventory Fun.

2006-09-19T12:20:00.000-05:00

Sorry about the mix up on the whole talk like a pirate day. What is everyones favorite pirate saying? (lets keep this less than R rated)

Inventory sucks. I spent 4 hours at work counting and scaning inventory. I hope that I wont have to do that for some time. Although the time went by qickly. The computer logged out during are last section. I had ten books left and the computer messed up. We fixed the problem then went home early. Yay.

National Talk Like a Pirate Day

2006-09-18T01:49:00.000-05:00

Today is National Talk Like a Pirate Day. Yeay.
I had forgotten what day it was exactly, but it was my mother who brought the whole thing up. She apparently heard it at church. It was the topic of the sermon, I believe. It has been some time since I went to church last, but I would have remmebered if they had brought up something that cool.

And yes the blog is still pink. I have decided to keep it this way for awhile. I have started to be more excepting of the color. I now own a pink shirt. Maybe it is the fact that I have a hot pink shower curtian that I have had to live with. I'm not sure.
I'm going to bed now it is almost 2am. I just got back to my apartment.

Football

2006-09-09T20:52:00.000-05:00

Today was the first home game for my school. We lost by 4 points. We should have won. When a third ranked team losses to a 21st ranked team. Oh well at least it was exicting till the end.
In other news it looks like I will have Sept. 23 and 24th off. So I will be able to go to the Ren Fest. That is if we are still going. Well this just in... it looks like we are not going to go. Oh well the All things Scottish sounds interesting.
Well that is all from my neck of the woods. Happiness and pandas for everyone.

Yeay

2006-09-01T17:45:00.000-05:00

Hello all. This is my first post on this blog. Yeay.