Ashanti is guest starring on Buffy?!?!?! Joss Whedon, I am very dissapointed in you. I actually used to like Ashanti, but she should stick to music. And acting that’s not on Buffy.

Today is the 7th day I’ve been soda-free. It’s kind of like practice Lent, but now I’m thinking long-term, because it will probably help me lose weight. Plus me and Mr. H20 have become great friends.

Opened a new site today… Turn Me On: The Spencer Day Fanlisting. I was so excited when I got the approval email for it. So excited that I designed, html-ed, and uploaded the site within 2 hours. Whew! So if you like Spencer, go join.

Since I’m not into football and have no emotional attachment to the teams that are playing, I rented some movies: Donnie Darko and Zoolander. I’m off to watch them now. Oooooh, and mom bought me a frozen pizza as well! Score!

It snowed here in Tennessee again. The snow wasn’t that great this time around. Definetely not snowman material, but it did get us out of school yesterday and today. Wihooo!

Cooking School Stories was on again last night. They were following around a girl from the Bahamas this time. I didn’t enjoy her as much as I enjoyed Ward, because she dissed the weather and the people of Rhode Island, and being from New England, I was a little offended.

I put up the new design of Crush today. I think it looks pretty good. It’s a nice change from the green layout that was up there for since summer. The green was getting to me, so I had to change it.

I had a semi-busy weekend ahead of me. I just really hope they don’t cancel my Saturday morning bowling league like they did last week. Ooooh, and I’m helping out at The Viking again this Saturday. They’re doing a class on Super Bowl snacks, and I get to wear Titans stuff instead of the “professional” clothes I usually wear.

Okay, so my new favorite show is Cooking School Stories. On Thursday night my father, younger sister, and I sat down to watch it on Food Network. My sister had called previously to tell me to watch this. And I was glad I did.

So the show follows around someone every week who is attending Johnson & Wales University in Providence, RI, otherwise known as my dream college. The student who was the subject of this week’s episode was Ward Bradshaw. He’s from the south, wants to own his own restaurant, and is a little too sure of himself, otherwise known as the male reincarnation of me. Haha.

And the show was pretty entertaining, and I’m wondering when it’s going to come out on DVD, that way I can watch it over and over again, and then when I get to college and meet my professors, I can say, “Hey, I saw you on TV!” Good times.

In other cooking news, I helped out at The Viking today, and they were doing a demonstration class on soups. Joan, the chef, made the chilled pear soup that was made in chicken broth. I know you’re thinking gross, but it was surprisingly good, as was the roasted vegetables, eggplant, and pepper soup, which was my favorite of the two. And I even got to “teach” the class about the book that Joan got all the recipees from. By the middle of the class, everyone knew my name. “Thanks, Emma!” “Could I have another sample of that, Emma?” “I think it’s great you’re doing this internship and going after what you want, Emma.” Oh, and my favorite was “Thanks, sweetie. I appreciate it.” (after I handed out the samples of the pear soup). So I think I moved up another step today on the “being the next Emeril” ladder.

Oh, and because I had to make this post wicked long, I’m totally loving Spencer Day. He was on Star Search this week. The judges totally shafted him because he’s white and plays great piano, so they could give the higher scores to the African-American girls who held their notes out a little too long if you ask me. So I got on the internet and voted for him as many times as I could… and he won! Yay!

Yeah. Word to Kelly because she’s on the school bowling team with me and we lost on Tuesday, and the sucks. And she’s a senior so we won’t be able to bowl together next year. We had so much fun on the bus, though. Still, I’m sad that we lost.

But I’m home! School let out wicked early today. I was there for about 45 minutes. And then the snow happened. Yipee! I hope we get out tomorrow too so it can be a 5-day weekend. That would rock. It’s so good to be home this early… to get to watch A Wedding Story and stuff like that.

And I updated Under My Thumb with a couple of new wallpapers last night. Tuesday’s Smallville episode totally hooked me into Lana\Whitney, even though Whitney wasn’t Whitney, but I just pretend that I only watched the first 5 minutes and I still maintain that Whitney just came back from war and is his actual self.

Whew! I’ve been a little inspiration-less since school started. I enjoyed this week’s new Buffy episode and made a wallpaper for it, but other than that I haven’t done any computer related stuff. I’ve been a little busy…

… with bowling. Yeah. I bowled on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Tuesday was practice. Wednesday was District championship semi-finals, and Thursday was the finals. And… we won! We got the district championship. I even bowled a couple of high games this week- a 195 (which could have been a 200 game if I hadn’t fouled), and a 209, which is my highest ever. 209 was actually the first 200 game I ever had back in November, but I got the same exact score again! It was kind of weird. And yes, there’s even more bowling. I have league sign-ups tomorrow and a tournament on Saturday. Then next week is regionals for the school team. I might be all bowled out by next week.

Oh, and the driving thing has been going a little better. I’ve been driving a total of 4 times now, most of them just around the neighborhood. It also turns out that I’m not afraid of driving really big cars. My dad drives an SUV and my mom drives a mini-van, so this is a good thing. I even pulled into the garage today after driving, which I never thought I could do.

Took the test and got my learner’s permit a couple days ago. Did a little driving with the dad today. Scare-y.

When I first got in the driver’s seat, I realized that I had no idea which pedal was the brake and which was for acceleration. Yeah, I was off to a pretty good start.

“What did the book tell you about blinkers?” -Dad

“Use them?” -Me

Well, there was some good news. I kick ass at cul-de-sacs. Yee-haw! I guess I’ll just stick to those. I don’t really have to know how to drive anywhere, do I? I thought that was what parents were for.

My Shakira Unplugged CD came in the mail today! I was so excited! The mailman even had to come to the door with it. And it was in an over-sized package and I had to cut open a billion things to get to the CD, but it was well worth it!

Sure, I don’t really understand anything Shakira is saying. That’s what my good friend BabelFish is for. Ha. Well, I do understand some of it. I am taking Spanish after all. I knew that “Si Te Vas” was “If You Go.” Si Te Vas is my favorite song so far. And Inevitable, but I had already heard it before I bought Shakira Unplugged.

Thanks everything for the lovely comments! Thanks to everyone who sent me Christmas\New Years signs. They’re so pretty!

So yeah. New year! 2003 is weird. Today was weird. Weird, weird, weird.

My day started off with a phone call from my father who woke me up from the best dream ever. I mean, this was the dream of a lifetime. Okay, so in the dream I went to the movies, sat next to Sarah Michelle Gellar, in front of Ralph Fiennes and Julianne Moore, and saw Jim Belushi, Minnie Driver, and Bonnie Hunt in the snack line. Sarah Michelle Gellar and I bonded over our love of Tetris and Christmas socks. I didn’t really talk to anyone else in the dream, but they were all connected. Julianne Moore and Ralph Fiennes (End of the Affair). Jim, Minnie, and Bonnie (Return To Me). But the one person really missing from the dream was David Duchovny. He would have connected everyone but SMG. Hmmmm. Well, needless to say I was pretty pissed to wake up and realize that it was a dream. Thanks Dad.

And my grandmother called this morning for my mother. And we got to talking, and I told her that my New Years resolution was to get kissed. Sure, it probably won’t happen, but a girl can dream. (No pun intended).