In this town we call home, everyone hail to the pumpkin song

Arg! I just wrote a long post and it erased it before I could publish, so here I am rewriting it. My mom and I went to disneyland today. I really needed to get away from school and I've had a very crazy Thursday and Friday night. I wanted nothing more than to relax, go somewhere else, and get my mind off things. I know I am missing some really cool Halloween parties at school tonight and that people are going to tell me all about them and I'll be jealous, but oh well. I've had my fill of parties lately and sometimes you just need to transplant yourself for a day or two and rethink things. So after sleeping in a bit my mom came down and picked me up. We stopped for lunch at what is quickly becoming my favorite restaurant...a hole-in-the-wall vegan restaurant on figueroa. It's nice to discover a place with good food that I can actually eat and that my friends and family like going to also, even though they arent vegetarian. It's a nice break from the Easy Mac macaroni and cheese that constitutes about 70% of my dinners. Easy Mac + microwave popcorn= quintessential college meal.

We took advantage of the one time both my brother and dad decided not to come by going shopping on downtown disney. Matt and dad hate being dragged around and get antsy. I bought my usual caramel apple and a rather funky alice and wonderland bag that I think I'll make good use of. We also lounged on main street and drank raspberry mochas. There's this one area right outside the entrance to CA Adventure that always smells like burnt coffee...it's awful. One nice thing about having a season pass is that we can decide to go on one ride or all of them. Today we only made it to Pirates of the Carribean, which was fine with us. We went to watch the Electrical Light Parade which was lovely. So many twinkling lights. Seriously, Im like a moth. You hold up something sparkly, colorful or shiny and I'm drawn to it, but then again I think most designers are.

For some reason, my mom and I decided that cheetos and diet coke was a perfectly acceptable dinner. I love cheetos. As we were sitting waiting for the parade to start this guy walked by us and flicked his lit cigarette into a nearby bush without even caring. The bush started smoking a little and we had to pour diet coke on it to extinguish it. It worked. Yep, we saved disneyland from being burnt to a crisp. I take great pride in that. I got worn out pretty quick...another sign I need to cool it and rest instead of going out, and probably start taking some vitamins. Overall it was a great day and I'm looking forward to Halloween tomorrow. Lots of scary movies hopefully. I helped out on Friday with the Panhellenic Halloween carnival that was put on for the local elementary school kids. It was a lot of fun. I was at the Go-fish booth where kids put their fishing poles through this canvas thing that looked like the ocean and a "fish" aka another ADPi girl stuck on a piece of candy. The kids were all adorable, even when they were trying to run by you to look under the canvas and exclaim that they "saw people back there, not fish!"

The most memorably thing about today's disneyland trip besides the asshole smoker guy:

1) while we were watching the electrical light parade, a snail crawled onto and attached itself to mom's diet coke bottle. She didn't want to pry to snail off and keep drinking (smart move) so she just let the snail have the diet coke. Good thing Tasha wasn't there...

2) When I was getting off the tram a guy who worked on the tram noticed my ADPi sweatshirt, walked all the way over to me and said "You're in a fraternity? Which fraternity are you in?" No, no i'm not a boy sir. My hair was up in a pony tail, maybe I looked like a boy. Who knows.