Grab a Clue

Well, for any of you who were waiting with bated breath for the answer to the trivia questions: Baby's real name was Frances Houseman... after the first lady in the Cabinet. Good job, Elka, on guessing the first name right! And Julie, thanks for calling me up with this fun trivia question! I love trivia! Especially 80s trivia! (I know you know that already :)).

Good news! I'm well on my way to finishing that paper! Yippee! I still have at least 6 pages to write, but I have a lot of "categories" still to fill in. That's how I write my papers... I outline the sections of my paper (like one section in this paper is "What is information literacy?"). Then I go through all my notes and number the notes according to what section of my paper they should be in. And then I start writing it. That has worked for me for every paper I've had to write since starting this program. I think this is effective for me with research papers. I don't think this would work for me with critical papers, because I usually don't have many notes with critical papers. I like critical papers a lot more, because they don't usually require any research :). I'm just not a researcher. So anyway, that's my secret to writing research papers.

I want to briefly focus your attention on today's quote :). I just want to say that that is how I feel :). So, to all of my friends out there, you are like my family. And to my family, you are like my friends ;). How blessed I am.

Side note: My coworker William just came in. He looked at me and asked if I bought a straightener. I told him I've had one, but some days I just don't care. So on those days, I come to work looking like vaNILLA Hila. I told him that this way, I can change it up, and people never know what to expect. And I said, "Today I'm Saucy Hila." He laughed. I keep telling him he's going to miss me when I'm gone. He just never knows what's going to come out of my mouth.

Okay, so yesterday, I had class. It wasn't so bad, because we had a guest speaker and she made class much more engaging than class usually is. Well, so the second half of class was good. And we got out about 15 minutes early (can you say hallelujah?). And you've seen my Strive for Five results (gained 1.6 pounds). I guess I'm maintaining my weight. Which isn't a bad thing. After work (I got off at 3:30), I went home and worked on my paper some more. And washed a load of clothes. Then I headed over to Emily's house. Emily S helps in the nursery with me. She's super sweet. She invited Candace and me over to just hang out and do girlie stuff. We didn't know what all we were going to do, but we were just going to hang out. It was so much fun! We ended up ordering a pizza (Pizza Hut pan pizza with bacon topping, because Emily doesn't like pepperoni) and playing CLUE. I hadn't played CLUE in years! But it was so much fun! And of course we did a lot of gabbing. We're women, what do you expect? I looked through Emily's wedding album. She got married in November. The pizza was delicious. I love the pan pizza. It's so bad for you, but it is so good. Also, Emily has a jar of m&ms. I'm talking about a big jar with all sorts of m&ms mixed in. She also had Reese's Pieces mixed in. And there's a spoon in the jar so you can get them out. Well, Candace was like, "Does Jeff eat off the spoon? Because then there'd be spit all over the other m&ms." Emily assured us Jeff (her husband, who was at work) does not. But we laughed anyway, and neither Candace nor I wanted to try the m&ms. Well, then Michael (Candace's husband) showed up to pick up Candace (they had to be somewhere at 8), and he sat down and asked if he could have some m&ms. Emily told him yes, and that there were surprises mixed in with the m&ms. He was like, "What is it?" Emily told him he'd know them when he got to them. So I was thinking it'd be something like Skittles (that would be gross, but very obvious). Turns out it was the reese's. But anyway, when Michael asked that (as he was sitting there eating them by the handful), Candace said, "the surprise is baba." It took me a second to realize what she was saying (since I probably haven't heard this term in at least 1o years), but once it dawned on me, I was like, "EWWW!" In Spanish, baba = spit. So gross! So Michael was like, "What's baba?" And of course, Emily was asking the same thing. So Candace and I answered at the same time. And Michael freaked out. He was like, "really!?" We laughed. Anyway, eventually we all got brave enough to eat some m&ms and Reese's pieces mix, whether or not there was baba on them or not. I ended up taking Candace home so she could stay and finish our game of CLUE. Lucky for her, since she ended up winning. It was Mrs. Peacock, in the ballroom, with the lead pipe. Also, it turns out I had forgotten all the rules of the game... I kept rolling even though I was already in a stinkin' room. So, I'd have to leave the room, because I rolled the dice. Arg. Also, I totally gave away one of my cards in the beginning, because I'm a dope. And then it didn't occur to me, when they couldn't help me (which meant I could disprove myself, since I was holding the room card in my hand) that that meant I had put the right person and the right weapon in the room. So I could have been way ahead of the game on that one if I'd have realized it before the end of the game... I'm such a dope. But anyway, so here we all are... Candace, me, and Emily.
Oh, and if you look closely, you can see the jar of possibly baba-tainted m&ms between me and Candace...