SPIDER?

My cat has been chasing what I can only assume is a massive spider (I'm too creeped out to check for myself) back and forth across the shelf in my room for the past hour and a half. My arachnophobia combined with the sounds of my dumb cat slipping off surfaces and running into walls is keeping me awake, which means all of you lovely readers get to deal with my rambling! HOORAY!

I am listening to a bunch of Disney songs on youtube and feeling nostalgic. The villains always have the best songs, especially Frollo's "Hellfire" in The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Scar's "Be Prepared" in The Lion King (Jeremy Irons might not be a fantastic singer, but that part of the movie scared the six-year-old pants off me). The princess songs are pretty and all, and are really fun to sing at the top of my lungs if I'm alone in my car, but the villains' songs are just EPIC. Hellfire is DEFINITELY the best though. What other Disney song has religious hypocrisy and sexual frustration? And Tony Jay's voice...you could eat it with a spoon. I feel creepy saying that about an obscenely old (and dead) man, but it's true. The man had some serious pipes that he showed off in that song.

Okay, now my cat is looking around my room like something is flying, so maybe it's not a spider. Or maybe it is, and it's swinging around on its web. Fuck. I am NOT going to get any sleep tonight.

I'm leaving Saturday for my family's annual vacation up to northern Minnesota. I'm pretty psyched. Change of scenery, quality time with my sister and cousins, spending all day on the lake...it'll be great. We've been going there since we were babies-I'm pretty sure my mom went with her side of the family before she even met my dad- and I can't imagine spending 4th of July week anywhere else.

My cat has been staring at the same spot on the shelf for about five minutes. I think he's trying to kill the spider with his mind. Clearly, there is some Jedi shit going down in my room...or he just got lazy and is hoping the damn thing dies on its own.

Speaking of cats, I house sat for my aunts last week and they have the weirdest cat EVER. He makes sounds like a pigeon, gallops around the house like a pony, and knows how to play fetch.

I'm going to attempt to get some sleep. I really don't have anything interesting to write about (as I'm sure you've gathered by now) but maybe being away for a week will inspire me to write something decent.

Buenas noches!

I honestly have no clue what I'm going to write about here. With my Spain blog it was easy, but something tells me my life isn't quite as exciting now as it was five months ago. I've gone from immersing myself in Spanish culture and jetting around Europe (okay...three countries probably doesn't qualify as "jetting around Europe")to being a total couch potato, watching America's Next Top Model marathons on Oxygen between doing a few household chores (although now I really want to turn ANTM into a drinking game: take a shot every time Tyra talks about herself. You'd be wasted by the time the opening credits were over). Some of you may remember that I was employed at the beginning of the summer, but after two weeks of work I was laid off. There's not nearly enough work for as many employees as Mackin Publishing has, so they let go of the last batch of people they hired. I'm trying to find work back in Winona, and there's this online editing job that's looking promising, so if I'm lucky I'll get that and will be able to move back to Winona before August. Until then, I really won't have much to write about. Besides my family's annual vacation to Park Rapids, there's not much going on this summer. Chances are I'll just use this to ramble about completely pointless things so I can waste my time on something other than watching horrible TV shows and browsing facebook.

I honestly have no clue who will want to read this. I might just send this to my friends who I don't get to see that often so they know what's new with me and to my friends who, for some reason, enjoy reading what I write. I thought about sending it to my family members too, because a lot of them really enjoyed the Spain blog, but I have a feeling that some of my college escapades aren't elderly aunt and uncle appropriate. Actually...that's not really true. I'm not a particularly wild girl, and I never do anything remotely scandalous (okay, almost never), but I still felt like I had to censor myself quite a bit when I was writing the Spain blog because I knew that my family would be reading it. I'll probably be a bit more open here.

Sooooo...that's it. Hopefully my life gets a little more interesting in the next few weeks.