Almost At The End!

• Sunny day! Sweeping the clouds away! The sun has got his hat on, hip hip hip hooray. It was sucha  freaking gloomy weekend and WOW did natural light really make a difference today.
• Shantall brought croissants and cheese and turkey today. Yummy work breakfast!
• 30 Day Challenge complete! Not this, the blog challenge isn't until tomorrow. But I've been listening to ONLY WGTS (the Christian station) in my car for at least 30 days. I can honestly say I don't have any plans to change the station anytime soon. I won't say it's affected me throughout the whole day, but it definitely makes driving a little easier
• I got my puzzle today! My April puzzle arrived. I think I might do 2 in March because the last thing I need right now is a depressant (aka something to calm me down. My anxiety is fine for now - it's my depression I need to work on, so I need more things to keep me alert and active). I look forward to making pretty things!
• Andrew Givens is a gem of a human haha. He's Jonathan's best friend since they were itty bitties. Having not heard from Jonathan since November, and being my paranoid self, I decided to ask Andrew if he knew how Lieder was doing. Apparently the same thing happened to him, so JUST TODAY, the two spoke. Only because Andrew made his family force Jonathan to text him haha. I'm happy to hear that he's working hard and doing well, and that it isn't just me missing my best friend. Andrew then proceeded to tell me how he's convinced that Jonathan and I are meant for each other, and that he tells Jonathan this often. He confirmed that Jonathan does in fact hate that as much as I assumed he would hahaha. He's so very wrong, bless his soul, but it's still kind of cute that he'd say that. I really should talk to Andrew more.
• This Is Us comes back from hiatus tonight! Now that the Olympics are done, I can have my weekly Tuesday night cry, courtesy of NBC

Book of Kyle

Ok I think we can all agree that this conference was beautiful and it meant a lot to our congregation. Anyone who didn't take these three nights of messages and know in their heart and mind and soul that a change needs to be made has to have been actively ignoring this blessing. HOWEVER. Today, on what was quite a rough day, I needed a good laugh. And that, dear friends, came in the form of a young man named Kyle and his "unique" interpretation of the bible. Basically he turned the entire book into one big jumbled up mess of a story. And no one could stop laughing.

Day 29: BBQ

Who has barbecues on a Wednesday? Here's to the last dipping sauce of the youth conference.

2-14-16

Moises, Andrew, and Brandon showed up today with a Valentine's gift for me (Laura and Jess had already gotten theirs). It was an album. By Trash Day (their band name apparently), entitled Seek a Life Useful. Featuring parodies of "Here", "Your Man", "Hello", "Hotline Bling", "Beautiful Girls", "My Girl", and even Babymetal. I cannot. Like, it's potentially the greatest thing that ever happened to me haha. Listening to that album in my living room basically killed me. I was dead. Why did they have the time for all this? I am dead. One day, some aliens are gonna find this and wonder what popular culture even was and why the vocals didn't match the rhythm and why notes didn't match the melody and oh my goodness I won't stop laughing at this for many years. And it's all because I posted a comment on Moises' picture. AH.

Day 14 (late): Heart

I don't own a lot of heart clothing, but I like blowing kisses!

The Right Words

Only Jonathan can get away with responding to my "I miss you" text with "EW why I have cooties". Bless him.

Day 10: Gratitude

For the little treasures and the powerful words that keep me going.

Today Was Hard

Today was long and tiring and difficult. Not without its good moments of course, because I am already so blessed and the people around me make even the darkest days better. But I gotta say, coming home to Mariah asking how to girl and flipping out over lack of knowledge about nail polish was more than a little amusing. Silly Mariah.

Day 1: Red

A friend of mine bought me this poster from an Etsy shop, so unfortunately I do not know which artist to credit. But when I saw the prompt for today, of all days, I knew there was no other choice but this. Missing Monty every day <3

Ugly Sweater Board

Oh my goodness was decorating today a TIME. We decorated the understage for Holiday Cabaret, which was a fun time and looks super pretty. And then Jess decided to decorate the Alpha Psi board for Christmas! Except we had no materials and no moneys for materials and no vision for this board. So it was CHAOS. And I cannot tell you how many times the two of us had to retreat to corners because we were laughing so hard. I'm loving people getting in the Christmas spirit. And the best part is the memories you make while you create things together. The board now looks like a super tacky crazy Christmas sweater, and I could not be more in love with it.

9-15-15

So we had Josh, Mandy, Brandon, and Paul visit our little apartment today. And we all packed into Jess' single. And we filmed a ridiculous video. I enjoy the company of these lovely people.

DoomSword is a Band

Days off are a beautiful thing. Relaxing and doing a whole lot of nothing. It's fab. Especially when you get to laugh it off. Thank you Rooster Teeth! Thank you On the Spot! The new episode is high-larious. And Shannon McCormick is my fave!

Day 3: Red

Featuring my fantastic 80's jacket

and some fun red lipstick
(I feel like tons of girls went the lipstick route)

MAY FIRST IS EVERYTHING

Harvey's happened. The big culminating theatre event of the year happened. And everyone looked SO GOOD! UGH! I love when people dress up. And now we can all kinda chill out. We still have Children's Show & Voting, but this is a celebration of how far we have come in a year as well as all the new things to come for next year. I'm so happy. The Littles did an AMAZING job. I knew the script and I was still rolling in laughter. I am so glad the cast liked it. And paper plates were as fun to present as they were to make. Mine almost made me cry cause it was beautiful. But I digress. I had a blast and could not ask for a better job. I love every single one of these babies and nothing makes me happier than seeing them up on that stage. They earned every bit of their applause.

Also. JESS & I GOT INTO CHOICES! Look for the truest of true soul mates on your McDaniel stage this August. We're gonna have the best freaking time EVER.

3-27-15: Fake Proposals are Fun

Dinner was interesting. Bradley proposed to me today. Dunno who he is? With good reason. This is maybe the third time I've spoken with him in my life. He's a friend of a friend. Also the brother of another friend. He's a cutie but I barely know him. But he asked me "so Sammy, when are we getting married?". And it was honestly hysterical. He said he had our first date planned. I'm amused. I enjoy jokes among theatre kids. Unfortunately, I am not getting married to Bradley. But I can laugh about it

Forever Christmas No. 1

YO. Maybe it's just cause it's early and I'm tired. But THIS.

Danosaur

This. Ladies & Gentlemen. Is the man I want to marry.

XD

Seriously. I laughed so hard at this!!!

The Ultimate Handshake

Reasons Ryan Higa is actually perfect

Handshake to snap. Lin-sanity E.T. Walk to Remember. Fresh Prince. Hey Arnold!!! HOW TO BE GANGSTER (nigahiga nostalgia). Jelly fish. Hand hug <3 Jutsu Handshake. "?" THE HANDSHAKE SONG. "I dunno why the DJ stopped". Ryan + Sean = a good day.

I Can't Even

God bless Youtubers. This had me ROLLING

My Big

Reason 363: MAE IS COMING BACK. I'm allowed to say this here because it's not like anyone from McDaniel reads this anyway. Turns out, Mae is gonna work to get another BA at McDaniel, so she's RE-ENROLLED! I GET HER BACK THIS YEAR <3 Truly the best news ever. The Zebra family is in for so many more fun times!

Ryan Higa is the best <3

Because I'm Happy

Reason 344: WE SAW DESPICABLE ME 2! All the cuteness. I was laughing the whole time. Antonio. My goodness. HE WAS SPICY! And you can believe I danced YMCA in that theater. Haha basically it's a sequel that does not disappoint. Go watch it ;)

"Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth!"

FROG

Reason 343: Our house is boiling over because, as is custom every year, something happens where we lose AC. SO at 9pm, we decide to go out and get Fro Yo. We're in the car, dancing along to 97.1's Jammin' Saturday Night ebcause our family has serious Disco Fever, and go to Sweet Frog. YUM. And then I found out something very pleasant, as the little shop played 91.9 on their radio: It's a Christian shop.

My heart was warmed in a Fro Yo place<3

I told Fabrizio about this and he replied "Oh bettt, Jesus yogurt".

El Chisme

Reason 329: Interesting co-workers. I mean, everyone is older, having done this for years, using this job to feed their families and pay bills! So I can't really relate to people that much. Well at the end of the day, I had a nice little chat with Ana. She's a woman who worked in another branch of our store, but she's new to our branch. So we're basically both the new girls, and it's kinda cool 'cause it makes me feel like I'm at least close to someone's level. And it was actually kinda a funny chat, just sharing war stories. I definitely enjoyed. Then a man named Polo joined. He's been in charge of the deli since as long as I can remember. He's known me all my life. He's a bigger guy, absolutely hilarious. Apparently someone asked him about me? He didn't know the guy but he knew his friend. And then I remembered, one kid whose shirt I really liked and I made a joke about it. He was actually pretty attractive (as attractive as the typical Hispanic model can be loli'mgoingtohell). Turns out he asked about me afterwards! And leave it to Polo to come tell me haha. It's odd, but definitely flattering :)

IT'S SATURDAY

Attack On Titan

I am so READY!

JT-Mobile

Reason 328: So we all know Jonathan is special. -sigh- this child haha. Welp, when he's on facebook, he no longer has limitations and his conversations are entertaining to say the least. This made my night.

The fact that this now exists in the world...

Jonathan Lieder, master of ridiculous <3

ALSO something you will find pretty darn cute (I know I did). My Tia Lindo is "teaching" Cristina how to pray already. IT WARMS MY HEART

Goin' Crazy

Reason 325: Worktime stories!! I was actually going to save these for our next letter, but stuff happened today that had me rolling! So I shall share these fun times with you.

So I'd never been hit on. Actually. It just wasn't a thing. It never happened. My friends got hit on. They complained about it. Asked me if I could relate. And I couldn't. Like, not even someone honking at me. It just doesn't happen. But ever since I've started working, that's changed. HOWEVER. I'm just wondering? Is there a reason it's only Latino men? Like, ugly guys is one thing, but not even that. It's all creepy old Latino men. Like 40+. (No that is not old but it is old in comparison to me).

Not even kidding, some kid walked in. Looked like he was maybe 17. And he was actually pretty attractive. HIS DAD hit on me. What? No.  STOP.

Questions I get on the daily: What's your name? Not too bad. Are you new here? Okay, yes, duh, but whatever. Where do you live? Can you not? Are you married? TF?!?! NO. NO TO YOU SIR. My biggest failure is when people ask how old I am and I actually answer 18. No, Sammy, you dingus! You look 12! Use it!

Incident that happened to me on Saturday: Group of 4 guys. Friends. Obviously having some kind of cookout. They have a LOT of groceries, so it's taking me a while. One guy is clearly talking more than the rest of them. And there's that inflection where he wants something. Bro, just speak normally, it's less intimidating. "Good afternoon!" "Hey" Excuse you, I'm a lady. Address me as such. "How are you today?" "Oh I'm doing great. How about you?" "Fine, thank you." Looks at the last friend in line "Hey Shorty, she's about your height" Really bro. They all laugh. Shorty looks me up and down as if he's allowed to do so. "Wow. She's a pretty one." I make the biggest stank face of my life, looking away from him, but I know his other friends see it. "So how old are you?" "18." "Oh, so she's of age." DANGITDANGITDANGIT. "Yeah, but I look I'm 12 and act like I'm 5". They all laugh. "Yeah? Well that's even better." TF. They continually laugh amongst themselves and look at Shorty. They get him to pay me. "Thanks for everything. Hopefully we see you again soon". No goodbye. Nope. Not okay with this. You may leave. One creepy guy is one thing. Four at once making jokes at my expense is not alright.

WELP. Lesson learned. Say no to Latino men. TODAY though. LOL. Today. So dude walks in. Looks like he's 45. "You're new right?" "Yessir". "Well aren't you cute?" "..." "You really are pretty" "Do you want bags?" "Oh yeah. Wow. Your husband must be 'real proud of you" "I'm not even 18 yet" "OH. YOU'RE NOT 18. Oh my gosh. I'm so sorry. Forget I said anything! Sorry. I'm just. I'm going crazy or something. So so sorry." And he leaves embarrassed. I DIED. The look on his face was brilliant. He was like CRAP. I CAN'T DO THIS. CRAP. Priceless. Best decision I've made since I started work. Whoo Pervert Repellant! Well, one would hope...