expect the unexpected.

i feel like there are some lessons i have to keep learning over and over.

one of those lessons being, life doesn't always turn out how you planned.

and yet, i continue to try and plan my life. when will i learn?

"you're not my type" -sebastian

you know how some people have a 'type'? as in, they always date or like people that have certain similarities. sometimes these similarities are more obvious than other times. for example, i have one friend who dated two guys that could seriously be identical twins. another example, ashley the bachelorette...her type? cavegrobens.

well, i don't have a type. at least i don't think so. i've liked guys with brown, red, blonde, black, and gray hairs. tall, short. blue, hazel, brown eyes. basically, i've been all over the map. it's not that i'm not picky-because trust me, i am. but i've just never liked guys that had obvious similarities.

my old roommates would disagree.
their most recent assessment i have learned is that i do have a type.

that type being: guys who gel their hair and drive trucks.

HA! this is one thing i have learned that i don't necessarily agree with (especially because i can think of several guys i've liked who don't meet this criteria), but whatevs. thought they should get acknowledgement, nonetheless, for at least trying to understand what it is i look for in a guy...

jacked up.

i had two appointments this week--dental and eye.
can i just say i hate appointments? because i do.
you go in after 6 months or a year of "trying" to do all the things they tell you to do...floss, brush, change your contacts every two weeks, don't sleep in your contacts, etc. etc.
but of course you don't do all those things perfectly (if you do, props). and you can't lie to the dentist of the eye doctor because, hello! they can totally tell if you're lying. i don't even understand why they ask you questions like, have you been flossing daily? responses usually go something like, um. well i try, but... and then they cut you off saying, i can tell you haven't been flossing consistently so you should probably work on that.
excuse me, but if you could tell i wasn't flossing, why did you even ask me if i was? unnecessary, methinks. but whatev. fortunately, that didn't happen to me this time. i was a diligent flosser and no scolding occurred at my dentist appointment.
i wish i could say the same about my eye appointment...
okay, so i don't switch my contacts up every two weeks like they say. because i feel like my contacts work just fine for three, four, maybe five weeks. so what's the point? well, apparently the point is to save your cornea from becoming "jacked up." yes, my eye doctor used that exact term to describe my left eye.
his question: have you been changing your contacts like you're supposed to?
my thought: of course not and you know it because you're looking at your computer screen and it tells you that i only had six months worth of contacts that i made last a year so...
my verbal answer: um. no.
his response: i can tell.
my thought: duhh. else you wouldn't have asked that question.
he continues: because your left eye is jacked up.
me: excuse me, please. isn't there a more eye doctor-y term you could use for that? because jacked up in my mind means you're going blind within the week unless you listen to me, and do what i say.
him: then do what i say. but you're not going blind. we do need to take care of this, though, otherwise bad things could happen like eye ulcers.
me: who knew there were such things as ulcers in the eye. but fine. tell me what to do.

anyways, after a bit more scolding and confirming that he was right and i was, indeed, failing to switch out my contacts, he told threw my lenses in the trash and said, glasses only for the next week (boo). plus i had to get some prescription for my eyeballs. and then i have to go BACK to the eye doctor in a week.
dread.

lesson learned: they eye doctor isn't making up stories when he says to change your contact lenses every few weeks. so unless you want a "jacked up" eye like mine, then do what the doctor say. or atleast try...

luke&lorelai

gilmore girls is an addiction of mine.
especially the 24 hours after i take finals. during which time, i spend approximately 14 hours watching gilmore girls and 10 hours sleeping. good times.
now, the only problem with gilmore girls is that luke and lorelai have this ongoing chemistry and everyone wants them to be together--knows that they SHOULD be together. and yet, the majority of the time, they aren't together. they're dating people that nobody else likes, because it's impossible to like them considering the only thing that will make viewers happy is for luke and lorelai to get together (for those of you who are chris and lorelai fans, stop reading my blog. unacceptable. okay, so you don't have to stop reading, but seriously? chris? no.)

my question.
why do all shows do this to us poor viewers??
it's like they enjoy portraying two people that are perfect for each other, but they can never, will never, be together.
exhibits a-e: glee. rookie blue. vampire diaries. covert affairs. one tree hill. (don't judge me for my choice of TV shows.)
and what makes it worse is that the two perfect people are always main characters who you know should be together after watching just fifteen minutes of the very first episode of the series. so annoying.
thankfully, some shows have the decency to allow the two people to get together right before the series ends (OTH, among others). but it is always such the struggle, and then they're only together for like two minutes before it all ends. i mean, at least give me two hours of them being together! two minutes is completely insufficient considering i watched the show year after year waiting for this very thing to happen!!

anyways...

moral of the story: why they do this, i do not know. this is something i have yet to learn so if you know the answer, please enlighten me. and you could be the next person i give a shout out to--that alone should be incentive for you to want to figure this dilemma out. ha!