GYST

Today the 420 House started our GYST chart. GYST stands for Get Your Shit Together (credit, Mike).  While GYST could apply to many aspects of our lives, school work, cleaning, temperament, excessive sports anxiety, etc, this chart applies to our new goal: getting healthy.

As far as living a healthy lifestyle, our house has been riding the fail boat to say the least. With my mac and cheese and candy addictions, Jeff's booze addiction, and Mike and Cynthia's affinity for fried food in combination with our vast amount of stress and lack of time; our house has struggled with being healthy. It's hard to choose salad when your roommates are making cinnamon sugar donuts in the deep fryer. Scratch that, it's hard to choose anything healthy over anything deep fried. Not to mention the large supply of cookies, candy, and cakes.

We have decided to change our lifestyle in order to achieve the following goals:
- be stronger so we are better able to fight for the remote or the last piece of pizza
- law school may have taken everything else (sanity, etc) but it can't have our bodies too!
- to look good NAKED
- to increase our chances of getting laid (just kidding mom)
- to use the gym time to procrastinate doing homework
- to sell our bodies to pay off loans (again, kidding)

The chart has several different color stars which can be earned for cardio, strength, and calorie counts. The goal is to work out 5 days a week and if that goal is met, you get to participate in the Friday cheat meal. The cheat meal is most likely pizza, booze, and something desert like from the deep fryer. Calories don't count from 4pm-12am on Friday's- but you have to earn it!

The plan was to start the chart on Sunday but then Mike and Cynthia declared today the start of GYST. At first I was upset about the change of plans because my plan for the day included eating potato chips and pasta until I no longer felt the hangover from the overindulgence of chocolate and alcohol last night.

 By starting GYST today I was forced to go to the gym, which was nice. New building, new machines (no pool or anything overly exciting or cool, or even soap in the bathroom) but still pretty awesome. I mean anything is awesome compared to the shed we were in. Personally I won't miss the spiders staring at me from the ceiling while i do my ab workouts or the treadmills with no side bars or place to put your ipod.

From now on the 420 house will be up in the gym just workin on our fitness. We need your help! If you see us eating unhealthy things, slap it from our hands and give us a look of shame. If you see us overindulging at wing night or trivia, feel free to give us the shame face and express your deepest disappointment. Also, support us here on the blog, that way we will hate ourselves if we have to post that we failed.

So cheers to being healthy! With water of course. (and by water we mean vodka)

Much Love,
The 420 House

Valentines/ Single-Awareness Day

As you all know, tomorrow is Valentines Day/ Single-Awareness Day. Hope you enjoyed our valentines in your mailbox. If you did not receive one it is probably because: we don't know you, we ran out of valentines rather quickly (poor planning), or we got tired and couldn't find your name. In any event, we love you all!

Valentines Day is a source of love, joy, depression, sadness, and of course another reason to drink :)
V-Day means different things for different people, so we thought tonight we would focus our blog on Valentine's Day advice from each of our own perspectives:

Valentine's Day Food- By Cynthia

1. Don't buy a big heart shaped box of chocolate and eat it two days before Valentines Day.
2. Plan ahead for trivia night- find fun valentine's cocktails
3. Under no circumstances, do you eat the purple or green conversation hearts! Tastes like chalk and pepto bismol.
4. Jess is a holiday slave-driver, avoid her on holidays. She will harass you until you get in the festive spirit.  (you're welcome bitch!- Jess)

Valentine's Day Poem- by Mike

Here I sit broken hearted
Came to shit only farted


How to Rock Single Awareness Day- by Jess

1. Be Selfish- Being single means never having to compromise :) Whether it be going out to dinner, watching a movie, attending a party, or simply picking out a box of chocolate- the decision is all yours! No arguing about whether to watch Fast and Furious or The Notebook, or whether to go Chinese or Italian for dinner. Single Day= Your way.  For that matter, you don't have to buy anyone else a gift. Instead of being responsible and saving your money- buy yourself something awesome. Celebrate your solo status and buy a gift for the person you can always please- yourself.

2. Don't Share- So many single people avoid bottles of pink champagne and heart shaped chocolate boxes. Not me- I'm drinking the champagne and eating chocolate to my heart's content and will not be sharing any of it :).

3. Be Shameless- On that note, don't feel bad about eating a whole box of chocolate ( except for the coconut, gross). Feel free to wear your sexy underwear anyway, you don't need somebody else to tell you that you look good ;)

4. Get into it- wear red, drink pink and red cocktails, dance around your apartment with your friends. Force your roommates to get into the holiday spirit with you. Start planning for the biggest and best single party of the year- St.Patrick's Day.

5. Don't make mistakes because your drunk on Valentine's Day- you're better than that. If not, at least be safe. The holiday is about love, not a love rash.

6. If you're in SoRo- Come to Trivia at 8:30 at Crossroads and have a drink with us! Celebrate your single status because being single is awesome :) Cheers to Freedom and Fun!

7. Whatever you do, don't be sad- life is too short for that. If you're one of our law school followers, you especially can't be sad. Relationships? Ain't nobody got time for that!


Valentine's Gifts- by Jeff

Good Ideas:
1. spa gift certifcates
2. flowers and candy
3. lingerie- if you're trashy
4. dick in a box
5. cook - breakfast in bed, cande-light dinner
6. event tickets
7. homemade card

Bad Ideas:
1. kitchen appliances- women may belong in the kitchen, but they also belong other places too.
2. gym membership- in fact, this isn't good for any holiday.
3. cleaning products
4. surprise threesome
5. ask your date when dinner is
6. drive-thru dinner
7. candle-light dinner turned fire hazard

Second Semester: No Mice, No Motivation

Hi Everybody!

Welcome to our blog! I've been inspired by all these inspirational bloggers discussing their academic success, healthy lifestyle, and career triumphs. Unfortunatley our blog is not about any of these things. This blog is about four first year law students who paint a beautiful picture of disfunction and redefine the term "hot mess."

This blog will contain posts from myself and three of my roommates as we struggle for survival in our second semester of law school in the coldest, most remote place on earth: SoRo. This blog may make you laugh, cry, sing and dance, or close your web browser. (you have been warned).

Tonight the house is experiencing a lack of motivation. Going to the library after class and reading all two pages of civ pro and all 281183764237642736 pages of con law turned into eating an entire box of mac and cheese followed by a delicious cinnamon goo castle called "monkey bread" that was created by my roommates. or pintrest. one of the two. To make matters worse, my diet was also compromised while watching the biggest loser.

Guess who feels like the biggest loser? (and not the kind that loses weight)

Well, off to do homework (or call of duty, one of the two). Stay tuned for this weeks topics:  GYST (Get Your Shit Together) star chart, Single-Awarness Day, and  Weekly Foodgasm.

Good Night!
420 House