Will I be posting more now that I'm working...?

So i'm a little slow at work adn don't really feel like reading about fire pumps so thought I'd do this cute little meme. It's kind of cool, like a snapshot of my life at this hour and day. Enjoy!

1-Where is your cell phone? right next to me
2- Your hair? freshly cut! luv it!
3-Your mother? making chocolate all day??? weirdo :)
4-Your father? oh working
5-Your favorite food? chocolate! cheese!
6-Your favorite drink? currently white grape vodka and selzer
7-Your dream last night? I don't remember dreams
8-Your dream/goal? loads but a big one is travel to australia
9-What room are you in? my cubby at work
10-Your hobby? reading
11-Your fear? monotony
12-Where do you want to be in 6 years? who knows, that's the fun part
13-Where were you last night? getting my haircut!
14-Something that you aren’t? outgoing with strangers
15-Muffin? BAGELS
16-Wish list item? ummm I'm pretty happy with things right now
17-Where did you grow up? NH
18-Last thing you did? just ate lunch! and set up a gym interview! yea working out
19-What are you wearing? khakis, cute black shirt, necklace
20-Your TV? in the living room?
21-Your pets? wish i had a cute doggie
22-Friends? spread out way too much
23- Your life? changing as always
24-Your mood? ansty
25-Missing someone? always
26-Vehicle? snazzy zipcars
27-Something you aren’t wearing? sweats... wish I were
28-Your favorite store? a great bookstore
29-Favorite color? blue
30-When was the last time you laughed? at lunch
31-Last time you cried? for real, like 3 weeks ago
32-Your best friend? x3
33-One place you go to over and over? work
34-One person who emails you regularly? my mom
35-Favorite place to eat? Cosi's, sushi, thai!

A bulleted list cause I'm too tired to think

It's been a over-packed busy/not busy week culminating in a fully great night out on the town with two new friends.

• 2 minutes a problem on a standardized test is totally not sufficient. At the 15min mark I still had like 40 unanswered questions and just had to go down filling in bubbles. In a situation such as that I can never decide if it's better to fill them all in the same (eg. all c's) or to go about filling in random ones and making it look not to guessed at. The second choice is what I ended up doing for whatever it ends up to be.
• As you can tell from the first bullet I have finally taken the exam. It was long and I got very antsy but I feel pretty good about the final outcome. I'm positive I knew about 50% of the questions and then beyond that a good number were figured out and then it's luck. Unfortunately I won't find out the results for like 4 months but I'm going to tell myself it's all over. It's weird though, for the first time in a long time I don't have any cares in relation to learning. It's a very freeing feeling.
• Which makes me think. did you ever have those professors who would never return your exams or let you know your grade until like the end of the class. I would have times that I would take 2 or 3 exams and turn in other assignments without getting any feedback in the form of grades or what they as a professor wanted. It would really annoy me because each professor is different and what different things out of their students and you tailor your work to that. The first exam of every class was always the most stressful for me, those were the ones were I would actually try to get a good nights sleep before and not do any irresponsible things like drinking :)
• While out last night two guys I was hanging with decided to have a race (no idea why) and one of them ate it! It was legit a tuck and roll. First he was running and then next thing you know he's gone and on the ground between two cars. HILARIOUS!
• I went out with my new roomie and one of her friends and it was really nice to be out with new people. I love making new friends and I'm really excited with how this new living situation has turned out. Now if only I could ignore this hangover long enough to make some order in my room.
• My area has become flooded with costumed kids. I went out to get a coffee and they are all over the place! I could not get back to my apt fast enough! I do think it's cute though that all the stores give the kids candy and stuff. And that they do it on a weekend so you don't have to do it on a cold weekday night. The school down the street was also giving "hay rides" around the block. Cracked me up cause I've see real hay rides and these just weren't the same.
• I need a halloween costume. There are a couple of parties I will be attending and I have no idea what to be! Any ideas that is somewhat cheap and fun and not too slutty????
• alright think i'm out of bullet points. Off to enjoy the last afternoon of my freedom. Tomorrow it's back to the grind!

Bed-frames & Bureaus... OH MY!

Today I spent about 5 hours putting my bed frame and ikea bureau together. It was long and hard and dirty but now I have mucho storage space! And well the bed frame wasn't really that hard. It's just these metal bars that pretty much raise the bed so I can slide awesome storage containers under it! BUT I had to laugh cause while talking to the bed sales person I mentioned that my old frame hadn't had a middle bar (I was concerned it would effect my storing things) she was HORRIFIED and kept saying I'm so surprised that your bed just didn't collapse in the middle or anything. To which I replied , well it did end up breaking so I guess maybe it's needed. I neglected to tell her that I was doing a bit more than sleeping when the leg collapsed. Gave me a laugh though. I woke up the next morning on a tilt...not so comfortable :)

So after the quick bed assembly and the not so quick dealing with a heavy mattress as a poor weak girl I moved on the constructing this!

And it is oh so pretty and fun! Luckily it was a lot more assembled than I had been picturing, alas it did still take me like 3 hours and I was exhausted after! I mean my hand was killing me from screwing in so many screws! lol. But it's so pretty and gives me so much room :) Note: things look much smaller in a very large ikea. In my room here it is definitely mammoth. In fact tomorrow I am planning some major furniture moving to see if it will look less mammoth anywhere else. Heres hoping!

beyond that, the countdown is on to my exam on saturday and I'm feeling very so-so about my preparation. I know I could have studied more but I also know that there is so much info I am suppossed to re-learn that I wouldn't remember it anyway. So I am doing my usual studying which is to re-alert my brain and now the basics and I will just have to trust that my problem-solving, engineer mentality, and brain will get me through. Because seriously, I've probably studied more for this exam than my entire time in college which is just insane. 4 days!

oh. if anyone has ideas on how to keep bed frame wheels from rolling on my hardwood floors please help?! wheels and no rug is not a good combination.

Musings

A new place... by myself. I've never been there before. My first apartment I had my friends, my second apartment I had my boyfriend. My third... I have me. And my roommates are great, I just had a fabulous time with them tonight, but it's weird.

For awhile there my family became a family of 5 instead of 4. For the first time. Which we never really were cause I was always so far ahead of things. It was good, it was nice. I love my family.

Now I'm here, surging forward alone again. I know I can do it, I know it will be the best, but I hate transitions. hate the waiting. Sometimes I think I am just waiting all the time.

Colors of Fall

Columbus Day Wkend always feels like the end of the end for me when it comes to being outside. This wkend the air is chilly enough that it takes sufficient motivation to get yourself outside, but not bad enough that once out there you're suffering, lol. Thus to commemorate my last wkend in NH and of freedom :) I had a number of my close friends up and we lounged around, hiked, hung outside, made fires and had a jolly old time. Perfect fall activities (minus the margaritas..but who turns down margaritas??) The shot is the view from our local ski moutain. We rode the chair up and then walked around and down. Very pretty.

The foliage this year is just to die for this year...or maybe it's just been so long since I've been in the thick of it, but I'll miss it when I leave. Until then I will continue to stare in awe at the gorgeous reds, yellows, oranges, and greens that are backdropped with a brilliant blue sky. But the frost that was here this morning??? you feel free to stay away till I leave please.

Happy Columbus Day! Did anyone else to any fun fall activities this weekend?

Stummy's

Wanna hear something weird????

if anyone watches grey's anatomy, the stomach they showed when meredith was being cut open, I knew the girl who was acting it!

Kinda fun.. oh and stummy is stomach and tummy put together :)

Hal wears a Hat

So in order to satisfy the goal I set for myself yesterday I formed an outfit today where the hat fit.

Scene: I have gathered myself together, hat is on and all is good. Walk downstairs.

Mom: Well well you are wearing the hat.

Me: well yes I am, do you like?

Mom: Oh yes you look like Paula Abdul

alrighty...not a fabulous compliment but take what you get

Scene: Dad walks in... stops and stares at me as I am doing things in the kitchen. Me: like the hat?

Dad: You're wearing a hat.

Me: yes I know, like it?

Dad: yea, sure, it's different

Scene: Brother enters the car when I go to pick him up...

What is with the hat???

Me: what? I can't hear you.

Brother: WHAT IS WITH THE HAT?

Me: I dunno, I liked it. Do you?

Brother: where did you get it?

Me: what the heck does that matter? do you like it?

Brother: WHERE DID YOU GET THE HAT?

Me: JESUS CHRIST!

Scene: Sister enters the house after school, I walk out of the living room with the hat on.

Sister: yea I saw that as you were driving by. Whatever

Me: Do you like it?

Sister: yea sure, weirdo wearing a hat. Think you're cool?

Think my family likes me wearing hats? just trying to bring a little class to NH... not sure how well it's working :)

2 Hats, 2 Scarves, a Purse & Shoes

so many thoughts rolling around in my head... completely unable to process any of them. Perhaps I have been wasting the brainpower for a bit too long. I sit down to study and can not focus for more than 20 minutes. I tell myself I need to do laundry and I end up reading blogs or organizing my room. I go shopping with my mother so SHE (you heard me, SHE) can buy a purse and end up with two hats purchased! One a winter hat which will come in very handy and useful, but the other just so cute and perky. A perfect going out hat. Problem is I have never worn a hat out... Goal for October: Wear hat out! Here are my hats though!

I've been using Fitness TV these past few days to start getting my body back in

decent shape. And when I say decent I want to be able to actually do 20 crunches in a row or look like I know what I'm doing in pilates class. The point of this paragraph though is I saw one titled abs and got excited... turned out to be a Baywatch abs one. There were woman in skimpy bikinis, make-up, and long free hair telling me what to do and then after says hey! now that you've done this 15 minute workout you can go out and wear a mini-skirt. Good freaking lord. I like my instructors to be sweaty and gross just like me.

I have also been on a huge shopping spree...I mean ridiculous given that I don't have any money coming in currently but I've just been hitting everything right and when that happens you have to pick things up.

A gorgeous Coach purse (not real :)) and some fun cute looking clogs. A secret about me, I wear clogs ALL the time. I hate sneakers so in the winter this is all I wear. Thus finding a cute pair that can pass as work shoes as well is such a deal! And a girl always needs purses.

Two scarves. I love love love scarves, wear them all the time and am so excited that it is getting to scarf season again. The pink one has some thread work and is rather light. It can work as a summer or winter scarf!

Work out pants! I have been looking for the perfect pair of work out pants for pilates for so long! I am extremely picky though and will not buy one unless it fits and feels right. I loved these as soon as I put them on...now I only need to find a 3/4 length as well :)

alright, clean the kitchen time. I will not miss getting back to a living space where it's only a few smart, clean, females who clean up after themselves! This whole family thing is ridiculous!

Goodbye College

After 4 fantastic years filled with friends, boys, swimming, booze, ridiculous drunkeness, hw, classtime, drinking during classtime, group meetings, working in the bookstore, booze, parties, apt parties, dorm room parties, "It's just coke!", etc I have closed the chapter on my higher education!

I've been crashing at my friends place the last few days and she is overwhelmed with loads of hw and classes...makes me think of the days we would lock ourselves in the library for hours upon end. Mini freak outs would ensue and then 15 min later you would be back at again. Because above all we chose to be there, we want to learn this. I have loved pretty much every second of my time in college, and out when I took online courses, but being where I am now I am ecstatic to be looking forward at using my brain and knowledge to do something real.

But being handed that degree....I am now officially a holder of a Masters Degree. Say what???

Note: I was going to have a lovely photo of the degree but my camera has decided to not turn on. I'm really really hoping it's just dead....

Happy Friday Everyone! My wkend looks to be fabulous...hopefully it just won't rain on us!