How to annoy your husband :)

Yay! I'm writing my second post for the week! I'm so proud of myself.

Yep... life is crazy.

And here is what it has looked like recently via my Instagram:

napping

Meeting my friends adorable kitten!!

A girls night! (Sara got cut out!! She is adorable so you really are missing out.)

More girls night.

My niece asked me to be one of her bridesmaids!

Rain.... no surprise there.

Nail date with my sisters and the most adorable niece ever!

Our nails :)

Like I said most adorable niece ever!

And me, annoying the crap out of Alex while I sing along to my music while doing my homework :)

^^This was really happening.

Since the beginning of this term we have discovered that I may be an external processor. Typically while working on my chemistry equations I find myself making up songs about them... it goes something like this,

6.022 x 10^23.... the 23rd.... the 23rrrrrddddd moooolllleeeessss of Siiiillllvvvveeeerrr

times, times, times, times

11 mollleeessss of siiiillllvvvvveeeerrrr

eeeeqqqqquuuuaaallllsss..

Ok, I completely made that one up on the spot, but you catch my drift. 

But this is really helping me study, I decided during my next midterm (just had my first one last night!) I'm going to sing about all the calculations I do, and I will for sure get an A!

And kicked out of my test.

which would lead to an F.... Hmmm

Plan B. Sing in my head, and dance.

Yes!

Alright, I gonna go have some down time, sipping on my nice warm cup of earl grey tea and catch up on the New Girl!

And then back to homework so I can have another girls night!!

Have a great weekend friends!

Linking up with:

Where I've been

This is what I looked like when Alex came home from work yesterday.

It might seem like I am sleeping,

but in reality I am just thinking really hard about my epidemiology paper.

I promise....

It was actually a paper for my public health class about epidemiology, but I just feel like it sounds smarter to say epidemiology paper.

Anyways,

 I know I was MIA all last week, for which I apologize for. School has been kicking my booty. 

Which is great, I wanted a challenge. I just forget that challenges can actually be... challenging.

And since I have nothing good to write about today, I will leave you with these three completely random pictures. The last one is my favorite.

I got that blue dress at a garage sale for a dollar. Yep, $1.

My baby, Bret.

See you later folks! Hopefully I find something good to write about soon.

Which would probably be a little easier if I actually starting thinking of things to write about.

Break time.

Ahhh, I have finished all of the homework for one of my classes.

One down.

Three to go.

I have one week left of homework assignments galore and then I'm home free.

Needless to say I'm going to be taking a break from blogging until I am finished with school.

I love you guys, but I need to cut out some extra stress, and I will be the first to admit that blogging is last on my list of priorities.

Real life first, blog life second. 

{I have to remind myself of that from time to time}.

Now that's all cleared up, I'm gonna give my brain a little break from the chaos and catch up on the bachelorette.

See ya ladies in a week {or so}!

Photography project

So I'm working on a project for my photography class and I was hoping for some input from others out there. Also, I can cheat and work on this blog post while still technically doing homework! :)

We have to do a presentation and have a collection of photos that represent a specific theme, but each photo needs to speak for itself.
I've decided my theme is going to be life in its simplicity. I'm using black and whites as a technique to help emphasize the simplicity part.

Paying bills

doing homework

cooking

relaxing

What do you think? Good idea, or boring idea? These are just a few quick shots I took. I'm going to take more to play around with the idea some.

Any suggestions are much appreciated!

"For Better, Or Much Worse"

A couple weeks ago for my English class I had to write an imaginative essay, which was basically just a poem. I enjoyed the way it turned out so I thought I would share it with you guys. Don't worry the story told is completely fictitious, I came up with it as I was writing. Hope you enjoy it! The style of poem is based off of Robert Brownings "The Duchess".

“For Better, or Much Worse”

1 “All in good nature”, she will have you believe

“For fun, for love, for laughter. And you never shall leave

Me behind.” The words she will whisper sweet

In your ear. The liaison between those words and your ears, meet

5 And leave you dead to your fears. For tomorrow shall

Be the beginning of starts. Love is everything, is all

That you dream. She is quite beautiful, I shall give you that.

Some times beauty can fool you. If that love hasn’t sat

For years and months. For sit and wait

10 It shall answer your true fears. For the long late

Sitting will certainly test. Your patients I promise

Shall pay ten fold. When the colors of your goddess

Unravel before your eyes. I have no motivation

For these words I say. Never to ruin your special occasion,

15 Would I dream. Please ignore the harshness of tone,

I also believe that true love should last. With this young lady, I own

Up to my doubts. For, “love is patient”, 

they always do say. So settle not on a life complacent,

Which is far less than you deserve. A man of your word

20 I can tell from here. A man of great valor, I have heard.

They tell me your name. It means “a calm gentle spirit 

with strength like no other”. A merit

Earning name. A prized possession you truly are

I can see. For simply living up to your bar

25 You have always done. And living beyond that has

Never once been in question. Whereas

Her character I question daily. Cold to the bone

And evil demeanor. Honestly she alone

Has been known to be angry and hurtful. Everyday for fun,

30 Is what I say. Quips at all expense

But her own. This letter has been days since

I started. To finish is not easy, quite 

Opposite really. Now I begin my fright

Please forgive me. For this letter shall find you

35 completely lost and alone. For I too

Am not there to comfort your wounds. I’m sorry my love

To leave you this way. I’m not what you’ve pictured, above

Your beliefs. You’ve thought I was perfect

With never a fault. I’m telling you now that you need to reflect

40 For maybe the actions you have seen have not been my own.

They have been yours. Yours alone,

And I am not deserving. For, quite simply, I’m beneath your honor.

By the way, I am MAJORLY stressing out about school right now!! I have three more assignments and 5 tests to do by the end of the night! Only one of which can be turned in late, luckily the hardest of all the assignments. The three assignments are not from procrastinating, those were all assigned for today. Four of the 5 tests are due entirely to my procrastination. So don't feel too sorry for me.


My current classes are honestly the heaviest work load I have ever had in my entire school career. Yuck. I suppose it is supposed to get harder as it goes, but I am barely finishing my associates, I thought I wasn't going to have this much work until next year.

Oh well. Only 2/3 more weeks and then I'm done for a solid three months! Never looked forward to my freedom this much before!

black & white sunday {mostly}

Can you guess what I'm doing?


Avoiding homework, and taking pictures? Yep.

Weekend (through tuesday) in review

My weekend basically consisted of a lot of reading and homework. We did lay out in the sun for some time on Sunday while I worked. It was beautiful out!

I got some good running in.

It was great.

Then early monday morning at about 4 am I woke up with some not so pleasant pain.

I took like a million tums because I thought it might be heart burn...

{Not sure heart burn ever feels like you are going to die}

Before I left for work the pain went away and I thought it might just be hunger pains.

Then the pain came back.

During work.

I stayed for my whole shift, because I was off at 1:30.

Came home.

My mom freaked out on me and told me to call the doctor.

I called the doctor.

They couldn't get me in until tomorrow at 2.

The pain went away, I figured I was fine.

{It is hard to remember how bad the pain is during the non-painful times}

After dinner the pain came back,

but I had lots of homework due yesterday so I just kept truckin through the pain.

All while my husband was trying to convince me to go to the hospital.

I'm stubborn.

I said I was fine.

{I hate the doctor, and the hospital}

I finished all of my homework.

Went to bed...

in pain.

Woke up, thought I was fine.

Took a shower.

Pain came back with vengeance.

Call the doctor.

Called in sick to work

Went to the doctor.

Doctor did some tests...

There are no results yet. I still have to go in for an ultrasound on Thursday morning. There is a possibility it could be gallstones, we are checking into it. For now I am just truckin through my episodes of pain, and God willing it wont get so bad that I need to go to the ER. If it is gallstones they said that eating fatty foods will cause the pain. 

Basically I can't eat anything  with fat  until after my ultrasound.

I'll keep you guys posted. I'm praying that I don't have gallstones, because most of the time they want to take out your gallbladder if this happens. I'm getting some heat from different people about whether or not I should actually allow them to take out my gallbladder {if it is gallstones, mind you}. All I know is that if this pain gets worse than it already has gotten, I'm not sure I would resist any form of relief.

Anyways, have a great week guys! Hopefully I'll be back to write more later!

Doing "homework"

I've been lacking a little bit of inspiration for my blogs as of late. Every time I think, "I should write a new post," it is followed by, "actually... I should probably work on some homework."

And for those of you that don't know, I'm back in school fulltime again after nearly three years off.

Why didn't anyone remind me how much work this is?!? I have like 4 assignments due every Monday, and others due throughout the week, and this is only the second week of the term.

On the plus side though! All this homework has giving me the inspiration for my newest project... which is turning out pretty awesome.

Here is how the inspiration came to me...

"I need a planner."

Drives to Office depot

Pick up, flip through, pa ruse through millions of planners

"This one is PERFECT!"

 See price tag

 "W.T.F." (FYI-I don't like to cuss too much but I am addicted to acronyms.) 

"$18.99!! For a few pieces of paper?? I'll just make my own."

Other people may not think that is expensive (Although, I'm not sure how??), but honestly, this was the skinniest little planner that I have ever seen! And I really liked it because it had full calendar pages that were big enough for me to write in. However, I am way too cheap to pay 20 bucks for some paper. So instead we spent 20 bucks buying a new ink cartridge (which we needed for many other printing jobs) and I have set out to make my own planner!

I'm so excited to have a planner that is perfect for me! Not just one of those lame ones that have all this extra junk that I don't need. I'm planning (pun intended) to make some free printables out of this guy incase anyone is interested. I should be done with it by the end of the weekend!

BTW, (See, I told you I'm addicted) I'm supposed to be working on homework right now.

Shhh! Don't tell Alex! ;)