What I Wore Wednesday

Ok so I know I missed last week, but I was way busy. So here are some of the things I wore for the past two weeks. :)


Dress: Charlotte Russe (Mary really envies it)
Cardigan: Target (Funny story- Mary, Carey, and I wore the same cardigan in different colors last Sunday)



First Day of A&M Orientation!!!
Shirt: Free!! Received a coupon in the mail for a free shirt from Inspirations (in the College Station mall)
Shorts: Same ones from Vienna a few years ago



Shirt: Target
Necklace: Andrew for my 19th birthday
Shorts: Another color of those Vienna shorts (you're going to see those a lot this summer)


Shirt: Dillard's Clearance last year- i think $9
Shorts: same as yesterday



LOVE LOVE LOVE!! So comfy and so summery and so fresh! I'm not usually an all bright pink kind of person, but this was an exception!
Dress: Banana Republic Outlet at the Allen Outlet mall. only $16!!!
Necklace: Brighton from my Mommy a few years ago for my birthday

Well thats all for this week. Tootles!!!

I Have the Butterflies

Monday I have class in the morning, and then I'm off to College Station for my New Student Conference and Registration. I've been looking forward to it until now, but now I'm sorta freaking out. This is it. I'm actually going to make my schedule, take campus tours, and officially become an Aggie. This is all too real. It came way too fast.

It seems like just the other week I was excited to apply, then anxious to find my acceptance letter in the mail, and now its finally here. I'm not saying that I'm not excited anymore or anything like that. I'm very excited. But at the same time my stomach is churning.

It finally hit me that I only have about 3 more months at home in Frisco, and then I'm off on my own. It seemed like such a better idea back when I was still dreaming about it and didn't actually have it. I know everything will be alright and it'll all work out and I've been praying about this next few days for everything to go smoothly, but I still have butterflies like crazy. Luckily Lauren, one of the friends I will be living with, will be in town and come with me to all the events and steps of becoming a student. At least I know I won't get terribly lost on that crazy huge campus. :)

So wish me luck! Prayers for a safe road trip and great couple of days would be greatly appreciated. :)

What I Wore Wednesday- My first one!!!

Ok so if you don't know the background behind this, here it is:
Mary does this thing where she takes pictures of every outfit she wears and blogs about it every Wednesday. I know she got the idea from someone else, but I first saw it on her blog. I've been wanting to do it for a long time, but never actually got into it. But his week I did! So here goes! :)

Saturday:


Shirt: Target Clearance two weeks ago- $6
Shorts: H&M in Vienna, Austria 4 years ago- $16 or so
Sandals: Target last month- $14
Satchel : Fossil- $I kinda splurged :)

Sunday:


Shirt: Macy's last year- $don't remember
Skirt: Anthropology- Hand me down from my mother, I envied that skirt ever since she bought it two years ago!!! I pretty much love it :)
Shoes: Target sale- $13

Monday:


Tank top: Charlotte Russe- $7.50
Cardigan: Target last year- $13
Jeans: Viggos Studio- $32
Owl Necklace: Charlotte Russe- $8

Tuesday:


Tank top: Charlotte Russe- $7.50
Jeans: Viggos Studio- $28 (on sale!)
Sweater: Hand me down from Ariana
Necklace: present from Andrew :)

Well yay this was fun :)

Oh but i forgot Wednesday. Don't worry, today was a sweats and hair up kind of day. Nothing special. Can't wait till next week!!!

(Oh and idk why but Blogger won't let anyone post comments on my blog...I'll look into that.)

It's Been a While...

Wow! It’s been forever since I’ve written a blog. Ok, well actually only seven months, but it felt like forever ago. So now that school is finally over (pause to do a little victory dance) I can get back to writing about more interesting things.

This last semester was a beat down. I didn’t even have my normal 15 hours, only 12 hours of class, but it was still intense. If I’ve told you about my philosophy class and math class, you would understand. I don’t speak math, and the little fuse in my brain for philosophy was always burned out. So you can see where frustration might have been overwhelming. But no worries, I survived and I’m moving on.

It’s summer now!!! So excited! Time to lather on the sunscreen, sit by the pool, and just relax. I intend to do that a lot more this summer than ever before (Although beating last summer’s record of ten hours on the beach in Florida for a week will be tough). I was planning on working 24/7 and saving for the future and school and gas money and things like that, but this past year has been a long and busy one, so I’ll take advantage of the little time I have home to just enjoy the simple things and not rush through summer. I’ll still be taking care of my favorite little two-year-old boy, Cody, though. :)

The Plan:

1. I know its summer, but I have to make up for lost classes over last semester by taking a quick Maymester. World Lit II. Just a lot of reading and discussion. Just two weeks long, no big deal.

2. Registering for classes at A&M! Oh by the way, I’m in! I found out a long time ago but as you know, I haven’t been on here in a long time.

3. Read at least three books. One fiction, one nonfiction, and a Christian sort of book (by that I mean like go through my mother’s library or have a fun day at Mardel reading the back covers of every book until I find one that will speak to me.) And of course keep up with my own devotionals. (I can’t remember reading a book cover to cover that wasn’t for school, so I’m excited to do some fun reading.)

4. Go to California with the family!!! Best part is that Andrew will be joining us! Yay! He can finally see my favorite beaches, visit my very best friends, and of course meet some of my folks. Poor guy. He has been optimistic about the trip, so I’m praying it all goes well. :)

5. Learn a few different dishes to prepare. Already talked to Mommy and she said that every day I’m off from work, meaning Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, we will have fun trying out new dishes and meals. Looking forward to it! Especially since I’ll be moving out soon and need to know a lot more than how to make spaghetti and cereal.

6. Start writing What I Wore Wednesday posts! I love, love, love how Mary does her WIWW blog posts, and every time I get dressed I pretend to take a picture of my outfit as if I’ll write my own posts. But now I’ll actually do my own. :)

7. Find ways to motivate myself to workout. I’m great about starting all kinds of new routines, but terrible at sticking with them. Three days in and I’m throwing in the towel. So ya, I need to work on that. Maybe get back into P90X, although I dread it more and more these days.

8. Read and outline my psychology book from my first course freshmen year. I’ll be diving right into all my major course once I get to A&M and it would be smart to have a leg up on as much information as I can. I’ve taken the introductory course at UTD, but I’ll have to take it again at A&M seeing as how only their major courses are accepted for graduating.

9. Relax. I know I listed a lot of stuff to get done this summer, but I’ll have three months, and only about 20 hours of work every week. So relaxing is a must if I intend to stay sane through my next year out of the house and totally out of my comfort zone.

Ok so that was a long post, but it was nice to write out all my goals/plans. Now I have to keep up with them.

Thursday Happiness

1. Being able to finish a paper right before it was due. (I tried working on it the night before but my brain was too dead)

2. Getting extra credit for showing up to Government today (only 4 out of 35 students showed up today so the professor decided to reward us that showed up)

3. Getting extra credit in English for the same reason! (except this time there were 7 of the 35 present)

4. Leaving English 3 minutes after class started (she decided not to teach since there weren’t any students there, so she made it a ‘working day’)

5. Getting in another run with Snoopy (I’m trying to do that more and more- that’s two this week, and hopefully one on Saturday)

6. Skype with Andrew :)

7. Babysitting Whitacker, Brinley, and Creighton: I got the biggest compliment ever, “Sarah! You make the best spaghetti ever! I love this!” – Whitacker Thanks Whit! I love critics like that. Especially when all I did was boil spaghetti and add Ragu sauce to it. Lol. Second best compliment of the night, “Ms. Sarah! I love these cookies! They make my tummy smile!” Score! I can bake cookie dough, too! For those of you who think I can’t cook, *cough* Valery *cough* and those of you who I’ve admitted to not being kitchen savvy, scratch it all! According to my new critics, I’m a five star chef!

8. Relaxing at my next job watching sleeping kiddos, Ella, Lilly, and Charlie to be exact. Yup, I went from job to job tonight. Talk about desperate for work lol. But it’s all good, because I’m writing this at work. Which also make me happy. :)

Happy Thursday Moments

So I think I might make this a habit, a post about what made me happy on Thursdays. We’ll see how this goes.

1. Woke up way energized for my History II test. (I think it was the meds doing the trick cuz there’s no way I’d ever be that hyper at 5:40 am after only 3 hours of sleep)

2. Walked out of that test very confident! Crossing my fingers now!

3. Watched Modern Family in the library again (except this time I didn’t struggle to keep from laughing, I was struggling to stay awake. Those meds were wearing off…

4. Got to Skype my babe :)

5. Daddy came home from his trip!!! And brought my uncle Radu with him too..but more importantly, Daddy came home!

6. Ate some Gomboti (a Romanian desert my grandma sent up with my dad, they were yummy)

7. Went to work and followed through with a slight lesson in mini discipline!! Woop woop! I usually give in to crying kids since they are not mine and I don’t have to deal with them later, but this time I made that little boy sit at the table and finish his food. It was either finish his food and go play or sit at the table and cry until his daddy came home. Yup, I won! He ate the whole plate! Took a lot of strength to not cry right along with him or just set him free form the table, but I did it.

8. Came home to a very quiet house, no homework, just me in my peaceful room just relaxing.

9. Remembering Andrew comes home tomorrow! Woohoo! :)

Ok well I should probably get some sleep before the hyper phase of my meds kicks in again. Night everyone!

Have I mentioned that I Hate Bugs?

Well I do. Me and bugs/insects are like two negative charges on magnets that should never attract. Except the bugs didn’t get the memo that I’m also negative, and swarm to bite me as if I were positive! Gah! If you’ve ever seen me after getting bit by a bug, any bug, mosquitoes more often than any other insects, you would know that I swell up like crazy and turn all red. It’s not a pretty sight.

So while babysitting on Sunday, some stupid insect has the nerve to bite me! It even worked its way under my jeans to bite my ankle! Stupid ninkumpoop. Anyways, so I get bit, right? And it starts itching 10 minutes later, but no swelling yet. Phewf, I thought I was in the clear. Ha! I get home about 3 hours later and my ankle is already the size of a golf ball. Well, it just looks like I have a golf ball under my skin. I automatically try to ignore the itching, redness, and swelling and act as if it’s a regular bug bite. I mean it’s not like I’ve never had one before that drove me absolutely insane…

So today, Tuesday, I wake up and my ankle now looks like a tennis ball! And it’s starting to ooze out where the little twarp of a bug bit me, and its bruising, which isn’t at all characteristic of a regular bite. So I bump my worry up a notch. Around 10:30 am I was really worried, as it hurt to even walk on my foot. Now I have no choice but to call my doctor and pray that she has an opening to see me after class. Sadly, no opening, but she would try to work me if I went in after 2.

1:45, I arrive in her office and 10 minutes later she takes me in. Halleluiah! The nurse then comes in and takes a look at my pathetic looking ankle and unnecessarily freaks me out by warning me it could be a staph infection. Great, just what I needed. Shortly after Dr. Davis walks in. Before I go any further let me just describe her to you- She’s a sweet, petite old lady with sophisticated red rimmed glasses that sit on the tip of her nose and has surprisingly room-temp hands, unlike the freezing hands of the stereotypical doctor. So you get the picture that’s she’s sweet and even a little southern… Anyways, she looks at me and says, “Wow, hunny, those pesky bugs just love you!” Oh joy. After explaining how sensitive I am to these bug attacks and pleading with her to get me allergy tested, get some cool shot to make this all go away, or take meds the rest of my life, she sweetly says, “Sorry hunny, but this is how the good Lord made you, and there’s nothing we can do to fix it. It sucks to be you.” And I didn’t embellish any of it, I promise, that was word for word what she said. My frustration was slightly subdued by the cuteness of her conclusion about my annoying reactions to bug bites. She did note that if I wanted to I could look into natural healing remedies and oils to see if they would work at all… (little light bulb in head turns on and flashes “Mrs. Journey! Mrs. Journey! She’s got the answer!”) Dr. Davis was kind enough to give me a shot (gah I forget what it’s called) but pretty much a steroid to make the swelling and itching go away. Then prescribed me not one, not two, but three different meds for the stupid tennis ball on my ankle! An antibiotic capsule, an antibiotic cream, and another steroid (I promise I read the prescription bottles but they are not close by right now and I can’t remember how to spell them).

This is ridiculous! One stupid, insensitive, no-good, stupid, horrible, terrible bug has got me drugged! What’s this world coming to?!

Ok, I’ll stop venting now. Goodnight ya’ll.