almost done

after maybe the hardest test i have ever taken in my entire life (organic chemistry final) and also the test that i've ever been the least prepared for in my entire life, i came home to a lovely note in my mailbox informing me that my wallet was found. not only was it found, but the sweetest man in the world was kind enough to pick it up where he found it on the street outside goodwill and track me down (no easy feat when the only identifier in my wallet was a driver's license). luckily, he figured to call the university, who called residence life, who found my dorm, and then connected him to our front desk. it took two days and it was a huge relief (the "my wallet is lost" excuse for not wanting to go anywhere was getting old and my friends are really nice people and bought me dinner twice). i thanked him obnoxiously on the phone but the funny thing is that i'll probably never know this man's name nor be able to return the favor. i'm incredibly thankful and perhaps a little bit of my faith in humanity is restored as well. we're taught not to trust strangers and we're taught that people don't always have the best intentions... but you know what? sometimes, sometimes they do.

p.s. just ONE day of finals left until i'm back in idaho! eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

things that get me through

not just finals week, but everything

-coffee of any kind from anywhere

-kitten videos on youtube

-wearing a dress

-watching some sort of taylor swift video

-ranting about anything and everything in my journal

-reading old blog posts

-watching a movie

-calling my dad, sister, mom, or grandma

-old episodes of the office

-spontaneous purchasing of dvd series on amazon for really cheap

-reading your blogs

-hugs. really, really good hugs. especially when they're given.

-remembering the fact that taylor swift loves me

-listening to a playlist i created specifically for that day

-photobooth

-looking at old pictures

-skype

-really funny people

here's to getting to wednesday at 10am!

finals

... it's definitely that great time of the semester when finals have arrived...

and i'm already going a little bit crazy. or a lot.
one week from now, I'll be free of all finals and sleeping in until noon.
YAY!

little dates

in the past couple months, niklaas and i have made an extra effort to get out of the apartment and off of campus and do things. little did we know how absolutely crucial making that extra effort is to 

do the things that we used to do and made us fall for each other in the first place. 

and, yeah, ihop is our most frequented location.

and, yes, it's definitely been lovely.

emails from my dad

since coming to college, i've communicated with my sister and mom about every single day through texts, calls, and skype. however, my dad is not the technology savvy kind of dad. he is an email kind of dad. the kind that i email when i just want to talk to someone or hear him say something that will make me laugh or read three paragraphs of news updates around the family. and i love his emails to death. yesterday, i emailed him with one question, "is work better than school?" his response made me tear up, just a little bit. you know how they say your parents know what's best for you and are way smarter than you'll ever be? it's true. i'm a parent lover.


Magz-
Work better than school?  Well I guess if you do work and school you could really find out.
College should be doeable for most, not a horror movie. These professors who co-teach, its kind of the new thing and yes we have some do that and one in particular is a horror movie from my point of view. Most of that is due to the person, or the personality and/or inexperience. Like you said your organic professor is bad. Hopefully they will get rid of him from teaching then.

The thing about all this school and work is to try to get all the learning you can. Obviously some classes are not in your interest. Then to hopefully find a area you like, or love. I knew I liked science in HS because of my HS chemistry teacher, also the Bio. teacher was ok. But the Chem. teacher also taught astronomy too and that was great. He was my biggest influence that I can recall. The Ag II teacher was great too. These people build that confidence that everyone needs. Not to try and destroy you.

I liked college all the way through, every bit pretty much. Some topics I didn't like. Plus I worked all these horrible jobs along the way. Which really made me want to learn more in some area. But overall science has to come from the interest, curiosity and love to help people. That's it. And the want to do experiments correctly and not lie.. If you make it up you are a joke and you don't last.

Later Gator

sunset meadow

A long while ago, one of my best friend's from high school took these pictures of me for her to use in her photography portfolio for her photography class. As you can guess, Niklaas takes 99% of all pictures ever taken of me, so it was a pretty new experience shooting with one of my girlypals and working with a girl in general! It was a lot of fun and I loved having an excuse to dress up in my favorite find from the modcloth last hurrah sale a couple months ago! I'm going to have to get it out this winter with Niklaas and see how it looks in film, don't you think!? Omni did a beautiful job and I love how the lighting turned out for us! (It also makes me miss Idaho quite a bit)

Outfit:

Dress- Modcloth

Shoes- Urban Outfitters

Headband- Forever21

i love december

hellooooo my favorite month of the year!!!

I always try to act like I'm a summer girl or even a fall girl... but it's just not true.

I live for December and Christmas and hot chocolate and bundling up in five sweaters and cozy socks and cuddling and watching movies and waking up at six in the morning on a saturday to go skiing and counting down the days to christmas and hearing the sounds of my mom baking cookies in the kitchen and going running at noon because it's finally cold enough outside to do so and making Christmas lists and buying presents for people I love and taking walks at night in the snow and wearing crazy hats and buying new pairs of gloves (i lose mine every single winter) and staying in bed an extra five minutes in my warm blankets because the air is so crisp and going to Boise to see family and orange skies and wearing boots every single day and eating way too much all month long and just loving the fact that it's winter and I get to be home with my family.

i'm happy today.