Apple Juice is the New Coffee!!

Typical college kids drink excessive amounts of coffee to stay up late and get stuff done.

Well I'm not a huge coffee person, and I don't like any of the coffee they have on campus, so last night I had to get resourceful. It was 10 PM, I had already spent 6 hours between studying for chemistry, tutoring somebody else in chem, and sitting in a chem help session. I had a lot of math that I still needed to somehow get engrained in my head, and I was dwindling fast.

This is where my BRILLIANT idea came into place!

Maybe if I would eat breakfast I could trick my mind into thinking it was morning! So I got a huge glass of apple juice, a bag of muffins and a banana and began to eat breakfast at 10:45 last night. The apple juice really hit the spot, and I ended up drinking the entire 1/2 gallon jug... whoops!

But it worked! 2 AM, I was fully understanding math, and was still wide awake! I ended up watching an episode of Dance Moms (if you need a dumb, no-thinking required, jaw-dropping show, this is it!) and at 3 I finally crawled into bed.

I woke up at 7 this morning wide awake! I had a quiz in English at 8 that morning, then a really boring english lecture on short stories. I went and took my chemistry test which was simple, and then took my math test which was also easy! SUH-WEET!

I grabbed lunch and then put my laundry in the wash. I have a lab from 2:20-5:10, then polo from 6:15-8:15. I need to come back and clean up my room and pack for Midwinter tonight, and then I'm going to a midnight premiere of The Vow with some Cho-Yeh girls.

WHOO!! Apple Juice is the new coffee! Talk about the epitome of productiveness!

This is Why I DESPISE Math.

I have never liked math. The only 2 years I even tolerated it was 7th and 10th grade when I had 2 of my all time favorite teachers. But other than that... NOPE!!

After today I am pretty sure I can add plenty more reasons to why I hate math!

While in class, the prof spent the first 20 minutes attempting to explain how to do this one type of problem, and ended up saying "why don't y'all just google it, because I don't know how to explain it". Then, I ask her where she got her numbers that she was using (because they were NO where to be found in the problem. And nobody else knew what was going on either, they just wouldn't confront her about it!) and this was her answer *with AS much sass as humanely possible* "I used the calculator". Umm.. EXCUSE ME? No duh you used a calculator. Very politely I rephrased "How did you get those answers?", only to get the reply "Well. First I turned the calculator on..." I was ENRAGED. I don't think I even heard the rest of her response I was so enraged. The rest of math went downhill from there.

So today I'm working on online math homework. First of all, that is the worst because you can't write on it and it takes so much longer to copy it down and plug in answers etc. Plus even though 1%, .01, 1/100, are all the same answers, it will only take 1 of those as correct. So frustrating. ANYWAYS, I can't figure this stuff out. Finally I ask one of my friends who is a math major who also tutors for the university to help me, and she can't figure it out. She doesn't even think there is an answer...

PERFECT. How the heck am I supposed to do this then? So I go to this thing called "Week in Review" where another professor reteaches what we learned this week.. Oh, hey, guess what, there were FORMULAS to solve these problems that my prof just never happened to mention? Nowhere in my notes, nowhere in online lectures, nowhere in her sample problems... Seriously? GRR!

Back to the library for another hour and I was able to work through almost all of the rest of my hw problems. There is one I can't get, but I wasn't going to stress myself anymore about that one. I'll work on it tomorow hopefully!

I left my room at 7 this morning, and didn't get back until 11 tonight. I spent over 8 HOURS working on math. Not exactly my idea of a fun day, but I think I get the math concepts for the most part! Now time for BED!

Sweet Gum Love

So, it is no rare fact that I am a kid at heart, especially when it comes to Disney. So today I was going through my itunes making a playlist of all of my Disney music that would be good to put on my camp ipod. I also went and just made a playlist of good music that elementary girls would enjoy to have dance parties with...

I have NO shame in having 85 songs and over 5 HOURS of music in this playlist comprised of only the best of Hannah Montana, Miley Cyrus, Jonas Brothers, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift & Martina McBride!

Sweet Gum Love :) Excited to get to play all of this music for my kiddos this weekend at Midwinter Madness! eeeek!

Only Monday? Really?

What a Monday! Sheeesh I was not counting on being so productive today.

I woke up at 8:30 to a text from my mom with the simple words "call me". I FREAKED. Not "call me when you have a second", or "call me when you wake up".. No. Just CALL ME. Panic set in and as soon as I woke myself up enough to hit send on the phone I was talking with her.

Well... it was not an emergency. I overanalyze things to begin with, not to mention when I am just waking up. By this point it is 8:40, my alarm wasn't going off till 9:30, and I didn't have class till 10:20. I was too awake to go back to bed, so unfortunately I was up and going! I actually did my hair (that never happens) and ate breakfast in my room as opposed to stuffing my face as I walk to class.

I was in class until 12:20 (yes, only 2 classes on Mondays and Wednesday's, and only 1 on Fridays are VERY nice!) at which point I walked to the bookstore to pick up a textbook that just finally came in. I went and grabbed lunch at this delicious hamburger place on campus, and although it took 20 minutes to get my lunch, it was well worth it! By this point it's 1:30 and I head to the library where I have a study room reserved from 2-5. Nobody is in the room before me, so I begin plowing through homework. I read a short story for English, I got through the entire month of February's online chemistry homework (WHOOP!) and reviewed a chapter for my chem lecture tomorrow. By 4:20 I was exhausted, and so went up to Media & Reserves to check out 2 CD's that I know my campers will love this weekend to have dance parties too. I went back to my room (first time back since 9:45 this morning!) and snuggled in my chair to watch last night's episode of The Voice and give my brain a much deserved break.

I went to polo and laughed more than one person probably should during practice... whoops. I wasn't the only one though, so it was all good!! Now I'm back and going to do a bit of math (maybe) and enjoy a lazy night! Back at it early tomorrow morning!!

What I Love About Being Home

There are several things that I love about a weekend at home...

I love getting to see my family and be silly and goofy.

I love sleeping in my own bed, and not having loud neighbors wake me up at all hours of the night!

I love that I get to eat real food -- whether that be Cane's Chicken Fingers, Snowflake's Kolaches, a peanut butter sandwich, Cafe Adobe's fajitas, or sausage and homemade mac'n'cheese -- all foods I don't get in college station!

I love that after eating all that real food, I get claim to all the leftovers! My fridge and pantry is now loaded with chocolate chip muffins, chocolate chip cookies, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Cheesecake Factory's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake, fajitas (well...they're gone now...) , and mac'n'cheese. YUM!

I love being able to watch re-runs of NCIS with my dad and brother.

I love getting to play with my puppy and take naps with her.

I love just talking with my mother. We didn't do that much when I was in high school, but now we both can just sit down and talk, and it's wonderful!

I love taking showers with hot water that doesn't turn cold randomly.

I love being able to throw a shirt in the washer, and not have to be antsy about when it will be done b/c I know nobody will be waiting on me to switch laundry.

I love having an ample supply of snacks always ready, and having multiple drink options.

I love how there is always a stack of mail waiting for me on my bed when I get home.

I love being able to play my music out loud instead of having to wear headphones.

I love parking 20 seconds from my house as opposed to 5 minutes from my dorm.

There are so many wonderful things about being home (just as there are about being here), and I always enjoy *almost* every second of being home!

Project Life: January

Warning: This blog posting may be considered a photo overload. Sorry bout it!

This year I have decided to participate in a challenge called Project Life. It is a way of documenting the year in an easy and simplistic but still special way. Each day you take one picture and journal a bit about it. Then it all gets compiled into an album!

Here is how I would describe January in 31 pictures!

Exploding Head

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I literally feel like my head is going to explode in a matter of minutes. I am past the point of being tired. I am overly stressed. I cannot deal with helping anybody else having drama in my life. No, but really. My head is going to explode.

On the positive side, I just applied for housing next year with Libby! Whoo!!

Bible study tonight and then I'm going to bed early before my head explodes!!!