Crap! I haven’t updated here in a while. I can’t really say that it’s because of my exciting life. Quite the opposite. Nothing’s been happening around me. I go to school, work, come home, and veg out on the couch until I go to sleep.

Lately I’ve become obsessed with making icons/avatars for livejournal. I was making a cover for a fanmix I was creating last weekend and something turned on inside of me that has given me the inspiration/motivation to make graphics. Mainly True Blood, Torchwood, and other TV shows I like. Speaking of TW (I don’t know who’s a fan that’s reading this), I loved the mini-series up until Day 4. Then the story just went down hill and a LOT of things that happened really upset and disappointed me. I don’t think I’ll be watching the show when it comes back for season 4. Too many things happened that make me want to hit something. I didn’t think I was as invested in the show but I guess I am. I guess I’ll just have to go back to enjoy season 1 and 2 of the show. Again, that probably makes NO sense and is irrelevant to everyone who reads this unless you’re a Doctor Who/Torchwood/Sci-Fi fan. Um. If you like sci-fi, silliness with a slight serious edge, and innuendos among other things, I suggest you try watching Torchwood season 1 and 2. But if not, that’s OK too. :)

School’s almost over. We have a week left until it’s done. I’m SO SO SO ready for summer school to be over. I had my first test on the 20th and got a 95 on it. That shocked me because I went home the weekend before to see my family and meet my sister’s BF. I didn’t have much time to study so getting an A, much less a 95, was shocking.

My 2nd test was yesterday. No so great. Read the rest of this entry »

Feeling: relieved
Hearing: 'Ultimate Cake Off'

I’m so excited about HP coming out on Wednesday! I won’t be seeing it on Wednesday and I don’t know when I’ll be seeing it. However, I am SO geared up for it. :D

I wish I could have gone to the midnight showing just to see the ‘grown-ups’ decked out in their finest wizard gear. There were apparently 12 midnight screenings and a screening at 3 at one of the (2) movie theatres here in College Station, TX. All of them were sold out. That is insanity! If I could go, I probably couldn’t unless I got my tickets back in May. LOL! I went to the midnight screening of Prisoner of Azkaban with Allison and some other friends. That was awesome because we saw lots of people from our high school and the drama teachers (and probably other teachers…) dressed up like their favorite characters. Very entertaining, let me tell you. I’m thinking of going to the midnight screenings of the last 2 movies – HP & the Deathly Hallows Parts 1 and 2. Why not? I mean, it only happens everyonce in a while and people should enjoy the things they’re a fan of and relish in it while the can. I’m just hoping I don’t have an exam or projects due those days. Limited sleep is not good. o_0

Anyway, I’m just excited to see it. Hopefully I’ll be seeing it this weekend with my parents, or brother and sister-in-law – and maybe sister…, if things go smoothly and we have enough time.

I just finished re-reading the book this weekend. I forgot how much I love the series and the book, in particular. The last few chapters just get me and I cried all over again at the end of chapter 27 through the end of the book. I didn’t think I would since I didn’t get too emotional the first time around. Ugh. I ♥ these books so much and I’ve heard the movie is getting positive reactions by the critics. I just hope it measures up and beats the expectations. I was so disappointed with HP & The Order of the Phoenix so I hope I’m not disappointed with this one. It’s going to be amazing!

Feeling: sore
Hearing: The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien

Again, I NEED to update this more. I guess I just forget about this place. Not much has happened within the past few weeks.

Summer Session 1 ended on July 1st. I got an A in my Stats class and didn’t even have to take the final! I was so worried about the exam and I spent the whole day and night before it worrying and stressing about it. Thank goodness I didn’t have to take it! I don’t know how I would have done if I had to take the final. But, now it’s over and done. So Yay!

I spent the 4th of July at my parent’s house relaxing for a few days. My brother and sister-in-law came in with the kids and we played with them the whole weekend. Mainly watching movies, swimming, and trying to avoid WW3 and keeping the kids from fighting too much.

Summer Session 2 started last Monday. It’s going OK I think. I won’t actually know how it is until I take my first test – next Monday. We have a group project that’s due at the end of the session. I hope it ends up well and not too stressful. Hopefully everyone in my group will do their share of the work and not load their responsibilities. That’s really what I dread about group projects. I can’t seem to trust people in groups unless I know them well. And since I don’t know these people well, I can’t help but be skeptical about them. Is that bad or rude of me? I don’t think so. I’d be skeptical of me if I didn’t know me very well. LOL.

Feeling: exhausted
Hearing: The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien

Does anyone have a Tumblr account? It’s pretty nifty and people post random things that spark their interests. I have one and my username is robbobbobberz. I’m trying to find more friends that have them so I can ‘follow’ them. So if you have one, please let me know – comment or something – and I’ll follow you! Join the party!

Feeling: okay
Hearing: Halo - Bethany Joy Lenz

I was pleasantly surprised when I got on the scale yesterday morning. I lost about 3 pounds! I hadn’t weighed since the Friday I went home (I think June 5th) because I ate a lot then, my family came to visit the Thursday after that and I ate fast Mexican food, fried bacon (which was pretty good, IMO), and a cheeseburger all in one day, and that weekend I didn’t watch what I ate.

I also made a promise to myself to weigh ONLY on Fridays,an attempt to pry myself away from weighing everyday. Anyway, I didn’t want to be depressed when I saw the number. I wasn’t. I guess what I’ve been doing has been working. It’s been so hard for me to lose weight since I went off birth control last July. And after I found out I had PCOS in March I read that it’s hard to lose weight even with medicine. Well I had been losing weight, about 7 pounds since March – compared to 0 from November to March, but it was SLOW in my opinion. So these 3 pounds were a good shock.

Anyway, that brings my total to 10 pounds since Christmas and the lowest I’ve been since October/November. It’s still about 16 pounds away from my lowest in recent history back last May. But it seems more possible to achieve that again now than it did a little while ago. I’m excited. I hope I don’t completely ruin it this weekend. I’m home right now and we’re probably going out tomorrow for Father’s Day and maybe today. Ugh. Note to self: DON’T EAT LIKE A PIG! Plus, we’re going on vacation to Florida in August after summer school ends so I want to lose about 8 more pounds before then and I honestly think that can happen. I just need to make it happen. *is positive*

Feeling: chipper
Hearing: Barefoot Contessa: Back to Basics (on Food Network)

AGAIN I need to remember to update here. If anyone still visits here and see that I haven’t updated in a few weeks, please email me or comment or something to ‘nudge’ me to post. Otherwise I get so distracted with other things that I forget to blog here.

School has been going alright. My class this summer session is STAT 651 – Intro to Statistics. I had my first test on Friday. We got to use a cheat sheet for it so I basically crammed 2 week’s (about 2 months or so a regular semester) onto an 8×11″ piece of paper, both sides. Turned out I didn’t really NEED to do that. It wasn’t as bad as I expected. I thought I would need all the notes since we didn’t get a study guide until Thursday and my family came to visit Thursday, resulting in me eating lunch with them, rushing to class, then running around with them and over-indulging in dinner – only beginning to study around 8:45. Good thing my class isn’t until 2pm. I did pretty well – 91. I just hope I can keep up the A average.

I worked last week and this week as well. Well not as much as I’m signed up to work, but at least I didn’t just do nothing. Administering the surveys and stuff in the lab is pretty neat, I guess. It’s going to be a lot busier next session – going from around 10 students per lab session to 40. TA’ing will be busier either. The prof next session has at least 200 (compared to 60 this session) students. I’ll be doing a lot more running around for him and probably holding office hours. IDK if I will, but it would be cool. Whatever. As long as I get a paycheck and part of my tuition reimbursed. This job better continue into the fall. Budgeting, people, please don’t let me down!

I cooked pork chops before I went to class this afternoon for dinner tonight (and probably for next week as well…) because I knew I wouldn’t feel like doing it tonight. I’m so tired by 6 that I don’t want to do anything. Anyway – they smell SO good. I just put pepper and garlic salt on them and cook them in a pan on the stove. Mmmm. My whole apartment smells delicious and like home. That makes me very happy…until I get sick of the cooked meat smell. But for now, it’s great. :)

Feeling: thirsty
Hearing: 'Spin' - Lifehouse