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

Long time, no posting. I NEED to get better at this! And it’s not like my life is all that busy right now.

First off, I got a job! :-D I’m a 20-hour graduate assistant for the summer. I’m an administrative grad assistant for 2 undergrad marketing classes as well as assisting in research done by the department. I get an office and I have to see kids who what to see their old tests and grade papers. Right now it’s only for the summer but it could possibly continue into the fall if I like the job, do a good job, and the profs like me. I’m just excited and happy. :D

I move into my apartment May 31 and start summer school June 1. Kind of cutting it close but I think it’ll all work out well. My parents are in Alaska right now for a cruise with some friends and I’m home alone. I’m really jealous but being stuck at home is giving me time to clean out my closet and get stuff organized before I move. My closet is so junky and needs a good clean out. Plus it’s nice to be alone for a while. It’s a nice chance to relax and chill out without anyone around. Been reading and watching movies I’ve recorded on our TiVo. See, plenty to do. Not bored at all. lol.

I’m working on getting the custom fields to cooperate with me so I can post my current mood/music on each post but I’m having some complications. If anyone has any good sites or tutorials or plugins that help, please let me know! I’m searching for some but I’m not having much luck. :(

Feeling: good
Hearing: 'Playing With My Heart' - Kate Voegele