Herbert the Mouse

So there has been a mouse problem at the university I go to because we have endured an extremely cold and unusually long winter.  From what I have heard from my older friends, this year the university has cancelled more classes due to weather conditions compared to recent years.  Because of this, still ongoing winter, there have been mice in a lot of the dorms on campus.  Specifically my building which has had mice problems that you can count on two hands.  Two rooms on my floor have had mice and I have heard other horror stories of mouse discoveries.  I thought with the weather warming up a bit, the mice issue would melt away like the snow on the ground however, on Thursday night after I made my last post, I watched in terror as a mouse darted into my room and scurried behind mine and my roommates refrigerators.  

After some choice words I ran down to the office to tell them of my problem and then someone came up and set some sticky traps in hopes to catch Herbert, which is what I named him.  I was extremely upset by the whole experience and not upset like crying upset like angry.  I was pissed to say the least.  My suite mates are not clean at all and had not one, not two, but FIVE bags of garbage in the common area which is what attracted the mouse to our room.  My roommate and one of our other suite mates got rid of the garbage that wasn't ours to begin with.  I ended up going home this weekend because I was emotional and the whole scheduling process was getting to me and then the mouse just sent me over the edge.  

Being home was good for me because I was able to step back and calm down a bit.  I was able to examine the stressors in my life and realize that they are only temporary and that I just needed to figure it out in order to move past the small bumps in the road.  Going into this week I have a better frame of mind and I'm ready to hit the ground running because finals are only about four weeks away.  YIKES!!

Ta ta,

Jamie 

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Pissed at Men Syndrome

The title of this post may be a little misleading but if you have every seen the movie The Last Song with Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth then you know what I'm referring to.  If you don't then let me explain: I will be getting my friend next week and so this week I am an emotional mess.  I just feel like crying for no reason and it is just awful.

I am currently making my schedule for next year and its freaking me out that I don't know I don't know what I want to do with my life still.  I don't know what I want to major in so making my schedule is super stressful and I absolutely hate it to be honest.  I would love to just blog and make a youtube channel and just do that for the rest of my life but I feel like I should get an education just in case I need a back up plan somewhere down the road.  I also love my friends here but is having the most amazing group of friends that completely accept me enough to keep me here.  I also have my parents to consider because they are the ones who are paying for me to go here.  Anyway I just need to seriously consider my options and then go from there.

Ta ta,

Jamie 

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Car on Campus

I have worked almost my entire adolescence.  I have been babysitting/mothers helping since I was around 12.  Which seems really young looking back on it now but I have always been really mature for age.  So a few months after I turned 16 I got a job and started saving up to buy a car.  When it was time for me to get a car I didn't have a lot of money.  I had enough to lease a car but it couldn't be in my name.  So my car is leased under my mom's name and I made the car payments my senior year of high school.  Having a car was crucial in working and gave me independence that I never truly valued until I got to college.

I knew I wasn't allowed to have my car on campus because the university wants us freshies to become involved in clubs on campus and be a part of the campus community.  It was fine for maybe the first few days but honestly I felt completely stuck I hated not having a car and when I went home I drove as much as I could because I didn't have that luxury at school.  Not having my car was a pain because doing large shopping at the food store and schlepping all of my packages onto the bus and then carrying them back to my dorm.  Taking public transportation is free with my student ID card but the buses restricted where I shopped due to where the bus stops are in relation to the location of certain stores, mainly Target.  (Side note: I am obsessed with Target and at home I go there at least once a week).

Not going to places in the city where I go to was annoying but going home by bus annoyed the crap out of me.  It takes so much longer to get home by bus than by car.  I also have to plan trips at certain times related to when the buses leave throughout the day.  I knew I wanted to bring my car up at the end of the year because I was sick and tired of buses.  There are several hotels directly across the street from my school and so I thought I would just park my cars in there and hopefully they wouldn't notice.  My mom, being a mom, wasn't too thrilled with this idea.  As it turned out, luck was on my side.

I had an abnormal mole on my stomach that I got biopsied back in January and it came back not precancerous but still concerning.  My mom did some research and the type of abnormal cells could turn precancerous so she made an appointment with a cancer doctor who specializes in dermatology.  He wanted to remove the area around the mole and so he cut out a pretty decent chunk from my stomach and now I have six stitches.  I was given strict instructions to not take part in any strenuous activity for two weeks so I took advantage of this opportunity to get my car on campus with a medical excuse.  My mom, being awesome, spoke to the medical director of my school and I now have a pass to have my car on campus for the rest of year.  This will make my many trips to Target easier and also traveling home because it 100% more time conducive.  I really am so happy to have my car on campus.

Ta ta,

Jamie

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Keeping in touch

I just wanted to make a quick post about keeping touch with people when you are in college.  When you first go to college, it's all very exciting and new.  You are finally independent and you are out experiencing everything you possibly can.  In the beginning of the first semester, even after my uncle's accident, I wouldn't talk to my family for days at a time.  Now that it's the second semester I talk to her almost every day.  Even when I was homesick last semester I would just look at pictures on Facebook, on my phone and on my computer and I would just cry.  It was very weird being at school for the first couple of weeks because I felt like my family was just continuing their lives and I just wasn't a part of it.  I was talking to my friend about this feeling the other day because her family was celebrating her dad and sister's birthdays and she was sad she couldn't be there.

This being said I absolutely love college.  The workload is a lot but I have a great group of friends.  I hang out with them everyday.  We get dinner together every day and we are kind of our own little family unit.  We talk about our days and things that are going on in our lives and just share a lot of laughs.  It's very exiting because we just picked where we are going to live next year.  We picked to live on the quad with the best dining hall food which is very exciting.  I'm happy we will be living together because right now its a complete pain to go all over the building to each other's rooms.  I love my group of friends and we get to see each other everyday but us being together all the time sometimes I forget to keep in touch with my family and friends from home.

I have no one that I really text all the time every single day.  I have weird relationships like that.  Me and my best friend from home didn't go to the same high school but we lived in the same town.  We wouldn't text everyday but when we saw each other we would stay up all night talking about everything.  That's just the relationship we have.  Now that we are in college it's a little bit different.  She goes to school in Canada so none of our breaks so far have matched up.  We make up for this by talking on the phone.  We will randomly call each other out of the blue and just talk for a long time about everything and we do text from time to time in-between these long phone calls.  We will have the summer off at the same time though and that will give us an opportunity to hang out a lot.

My sister, my cousin and I are really close and when I'm home we hang out all the time.  We are all literally attached at the hip.  Me and my sister are really close but we don't talk all the time.  We text each other intermittently.  I love her to death and I would love to text her all the time but she doesn't seem to want to which is fine I give her space because I know thats just the way our relationship is.  My cousin and I text from time to time as well but we always spend a ton of time together when I'm home.  

Wow that has been a super long post and if you have made it this far good for you!!  Thanks so much for reading!!

Ta ta,

Jamie

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Spring Break

Spring break is like this glamorous tradition for college students to go away and party their asses off. I remember watching the Spring Break specials on MTV.  They always looked like so much fun just being on a beach with no parental supervision dancing and partying all day long.  However now that I am a college student my views have completely changed.

I honestly cannot wait to just be in my bed until like 12 everyday.  The idea of being able to sleep until the middle of the day is honestly so exciting as lame as that sounds.  I am busy with school and clubs and all that jazz.  I have 10 days until I go home and yes I have a countdown because that's how excited I am.  

Next week is supposed to be "midterm week." But I actually don't have any midterm tests which is weird.  I had two tests last week in two classes but those were just routine exams that took place at the end of the units.  The only thing that I have to do that has the word "midterm" associated with it is a midterm portfolio for my writing class.  But get this, next week we don't have class at all, just a conference for this portfolio.  I will still have a lot of work to do for the class but I am able to work on it on my time which is nice but I also feel like I'm going to need to keep on top of myself and make sure I am not leaving everything for the last minute. 

My spring break happens to fall over St. Patrick's day.  I haven't done a lot in the past to celebrate.  When I was four I actually had the pleasure of walking in the parade which was pretty cool.  The picture below is of me in my parade outfit, sorry I couldn't get it the right way but it's still pretty cute.

This year I am super excited because I am going to the parade with my friends and then we are going back to my friends house to sleepover.  I am going to Spencer's soon to get a bunch of stuff for the parade.  I am so excited to dress up and I know me and my friends are just going to have the best time.  

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Late Christmas beauty presents

So this is really really late but these are beauty products that I got for Christmas.  So the first picture is all of the products I got.  The second picture is the Lorac Pro Palette.  I have only used this a few times because I didn't bring it to school after my winter break.  The color payoff is amazing and the colors are so creamy I really love this palette.  The second picture is the Naked Basics palette.  I use this all the time, almost everyday.  I love the matte brown shade and the yellow highlight shade.  The third is the Urban Decay Oil Control Setting Spray and this works wonders I use this especially when I'm going out and it helps my make up to stay on all night.  Next is Daisy perfume my Marc Jacobs which is my all time favorite scent.  I kind of think of this as my signature scent.  This is my second bottle of this perfume.  And finally the Real Techniques Miracle Complexion Sponge.  I have never had a Beauty Blender but I really love this product and its a great alternative if you don't want to spend $20 on a sponge.  That's all for today.  Thanks!!