My Latest Art Project

So i moved again...Yes, it's true. Although, i only moved a block from where i lived before, my new place is 100% better. My neighbors don't smoke, they're all nice (so far) and i'm much more comfortable here. I didn't decorate my other apartment much because i wasn't into it. I love my new apartment so i'm trying to cure the lame white walls with fun and home-y feelings.

Anyway, as mom put it, since i can't paint my walls, i'm going to paint everything i'm going to hang on the wall :) So here check this out.


C'mon! Take the journey of what i do when i have random Saturdays off as i did last weekend.

I went to Hensel's with Monica to pick out some spray paint

Monica gave me 20 records that she probably won't miss from her garage full of records for art projects.

Record with one layer of base coat

Two coats of base coat

Some color added to my records

After a few layers of paint


And the reason for my record spray painting project:
Green, yellow, pink, brown & celery. :)

<3

Becoming a Grown-Up

Oh Life, how you have tamed me....

I have lived on my own for three months and made a lot of recent decisions that have been putting me in this "grown-up" category. Not sure I like this but this new life comes bills, working full-time, and coming soon, paying for my own health insurance...I am still on my parents' health insurance until they find out I'm not going to school this semester, State Farm still thinks I live at home which is saving me a ton of money on my car insurance and my mom is still co-signed on my car loan which has helped me drive the car i want :)

Other than that, I pay my own PG&E bill, Suddenlink bill, cell phone bill and rent and although it keeps me working as many hours as possible so i can still live the life i enjoy, it is kind of exhausting to be a grown up!

Another grown-up decision: Thanksgiving trip up north! Yay! It's going to be crazy but fun. A long drive to see family we haven't seen in forever and i'm excited. We have to take two cars since there are 5 or 6 people going and obviously my car will be the pimp ride ;)

Anyway, the bottom line, being a grown-up is expensive and exhausting. I don't mind cleaning my house because i hate when it's a mess. Apartment living isn't forever but it works perfectly while i pay off a few loans i have that taunt me every month :) When i pay those off, then i can build toward something big and amazing. Whether thats a car or a house :) haha.

Peace.
-ht

Keepin' Busy

So it has been a month since I've moved out into the "real" world. I thought I would have way more down time than i seem to have. I'm rarely home and when i am home, I'm hustling around to get ready for bed or get ready for work. I'm trying to work as many hours as possible so I dont have to scrape by. I hope just the first little while will be the worst as far as bills go. PG&E is making me pay a deposit and Suddenlink made me pay for "installation fees" even though i did it myself and the house was still "hot" from the previous tenant. To add to the fun, my car insurance was due at the same time as the rest of the bills. ugh.

I've at least been trying to keep my place cleaned up. I dont own too many sets of silverware so when i run out, it's time to wash some. I'm not a huge fan of dish-washing but once i get the sink filled with hot, soapy water, it's pretty easy to just wash them.

Two weeks ago my dad helped me move my enourmous oak desk into my apartment but i'm finding it a little tight so i feel a rearrangment occuring. As i was growing up i would rearrange my room almost weekly. I finally found the perfect arrangment of my room and then i moved out. Now i have a living room and bedroom to try and make the perfect setup for myself.

I still have lots of work to do. It's not homey enough. I LOVE color and i'm having a really hard time trying to get the desire to paint out of my head. I'm going to get posters and prints of fun things to detract from the white walls with wood trim.

I'm going camping tomorrow so i'm spending today cleaning up so i can come home to a clean house :) Trying to be an adult here! :-P

**An amusing anecdote: Today my store manager asked me if i was excited for "back to school stuff" to be out already and i said "actually, this year i don't mind" and she looked puzzled. I told her i'm taking some time off school until i figure out what i want to do and she bursted out "GOOD!" I looked at her and she was like "uh, i mean good for the store." then she told me i should come talk to her about my future. lol. silly lady....

yay that my work likes me :) I'm pretty sure the worst note my file has there is that i keep getting scolded for being too loud, in a laughing and joking sort of way. Isn't that terrible??!?!?!

alright, time to figure out some dinner.

p.s. mom, i bought a huge thing of strawberries at costco and i intend on eating all of them before they go bad! :)

Livin' the Apartment life...

So I first discover that moving out is expensive.

Then i realize that moving out means mixing things up.....

I've been in my new place for a week today. I got my key at 4:30pm and the first thing i had to do was call to get my cable and internet set up....The place closed at 5pm and by the time i got off the phone, it was 5:15pm....Oh well, the person that lived here before me had basic internet so i could still watch channels 2-99 until my crisis was averted Monday morning. Luckily i was busy moving stuff all weekend so my lack of internet (and unsharing secure-network neighbors) didn't bother me.

My family was amazing and helped me move a ton of stuff into my upstairs apartment.

SO! anyway, my first morning of mixing things up, i ate special k out of a pint glass....yum :)

I just decided about an hour ago that i'm going to turn this blog into my fun adventures of living alone and trying new things.

Here is my spaghetti AND my vodka sunrise (i'm not a huge fan of tequila).















My apartment is fun colors. i have a zebra striped shower curtain, colorful dishes and red and orange placemats. Every room is fun :) I can't wait til i finish getting moved in. Now, how to get that desk up here.....

Feeling a little lost..

So it's been a long time since I've updated this beast. These last couple months have been a little crazy.

Since school has started i've doubted my abilities to succeed in the ridiculous load of science classes that i signed myself up for. I've never been a science-y person but i thought since i wanted to be a pharmacist it would all just click in my head and i'd somehow be amazing at school this semester.... I was wrong. I have struggled all semester. I enrolled in a supplemental class for Zoology but the supplemental instructor isn't very helpful because he doesn't explain things well enough for me. And i also have a hard time remembering the very specific parts of certain animals when i dont think i'll ever need to know what the function of a siphuncle is on a mollusk and how a barnacle reproduces...

Another problem i have is chemistry. I like the labs because i do well in them every week but i can't grasp the lectures and lecture exams. The concepts are over my head and again, will i really need to calculate the boiling point of Berilium? This is just general chem..what will i do when i get to organic chemistry?

So i had a break down.

A couple weeks ago i had a realization that i'm not sure i even want to be a pharmacist. I love working in the pharmacy as a technician but i'm not sure i want to know about all the stuff the pharmacist has to know. I can't handle general chem, how will i handle 4 intense years of pharmacy school? So i exhaled when i came to this realization.... I feel like a load is lifted off my shoulders.
As of this moment i'm not sure what i'm doing with myself. I have decided to take some time off of school and work as a pharmcy tech and try to hunt down what i'm going to do with myself. After all, i am only 20 (almost 21) and that means i have time to be lost and confused for awhile. If i get to be 30 and still lost then i might panic but as of now, i'll relax and try to find my passion.


Any suggestions?

My new life.

Hello Hello!

It's been awhile since I've written and it's because I'm busy. I know, same old excuse. But here's what's up.

Same old life.
Dumped old boyfriend.
Hate school.
Got new boyfriend.
Still hate school.
Starting to enjoy life.
Excited for Christmas.
Playin' in Photoshop.
Still enjoying life.
Starting to exercise!
A little happier with myself.

Life is looking up and though things are crazy, they are calming down and since this is my favorite time of year, I'm excited for relaxation and NO SCHOOL FOR AWHILE!

Keep an eye out for a Holiday website, I'm having fun.

Sooooo, that's what's up. Any questions?

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