It's About that Time Again

Welcome back to Mental Regurgitation!


This post will bring out my nerd-ness and expose just how much of a geek I am, but that's okay.  I'm willing to bear it all.  ;)  

I'M SO EXCITED FOR SCHOOL TO START!!!!

Yesterday I packed up my backpack for the first day of school (Aug. 29th) and made sure I had everything I needed for my first classes.  I'm a little worried but also excited for this semester and how it's going to go.  Tuesdays are my easy days where I just have 1 class from 11-12:15, so that'll be awesome for grocery shopping and all of that fun magical stuff that needs to happen on a weekly basis (also known as errands).  Sleeping in won't be so bad, either.  Wednesdays and Saturdays are 8hr packed days of my internship-so hopefully all will be well!  I have a very light class schedule, so I'm hoping this semester will be AWESOME and that I can ace every class!

I love the routine of getting ready for a new school year.  I love new stationary and notebooks, new pens and pencils, and new FRESH semester schedules.  I love the smell of new textbooks and settling into new classrooms with new peers.  

Pair all of that with how much FUN fall fashion can be, and we have a pretty great start to a school year inundated with homework, tests, nervousness, stress, and anxiety.  Whoo hooo!

Because I am a bigger girl (as most of you know by now,) I'll share one of my favorite places to shop for clothing that fits women like me.  For new awesome fall fashions in sizes  14-28, click here.

And on a slightly different note, my mother's birthday fell yesterday.  So she came up to Burlington and we decided to go to Ri Ra's for dinner.  Here I proceeded to get drunk off of a Long Island Iced Tea and a Watermelon Schnapps.  Oh yeah.  :]

All in all-this has been a great summer, and I'm totally ready for an excellent school year.  Ashley will be moving into the bedroom next to mine very soon (Saturday) and the gang (me, Ryan, Ashley, and Joe) will reconvene once everyone is settled!  (We'd love to have Velvet back as well, but she's doing her thing in NY and getting by as best she can.  We miss her!)

Welcome to the Life of a Broke College Student!

My family and I are working with Financial Aid and Student Accounts at my college right now, attempting to figure out what we owe them or what they owe is.  As I'm sure you can imagine, it is a frustrating process.

So, my entire senior year hangs in balance as I wait to discover whether I will have enough money to handle buying all of my own groceries, or if I have to take a meal plan at the college so that my scholarships, loans and grant money will cover it.  And as I'm sure you can imagine, I'm stressed.

I was lucky enough to pay off almost all of my credit card debt today, however I now have to purchase this semester's textbooks and pay for groceries for the next 2 weeks.  Lovely.

I really hope things will work out in my favor for this school year.  I've got my game face on and I'm ready to work hard and play harder.

xoxo

Mismatched Cups

You know what's frustrating?

When you have a million mismatched cups and mugs in your kitchen cabinet and things don't fit quite right because of it.  But on the other hand, some of those cups have sentimental value, and you couldn't imagine yourself parting with them.

Welcome to college.

As I stood in my kitchen the other day putting dishes away, I had a flash-forward of my life.

My darling Ryan and I were happily en route in our life together: married, no kids yet, and I was still putting dishes away.  But we had an actual dish set.  Dishes that went together, that matched.  No more thrown-together plastic and glass dishware that consisted of my current dishware.  (And no more cheapie silverware from Walmart [5 for $1, anyone?]).

I'm really excited and ready to push beyond my mismatched THINGS in college life.  I'm ready to have my own place where I can own a complete dish set if I want, where I can host Christmas cocktail parties and serve alcohol because I'm over 21, and where I can really get a snapshot of what the rest of my life is going to look like.  (And make some changes if necessary).

As for the mismatched cup era?  Well, it was fun.  Developing relationships with half plastic/half glass dish sets has been a good time through the hilarity of college.  But, I'm ready for something better.