Apartment Shopping?!

With another semester coming up I've started to think about the things I want to start looking at for my apartment. Even though I've gone back to the same apartment for what will be three years now, I seem to always find that I need new things come August.

The first thing I am definitely going to need is my own coffee maker. (And nope- if Rooms wants coffee she can buy her own! I'm VERY particular about things- esp things I use on a daily basis as part of a 'routine'). Somehow over the last 3 years of college I've developed a serious dependency on my morning caffeine. It started when I would should up in my Principals of Accounting class at 9AM diet pepsi in hand, and quickly evolved into needed something caffeinated and warm, because the lib. has some serious climate control issues. Plus I really do just enjoy the taste- a lot. It's very calming to me (except- you know when it spills all over the floor of my car).

As such I've been looking at pots online. I've decided I don't want something white because it'll get spotted up with coffee product and I'm way too anal retentive to have a spotted coffee maker.

I'm thinking this one- which is a Mr. Coffee (black) 12 -Cup Maker. It's from Bed, Bath & Beyond, and if I purchase it in store with a 20% off coupon it'll be $24 (or $25.44 with sales tax) which really isn't so bad if you consider that a cup of coffee is normally $1.50. It pays for itself in less than three weeks!!

If you're super curious this is the link to where I found it on BB&B.com (: (just click the word "link"!)

Another thing that I am REALLY going to need to look into this fall is a shoe organizer. I don't have "that"many shoes, but last year they were always all over the floor of my closet, and I just can't deal with that. Especially since I will be working two days of the week at the accounting firm. I need to be able to find what I need when I need it. For that I'm really just looking for a simple over the door shoe organizer.

Again- I found one at BB&B. It retails for $15, and again with the 20% off coupon it'd only be $12 (or $12.72 with tax!). Not the cutest,  but it just needs to do the job!

Again- if you're super interested in finding this EXACT shoe holder you can find it online at this link. 

The last thing I'm really looking into is a better storage system to replace all my plastic dressers. They did their job, but they're an eyesore and I hate that you can see everything in them. The current alternative to this solution is this little cube creation that Target has. My only annoyance here is that the little basket to put in the holes really add up (6.99ea x 9 holes ... incase you don't want to do the math that's 62.91 BEFORE tax, PLUS the cost of the actual shelving unit).

Anyway- this is the picture of what I had in mind- I'm still kind of on the fence... I don't really want to spend $100+ to store my gym clothes, and PJ's but I really need something!

I was thinking this and getting the green baskets to put in it. The shelving unit is $50. Plus the added cost of the baskets. Ugh! But I need deep storage because my gym shirts and shorts are always getting jammed in my little plastic sterlite things, and its gotten to the point that I don't even bother putting them away anymore.. Not so awesome. If anyone has any cheaper suggestions leave them here, or on facebook if we're friends! My only hesitation is that I don't want it to be too much like a dresser, I already have a full four drawer stand up dresser that's about four feet high that'll be in the room, and I don't want it to feel cluttered (I have space issues!)

Anyway if you want to look more at the cubemaid thing you can do so at this link. 

Alright! well that's pretty much what I need (: I should get to bed! Five fifteen comes early and I've got 3+ miles to get in tomorrow morning!

Thanks for reading... stay tuned for more!

Tuesday Night Ramblings

#1- Last night I downloaded lots of new songs for my iPod. Some of my fav's our "Our Kind of Love" by Lady Antebellum, "Turning Home" David Nail, "I'm Yours" Ron Pope **This isn't the same as the Jason Mraz song, it's better, Swear**

Oh okay, I love it so much I'll insert it here.



Oh PS- Ron Pope if you're out there reading this... I'll be yours ;-) (My shameful flirting is charming right?? Totally untrashy.... I'm sure Zachie doesn't mind)

#2- I want more high heels for work. They hurt my feet but look so good.

#3- I can't wait til I have my first coffee maker. I'm picking out names for him.

#4- We had a 4 way joke email going on at work today. Pretty much made my day.

#5- When I have my own home and tons of money to spend on frivolous things (aka in my next life) I am going to buy a red teapot. How cheery!

#6- I used to collect polished rocks when I was little. I'm honestly not sure what ever happened to them! I had amethyst and tigers eye!!

#7- I love twizzlers. No seriously. I love them. I could eat them for hours. I also enjoy using them as straws for my Diet soda.

#8- When I was 8 someone stole gobstoppers from my Halloween basket. They STILL won't admit they did. Um... hello...gobstoppers just don't go missing. They don't have legs.

#9- I want to go to Maine!! I want blueberries, maple candy, mountains, and sweatshirt weather. I want to track moose down the side of the mountain at 5am (oh the things you don't know about my childhood...) and sit outside on a wooden porch in rocking chairs.

#10- Seriously. I find nothing more annoying than when people trying to have a contest of life woes. I know I do it sometimes too so I guess this can go out to me as well... but seriously. COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS. So you get up early? At least you get up. So you stubbed your toe, at least you HAVE toes. So maybe you fall down a well, lose your wallet, your dog dies, your cat runs away, your favorite jeans shrank in the wash, and you broke your favorite purse snagging it on the door... um, hello you're living, you're breathing, when compared to the alternative do those other things even really matter? Um.  how's about.. nope!

Nobody's Perfect.

1- I have a chronic condition that leads to my inability to ever turn a library book in on time.
2- I get lost everywhere I go.
3- I'm moody and the most irritable person ever sometimes- for pretty much no rational reason at all.
4- I can't resist buying a lip-gloss (or twelve) when it's on sale.
5- I screen my calls.
6- I'm that girl that never knows the right words to the songs but sings along anyway.
7- I leave my hair everywhere I go. I know, super gross. I can't help it. It just falls out and I can't be held liable for knowing the precise location of every single hair on my head at all times. So... sometimes they just kind of... find new homes.
8- I crack my toes all the time.
9- I never respond to events on facebook.
10- I bite my straws.
11- I'm never "satisfied" or complacent. I'm always looking for the next step or more.
12- I am an awful speller. Awful.
13- Sometimes my playful hitting is harder than I intend it to be.
14- I can be pretty selfish.
15- I have no idea where half the states are in our country, and if you were to ask me to point to a foreign country I'd probably point to google. I have no idea where anything in this big world is.
16- When it rains I want sun, when it's sunny I want rain.
17- My skin is allergic to pretty much everything. So is my nose. I sneeze so much that my cube neighbor knows my sneeze pattern.
18- I romanticize everything.
19- I sparknote'd the classics in highschool. Shh- don't tell.
20- I do laundry and fold it, and never seem to be able to actually put it away.
21- I always get nail polish on the outside of my nailbed when I paint my nails.
22- I'll only read chic-lit. I'll only watch chic-flicks. And I honestly like love songs best.
23- I have to have my papers organized in straight piles or I get agitated.
24- I can't keep a pair of shoes clean for more than 2 weeks.
25- If I want a cupcake and I plan to eat it while watching One Tree Hill and someone starts talking to me and ruins my cupcake eating plan... I have to start over again. I have to experience the perfect moment I planned.

Woops...

Woops. Apparently it's been 3+ weeks since I updated my blog, I could make tons of excuses, but I won't bother! :) So... let's get on to the things I wanna run my mouth about.

#1- Internship. It's A LOT to learn all at once. I feel like I don't know how to do anything on my own because one day I do this, and another day I do that. I am convinced I have yet to do the same thing two days in a row and I've been there three weeks now. Other than feeling slow and behind the learning curve I really like it. The people there are really nice, and I think it's a really nice Company to be working for. I have my own little "cube" where I've put up 2 pictures and brought in a beanie baby pig named "sniffs" who sits on top of my adding machine. Sniff's is a new addition as of last Thursday.. if anyone asks me about him I plan on letting them know he's Sniff's the Accounting Pig there to help me sniff out Fraud. Hahaha. Oh I am so lame...

#2- Lately I've really been getting into makeup... which I guess kind of puts me behind the rest of the universe but.. I just feel like none of my friends in high school wore any, so I never got into it then. But it really is a ton of fun. My current favorite is my MAC Viva Glam Gaga lipstick...

Isn't it beautiful?? It was $14, which is probably mildly ridiculous but I've never been able to find a similar color at the drugstore (of course, it's impossible to tell because you can never see the product so I could have tried about 20 and never found the right one!). Also, all the money goes to support the MAC AIDS fund, which is awesome- so that little baby right there was essentially a charitable donation. 

Anyway- I might be sharing some news on the "make up" interest front ... but probably not for a few more weeks.. somethings are better kept private haha. But I'll share eventually so stayed tuned!!! (If you're super curious just shoot me a message on FB or something and I might share!)

#3- A few weeks ago Zach and I went up to a Phillies game and it was an absolutely gorgeoussss night for a baseball game. They did lose... but the seats were awesome, the food was awesome, and well you know.. the company wasn't so bad either ;)

That's about all I can think of as far as updates lately... I might post another blog later tonight on "Things I want to Do This Summer"

Updates :)

Okay first of all. I have to admit a little something. I am currently listening to Celine Dion's Christmas music. I know it's like 90 degrees out and humid and bright and sunshiney and no chance of snow in the forecast (Rats... I know how much everyone misses having two feet of snow on the ground) but it is kind of nice and relaxing!

Update #1- I am finally finished the semester!!! I am quite honestly not sure how I made it out alive. It was the most demanding, and stressful semester of my life. Well actually, it was stressful but different kind of stressful than the fall. The fall would have cycles of high, high, high stress followed by periods of relaxation. This spring though (after the snow days) kind of was constantly high stress with periods of spikes in the high stress (with a spike lasting three weeks towards the end of the semester...) **Quick sidenote: Josh Grobon & Celine Dion's duet on the First Noel just came on Pandora, I am in love. Favorite Christmas song ever** Anyway. Somehow... I survived (I get by with a little help from my friends) and finished the semester with a 4.0!!! Yay! :)

Update #2- Kind of related to school, but not really. On the last day of classes my accounting professor held me and 4 other people after class to let us know that we'd been selected to be on the school's "Goodman Accounting Challenge Team" in the Fall (If we wanted to). So- that's pretty exciting. There's a preliminary challenge that's on a Saturday in the fall in Salisbury, which we do and submit online. Then, if we "pass" or something. We go to the "championship" in Richmond, Va. Which I realize sounds kind of nerdy... but it's still exciting. Although.. I think it might be something that only other accounting people find interesting. I dunno- I'm still excited Salisbury has a really good repetition at these competitions (won it for the last handful of years), plus even if we don't win being selected to be on it to begin with is kind of a nice thing.

Update #3- I am going to be a bridesmaid!!!! My childhood best friend Pam came through town this past weekend to ask me! I am so excited the wedding is next May, and we've been friends forever and pretty much started planning our weddings when we were nine. I am sooooo excited :) :) :)!!! So I am going to have to go up to visit her this summer (well ... technically "west") to get the dress! But I am so stoked! From girlscouts to weddings... how cliche and adorable! But seriously, it's going to be beautiful and I can't wait.

Update #4- I now don't start my internship until the 7th of June. Which kind of stinks because I haven't worked in a few weeks so it kind of stresses me out to be so low on cash but I feel like I'd really only use the money to buy myself presents (what.. no one else does... and SOMEONE has to :P) so it's not too big of a deal. Plus it's really nice to have some time off to just read, not think about accounting, and enjoy sleeping in late and such.

Update #5- I weighed myself the other day and since this time last year I've lost 22lbs!!! There's not much else to share n this update I just think it's exciting haha. I don't think I look that different but it's kind of nice to still think that even if my size hasn't changed much I've probably still lost a lot of unhealthy 'fat' and stuff. :)

How Cute is Google Today?!?!?!? :)

So precious!! I feel like I am in Kindergarden all over again! :) Look at the little Lady Bug "O" and the Palm-tree "L"! So adorable.

Things I'm Lovin' Lately.

Hey everyone!!! The semester is finally over! As such I thought a much needed "Things I'm Lovin' Post" was due! :) I'll have lots more up for the next few months (until inevitably school reclaims my soul). Also! I'll do an update blog later this week but for now I wanted to do something fun, summery, and happy.

#1- Light pink lip gloss.

I got the Covergirl Wetslicks the other day in "Shimmershell (350)" and I am basically in love. Not sticky AT ALL, and it goes on pretty much true to color. It is a bit more "sheer" but I'm fine with that because my lips are dark enough that when it's on.. it looks like it should. If that makes sense?

Also- the second pretty pink is from the MAC "To The Beach Collection" and is called "Easy Lounger." Basically.... I am in love. But $14 for a lipgloss? I dunno if I can do it... maybe once I make the big girl accounting moolah. But seriously. How adorable is the packaging, and the color is precious right????

#2 Colorful Flip-Flops

I have been pretty much a rainbow snob for the last 2 years. Wearing, quite literally, only my rainbows all summer except for when I wanted to wear my black leather sandals (maybeeee once a week, twice max). OR when it was raining sometimes I'd go for another pair. This summer though (induced by a lack of currency due to constantly NEEDING to be in the lib.) I opted to try out some of the old navy flipflops since I was trying to preserve my rainbows. All in all. They're precious. I wouldn't wear them if I wanted to wear flops and do a lot of walking but for just throwing on to run to class, or for just hanging out with friends, totally acceptable. And so cheap!

#3 These Two Songs


J*Beib and S*King Eenie Meenie


This song's too long for me to list all those involved (yes... it's only three people I'm just lazy).

I know you're not judging me for my taste in music. I know you're totally not. Right?

#4 Simple Pendants

We won't talk about the very traumatic, tear jerking, pendant fiasco of 11AM this morning, but just know it was awful. Anyway- I really like simple white gold (or yellow) pendant necklaces. They're so wearable. :)

#5- Adorable Running Shorts

I don't own these (yet...) but they're adorable and can be found at Dick's Sporting Goods. I've been looking for some new running shorts since mine are all aboutttt 3 years old. And I loveee these. I mean how cute are they?! They even have pink :)

yadda yadda yadda

Blah blah blah. I need a break from staring at my business law notes so I am going to come and ramble... sound good? yes I thought so.

So yes... oh to the thoughts because we all know I can't speak unless I number things...

#1- That final I took last night. Worst. Experience. Of. My. Life. And I think its bad because I know I made STUPID mistakes. I mean it was hard but I just did stupid stuff, and I can't figure out what was wrong. Like I didn't even take the test the same way that I normally take tests. I think he psyched me out for it last week, and I had so much pressure on myself to do well in the class, and there was other pressure too.. but I don't feel like sharing that stuff with the whole world. I don't I feel like I was just really psyched out and then I got nervous and then one of the problems was hard, and I couldn't get my cash flow to work, and I felt like I was running out of time, and it was late, and I was stressed and it was just bad, bad, bad. I seriously thought that I was going to cry. Like I missed whole words. Like seriously... how do you miss whole words....  I don't know but it was bad.

#2- On a positive note, I am pretty sure that Golden Doodles are the most adorable dogs in the entire world and I just want to pick them up and love on them. The problem with them though? They get so BIG! I can't do big dogs, I need a little thing that I can carry around and pick up when it decides to get prissy with me. You can't just pick up 100lb dog when he won't listen to you.... or a 65lb dog who won't go in his crate because his mother spoils him... believe me.. I've tried the later,... also impossible.

#3 I dont remember the last time I saw or spoke to my fiance for more than like.. 30 minutes. Bad.....

#4 I feel like I've worked my butt off for the last two years and somehow within the last week or two everything that I worked so hard for has fallen to pieces around me.  For example... I haven't been to the gym in a week.. why? Because I literally couldn't find the time. I'm afraid I'll fall into a nasty rut and never get back to the gym. And then I'll look gross again.... because we all know how awesome my eating habits are.

#5- Sometimes I wish I had like... an invention. Because there are things that I want to "talk" about but either, I don't have the right person to talk to them about, I don't want to actually say them out loud, or I want to say them but I don't want proof that I've ever said them or thought them. Even on here I censor myself because I put this out there for everyone to read, but I don't necessarily wanting those people to know all my thoughts.... and then there are some people who even if you did talk to them about things... they're just not the right person to talk to. Like if I was really upset about how awful my dog was behaving (this isn't something I'd actually censor myself on....) I'm not going to talk to my friend who I love, but knows nothing about animals because... they won't be of any help. And then there are other things that I'm like Gah I would love to get this off my chest, but I don't want to tell anyone and I don't want to write it down because even if I locked it away in box with a lock and a key it is possible that someday someone would find it... and sometimes you just don't want your thoughts and emotions held against you. I don't know. I feel like I have this problem a lot though. I don't know... maybe I'm just not comfortable with people enough to tell them things too even though they could be helpful.

#6- I have so many neuroses. I have this problem where I think something is going to happen and even if it is completely illogical to "want" something to happen, I will it to happen so I could just get it over with. For example, if I just had a feeling that tomorrow I was going to wake up and get hit by a commit... I would just like sit around waiting for it to happen- and I would just sit there, wishing it would happen already so I could get on with my life until either a) it happened or b) something happened that proved to be it wouldn't happen. Referring to point #5- something like that's going on right now and I'd love to tell someone I just feel like I don't have anyone to tell.

#7- I am being ridiculously long winded tonight- I'm sorry I truly do apologize.

#8- I often find myself wishing that people had instant understanding. Like if I told someone I was allergic to peanuts (I'm not) they'd instantly understand how much it might suck (or rock... obvi that doesn't apply to the peanuts example), and all the ramifications is has on my life, and everything I might know about it. I just hate explaining things sometime- ironic because of #5.

#9- I always have this weird irrational fear that I am going to completely sleep through a final even though it might be at like 5 in the afternoon. I have no idea why.... Although it might have something to do with that time I woke up 10  minutes into a test... but that kind of beside the point because not only did I take/finish the whole test,... I also worried about that before that happened to me.

#10- Oh, oh my god. Last night when I went to get something at the gas station... The cashier was the creepiest guy in the world.... ever. Pretty sure. I literally got the hee-bee jee-bees from him.... 

Slowwwww Dowwnnnnn

I knowww- MIA for like 5 years again. My bad... but my life is so busy...

So... some updates.

#1- I called my internship boss the other day (is that weird that I call him that?? I feel so silly...) because when I emailed him what I was thinking of doing this summer- he told me to give him a call. I guess I was a little dense when I went to talk to him this January and didn't quite get it- but they plan on keeping me on all next year as an intern as well. Obviously, I won't work NEARLY as much because I will be slaving away at the books... but you know... still that's pretty cool. He flat out told me that they hire 99% of their employees so I guess I should be pumped. But as the title suggests... I kind of wish time would slow down.

#2- All I want to do is wake up go for a niceeeee lonnnnggg runnnnn take a shower and then be lazy allllllllll day. Like completely lazy. have delicious food brought to me on nice plates, watch bad TV, and read books. And eat chocolate cake.

#3- I am soooo tireddd. I do not even remember the last time that I slept more than 6-7 hours in a night. Lately I've been averaging close to 5.5 ... awesome.

#4- I want fresh flowers. I mean obvi it's a waste because I'm too stressed out to enjoy them at the moment- and I'd be leaving before they died... so its kind of pointless but you know.... I like flowers haha.

#5- Zach rubbed my temples for me earlier and I'm pretty sure I saw St. Peter...

#6- I haven't thought about anything other than accounting finals for the last 3 weeks. SO STRESSFUL. I dont even feel like my semester is coming to an end. I feel like its drawing on and on and on and onnnnnnnnnnnnnn.

#7- I could really go for some water, with a quarter lemon and 3 splenda, in a yellow cup. A bright yellow cup, like sunshine yellow, not mustard yellow or crayola crayon yellow, but sunshine. you know what I'm talking about.

#8- September seems like it was years ago.

#9- I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles- Audrey Hepburn.

#10 I believe I am going back to studying. I believe I am going to take a shower. I believe I have probably gained 5lbs this week, and that I am probably not doing myself much good by never sleeping. I believe that school is hard, and that I work way too hard. I believe that when I graduate and get a real job I am taking a very expensive vacation. Very expensive. 

Woops...

Oops... 17 days accidently passed and I haven't updated my blog. My b. I've been so busy with school, work, life, and feeling lazy that I haven't gotten around to updating. To be honest- it feels like its been more than 2.5 weeks... but apparently not.

So some thoughts....

#1- I am kind of worried about finals. I just don't want to do it. I'm tired- and I think my brain is on vacation or something because it seems to be failing me lately.

#2- I was just there last night- but there is this yummy new pizza place on the north side of town and they have a really delicious tomato and mozerella salad and I already want to go back and get more.

#3- I tried Sushi again today- it's still as gross as I remembered....

#4- I just watched last night's episode of Bones on Hulu... Naturally I cried. Angie and Hodgie?!?! :) I am so happy.

#5- I really would enjoy ice coffee right now...

#6- I think about food wayyyyy too much. I'm pretty sure 90% of what I write about relates to food I'm wanting, just ate, or plan on eating. Oh Emily...

#7- I love Candles :)

#8- I want sundresssssssses. But my hips make me look ridiculous in them.

#9- Today's Daily Puppy = Adorable Fur Ball.

#10- I would like nothing more than to sleep all weekend... Ugh. Just 9 more days and I am done with Intermediate Accounting for the rest of my life. Oh god...