New Years

The first half of this year sucked.. reallllly bad! I have almost forgot how awful the year was before August! But after that my year was amazing.. better than anything I’ve ever hoped for. Spending the semester with Danny in Texas was a dream I had dreamt about since I was in like 9th grade. I couldn’t have asked for a better way to spend my life.

I’ve come to realize that unless you do something with your life, it’s not going to get better. I dwelled so much on the fact that I was upset about stuff last year that I never did anything to make my life better. When I finally took the step in changing my life and making it better is when I realized that I had been being so stupid! I was so upset that I wasn’t in TX that I didn’t want to do anything to improve my life in MI! It was stupid of me to be so immature.. but I finally got my wish! And I’m so extremely happy that I’m there and my life feels like it improved tenfold! I just wish I hadn’t wasted my life up until now.. but oh well! From here I can only go forward in my life and make improvements for myself.

This summer I made a list on what I wanted to do.. and a lot of them I did actually accomplish, but a lot I did not do. And that’s something I want to change! I had made that list just for the summer, but it moreover is what I wanted throughout the year.. it’s just easier to do things during the summer since there is no school! But even now, with school, I want to do more than I have been. I tend to take it easy during the school year so I’m not too busy and have enough time for studying! But I’ve realized the past couple of years that I don’t need all the time I spend doing nothing aka sitting on the computer.. and I barely spend any time on homework anyways haha. Soooo my major change for this year is to get out more. Doesn’t have to be outside, but I just want to do more things..be constantly busy and having fun. I want to do so many things!!!

Here’s my list from the summer: (I’m going to add on!)

 Study Japanese [I will continue in the summer because it’s too much with other work]

 Buy new Japanese textbooks (to further study) [summer]

 Finish reading The Sword of Truth series (Maybe Harry Potter too)[oops]

 Finish finiancial aid✓[yay!]

 Get hair dip dyed [this summer for sure!]

 Buy a pair of red shoes (bought an even better pair!)✓[still kind of want a red pair lol]

 Beat Jet Set Radio [nope!]

 Make a ton of friendship bracelets✓[hehe yess]

 Go to the amusement park [If I win a race with Danny then he will take me to Six Flags hehe]

 Find a new job [I tried soo hard! I will find one this semester! otherwise I’ll be poor af]

 Paint those shells [ I did some!]

 Save up a ton of money!(trying!)✓[failed]

 Hang up curtain holders[nope]

 Paint my mirror white[yes!]

 Go to Warped Tour(fun, but too hot!!)✓[not going again!]

 Change belly button ring[ahhh why haven’t i yet!? haha]

 Get a tattoo(maybe next year : ) [ i sure do want one!]

 Watch Once Upon A Time and Grimm[nope]

 Finish Germany scrapbook (from 8th grade! Long past overdue) [finally finished!!]

 Do some things that cannot be said in this blog! [yes yes and yes!]

 Brazillian wax (loll) and  legs and such too [i have not!]

 Go to Texas State(Going!! ^^ )✓ [yay! best change of my life!]

 Get my ears double pierced [ I WILL get this soon]

 Have fun? (Maybe…) (Having a much better summer than last! )✓ [more fun than ever]

 Go on adventures!

 Exercise more (not just running.. swimming, yoga, walks) just anything!

 Make a lot of DIYs!

 Do not spend any money on clothes or very little!!

 Eat healthy.. no more eating out everyday..

 Do more updates on my blog or write down memories and such

 Take more pictures!

Some hopes&dreams:

 Go to California [nope!]

 Or a roadtrip to no where (or to California) [I hope Danny and I can do something like this!]

So I am pretty confident that I can accomplish these and especially the ones I added on!

Happy New Year!

I hope everyone’s hopes & dreams come true!

It’s beginning…

..to feel a lot like Christmas~

After Halloween all I can think about is Christmas.. like skip Thanksgiving, it’s all about Christmas!!

I’ve been getting into the spirit by listening to my favorite Christmas radio station back home! I love being able to listen online.. I personally like my hometown radio station better than the Pandora one.

And I also got some candles!

And I also bought a mini Christmas tree from Walmart and I loooove it!! It’s soo cute omg omg. I’ve never had my own little Christmas tree even though I’ve wanted one lol. Back home I usually don’t do much Christmas decorating for my room since it’s all around my house.. but here I only have my room so I have to get into the spirit!

I decorated it all cute with $1 ornaments, $1 tinsel, and $1,50 bow! Eee I’m obsessed with it!! It makes me so happy to look at.

I also put up some lights along my bedroom walls.. I’m keeping them up all year!

I cannot wait to go home for Christmas!! I definitely need a break from school and I miss my family so much! I just want to spend a bunch of time with the familyyy. And Char!! I miss him so much.

And it will be nice to have snow for a month hehe.

And I love wrapping presents and making ornaments and decorating the tree (unless it’s already up) and buying gifts and going to look at the lights and going to Christmas church service and eating Christmas dinner. lol.

So anyways, I am so excited!!!!!!!

Danny doesn’t understand my excitement!! How can someone not be so excited for Christmas??? haha. I guess it’s different for me since I’m going to be going home like… idk.. maybe not. I think maybe I’m just crazy! I love Christmas time!

 

Party time~!

I wasn’t sure what I wanted to be for Halloween this year.. And I didn’t want it to be expensive since I’m on a budget! So I went on ebay and found this pirate outfit for $15. Lol.

I actually had this same costume in high school… haha. But I altered it to make it more attractive (;

We were both pirates and it was pretty cute. lol.

It was a fun night, except it was freezing cold… come on Texas, get you shit together!

Pumpkins!

Danny and I waited pretty much last minute to carve pumpkins!

He hadn’t carved pumpkins since he was like 7!! wtf.

I decided to make a bat pumpkin..

Danny made a Ron Swanson pumpkin ahaha.

We both have been watching Parks and Rec a ton. It’s sooo funny, one of my new favorite shows!

We watched The Walking Dead while we were carving pumpkins..another one of my favorite shows! But we didn’t buy pumpkin carving tools so it was pretty hard cause the knives I have are sooooo terrible and can’t cut through chicken let alone pumpkins! So that was a task haha

It was a fun night ^^

Halloween!

Been getting really into my Halloween decorations and such lately.. My mom sent me a little pumpkin and a bunch of paints because she knows that I like to paint my pumpkins ^^ She knows me so well~~ It made me miss her even more!

So I painted a sugarskull and on the back I want to paint like a leafy spiderweb design thing. idk haha. I love how it turned out though!

I’m so coooool.

And then she sent me some Halloween lights and this little Welcome sign with like bats and stuff.. So cute!

I also bought this little owl lantern from Target and it was like a dollar or 2!!

So excited for Halloween!!

母の日

Today was Mother’s Day! And to celebrate my mother for all she does, I made her an adorable gift and an adorable card and bought her this adorable blue tumbler since she’s always driving around and our one car doesn’t have air conditioning so I figured an ice cold drink throughout the day would be perfect.

So, I made these candles… Cause I saw them on Martha Stewart.. ahaha.. And I have three big bags of shells just laying around that me and my mom have collected from Florida over the year. So I thought it was perfect cause it’s something we found together made into a gift so it’s a little bit more special.

And then I made dinner! I made these H.A.T sammiches. It had ham, asparagus, tomato, spinach and cheese! It was sooo good! Very filling too~

Then I made potato salad, but I didn’t cook the potatoes all the way through so they were a little hard.

And last I made these spinach chips and used a bunch of spices and I think I might have made them too spicy actually but my mom and dad both loved them…they loved everything actually! So I was happy about that.

And for dessert, I went out and bought Coldstone ice cream cookie sandwiches. I had the cake batter one with sprinkles. Oh myyy.. It was so delicious! But it was really big and I was getting sick by the end of it

So the day was good! My mom was happy, so I was happy too! Even though I feel like my mom has been unfair about the whole Texas State thing, she has done a lot for me so I needed to pay her back with what I can. So thank you mom, for all you’ve done for me my whole life and please keep supporting me with everything I do in life.

I love you!

Complete~

So we got done making the eggs They turned out very pretty! And I don’t want to eat them.. but I love egg salad sandwiches so I must!

Dying the eggs.. My hand always gets tired..

And these are the three I made. We each made 3 and that was enough for us! hehe

This one cracked and it looked so much like a dinosaur egg.. it’s so cute! Littlefoot is inside I bet.

And these are all of our eggs.. It was so fun speckling them! But it was a hard process cause you had to use this glue and rub it on and then if it wasn’t sticky enough the speckly stuffs wouldn’t stay on.. but we eventually got the hang of it!

It was a lot of fun

Easter Eggs!

Today I’m going to make some Easter eggs with my roommate.

I’m not going home for Easter this weekend so I figured I would do something fun to celebrate a little bit  I’ll post pics later~

I love decorating eggs! It’s one of my favorite things to do and then eat them after I didn’t get to make eggs last year either and I was very sad..

Anyways, so that’s pretty much my only plans for today.. might do some homework.. which i really do need to do.. sleep some more.

Oh and better news on the Texas State stuff.. My mom called and well honestly wasn’t happy for me at all and never said congrats or really anything good.. lol. But it didn’t really affect me in any way. I called the school to see about my credits and about the business school and everything’s looking very promising as of right now I’ve just been waiting 100 years for my taxes to be done because I still need to finish this thing for FAFSA -__- so frustrating!! Taxes are due in like a week… soo… i’m getting nervous..

But yeah, that’s my excitement for this weekend.

2 weeks of school left~ (and exam week!)

Valentine’s Day!

Happy Valentine’s Day!! A day late~~..

I spent a lot of my Valentine’s day with Danny… and even though we weren’t together it was a lot of fun and I loved being with him.

It was a Tuesday, so I went to class like usual and it was kinda meh. But after my classes, Danny surprised me with flowers! They arrived at my door while we were on Skype and it was so exciting! I couldn’t believe he sent me flowers this year! I told him the budget was $15 !! -.-

haha.

But regardless, I was very happy. It was very sweet of him and he got a beautiful bouquet for me! I think I like it better than all roses, actually. It’s so pretty. I love smelling it because it smells so delicious! I love the smell of flowers.

So I went a bit crazy taking pictures but they were so beautiful and I couldn’t stop! hehe.

Came with cute balloons~

That big pink flower is so beautiful!

And we skyped for three hours. I just love seeing his face.. especially when he read my card that I sent him. He was so happy and I wanted to cry too but I was too happy and I didn’t have any happy tears to shed. hehe. But it made me happy to make him happy and I’m sure he felt the same.

I still have a gift to send him but stupid things happened and so I’m still waiting for his gift to come in the mail!!

Soon, though. I know he’ll love it.

Erm..

I really can’t help spending money.

What’s wrong with me?

Shopaholic. Luckily I’m not too bad.. but especially around the holiday season, I just want to buy everything.

So I did buy two things for myself.. I’ve wanted them for awhile and I had $10 off on each..

I got the Bombshell perfume.. I have the body spray and it smells sooo good! It’s my favorite summer scent so I bought the perfume cause it lasts longer. It was expensive though xx;

Like $60 even with the $10 off..

But it smells so good, I’ll just have to save it till summer.

And I got this body splash which was only $8, cause paying $18 for it is ridiculous

It is very warm and cozy and reminds me of winter! So I wanted it.

I love smelling good~~

I probably will buy more stuff before I go back to school cause I suck, and there’s a lot of good sales going on.

I need to get a job at school..or a better job at least! TB just ain’t cutting it.

Plus people are getting annoying. And some white trashy type girls work there now. yikez.