This is my favorite time of year.
Fall.
Autumn.
The time of changing leaves.
The time of flood collecting for hibernation.
Losing yourself in a sea of warm blankets and tea.
Where the heck did this season go?!
It was fall, right? I was loving it, wearing my cute leather jacket every day. Rockin'.
Then today it it freezing to the point where I wished I had my gloves (which are still at home because it isn't winter yet). It even snowed this morning. SNOWED. I don't know how you feel about these white flakes, but I hate them. Despise them. Wish we could stay in a perpetual autumn season forever. Flannel season.
But, no.
There was snow.
Ugh.
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Thursday, October 10, 2013
90's Child
I have been reminiscing today about the good ole days....which for me is the 90's. What got me started was the fact that I just bought a pair of teal colored Keds.
If you aren't sure what Keds are, here is a picture:
When I was a kid, my mom had a pair of these and I remember - wanting to be like mom because she was the most BA person I knew - I wanted a pair just like hers. In the 90's, Keds were the poor people shoes, so mom was like,
"Sure thing, I can afford those."
And now they cost up to $50 depending on the design of the shoe or where you buy them at. No one has time for that.
I also came across this in my internet exploration:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/things-that-look-just-like-childhood
Definitely my childhood summed up in 50 photographs.
Because of this nostalgia for the past, my roommate and I decided to play MASH. Every 90's girl that ever attended a slumber party, or had friends, should know what this game is. If you don't, let me explain it to you.
1. MASH stands for Mansion, Apartment, Shack, and House.Those are your possible future living arrangements.
2. You pick other categories such as Career, City you live in, Husband (or partner, since we are living in the current day and understand that people love people no matter what gender), how much money you will make, how many kids you will have, and what kind of car you will drive.
3. Fill in the categories with 4 or more things. For example, under my Partner category I might have: Channing Tatum, Jake Johnson, Ashton Kutcher, and Rupert Grint.
4. In each category your friends gets to add an option you have no say about. They can either be really nice and add a young Johnny Depp, or they can be eggheads and add PeeWee Herman. Who knows.
5. You draw a spiral until your friend says stop and the number of lines til you get to the middle is the count for the game.
6. You start at the M in MASH and count through the lists, cross off whatever you land on until you have one option left in each category.
You end up with some pretty awesome stuff.
My roommate had it pretty good after her game.
She lives in a house in Chicago, married to Joseph Gordon-Levitt, working as an Environmental Activist for 100,000 a year with two kids.
Not bad.
Not bad at all.
If you feel the need, I would love to hear how your life turns out.
In MASH, that is.
If you aren't sure what Keds are, here is a picture:
When I was a kid, my mom had a pair of these and I remember - wanting to be like mom because she was the most BA person I knew - I wanted a pair just like hers. In the 90's, Keds were the poor people shoes, so mom was like,
"Sure thing, I can afford those."
And now they cost up to $50 depending on the design of the shoe or where you buy them at. No one has time for that.
I also came across this in my internet exploration:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/things-that-look-just-like-childhood
Definitely my childhood summed up in 50 photographs.
Because of this nostalgia for the past, my roommate and I decided to play MASH. Every 90's girl that ever attended a slumber party, or had friends, should know what this game is. If you don't, let me explain it to you.
1. MASH stands for Mansion, Apartment, Shack, and House.Those are your possible future living arrangements.
2. You pick other categories such as Career, City you live in, Husband (or partner, since we are living in the current day and understand that people love people no matter what gender), how much money you will make, how many kids you will have, and what kind of car you will drive.
3. Fill in the categories with 4 or more things. For example, under my Partner category I might have: Channing Tatum, Jake Johnson, Ashton Kutcher, and Rupert Grint.
4. In each category your friends gets to add an option you have no say about. They can either be really nice and add a young Johnny Depp, or they can be eggheads and add PeeWee Herman. Who knows.
5. You draw a spiral until your friend says stop and the number of lines til you get to the middle is the count for the game.
6. You start at the M in MASH and count through the lists, cross off whatever you land on until you have one option left in each category.
You end up with some pretty awesome stuff.
My roommate had it pretty good after her game.
She lives in a house in Chicago, married to Joseph Gordon-Levitt, working as an Environmental Activist for 100,000 a year with two kids.
Not bad.
Not bad at all.
If you feel the need, I would love to hear how your life turns out.
In MASH, that is.
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Sleep, Lists, and Linebackers.
Long time no blog...sorry I'm not sorry 'bout that. I went abroad and had a bomb-diggity of a time.
But I'm back.
Watch out!
This year I am a senior in college - granted it is undergrad, and I have mad respect for any and all persons in grad school - and with this position comes a lot of extra baggage. Since I am trying to be as organized as physically possible with my life right now, why don't we make a list?
Things That Miaja Has to do Before She Graduates:
But I'm back.
Watch out!
This year I am a senior in college - granted it is undergrad, and I have mad respect for any and all persons in grad school - and with this position comes a lot of extra baggage. Since I am trying to be as organized as physically possible with my life right now, why don't we make a list?
Things That Miaja Has to do Before She Graduates:
- Make sure I can graduate --> This means that I have to check to make sure I have enough credits to graduate as well as having the right credits for my Education major and Studio Art minor.
- Remember to get all my work done in classes
- Work as much as I can (I have an on-campus job)
- Make sure everything that needs to be done for my internship is taken care of -->This includes recruiting people for various programs, teaching 4th graders (D'AWW), and doing anything my supervisor tells me to do.
- Update resume
- Have multiple people read resume
- Look for job opportunities (I already decided to skip grad school)
- Apply for jobs
- Go on interviews
- Remember I have friends
- Remain sane through the whole process
- SLEEP
This list is constantly running through the back of my mind and it has been since the end of last year when I realized I was going to be an actual adult real soon.
Reality tackled me like a 275 pound linebacker.
Makes breathing a little difficult.
Notice that sleep is at the very end of the list? Yeah, me too. And it sucks so bad. I should also probably clarify that I'm basically a granny ...I have a hard time functioning properly after 8pm. Academically, I'm sure you could see why this would be a problem. So, I write papers, turn them in, and hope to heavens I didn't write anything in them that would embarrass me. It hasn't happened yet, but I'm still waiting for that day to come when I get a paper back that just says WTF on the front of it.
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