I Never Thought Cleaning Would be Bad for My Wallet

Soooooooooooooo........I finally have gotten around to moving the rest of my clothes from my old room to my new room. As a result, I found a TON of clothes I forgot I had. I had a huge stack of jeans that are totally not my style anymore, and they fit weird. So what did I do? I went online and ordered a bunch of jeans....whoops. 

In my defense, they were all HALF OFF!!!!! I got two pairs from American Eagle, and two pairs from Hollister. The total for all that was about the same as one pair of jeans from Buckle. Bam! Justified purchase. Now I can sleep at night. 

Yesterday, I looked at my booklist for school this semester. Not nearly as bad as last semester, but still, I hate buying textbooks. I ordered all the ones I could from Amazon.com since they're way cheaper than the bookstore. So now I am waiting on three separate packages......yay :) 

Not gonna lie, I'm more excited for the jeans than the textbooks.

A Long Time Coming

I have finally decided that it is time to say goodbye to my job.

It is time for me to make a change. I am finally going to take control of my life and make it better because I can't keep living like this.

There is more to life than doing something you hate every day.
There is more to life than putting up with people treating you like less than you deserve to be treated.

There is more to life than going through the motions, simply because it's easy, routine, and familiar. 

There is more to life than simply floating through life hoping that one day things will change by themselves for the good.

There is more to life than continuously putting yourself in a toxic environment.

Everyone, at least once in their life, has to realize that they need to stop beating a dead horse.

If it hasn't gotten better by now, then it never will.

So I need to remove myself from the situation. Move on to something better. Get out of this rut and finally, finally be happy.

I don't know why it has taken me so long to do this but now is the time.

I don't know where I'm going to go, or what I'm going to do, or even if the next place will be better, but here's hoping it all turns out okay.

Wish me luck :)

Forget About Planet of the Apes, It's Planet of the Spiders

I have finally found a downside to having a mountain as a backyard. Bugs think they can invade your space whenever they want! Maybe this is how they feel when we go hiking and crush their houses with our feet or smash their heads. 

But hey, we're the dominant species, we reserve the right to destroy them.

They don't seem to be afraid though. Without fail, my sister Tara and I have to kill at least two spiders a day. There is usually one in our bathtub EVERY morning, no exaggeration. Whoever showers first has to drown it before they can get in. 

Ants regularly crawl through under the door that goes from our walkway outside to our kitchen. Tara filled this big crack with that white ant killer powder and guess what happened. 

This is a very crappy photo cause I had to crop it a ton and the spider was in a shadow so the flash blew it out. But look at it!

Almost all of it is covered in the ant killer powder!

It must've crawled through the freakin crack or something and gotten in the house. 

The label on the ant killer powder said it kills BLACK WIDOWS even, yet it couldn't kill this freakin thing???

One time, I was sitting on my bedroom floor tying my shoes and I felt something on my knee, so I looked and it was a spider literally the size of a tarantula. I flung it off me and ran away.

About 8 hours later I came back from work and saw it sitting on my desk, so I captured it and took it outside and killed it. 

The spiders that happen to be in our house the most often BLEND IN WITH OUR CARPET!

No joke. I think they have purposefully adapted to blend in so they can survive longer. 

It's terrifying.

Tara is having nightmares about spiders. I keep thinking every little thing I feel touch me is a bug crawling on me, and 20% of the time it is. 

I think it's time to call an expert or something cause even though it's hilarious to see Tara jump at every little thing and scream and jump on the couch, it's not something I wanna live with. 

If we don't do something soon, the spiders are going to take over.

Papa Bear, Mama Bear, and Baby Bear

For years and years I have wanted a gigantic teddy bear. My little sister Amy got one from her boyfriend for her birthday or something and I was super jealous. Today, fate intervened. Look what I found while wandering around Costco:

Mine is the one on the left. His name is Snuggleupagus.

Amy's is the one on the right and his name is Fernando. They are now BFF. 

Tonight we made them have dance battles, fighting battles, run on the treadmill, etc. It was great fun. Click here to see a video of part of it.

I think you're never too old to have a stuffed animal (if you're a girl. that part is very important). 

The only rule is, the older you get, the bigger the stuffed animal needs to be. Hence, the teddy bear that comes up to my shoulders. 

I didn't want to sit around and wait for someone to buy it for me, so I got it myself. 

Best decision I've made in a while :)

Look, it's Papa Bear, Mama Bear, Baby Bear, and Goldilocks

You Do What You Gotta Do To Keep Away From the Looney Bin

There's a reason they call work, "work". It's not fun the majority of the time. That's why you go to school and work your little tooshie off so you can get a career and do something you don't hate. 

In the meantime, you have to work with what ya got in order to keep from going insane. Here's what I did today:

Isn't it loverly?

It is the display case on the outside of my little box I'm caged in at work.

This is my favorite part:

It's a goal post made out of athletic tape!

Haha I'm strangely really proud of it. Isn't the football a nice touch? 

Haha I thought so.

I think I'm funnier than I really am sometimes. But hey, Tara thinks I'm hysterical. 

Then again....she also thinks she's hysterical.......

Haha just messin with ya Tara I love your guts. 

Also, look what I found on my USB today:

I made this on Paint almost a year ago at my old job one day when I was super bored. 

I think it's freakin awesome. 

Apparently I do my best artwork when I'm at work haha. 

Who woulda thought?

I guess that's promising for when my job is to actually make art.

Two more years baby!

(Here's hopin anyway)

Shopping for Dresses is Like Shopping for Men

What do you get if these shirts have a baby?

This shirt

Ooh baby. There are some winners out there. 

Shopping for dresses is JUST like shopping for men. You've got to go through a lot of ugly ones and sometimes you have to settle, but eventually you find one that is PERFECT for you and exactly what you want. 

One of my favorite sayings is:

"Men are like parking spaces. All the good ones are taken and all the ones left are handicapped."

Luckily, I was able to find a dress for my sister's wedding with way less hassle and stress than trying to find a good man haha. 

Ain't it perdy?

If I have to wear a dress, it has to be cute and will almost always be with converse. Brown ones with this dress :) Can't wait. 

10 days and my sister will be a married woman. 

Weird. 

But she has a gorgeous dress and a terrific guy so her shopping is over :)

I Don't Have a Time Machine, So These Markers Will Have to Do

You know how they say the grass is always greener on the other side? Well it's true. When you're little, you just want to grow up. When you grow up, you just want to go back to being little. I was recently going through a box of my old stuff and it was bringing back lots of memories. Lately it has felt like my childhood was a lot better than what I've got going on right now. 

Since I was feeling all nostalgic and wanting to go back to being a little kid, I went to the store and bought washable markers, colored pencils, a gigantic superhero coloring book, and some mac and cheese.

I colored this awesome Iron Man

The colors in the photo are way off but you get the point. 

Sometimes it's nice to take off all the pressure I put on myself about having to be all creative and progressive and be the best artist,

and just COLOR :)