Showing posts with label currently. Show all posts
Showing posts with label currently. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Currently


Loving: My new Vera Bradley purse! My mom wanted to buy me a little gift so when she saw the Vera Bradley store in the Prudential Center, she told me to pick out a tote bag. SO EXCITING! I totally love it and love that it's big enough to fit my laptop and all other essentials and that I don't have to lug my giant, unflattering Wentworth backpack around anymore.




sooososososo pretty!!! What's really awesome is that this was the LAST bag in this print. Even if I wanted the bag in a different style, nope too bad. It was the very last of this print in the store. That made me feel special :) and!! This print is their Breast Cancer Awareness bag and 10% of the sale goes towards breast cancer research. How awesome is that? That's like a triple win!


Reading: I just started Lolita. But I haven't gotten very far.... I'll keep you updated

Watching: The Olympics! This is the first year I've ever really watched or kept up with or cared about the Olympics. My favorite events (that I've seen!! I only watch when I'm not busy) to watch are the synchronized diving and gymnastics. I really would like to see some badminton, table tennis, and basketball though!

Anticipating: Tomorrow. Pay day!! I have a few things on my list to purchase...

Listening to: Everyone eating lunch. I'm about to get mine and meet with Benjamin :)

Planning: My night. I get out early today (3:00, yes!) So I have a bunch of free time tonight!

Working on: Since I finished my flower canvas project I could start a new one! I got some Lucky Brand white jeans when I went thrifting. Tonight they are becoming high wasted cuffed shorts. YES!!!!

Wishing: My mom was still here. I had such a good time with her and it's always too long before I get to see her again. I miss her!

Updates, updates, updates. Ah! But I'm finally being productive and getting my things together. I'm a crafty lady now :)

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Currently!

Loving: This week. Ben and I have been stressed lately and this week we've been good and patient with each other. We too easily let one of our blah moods ruin the other's good one. It's just because one of us isn't happy, we get frustrated and get ourselves in a shitty mood.. But this week we've been good. Lots of loving, talking, communicating. Ben is applying for Co-Op jobs for next semester, so I know how terrible it could be. And he's a design major, so he has his portfolio. Being a management major, I just make sure my black and white resume is full. And not to mention, MY MOM FLIES IN THIS WEEK!!!! I haven't seen her in awhile so I'm super excited to spend some quality time with my momma dukes!

Reading: Does Cosmopolitan count? I have been slacking on my reading game, ah! But I really have a couple on my list to read...if I could jussssstttt start them. Once I start reading, I'll be glued. It's just the actual motivation to go do it. Haha.

Watching: Project Runway! The new season just premiered last week and the next episode is on tomorrow night. So far I really like Christopher, Sonjia, Dmitry, Fabio, and Gunnar's designs. Too early to pick favorites based on personality. But I've also been watching a lot of movies lately! I've been watching the Grindhouse movies, Rob Zombie movies, and a few other older ones like Trainspotting and Secretary. As you can see I don't enjoy your typical romantic comedy....

Anticipating: Bernadette's visit!!! Bernadette is my mom. I have definantely reffered to her as "mom" the most on this blog. When I was younger, I just started to call my mom Bernadette. She kept telling me, "Call me 'Mom'!!!" But then I just told her "Call me daughter, then" I just love my mom's name and how unique and original it is and I just love it! But her visiting is all I could talk and think about. I miss my mommy so much!

Listening to: The clock tick.... 45 minutes until I'm out of work!!! 

Planning: To be SUPER productive and get my little calendar on the right track! I'm not gonna let myself slack on the first day! I'll be seriously angry with myself if I slack on this one...

Working on: Planning, planning, planning. I seriously just had toooooo many ideas. Not that that's a bad thing! I just have so much I want to do and experiment with, I needed some organization and order. Now I'm ready to start tackling some projects one at a time and on a reasonable schedule. Yes!

Wishing:
I could make these new habits real and be a better, more organized person who actually does all the things they plan and promise themselves :)

All this talk and no work!! I can't wait to get out of work and be my new productive self.

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Currently Post

So I had an urge to do an update, but had nothing for an entire post. So I decided to do a Currently post! I always read Danielle's of Sometimes Sweet blog and wanted to give it a go myself. A little personal and a little update, yay!

Loving: My job! As much fun as an internship is, it could super boring. Especially since I have a desk job. My boss was on vacation last week and only left me a few tasks to complete. I went crazy with all my free time! This week he's been keeping me super busy and the days have been flying by. I'm done today within the hour so I'm just organizing my things and getting ready for tomorrow's tasks. Always keeping busy keeps me awake and alert and I actually am motivated to work on things I need to get done at home when I get out of work. It keeps my work flow consistent. Otherwise I just want to go home and take a nap. Isn't it weird how actually doing a whole bunch of nothing makes you tired and lazy? Hm!

Reading: What the rest of the world is reading... 50 Shades. Ah, this book. First I read the Twilight series because a good girlfriend loved them and wanted someone to discuss it with and see the movies with. I hate Bella as a character because she is so weak and dependent on Edward, so it made it difficult for me to read. But honestly, I was just waiting for the sex scene which was incredibly disappointing (I know it's a tween series, but still! Their sexual tension was ridiculous and just ugh.) But then, I heard about 50 Shades... then I heard about how it was banned in libraries which immediately sparked my interest What can be that bad that it's banned in a library?! and then I heard it was Twilight fan fiction. So, I was interested. I wasn't expecting to get anything out of it and honestly it wasn't as crazy as I thought it'd be. I got threw the first book, and was interested enough to get the second, but I can't get into it. It's just blah. It's too much Twilight and not enough sex. I know it's Twilight fan fiction, but I wanted it to live up to it's banned in libraries rep!!! Oh well. I gave up on that book and I'm about to start Lolita. Ben's sister, Lauren, gave me her copy. Can't wait to get into that.

Watching: BREAKING BAD!!! The finale season just premiered on AMC this past Sunday night. I could talk about this show for hours. Ben and I are so obsessed. It's about a high school chemistry teacher who gets diagnosed with terminal lung cancer with a prognosis of two years and he decides to cook meth and be a drug dealer to get money for his family before he passes. It gets crazy and super intense. Ben and I are also watching Dexter. He's never seen it before and I'm rewatching the entire series before the 7th season premieres. Ben has gotten addicted to that, too. We're currently on the 4th season. I can't wait until he's caught up and he could finally watch the first two minute sneak peak of the new season, ahh!!

Anticipating: Dinner tonight. Ben is cooking the fish that I caught on Sunday! I always cook for us, he even convinces me to take lunch at home some days so I could make it for him, so I'm pretty excited to be catered to a little bit. Ben is all about his fish so it should be delicious and I can't wait to watch my man cook for me!

Listening to: Lots of Lily Allen! She's back in the studio so I got in a Lily kick. My sister and I used to listen to her all of the time and saw her in concert a couple years ago. I just love her :)

Planning: My next project and ASB! For a short term plan, I'm deciding on what shorts and dress I'd like to start tonight. I'm done with work early today so I want to finish at least one of the two by the weekend! I could definitely get them both done if I start one tonight! And for a long term plan, last year I went on an Alternative Spring Break trip to Homestead, Florida to do volunteer environmental work in the Everglades. I applied to be a coordinator for next year, and I got picked! My co-coordinator and I are already starting to plan out details. We both were on the trip last year and are so excited to plan a similar trip this year. We'll be able to eliminate all the bad parts of last year, too! Not that there were many significant ones, but we could of planned better for dinner for 15 kids every night. As you could imagine that was difficult!

Working on: A student survey for work. Every freshman during orientation fills out a survey of what they expect college life to be like. My job is to organize the survey raw data and get it formatted and ready for my boss. It's pretty interesting to see the college from this perspective. It's also interesting to see where all those things we do as students go within the college and what the college actually does with the results. But I'm done with that for today and have the last stretch to complete for tomorrow!

Wishing:
It was July 27th! My mom is flying in from New Jersey! Ben's dad has a ton of frequent flyer miles and offered to fly my mom from Newark to Boston for a weekend. Of course we had to take advantage of this!! I can't wait to have some quality time with my mom. She's my best friend! My sister's birthday is also the 28th, and since she'll be in Hawaii and spending it without us, it's kind of like we're celebrating in spirit. We're glad we could be together even though Sam is away. I can't wait to see my Mom and these weeks have been going so fast, she should be here in no time!

I loved doing this! Probably something I'll have to keep up :)
Tomorrow I'll post an update with some pictures of the things I start working on tonight!