Instagram!

Here are my photos from the last two weeks on my Instagram. I've been a slacker and there aren't too many, but here we go! :)

1. Tazo Chai tea latte made at home!
2. Institutional Researchers poster my boss hung up
3. Peanut shells
4. Peanuts!
5. Cup of noodles, my guilty pleasure :)
6. Sam and Dan from Sam's graduation
7. My sister and I from our vacation last summer
8. Ben catching butterflies
9. Shadow
10. Ben's kitty Lenny sleeping in my hamper :)
11. Pineapples growing in the Prudential Center!
12. Homemade dinner. Broccoli Cheddar soup baked with rice and chicken. It was eh.
13. My pretty new Vera
14. Wentworth crosswalk
15. Lucky shorts!
16. A house up the street I love
17. Ben's insects
18. I LOVE THESE! Ah, strawberry Pocky sticks! :)

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 :)

Monday Update!

Okay so maybe I should have considered how busy I'd be with my Mom's visit when I was making my schedule. I guess I should of just had planned to start it on an even day, like August 1st instead of... June 25th? Guess I was just anxious.

I got a few of my things done here and there. But mostly I was just so happy to be with my mom and the blog kind of went to the back of my mind.

But I had an amazing weekend.

We got some great food, went thrifting, shopping, flea markets, watched the Olympics, and just bonded and talked. I actually cried saying goodbye to Bernadette at the airport. And usually it's me yelling at her to stop crying and she's sobbing. Yesterday was the opposite. I guess that I've just grown up so much in the past couple of months that I just missed having my mom take care of me. Now instead of me telling her about stupid girl dramas, I'm talking about the bills and grocery shopping and cleaning and my work schedule and this and that. Instead of arguing about stupid things, we both fought over washing the dishes.

I didn't even take pictures! The weather wasn't the greatest so I wasn't too motivated to do that. But, like I said, I was just so into the moment and hanging with my mom.

I showed her the scrapbook I was making for her. She couldn't stop looking at the three pages I made and told her that made her night and she couldn't wait for me to finish it. She's going to mail up some baby pictures she loves, too. She wants a little of everything in her scrapbook and I think that's an awesome idea.

My mom was also so impressed and interested in my little craft life! She was asking me questions and really into it when I showed her some of my favorite blogs. She actually asked me to email her the links!! It was so great to have her behind me with all of this. Usually she's like "oh you won't do that" and now she's like "oh can you make me something like that?!" and I love it! I even showed her Project Life and she thought the idea was really cool. She doesn't think I'll be able to keep up week to week but also agrees it's pretty simple to document each week so she has some faith in me. I can't wait till the new products are available to buy! Ah!

My boss is so good to me. He let me have Monday off so I could spend the day with my mom. He even made sure I got a pay for it :) So thankful how lucky I've been. Except now my week is a day behind. My Tuesday feels like Monday. But that's okay, I can't complain :)

SO! For the UpDaTe!
Today, before I go home from work, I plan to....

• Rearrange the Calendar
• Create 2 goals for the month
• PostalPix order
• Finalize Financial Aid things for the Fall 2012 semester
• Insta update
• Work on some formatting of the blog

 For after work I plan to...

• Catch up on some at home projects 
• Work out "What I Wore" for the first post on Friday
• Clean
• BE PRODUCTIVE!

I can do this!
I know I've been slacking and not doing everything I've wanted, but it's not like I'm sitting around doing nothing. I've just been so busy with things I just need to take care of first. That's life. I know when classes start I'll have way more free time to do all the things I want.

As for home life, there's good news!!! Alex is moving in! So I'm so glad I sacrificed one of my days last week to spend the day with him and Ben and talk to him about moving in. I love Jack but I'm over living with him... I'm excited that the house is about to change up a little bit. Yay!

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.

Insta Post!

My third Instagram post!
Nicely on time :)

1. Tyler, the Creator. I cannot stop listening to him or Odd Future. Say what you will but.... he's too good!
2. Flowers outside of Wentworth
3. Late night selfie :p
4. Selfie at work!
5. Watermelon mmm!
6. Finally cooking the Striper I caught last weekend in the Cape!
7. Breaded and fried and butter with mac and cheese on the side. oh god was it good.
8. Dillan challenged Benjamin to a game of darts, if Dillan won, we went out for ice cream
9. DILLAN WON!!!! :)
10. Mint chocolate chip Clif bar!!
11. Cutting up VIP Commencement tickets
12. Our back deck. Surrounded by other houses.
13. My Massachusetts driver's license came! Gross picture but still :)
14. Our friend is a glass blower, well he's learning. When he visited Friday he brought me this glass pendant :) Love it!!! and him!!!
15. Hanging in the industrial design shop with Ben, gotta wear protective glasses of course!
16. One of Ben's hobbies. He catches butterflies and insects and pins them to preserve them. Then he's gonna mount them. I love my nature boy!
17. Part of my canvas art includes state art! Got all the states represented in my little family. Gonna try transferring map images to canvases! 
18. Johnny Cupcakes billboard "Do More of what Makes You Happy" I agree :)
19. Had some bananas getting to brown, so Ben begged me to make banana bread. It's delicious if I do say so myself!
20. Started this morning with some Bolthouse Mocha Cappuccino and a Black and Mild Filtered Tip. It was a good morning.

Instagram

I took SO many Instagram photos this week! So here's my weekly Instagram post! (Last week I mentioned I wanna do two features, with Instagram posts as one. The other being a what-I-wore type thing, But I'm still working out how I want to go about that. Check here)

1. My desk at work! Can't believe Co-Op is over half way done

2. Watermelon Arizona. Summer guilty pleasure mmmm!

3. Stuffing Commencement invitations

4. Commencement Invitation

5. Jelly Doughnut

6. The lady I work with is from Brazil and she always gives me Brazilian candies and treats. This one was a salted peanut butter thing. It reminded me of the peanut butter from a Reece's, except there were some peanuts in it and it was a little more salty. So delicious!!!!

7. Watermelon Strawberry Nantucket Nectars, yesss :)

8. Mike's Hard Black Cherry Lemonade. I sipped on this while the boys played darts and drank beer on Thursday night.

9. Empty Wentworth hallway during the summer semester

10. Homemade bracelet I got from my Umba Box this month

11. Orange Line T map. Going from Ruggles to Chinatown

12. Converting my New Jersey license to a Massachusetts license. Now I'm officially a Massachusetts resident... kind of weird.

13. Pattern laid out to cut for Sam's dress

14. The Triton!

15. Out on the ocean

16. Brian caught a stingray before he caught a striper. Probably one of my favorite pictures of all time. That's the stingray's mouth and nose, but it looks like a little face. He look so happy, so funny!

17. A giant hermit crab was caught in the lobster trap. I wanted him as a pet so bad!

18. Lobsters in the trap

19. Measuring lobster size, one lobster, a couple lobster... 16 lobster!!!

20. Relaxing on the front of the boat

21. On the way home, Ben took us out for ice cream. He's the best. I got a banana ice cream cone and that's Tony's Snickers ice cream with chocolate sprinkles on top. Nothing makes me happier when Ben takes me out for ice cream haha