North Texas Giving Day

Today is North Texas Giving Day! In spirit of this day, Communities Foundation of Texas is matching donations of $25 or more until midnight!  Just go to www.donorbridgetx.org and search for the charity you'd like to donate to!

Don't have one in mind? Donate to Legal Aid of Northwest Texas to help low-income families and individuals get free legal services!

There will also be some festivities and performances at the CFT location in Downtown Dallas. And food trucks! Cause everybody loves food trucks ;)

Some other links:

https://northtexasgiving.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html
http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/mixmaster/2012/09/north_texas_giving_day_says_yo.php
http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2012/09/13/north-texas-giving-day-approaches-9-million/
http://www.dallasnews.com/business/columnists/robert-miller/20120904-get-donations-to-dallas-area-nonprofits-matched-sept.-13-on-north-texas-giving-day.ece

California Love

I've been feeling sick all day today and after a shift at work starting at 8am, I decided it would be better for me to just stay home and get it out of my system in one day rather than overexerting myself until the weekend.  So instead, I did homework and uploaded photos from my trip to Facebook.  Productive day, no?  Here are some of the best photos:

I'm also thinking about starting dinner and then snuggling up and watching the latest episode of Breaking Bad.  It's the last one until next summer, so I'm anticipating an awful cliffhanger that will probably kill me for an entire year.  That's it for now :)

Flashback

So now I have been back for about a week after visiting Hanna and Emma in Los Angeles! It was an amazing experience, I got to see SO much.  Here are some pictures from Fullerton, more to come but I haven't uploaded the camera yet for the rest.

And of course, I hit the ground running as soon as I landed back in Dallas.  Dinner with the boyfriend, fetch my car from my parents' house, midnight sushi for a good friend's birthday, appearance at a party, crash and head to work at 8am the next morning for a 9 hour shift.  Yup.  Definitely back to normal.

School also started Monday, I'm loving all my classes.  Turns out, Senior level classes are really the best.  They are much more challenging with a lot more projects, but now it's finally wrapping together and making sense.  I can't believe I'll graduate in May already! Super exciting :)

A Stranger In Paradise

My little baby Cleo is visiting my apartment this weekend! Things have been hectic at home so my mom is taking a break from this little troublemaker and I am reaping all the benefits. I like it.

Summer school is going good as well.  In two weeks I'll be done with my Government class and then itll only be classes Monday through Wednesday and no driving 20 minutes each way to a class in the middle of the day.  Hopefully they'll give me more hours at work as well.

I realized the other day that I have definitely found my passion.  I sat through 3 hours of my International Marketing class and not once opened Reddit or Facebook or just glared at my calendar.  I truly love this class.  Everything about it fascinates me and excites me!  I can't wait to get out and really experience it though :)

 Other than that, no new news.  Oh! I moved into my new apartment! And it's awesome! Soooo awesome!  Maybe I'll put up pictures eventually. Haha, maybe.

Good Morning

Just woke up about an hour ago and after a nice filling breakfast (breakfast burritos!) from my sister, I've gathered all my things and moved to the backyard where I'm studying for my Finance exam.  The weather is perfect and the pool is so blue and the water cold, but of course, its study time. Not to mention I have to leave for work in a couple of hours.

School is going both ways all the time these days.  A class I needed to graduate a year early filled up before I could get in and I was very upset, but a week later they opened more spots so now everything is back on track :)

I've been skyping a few of my favorite Swedes but this definitely needs to happen more often.  Time management is something I'm getting better at, but still have a long way to go.




Thats all thats new over here.

My birthday passed, and it was pretty good.  Had a night with friends filled with good food and company, an evening with the boyfriend and family, and another evening at the Dallas-Montreal soccer match with the siblings.  Three days off and missing it so.  But now its back to working 5 days a week, 25-30 hours.

This Cat.

Is such a brat.
Brian went to visit his family for a few days and I am in charge of feeding Luna.
I got off work today and came and fed her and then decided to work on some homework here so she wouldn't be lonely (or do something stupid).
I don't know if it worked or not.  Within twenty minutes she was laying all over my papers and chewing my pen while I was trying to write.

Laying on all my things

Chewing my pen

Buuuuuut I love her.
Right now she's trying to smash her head as far into the keyboard as possible.  Such a silly kitty.

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All smooshed

I've been essentially working full time this week, spent over 35 hours there. Sheesh. But I enjoy my work and the hours and the paycheck that comes at the end.

Other than that, no news from here.  Looking forward to my favorite korean meal ever on Saturday.  Me madre is going to make sam gyup sal. DELICOUS.

Stressed? Not me!

I'm working a lot this week but the stress hasn't kicked in yet.  In fact, I'm so busy that I'm starting to organize my time better.  It's surprisingly super awesome.  Every hour is booked for something, it seems.  Either work, class, studying or spending time with my boyfriend or other good friends.

Right now I'm studying at my boyfriend's apartment while he sleeps.  I like doing schoolwork here.  I get to play with Luna for study breaks.  Now I'm completing some assignments to free up time this weekend since I work 7-8 hours every day essentially.  Business communications, Finance, and Earthquakes & Volcanos are the subjects for tonight.  And maybe some Advanced Criminology, if I have time and am not too burnt out.  Not to mention laundry.  Hooray!

Listening to Shpongle and being productive.  Nothing better.

Giving Luna snacks