Day 150.

Got to hang out with family and a few family church friends today and it felt really good. Brought back some really good memories..makes me feel older reminiscing about high school and freshmen year in college. Don't get to see a friend as much since she moved to Philly for med school so it's good to catch up whenever she's back :) So we went to lunch and like most days, brother paid. We walked around a bit and made our way to Rice to Riches and Pinkberry. My cousin and I have been wanting Rice to Riches for a while, so we went there while friends got Pinkberry. I remember my brother and friends ALWAYS paying for me when I was in high school..and even now..so I wanted to do the same for my cousin, so when she started to take out her wallet, I told her not to worry. Here's to growing up slooooowly!

HAHA.

Day 149.

Family church went on a Memorial Day picnic. A couple of weeks ago I was really pissed I had to go to this picnic because I couldn't go somewhere else, but I felt good today and had fun. I forget how much the moms do every week and especially for outings like today. Without them we would have crappy food..if any. Some of the little kiddies wanted to go on the boat ride, but no one really wanted to accompany them so I agreed to take them. Tiring, but fun. Brought back some good memories :)

HAHA.

my boyfriend briefly shared some of his experience at basileia with me.
sounded amazing.
not that I didn't believe prayer worked before, but wow.
Seriously, thanks for sharing with me.

so some of you may know that I did not get the credit for a Theatre class that I took Winter session of 2011. As my last attempt, I decided to email the undergrad adviser and the professor that I took the class with to see if there was any possible way to get the credit. I thought there would be little to no chance of getting the credit. I prayed, "God, please, this is the last possible attempt." And God delivered. Turns out I can't get the credit for the last Winter session course but I can register for the fall course that he's teaching and get the credit for the course in the fall.

God has pulled through for me in so many ways this past year. I wish I could remember these moments when I'm so deep into the things that are wrong in my life. God, You never cease to amaze me.

-frostedflakesaremyfavorite.

Days 144-148.

On Tuesday, I had to drop by school to return a library book and I had some time to spare so I texted my friend to see if she was available. Normally I would've just left right after, but I told myself that I could take a few minutes to catch up with a friend who I haven't really seen all semester. For dinner, my mentor and husband took me out to give me some advice on post-graduate plans. The conversation really scared me, but without their guidance I know I'd be waaaay worse off so THANK YOU!

A friend needed some help packing up to clear out of her dorms and since I didn't really have anything to do, I went to go help her. FUN! Makes me :) knowing I'm not the only messy one haha.

Went to go get chicken and rice and since my brother is always buying me food, I asked him if he wanted me to pick him up some. HOT SAAAAUCE :)

My best homegirl had an appointment in the morning and I had nothing to do so I went with her. Haven't taken the morning train with her in a long while - good memories :) And second time in the week where I almost pooped my pants. :)

Wasn't feeling that well because of hormonal changes haha so didn't want to do anything but stay at home. But a friend invited me to her place earlier in the week so I hauled my lazy butt over for a few hours and when I got back momma wanted to go to the supermarket so went with her there.

HAHA.

Finals week has definitely been tiring both physically and spiritually. After having done poorly today, I'm feeling pretty disappointed with myself. On a brighter note, this week I've gotten closer with a friend of mine who I didn't use to talk to. She has been under a lot of stress with family, relationships and finals and I was so surprised to see how strong she was, despite the circumstances she was going through. It encouraged me to see things in a brighter light. I was glad too, to have been able to have those conversations with her and comfort her. It just seems like she needs a lot of love and encouragement so that she can get through it all. :)

Days 142-143.

Got a text from a friend right about when I was supposed to wake up yesterday. She got out to the city really early and was wondering when I was gonna get to church. I told her I would try to get out early but wasn't sure about what time so I hustled out of bed and got out to spend some time with her :)

I remember a friend mentioning how bored he is at home so I told him we should hang out since we live so close to each other. And to save the little money we had, we decided to watch movies and cook at his house. Beats me doing that with my brother at home! Haha. So I packed some food for us to eat and with another friend that I don't see much, we walked over to our friend's house for a day of lazy fun.

HAHA.

a different perspective.

Real quick, since I need to get back to doing my work..

So for my chinese course, one of my classmates whom I don't know, emailed the class and asked if the final was 9-11 and if the review sheet was on blackboard. I don't usually email the people who email the class with questions back. Or, actually, throughout my four years in college, I have never emailed a classmate back with a question before..I always just assumed someone else would do it or that it was their own fault for not knowing/paying attention.

But then it got me thinking..what if this person shows up to the final at 11 (which is when our class usually starts) and misses the whole final? What if they fail and couldn't graduate because of that one stinkin' foreign language credit?? If that happened to me, that would suck. A different perspective always helps!

So I did not want that to happen to my classmate..so even though I didn't know whether or not someone else replied to his/her email, I figured it wouldn't hurt to email them as well. =)

Back to workk, harry potter glasses for your enjoyment :).

-frostedflakesaremyfavorite.

Days 138-141.

Ahh got waay behind..

Wednesday, I went to a hot yoga class with a friend. She's been taken the classes for a while so she knows the drill and seeing I only had a bottle of water, she knew it wouldn't be enough and she bought me another bottle of water. After, she treated me to dinner for a congraduation dinner. It was REALLY nice of her. After dinner, she had to go run some errands so I walked to the train station and a friend texted me cause he was bored at work and wanted me to visit him. I was a bit drained, but I felt bad cause being bored at work makes things so much slower. I don't talk to him much during the week so it was good to talk to him and chillll.

I've sort of been helping with the planning of an event and I'm not good at the coming up with ideas part so I've been feeling bad. I'm better at helping get things done (sort of) and some paper needed to be cut so I went on Thursday to help another team member.

PAY DAYYYY! It's been a while since I had some money on the pay check that I could actually use for myself. We had small group Friday and I haven't really been able to treat the group to snacks in a while so I was happy to show my appreciation for them with snacks. FOOD :)

NO MORE SCHOOL! As a graduation gift, my parents and gramma gave me some money. After the ceremony, we went out for lunch but once we got home my parents pretty much crashed. My brother, cousin and I were left to deal with dinner ourselves and since I had money for once, I was able to buy dinner for us. FOOD :) :)

HAHA.

Days 136-137.

Yesterday was last day of finals and random and not so random people congratulated me throughout the day for being finished. YESSSSAH!

I was making dinner for today and lunch for tomorrow and I asked my brother if he wanted so cause he didn't eat dinner either. Even though it was a little he was glad to have some.

Days 134-135.

For a while now I've been having a hard time remembering to love. How bad does that sound..the past week, I had to write "love" on my hand to remind myself to love. Without a simple reminder, I just forget and naturally live my life selfishly and look out only for myself. Please pray for me. I don't want to settle and stay lazy and unloving.

As I think about the past couple weeks, I realize how much my brother has grown. He's more of a tough love kind of guy, but if you really look at his actions, he's really really great. I mean his attitude isn't always the best or most tolerant, but he's matured. I'm glad he isn't the very sensitive, emotionally obvious type of guy! Anyway yesterday, my family and a few church friends went shopping. We went to get lunch before, and the moms were joking around asking who would pay and even though he's currently jobless, my brother offered to pay. Not sure if he really thought he would pay, but in the end he did and he is ALWAYS paying for myself and my cousin cause we're younger. Good looking out brobro!

Today (and pretty much all week), I was replaying Justin Bieber's "Baby" and singing/rapping to it. I know it was bugging him plenty, but he remained his cool haha. It still surprises me how much he knows me. I spent all weekend just chilling and knowing that I hadn't studied zip for my final tomorrow, he kept telling me to study, but I kept avoiding it. Friends came over today and I knew I wouldn't be able to study with them around so I started to clean my room instead. I never clean my room unless I have a lot of things on my mind or I need the space, but this semester, I still didn't clean even if that was the case. He knew I was just cleaning to procrastinate some more and after I finished cleaning, I went back to wasting time singing to Bieber. It was almost midnight by then so to make sure I would study, he threatened to shoot me with his bbgun whenever he saw me slacking/smiling/laughing. I've been pretty productive since! Thanks for the tough love :)

HAHA.

Days 132-133.

One of my closest friends wanted to meet because he needed to talk about some stuff going on. So we had lunch yesterday and had some good conversation. :)

Someone very awesome gave me some AMC Gold tickets a while back. I haven't been able to use them, but went to go watch Thor today. Some things didn't go as planned, but was able to use the tickets I had to help some friends.

HAHA.

Days 130-131.

A friend needed a book for his paper, but the library at his school didn't have so he asked others. My school had one of the books he was looking for so I requested it and since he needed it ASAP so with the help of a friend, got it to him.

I like my tv shows and I like to watch them uninterrupted because I can't divide my attention when watching my shows. My brother doesn't like to watch any of my shows so I have to watch it whenever he's not around or when he's feeling nice enough to let me watch it. I used to watch it when he was at work, but since he stopped working it's been a bit trickier. Anyway he was out today so I hustled to watch my shows when I got home. While watching, my mom asks me to get the garbage so I hustle to get it. Later on, my friend calls me to talk and I'm just thinking COME ON! Not that I don't want to help or talk, just bad timing. But he was going through a tough situation and thanks to DVR, I was able to pause and chat with him.

HAHA.

Day 128-129.

For Momma's Day, my brother, cousin and I chipped in to get momma a flower arrangement. We're terrible at getting gifts for each other - well I am at least. Mom also talked about going to some ballet show with her coworkers so paid for her ticket.

While running some errands today, I saw a young girl who was homeless sitting on her back across the street. Girls/women on the street stick out since there aren't many. I was kind of in a rush (but not in that much of a rush that I couldn't stop and talk) so I just walked past her and went to where I was going. I stopped a bit in my tracks, but at that point I didn't want to walk back. I always feel foolish back tracking my steps, but I knew it was so chicken of me to not help just because I felt foolish. So at that point I told myself I would go to where I was going and then walk back after. What a chicken! I need more courage! As I approached her, I noticed how young she was or looked. She had braces! I had some chips and hummus in my bag so I offered some and still had some resource cards from Don't Walk By so gave that too. Her name is Britney - pray for her!

HAHA.

Mother's Day

I'm not a mother yet but soon to be. Received cards and gift from some students and feel lots of love from them. I don't think that I'm important so knowing that people do think of me means A LOT to me. So thankful for these people God brought around me.=)

Day 126-127.

Yesterday, a friend needed help babysitting his kids while his wife went somewhere. Man kids are a lot harder to please when their mother isn't there haha.

Met a classmate today to finish a group project. Man it took SO much longer than expected. Her experience level is far above mine and the work would've even taken much much longer and would've looked worse. Without her help and patience, I would've been screwed. So thank you for carrying the team and helping me do a good job.

HAHA.

Days 124-125.

I had a lot due today with very little already done, so I was pretty much freaking out yesterday. I was really stressed and losing it so I got crabby and impatient with anything/anyone that I thought was a waste of time. Well the night started like that at least then I eventually got sick of doing work. Anyway Wednesday nights are kind of busy for my parents. Right after dinner they get ready to go to church so my mom doesn't really get to clean up the dishes and put away food. She was hustling and bustling trying to clean up while getting ready herself, so I told her I would take care of the dishes and leftover so she wouldn't be late.

Ended up getting about 3 hours and change of sleep so I was really out of it today. Was just looking forward to getting home and relaxing. When I got home my brother was nowhere to be seen. Through the window I see him in the backyard so I go and check it out and he, my mom and cousin are cleaning up the backyard, hoeing the soil, picking out weeds, and all that good stuff. I was tempted to just change and sit down in front of the tv, but didn't want to leave everyone just working their butts off while I did nothing. So I went out and helped them get the backyard ready for some veggies my mom wanted to plant. The most gardening I've ever done. It wasn't too bad :)

HAHA.

Day 123.

While getting dinner ready today I noticed that my mom seemed really out of it. She was quiet and seemed agitated/didn't seem very pleased. Normally, I eat in my brother's room because of the tv and my mom knows that, but today she just said "Let's go eat (in the living room). " I know I would be ehh about eating with my gramma, but maybe that's just me. My brother wasn't even home and my mom is usually more upbeat, so I figured the least I could do is eat with her. After dinner I went back to my room to do my own thing, but then realized I should help her with dishes so I did. I should realize things earlier.

HAHA.

Day 122.

A friend was/is going through some difficult times so I asked her if she wanted to talk about it. People need outlets - to talk, rant, ramble, complain, reason, process, whine, cry, scream, and everything in between cause I know from experience, keeping it in is no good. I always make it a point to tell people I suck with advice so I don't let people down, but no matter what I'll always be all ears..well I'll try my best to be.

HAHA.

boop.

So today was my doctor/chiropractor's birthday. Happy birthday, Sir!

My doctor/chiropractor has been super nice/super helpful/super caring/super everything awesome to me ever since I hurt my back. He helped refer me to get an x-ray and make sure everything is progressing smoothly. And when I didn't go back for a week or so, his office called me to make another appointment just to check my progress. So I went to see him today and decided to get 3 drinks for him, his receptionist, and the other doctor in his office yaya drinks. (though I can't take credit for the idea of getting yaya drinks since I originally thought Starbucks, so thanks for the idea, you!) He loved it! He kept thanking me because he loves yaya drinks! Haha, I wasn't even aware that he liked it so much and I didn't even know what drink he liked! Thankfully, the owner of yaya's knew his favorite drink: 007. :)

So all in all, my nice gesture was helped by two kind people.

But, let me not forget a kind and awesome and very very very good friend of mine. She's been so helpful and kind and replied back to my email when I really needed it, even though I know she probably had tons and tons of work to do and it was like 2am. If only I could be half as nice as her, my days would go by so much smoother haha. I'm so blessed to have her in my life :).

-frostedflakesaremyfavorite.

Day 121.

Spent tonight watching Gran Torino with brobro, cousin, and momma. Momma doesn't watch a lot of movies with us, so it's some good time together with lots of laughs. There's a lot of racism, but it's a good movie. There are some good lessons of love in it.

HAHA.