Second day of school

The first day of school was yesterday and let me tell you!

Mondays are gonna SUUUUCK, more than they usually do.

At my school there's this hell hill that leads to the science building, and I have Chem at 11:30 then lab at 1:30 so I get the joys of walking up that hill twice on Mondays, yaaaay...

To make it even better I get to see one of my least favorite people in both classes.

But on the plus side I like my Spanish class!

My Tuesday & Thursday classes are pretty great.

I actually paid attention in psych today, which is a first. But the teacher is funny so I like it.

AND the sun is out plus it's still moderately warm!

I freaking love it here.

Not to mention that I am reunited with my best friends.

I think I'll survive this year, regardless of Mondays and of the icky people.

Thank god for friends and sun!

Have a fantastic week!

♥  E

Welcome back! {excuse the looooong post}

So I definitely abandoned this blog when college started {my deepest apologies}, but I started a summer blog to track what I was up to in Michigan and decided that this old blog needed to be revived from the blog graveyard. this is me doing so. I'm going to try to post more often, but I can't make any promises.
My first year at SOU was quite insane. As we {my best friend and I} like to say "F***ing freshman year". It wasn't all bad, mind you, but there were definitely moments that felt like the world had it out for us. Since I didn't post at all last year let me give you a few good, and not so good, highlights of "F***ing freshman year"

THE GOOD:

• Meeting my best friend and then meeting the rest of our little family {aka meeting the best people EVER}
• Moving to one of the best cities I've ever been to
• Joining teamiPhone
• Road trips!
• Parties, even if they ended badly I still had fun {mostly}
• Staying up late for no real reason
• The random conversations
• The Dev concert :)
• Our Easter picnic
• Skipping class for no reason other than not wanting to go
• Passing Sociology even though we rarely attended
• Spending almost everyday with friends
• Sitting in the lobby doing nothing, but having fun
• Watching ANTM
• Always having someone to talk to
• Night walks to the park
• Movie nights
• 7-11 {nuff said}
• Getting addicted to Tumblr

THE BAD:

• Pathological liars
• Untrustworthy people
• Friendship breakups
• Rude roommates
• Jerk boys
• Crying {no matter the reason or who it was, it sucked}
• Breaking my android :( {R.I.P little buddy}
• The party problems
• Getting addicted to Tumblr

THE UGLY:

• Our 'top model pictures' {YIKES!}
• The guys I was into {Seriously they weren't cute, but they had seemingly nice personalities}
• Friendship breakups
• Thinking 'Amanda K' was gonna kill us {SCARIEST S*** OF MY LIFE}
• Dominique {hahahahaha}
• Getting addicted to Tumblr

No these aren't the complete lists, but I don't want to bore you!

Overall I'd say last year was a pretty okay year, yeah we had our ups and downs, but we all came out alive and well. Plus we had each other, and that's all that really matters in the end.

Annnnnnyway, that was my year.

I hope you'll join me for the journey of my second year!

xoxo,

Gossip Girl

Haha just kidding, I've always wanted to end a post that way

♥  E

RETURNING IN THE FALL!

Hey guys, sorry I've kind of abandoned ship!

I am currently running a summer blog (check that out here)

I plan on returning to this blog Fall 2012.
Can't wait to catch up!

♥  E

College

"Man I love college" -Asher Roth (this totally sums it all up!)

Hey guys! I really hope you can forgive me for not posting in forever, I haven't had internet and I finally got it to work after 6,000 years haha.

I got to SOU on the 17th and I have been pretty busy ever since. I took a class earlier so I could move in six days before everyone else, I'd say it was well worth it. I got two credits for the class and I only had it for four days. This post was supposed to have pictures of my dorm before and after I moved in, but since my brain has had little sleep (I've pretty much gone to bed at 5-5:30-ish every night since Thursday) and it has been on overdrive I accidentally deleted them the other day when I was bored. I will post a few pictures eventually, but since school starts tomorrow and I still have a lot to do before then I have to wait to do that.

I have so much I need to do today and it seems like I have no time at all. I am really loving Ashland and SOU, I think I made the best decision of my life to come here. Everyone living on campus has only been here for four days, but already I have met some seriously wonderful people that I hope I will be friends with for a long time, and I have met some great eye candy ;)

I can't wait to tell you all about my first day of class and all of the fun things I do tomorrow, but until then I have to keep things short.

Thanks for reading, and enjoy the school week!!
♥  E

Oreos and Milk

Is this not the cutest?

Definitely my favorite dessert! I don't really like chocolate, but when I crave it I automatically think of Oreos, it's like instinct. I just had a delicious glass of milk and a single pack of Oreos (the kind that come in 12 packs of 6 cookies), so great!

And now an update into my life:
Since I leave in 3 days, I have all of my stuff packed so it's ready to go. You'd think that it would be weirder to have all of your  stuff in bags and containers, but oddly I hardly notice.

This is the food my mom got me for my dorm, all my favs!

This is all of my stuff minus clothing and bathroom stuff,
in the dining room in a corner

It's weird to think that I'm leaving in three days, but I am beyond excited! I will try to post on Saturday and show you guys my dorm and the school and the car when it's all packed. I am so excited!

The sad thing is that Ashley won't be there when I get there :( I am very sad about that but I will have fun for a few days and then when she gets there, we'll totally party! :)

It's sad that I have to say "see you later" to my hometown, family and friends, but luckily my Twinsie said she'll visit me! And I'll only be gone for two months until winter break, so I think I'll survive! 

Another plus is that since it's my week my mom is making all of my favorite foods for dinner! It is really deliciously awesome!

Friday is going to be the best! I'm hanging out with my Twinsie and I get the best dinner! Then Saturday I get a delicious breakfast and have to suffer through a five hour drive down to Ashland. I may not survive ;)

Anyway it's dinner time and I smell cauliflower! Mmmmmm

Have a great rest of the week!

♥  E

A Few of My Favorite Things: Fall

Fall is starting soon and I thought I would share a few of my favorite things, fall edition:

1.

Hot Chocolate with marshmallows, there is nothing I love more than cuddling up with a big mug of hot cocoa with marshmallows on top. Obviously I choose this picture because I would love to have cloud shaped marshmallows.

2.

When the Leaves Change Colors, I love the reds and yellows and oranges. When the leaves start changing that's when I know that fall is right around the corner!

3.

Rain, I have lived in Portland/Beaverton my whole life and no matter how much I complain, I LOVE the rain. Especially in the fall. The rain boots, the umbrellas, the puddles, the sky before, during, and after, and the smell once it stops. Can't get enough. 

4.

Saying goodbye to summer, in memorable ways with friends.

5.

School, I can't help but get those pre-school jitters EVERY year on the first day of school. No matter how long I've gone to that school I always get them. Will I make it to school on time? Will I walk into the wrong classroom? Will I like my teachers? Will I know anyone in class? Will I be able to open my locker? Will any of my friends have the same lunch as me? All of those questions go through my head. Luckily I won't have to worry about half those things this year.

6.

My Twinsie's birthday! I love birthdays as a whole, but especially when it's for someone I love, and trust me I love this girl!

7.

                                   

Halloween, candy, costumes, decorations, "scary" stories, and the Disney Halloween movies that come back once a year! What's not to love?

8.

Thanksgiving, I don't really enjoy the food, but I love what the holiday is as a whole. Getting together with family you may not see all the time, cooking, watching Football, watching the Macy's Day Parade, and getting to give thanks for everything in your life.

♥  Honorable mentions ♥ 

Cuddling up and watching movies ♥ coffee dates ♥ staying home with a cup of something warm and a good book ♥ chicken noodle soup (only when I'm sick) ♥ sweatshirts that are too big ♥ comfy boots a million ♥ comforters on my bed 

♥ trips to the pumpkin patch 

And that my friends is the first edition of A Few Of My Favorite Things. I hope you enjoyed.

Feel Free to tell me a few of your favorite things in a comment!

♥ E

Photo credit: WeHeartIt

2 weeks...

I have been a lazy blogger and haven't done my Friend of the Week this week, so this post will be a little longer than most because it'll be a dual post.

Friend of the Week

Name: Ashley
Age: 18
Location: Beaverton, soon to be in Greensprings dorm complex with me!
Friends since: Freshman year, recently reconnected.

Ashley is so funny, and we get along so well! I don't want to say too much because I want to do a full post about my roomie in the future, but what I will say is that she and I are so alike and I think that we'll be really good roommates. We're going to have so much fun this year! I'm really glad that we reconnected senior year and are now going to be roommates! I will be sure to add more about Ashley in a later post!

Now that I B.sed my friend of the week, here's my real post.

There's a count down near the deer!
Also don't you just love my phone's wallpaper?
I do! I am sad I'll be leaving Portland soon
And yes I stole this from Anthony Napolitan's twitter

I have exactly two weeks until I leave for SOU! I am so excited, and I have 90% of what I need! So once my two weeks are up I shall be on my way to starting my college adventure. Speaking of college adventures, on the first of this month Ashley and I went downtown to meet two other girls that live in Portland and are going to SOU this fall. We had so much fun! We got downtown around 4pm and went straight to the Pioneer Courthouse Square Starbucks to meet Kindra, but she got confused and went to Pioneer Place Starbucks instead, they're only about a block or two down the street from each other so it wasn't really a huge problem. She walked to us and then we decided to wander around, well we ended up going to Pioneer Place. Basically we made Kindra walk to us for no reason haha. Anyway we wandered around and eventually we completely starving, but we couldn't eat until Emily got there so we kept walking until Ashley got the text saying Emily was close. Then we went to the food court and finally met up with Emily. We stayed downtown for about four or five hours. It was SO much fun! Especially the end where we couldn't find our way home from downtown haha. Downtown in daylight=WAY different at night!

In other news! My grandma from Michigan bought me a laptop!!

This is to show two things: 1) My new beautiful laptop and
2)That I spent my day playing Mystery P.I: San Francisco

I honestly love it so much! It is so perfect for college and just for fun. I unfortunately can't blog from it since we don't have wi-fi here and it's too late to go to Starbucks or somewhere. But I do get to play games and watch DVDs on it.

This is what I watched today! I ♥ Lucy!

Okay so this post isn't as long as I thought it would be, but I did tell you guys everything I wanted to! I'll try to be less lazy when it comes to blogging, sometimes I can't think of things to say, or I have no pictures, or both. I'll work on that!

Have an AMAZING weekend!

♥ E