Anyway, my fourth class at UoP ended last Monday. I’m starting a new class this Monday and I haven’t even met the teacher yet. In fact, our discussion page isn’t even set up yet so she took the time to email everyone the syllabus. Why? Because we have an essay due, the first day of class. About three chapters we’re suppose to read.

Why, nice to meet you too!

Ugh. Sometimes I think college isn’t for me. But I do love this school and I am excited for my career, so I just have to shut up and suck it up.

My Amazon order isn’t coming in this week, which means I get no new books this week. Well that’s not completely true. I got 3 books this week so far for review, one of which I’m really excited to read (Siren by Tricia Rayburn). I also got an email back from Penguin Publishing finally and they approved my request for the two ARC’s I wanted. So I’m excited about that as well! Now if only I could get an email back from HarperTeen…

I’ve realized that I spore up and my brain turns into mush in the summer. It’s just too freakin hot to think or do anything. I can’t wait until Fall, that’s when I wake up and start getting creative. I love cool and cold weather!

I wish I had asked my dad to get me a chocolate parfait… darn.

This post is a little late… not that anyone would had even noticed .

This is what I got my mom for Mother’s Day this year; Orchid scented stuff from Bath & Body Works (since she loves Orchid’s), a Nora Roberts book set and I also included a copy of The Clearing since it’s my favorite book of the year (so far).

All wrapped up and ready for her to find!

I got a new webcam (thanks to my buddy JD who gave me a $100 Visa gift card and told me to splurge it… so splurge it, I did!) and it’s amaaaazing. I love it! And it was cool cause it was $80 at Fry’s Electronics but $50 on Amazon. Oh the reasons why I love Amazon are endless!

As you can see, the focus on this is amazing! It’s like having macro on your webcam!

I’m obsessed with eating Panera Bread (BBQ Chicken Salad with diced egg and Wild Rice soup) and Chipotle. I blame my husband for the Chipotle obsession. But I can’t eat it unless he soaks my rice with lemon juice, which he usually gladly does .

Another obsession? Bokchoy Boys! They’re $.50 vending machine Ninja toys. Every time I eat at Fry’s Electronics (their Cafe has the BEST Club sandwich I’ve ever had) I have to get one… or three of these! Drives my husband crazy haha! But look at him, isn’t he cute? I’m missing 4 out of the 12 right now! Oh and this picture was taken on my new webcam .

Finally got to dine at Olive Garden after a very very long break. I’m not much of a drinker (anymore) and I definitely don’t like wine or beer. But I love Moscato! Maybe because it doesn’t really taste like wine…

I’ve stopped buying makeup and started buying books. Goin back to my roots! But seriously, this is getting dangerous lol. I’ve been going on crazy book buying spree’s.

This isn’t even half of the books I’ve bought in the last two months! I have books everywhere! I just finished Perfect Chemistry this morning and I have to say, it’s right up there with The Clearing. Amazing story, suspenseful, real, raw and intoxicating! I’m excited to read The Faerie Path but I can’t start any more series! I didn’t know Perfect Chemistry was a series, grrr. I have this thing where if I’m reading a series, it takes priority. So I’m hoping to finish the Wings series (or what’s out of it so far) so I don’t feel this lingering obligation lol. Also excited to read Merlin’s Harp because it has a super pretty cover and Graceling because I hear so many good things about it… but again, it’s part of a series!

Oh, more books! I know what I said about series earlier but I’m kinda holding off on reading Fragile Eternity because I have a soft spot for Seth and Ash and I’m not really ready for their story to be over just yet… but I am curious to know about what happens in Radiant  Shadows because it’s been talked about lately. The thing about the Wicked Lovely series is you get those first 80-100 pages where you’re kinda confused because of all the back story and details (not that its a bad thing, it actually helps you understand the rest of the book so much more easier) and I always feel so hazy in that area lol. My good friend suggested Lock & Key to me and I gave in and got it, its over 400 pages. Goodness lol! I’m kinda reading The Iron King, it’s kinda creeping me out a bit, just because someones stalking her and I mean its a bit obvious who and why but it’s just… kinda creepy you know?!

I decided… I’m going to give up on Eyes Like Stars. At least for right now. I don’t know, it’s just really confusing to me and I find myself saying “uhhh what?” every other page. It has fantastic reviews everywhere and I feel like there’s something wrong with me because I’m just not getting it lol. Ugh, I don’t know!

My typical school lunch except I’m missing my Turkey Melt lol. I’m so glad this class is almost over, the teacher irritates me. He talks to me like I’m stupid and every time he’s saying something about what you’re not suppose to be doing, he stares at me. Not only that, but every freakin comment he gives me back on my homework makes me sound like I lack the ability to write a complete sentence. I don’t know what the hell his problem is but even my husband notices that he pays more attention to me than anyone else, and not in a nice way either. Like yesterday, in class. He was going through a power point and I was commenting to Martin on the things on the slide and he was talking to another one of my classmates about a personal matter so I quietly commented to Martin about the slide and he turns to us and goes “can you guys stop talking to each other over there? You’re making it very hard for me to not separate you two” and it was just irritating. Everyone else whispers to each other and we get in trouble?! And separate us?! What are we, in high school? I’m paying for this class, don’t talk to me like I’m a fuckin child. UGH. Can’t WAIT for this stupid class to be OVER!

I thought this was kinda cool, they had Mario on all the monitors on the back wall in Fry’s. The little girl kept looking back at me cause I was wearing my raccoon Mario hoodie that day lol! As soon as they left, I jumped on the controllers! I  <3 that game !

Let’s see how far back I can remember…

So last week, we had to print out chapter’s since University of Phoenix doesn’t have hard copy text books, a lot of our “chapter reading” is online and needs to be printed out (unless you’re okay with reading it as a PDF file, I personally don’t really care). The good thing is that they allow you to print out as many pages as you need to at the campus, for free! I go to two colleges, so we had to find time between lunch and before class to run to UoP and print out our chapter reading. The campus is small, but it’s nice. And comfy.

I spotted these at Target!! They put out all the Easter candy and decor! I love Easter. It has the best candy! Hehe! These are my favorite Easter chocolates! They only come out during Easter too, which sucks! I went crazy. But husband didn’t let me buy any. He’s getting a little strict with me not eating candy lately…. hmph.

Most days consist of this, entire afternoons in Panera Bread before kickboxing class doing homework. Husband was turning in our learning team homework while I finished my lunch. Aww, isn’t he just the sweetest? And I know, could my stuff be any more girly? Pink laptop, MAC Hello Kitty carrying bag… lol.

I was craving granola! And I need to add more yogurt and fruit into my diet. I don’t eat enough. I love Panera Bread’s granola. It’s so so… so delicious!! I just hate how fast the yogurt warms up and it get’s all watery… .

Speaking of, I was looking for healthy snacks. I know I need to eat a little more healthier and I tend to skip breakfast a lot, so I was looking for some nuts and trail mix snack packs to snack on in my room. I’m lazy and I hate making food, plus, snacking on nuts is good for you. So I found these!

The Cocoa Roast Almonds are okay… they don’t taste much like dark chocolate (lol, I don’t know what I was expecting but it’s just funny to think about… was I expecting dark chocolate covered almonds?! Haha) but it is better than eating plain almonds. Plus they’re 100 calorie packs!

The Tropical Blend trail mix is pretty good. It comes with banana’s, mangoes and pineapples. The mangoes were making my stomach hurt after awhile, but everything else was really good. Weird, considering I’m Filipino and dried mango is one of my favorites snacks… unless they’re “dried” differently?

A few new purchases over the last month or so… oh how I miss splurging! But that’s what got me into all this debt trouble in the first place…. splurging. Makeup and books, what a combo right?! I finished To Serve My Country a few days ago and now I’m reading Loose Girl. I may do a review on here for it, or just go to my book blog here and look out for a review (I did one but I’m gonna re-do it because I wasn’t really happy with it. I’m horrible at reviewing things, but practice makes perfect right?)!

I spent the majority of the week taking care of Martin cause he was sick with the flu. He was sick for about 6 days, which is odd since he’s never sick. And if he is, at most, its for only one day. So the majority of the week when we weren’t at school was spent making and eating Chicken Noodle Soup, fleece blankets, DayQuils and lots of movies. It’s hard to take care of him since we don’t live together and he has to go home at the end of the night .

I was craving this one night so I made it. It’s my childhood favorite snack. It’s just bananas, brown sugar and lemon. I use to put Sprite instead of lemons when I was younger, I don’t know when I started putting lemon… but I think it taste better this way. Yum! I have really weird favorite snacks don’t I? Lettuce & Mayo, this and I make “turkey rolls”. Which is basically turkey with mayo on it and lettuce and I roll it up. Oh and cheese! I hate waiting for food to be made lol.

We got to watch Alice in Wonderland 3D on Sunday! I love how Martin is always so willing to watch movies with me that he knows I’m obsessed with. He really wanted to watch Alice cause he knows how much I love Alice (kinda like how he really wanted to watch Time Travelers Wife cause I was reading the book at the time. Or how he really wanted to watch The Lightning Thief cause he knows I love Mythology and I bought that book but lost it before I could start reading it… we still have to watch that movie too). I loved the movie! I loved how Cheshire and Hatter had much more larger parts in this movie. I love the action. I love the story line. It was amazing! I really want to see it again!

I don’t see how people don’t like this movie. The only thing I can think of is that they’re stuck on the Disney version. Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland is based on the second book of the Alice series: Through The Looking Glass. And on top of that, Disney does not own Alice in Wonderland. Alice in Wonderland was written by someone else. I don’t think a lot of people know that. A lot of the Disney cartoons are actually not owned by Disney. Trust me, I was heartbroken to find this out myself a few years ago!

Meet my Robo Dwarf Hamster… Boq (yes as in, from the Wicked book/musical). Get it? Munchkin? Dwarf hamster? Haha! He’s very sketchy and he’s not use to us touching him just yet even though I got him in November when Martin was away at Basic Training. My mom surprised me with him . I love his furry little hands!

And according to this picture, he needs his nails cut. Oh my lol.

So I found out yesterday that one of the layouts I had for my blog prevented tags from being attached to entries. Which sucks because I have a bunch of tags that aren’t attached to any entries and a bunch of entries with no tags! So far, up to August has no tags. I’m scared to see how far it goes! So now I have to go fix that… ack!

Anyway, it always amazes me how quickly the class always goes by! We’re working on Stress and Time Management, which is probably my favorite subject. I soak up stress like a sponge. I get all the nifty physical sicknesses and pains. We did this “stress test” and I scored a 175 which is in the middle, but I mean… a lot of things (like for example; debt) wasn’t on the list. Martin scored 67 LOL! And the highest score was Calvin at 670.

We also did two presentations! Yes, not one but two. The first one was on 10 things you do to relieve stress and we were broken up into groups of 3 and one group of 2. The married couples had to break up. But I kinda liked working with the people I worked with, it was a nice change. The second presentation was on creating a healthy meal for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

The first presentation I was nervous but not that nervous. I’m trying to talk more in class just to get use to it, cause I know I have to learn how. The second presentation, I wasn’t as nervous as I was with the first one. As soon as I got up there the nervousness stopped. Which was pretty cool. And of course when I got back to my seat, I got a big hug from Martin .

We went to get dinner at the cafe and I swear. They take forever to get you a cup of soup and a freakin bagel! I mean, come on. How do you make an entire sandwich before getting a cup of soup? It’s so freakin irritating. We were waiting for about 20 minutes and we were late for class by 10 minutes. For a bagel and soup. I mean, seriously? I’ll go get a freakin bagel and soup to go at Panera Bread if that’s the case! Geez.

So we’re down to two weeks left… I’m a bit sad. I like our class and I like our teacher. Overall, I’m really enjoying UoP .

Martin needed a notebook and I needed a bottle of water since I was still coughing like crazy and I didn’t want to deal with uncontrollable coughs in class. So we went to get him a notebook and I grabbed a bottle of Fiji water, cough drops and Red Vines then headed to class. We weren’t late at all (thank goodness). The class was small, we had a total of 9 people in our class.

Our instructor seems really nice. She’s not very serious so it made the class enjoyable. We got a lot of handouts, a lot of activities to start us talking, a few discussions, and we made our “working teams”. Thankfully, Martin and I weren’t the only married couple in the class, so that was nice to know! I felt a little left out from the people who had laptops and were able to turn in that day’s assignment before even leaving the room. My laptop unfortunately has to be plugged in cause the battery is faulty.

We had a 20-25 minute “dinner” break. And they have this cute little cafe downstairs. The food took forever to get ready and all we ordered was a cup of soup and a bagel! So we were a bit late coming back but we were able to finish our dinner in class, so that was nice! Since our class was so small, we were broken up to 3 to a group. The married couples obviously had to stay together.

So far, I really enjoyed the first day of class, the four hours flew right by! I had so much fun that it didn’t really feel like we were in class. But we did cover a lot. The first day left me excited for the next class and excited to start at this new school. It’s nice feeling like you made the right choice in choosing a school that you’re new to.

So, yeah, here’s to our new journey through a new college together! I’m excited .

But we made it to our Debt Consolidation appointment on time. We went with MMI, we read a lot of good things about them and people were directing us to them and lucky they have an office in the same city as our school, so yay for being able to talk to someone face-to-face (which is what I wanted). The lady who helped us, pulled up our credit reports for the both of us and asked us a few questions. All together, our debt is a little over $26,000. I thought it would be more than that, I thought my debt alone would be that much. But hearing that our joined debt that was that much was a relief! I had prepared myself for much worse! She kept mentioning that we should file for bankruptcy because we’re “young” and we “have a lot of time” but the thing with me and bankruptcy is that it stays on your record for ten years. And there have been horror stories about people who, even after ten years of filing were still declined for things like a home and a car because they’ve filed for bankruptcy before, period.

So if we were to go with the money management program, we’re looking at paying a little bit over $600/month for the next 51 months. I haven’t added the calculations up just yet, but I will in a bit. But either way, that’s way less than what we’re paying per month now and we can’t rack up any more APR than we already have. I don’t see a downside to this. And on top of that, my credit cards will be frozen (even though I don’t like this idea, I know in the end, it will be good for me) and I’ll be unable to use them. I say we should do it, Martin however wants to file for bankruptcy. Seriously, what is it with men and not looking at the bigger picture. If anything is pissing me off about him lately its his no-this-is-a-better-idea when it’s NOT because HE hasn’t researched any of it!

Anyway.

He also had the bright idea to nap in the car before our orientation/workshop for school. And what happened? We ended up being late and he somehow got lost even though we were only a block away from school. THINK. Goodness!

The workshop was helpful, I mean… it wasn’t rocket science but it was pretty informative and indeed helpful. I love how most of the staff are actually students at the school, that makes me feel more at ease. We filled out and submitted our first assignment via student website and we printed out our syllabus (which was like, 17 pages long) and our first chapter of reading (which was like 23 pages long). Free printing, hell yes!

I’m pretty excited about this, I’m excited to finally get my GE done! I’m debating between Marketing or Web Design now, but I think I’ll stick with Marketing. School starts on Monday and I’m nervous but excited! Nervous because I don’t know how this whole “working teams” thing will work, I’m not good with working in teams. I like working alone. But I guess this is a great way to network. Me and Martin are just hoping that we’ll end up on the same working team.

So last night while we were in workshop, my nose was running. Like, non-stop and I was sneezing. Not that allergies-sneezing but that crap I’m sick sneezing. But it didn’t fully hit me til we were driving home. Thank goodness. I was thinking of taking some NyQuil before bed last night but I didn’t think I was sick enough to take it. So I didn’t. My nose and my left eye were running, all night long. It was horrible! I actually went to sleep a little passed midnight, which is 3 hours earlier than usual! I would had loved to curl up and fall asleep reading a book, but my OCD wasn’t permitting last night! Hopefully tonight, though I don’t want to read 3 books at the same time. We’ll see though.

I woke up this morning feeling even worse. I was congested, sniffling, throat was still dry and icky, I’m feeling a bit warm and getting some chills. I took a nap about 2hrs ago, I can’t decide if it made me feel better or worse! Goodness, and now I’m coughing! Ugh, I’d love some loving husband hugs and kisses right now. Who needs medicine when you can have loving hugs and kisses?!

It just sucks when I’m sick, husband cant be here. I’d rather be in the comfort of my own room – alone. And because of my OCD, he can’t be in my room. At all, right now. I was actually planning on cleaning my room this weekend before I had gotten sick, so now, its being pushed back, again. We could just chill downstairs, but I’d rather not because my parents are always down there talking and making noise and when I’m sick, I just don’t want to deal with that. My dad has been going crazy with his OCD tendencies lately and it’s been driving me nuts.

This is why I wish we lived on our own. Somewhere quiet, comfortable and somewhere I can be sick and have him be around. Without being bothered, without the random noise! I hate that we’re 24 and we still live at home. We’re married, 24 and still live separately with our own parents. I hate this, I hate this so much.

And I did! I officially enrolled last Tuesday the 16th and new student orientation was yesterday the 17th. And I thought that was it until school starts on Monday. Buuuut…. nope. There’s a workshop later tonight to prepare us for the first day of school. We also have a very important appointment in eight hours concerning Debt Consolidation (yes it is 3:02AM and yes I would love to go to bed now but my hair is wet). I’m nervous and excited and I’m hopeful. We really really need to figure out what we’re going to do, and hopefully this will help us in the way that we need help (you know, besides free money to pay bills cause we all know, that only happens in a perfect world).

So yes, this is why I havent updated about Valentines Day yet, which I want to and I finally got around to editing and uploading the pictures the other night but I havent had time to actually write out a post. But I will! As soon as I find enough time to.

I finally bought a domain for my beauty blog and I’m super excited about that. I put up a fresh new layout that still needs tweaking. I thought I figured out a code and I didnt, so I need to fix that soon. On my PC it looks awesome because the font is installed into my system but on everyone elses PC, not so much. So booo. So much for short cuts… I shoulda knew better. Booo for being lazy lol!

My eyes are fuzzy. I wonder how long before I decide to just sleep with my hair wet and deal with the headache in the morning. Which would suck, since I have to wake up early and I’m not a fan of waking up before 11AM.

CONVO OF THE WEEK:
Husband: *mumbling* you can do whatever you put your mind to.
Me: What?!?!
Husband: YOU. CAN. DO. WHATEVER. YOU. PUT. YOUR. MIND. TO!
Me: Oh… I thought you were talking shit again, but thanks.
Husband: …..you make my eyes burn.

So last Tuesday, we went into Sprint looking at phone’s. I had a question actually, I dont remember exactly why we were there… but anyway, we ended up switching providers! So yes, I finally got my Palm Pixi! I am in love with it. Seriously, I’m always on my phone now. I totally forgot I still have my T-Mobile Sidekick lol! So yes, Tuesday was a good day . Husband also switched with me, he got the HTC Hero. I’m jealous over how many more apps the Hero has, but I hate the way the phone looks. I’m not a fan of bulky PDA’s with huge screen and touchscreen keyboards. Oh, I also got Panera Bread for dinner. I destroyed that dinner quicker than I usually do lol!

Wednesday we went to see Wicked! My 4th time and husband’s 3rd. I finally got to see Teal Wicks as Elphaba and Natalie as Glinda and I must say, I loved Natalie as Glinda! I’m sad she left the SF production last Sunday. She was amazing. I loved the mocking Teal did in “What Is This Feeling”. I’m also sad that Eddy and Patty left on Sunday as well. My favorite Boq and Madame Morrible!

Rushed down to stage door, you can read about my Wicked day here actually lol. But yes, it was a very good day. Even though I skipped eating cause we were running late and I had the biggest headache after the show.

Got new moleskine’s. These ones have blank pages, husband wanted a drawing book and I had my eye on this one instead of the one with lined pages that I got last month, but I figured to go with lined pages since I’ll probably write more than draw. So I grabbed these for husband (and I, shhh). Dont you hate when you’re so excited to have something that you kinda just sit there all excited and you have no idea what to do next? Yeah, that’s how I feel about my moleskines lol. I’m scared I’ll ruin them somehow! Oh and those are my favorite happy snowmen sheets! I *heart* them. The best part of Winter is busting out these sheets!

Chicken Parm from Olive Garden is one of my favorite dishes (I actually have a lot of favorite dishes but I pick this one the most). I tried it with fettuccine noodles this time, just to see what the big deal was. Annnnd, I hated it. Really, it wasnt that great. Never again!

I declared Sunday to be my Olive Garden day. I’m obsessed with Olive Garden and I dont get to eat there often cause obviously, its not cheap! So I decided to treat myself every week to Olive Garden! Its been awhile since we’ve been to the movies and I know husband wanted to see Avatar (but no way am I sitting at a movie for 3hrs) and he wanted to see Time Travelers Wife (I hate sad movies) so I figured we’ll go see a movie on Sunday too, compromise!

So we watched Dear John. Honestly, I didnt want to. Dear John is one of my absolute favorite books by Nicolas Sparks, I read it years ago and fell in love with it. I know the story gets incredibly sad, and I was hoping they would graze over the sad part since it wasnt that big of a deal but… I was wrong. I normally dont cry at movies but the part that made me the saddest in the book actually happened in the movie and I was bawling my eyes out. Husband didnt poke fun at me this time though. Thank goodness. The story hit home a little more this time than it did when I read the book since I know what it’s like to ask everyday if you got a letter since husband was in Basic Training not too long ago, its like hey, I remember those days. And I guess re-visiting the story, the part that made me the saddest was a much bigger part of the story than I saw the first time.

I thought the guy who played Mr. Tyler did an amazing job with the character. And I thought Channing did an absolute amazing job as John. I loved the movie, not more than the book… but… okay this is turning into a review which I had planned to blog about. Good job Zel lol!

I didnt feel like being home the other day so we drove around in circles around town, not knowing what to do after dropping Marissa off at her boyfriend’s house which was in the middle of nowhere! And we ended up at the park, playing with our new phones. And then it started raining so I decided to just go home. And as soon as I got there, I wanted to leave again. I’ve been grumpy lately, mostly because I’ve been craving an extreme dose of peace and quiet and I barely get any, so yeah. I’m sure that’s enough to make anyone grumpy. Anyway, that was kinda (by kinda I mean really) a bad day for me, I got hit with intense anxiety that night, it was almost painful. Made me miss my furball who passed almost two years ago.

Oh and do you like my new wallpaper? .

Wanna know a secret? I take only gummie multivitamin’s. I was taking children’s Finding Nemo ones but husband didnt like that it didnt give you everything you needed, so I started taking these, the adult version. Thank goodness they come in sour. I’m going to be reviewing these on my food blog here soon. I’m trying to get my hands on the brand new Jolly Rancher Sour ones! MmM. My mouth’s watering just thinking about how delicious they would be!

I went to talk to someone at the University of Phoenix yesterday, I’m thinking of attending. The school and the program and the options sound wonderful. Exactly what I’m looking for, its just picking my major that I’m going to have a hard time with. The great part is, husband is thinking about attending with me as well! I’m pretty excited, there have been complications in the past that have prevented him from attending school with me, so I’m pretty excited about this !