So I've Been Thinking....

So it's Friday and I'm getting back into the swing of living in the library once again. I'm finishing off a midterm right now actually but I'm having a block so I figured it would be nice to get everything out of my brain and then go back with a fresh mind. What's in my brain knocking around, you may ask, well a lot. 

With graduation coming up I've been doing a lot of thinking about what's next for me. I'm still looking for a job and I'm trying to stay here in New York for as long as I can. I'm doing a summer course still so I have a couple more months here but as the planner I am, I want to know what's going to happen. After my summer course I really want to get an apartment. I just feel like I need my own space right now to grow and to really figure out what direction I want to go in and to figure out who I really want to be outside of the school me. As much as I like to deny it, I'm an adult. School sort of keeps you in a bubble which allows you to think of yourself as a teenage still but it's time I start seeing myself differently. And to do that, I think I need my own space. With that in mind, I did some looking for apartments that I could rent that are still reasonably price and as expected, they are in New Jersey. I really don't mind that at all. Jersey is sort of more my speed and it's not that hard to get into the city. What I'm really excited about is decorating. Having that blank canvas that I can fill up with me. 

Thinking about the future and everything that is to come, I of course was thinking about the future of this blog. I made this to be about my life at Pace and with my life and Pace ending, does that mean my blog does too or should I just change the name and description? On one hand I think it best to start a new blog so that I can close a chapter on what has been an indelible experience and open a new chapter on creating another one. But then I worry about people being able to find it and read it which I've never worried about before. I think I'll start a new one, a more permanent one, that isn't just about a time in my life but just about my life. 

Ok I think I've procrastinated enough for today so let me get back to my midterm and studying. 

You can find me in the library.... ): 

Carla xo

Spring Break

Spring break is over and its back to the "normal" of studying and doing work every minute I can. First let me say that my spring break was awesome. Partially because it started the Thursday before the official spring break since I don't have class on Fridays. That meant that I spent Friday reading books and catching up on some series in my "to read" pile. So I read a couple books actually between Friday and Tuesday. I read Between the Lines by Tammara Webber. 

It was an ok read but was a good start to my weekend of reading. It was just a bit juvenile for me and hard to relate to. I would say its a good read for like a 16 year old or so but not for me. She just seemed a bit too confused and then the story went in a completely different direction that where I thought and would have liked it to go. Next on my list was Hunting Lila by Sarah Alderson.

This one caught my interest because it was mostly about one thing and not a bunch of other things. It seemed very focused. It started off being a bunch of different things but it all tied together well. I also liked it cause it was easy to imagine in my head with all the military stuff. It was well written and I learnt a couple of words from it too. :)  Next came the Brenna Blixen series, starting off with Double Clutch.

This started off ok and is basically what every teenage girl wants from guys, choices. It took me a while to get through this one. I didn't find it that relatable. She was still in high school and it focused a lot on secrets which I really don't relate to. I really hate how secrets are used in books and tv shows and it just causes unnecessary drama. Once again, a good book for my younger cousin but not so much for me so I went back to the Lila series with Losing Lila. 

This one was a bit of a let down for me. Everything just seemed to fall into place too easily. I mean I can't imagine a situation where everyone listens to a 17 year old so easily. I have trouble getting my family to listen to me at 23 so that was a bit weird. Overall it was ok, just not for me. Out of boredom I went back to the Brenna Blixen series to tide me over until my flight. Number two is called Junk Miles.

This was the book that made me give up on the series. She was still "torn" between two guys and her switching back and forth was annoying me. Once again, not relatable. So I got through 5 books in 5 days. Well more like 4 1/2 since I didn't finish Junk Miles. I just really want to find another series like Lux, Significance, or Elemental. I want to find books where the protagonist is around my age, early twenties, but I still want that supernatural addition to it. So far I haven't found one but I'll keep looking. 

Last Saturday I decided to spend the day with my cousins which turned into watching her dance classes. It was such a nice relaxing day of watching dance classes which made me want to dance again. Of course it did. I get that feeling every time I want ballet. The most rewarding part of the day was when I was able to pass on a little knowledge to her about how to help her dancing. I just feel like if I could be keep on her with the corrections she would show a lot of improvements. She's already such a good dancer so I guess I'm becoming a stage mom. 

Onto my actual spring break adventure. Nick had a conference in Dallas and since I was on spring break I decided to join him in Dallas. Such a great idea. A little costly but still good. I got into Dallas on Wednesday night after something like a two hour delay. We stayed at a Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott because it had breakfast included in the cost. Such a money saver and stress of finding something to eat so early in the morning. Across from the hotel were a bunch of restaurants so we had Olive Garden for dinner, my first time having Olive Garden. It was really good. I got spaghetti and meatballs which is hard to mess up so that was fine but the salad was iffy. The lettuce didn't have a lot of green in it so I barely ate any of it . The whole trip was good though. I had pasta about twice a day, every day so I did pilates as soon as I got back to NY. The highlight for me was seeing Charm. They drove so far just to spend the day with us in such bad rainy weather. I was so giddy for the entire time before they arrived. I was jumpy and so excited. Nick probably thought I talked about them too much but I really couldn't help it. I saw Charm about 4 years ago but everyone else I hadn't seen in 10 years. TEN YEARS!! It's crazy!! We played mini golf which I somehow won and then we drove go karts. Another first for me.

We only got like 2 laps in because it started to rain but it was still fun to drive around like that. 

So a funny thing was that on our way back from the mall, we stopped at a gas station to buy a huge bottle of water so we won't have to buy any from the hotel. The first time we stopped I saw a pile of backpacks on the ground by the door but I didn't think anything of it. The second time I saw this sign.

Everything made sense afterwards. First it says Monday through Sunday, meaning everyday. I know there are some places that get hit hard by kids stealing but I've never seen a sign like this. Interestingly, Pace has signs like this in the cafeteria about kids stealing food. I thought I saw a couple people do it but now there are signs and the ladies doing the check out now look at your receipt properly when leaving if you don't check out with them. 

Whew this is a long post. I'm about to go to sleep since I have a morning class tomorrow and a full day of being at school. Midterms are starting next week so I'll be living in the library this weekend instead of going to watch Insurgent with Greg. :( Hopefully once midterms are over and I make some headway with my projects we can go so I'll get on that as soon as I can. 

Laters :)

Just Surviving

I finally have a little down time and figured I could as well get a post out. It's been a crazy couple of weeks. Getting through the semester while working on graduation stuff while looking for a job is a lot of work. On top of that I have to find somewhere to live in May. No pressure. It's just 2 months away. I have family here but I can't really expect to live with them until I find a job. That's a bit too much for them to take on. Even I know I eat too much. I sort of found a mentor which is a great thing. I just need to keep in contact and not be scared to ask questions. I've realized that's something I do. I don't ask questions thinking I can just research it later which I hardly ever do and then I'm left asking questions at the last minute. Not this time. This week is just a "get through the week" week. Next week is spring break and I'll be headed to Dallas with Nick!! It's only for 5 days and I'll have a whole ton of work to do but I won't be working all day all the time so we can go sightseeing. And I really really want to see Charm who's been a family friend since I was like 12. 

The weather here is so weird. We had a snow storm last Thursday which closed Pace and now not a week later its practically full on spring. Like if that snow was just one last push to make everyone miserable. I'm not complaining at all. One step closer to summer. I don't even know why I'm excited for summer. I'm doing a summer course and I'm not even going home to the beach. I guess I still like the thought of summer more than what I am actually going to do this summer. 

Recently I've been trying to keep/get back in touch with my friends. I have a habit of getting caught up in my own world and its only when there's a crack in my blinders that I realized its been about 3 months since I've talked to someone besides Claire and Nick. Not healthy. 

Today I also started back my pilates which was soo soo needed. After I got back from Canada I think I had a snickers almost everyday for about a week and a half.

 There was also the random day that I had 2. I know its shameful but they're so GOOD! I've stopped eating them now, mainly because the cafeteria didn't have any for the past week so I've gone back to my Oreos. I'm trying to stop eating them and to have grapes instead but sometimes the grapes at school are so bruised and they're more bruised ones that actual edible ones. I need to do some cardio somehow and I have no idea how I'm going to get my pilates done when I'm at family for the summer but I'll figure something out. Or I could not do anything and watch myself get fat. 

I've been re-watching a tv show that I watched a couple years ago, 3 years ago to be specific. Hollywood Heights. 

It's like a soap opera because 1 day in their world lasts like 3 episodes. I don't know why I like this show but I've been binge watching it for about a week. The music in the show also isn't so bad. There's this one song that I absolutely love from it called You've Got This Hold on Me by Cassidy Ford. What's annoying is that I can't find this song on my Pandora so I just replay the Youtube video all day. Oh I also watched a couple movies this week. I watched the new Robocop movie and it wasn't bad at all! 

The story line was ok, the action was good, the acting was good. It wasn't a "scream from the hills" movie but it was solid. It left a little room for a sequel but I don't think that's going to happen. When it started my first thought was "Is Samuel L. Jackson in every movie?". But seriously he's in a lot of movies. 

I also watched Bleach: Hell Verse. 

It was a good movie. I still can't stand Renji's bankai and I think it's useless. I don't see how he wins fights with it. Seeing bleach go hollow was awesome as usual and seeing Rukia fight was also good. I so wanted to see Ichigo's dad in on the action. I miss watching bleach. Since I watched it on Netflix I could have watched it dubbed in English but that hurt my ears. How can people watch Japanese anime with English coming out of their mouths?? Plus from watching it with subtitles you can learn some Japanese words along the way. 

Last but not least I watched the Halo 4 movie. I only heard about this movie because the guy who stars in it, Thom Green, was in Dance Academy and I convinced myself that they killed him in Dance Academy so that he could shoot this movie.

The movie has a slow start. It gives a lot of back story and some useless information in my opinion. Some of it was repeated making saying it first time useless. Like saying they're the children of other soldiers was repeated soooo often. One of the twins from Teen Wolf was also in it which was a surprise to me. I wonder if it was the same twin that died in Teen Wolf, therefore carrying on my "kill them off in other show so that they can shoot this movie" theory. 

Speaking of Teen Wolf, the new season starts in June!! It feels like I haven't seen a new episode in a year but I think it's just been since September. That's still a long time though. I'm excited to see Mike from PLL on Teen Wolf. If he dies in PLL that shows that my theory is right. Although, Isaac didn't die in Teen Wolf for him to be in The Originals but I heard he specifically asked not to be killed off so he doesn't count. 

I hope they do another Halo movie with the same actors. I'm curious about what's going to happen next and I want to see more of Master Chief. I think I'm curious now that I finally finished the campaign for the game. During all the action scenes I could picture my sister playing and screaming "SWORD" every so often and running far far away from the fighting to wait for the map to change. I promise we're better players now though. 

Anyways, I have to go wash my hair and find new workout exercises to add to my workout routine. Right now it only lasts about 45 minutes and I want about an hour of exercise. Oh and I want to add more stretching to it so I've got some research to do on Pinterest. :)

Bai!!