It's been a little while

I've mostly just been trying to keep up with my schoolwork, midterms are rapidly approaching, which means I'm also halfway over with my last semester at this school! I can only imagine that by May when this is all said and done, I'm going to feel lost. I'm so used to the routine that is school- registering for classes for a new semester, homework, projects, classmates, grades, GPAs, exams. I've been lulled for this long into the routine and in a few months from now, it'll be all over. Then what! THE REAL WORLD AAAAAAAAHHHH.
Aside from that, nothing much has happened. I stayed at Bear's this weekend. We stayed in PJs all morning and while debating for an hour whether or not to get up and get "ready," these guys decided to pay us visits for most of the rest of the day right at his window. We just sat and watched them for like an hour.

I also made a couple of these glasses sleeve things that I found on this girl's blog that I absolutely love. I made one for myself and the one with the G-clefs is to send to my bff for her birthday in a box of goodies- sshhh.

AAAAND I had a hiccup this morning at class...well, actually it wasn't just this morning, and technically I hadn't even gotten to class yet. I have class at 10:30, and I guess it's a wicked popular time for classes...because every sing time I get there, there are no parking spots. And I don't mean there's only like two or three open out of that wing of the school's lots, I mean there are literally ZERO parking spots remaining. So after taking 10 minutes driving back and forth between lots and deciding nobody else was leaving campus to open up a spot, I had to resort to what a number of others had also needed to do, and that I had never had to do before: park on the grass on the side of the road. This was my view.

Waaaaaahhhh :(

Not to mention it was drizzling when I had to run INTO class, late, but it was pouring when I had to walk even further than normal to get back to my car.

The most hiccupy morning of all hiccupy mornings

I must have slept like hell last night because I woke up twice and my sheets were a disaster. When I finally did wake up, it was snowing. Which means I had to make a decision about how to see Bear today since driving such a long distance in the snow hasn't always been a good thing to do. Like ever. Whatever. Ignoring the snow. Screw you, snow.
Went to get dressed, have zero pairs of clean underwear left (meant to do laundry last night, don't know what happened to that plan...) so now I have to wear a pair of the pile that I like never wear. Also potentially have no pairs of pants left for tomorrow and no time between now and then to do laundry.
Yesterday my brother left his facial hair in the sink for the millionth time and I had to go off on him via text. Again. If I don't clean shit up, NOTHING GETS CLEANED UP. Also currently unclogging the tub since I guess I'm the only one to do that, too.
I literally have gone weeks since the last time I had a hiccupy morning...I guess this morning is making up for all of the ones I've missed :| all I want to do is yell at people today. I feel chemically imbalanced. Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
I wish my worries and complaints were equal to that of miss girl. Aka, obviously nothing.

Winter Storm Nemo

The Weather Channel is making today/tonight/tomorrow to sound like another blizzard of '78 and I'm not sure if I should be "freaking out" yet. Because I wasn't alive then but I've heard it was awful...and sometimes weather sources hype up storms so everybody is forced to "be prepared." I love living in the northeast but losing power here during a winter storm is awful. I've heard that a few winters ago, Texas got some kind of "snow fall" which I guess they've never gotten before, and everybody like flipped out. And I'm just here with a forecast of anywhere from 1-2 feet of snow between now (7:45 Friday AM) and Saturday morning until about noon or so. And to be perfectly honest, we have 2 cars in my household, including mine, that in the event of a true emergency we could get out of the area if we needed to.
Bad news is that (the way TWC is making this storm sound...) I doubt we'll keep power, which really sucks because last season we lost power for almost a week and it was just super irritating. Good news that I'm blessed with is the fact that we do have a generator that can provide us with showers and occasional TV, Internet, and phone charging, and we do have a wood stove right in the living room. Toasty. Also I've been dying ever since I was like 13 to cook something on top of the wood stove. I should just do it sometime.

So this post isn't really about anything interesting, I guess it's just me rambling pre-"historic storm." I'll probably have early morning pictures of Nemo's impact around here tomorrow morning.
If you live in the lovely northeast or are also in the path of Storm Nemo, be safe! Stay off the road if you don't need to be going anywhere- seriously. Don't be that guy. Be smart, if you have a generator, get auxiliary gasoline for that baby because it's going to suck if you lose power. Batteries for the radio, yanno.

Oh, New England...hunker down!

Reece's for breakfast??

I went to bed last night feeling a little sick, I'd already brushed my teeth and honestly didn't care nearly enough to get out of bed and get a snack. I was tired. My stomach was caved in and I could practically see my pulse right on my tummy. I realized I clearly have a problem, and I think I honestly forget to eat throughout the day. I don't know how this happens but I guess the hours in my days just seem to fly right by and to be quite honest sometimes eating just disrupts the flow of it, and I don't even notice until I go to bed at night and try to remember what I ate that day and suddenly realize it wasn't much. That. Sounds. Horrible. Don't call anybody, I assure you I don't have an eating disorder and my bod is just fine, thanks.
But I decided to try something new to remind me to eat. I've set an alarm on my phone for every 2 hours to remind me to eat something. Doesn't have to be something big, but something nonetheless. I started today's eating frenzy off with Reece's for breakfast.
Not Reece's Puff Cereal. This is "grown up" Reece's for breakfast.
I wanted an English muffin and Nutella, and then at the last minute I realized just by adding peanut butter, I could have a hot, melty, delicious Reece's English muffin.

That's all I really wanted to say for now. That's all that really needs to be said.
It looks totally disgusting in this picture but trust me. Just eat it.

Quick cheesecake. No, really.

As you might already know, a constant "hiccup" in my daily life is low blood sugar. I can go from being totally fine and sociable to being sick to my stomach, dizzy, and a complete bitch in a matter of a minute and a half.
The other day I was, once again, on the verge of nausea from low blood sugar and was in a half daze trying to put together a snack of limited things in the house. I found a box of cinnamon-sugar Stop & Shop brand graham crackers in the depths of the pantry, and made a cream cheese sandwich out of it.
Now, when I'm in this daze of trying to find a quick snack that isn't totally shitty for me and something that has carbs to pick up my sugar, it goes one of two ways: I either devour 3/4 of a sleeve of Ritz crackers, or I catch myself in time to actually put something together that occasionally turns out to be quite delicious. Lots of times it involves cream cheese...like the banana cream pie on a Ritz. I love cream cheese.
Anyway, this time I had no bananas or other fruit for that matter, and usually I more enjoy the honey graham crackers over the cinnamon sugar ones, but holy moley was this one a good choice.

The first bite I took out of it was like "ok hopefully in 5 minutes I wont feel this sick anymore" and it quickly moved to "holy crap why is this so delicious??" It's become a new favorite snack. It literally tastes like cheesecake, and why not?? Afterwords I was like "DUH, cream cheese and graham cracker crust!" Plus the sugar on the cracker, which made the cream cheese taste sweeter and suddenly there was a light bulb above my head.
Try it. Just...seriously just try it.

Hey, Frank, that's MY wife! Come on, Nancy!

Okay I've noticed something as of late. I'm a shameless Pinterest addict, but Bear also introduced me to Reddit within the past year. Really I'm only a lurker on there. And I've noticed that sometimes I'll be on Pinterest early in the morning with my coffee, and I'll see a picture...like this one for example:

 

This is a picture of Ronald Reagan telling Frank Sinatra to stop dancing with his wife.

Then, later on in the day, I decided to browse Reddit for a little while, and I think I was in the "new" posts, which I don't typically look though cause boring, but I decided to. And again, I saw this picture.

I just thought it was sort of funny and makes me think about the direction of content as it makes its way around the internet.  Where does it start? Who finds it first after that? Is there a regular flow of where things start and who begins the spread first or is it different every time depending on how large the community is who is spreading it? Just a thought.

The tip.

Like I've said before, I have pretty sensitive nails. Right when I start to think that I've been particularly kind to them, they will start to peel on me. I just keep having to cut them pretty short to get rid of the peeling nail tips.
When I know that my nails are having a particularly rough week, but I have polish on, I'm wary of removing it right then even when they are lookin' pretty rough and chipped, because I know it'll only dry them out again. Sometimes I just need to try and make my manicure looking decent for as long as possible, or do away with it altogether for a while. This past week I've had just a solid coat of polish on my nails, I wanted to have something on but I didn't want it to be too loud. This is one of my favorite go-to neutral polishes, Eternal Optimist by Essie:

After nearly a week, my nails look pretty dingy, chipped and generally beat up:

But aside from the tips, they don't look horrible, and if I could stand to look at them like that any longer I would just leave them like this cause lazy. I did end up taking it off, but I thought I might come up with some ideas for you in case this is often your predicament and your nails just need a little...refurbishing, let's say.
For my left hand, I went with the 3-stroke-clouds for my pointer finger using both white and silver polishes. For my middle (messily), I went over the entire nail in white (you could use any color, I'm sure...) and used a small dotting tool while the polish was still wet and sort of carved out/engraved some dots and hearts. I screwed up my ring finger, but for my pinky I did a half circle in white and used a dotting tool to make the outside of the curve look "bumpy" and used the same tool to make dots on the side in the same color as my nail. For my thumb, I did practically the same thing as my pinky except using a sort of sweetheart-neckline shape and put my dots in different places.

For my right hand, I started running out of on-the-spot ideas and just went with a french manicure for my thumb that I achieved having cut a curve out of painters tape and placing it on my nail as a french manicure stencil. Paint your tip white, peel the tape off and voila! For my pointer, I messily went over my tip in white and used black and silver striping polishes to make a sort of feathery looking design.

I'm sure I can come up with more ideas, but these are just what I came up with in a few minutes this afternoon.