Nico's Room
February 17-23
  • Cupcake Date with Brittney
     
  • Friday: Toga Party-unsafe/dark/trifling—But at least my laurel was legit.
  • Saturday: Dance-a-thon for the orphans; drinking at the bar like a real person, Soco-Amaretto-Lime=cinnamon water, mmm; Grilled cheese; peppermint hot chocolate & stargazing.
  • Amazing Race premier!
  • Rear brakes out=$482. Ouch. 
  • Awesome Skyping with Bri
  • Rejection letters: Wisconsin, Michigan
  • Food poisoning. As if I needed one more thing this week. 

Weekend Wishlist:

  • Eating solid food
  • Masquerading
  • Lodging at Snow Trails
  • less depressing circumstances
December 23-29
  • Last minute Christmas shopping/stress/buying more things for myself than for the people on my gift list. 
  • Tried Leinenkugel’s Fireside Nut Brown Beer; Blue Moon’s Winter Abbey remains the winter seasonal brews champion for me, but this might take second place. 
  • Culinary Adventures: Sweet Potato & Califlower Soup, Saag
  • Filipino Christmas Party
     
  • Gifts with Mom and Sister = 1 Nautica Nautical Throw Blanket, 1 “Watermelon Dress,” 1 Anchor shirt, 5 pairs of underwear, 2 pairs of silk “long underwear,” a set of 4 anchor placemats for the future apartment
  • Christmas morning = sleeping in. Breakfast = 1 fried egg, 1 banana with peanut butter & honey, 2 slices cinnamon sugar toast, & chai green tea in a mug from my Starbucks holiday collection. 
     
  • Christmas early dinner with Grandma and cousin at Chinese Restaurant. This is my kind of Christmas. 
  • Successfully wore “funeral formal” to every Holiday/Christmas gathering I attended. 
  • Christmas exchange with A.Dew = Cool Shooters Ice Tray, Glittery Wallet/Clutch, souvenir shot glass, wool scarf. + Wine goblet decorating for New Year’s Eve + Black Swan (Swan Queen, what are you!). 
  • Post-Christmas shoe shopping at Payless = 1 pair brown flats, 1 pair nude, closed-toe heels, 1 pair (nautical) navy blue wedges for $29.42. Score. 
  • Finally, some snow!
  • Watched Plastic Planet with sister: “These chemicals do not kill you. These chemicals harm your quality of life.” Scary. 
  • $201.06 for 17 Spring semester books
  • Grades in: excellent semester!
  • Finished A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Weekend Wishlist:

  • Sipping champagne from my glittery, gigantic wine glass on NYE, in my gold dress & my spirit hood with my best friends
  • Fully functioning new transmission, pretty please!
November 18-November 24

Thanksgiving Break edition:

  • Birthday dinner & Margarozos at LA Fiesta with my two favorite boys
    Dress: Jessica McClintock for the Gambier Community Rummage Sale ~$6 
     
  • coffee shop productivity; & the cinnamon and toffee holiday blend mmm. 
  • Cleaning e-mail inbox from a whopping 300 e-mails to ZERO!
  • Catching up with A.Dew over Len-Chili & a Hummus Falaffel Roll at Aladdin’s + underwear shopping + Breaking Dawn on $5 Tuesday (please read this review, hahaha). Oooh ooh; oh yeah, and getting soaked in that rain storm—WTF?
  • Catching up with K.Croak & C. Schneider at Bar-145. Highly recommend the Winter Turkey Burger with Potato Cake & Cranberry Sauce
  • Filipino Thanksgiving: I’ll take some gravy on my rice, please; Honey Mango Wine
  • Great shopping deals: running shorts, khaki coat, casual blazer
  • editing nonstop

Weekend Wishlist:

  • catching up with girlfriends, white merlot & Troy pizza
  • Reading/finish Russian novel and Faulkner novel 
  • Back to school & back to work
November 4-10
  • Love love love OSU’s English department
  • running into my friend Taylor by chance on the largest campus in Ohio
  • Thrifting in Columbus
  • Dinner at the Pub, Pineapple Upside Down Cake Martini, Cupcake t-shirt, Chips? Crisps?
  • Birthday Scavenger Hunt! Flask, Godiva Chocolate Vodka, Giant cupcakes, memory lane, and Soup for Sluts. 
  • CA Appreciation
  • Epic Fail: double paying for GRE score reports. 
  • 8 new pages of thesis, whoo.

Weekend Wishlist:

  • Dressing for success
  • Fancy smancy Senior Soiree
  • Senior CA dinner
  • Amanda’s bday party & French 75
  • Getting SO MUCH DONE.

*Sorry I lack photos. V is hoarding them on her camera until Thanksgiving Break!