BEDA Vingt-Quatre...So much to do before school

Oh my goodness, I have soooooooo much to do between now and Thursday morning.  It really isn't funny at all.  I'm literally going crazy.  HELP!

Today, I worked out at the Y (thank goodness it's open again) and then came home and studied basically all afternoon.  Upon my mom's arrival home, we made sandwiches-time out...I literally just typed sammiches-and headed to our local outlet mall (and by local I mean about a 25 minute drive from us) to do some "school shopping."  Can I still call it that even though I'm a college student?  Anyway, it was a pretty productive trip, and, while we shelled out probably a bit more cash than we would have cared to, I came home with a pretty great haul.  And now I can't wait for crisp autumn air in Bloomington so I can don my cute new fall clothes.

Tomorrow I'm going to the beach with my best friend from home and her sister, so we can have a final day of hang-out time before both her sister and I head back to IU and she heads back to Arizona.  I swear, we haven't spent more than a couple weeks together at one time since I was fourteen, but she is one of my dearest friends, and I never want that to change.  And then, of course, there is the laborious process of trying to figure out how to get most of my stuff into my car (my mom is coming down to bring the rest on Saturday) tomorrow evening so I can get on the road bright and early Thursday morning.  The only way that's going to happen is with lots of help from Madre and Step-dad.  And, of course, a GIGANTIC travel mug of coffee Thursday AM.

I still don't have my hands on Mockingjay, so please keep the spoilers to yourself, thank you very much.  I'm glad that fellow collegians, Marlena and Leah don't yet have it in their possession either, so I don't feel so bad.  Alrighty, I'm off to do more homework (with one glass of pinot grigio in me, which should be interesting).  Congrats to the wonderfully talented Karen Kavett for being chosen to curate the front page of YouTube today.  On a more subdued, less spazzy note, please keep Nerdfighter Esther and her family in your prayers tonight.  She is currently in the ICU fighting for her life. You can read updates from her family here.  She is truly a remarkable person, and I'm praying that she keeps putting up a fight.  And with that, I'm over and out.  Peace.

Currently stuck in my head: "Waka Waka" by Shakira. I'm reminiscing about the World Cup...totally missing it right now.

BEDA Huit...Packing = Unfun

The above image has nothing to do with this post, but I saw it on tumblr, and it's basically the greatest image of the FRIENDS cast ever.  Moving on...

The seemingly never-ending chore of cleaning out my closet and bookshelves and dresser drawers and general rest of my room has begun in preparation of leaving for school in less than 3 weeks. (I'm super pumped by the way...can't wait for Welcome Week and seeing friends and IUBT freshman party and everything else that comes along with the first few weeks of a new fall semester!!)

Anyway...today was mostly spent with my mom trying on clothes, throwing out/putting in the giveaway pile ones that I no longer wear/don't fit, going through countless boxes of crap (and throwing out most of what said boxes contained), and generally taking my mess of a room and trying to condense it back down to something manageable to take down to school and move into my sorority house double room.  It was exhausting and tedious, to say the least.  Luckily, my ENORMOUS fat cat, aptly named Big Cat, kept me company on my bed, while my mom and I sifted through the catastrophic disaster.

We succeeded and are nearly finished with the reorganization process.  Now, all that remains for me to do before school is buy new clothes, so I have something to wear in Bloomington...as I threw out a TON of clothes today (I think I still had a shirt in there that I bought at Abercrombie when I was 15...and I haven't set foot in that store since then). 

This evening, my mom, step-dad, and I went over to my grandma's house for dinner, as my uncle was in town to visit/attend his high school reunion.  We had hamburgers, Indiana sweet corn-on-the-cob, potato salad, and carrot cake...it was like a delicious picnic.  Yum.

Other than that, I haven't much else to report.  Glad ya'll liked my guilty pleasures yesterday.  I am such a 13-year-old girl at heart.  I've now made it through a week of BEDA...starting to weary of it, but determined not to quit.  Keep me motivated with comments, loves.  Night, night.  Love, me

Currently stuck in my head: "Breathless" by The Corrs.  It came up on shuffle, while cleaning out my room.  Don't judge my early 2000s taste in music...or the fact that I actually imported In Blue into my iTunes.