a sock bun + eighty-four love + a kitten

finals...go away...i hate you...but there are some good things that i was able to find.

1. sitting in the jkb listening to people whistle christmas songs
in the middle of a reading day...this is a happy thing. it made me smile. and then got the song stuck in my head.

2. i found my id card yesterday
so i temporarily lost my id card for 3 days...and i couldn't find it anywhere. it was quite distressing. then yesterday, before class, i decided to check in the pocket of some jeans that i never wear. and do you know what? it was a christmas miracle!! i found my id card!!

3. going to dinner with the penrose 84 girls
because becca is going to china to teach english, we decided that we should all go to dinner tonight. as per tradition, we went to costa vida. it's gonna be sad to not have regular roommate dinners next semester with all 6 of us...but becca is gonna have an amazing time in china! we took pictures...and the guy who took them for us had a name tag that said "mr. awesome." these are the results:

i'm being abducted by aliens

uhhh...

he told us to make frowny faces...

so we laughed...

and then this happened. thank you, mr. awesome.

4. having a reading day to study
today was good for studying. i did a lot of reading and a lot of reviewing and a lot of killing my brain. that wasn't so fun, but i'm grateful for the time the university gives us to study before we get thrown into tests.

5. my super fuzzy wonderful brown blanket made of love
so two years ago for christmas, i got the best and most fuzzy wonderful brown blanket made of love. i have recently remembered that it was stored in my closet (silly me) and i've been using for studying and as another layer on my bed. it's a beautiful thing. it's currently keeping me very happy.

6. my sock bun worked out!!
it's totally awesome!! look!

the all-powerful sock bun master. thank you, rylie for teaching me your ways.

 7. kitten
so...becca's friend picked up a free kitten at walmart and asked her and her roommates to watch it for the evening. around 10:20 i got a text from her that said, "I HAZ KITTEN" so of course i dropped all my studying to go see said kitten. and then we played with it. and then it went crazy. it decided that it was fun to fling itself off the couch and then catch itself at the last possible second. it was awesome.

wish me luck, i'm taking my first final tomorrow! good luck to all students everywhere!!