Strawberries taste so much better with chocolate!

Getting some sun just in time!

In the past few winter like weeks, (though it's supposed to be Spring!) I have been obsessed with with baking. The problem is, I have been baking cakes and cupcakes. (As seen in recent posts) 

Last week, I decided to bake a chocolate cake with triple chocolate chip icing. I didn't even know such icing existed, but alas, it exists! 

Today Ross said to me, "We really need to eat up that cake soon!" So a creative way to eat my cake without it compromising my touch 18 min Ab workout from my Turbo Jam Dvd, and my 10 min upper body routine from my Pilates Dvd, I ate my chocolate cake with fresh strawberries. 

My working out is going fine. I am starting slowly as not to strain myself. I have worked out twice this week. My first work out this week was only 20 min, but it was so intense that I was dripping sweat and was sore for two days. Hence why I am just now working out again today. I plan to work out more and more each week, for longer amounts of time and more days a week. I will post some pre workout pics as soon as I feel comfortable posting them. Well, it's time to shower! Until next time.

New work out plan.

Spring is here, though for some reason we are still getting random days of snow. That's Ohio for you.
But regardless, bathing suit season is around the corner and unless I want to purchase new bathing suits for this summer. It's time to start working out! My favorite things to do are Yoga, Pilates, and Zumba. Sadly, the YMCA I am a member of is a half an hour away so I never feel like taking an hour out of my day to drive there. Especially when I can work out at home with all of my Dvds and equiptment that I have. However, if I could find a work out buddy to go with me, I would be more likely to go!

Well, I'm going to keep this short today because it's 2:12p.m. and I'm still sitting here in my jammies. Time to get a move on and work out! I think I'm going to start doing the beach body work out dvd to get my body ready for swim suit season! Maybe I will post some before and after pics? Maybe after I shower! lol

Cupcakes and Sleep

Decorating the cupcakes!

Yay! I get to use my new desert holder!

Spring Sprinkles!

So my plan to get myself to bed by 10:30 sunday night failed miserably! Even after turning on a sound wave relaxation cd on my mp3 player and speakers in my bedroom, and taking a sleep aid, I laid awake sunday until 1:30a.m. So basically after getting up at 6:00a.m. I was fighting off falling asleep in my first photography class, though it seems really awesome and I can't wait to learn how to take better pictures!

I then went to my first higher level fiction writing class of the day, only to find my three group of girls I was always paired with in my last class, were not taking this class, and I had to work with a group of people I had never read allowed to before. We had to write a short story based upon a kidnapping. Mine had good intentions, but failed to deliver. I was so nervous to read something I had written that was completed and wasn't edited, that my hand could hardly scroll down the page of my macbook while I attempted stumbling over my own shaky nervous voice while reading out loud a story that I plan to delete completely.

Then, I went to my first spanish 103 class, and luckily, I convinced a girl who also lost her set of friends due to the fact that the only needed two spanish classes for their major, to move over to my side of the room. She is such a sweetheart, but I didn't want to sit over by the window where I could easily daydream the class away that I really need to pay attention in! Later, I'm going to make some flash cards and learn the basic human body parts and how to say something isn't well with your body in Spanish. We are going to play Simon says tomorrow, so we have to know our body parts! I am thinking clip art is about to come in handy while making my flash cards! ;)

Now for last night. Well, this morning really. I allowed myself to stay up until 12 getting things done e-mail wise and such. Then at 1:00a.m. someone decided to begin doing their laundry. I live in an apt. building where the walls are shared between other tenants. The laundry room is shared with everyone in the building. Our walls are super thin, and we have a drop ceiling that allows much light and noise to seep through the cracks. It's bad enough that I have to hear the drunken people yell outside to one another on the streets at all ours of the night, listen to the people on my floor slam their doors and stomp up and down the stairs and through the hallway, yelling and laughing loudly to one another not matter what time of night or how early in the morning. They really have no respect at all for the fact that someone just might be trying to sleep! If that wasn't annoying enough to deal with on a regular basis, we also are located right next to the laundry room. We must be the only people who can hear the dryer buzz. If someone doesn't come and take their clothes out, it just keeps running and buzzing over and over again. There is not time limit. It will go for hours! Last night, the dryer was going from 1a.m.-4:30a.m. and I couldn't sleep at all with the banging of whatever they had in there, and buzzing. I was already sleep deprived from the night before, but now I am just flat out nonfunctional! I heard someone check their laundry at 3:00a.m. and when I tried to run out and catch them before they went down the steps, I ran into my bedroom door and now have a giant bruise and welt on my arm from the door! Ouch! Then I stubbed my toe on the door as well. Pitch black and sleep deprived is a bad combination! lol. But I wasn't laughing last night. I was crying because I was so exhausted and I just wanted to sleep!

I wrote to my land lord and asked if we could have a time limit on when people can do their laundry until at night. I wish I was one of those people who could sleep through anything. It would make living here so much easier. But it's also a gift because when I was younger I awoke to glass breaking in my family home as a child and prevented someone from breaking in our house. So being able to sleep like a rock isn't always the best thing.

On a good note, I got a Victoria Secret order in the mail today, and I am wearing my new black cropped pokadotted yoga pants, and I plan on working out some of this frustration. I also decided to bake some cupcakes today to make me feel better. They are cute spring cupcakes with pastel wrappers and confetti sprinkles. Well, time to work out. Hopefully tonight, I can get some sleep!

Spring Quarter Begins (and a bit about my college history)

Tomorrow begins my first day of classes for my Spring quarter! I'm 25 years old but yet it never fails that I get nervous before my first day of classes! I also just realized that I don't know where my classes are yet! My first new class is photography. It fulfills one of my art requirements for my major. I get to bring my brand new camera I got for x-mas from my Dad! Yay! I need to learn how to really use it anyways! My second class is a higher level fiction writing class than the one I had last quarter. I'm super excited for it because I will actually be starting to write a novel in this class that I have been wanting to write for a while now! My third class is Spanish 103! I can't believe it! I'm so nervous to find out how much harder this class will be! I managed to get an A in the first two spanish classes, but I am so nervous for this one! I really want to keep my g.p.a. up! I got all A's last quarter and I'm so excited about doing better than I did during my first quarter at OSU! It just goes to show me that Dental Hygiene wasn't my thing!
(This is why I am still in college at 25)

I originally was in the Dental Hygiene program, and I really didn't like it! I'm not very good at having to see other people's blood all the time. Most people don't floss, so they bleed when they get their teeth cleaned. I couldn't stomach it! That would be why I never wanted to go to nursing school! Also, I'm sort of a shaky person and I was scared to be poking around in people's mouths with sharp tools! At the end of my first year, I decided I didn't want to be a hygienist anymore, and I went back to Kent State and started using the classes and I had already taken and put them towards completing a bachelors in English.

Once My b/f began attending Law School two hours away from where I was going to school, I was in a long distance relationship. We drove back and forth on the weekends for about a year. We moved in together the next summer to see how we felt about living together and taking our relationship to the next step. It was then we decided we couldn't go another year apart. So I transferred so we could be closer.

Now, we are living together in an apartment. We (I) have two hermit crabs (we are not allowed to have real pets lol) and one beta and a golden loach. We have had quite a bit of trouble with fish tanks. The one I bought because the light in the middle changed colors, did not have a filter, and was only a 3 gallon tank. So, I apparently had too many fish in it, and they died. Not a good day. I mean they literally all died in one day. My heater did go crazy that night and got up really high to like 85 in the middle of the night, so that could have been what did them in, but the guy at the pet store said you are only supposed to have an inch of fish to every gallon of water. Basically my 3 inch long golden loach would have been the limit, and from the pictures in past posts, I had more than just him/her. So now, all I have is my beta and golden loach in a little beta tank. My beta is new. I got him while I was home on spring break.

He's the prettiest Beta I have ever had!

My new pretty Beta!

                                      

My big hermit crab-His name is Spike :)

Spike and Brownie live here. 

It's officially time for me to go to bed now! I have to make myself get to bed by 10p.m. so I can try to get eight hours of sleep. I think I'm going to try and get up at 5:45 tomorrow and leave by 7:30a.m. I'll try this time frame out and go from there! Wish me luck on my first day back! :) Goodnight!