A Somewhat-Break

Hello loves - I'm sorry I never posted yesterday, and to be honest, I won't really be posting today.  
I'm reaching the end of the semester - next week is the last week of classes, which means I'm writing multiple 10-page research papers, studying for last-tests-before-finals, and preparing myself to freak out next week over studying for finals.  This is what I do in the last 3 weeks of school - I forget that things outside of school and classes and papers exist, and I spent most of my time stressing.  


Breathe


So, here is what I'm going to do - I love this blog too much to say that I'm not going to write for 3 weeks - mainly because I know myself:  a day will come when I say to myself "I can NOT study this anymore right now." And then I will sneak away from my stressed out self and type blogspot.com into the search bar, and I will miss this.  


So I'm going to say that the next 3 weeks won't be regular - I am going to post sometimes, but it won't be every day.  And I promise you that come the end of the first week of May, and the beginning of my 4 months of summer, I will be back to posting "regularly".  


For now - since I'm here - here are my Wednesday Wishes
     * I wish to not stress out the way that I always do at the end of the semester/year
     * I wish for more warm days like today was (78 degrees here, loves!!)
     * I wish for some scholarly sources on Harry Potter's effect on my generation
     * I wish for chocolate, Chinese food, and Pepsi


Okay, for now I'm done - to go write some more about Harry Potter and Event Planning.  I'll be back soonish (I hope)
<3 Kiersten

Of Term Papers and Format Standards (25)

I spent about 90% of my day today researching/writing a paper for my micro-economics class.  (The other 10% was spent going to class, eating, and procrastinating via Facebook and Blogger)  This book is the APA Publication Manual, which lists all the standards for writing a paper in APA format - over the next three years and beyond, I'm supposed to learn and love it.

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Weekly Gratitude

* Chinese delivery that doesn't have a price minimum or a delivery charge

*the resulting leftover Chinese food

* amazingly fun weekends with friends

* rain boots (after being in the rain with converse, I have a new appreciation and love of my rain boots!)

* snail mail - I absolutely love getting letters/cards in the mail

* music.  (I'll put my current playlist at the bottom!)

* my camera. 

* books like It's Kind of a Funny Story that are "an easy read" at the end of the night

*pretty flowers all over campus that I can pick and put in my dorm room

How about you, loves?  What are you thankful for this week??

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My current playlist:

- Never Gonna Leave this Bed  by Maroon 5

- Slow Dancing in a Burning Room  by John Mayer

- Dear Prudence  by the Beatles, but this is the version from Across the Universe

- Magdalena  by Brandon Flowers

- Dog Days are Over  by Florence and the Machine

- December, 1963  by Frankie Valley and the Four Seasons

- The Remedy  by Jason Mraz

-Have a Little Faith in Me  by John Hiatt

-Astronomers  by We are the City

How about you?  What can't you get out of your head right now?

I hope you had a Happy Monday, everyone - for now, I'm going to read a bit of my book, and pass out!  Goodnight, moon.

<3 Kiersten

Converse (24)

These are the shoes I wore to DayGlow last night.  I don't know about where you guys are...but here in PA, it was a torrential downpour.  And Converse shrink when they get wet.  My friend and I both wore them, and now, almost 24 hours later, they're still soaked.  So before throwing them away, I took a couple of photos.

The concert itself was a lot of fun - the whole day was, even with all the rain!

My camera died pretty early on in the night, but I did manage to get a couple of photos before we got to the concert - on the way there. :)

How was your weekend, loves?  I'd love to hear all about it!

<3 Kiersten

All the Colors of the Rainbow (23)

Okay, that's false advertising.  This photo is nowhere near "all the colors of the rainbow", but I thought the title was somewhat fitting.  

Today is the concert we're going to, and we're actually leaving in about a hour, which is why I'm posting this now.
Also, I think that this week I'm going to try out having a "theme" for days of the week.  If I like it, I'll keep doing it.  But my problem is, I'm out of ideas!  I've stalked other blogs for ideas, and here's what I have:
Monday:  Weekly Gratitude (from Love, Life, Lace)
Tuesday:  To-Do List?  Not really sure about this one yet, but I'd talk about my Bucket List...
Wednesday:  Wishful Wednesday  (idea from Bright Wishes)
Thursday:  Awkward and Awesome  (idea from Alivia)
Friday: ??
Saturday: ???
Sunday:  I'm thinking goals for the week...not sure about this one yet
Any ideas??
Anyway, have a great weekend everyone!  I can't wait to hear all about it :)
<3 Kiersten

Find a Penny (22)

Pick it up, all day you'll have good luck.

Today was pretty cold again.  I think for a while it's going to be one warm day, a few cold days, and then another warm day.  Hopefully it'll get warm for the long-term soon though :)

I spent most of the day in my room listening to music.  Pandora is my best friend sometimes, even if it does come up with some pretty strange matches  (Eminem "Love the Way You Lie" when I type in Maroon 5??)  But then it has some good matches, and those are what I love about it <3

Tomorrow I'm going to a concert with some of my friends, so that should be fun! :)  I'm not bringing my Monster Baby, because...well...I think that's obvious enough.  But I'll be bringing my point-and-shoot, which doesn't exactly take the best photos, but oh well.  

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How was your Friday, loves?  Anything fun happening this weekend?  Tell me all about it!

<3 Kiersten

1000 Cranes for Japan (21)

 

The weather reached back up into the 70s today, and it's gorgeous outside, a fact which plenty of campus groups took advantage of.  I was in the quad for a bake sale to raise money for the school literary magazine, which I am a member of.  

 On my way back from the bake sale, I was stopped and asked to make a paper cranes.  A few people on campus got together and set up this thing to make 1000 paper cranes for Japan.

 They weren't all quite as intricate as this one ^^, but they were fun to make.  

 And the one guy who seemed to be in charge of it was running around teaching us all how to make the cranes while the others tried to get people to stop.

And, of course, here's Day 21

Moral of the day?  Go outside and enjoy the weather :)

I'd love to see some photos of where you're at, or hear about your day!

<3 Kiersten

April Showers (20)

     Day 20

After the gorgeous weather we had yesterday, with a cap of about 80 degrees for most of the day, today seemed almost cruel.  It was probably low 60's, which isn't bad for this time of year, but the rain and wind made it miserable.  A day where all I want to do is lie in bed with my slippers on.

Tomorrow is going to be the same way apparently, but the good news is that it's supposed to stop raining and warm up a bit at the end of the week! :)

In other news related to the season, it's spring, which means Spring Cleaning.  I've always loved the idea of Spring Cleaning, and the nice weather usually motivates me to straighten stuff up and get rid of those things that are clearly of no use.  Because Easter is in a couple of weeks (and summer a couple of weeks after that - meaning it's time to move out for college students like myself), I'm going to be packing up that stuff that I can live a couple of weeks without and taking it home over the holiday weekend.  How about you?  Are you doing any Spring Cleaning around your house, apartment, or dorm room?

<3 Kiersten