Wishlist Wednesday--christmas list

 Today has been so unproductive and no bueno. It started off with me not feeling well and deciding to come home instead of staying at school to study. I missed one class as I thought I should sleep and get rest so that I could get work done the rest of the day. When I woke up I decided I would go out to get food so that I could be happy and full of energy to get a lot of work done. But then out of all things, my car doesn't start up! It turns out I needed to get a new battery for my car. The good thing was that it was pretty inexpensive ($125) and took only 20 minutes to install. I'm finally home, and I'm going to jump in the shower before I start my long long night of typing up study guides and studying for practicals. I hate finals! This will all be over soon enough....

I thought it would be ideal to put up my christmas wishlist for this weeks 'wishlist wednesday'. For once, I don't have a lot to ask for. Usually, I'm not afraid to ask for one expensive item whether that be a new camera, cell phone, or ipod. But I realized, I have everything I could possibly want and need. And I fell like the extra's I should be able to get myself. Plus, this has been a very tough year my family financially. I do not want to burden them anymore, and i'm grateful for what I do have. But as usual, my mom did ask for my wishlist. So this is the list of things I gave her.

1. hair done w/ extensions

I hate my hair right now. I had to get it cut because it was extremely damaged. To top it off my hair is extremely short and layered, which makes it hard to wear it down. I always have to keep it pinned up in some way so that it doesn't look funny. I don't even want super long hair, I just want my hair all one length and styled really nice. So I would love if my parents paid for me to get my hair done. Right now these are the cuts I'm looking at. I also want to put a little color in it.

2. new iphone case

honestly anything cute will do, but i especially like this hk one

3. a new peacoat

4. jeans 

(i asked for 2 pairs since i've kind of been wearing the same 4 pairs over & over)

5. giftcards. I named places like starbucks (i drink a lot of coffee since i'm a student), target (since i love everything at target), and sephora and victorias secret. 

Some things I would buy:

6. white converse sneakers

What are you all asking for this christmas?

10 things about me--get to know me!

I felt crappy today, like my body just reversed back to sickness. I'm definitely going to lay in bed for a while and get some rest. Being at school for 6 hours straight did not help my health, I'm sure. In the mean time I decided I should do an introductory post so everyone could get to know who I am, instead of being some cyber stranger.  Here goes......

(Out in hollywood for a friend's birthday)

1. My name is not really Bre. In fact its my nickname. But my real name has weird spelling and people pronounce it wrong. So I like going by Bre. The truth is I have a bazillon nicknames and to this day I still get a new about every month. I think I hold the world record for nicknames.

                                         (Me looking akward in Oregon this summer haha)

2. I like to travel, but its been so long since I've done any "real" traveling. My parents used to take us on a lot of trips when we were younger, but I got into college and the economy started to decline and the trips basically stopped. I want to make it to all 50 states & all over the world. I just know its going to be a while before I can do that. States I've been to:  California (lived here all my life), Nevada, Arizona, Oregon, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, New York, and Illinois. Major cities: San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, NYC, Chicago, Orlando, New Orleans. Other countries: Mexico, Jamaica, cayman islands, belize, the bahamas. Top place I want to go to: Spain!!!!

3. I'm a very social person. I love being around friends and having a good time. I also like meeting new people and establishing relationships. I honestly, did not use to be this way. It took moving away from home and being independent to help me loosen up and actually be a little more outgoing. My perfect weekend is going out and dancing with my girls and just acting silly, stupid, and young.

4. I love the idea, thought, and everything that is encompassed by love. Unfortunately, I'm the type of girl that loves being in relationships but hasn't been in one in a really long time. I'm looking for my mr. prince charming (haha yeaah right) to come sweep me off me feet. Actually, I am not very picky. But if I had it my way, he would be tall, dark, handsome, has a bright future ahead of him, is passionate about something, and loves me for who I am. I've had a bad case of "losers" these past two years and I'm so over it. I've actually given up in trying. Hopefully love will come and knock me down soon.

                                              (Out with friends for the night)

5. I love dressing up && getting girly. I feel most confident when I'm in a hot little dress, sick pumps, and accessorized from head to toe. I feel strong and I feel like a woman. I guess thats why I enjoy going out on the weekends.

6. I'm allergic to peanuts along with other random foods. Basically, I'm a weirdo and have only had 1 peanut butter and jelly sandwich in my 21 years of life.

                                                 (My grandpa when he was in the army)

7. My goals in life? Ehhh, well I'm not your average blogspot girl. No, I'm not very creative. No, I don't want to open a boutique. No, I don't want to do fashion. (even though I love all these things!) I want to be an Optometrist! Random right? I feel like vision is often taken for granted, but so vital to us and our well-being. I'm very passionate about it because my grandfather was diagnosed with glaucoma when I was younger. Now, I hope to help the world in memory of him. My ultimate goal would be to open a vision clinic in Haiti or Africa. Right now I'm just working on finishing my bachelors of science in Biology, and apply for optometry school in the summer.

8. I love making lists. I have to purposely stop myself from making them in my entries! I mean I will include them every now and then and especially with themed posts. Hey, I'm doing it right now lol

9. I am deathly afraid of bees and cockroaches. I mean I seriously have a panic attack if I see either or.

10. I love love love love love.....chocolate! Mmmmmm.

If you're reading this or stopping by my page please leave a comment with some fun facts about yourself!

monday bahhhh

Sunday was going good until I suddenly started falling apart. I started getting sick! I just couldn't believe it. I had to leave the library because my head was throbbing and my neck and shoulders started aching. I ALWAYS get those symptoms when I'm about to get hit with a cold. I came home made myself some chicken noodle soup, popped some zicam, and then ad advil. Today I feel tons better, still not my 100% self but better. I'm glad I went home when I did and nipped this thing in the bud. I'll just have to continue taking advil so that I can continue being productive. This is a glimpse of what I wore today, I paired it with skinny jeans and black toms.

1. plaid top-wet seal 2. long black cardigan-h&m

3. belt-some boutique in OB

Today I felt the finals atmosphere in the air. Its not officially finals week, but a lot of professors will give their finals early. As for me I have two finals this week in the lab portion of my classes. I'm having my roommate change my password on fb as of tomorrow so that I won't be super distracted.  This is my toughest semester yet, and I basically need to get A's on all my finals. Seems almost impossible, but I have faith that I can do it :) Tonight my plan is to make myself comfortable in the basement of the library to study for my physics lab final, which should be one of my easier ones. But first I'm going to stay at home and work on my psychology paper, eat, and hopefully squeeze a nap in.

                                                         Hah! I don't look very excited about this.



I have a pretty big post planned for tomorrow. Have a nice afternoon & evening everyone!
                                  

Lazy weekend

I feel like I went from being completely productive to a bum. What happened?? I think I was just exhausted from running around the past few days that my body just wanted to rest. I went to bed at 9:00pm yesterday, which is absolutely unheard of. I go to bed around 1:00am on school nights and 2:30am on the weekends. I must admit though, it felt so nice to just sleep. I woke up this morning and made myself a big cup of hot chocolate and a poptart. I NEVER eat breakfast, so this was actually quite nice. The unfortunate thing is that my computer has been on the fritz lately. It seriously took 30 minutes for it to start up this morning. I'm thinking it has something to do with a statistics program I had to download for class. FML! I'm probably going to take it off my computer by the end of this week, but I need it to practice for my exam on Thursday.

So I must admit, these next two weeks I am probably going to be a somewhat repetitive blogger. I have FINALS spread across these next two weeks so of course my mind is going to be on nothing but studying, studying, and studying. I do have some great posts lined up though, so I won't be a complete bore. Just letting you know that I won't be a completely amazing blogger these next two weeks, especially next week when I have 4 finals.

Today I need to be productive to make up for my lazy day yesterday. I have lots and lots to do :) I'm actually going to be in the library all day today to meet up with a friend and then study my little behind off. Here is my daily list:

1. Finish my biostats quiz
2. Finish my psychology paper
3. FOCUS agenda
4. Study for biochem
5. Memorize 3 Amino Acids
6. Start typing up my biostats study guide

Friday Favorites--Christmas movies

Today was a very long busy day and I'm ready to end it on a fabulous note.  I got about 5 hours asleep, went to school for 3 hours, came home took a quick 1 hour nap, went to work for 4 hours, and now I'm home. I'm going downtown tonight (my first time since being 21) for my good friend's birthday. Although I'm exhausted, I'm really looking forward to going out and celebrating with her and a ton of her friends. Plus, this will  be my last time going out for the next 2 weeks as I have finals and what not. Got to live it up ;)

I present to you my friday favorites. I plan on making a list every friday of my favorite things, and they will usually be themed. This month's friday favorites will all be holiday themed, starting with movies.

1. Nightmare Before Christmas. Not a typical holiday movie but still it has a bit of christmas feeling. I love everything about this movie and its actually one of my favorite movies in general.

2. Elf! The sad thing is that I just recently watched this movie and I'm glad I did. Its absolutely hilarious, as with any movie with Will Ferrel.

3. A Christmas Story. Its a pure classic and I love that they show it for 24 hours on christmas day. I'll never get tired of it "You'll shoot your eye out!"

I'm going to start getting ready! Everyone have a great night and weekend.

Thursdays got me down

By Thursday I am usually feeling the worst of the week. I'm drained from working hard from earlier on in the week, but its not quite the weekend yet. I find myself wanting to do nothing more but nap on Thursday afternoons. Today felt a bit worse than usual since I found out that I didn't do so hot on my biochem exam, even though I found out with the curve I am passing the class....whew. I also left my wallet at home which meant I had to be at school from 8:00-2:00 with nothing in my belly. By 2:00pm I was feeling ever so shitty. But I am okay now which is good.

I am proud to say that after class today (and after eating) I came home and cleaned up my room. Why do I feel like its necessary to keep boxes? I had boxes taking up so much space in the back of my closest, it was just silly. But I feel better now that things aren't so stuffy. The problem is though, that I need more space. I have a tiny tiny room--i'm sure the size of most people's closet.  I really want to purchase a new dresser, I feel like it would make my room look a little bit more crowded but would allow me to have much more space in my closet. I just want a cheap one from ikea. I'll probably just get one off of craigslists to save money. I think the malm with 4 or 5 drawers would be amazing ;)

 

I am off to study now for a few hours in the library. Finals are coming up and I need to stay on top of everything so I don't crash and burn. I'm looking forward to my first 'Friday Favorites' post. Have a good evening!

Decembuurrr

Its officially the month of December which has to be one of my favorite months of the year and all for good reason. Probably the only thing I don't like about December is the chilly weather, but even that has positive sides (cuddling, hot coco, etc). This also marks the 25 day count down until Christmas. I love the holiday season-- in fact today I kicked off my holiday season properly. Me and one of the roomies busted out our holiday decorations complete with a christmas tree and menorah. Our house looks so cute when its decorated festively. Were probably going to add more within the next week, so I'll wait to take pictures until then.

Today I've been pretty drained, although I'm okay now since I just had a coffee. Lately, I've been putting in lots of hours in the library studying for my physics exam. I took the exam this morning and it went okay ;/ But bleh it physics. I thought I was feeling fine, but by my next class later in the afternoon I started feeling incredibly tired. In fact my friend started laughing at me in class because I was nodding off. Hah! I'm such a grandma. I find myself nodding off in class more than the average student. But today I had a legit excuse. I still have not napped yet even though my body needs it. I would much rather get some work out the way and eat dinner and then just go to bed early. I have a biostats homework assignment to do and I want to start putting together my study guide for psychology at the very least. Its nearing finals time and I'm starting to feel the pressure.

So at the beginning of every month I like to make a list of goals that I would like to accomplish.  It helps me stay focused and on track. And it helps me stay on track of my new years resolutions (even though I didn't make any for this year). But I love setting goals and reaching them, it makes me feel successful and good about myself. Of course I've made some for December, so here goes.

1. Stay on top of my school work
2. Kick ass on my finals
3. Take fish oil daily
4. Watch my spending on the weekends
5. Fast food only once a week

I'm off to get my homework done. But on a side note: I'm still getting this blog together. I honestly won't have a lot of time to make it look pretty with finals and everything. But hopefully buy the end of the month I will get it looking all pretty ;)