More food

Recap

Got lost in the parking lot yesterday, aka forgot where I parked...

Some girl in scrubs walked up to me and was like, "hey, are you leaving soon? can my friend have your spot? this is really awkward."...."when I find my car...it's a little awkward that I don't know where my car is."  Thankfully her friend found a spot during the conversation.

Then some woman in a huge SUV proceeded to drive REALLY slow and follow me down like two aisles, thankfully by that time I was closer to where my car was somehow and found it...but as I backed out, not just her, but some car blocked my exit out of the aisle...had to co-maneuver with the SUV to get out.

Um..class is good so far.

Got my STATA package today after wandering around looking for the IT place, turns out I was closer to it at the parking garage than on my search.

Made a lot of food lately.

I intended to buy butternut squash but ended up with white acorn squash somehow...which I sort of regret and realize why my mother hated buying it.  It took me half an hour to de-skin two acorn squash.  It's not really peeling either...more like carving.  My hands hurt for a while and I was starting to sweat. After about 10 minutes i got a little better at it though.

Thankfully the dish came out beautifully.

Um...yeah...Did some STATA homework, and it's not bad so far but I also realize it is the first assignment, and the first course of 3 that use STATA, haha, at least.

Had a lovely conversation with my roommate as she was freaking out and very confused about priorities with life/school.

Key points that she says she wants to write down to remember that maybe I should remind myself of:

• Focus on necessities first and not waste time just worrying about stuff we can't control because it makes us depressed and then makes the whole situation worse.
• Don't compare yourself to somebody else because that is assuming they are better when really? you don't know.
• There is a big difference between guidelines and requirements that we set for ourselves, and the consequences differ as well.
• It's more important that you're happy with yourself than if somebody else is happy with you.  Because if your happiness depends on them then you aren't actually happy because people come and go.  Assume that at some point, because you're human, they're going to be unhappy about you but that's not the end all be all. Like any friendship or relationship, you're gonna get upset, but you're also gonna be happy.
• Don't try to be somebody else because that is assuming that their method is superior.
• It is not necessary to do everything at once, everybody experiences events in a different order and in a different way...that's what makes us unique, but that's what also makes dynamics complicated and fluid.

.............


I should get back to my homework now.

Food Therapy

Very rough night, didn't really sleep much.  There's a lot for me to re-evaluate right now.

Went to the grocery store, was exhausted, but then got to work making food.  made AMAZING Moussaka...If I do say so myself ;), wayyy better than last timeeee...

the beschemel sauce turned out beautiful, not lumpy...just smooth and custard-y, the way I wanted it to be. SCORE.

Had that with mixed veggies.

Then had fudge chocolate cake for dessert :-D

Angeline says I'm an emotional eater...maybe, haha.  Goal, not to get fat...but to also enjoy my food! Gotta enjoy life regardless.  We'll see how my life turns out haha.

I just want this week to end.

Wednesday sucked. Parking was a fail, broke a printer toner that was very expensive, etc.
Thursday...today...well, it started out well.  Got to campus at 8am, found good parking, class...then went to cincy. Got there early, took forever to find parking, walked like 5 blocks to the fed building, they let me in, got there early, did well on my interview. WIN!

I felt like it was a win-day until After happy hour even though I was exhausted. Happy hour was at least sorta fun, I really was there for just an hour, lol. Met some interesting people. I am still tired.

Internet's down. Very frustrating cus I thought it was my computer w the issues so i restored a point...ugh...its out in the area but i think its slowly coming back so we're using neighbors internet for now...i hope our internet comes back and its not bc of our own technology being faulty...

bahhhhh......and I feel like I blabbered on a lot today and I feel like a baby about being so frustrated.

I hope tomorrow is better.

Orientation and pre-first day

Orientation was so longggg...Michelle told me it was at 8am but the paper said 8:30am...thankfully my search for parking and walking resulted in my showing up in between those times, lol.

Met a lot of people, it was fun, and some parts were really boring...typical. It was also really hot and crowded outside...OSU is humungous.

Then got my buck ID after some time of wandering...it looks good, thankfully.  Then went to the bank...home...

SUNBATHED. yes. I am back to the shade I am normally at during this time of the year. And, it felt awesome out in the sun.

Roomie and I then went to the CAM Asian Supermarket which was awesome.  We should've found it earlier cus a lot of stuff is cheaper! bought some good food. She bought a bamboo.

Got stressed in the evening.

Trying to figure out my whole grad school thing, may graduate later if I add the global health interdisciplinary program thing, need to find a GA position of some sort to help fund my education, need to find internships/volunteer opportunities to make the most of my time here...something like that.  I can't figure out how competitive my field really is right now but I do know that in the program, the range in demographics is very broad.  I feel VERY young.  There are a lot of people who already have experience..like they just graduated med school, were doctors, did extensive medical research already with multiple degrees, were paramedics, worked in the field for a while but want more...etc.  Then there's some of us undergrads who just graduated...and we look like freshman all over again, actually people just think we're freshman anyway.

So...here's to the next two-three years of grad school and finding my place in life with the help of some awesome new friends and hard work bc biostats? oh boy....

Two Homes

This feels weird.  Well, it felt weird when I first got into Oxford. Now it feels like I haven't left. I sorta miss my apartment and Columbus but I am realizing how much I appreciate green trees, grass, and squirrels...even the corn fields. I want to take squirrels back with me. And I also realized how worn out I was, and how tired I've been, and that I'm much more sleep deprived than anticipated. Haha.

Tomorrow is Oktoberfest.
yay!
Sunday--back to Columbus! eeh...

No longer lonely

I have a roomate!

She's really nice/fun so far but has a lot of learning yet to do about being independent.  Not that I'm a pro at it or anything as I am totally new to it too, but to me it's like playing house and it's been going pretty well.  The apartment is pretty homey, I cook all the time, clean a lot, organize well, and I think I'm getting the hang of the whole routine.  I just need to eat all the food in the fridge before it goes by, manage money better, etc.

So Much To Do!

Cooked for a dinner party yesterday.  Michelle came over at around 6pm, dinner was mostly done by then. She brought Flash (her dog) who is ADORABLE. So WELL BEHAVED for such a little pooch. He did poop on the carpet in my bathroom though, but as far as dog poop go it was very very easy to clean and didn't leave anything.  Had food, and they enjoyed it a lot, then Colin came.  Everybody got to know each other and got along really well which is great, Colin ate food, dog did tricks, we took doggie for walk and checked the mail (got bills Already!).  Had dessert with Fuki Plum Wine. Delicious. More conversation.  It was a successful evening and I think everybody felt really good about meeting new people and stuff.  I'm excited.

Michelle and I plan on grooming her dog ourselves sometime cus getting his haircut is like 50$ every other month...that's more expensive than a PERSON! that and I've always wanted to try my hand at grooming a dog, not just any dog, a poodle, or something that doesn't have super messy/shedding hair...and Michelle's dog is probably partly poodle! he doesn't shed.  I'm pretty excited. That's really weird, I know.

My roommate is still sleeping.  I've been awake for a while.  So far I've watched the new premiere of the season of Gossip Girl (omg Life Unexpected is backkk!!!!), showered, made veggie omlet, bread with nutella/bananas, made and had coffee....and did a bunch of busywork...and she's still sleeping, lol.

I'll be home soon, I hope she's ok on her own here for a few days.  Gonna hafta learn to be independent sometime! I had a whole week of figuring that out already.

What to do today? I am so wired right now. I don't want to do errands and I don't wanna waste a lot of gas cus so far life is so expensive and I'm gonna hafta drive a lot soon anyway.

Ah, Life is good :)

Productive day in Columbus!

Went to my interview today...had trouble finding the parking lot, then took a while to park, then had creepers try to talk n follow me pretty much to the building (3 doors were closed which made me anxious til I found one that opened). Ugh.

The interview went ok, sounds like an office job, I have my reservations about it, but the pay is good. We'll see how that goes...I don't feel like getting into it much except that it depends on 1) how I feel my chances are to get something more relevant, 2) how much time I have, 3) money, etc.

Went to buy books at SBX, riskily parked in a random lot because that's where I thought the bookstore was, turns out it was a block down the road...thankfully it took like less than 2 minutes to find my books and buy them and cashier told me where I should've parked.  I am so grateful my car was not towed or ticketed.

Then went to Lennox because Steph and I had planned on seeing the 2:05pm showing of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.  But, she had a lot of errands so I went to the bank to get quarters and cash, got my car washed (clean! and I got slightly lost trying to get out cus everything was blocked), went to Target, got stuff, and then went home to do some busywork and such.

Then desk showed up in its nice box, then I went to watch the movie w Steph after some caffeine.

Came home. Spent 2 hours building desk while watching Confessions of a Shopaholic. Success! except two metal screw things that just didn't match the holes but it doesn't drastically affect the stability or anything lol. Oh well...At least I have a desk now! and I feel less sick! but I don't feel that hungry...

busy and fun day? yes.

New Albany

After battling with my router forever, I eventually figured it out...sometime in between that I gave Time Warner a bit of trouble cus my computer was rejecting stuff...

Got my car re-balanced -- thump,thump,thump--gone!

Check engine light is back on but I think it's related to the gas cap or something cus it was only right after I filled up again.

Went to New Albany. When I got to Vanessa's I was a little confused because 1) there was a roundabout on the way, 2) the driveway. There was a huge square of brick and then a brick driveway thing to the garages so I followed it, then found it was a dead end and I was then blocking the garages and they were on their way home....sooo, I had to drive backwards all the way back and park in the big square.  haha.  Vanessa lives in a beautiful home and her family was very welcoming and uber Christian.  Interesting conversations. Delicious food. A lot of fun.  her and her friend took me to Zen Cha (awesome tea--delicious)

Steph and Kyle tried to help me fix my bed frame. It just isn't gonna work out I guess. We put it in the storage closet that Kyle discovered.  Having the bed just on the box on the floor looks fine though really, I could have my room be more loungy.

I am also thinking of not having a legit dresser (big) and just having a small chest for delicates, socks, shirts and the rest of my stuff like sweaters/jeans/pants/etc. in the huuuuge closet I have.  It'll look neater and the furniture could probably fit in my car (convenient).

Gonna hit up some used furniture store and home goods (discounted nice stuff) soon.

I enjoy meeting new people and it's been a good few days even though there have been a lot of bumps in this adventure thus far.

Welcome to Columbus

Long story short.
Must've run over something on the highway? Had a flat tire (rear) that we noticed once I parked at the apartment for the first time. I was due for new tires anyway soon-ish bc they were pretty worn and dad didn't think they were good tires at all anyway. Steph came by to help so moving was Super fast! We were all starving, needed to find me mattress, get basic necessities for the apartment, and needed tires. So we went to Wal-Mart which had 3 of those things.  While the tires were getting done, new Goodyear as opposed to a brand I've never heard of, we ate at Subway at Wal-Mart, and got necessities. A LOT OF STUFF.

Went to mattress store, found one for a good price (it is soooo plush pillow top) and it was to be delivered Saturday evening.

Dad set up stuff and then he left to go visit family friends NE of Columbus. Steph and I did more shopping...Tuttle Mall. Got the best sheets ever after being so frustrated. 1500 thread-count Egyptian cotton sheets, coastal-ish blue-gray for 35$ at a Kiosk. SO SOFT. We got back and put it in the washer a few apartment buildings down. Waited for Delivery people for Mattress. They were really late so we couldn't grab din with Kait and her mom. It finally arrived at 9pm. Then we found out the frame dad set up for the mattress was the wrong size...so a full bed is now on a queen frame until further notice...pretty much until I get muscles around to help with it, like get a new frame or something.  Dad says the mattress people may have been lying to me and just wanted my money cus it probably does fit a full, I looked at it just now and I think dad may be right but at the time I was so tired and now I'm by myself and don't have anybody with muscles around to help me move the mattresses and fix my frame...and I have no tools. I need tools. Then we went to Target and Kroger. I made dinner. watched half a movie, passed out.

This morning we went to Easton. I bought jeans and two candles.

We went to a used furniture place (very close to my apt), I got a set of dishes there that I think have a lot of character.  They look a little older but I wanted white ish plates but then the whole apartment is white so this is off white. The style is a little mature for me perhaps but for the price of like 35$ I'm pretty pleased.  Although when I went to Wal-Mart today I saw some I liked for the same price but it was a little generic I guess...that's what I tell myself.  But really, that store had some pretty cool things, there are these bar chairs that are really nice but I'm waiting for the price to go down in a few weeks so in about two weeks I'm going back to see what else they have...I mean there is a lot I still need.

Mmmmm then she left so I was alone for the first time in Columbus. Chitchatted on phone, did laundry, busywork, watched a movie.  Then I decided to go to Wal-Mart to get more things like basic groceries, a humidifier cus it's dry and it's making it hard for me to sleep right now cus I'm sick, mattress pad, etc. I got a little lost. I've spent way too much this weekend and it's freaking me out but I mean it's all useful things.  There's still more I have yet to get but this is good for now.  Also my car is making weird thumping noises but it's too dark for me to see anything and we'll see how it goes.

Time warner comes sometime between 8am-noon tomorrow. And I think I'm going up to New Albany to sunbathe and stuff with Vanessa. Something like that?

So much going on. So tired. Sick. Plans. Boredom. Busy. AHHHHH! Hello, Columbus.