Midterm

It was brought to my attention in an email today that we are at midterm, and it got me thinking about how the first half of my semester back at school is going...

Remember when you were in college and there was always that one non-traditional student in the class who was always 15 minutes early to class, sat in the front row, always had something to contribute in class, seemed to be a brown nose with the professor as they talked about the industry, in relation to her full-time job and you always had to hear, "well, at my company..." and she just, well frankly, annoyed the sh*t out of you?

...funny how 5 years down the road, you can start to resemble that "lady". I was in denial about it for the first few weeks. I mean, it's not like a sit in the front row....2nd row. And I don't always talk about my own personal experiences at work...I let my other classmates talk too. It wasn't until we had to turn in our first homework assignment that I began to recognize what I've become. The assignment was to read a case study and answer 4 questions about it. Well, my paper turned out to be a little over 4 pages. We got into groups the night the case study was due to discuss them before turning them in, and as I looked around and saw the other papers, most everyone else had 1 or 2 pages. "Oh my gosh, I'm that girl in class", I thought. In my defense, it was double-spaced...although the assignment expectation was about 350 words....oops. I did get 100% on the paper though, with the comments of "way to tie in the HRM concepts! ...watch the length."

I'm starting to come to terms with it and accept that the 19-year-olds probably roll their eyes at me and talk about how annoying I can be, like I used to with the non-trads in my classes. Oh well, as long as I continue to do well in the class, I'm okay with being "that girl" (because I refuse to believe I'm old enough to be referred to as "lady")

Photo Project Failure

Well, for those of you keeping track, I state the obvious when I say I failed at my attempted photo project. No excuses - I chickened out at taking photos of myself and not taking a picture everyday led to forgetting what I wore on a particular day, and after that, I decided to just give up on the project. My bad. I don't want to give up on the idea of a photo project entirely, however, a fashion one appears not to be the one for me. I'm tossing around a few ideas and hopefully by the 1st of March, I can start on a new one.

President Awesome

Obama is the man, enough said.

New Jam

Cannot get enough of this track by fun. It is SO good! Check it out, seriously.

29 Cent Meal

I had all but one ingredient on hand for tonight's dinner of meatloaf and mac 'n cheese - a small can of tomato sauce that cost me 29 cents! I was very excited to have everything else in the pantry already.

Cupcake Bouquet

After seeing the idea on Pinterest, I decided to try my hand at a cupcake bouquet, in honor of Valentine's Day. It was a fun and tasty project, one that I would try again.

Baking With 'Lil

To help get in the spirit of Valentine's Day, 'Lil and I made cut-out cookies this afternoon. It was our first time baking in the kitchen together and I have to say, we made a pretty good team. Here is one of 'Lil decorating the cookies. A few more pictures on Flickr.