College Life

Sorry for the lack of updates, I haven't had as much time as I had expected. I moved in and settled in my new quarters on Sunday and had a full day of classes on Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday followed suit. Yesterday, I didn't have class until 1, but with my restlessness, I slept in then had class until 5. Today, I didn't have any classes (thank God), so I caught up on some reading.

On more interesting news, and exciting news for me, the camera on my BlackBerry Storm finally decided to work! Although it takes some crappy photos, it's something. I don't have photoshop on my laptop, so I haven't been able to upload the pictures from my camera, resize them and edit some of it to post onto here. I'll be heading home this weekend to get some laundry done, during this time I'll upload my pictures, do the etcetera, and upload them to my flickr so I can easily grab them from there and post them onto here.

In the meantime, here are some craptastic pictures of what my side of the dorm looks like, at this exact moment:

My shower curtain that I use as a regular curtain for my closet that I got from UO! :D

The view from my window: The "City"

Another view: Diamond Head

I wouldn't normally post pictures of this quality, but since you know it's from a BB camera, you know it's going to be crappy anyways. Let's hope Apple decides to put a camera on the iTouch that is supposedly making it's debut soon so I can ask for it as a birthday present, then get some apps that'll make craptastic photos look professional (yay for run-on sentences).

In the mean time, I'll see everyone soon. I'm heading to the water park for my nephew's birthday tomorrow so I'll most likely have a post about that coming up.

Books, Bees, Bags, and Underwear

The 2010-2011 school year is nearing, along with being broke. My parents and I took a trip to my school yesterday to turn a few things and pick up a few things. I carried a little list with me to keep track of what I needed and what I didn't need. It was pretty basic: drop of titer results, buy textbooks, buy nursing polo, get nursing badge, etc, etc. I'm really looking forward to this semester, but at the same time, I'm pretty terrified of what's in store for me.

The price of my textbooks this year are quite ridiculous, nearing about $900. Luckily, I found a few used books, but that only took off about $150. I still need to buy an eight-book pack that costs about $450 and it conveniently comes in a box (quite intimidating) as well as two other books. I'm only taking three classes and looking at the amount of books that are required, I'm not exactly looking forward to the semester (studying wise). Here are the books I've gotten at my school's bookstore so far, along with The Perks of Being a Wallflower which I had gotten at Barnes and Noble. I've been meaning to read this book since high school, but I've never gotten around to it, and now I have.

It was also a priority to get my nursing badge and polo. It was really hot, and I was walking around a lot that day, but my nursing badge didn't turn out too bad.

After finishing up at the school, we headed to Ala Moana's Barnes and Noble where I picked up The Perks and some moleskine cahiers for my usual jotting down of notes. I also picked up some Burt's Bees on the way as my tube is almost done with. Not too sure if I mentioned ordering a backpack a while ago, but I now have time to post about it. It's from Urban Outfitters, and it's great for school, or hiking even. High recommended for a durable, spacious bag. Check it out for yourself at their website.

And lastly, I needed a few pairs of new underwear! Really, you can never have enough underwear, especially cute ones! I got them at Victoria Secret's Pink. Most of my underwear is from Pink, and if not, from American Eagle, but I haven't been to AE in ages! I got 5 pairs, what with their 5 for $25 'deal'. Worth it though, I love their underwear.

The top three patterns are not what I had purchased, which is why there's a circular swatch to show you the patterns I really did get. The online website didn't have the patterns I had, but I wouldn't mind getting any of these the next time I'm there. The bottom two are the actual patterns I had bought, and are also my favorite styles. They're really comfortable and I love the lace details.

When we were done browsing elsewhere we had some lunch at Genki Sushi. Always good.

Our last stop was to Bed Bath and Beyond which just recently opened in Hawaii, so that was a little exciting. The place is really tight though, they made sure to use every square inch of what used to be Circuit City. My mom got me a Mr. Coffee coffeemaker and some utensils for my dorm.

We came across traffic on our way home, I was driving and had to stay up the whole way. Not fun, but that was my day. I took a bunch of pictures of what I got that day, but ended up using pictures from online stores. Click through each link in this post to see the respective websites of where I frequented that day as well as where I purchased everything mentioned in this post.