new, more better blog

So I am a fairly lazy person.

So lazy, in fact, that since this blog and my school email account are both linked to gmail and I cannot be on both at the same time, I won't log out of my school email to log into here. I mean, school email does like to eat other gmail-related accounts and if I type in"gmail," it's like OHH PICK ME, and keeps popping up. Fairly (very) annoying and discouraging when I find time to write something interesting.

So now I have started a new blog on a more different blog-thinger (wordpress) that will not interfere with my school mail, which I check obsessively. I am now camelliasonmoss.wordpress.org. WOO. 

All of those little paragraphs started with "so." Sometimes I'm special :P

GO CHECK IT OUT. :D

buzz. imma bee.

I've been fairly busy lately - catching up with friends, learning to work my sewing machine, reading The Hunger Games, some funny car troubles...

This is Clara!! I'm so bad with deciding on names, but when I thought, Hmm, what should I name my pretty baby sewing machine? Clara popped instantly into my head :) She's a Project Runway Edition! I have no idea what that means. Maybe Tim Gunn touched them or something.

She does things like sew button holes!! This blew my mind when I read it in the little booklet. That was the only reason I attempted to figure out how to change the foot thing and needle. Otherwise, I would've just sewn with the straight stitch and her beauuutiful stitches would've been lost on me. (As you can tell, I don't know to much how sewing machines. I think I made up those sewing phrases.) Basically, I put the number for "random button stitch," hold on the pedal, and there she goes! I barely need to hold it the fabric. Freakin awesome.

p.s. Isn't that fabric gorgeous?! I loveee that pattern; it looks amazing on a bigger swatch. I stole it from one of my art classrooms. Okay, not really stole, because it was on the "Free Stuff" shelf, but I took almost all of it because I loved it so much...

 And then RA things happen. I go back to school on Friday!! I can't decide if I'm excited or not. Yes, for friends and being able to just walk into someone's apartment because you're bored and they're there. No, for classes and leaving my bed and having real responsibilities. Womp.

These are the door tags I made for my hall this semester! We don't get to decorate the walls because some real people live in our building (because college students aren't real people...), but I had fun making these nametags! While watching Doctor Who, of course. 

Also back at school, I don't get to stay up all hours of the night reading and never leaving the internet, because then I will die. So it's probably bedtime now. Good luck to anyone else starting classes again! :D

extrablogpostfail + Scotland?

This is why I don't keep diaries. I get all excited about a new thing and write furiously about small happenings for days, and then stop. For no apparent reason. I guess I get busy (sort of) and forget. Or think, Oh, I'll do it tomorrow and write for TWO days. And then that happens again and again until it's months later and I stopped caring.

BUT I STILL CARE. Because here's a thing. I want to study abroad but cannot because of my major and transferring to my school. However, I found some summer programs that work with some classes I need and won't interfere with other classes I have to take.

Summer program I am in love with: Scotland.

Summer program I am $3,000 short for: Scotland.

So I want to keep track of how I spend/save money in the hopes that I can magically get $3000 before June. I would like to accumulate $1500 before March, when I have to apply for the program.

Things I am going to do to save money:

1. Work more. I have two jobs on campus, but last semester was so crazy, I only worked maybe eight hours a week (plus RA things). I'm planning on working at least twelve hours a week. Not a ton, but I'm still taking the same number of credits as last semester, so 20 credits + homework + RA things + 12 hours of work = extra dead Maria.

2. Find scholarships. I'm kind of a lazy bum when it comes to applying for scholarships because they usually require some sort of essay. It just ends up feeling like extra homework and not let's-write-about-how-awesome-I-am, which can be fun. But now I am determined. Soooo I need to do that.

3. Not buy new clothes. I found this idea on a blog I recently found that I now cannot find again... :( She refused to buy clothes for a year. I really like thrifting and don't go too often, so I'm allowing myself to occasionally buy thrift store clothes, which is why I specified no NEW clothes. Also, I got a sewing machine for Christmas, so I can update old clothes or find some cute fabric and make new things! :)

4. Not eat out so much. We have this diner right across from my school that's open 24 hours. And a Wawa right down the street (please go look up Wawa if you don't know what it is. It is fantastic.) Of course, whenever my friends and I are bored and/or lazy and/or procrastinating, we go grab some food. It adds up, and I have plenty of food to cook in my apartment, so I'm hoping to save money that way as well.

5. Start an Etsy shop. I've wanted to do this for so long, but I haven't had time to make things. I finally opened an Etsy account, but I haven't opened a shop yet. I'm hoping to do this with Bug, because he's pretty artsy too, but again, we haven't had a lot of time to make things. Or things that people would buy :P

For now, that's pretty good. The last thing I bought for myself was the last two Hunger Games books (read them!!) from Amazon for $20 total. And that will be it for a while!

Total saved: $0

blogpostfail.

So guess who's been super busy unpacking and then repacking again! ME. I unpacked most of my new home stuff, but then I had to repack some things to go back to school. on SUNDAY. WAH. So soon. I'm excited buttt sad to leave my home friends =[

I'm the RA on my floor this year, which is why I'm moving back so early. We have two weeks of training before all the kiddies move in! I haven't had much time to get new things for my apartment (yeah...my school owns apartments and considers them "dorms"), which I'm sharing with a friend and a new girl who sounds adorable. But that also means I get to make things! YAY! I'm starting to make name tags for doors - 90's Nickelodeon themed! <3 So excited. I've also been wanting coasters for a while because I'm a lazy bum and eat mac in cheese in the living room to watch TV, but I know how easy they are to make and refuse to buy them. And now I have a cute idea to make them! So I have to do that at some point so I can put them up here! Hopefully that will maybe possibly be soon. Hopefully.

Also, I babysat three adorable children for seven hours today. Which means now it is nap time.

Maria

MOVED.

Finally! We're all moved in to our new little house! I mean, I still need to unpack...which I should probably be doing now...

We just got internet and cable (woo!), so I had to go to Panera if I absolutely needed internet (which I did...online class. oops). Totally fine, since I just had tea and soup all day. Nom. Seeing how everything is mostly still packed up, I cannot find my camera cord, so I don't have before-and-after pictures of our painting adventures. I did find some pictures I took from the first time we looked here, though!

Little fake birdie in a little fake bird bath! She's actually got a little seed in front of her, which I thought was cute and funny...

Also, this guy? I do not know what the heck this is supposed to be. An old Snow White dwarf in a half painted plastic bottle hanging from the roof. He looks like he's been there for a million years. Or just been working hard in Snow White's house...

I should probably go back to unpacking. Boo. Hopefully I'll be able to update more now that we have internet! =D

COOL THINGS HAPPEN. AND I WON A FROG.

So this past weekend, the Bug and I went on our own little vacation to Busch Gardens! YAY! I've never been there, and we found a Groupon (best thing ever if you haven't tried it) for a resort + tickets a few months ago. We had a free weekend, so we made reservations and took a little trip! =D

That is the Lochness Monster grrrrrrrr. We both went on that one. He's not the biggest fan of rolley toasters, which are my FAVORITE, so I was happy he went on one with me =] Also, it was about a million degrees outside, so it probably wasn't the best weekend to be running around outside. But we still had a TON of fun.

I think his favorite part of amusement parks are the carnival games. He plays them over and over until he gets bored or wins. We found a game where you had to kick two out of three soccer balls into a net with a moving fake goalie. We've both played soccer basically our whole lives, sooo of course, we both won. And I got a big stuffed frog! He's fantastic. But I cannot think of a name =[ Suggestions?

Mehhhh that's pretty much all that's exciting. 

P.S. Just clarifying, basically all of the pictures that will appear on here are taken by me. If they're not, I'll give them a source so the person who takes pretty pictures gets aaalll the credit!

Painting!

So this weekend was filled with painting. Not fun canvas painting either. Painting walls. My mom and I are moving in a few weeks (YAY), and we wanted to paint the new house prettier colors :) It's work, but sooo worth it. I'll post before and after pictures when we're all done!

Also, HARRY POTTER!! (again). Who else saw it?! I'm glad I saw the final movie at midnight. Everyone there was so excited, and we sat next to some great people, and it was just a nice way to end the series. Some people were bawling loudly, which I thought was excessive, but my friend and I got a little teary at some parts. And then I was just sad it was ending. I thought it was good overall, but there were some things that just could've been better. I think I'd have to watch Part 1 and then see Part 2 to really get the whole effect.

Back to work (not painting) tomorrow...blahh Mondays...