July 10 in 30 Finale

1. Get some homemade goods from Ohio during my visit. I got a candle and a cup that I'm going to use as a pencil holder for my desk. Which I left at home; now I have to go back and get it.

I love taking a day and floating around a lake!

2. Get back on track with my schedule of focusing on the lessons for the Bible study for the upcoming school year. I definitely did this one. The most important thing for me to bring to the group this semester is refocusing on who God is and who we are; also to rebuild a community of people who really care about each other. 

3. I'm moving into a new apartment..therefore my goal is to decorate my room the way I want. While movie it was crazy hot outside (probably about 100), and I'm on the third floor so it was challenging to say the least. But the basics of my room look like I want them to. Now I just have to decorate and add all the finishing touches.

4. Buy/ make decorations and furniture for my room. I have a lot of great ideas and I really want to do them. That's what next week looks like for me.

5. Hopefully get a new job for the school year. I'm super excited I got the job I really wanted to get! 

Can you figure out where?

6. Finish reading The Princess Bride and the HOBBIT. I started both in the last two months but finished neither. I finished The Princess Bride, and switched out the Hobbit for Crazy Love. I'm starting to feel bad for the Hobbit it's always my back up book that I don't seem to ever get to.

7. Research what a Roth IRA is and maybe open one. I've heard the earlier you open one the better, but I'm not sure yet. I called and the financial guy said I should check with my employer to see if they offer any sort of program that will match what I put into an account and if not to get back to him. I haven't checked yet though

8. Finalize my school class schedule for the fall. Done! And I even got a better class schedule by doing so; it helped a lot! If you are in college and didn't get into a class you wanted to because it filled up too fast, keep checking back because people will drop it for one reason or another and you can take a spot. That's what happened to me.

Oh how I love dessert!

9. Try to bake something I haven't  tried before. I made chocolate covered pretzels, and made a salad I hadn't before but as far as hard core baking goes, I didn't get to that this month.

10. Go to my local flee market. Nope, I had no time.

Current Obsession July

This month...

TV Show:

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Food: Sweet Potato Fries (I'm making some right now!)

Activity: Making my summer scrap book

DIY: Using picture frames to hang my jewelry

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Book: Crazy Love by Francis Chan

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P.S.- Moving/cleaning has been fun and exhausting, thank God for Lysol wipes! 

Movie Night

Last night my family did an impromptu movie night. My mom made apple strudel and I made chocolate covered pretzels; I saw them in the store for $3 for three and decided to make them instead. It's a really simple DIY.

Melted milk chocolate+ Jumbo pretzels+ sprinkles= a simple delicious dessert

We watched "My girlfriend's boyfriend." It's really good actually, I was happily surprised. I love movie nights

July 10 in 30 mid-month update

Uh, this month is such a failure in the 10 in 30 aspect of it. Last month I did so well; I guess that's the way life goes.

I had never seen one this close before, they're huge!

1. Get some homemade goods from Ohio during my visit. I did this one actually. I got a candle and a cup that I'm going to use as a pencil holder for my desk. 

2. Get back on track with my schedule of focusing on the lessons for the Bible study for the upcoming school year. I have looked over the lessons. I also do a dinner for the Bible study every Thursday night and I'm trying to come up with some cheep, healthy, fast meals that we can cook. (Ya try that combination together, it's harder than I thought last year when I first started out.)

3. I'm moving into a new apartment..therefore my goal is to decorate my room the way I want. I haven't moved yet; that's next week.

4. Buy/ make decorations and furniture for my room. Nope, I made a bookmark though, haha. I don't think that counts

5. Hopefully get a new job for the school year. I have to call when I get home and set up an interview. 

Two things simultaneously flew into my mind when I saw him. 1) Please don't fall. 2) I'm glad that's not my job.

6. Finish reading The Princess Bride and the HOBBIT. I started both in the last two months but finished neither. I finished The Princess Bride. As soon as I got into it, it took me about two days and the book was finished. It was really good!

7. Research what a Roth IRA is and maybe open one. I've heard the earlier you open one the better, but I'm not sure yet. I'm calling someone, hopefully in the next two days, to figure things out.


8. Finalize my school class schedule for the fall. Not yet

Little cousin and I fell asleep while watching Aladdin. It was past our bedtime. 

9. Try to bake something I haven't  tried before. Not by my kitchen

10. Go to my local flee market. Not yet, but I really want to do this one!

7 Road Trip Must Haves

We drove to Ohio yesterday/today. Some road trip must haves!
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1. Motion Sickness pills. I didn't bring one with me and paid for it! We had to stop and get some.

2. An adapter that can plug your computer into the cigarette lighter. This is the most important technology I bring! It may look a little funny at first but trust me this will save you when your computer battery gets low. (There are two pictures of it because it's hard to describe how it looks without visual aids.)
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3. GPS. No more getting lost 
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4. A book, music, dvds or all of the above. When you're locked in a car for hours on end it's all about keeping yourself entertained. 
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5. A pillow and a blanket. This may seem a little like I'm three, but it's so nice to have something comfortable to take a nap with.

6. Water and food. It's really important to keep yourself hydrated and well fed; if you think you can make it without, pack something just in case. Water is a must have! 
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7. A Camera. It doesn't matter if it's a throwaway one or a 2,000 dollar camera. If you can document your trip years down the road you will remember a lot more details than you would have without pictures. 

July 10 in 30

Ahh, I'm already failing this month...I haven't even thought about what my 10 in 30 is going to be..help..What are your goals this month..the only goals I know are

A picture from my last visit..It made me laugh

1. Get some homemade goods from Ohio during my visit.


2. Get back on track with my schedule of focusing on the lessons for the Bible study for the upcoming school year.

3. I'm moving into a new apartment..therefore my goal is to decorate my room the way I want


4. Buy/make decorations and furniture for my room


5. Hopefully get a new job for the school year


That is all I got... oh no. I'll think of more and update the list


6. Finish reading The Princess Bride and The HOBBIT. I started both in the last two months and finished neither. (updated July 13) 

June 10 in 30 Finale

Uh! I couldn't get to interned for a week! It was a forced absence from technology; it was frustrating but at the same time nice to take a break. Back from LA and now suffering from Jetlag..no time to waste though, we leave for Ohio in two days.

1.First and Formost- Safety for the trip! The farthest west I've been is Ohio, and that's definitely the eastern part of the United States, haha. Thank you God for keeping us safe!!

2. Buy a camera!! It would be very beneficial if I could get one this week so I could figure out how to use it before I leave. I really like my new camera, the only thing is that sometimes it acts up and starts blurring and making the color yellow...it took artsy photos like this one night. It's kinda strange but I like this photo.

3. Go to local thrift shops while in LA. Hopefully I can find some good ones! I finally found some, and was super excited. I bought one top one skirt and a raincoat. 

4. Find books to read on the plane. I finally started reading The Princess Bride by William Goldman and I really like it. I'm about 1/3rd a way through!

5. I made my own summer book! Now my goal is to take a pictures while on my trips and actually put them in my summer book. Stared, now I just got to keep putting the pictures it. That's always where I fail, I take a bunch of pictures then they sit on my computer

With the Gilmore Girls house!! (From the tv show Gilmore Girls, it was a great show)

6. Work as much as I can till my trip. Done! I worked about thirty hours a week!

7. Go back and continue to learn Italian; I've been slacking. I'm trying to use the program as much as time will allow. 

8. Work out in the hotel gym. Yes! I worked out about half of the day's that I was there. I kept having to take breaks because it's hard to start cold turkey working out for an hour each time! 

9. Eat at some of the local "mom and pop" places in LA. Very much so a check! La is such a great place for food! 

10. Have my garage sale this weekend! I did, and I got enough money to help pay for some of the expenses of the trip. It was very good.