Fall.

I love this time of year.

Apple Cider-scented candles.
Colored leaves.
Pumpkin EVERYTHING.
Hoodie-appropriate weather.
Halloween.
Boots.

The only issues with these things...

Candles are kinda sorta not really allowed in my apartment. So shh!
REXBURG TREES REFUSE TO CHANGE THEIR COLORS.
I don't have money to buy pumpkin everything. Plus I'm fairly certain they haven't started selling them in Rexburg yet.
It's cold in the morning and then hot in the afternoons. I want it to be cold (but not to the extremes Rexburg goes to) all day.
There's 31 days til Halloween.
No issues here.

Hopefully the situation with these things get better starting tomorrow.

Happy (almost) October, everyone!

Life.

It's spiraling out of control.

And I can't find any way to grab a hold of it and get it back in order.

It sucks.

Distractions.

They suck. I'm talking to you, Tumblr and Facebook. I haz serious homework to accomplish this semester.

I just need to learn to use my time wisely.

So writing this post when I could be working on my ENG 251 homework is a bad use of my time.

But whatever.

Also, the background of this blog is VERY distracting. At least, for me it is. Over the next few days I'll be keeping my eye out for something I can use. Or maybe I'll finally be able to find a background online that I like.

Anyway.

Goodnight!

New semester goals.

• To be able to pay off my tuition quickly and start saving up to pay off the loan I most likely will have to take out. That'll be an adventure.
• Three dates. Is that too much to ask for, single male specimens of Rexburg? I didn't think so.
• 3.0 GPA.
• Awesome roommates. Most of them are my age this semester (thank heavens), so I hope we'll be able to get along.
• To finish reading three books.
• Go to a BYU football game.

At mid-terms I will update on how I'm doing with each of these.

Basically the "best roommate ever" award goes to...

Rachel Cox.

Seriously, though.

She comes out to the living room and says, "Kelsi, I have this box of stuff that I don't want. You can take anything you want, and anything that's left will go to Caitlin or the DI box."

So, thanks to her, I am now the proud owner of:

• KitchenAid hand-mixer (minus the beaters...but come on. You can find replacements for those at DI. Or even Wally World.)
• The Emperor's New Groove
• Finding Nemo
• Basically a new set of dishes
• A strainer
• An ice cream scoop
• Potato peeler
• Muffin tin
• 9x13 pan
• Tupperware

It's pretty awesome. I love her.

Oh. She also gave me pie. I've never had chocolate meringue pie before, but still. It's PIE. CHOCOLATE pie.

School.

It starts two weeks from today.

And I'm nowhere near being ready for it.

I don't even have most of my books.

I should probably get on that.

Except I have absolutely NO MONEY to do so.

I hate having to pay for everything on my own.

41,977!! And child development.

41,977. That is the total number of words I have written for my story. Only 8023 more words to go, and I've officially written a novel (according to the requirements for NaNoWriMo). Not to sound conceited or anything, but I'm proud of myself. :)

In other news, I've decided not to do a cluster in Journalism, and just minor in Child Development. It sucks that I've decided this so long after registration, because now I'm scrambling to find classes I can go to on the first day to try to convince the teacher to let me add the class...because at the moment I'm only registered for eight credits. Which is great for the whole money woes I'm going through at the moment, but not great because I'm not considered a full-time student unless I'm registered for twelve.

So...yeah. That's my life at the moment.