~So what if my crappy dorm wifi wanted to take 600 minutes to upload my video yesterday? Yes, it's a slightly longer than normal video, but obviously something was up with the wifi. So I'm just re-uploading it today. Obvi I was slackin' yesterday cause there wasn't a Tuesday Tidbits blog yesterday either....I was just in a super grumpy and nappy mood yesterday, so sorrrry about that.
~So what if I only remembered to watch the last 10 minutes of Ravenswood last night, and by the time I turned it on I was getting so upset about the possible death of one of the characters that was happening that I accidentally punched the remote and changed the channel and couldn't see the end? Yes, I did have a temper tantrum about it at the time, but now that the episode's FINALLY up online (yes, I've been stalking the website ever since), I know what I'm doing this afternoon... (;
~So what if I currently look like a 40 year old English teacher? With my topknot, glasses, grandma sweater, scarf, and cup of tea, I look like I should be in a library reading Shakespeare. However, I'm sippin on my Gingerbread Sweet tea, and it's freaaaaking delish!!! So worth the grandma effect it's having on my overall failed fashion choices today.
~So what if the new hair serum I bought stained my favorite pair of Hollister jeans....I'll get over it eventually, right? Tide To Go will take it out, right?
~So what if I have no idea what I'm going to put in my What I'm Loving Wednesday post yet? I totally spaced on the fact that it was Wednesday until I saw someone else's.....I don't think I have that many new favorites from last week, oh nooo00o0o0o000!
~So what if the campus shuttle driver who brought me to one of my classes today had a head tattoo on his bald spot? He's kind of my hero for it. Lolz.
I think that's all....what are you saying So What to this week?!
Thanks for reading, xox, Elle MissGlamBam.com Youtube Beauty Guru & Blogger
~It is SO nice to be able to take a shower while standing, you have no idea. My foot healed SO much over the weekend. Prayers = finally answered.
~I'm also not dreading my class 1st thing tomorrow morning on the second floor of the only classroom building without an elevator because instead of having to hop up with my crutches and facing a near death experience with every step, I can actually normally-ish walk-ish up them!!! WOOOO
~I got all 4 of the Celestial Seasonings limited edition holiday teas in the mail today. I saw them in someone's Youtube video, but couldn't find them in stores anywhere. So, Amazon it was. Can't wait to test them out for you all! People keep asking me how I like them so I'll probs review them too (; So far I've just tried the Candy Cane Lane (I actually had 2 cups of it today, hehe)
~Tomorrow is my last Spanish class until Thanksgiving break! 2 of them got cancelled for my professor's trip to South Africa/America....I can't remember which. Yay yay YAY!
~Z is the cutest boyfriend in the entire world, and I was so incredibly lucky to be able to spend some time with him this weekend, if only for a few hours. It's so worth the drive, every time. I'll have to post some pictures of our date night in a post tomorrow, eek! I'm so excited! It's not every day that I have new pictures of my fabulous boyfriend to share! I also need to post a Man Crush Monday picture of him soon....only 43 minutes left of Monday remain!
~I'm. Exhausted. All last week I was too, even though I got more sleep than usual (?) Last night random stuff going on in my building (I'm looking at you, jerks who decided to slam their door 6 times in a row at 2 am!!!) kept waking me up, so I got a terrible night's sleep. I wanted to take a nap about three different times today, but as I've said before and will say again, napping in college is near impossible. At least for me. So just a few minutes more of studying for an espanol quiz tomorrow, and I'll be off to my cozy, cozy bed with way too many pillows in it at the moment <3
Thanks for reading! Hope your Monday was fabulous, but if it wasn't....at least it's OVER!
xox, Elle
MissGlamBam.com
Youtube Beauty Guru & Blogger
Starting a new weekly segment that I hope I can keep up with! Since it's brand new, I don't have a pretty little picture with the title on it, a la RamblingsofaSuburbanMom.com, so if anyone out there that's reading this can make me a cute little one with some zebra stripes or chevron pattern, that would be SO GREAT! My Youtube/Internet email is Everything.Elle@yahoo.com - you can always send me requests and feedback there!
Anyways, I obviously can't do the Monday Morning Ramblings like Jen, who I just mentioned, since it's now 10 pm. Plus, I think it's better to do reflections later in the day on a Monday, after all of the grumpiness has kind of faded away. Am I right? I imagine if I had done this post earlier in the day, it would have been more like a Tuesday Troubles....which I will hopefully have up for you tomorrow!
Anyways, here's what I'm musing about this Monday night:
~It was my roommate Miranda's birthday today, so we were all planning to go out to eat at a fabulous Mexican place downtown (that I'm absolutely IN LOVE WITH and had been looking forward to all day). One of my friends looked at the hours online and insisted they were open until 9...but when we got there off the bus at 7, they were CLOSED! We ended up at a cute little Italian place that I have no complaints about, because now I have some yummy leftover eggplant parm in my fridge that I can eat in absence of all of the dining hall trips I'm too crippled to make.
~Also, let me just say that I'm Super Roommate for going downtown and having to take public transportation while being in a wheelchair, just for a birthday dinner. That's the farthest I've traveled in my wheelchair while being near campus- the only furthest distance is from aisle to aisle in Target or Walmart, hehe.
~I just ate 3 mini "fun sized" packages of Twizzlers that I was planning to use to bribe myself to do my homework. Well that purpose has been defeated!
~Miranda's boyfriend informed me at dinner that all of the homework that I thought was due tomorrow actually isn't due until Thursday, and in my economics class this morning, my professor moved the due date of our next homework from Thursday to Sunday. Score! Looks like tomorrow & Wednesday night will be smooth-sailin! (relatively)
~In case you missed my Twitter rant last night, the girls near me were being so super loud last night that I was super cranky and couldn't sleep....which resulted in me today being super cranky and unable to nap. Are you ever just so tired that you CAN'T nap? That was me just before dinner...I had been looking forward to it, but alas, I just can't seem to successfully nap in my dorm. I think I've done it maybe once all year? And attempted at least five times? Ughhh! What are the secrets to dorm napping?!
~The heat in my math classroom was screwed up this morning (even more so than usual), so I was sitting there with my outdoor jacket on, in a probably 40 degree room. When it was 34 degrees outside. YUCK! The temperature dropped really fast overnight...it was absolutely gorgeous and bearable over the weekend, but just from standing outside for a few minutes today, my hands are already cracking :/
~Today I helped Miranda buy long underwear and a winter coat that would actually keep her warm in the nasty New England winter that's sure to come. She's from CA, so this whole being dark at 5pm thing is really throwing her off. She was complaining to her mom about it on the phone today, and as a New Englander born & raised, I couldn't help but giggle. All I could do was sit there in my flannel shirt & offer her some pumpkin seeds....boy, are the stereotypes true (;
That's all I've got for tonight, folks! Be sure to follow me on twitter, @photoholicgurli, to get my musings all throughout the day that you won't see anywhere else. I also tend to retweet cute pictures of puppies and kittens, so that's worth it, right?
Alrightie, I've got some Wall Street Journal articles to read and analyze!
Did you like this segment? What should I name tomorrow's?
As always, thanks for reading!
xox, Elle
MissGlamBam.com
Youtube Beauty Guru & Blogger
I'm pretty sure that when I hobble by people I'm sorta friendly with on campus, and they see me on crutches, they're convinced that I'm my own personal bad luck charm. Especially if they've been keeping up with the saga that is the story of my first semester of college.
I don't like blogging about such downer topics, but then I saw a Tuesday Troubles post on RamblingsofASuburbanMom.com, and realized that it's a thing and that I'm totally allowed to do it. Also, I love her, and if you haven't started reading her blog yet... DO IT. (She doesn't know I'm saying this btw...I actually highly doubt she knows I exist)
*PLUS it's Halloween week, so I'm allowed to talk about curses and have people actually believe me...right?
Anyways.
Maybe I wouldn't have this belief if I didn't already know my building is haunted. My RA lived in the same building I live in now her freshman year, so she's been telling us from the start that the building is haunted as can be. Apparently a girl hung herself in the closet of one of the rooms awhile back, either mine or the one next to me, although after recent events I'm pretty convinced it's my room. As gory as it sounds, I'm still trying to figure out how she hung herself in a closet that size....was she a midget?
The first month of college was great. My roommates and I were best friends and everyone was jealous. We had a few great friends that we always hung out with who were practically honorary roommates (this is still true to an extent, we still have a few of those, THANK GOODNESS,) and our building was full of super friendly people that we got along great with. Then shit started going down.
There was a giant roommate fiasco and one of my roommates moved out. My other roommate and I had the room to ourselves for a few weeks, and it was like a giant sleepover! Then one night I had a rapid heartbeat and a fever of 102, so I called Public Safety and they told me to take a cab to the ER. It turns out I had a kidney infection, and went all the way back home and had to stay there for a week and a half. When I got back, my new roommate moved in and we love her, so no complaints there (once again...THANK GOODNESS!) I was super behind in schoolwork. Then there was a conflict between one of my roommates and the girls on my floor, which resulted in me having to host an intervention with some of my friends, which was super awk and made some people really upset (it's okay now though).
Now, the icing on the cake: literally the day after the intervention, I was running downstairs in my socks to the bathroom, because the one on my floor AND the floor below me were both occupied by strange people who shower at 11 pm on a Tuesday (seriously, WTF), and I had to pee like you wouldn't believe. Then all of a sudden, I slipped when I was ALMOST TO THE BATHROOM, SO CLOSE I COULD TASTE IT (err...smell it?) and that's when I slipped, and my foot felt like it folded in half.
Visual representation of my foot folding in half
I was limping to all of my classes the next day and it hurt like a bitch, so one of my friends finally told me to go to Health Services and gave me a piggy back ride there (hehe, love you R). They said it was probably sprained but could be broken, since my foot was huge and swollen and had yellow bruising all over it. They recommended going to get X-rays, so I went to a walk-in clinic a couple hours later (more like the Walk-In Shitshow....ugh don't get me started!!!!) They took X-rays and had horrible customer service and told me nothing was broken. Also, neither place had crutches, so I had to hobble into CVS myself with a potentially broken foot (they took X-rays less than 24 hours after the damage was done, so it was really too swollen to be able to see a break if there was one), and had to pay $45 out of pocket for some crutches that didn't even have numbers on the notches- you know how they're normally labeled by height? Yeah, not these. And insurance doesn't cover them, so it was a pretty penny.
So for the rest of that week and all of yesterday, I was crutching around campus and destroying my armpits and hopping up the stairs in my building like an exhausted little bunny. Then my mom booked me an appt with her foot doctor back home, so I got picked up and had my appointment just a few hours ago. They took some more X-rays, except this time they wanted me to put weight on my foot while they were taking them...um, no thanks, since I can't and all? Isn't that the reason I'm HERE?! Geeeze.... anyways, the doctor noticed that I can't bend my ankle or foot or move anything in that general area at all (which I hadn't even noticed up until that point. I'm clearly an observant child....nawt) SO she scheduled me some MRIs for late tonight (to see if I tore any ligaments or tendons or other yucky stuff).
I'm supposed to stay home, off of campus, for a few days to get my test results and see if I need physical therapy or anything. Plus I have exams for the next 3 days, and all of my books and notes are on campus...not here, where I am. Plus my boyfriend's working tonight so he can't come visit and make me feel better. Plus there's a huge Halloween celebration going on tomorrow night at school that I may/may not be able to go to. Plus my roommate's birthday is Monday and I don't want to be a jerk and miss whatever we're doing to celebrate. Plus Youtube has been giving me problems with copyrights on my videos all week, for videos where there's no music and it's literally just me talking...WTF. Who knows if I'll even be back for Halloween? ARGGHH!
The ghost just wants to ruin my life. I must have pissed her off early in the semester. I really have no other explanation for all of the shit that's happened to me lately....and yet I'm still not a college dropout. Amazing, eh?
If your Tuesday Troubles are more horrible than mine, please let me know cause that would sure make me feel better. I'll probably be making a beauty video live on my channel in an hour or so, and if you commented that would also cheer me up. I'm so worried about my grades right now that it's not even funny. DAMN YOU GHOST!
Do you believe in curses?
Thanks for reading & Happy Early Halloween!
xox Elle
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Youtube Beauty Guru & Blogger
P.S. Be sure to check out the new beauty video I uploaded today!
