I have always been in love with New Zealand, especially when I visited there and stayed with family years ago, I will always believe that it is my favorite country to visit, I would love to live there or get to travel there again a lot in the future. I found these awesome youtube videos about a guy hiking in New Zealand. This guy is hardcore and amazing to watch when hiking through all these trails in New Zealand, thought you might enjoy too Jimmy (Adventure Proof)!

AH I'M A GRADUATE STUDENT! Well Almost

It's official! I am finally a graduate student! Well almost..the good news is that I did get accepted into the graduate program that I applied to, which is the master's program for Community Social Psychology. I will be starting this program in the fall! 

The only almost part is that I still have to graduate with my Bachelor's this Spring/Summer. I am walking in less than two months for graduation, but I will just need to take one last online course (french 4) in order to get my diploma. Now that I found out that I got accepted to grad school, there are things that I am have conflicts about with myself. The great thing is that YAY I will be going to grad school, I don't need to worry about the next stepping stone of my life...but the other problem is that there puts so much pressure on me to finish EXTREMELY WELL WITH A SUPER HIGH GPA within the next two months in all my classes, it is expected of me, especially from the graduate office because they expect the candidates that they chose to be great students, do you blame them? I am in the middle of having senioritious...I can't spell that word but it's there! Perhaps it's because it's the first day back from spring break and I am just really nervous to do great and not let anyone down. Either way I WILL do really well because that is the goal I have set myself for the next two months, even if that means losing a ton of sleep and barely get to go out, but sacrifice pays off! right?


Oh by the way..I really want to buy a cape..that will be what I shall do every time I have a big accomplishment is run through the park with my cape like a superhero. Which means I must do that this week to celebrate my acceptance to grad school! Care to join me Jimmy? =)

Or will it be an evil cape!? To activate your cape feel free to run!

Books and Travel!

I decided that I want to travel as much as I can this summer and even now, even if it's just away to Boston this weekend, I want to take advantage to get away as much as I can, you are only young once and live once! Among these ideas, I have been reading some great books about it, here's some of them! They are great travel writings!

Taking Care of Yourself

My schedule has sadly been so busy where I have not been able to blog as often, but this needs to change. I am going to force myself to blog daily, even if it's just five minutes a day. The good thing about blogging for me is that it allows me to write, which I enjoy and get my thoughts all out. This particular blog is about taking care of myself and being overall healthy, not just physically but also mentally.

Here are a few things that have come to mind:

1. I need to exercise so much more often. I always tell myself I'm going to work out but I never seem to find the time (excuse I know) or I am just not "in the mood" to. After going to the doctors today for my yearly physical, I realized I NEED to exercise regularly now due to what my doctor told me I have. I have been having constant knee and leg pain for awhile now, I just never knew why. Apparently I have a loose knee cap, but I also have patellofemoral syndrome (anterior knee pain) which is very common in females. Squats and quad workouts will help, but now I have to do physical therapy, also for my neck pain that has not gone away =( Either way, I think this is a good wake up call for me to get into a good exercise routine weekly, which will def contribute to me feeling healthier mentally and physically!

2. Eating better! I try to eat healthy when I can, but that is not always enough. With my crazy school schedule, I need to be consistently eating healthy. What I plan to do is shop weekly for healthy foods that way I can have the food and snacks with me throughout the day and not go and spend money on unhealthy fast food or stuff that is not going to make me feel well. It also made me very excited for spring and summer when I can start my vegetable garden again, especially growing tomatoes! I think I will do some shopping at Trader Joe's tomorrow. Any suggestions for what I should buy or make with the food I buy?!

3. Happy mentally. I need to make sure I make time to always see my friends and spend time with my family. I have been realizing that the more we run ourselves into the ground, the worse our mental state can get. I have been trying to take breaks from my crazy schedule whether it is just reading, seeing friends, or taking a few minutes to clear my head. If I can continue to do this, I believe it will make me be able to handle stress better and be happier all around. Any ideas for what I should do to stay mentally happy and healthy?!

Hope you enjoyed this blog (Jimmy =) and whoever else reads it!

National Bubble Bath Day?

So I guess today is National Bubble Bath Day?! Had no idea this even existed, but I am not complaining. I love taking baths after a long hard day, but to make it a holiday? I will definitely take that! I have been running around like crazy today with work and school so this will be something I look forward to later! Best thing about it will be to light some candles and relax with some good music after this long day =) Here are some awesome products that I love, and they are animal free and all organic!!!!

Lush always has these amazing bath bombs, they are my favorite! They have so many different kinds and scents!

LOVE LOVE LOVE!

Candles make a bath even more amazing! Some of my favorites are from Bath and Body Works, like this one Yum! Last but not least, this is one of my favorite bubble baths, anything with lavender in it! =)

What a good holiday this is!

LOCKOUT IS OVER!

So I have been waiting awhile for this!! Before the last few days, we were very close to the nhl lockout being over, but it was just a cruel tease. Jimmy I know if you read this you will not be excited or really care about this blog post but I am super excited about this and had to blog about it! Its almost as exciting when we stood first in line and got Milan Luch's autograph and met him, thanks again for doing that! Jimmy is a real friend because he hates hockey and still stood in lane with me to get an autograph from the Bruins hockey player with me =)

I have decided that I will be investing a lot of time and money this season into going to the Bruins games!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Some people may think this is a stupid idea but if it makes me happy I don't care, which the Bruins def do make me happy!

The old schedule is up (the one before the lockout) and I got all excited and bought tickets to one of the games but then refunded it because the official new schedule is not up yet, the season should start January 15th or 19th..either way I want tickets to the Canadian game especially! We will see, I will probably blog about it when the official schedule goes up but until then I had to just blog about my excitement of the lockout being over because it's been SO long!

I will make sure that my next blog though is not hockey related because it is not that interesting to most, especially Jimmy who is the only one who reads my blog I think ;)

Christmas is Ahead of Me!

Ahh I've been trying to ignore the whole idea of Christmas for the last few weeks now, not even thinking about what I will do for it, what I will get other people for gifts, etc. I thought that plan was working great until it hit me today...Christmas is already ahead of me, I need to actually get on top of this!

I've been so busy with school work and finals coming up that I have not thought about the Holidays at all. When it snowed yesterday, I loved the feeling and it made me think of Christmas! Then this morning I was thinking of all the people who are getting me gifts and how I need to make sure I go shopping for them soon, the tree isn't even up yet!! 

It is still somewhat early in December but I know the time will fly if I don't start doing anything now because then it will creep up on me and I will only have time to do all of my things Dec 23rd! 

Tomorrow I will be thinking of a time this week to set up the tree, maybe tuesday?! I will also need to start going to the stores this week for xmas gifts and to start brainstorming, and I need to make a list of all the gifts I need to get everyone! ;) Ah there is so much to do! Hopefully once school slows down I will be able to be more on top of this but school never slows down!

Hopefully tomorrow I will have a few things accomplished christmas related like maybe having a list of things I need to do! We will see how much time I have tomorrow...


Thought I would also share this photo because Bear seems to have all the time in the world these days! ;)

And thought I would share this other picture of what I've been doing all day besides schoolwork, drinking tea out of my new favorite starbucks cup, love me some mermaids! :D