2014 Blogmas (Day 5): The Parental Gifts

Today was a simple day where my parents and I went to the store and bought clothes. In other words I got my Christmas presents. I only asked for shirts this year because I don't have as many comfortable shirts as I'd like. I just wanted basic shirts that I know I would wear. If you were here last year I posted the clothes I got for Christmas from my parents and one of the tops was a baseball style shirt with skulls on it (the skulls faded after the first wash); it is one of my favorite shirts in my closet and I wear it often, in fact I'm wearing it today unfortunately it now has two small holes in it, so I decided to get a few more shirts like it since I know I'll actually wear them. 

Here is what I'm wearing today and how the shirt (and similar shirts) look on...

Sorry for the bad picture (and funny face), but I had to stand on my bed to take a full body picture since it's dark outside and I didn't want to alarm my neighbors. Anyways that's how the shirts might look I will try to take a picture of them on once I actually wear them.

Here are the five shirts I bought...

Can you see a pattern? My favorite colors to wear are gray, black, and white. I have a pair of maroon sneakers so I decided to buy a few shirts that could finally match them. Here are the shirts similar to the one I love to wear...

And then I bought two basic shirts that I know I will wear all the time as well...

This last shirt is a thermal type shirt which I haven't had in a while and have actually wanted for a while since they are so comfy especially during this time of year when it rains. Here is a close up of the shirt...

It's not thick enough to make me feel hot right away, but I don't like thick material anyways. It's the perfect shirt to lounge around in if you have a cold house like me.

I love simple clothing since I actually wear them out especially if they are comfy. That's my style: simple & comfy. What's your style like?

2014 Blogmas: Freedom (Day 4)

Today was my last day as an undergraduate! Possibly my last day ever in school. So to celebrate I made a little video which for some reason I can't upload so I'll try to link it here...

http://friendlvr.tumblr.com/post/104364871716

I actually had a good experience in college, but I'm just glad to have finished. Now I can start the next chapter in my life which hopefully includes a career and a license (I'm the last one in my house who needs to learn how to drive). I'm going to start looking for a job next year just because I'm going to Mexico in two weeks so there's no point in starting something now. So this is going to be a break in between. 

I know I wrote a similar post yesterday, but I'm just excited about ending my schooling (for now). Tomorrow I will continue with blogmas with hopefully a fun post that doesn't contain school talk. 

See you then!

2014 Blogmas: Ending (Day 3)

I'm about to sit down and watch my Wednesday shows so I'll try to make this a quick one. I didn't really do anything today except watch a movie and two TV shows I missed yesterday. I got out of school after 8pm since it was our last day in that class meaning no final. So that class was basically a waste of time with hopefully a guaranteed A. I say that because he never collected any work from us so there is no way my professor will be able to grade us on anything other than our attendance. So since I had "perfect attendance" that means A, right?

So tomorrow is my last day of school EVER (for me)! So excited and nervous because now I have to go out and look for a job/career for the first time in my life. Hopefully, I find something and it leads me to doing something I love and do for the rest of my life...

2014 Blogmas: Rainy School Day

I woke up to a rainy day which meant layers… 

I'm wearing a long sleeve gray shirt, a long purple Mossimo sweater, and my "anorak" jacket on top, as well as a homemade scarf.

I usually wear my black leggings to school because I'm here all day and I want to be comfortable and of course my old ripped up converse (for the same reason I wear my leggings). I'm all about comfort.

I have a long break between classes so I went out into the rain for a bit to look for a place to edit a video, but all the labs were closed so I decided to wait for the actual lab I was going to use which opened at 2:15pm. So for an entire hour I got to sit down and watch YouTube videos which is so fun since almost everyone that I am subscribed to is doing vlogmas, which makes me even more excited for Christmas. Once it turned 2pm I trekked up the hill that is next to the campus and has the building for my major, my anorak is great for the rain I only got a little wet. 

I was the first one in the lab which looks a little something like this...

I finally finished editing at 5pm and am currently writing this blog post while I wait for it to turn 6:10pm which is when my class starts (luckily I don't have to go anywhere because my class is in this exact room). Hopefully, I get out early today because I watch two things on Tuesdays, The Flash and Supernatural. Usually my professor lets us out at around 8pm even though the class is actually supposed to end at 10pm. This is the last week before finals so I don't know if he'll let us out at the usual time.

Anyways that's all I did today, yesterday was my day off from school so I went to the library and bought two books which I will do a video on my YouTube channel sometime next weekend. It'll be my December Book Haul, there is going to be a rummage sale at my local library next Friday so I'm holding off until then.
Tomorrow is also my day off and I plan on resting since it will also be raining tomorrow as well as studying for a quiz I have this Thursday (hopefully my last day of school). I say hopefully because the class I am waiting for might meet next Tuesday for the final, but I'm not really sure because the professor hasn't confirmed anything.

Anyways this is getting long so I will see you all again tomorrow for Day 3 of Blogmas.

2014 Blogmas: DSi Lite

Welcome all to this year's blogmas!

This weekend was Black Friday weekend meaning lots of "deals" and lots of crowds. As usual my family and I didn't plan on leaving the house except for the usual meals, groceries, and church. My brother on the other hand decided to go to GameStop since he recently bought himself a refurbished DSi XL and he was going to use a "coupon" he has to buy two games and get one free. Once we entered the *shocker* abandoned GameStop and got handed the weekly specials we realized that for the entire Black Friday Weekend they would have a buy two get one free game deal. So of course my brother saved the coupon he already has and doesn't expire until the end of January 2015 and bought 3 games. Once we got home we looked through the rest of the specials and saw that the DSi Lite (one of the first ever DSi systems) was on special as well and if we bought one we would get a free case which also came with 3 extra stylists, 3 cases which are used to store games, a car charger, earphones, and screen protectors. My brother wanted me to have a DSi as well because he wants me to go over to his house more often in order to have "game nights" or game days on weekends. Also, when my nephews come over I'm sort of the odd one out since they all have a DSi. They like to connect all their DSi together and compete against each other which I could only do if I borrowed my sister's DSi. 

If you didn't figure it out by now, then YES my brother did buy me a DSi Lite this past Saturday. And YES we are guilty of having gone to four nearby GameStops and buying 3 games at each one. My brother is technically just sharing all the games he bought, but I'm fine with that since the only games I actually want to play all have two or more files in which we can each save our game. 

So without further a dew here is my DSi Lite... (I only had a few color options so I chose red on black)....

This of course is my first Christmas present this year and if you are new to my blog then you should know that my family does things a bit differently. We aren't home during Christmas so we usually go out and buy presents and use them right away. We used to be "traditional" and wrap them and place them under a tree and open them Cristmas Day, but a little more than 6 years ago we started traveling to Mexico during Christmas in order to spend time with the rest of our family and started our current Christmas tradition. 

Let me know in the comments:

What is on your Christmas wish list? What are your Christmas traditions like? And/or what are some good DSi games?

Halloween, Thanksgiving, & Blogmas

I though I would share what I did these past two holidays and what I will be doing leading up to Christmas. 

HALLOWEEN

I actually vlogged during the entire week of Halloween (which you can watch on my YouTube channel: COWmabelVACA), but here are three costumes I did just for fun.

A Doll

My sister came over with her makeup kit and a bunch of contact lenses. I got to use a pair of blue contacts and I loved how they made my eyes look. My natural eye color mixed with the blue which made them look like a green hazel shade. 

We then decided to mess around with the makeup and here is what happened...

Emily (The Corpse Bride)

During that same week I decided to watch a few Tim Burton films, which led me to my recreation of The Corpse Bride using regular makeup.

I didn't go all out and do her eyes because I just wanted to see if the blue would work and if I would have enough. I didn't dress like her for Halloween since I don't have a wedding dress lying around or a white dress for that matter.

For the actual day of Halloween I decided to go for a Harry Potter character since I will finish the entire series for the first time this year. So I went with...

Bellatrix Lestrange

I even did her tattoos, and later realized that I had drawn one on backwards (thanks mirrors).

To see the full video of my Halloween Week go over to my YouTube channel where I vlogged it along with a few other weekly vlogs. 

THANKSGIVING

The day before Thanksgiving my sister and I went to more than five stores in order to buy the ingredients for our meal. We don't have a working oven so instead of making an entire turkey we decided to make turkey legs. I took on the task of grilling them which took a long time because I had to keep turning them every 8 minutes and adding the BBQ sauce. In the end they were so good, yet so big that one leg was way more than enough for each person. I didn't even finish mine.

The meal was so good and I was so hungry by that time that I forgot to take a picture of my plate. Other than turkey legs my sister made a Crockpot Ham, Potato Broccoli Casserole, Stuffing, and Pie. This week was so fun especially because my nephews slept over almost all week since they didn't have to go to school. 

We played board games, we played pretend, we played with their DSi and my brother's Playstation 3 and we just had loads of fun. We also played Heads Up last night with my older siblings which was just hilarious. 

Blogmas 

Last year I did Blogmas here instead of Vlogmas on YouTube and I decided to do it again since I had so much fun last year and I haven't had a good opportunity to write on my blog for such a long time until now. I won't be able to blog up until Christmas Day just like last year because we will be going to Mexico yet again, but I will be blogging everyday up until the day we leave. I will let you know what day that is once it's confirmed, but for now I'm excited to do it come Monday. 

See you for Blogmas Day 1!

24hr Read-a-thon 2014

This Saturday, October 18, 2014 I will be taking part in the 24hr read-a-thon hosted by 24hourreadathon.com and I wanted to let everyone know about it since today is the last day to sign up for it. I signed up to it this past weekend and talked about it in my recent vlog, but I wanted to write a bit more about it here. My goal is to read three books, one of which I already started. I am a slow reader and Saturdays are usually spent with family so I'm suspecting to only finish one-two books. Here are the books I plan on reading...

I started reading the Harry Potter series while I was on vacation and I didn't get to finish reading them since I went to Mexico for the last few weeks. I want to finish reading this book so that once I go on vacation again I can take my time on the last book. I am currently reading this so that I won't be rushing myself on Saturday and I can actually enjoy it while everyone is working and not making any noise. 

I read the first book from this series a while back and have wanted to read this book, but I tend to stop reading whilst in school. The first book was Anna Dressed in Blood. I decided to read it now because it's the closest to a horror (Halloween) related book which I am in the mood for. 

The last book I plan on reading is a novella from the House of Night series. I was waiting for my library to get this in since it barely came out a few months ago (July 29th to be exact). I want to read it before my vacation as well because the final book in the series came out yesterday (October 14th). So if they already had this one, my library will definitely have the other novel soon and I want to be ready to read it.

Those are the books I plan on reading make sure to follow me on Twitter where I will be updating throughout the day as to how much I have read and which books I actually finished.

To sign up and be a part of the read-a-thon go to: http://24hourreadathon.com/2014/09/17/october-2014-reader-sign-ups/