Redecorating

Recently, I was inspired by one of my friends to redecorate and organize my room. I swear, that girl has the most organized bedroom...when it's clean. No, seriously. That girl has a knack for decorating. She cuts out letters from random pictures in magazines, uses household items to make into the cutest storage and makes all her wall-decors.


Basically, what I'm going to do is take everything out of its place, sort through it, and put it all back. But in a neat fashion...


So far, I've cleared the surface of my desk, dragged a huge CD/shelf holder up into my room [to be decorated] and piled crap stuff into shoe boxes...


What I plan to accomplish is:
-Making [probably buying] a magazine/paper storage for the random papers that take over my desk
-Decorating the shelf that I spent 10 minutes dragging upstairs into my room
-Putting something up on my now-blank walls
-Getting some neat storage boxes to put all the stuff I dumped into shoe boxes
-Going through my closet and donating the stuff I don't wear
-DECORATE

This is kind of what I'm shooting for...'cept imagine a whole room. Sure, it's unrealistic and I'll probably fail, but it's good to have a goal... Picture found on Google (:

New Glasses

So I'm convinced that I'm the only dork that freaks out and gets excited over new glasses.

Did I mention that I wear contacts? All the time. Until the wee hours of the night. Heck, there are so many countless nights as to which I've fallen asleep in my contacts...



Basically, to sum up all that unnecessary information above, I'm insanely excited about my new glasses that I'll most likely never wear.



And yes. I went there. I got hipster glasses.

The lighting's a bit wonky, and I'm a bit of a mess, but here I am, with my new glasses(:

College Visits

Oh, good gracious. Has it really been a week since I've last updated?



This week, I've worked, successfully finished one of my summer assignments, caught up with friends and gone shopping.


Yesterday, in particular, was a HUGE day. I went with my friend Megan, who I mention constantly on this blog, to visit a college campus and then go outlet mall shopping (:


You would think that would sound simple...


Unfortunately, college visiting and an over-excited cousin who had previously attended the school don't mix well. By that I mean, we spent hours 'oohing' and 'ahhing' over new buildings that had been built within the last ten years since my cousin had attended the school, told several sporadic stories about college life, and taking old short cuts that turned out to be excess zig-zagging across campus.

Not to say that it wasn't fun. Oh, no, it was fine. Except, y'know the rain. And the fact that a tiny campus took us so long to explore.


All kidding aside, the college was really nice, and I'm looking forward to visiting again... y'know, when it's not pouring down rain.


And no, after posting several pictures and personal facts about myself, I will not post the name of the college because I feel like it'll reveal my location...and you don't know how many creepers are out there on the internet O.o


After that, we ducked into the outlet malls, where Megan and I spent a good portion of our time buying cheaper-than-normal overly-priced clothes xD Seriously. I got a Ralph Lauren sweater for $20, and Megan walked away with several Calvin Klein button-ups for around $20 each. Oh, and we also got matching shoes. Cause we're best friends. And freaks. (;



Thus concluded my day...or... yesterday..? And in a few hours [when it's a decent time to be awake], I'll have to run out and buy food for my friend's surprise birthday party.

This is what Megan and I do. At 1-2AM. Hours before college visiting. Yeah. We' cool.

Hiking and Hectic Schedules

This week. Wow.

I feel like summer's just going by in a blur, and I'm just here for the ride.


This week, I spent Monday through Thursday in an SAT Prep class, which took up a good majority of my time.

I guess you could say the class was informing... However, teenagers, school and early mornings don't mix.  Waking up at 6:00 isn't pleasant, I'll tell you. It was amusing because the class was optional, and every day, there would be less and less people. My class ended with about 7 out of the 20-something we started with.


Then, I had a sleepover with my friend Kate, and it was nice catching up with her, considering that I don't get too see her as often as I'd like.

Today, I went hiking with Megan. It's a bit ironic, because I'm probably the worst person to take hiking. I'm more of a city person, and climbing through woods isn't my cup of tea.

Surprisingly, I really did enjoy myself. It was nice, and I spent a good portion of the time walking ahead the rest of the group, which I'm a bit proud of. ^_^







 This was my first time hiking, and I thought it was pretty fun. I definitely liked the uphill [I'm a freak] better than the downhill. Mostly because I had a tendency to slide/fall on the rocks and I felt like I had more control and balance going uphill. 

There were awesome waterfalls!

Everything was so pretty and green(:

Cave I found!

I found out today that apparently rocks and I don't mix. By that, I mean, every few seconds [mostly when I was going downhill] I would trip, slide or lose my balance on the rocks. And yes, I did fall. Three times. And I've got a battle wound on my knee to prove it, haha.

Awesome leaf I found

The hike was around 1.7 miles, and the journey up and down was 3.4/3.5




The top was the best part. The view was absolutely amazing, and I'm pretty sure we spent around 30 minutes sitting either by the water or looking out at the mountains.

Amazing view. Oh gosh, I look so tired, haha.

The water in the creek was so cold. It was nice(:

Megan chillin'

 











Overall, despite the multitude of falling and my minor flesh wound, I had an amazing time hiking. It's duly noted that I should bring a First Aid Kit the next time I go hiking.

New Orlean Pictures

Better late than never, eh?

I didn't take too many pictures of New Orleans, but I took a couple in the French Quarter.



I started off at the Garden District, which consists mainly of houses. The architecture was beautiful, and we saw a couple houses owned by famous people. 

Anne Rice lived here for a period of time.

Sandra Bullock's house(:

  I definitely thought the horse stall/holds were cute and quirky. They literally lined the streets.

Places where you could leave your horse[s]

From there, we took the street car to the French Quarter.

Jackson Square

The square was named after Andrew Jackson.

Fountain in Jackson Square

There were so many amazing pieces of artwork outside of Jackson Square. Local artists would sit and paint/draw and sell. Their customer base was pretty good also. 

Afterwards, we just kind of ventured around the French Quarter.

 There were some really cool architectural bits here. We also saw some musicians and whatnot.

Finally, we finished off the day [and trip] with beignets from Cafe Du Monte. Yum!

Thus, concluded my trip to New Orleans. (:

Trip Part 2: Beach

Psh, it didn't take me forever to blog about the second part of my trip...


In my defense, I have a really good reason!


I'm practically up to my neck in summer assignments and my SAT Prep class [that I feel like I'm wasting my summer with...] Nah, the class is fine... But really, who wants to do SAT work over the summer?



Anyways, the second part of my trip was pretty self explanatory.

I went to the beach.

Lookie! Isn't it pretty?

Wow. Shocker, right?

As you would imagine, I did all sorts of beachy stuff. Swam in the ocean, walked on the boardwalk, had a picnic lunch.


And this is the part where I was going to upload the pictures of New Orleans... unfortunately, I have summer homework from my summer SAT class...


Those pictures will be uploaded on another day if I ever get free time(:

Trip Part 1: New Orleans

Oh good gosh. I've never been so glad to be home before.

I'm going to break this post into two posts, because as one, it's going to be super long and nobody wants to read that. 


To say these couple days were a roller coaster is an understatement. Not to say I didn't enjoy myself visiting abroad -- I love traveling and seeing new places. It was more of the family aspect that threw me off. My aunt and I don't tend to see on the same page, per say. She still thinks I'm that three year old she used to babysit.



Moving on... because no one wants to hear teenage angst



New Orleans.

Three words things that come to mind?
-Amazing architecture. 
-Fun, jazzy vibe.
-Hot.

Seriously, I was burning up over there. The first day, after the end of my two tours, I felt like collapsing. It was a mixture of the heat and lack of water...

The two tours I went on were from the same company called "Free Tours By Foot" which basically means, they provide you with tour guides, and show you  a certain area, and then, at the end of the tour, you can choose whether or not to pay the tour guide.

Personally, I thought the tours were really good for "free", and yes, I did end up paying both my tour guides. I think I enjoyed the Garden District Tour more though, cause it was morning compared to my already over-heated self during the afternoon French Quarter Tour.



New Orleans was pretty nice; the Garden District was more like residential style houses [I got to see Sandra Bullock's and Nicolas Cage's houses!] and I absolutely loved the French Quarters, which was basically downtown.



I think the French Quarters had more history stuff that interested me. [New Orleans/French Quarter thrived off of piracy, and then later on, the Italian Mob took over, which,I thought was cool xD]


Of course, I also thrived off of the energy in the French Quarter. There was jazz music and restaurants everywhere. The trees were adorable. They were all decorated with Mardi Gras beads and such [which I learned from a friend later on, that they were left over from drunken partying, haha]


I got to try famous Cajun foods including Gumbo and Jambalaya, and I also got to go to Cafe Du Monte to try their beignets. (:


Overall, New Orleans was pretty fun [the people I stayed with told me to come back when I was 21, haha].


I'll add pictures tomorrow. I'm to lazy to upload the pictures from my camera.