so i've been sitting here since i got let out of my internship early this morning at around 10am.  its now 12:40 and i have yet to pack even a single sock for the road trip home tonight. 

i am so excited.

home.  ahh.  mom! lynn! couch! 

i am still sick and so is brian.  its getting gross with all of our snot rags and our cough drop wrappers lying around for mara to pick up and carry to a corner to play with.  and i am so medicated on sore throat/cough syrup that it makes me want to vom.

the only good thing out of all of this is chewable vitamin C tablets.  Ohh, the ones that taste like oranges.  they have given me such a nostaglic feeling of when i was a kid and my nana or my mother would insist i take them and i would willingly do it because they tasted so.damn.good.    (i still love them.)

i ate nearly a half a bag of tostitos and salso con queso. yum. that was lunch but im thinking ramen is in order.  how terrible is it that even though i have money and can afford food, i still choose ramen.  i think i will always be a ramen child, it never gets old.

i am in love with the wicker park soundtrack.  so in love.  its the only cd i have bought in years.  i watched the movie and for some reason was so in love with it and the music, rightly so.  so i bought the dvd and then bought the soundtrack and they are the best two purchases ive made on e-bay yet. =)

this e-bay thing is so addicting.  i need to stop.  actually i have slowed things down a bit.  ive sold more than ive bought in the past two weeks which is a good sign.  but on days like these, when i get out of my internship early, i come home and begin my long hours of e-bay searching until i find that perfect jacket or sweater or jewerly box.

my name is andrea and i'm an e-bayaholic.

-A  

these are all the states i've visited. 21%.  that's not nearly enough.  i need to head to the west coast sometime soon.

I'm Sick.

And I gave it to Brian.  Ooops.  Now we're both sick.  We went to the bar last night for some drinks with a few friends and I think it was a bad idea . . . just made us worse.  We both woke up around 5am this morning and were awake and talking.  It was very odd. Then after falling back asleep I woke up again around 7.  Then again around 8:30 --> an hour after we were supposed to get up.  Yeah, so today started out less than wonderful and my throat still hurts so that can't mean anything good.

AND i'm trying my very hardest to ignore all of my homework that's due in Family Comm tomorrow.  I've been sitting at the computer for so long, hoping something will come into my mind to take me away from this stupid annotated bibliography.

Shoot Me.

-A

Well, I am back from Chicago

This is a picture from my sisters balcony.  It's not even the REALLY beautiful part of chicago but it is pretty at night nonetheless.  It was an amazing city to go visit and I am so excited to move there.

I got put on a waiting list for an apartment that is uber close to the city.  It's a $1000/mo apartment but I will get it for a student discount which is just fantastic.  I am really excited to move into an apartment that brian and i can call our own ... with our kitty mara of course.

I learned how to take the L (ie subway, train, EL) by myself which is exciting.  I took it to my school where I got a tour and went shopping downtown later on when my sister met up with me after she got out of work.  It's so crazy to be on a strip of downtown chicago and see prada, louis vittan, ralph lauren and all of these crazy expensive stores that I've really never been to before.  But the real exciting thing is that I am no longer a H&M virgin =)  It has become my new favorite store.

The trip out there was great, but it was so nice to finally come home to brian.  Alitza was supposed to pick me up at the train station at 4:30 am and as I was getting my bags from the baggage claim, i felt arms wrap around my waist.  It was brian.  He's so cute to surprise me even though he had to be up at 7:30 for work.  His eyes were all sleepy and I could tell he just rolled out of bed.  So adorable.

I came home to a bunch of surprises that he had done for me while i was away.  He made me this frame - he painted it and made it look rustic and then put a picture of himself in it that he had tinted a blueish color on a program he downloaded on my computer.  He also hung up this nyc painting that i had but never had the time to put up.  And he put up my ceiling circular light fixture that is just so great because i could never get it to stay.  He had made me origami flowers for our anniversary a couple of months ago and he put them on the wall around a mirror.  Just little things that he didn't have to do that makes him so friggin cute.

But, I am glad to be home with him and mara.  I missed them like crazy.  But, I think once we move to chicago, life will be even better.

I can't even imagine all that is in store for us.

-A 

it seems to have taken me awhile to update.  5 months and 2 days to be exact.  but i have been busy.

I AM . . .

• still with the love of my life (although i am not surprised)


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• currently living WITH the love of my life which has made my moodswings much less frequent and my love for him increase tremendously


• leaving for chicago tonight for spring break because i have been accepted into Roosevelt University's Integrated Marketing Communication graduate program, which i am extremly thrilled about


• doing well in my classes


• still in love with mara and have grown a new love for shadow


• (cats in case you can't tell :))


• working for the pitt news, the student run newspaper for the University of Pittsburgh


• interning at the IdeaMill, a local advertising firm


• addicted to e-bay shopping & selling


• learning things about myself that i never knew before


• content with my life. 

it seems that although my life has veered in the direction that i never expected it to and was reluctant to believe that it ever would, i have outdone myself.

i am happy.

and i must say, that is a new and improved concept from the beginning of my senior year.

this chicago trip is exciting.  brian couldn't get more than 2 days off or else he would be just as excited as me and we would be dancing the night away.  so it is my duty to travel there, one that i am more than willing to take under my wing.  a week filled with registration, campus tours and apartment shipping.  i am hoping all goes well and i will be even more excited when i get back.  we shall see . . .

-A