Ben's latest innovation

Everyone, I'd like to introduce a new trend that will soon be sweeping the nation. My boyfriend, Ben, is an innovator. My friend (and neighbor) Katie and I are fond of wearing our bathrobes around the house as an extra layer of warmth. Yesterday after getting dinner, Ben and I went to Walmart and ended up with a camouflage printed fleece bathrobe. It is glorious. Ben calls it his "camono", and the best thing about it according to him is that when it gets too hot he can just stick an arm out! Here's some action shots. Notice our two little pizza-making helpers in the second one : P 

On Saturday morning we got Dunkin Donuts and coffee and watched Matilda on Netflix. I haven't watched that movie in at least 8 years, and it was a fantastic morning (great movie too!).... Until we both got what we decided are donut hangovers- we both had headaches and weren't very hungry. I confess we did eat too many donuts...but the good news is we won't be wanting any more, probably ever!

 

Silver linings

I've been in biochemistry hell the last 24 hours, but it was my own fault. I hate biochem. so much I procrastinate by doing literally ANYTHING but studying. The class is online and there are no assignments, so I have to motivate myself to meet self-imposed deadlines. I had decided to take the exam today so that I can move on to unit 2 since I'm already behind. I watched the last two lectures Saturday, and on Sunday I didn't really get down to studying until I got home from Zumba around 8:30 pm...6 hours later I went to bed after analyzing all of my example tests. I studied after class this am for another 6 hours or so this afternoon and then went to take the exam...an essay test. It's hard enough to be able to recognize the names of enzymes and remember the steps of pathways enough to answer a multiple choice question, so essays are 100x worse. It wasn't my brightest idea...but I just wanted the stupid test over. The test didn't go very well, but as long as I beat out at least some of the people in my class I'll be fine grade-wise. I'm now officially braindead.

Silver linings of an otherwise crappy day:
1. I had the day off from work so it's like I got paid to study. Btw Happy Birthday George Washington!
2. I enjoyed pizza and a couple of episodes of Workaholics with my boyfriend.
3. I got the button attached onto my first knitting project- it's a pattern called calorimetry...it's sort of like a hat minus the top part so you can wear a ponytail with it! 

 

They think they're people!

I'm thinking at this point the photos 365 idea is probably a bust. It's a great idea, and I'll keep taking pictures...but chances are I'll only end up posting my favorites maybe once a week. Deal? : )

There's something really endearing about pets sleeping on pillows. I happened to catch both Charlie and Milo sleeping on them on the same day!

 

February already!?

It's only Feb. 5 and I'm already behind. Woot woot! 

Friday- no picture : ( I went to Oddfellows Burger Kitchen to celebrate my friend Courtney's birthday, so I really should have take a picture of that...but I didn't.

Saturday- Zumba master class in Des Moines with the super famous Zumba superstar Kass Martin! It was a blast, and I'm hoping she'll have another one when she comes back later this spring! This is some of the Ames Zumba crew that went!

 Sunday- Not much excitement to be had. I bummed around the house, did a (very) small amount of homework, and watched the end of the puppy bowl! You probably can't see it, but I'm wearing a snuggie that has dogs printed on it. : P 

Monday: This is Milo being SUPER helpful while I'm trying to print an article for class. 

Today: I went to my friend Anna's apartment tonight to work on our statistics project and it's driven me to drink. The project is soooo unnecessary. We literally aren't learning anything about stats, we're just being guinea pigs for this woman's graduate thesis. So yay for extra homework that takes longer than the other two assignments for the week combined -.-