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Good Times + Good News

Hey! I hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving.

My family from New York arrived at my house around 2 a.m. on Wednesday, and they’re still here.. woo! We’ve all been hanging out at my house, traversing the Pittsburgh area, eating good food, and laughing a lot.

Thanksgiving food preparations began on Tuesday night, with my mom and I baking almond and pumpkin cookies. Wednesday morning, I made pumpkin pie and banana cream pie. My mom made an apple pie and my aunt made cheesecake. Dessert city!
The turkey was fully cooked around 2:30 p.m., and we ate around 3:00p .m.! We had turkey, sage-sausage stuffing, mashed potatoes, broccoli, corn, biscuits, coleslaw, and cranberry sauce. I thought it was very goofy, but we also had ketchup and sriracha at the table :p. Good food and a messy table. I swear my family isn’t usually that messy… we were just looking at Black Friday advertisements!

Me, Hannah, and Molly (one of our cousins). We didn’t plan on matching by wearing black t-shirts. Just a coincidence!

Mom + Dad looking all adorable and whatnot ❤

Everyone gathered in our tiny living room to watch my favorite football team (the Dallas Cowboys) lose.

My mom and aunt left to go shopping around 7 p.m. (crazy). Everyone else gathered around the fire.For a little while, it was just my dad and I sitting by the fire. I don’t get to talk to him one-on-one very often because he’s always busy with work. We were able to sit together and talk for about an hour, just me and him. I think that was my favorite part about Thanksgiving. I love my dad :).

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Also, I have some good news. My truck isn’t totaled and I might be getting it back sometime next week!

I learned the good news on Thanksgiving and I was very thankful! It was crazy to think that the crash happened on Halloween, and I finally heard back on Thanksgiving. I am so excited to get my baby back! Every time Pittsburgh had warm weather the past few weeks, I wanted to wash my truck, and then I would realize that I couldn’t. Now I can! But it’s supposed to snow this week. LOL.

I have more pictures to share, but I don’t want to make this post too long. I’m off to work, and then spending the day with my family because they leave tomorrow.

How was your Thanksgiving?

Schedule !

Hey everyone! Thanks for all of the support about my last minute college switch. Every comment made me smile 🙂

I figured I would show everyone my schedule of classes this semester!

My Monday and Wednesday’s basically stink. I have IST (a computer class), Economics, Microbiology, and News writing. 2 of the classes are an hour and 15 minutes and two of the classes are 50 minutes. Luckily I have a break so I can eat lunch!

Tuesday and Thursday’s will rock. I only have rhetoric for 1 hour and 15 minutes but I know it is a TOUGH course with a lot of work/reading.

On Friday’s I have IST and Economics again for 50 minutes each. Not too shabby!

My course load is going to be TOUGH this semester but I’m excited to get to work. I got a decent schedule for how late I had to schedule.

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Home Eats

Now that I am moved back home I have also been enjoying lavish non-dining hall eats…

Veggie + noodle soup

Yes, this picture looks gross but gross looking food is the best, right?! Berry pancakes with peanut butter and maple syrup. Hollie would be so proud of me eating my weight in pancakes 😉

Refried beans a la Susan (peppers & onions!!)

Pink Lady apple with pb and ssb to dip<3333

Jamie and I share a love for cereal in a coffee mug 🙂

Cereal + soy milk + coffee with cream 🙂

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Be on the lookout for my next post on the pro’s and con’s of college away and at home. 

Any tips for managing my difficult course load/schedule?!?!