Blogging Rut

If you’ve noticed, I haven’t been posting much recently.  Honestly, I’ve tried…really.  If you could see my drafts folder right now, you’ll see at least 4 posts that I’ve written a paragraph or so and then realized it was not that interesting after all.  There is nothing so exciting in my life that even warrants an entire blog post so I don’t bother.  Yep, I’m definitely in a blogging rut!

Honestly, not only is my blogging in a rut, but I am in a rut myself.  I blame it on lots of things like the dreary weather, my almost year-long unemployment, school, and having way too much time to think and analyze my life and everything in it (it happens every time I have free time!)  Anyway, I’m just feeling very blah lately and have had a few breakdowns here and there and am perfectly content just laying on the couch and watching TV.  I’m not sure what I need to do to get out of this yuckiness, but I need to do something fast because it is so draining!

It hasn’t been all bad though.  Since none of these lend themselves to an entire post, I’ll give you a quick “Highlights” run-down :)

• My beloved red necklace, the one you saw me wearing at Alex’s dad’s birthday here, has been missing since I got home from Christmas break.  The last I remembered having it was in Pasadena for the National Championship game.  When I unpacked and still couldn’t find it, I finally decided that I more than likely left it in Pasadena and it was long gone :(.  So I scoured the internet looking for a worthy replacement (I mean, I go to Alabama…I can’t NOT have a red necklace!) and finally found one that was of course not as good, but it would do.  Well, last week, I was cleaning out my black purse, the one I carry ALL the time, and I reached in the side pocket, and there was my necklace!! I was so excited!!!  I’m not sure how I missed it, because I thought I might have put it in my purse so I thought I had looked in there before, but apparently not.  I was so excited that I took a picture with my phone and sent a picture message to Alex…yeah, I’m a dork.

• I had an interview for a GA position on campus a couple of weeks ago.  I haven’t heard anything back so nothing to report there, but before the interview, I went shopping for some new suits (since my other suits are from like Freshman year!)  Anyway, I went to Belk and thankfully they had their suits all discounted.  I ended up getting over 600 dollars worth of suits for $150!! I was so excited!  The suits were around 90 – 100 dollars a piece and they had them marked down to like 20 dollars and below!  I’ll try to take a picture of them and share with you because they are cute (Here are two I took in the dressing room – excuse the lack of hair and make-up, it was a quick shopping trip!)

A navy and taupe tweed dress suit, a Chocolate 3 piece suit with polka dot tank.  Normally 80 and 95 dollars a piece – got them for 15 and 17!!

• They recently posted the program for the conference that I’m presenting in this summer.  It was so neat to see my name there!

Link

• I met with my advisor last week and I found out that I only have 9 more classes and about 4 semesters left before I start my dissertation!!!!!  This has definitely helped motivate me to go ahead and finish this thing up :)

This is my course planning sheet I created (I know, I’m a nerd!), and it looks like if I can write my dissertation in a year, I’ll be finished in summer 2012! :)

• I went and took a painting class this weekend.  It was a lot of fun and definitely kept my mind off other things.  I am not completely in love with the end result (I made the background a little too dark :( ), but it will do.

I guess that is all I have to report!! I’ve finished all my assignments for the week and am 2 classes away from Spring Break.  I might have an exciting trip planned at the end of the week, but I’ll update you on that later :)

Anyway, have a fabulous week and hopefully I’ll have more fun stuff to share soon!

Much love,

Maegan