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Winter Vacay

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It feels pretty good to have a break once in a while and being a student, you get used to the breaks. After a while, you are pretty much pre-programmed to expect the winter holiday, the spring break, and your summer vacation. I’ve got only three more weeks before I go back into the grueling school scheduling and I think it may be harder for my to stay social with others. I’m taking six classes this upcoming semester for Spring 2013 and it feels bittersweet. I want to start school already so I have something to do and I know I can get good grades, but I am also afraid of burning out and the possibility of getting anything less than an A. I know it’s unneeded pressure placed upon myself, but why aim for mediocre if you could give it your all?

I’ve been doing great lately and I hope you all have, too. I just moved my Christmas tree upstairs because my cats kept tearing it down and I needed a closed room with a door to keep the cats from swinging from it at night.Image

I think I like being the only house in the community that has a Christmas tree upstairs in the office. I realized that having the tree in the office with me, where I spend about 2/3 of my day, is quite comforting and therapeutic. All I have to do is look at the sparkly white tree and I’ll feel little bit more cheery than I did before. It may sound crazy, but try it. Or you could get a smaller tree while keeping the larger one downstairs to showcase. The smaller tree wouldn’t take up too much space and you still get a mood boost.

I can’t wait to post our family’s Christmas photos and open the presents, I’m usually not an incredibly festive person but it is a great way to close off the year. I’ll be blogging another post after this one today, a more formal how-to when it comes to being a motivated student.  Be on the look out for it and have a happy holiday, everyone!

IKEA Haul

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Update: I wrote this five days ago but I just realized I forgot to post it. Sad … :(

I’ve really been meaning to write more often but a lot has happened including a malfunctioning cell phone, over spending at Best Buy and IKEA, and I’ve been trying to study and stay on top of my schoolwork.

First off, I finished my first midterm and I only have my American history midterm left to tackle this Sunday. Wish me luck everyone! School has been hectic and I’ve been surviving. At first, I wondered why Facebook activity has been dead and slow at the moment and I realized that most people were probably going through the same thing, midterms.

I ended up going to IKEA a day later than what I mentioned in one of my earlier posts, but God, I missed the macaroni and cheese there! One thing about IKEA that I really like is the fact that you can virtually eat, shop for furniture, and buy groceries, all at one place! My family and I go to IKEA about once or twice a year and we call it the Annual IKEA Shopping Spree because we spends hundreds of dollars and run out of with cartloads of stuff. It’s very gratifying because you feel like you’ve ripped off the store with the amount of stuff you get for such low prices. Kind of like the old IKEA commercials:

Here is Peter and Jackson at IKEA:

We love to eat at Ikea!
Jackson drinking apple juice and enjoying his first kid’s meal at IKEA.

We got to IKEA at about 4 PM and left at closing, 9 PM. We had originally planned to get an L-shaped desk for Peter and a Besta Burs desk for me:

The IKEA Galant table (Left combination desk) for $245. Image courtesy of ikea.com
Besta Burs desk from IKEA for $269. Image courtesy of ikea.com

However, we ended up getting the Expedit Workstation in birch. The desk is $50 and the bookshelf/shelving unit is $69.99 for a total of $119.99.

The Expedit workstation in Birch for $119.99. Photo courtesy of ikea.com

We really liked the versatility of the shelving unit and that the desk was customizable whereas we could add shelf inserts and drill holes for our cables as well with the Signum package. Here are the drawers and shelf units we opted for:

Expedit Insert with Drawers in Black for $35. Photo courtesy of ikea.com
Expedit Shelf Insert in Black for $20. Photo courtesy of ikea.com

I’ll post photos of our office when we’re settled. Our house looks like a mess right now. We’ve gotten rid of our desks and are throwing out sofas left and right. We’re donating our old Christmas belongings and baby toys to the local Goodwill to give back to the community. I’m a big advocate of spring cleanings and I honestly find every reason and excuse to get rid of and buy new stuff for our home.

Oh well, looking forward to a new year! :D