here we go again

i think i'm getting in over my head with work. perhaps this is a way to make up for my declining academic motivation? last semester, i hardly worked at all. for rent and food, i relied on the check from my mom. while certainly sufficient, that routine left me with less spending money and nothing toward savings. (it also left me with excellent grades.) now that anna and i are trying to save for tickets for greece this summer, i want to be putting more towards savings. i also love my $4.65 drink at starbucks, which is unjustifiable without a paycheck that can be used -- in part -- for frivolity. so the fact that i've taken on more hours at work isn't just to cover up my insecurities about this semester's academics. it is partly that, though, i guess.

tonight's shift was with a little girl named Abby. adorable until it was time for bed, and then less adorable but not too bad. we played an elaborate game involving an ariel umbrella, tinkerbell beanbag, beanie baby bear, and some pillows. we also watched the new tinkerbell movie, and i have to say -- not too bad! while tink's everyday wear hasn't improved from her peter pan costume...

then: ...and now:

...she does have an interesting new outfit that she wears on her solo adventure (for which she abandons her boyfriend):

anyway, i found the movie to be pretty damn cute (though my expectations were low -- was imagining something along the lines of the 3D animated barbie movies that started coming out in the early 2000s). also, they took her name "Tinker" and made her an actual tinker, one who builds machines a la Belle's father, Maurice. she's quite the renaissance man fairy.

academic negligence...

what is up with me missing so much class this semester? have i gotten cocky, thinking i can keep my grades up missing class once or twice a week? this is not good. i really need to do well this semester -- i don't know what's gotten into me. this morning i had to have anna drop me off at class because i woke up at exactly 10:00 (when class starts), so i was ten minutes late for a 50-minute class. maybe while i'm doing the 2 weeks of sobriety, i should do 2 weeks of not missing class, too.

kittenz

also, here's a video we took of Kitten last night:


proof that she is satan.

a break

it's time to take a break from alcohol and mcdonald's. it's not like i've been drinking all that much; it just feels like time to remove that variable from my life for a little while and focus on important things. as far as mcdonald's goes -- well, first of all, i feel a little guilty about the health factor. more importantly, though, if i'm getting fast food often, it means that i'm not making time to sit down and have real meals. quality time with myself and/or others to eat and enjoy the food is good for me, and i know the consequences of not doing it.