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30th May 2009 @ 10:02

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"smiling's my favorite..."

28th May 2009 @ 19:40

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missing

27th May 2009 @ 1:42

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can one be too much of a guy's girl? (rhetorical question)

I love my girl friends, and I have a fair amount of close girl friends, but I feel like I hang out a lot with guys (at home at least). Guys (besides my really close girl friends) are just a lot more honest and won’t bullshit with you when you tell them a problem.

I remember when I was telling some friends about this guy I really like. It wasn’t much of a story, just that I’d know him for a bit but nothing had happened and whatever, and the first thing they said to me was, “does he even know you like him?” and I kind of described ways I had tried to show it, but I guess they were right. I didn’t really do anything to be like, “hey guess what? I’m interested.” One of them told me with the signals I was sending (or wasn’t) it was the kind he’d gotten from strictly platonic friends. So basically I suck at flirting. Ok, so that hurt a bit, but it was honest. It was a little better than talking to girls and thinking what I was doing might be working, which it clearly was not.

At home, my guy friends don’t take my bullshit. I like to make fun of people, it’s my way of showing them I love, but if I taking something too far to the point where they don’t want to hear anymore of what I’m saying, they tell me to stop. They bring back embarrassing things I’ve done and get me back. It is only fair. But I like that, and if they didn’t do it, I would have forgotten all the dumb crap I’ve done in front of them.

Also, guys won’t get mad about minor things or cockblock. They’ll let me have my fun, in moderation, and if I were to need some help, like say I drank too much, they’d help. They wouldn’t just leave me (like I’ve seen other girls do to their friends. not that my friends would EVER do this, but I’m saying other people). Also, guys are much better body guards. Just saying.

Another reason I love my guy friends is because we can go out and have fun and we know we’re just friends. I love just going out with no real plans but to look around. Tomorrow I’m meeting up with an old friend and I have no idea what I’m going to do in the city, but I know I’ll have fun. We always have fun catching up.

Someone told me about how if you think all girls are bitchy/problematic, the problem is usually yourself. See, I don’t think all girls are like that. I would never associate myself with people like that, but I do have girl friends. I just think guys can be easier to deal with sometimes and especially in the summer, you never want any drama. Plus they always know the good places to have fun.

27th May 2009 @ 0:53

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my birthday is in less than a month...

26th May 2009 @ 23:36

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money saving tips for college

My friend asked me to email these to her, so I figure if I’m going to write them down, I might as well share with everyone.

So here’s some tips on saving money at school (bullets because I am kind of lazy right now lol)

- Using chegg.com, amazon.com resellers, barnesandnoble.com resellers, bookbyte.com and half.com to buy or rent (only chegg.com) textbooks so you spend almost half as much as you would at a school bookstore for them. And for most of websites like these, you can also sell the same book back on the same website you bought it off. It saved me over $200 last semester on books.

- I also have a work study job with very flexible hours, so what I try to do is go right before and after classes, or in between classes, and try to work as many hours a week (max 20) to earn money. That way, it’s still time I’d have been awake but I’m earning something for it.

- Finding discounts on clothes online! I love shopping so I always let myself get stuff when it’s on sale if I have extra money. My favorite place to find coupons is retailmenot.com and they usually have most online stores. Just googling the store’s name and the word “coupon” finds you a lot of discounts. Recently, I bought 4 pairs of really good jeans for $68 which would never happen in a store. And for that buy, I also got $25 to spend at the same store when I spent more than $50 on another purchase. So technically, it’s like I only spent $43 on jeans. Another way to get discounts is so sign up for newsletters from my favorite stores online. It’s annoying sometimes to get that spam, but I just get it sent to an email account I don’t mind. But that’s how you find out about secret sales and great discounts.

- I never go to parties that require me paying. (hahahaha)

- I only go out for dinners for my good friends’ birthdays. Otherwise, we’ll sometimes order in, but I just use my meal plan/dining halls to eat. It’s already paid, so money I don’t use will just go to waste (back to BC), so I try to use as much as possible. The last two years I’ve only left a few cents on my meal plans.

- If I’m going home, I’ll book it incredibly in advance. I hate taking the bus unless I have to, so I fly home. So, I plan on booking my Thanksgiving and Christmas tickets during this summer. That way, they’re pretty cheap, about $40-50 each way. Also, if I do take the bus, I use boltbus.com or megabus.com and book in advance too so that they are cheaper than the usual $20.

- This isn’t really a tip, but I happen not to have a bank account that is on my campus, which actually works in my favor because that way I’m not always taking out money, because it’ll cost me $2.00. So I don’t buy useless things or spend my money on things that I don’t really need.

Hope this helped!

26th May 2009 @ 0:56

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I’m so bored I’m taking personality tests online.

I really think a psychology study should be done to people who take personality tests and how they act after the test, if they change or try to emulate what the test told them to do.

25th May 2009 @ 21:15

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everyone seems to like baked goods...