Vinissa Monique: January 2016

A Brain Dump

First Week Of Spring Semester 2016!

To ensure that I stay up to date with my blog I think I'm going to do weekly overview blog posts!
Since super exciting things have happened since last Saturday, I'm going for a Saturday-Friday kind of set up (weird, I know - but work with me here).

Eventually I'm going to want to do a standard Sunday-Saturday weekly post though!

So thank you guys so much for reading! xoxoxox.

Saturday, January 9th, 2016

So this day was THE most exciting day of this entire week, hands down.

I FINALLY GOT MY OWN CAR!!!!!!!!!!!! (insert heart eyes emoji here)

I bought a got the cutest brownish/greyish/beigish (yeah, that color) Mustang.

Ya girl is officially the proud owner and driver of a sports car, which still sounds so unreal.

I also spent this day buying a new radio and cute new accessories for my car, bc #obsessed.

Sunday, January 10th, 2016

My poor, sweet, dad spent the rest of Saturday installing my new car's system (we bought the car pretty early in the day on Saturday) and it STILL wasn't working by Sunday morning! So, he dragged me around to different car stores (the boring stuff) and then finally to best buy where we spoke to someone who knew what he was doing and he gave us the part we were missing and my dad finished it up! I chose a touch screen radio bc #fancy and it had a bluetooth option, an aux cord, and just looked really good in my car if we're being honest. (I made a big deal out of needed an aux cord and option but bluetooth is the biggest blessing and is basically the only setting my radio is ever on. 15/10 would recommend.)

Monday, January 11th, 2016

THE ACTUAL FIRST DAY OF SPRING SEMESTER!

I used to get so nervous about first days of school (and last semester I was a downright wreck over having to navigate a huge campus), but I felt sooooo excited and so at home this semester. I think I've gotten a really good hang on ASU Tempe's campus and I didn't have to look at my campus map not even once! On Monday's I have chemistry lab at 8:30 am (*tear tear*) and since I commute to campus I have quite a long drive so I had to leave around 7:00 am (which means I was up at 5:45 am :'(((((((). Most of my classes this semester, however, are only 50 minutes long so after lab I went straight to my lecture class and had a break from 11:20-1:30.

During my break I had to drop my beautiful, beautiful car back off at the dealer though to get an oil pan (or whatever) changed :( I drove the rest of the day in a Mazda which my sister loved but there's really no going back once you drive a sports car, tbh.

Tuesday, January 12th, 2016

I only have one class on TUES/THUR, so I'm done with my day around 10:15! I also don't have work until 6:00 pm most nights so I had a day to myself to hang out (since assignments aren't being posted yet/readings aren't due). TBH, I spent most of this day napping.

Wednesday, January 13th, 2016

Chemistry.

Biology.

Home.

A very uneventful day.

Thursday, January 14th, 2016

Again, napped this whole day through! I'm trying to hold onto winter break for as long as possible, clearly.

Friday, January 15th, 2016

I'm 100000000% percent sure that my future husband sat down right beside me in my chemistry class, so yeah.

And do you guys wanna know the first thing I said to him???????? Being the total jerk that I am????

Okay so, if you've ever been in a lecture hall it's basically like a million seats in a 10x10 room, so all the seats are so close together and walking toward the middle of the aisles is literally impossible (so I sit on the end seats) and there was a seat open next to me so he sat down.

BUT my backpack was in front of the seat next to me so it was out of the way, so when I see him going for the seat next to me I move it over BUT he ended up sitting down and stepping right onto my backpack strap :') so without thinking ya girl makes the best first impression possible and says, to her future husband, "um, you're kind of stepping on my backpack strap dude" LIKE WHO SAYS THAT TO THEIR FUTURE HUSBAND.

Me, I do.

ANYWAY, thank you all again so much for reading through this post - I can't promise that they'll get more interesting, but I guess you're just gonna have to stick around to find out, huh? ;)

xoxoxoxoxo, me.

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Survey

Looking Back On 2015 (A Survey)

1: What did you do in 2015 that you’d never done before?
- Transferred to a giant state university! Which snowballed to even more firsts.
2: Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
- Looking back on them, I didn't. I think I strayed so far away from what I had initially planned and it makes me so sad. But yes, I did make more for 2016!
3: Did anyone close to you give birth?
- My cousin(s)!
4: Did anyone close to you die?
- No, thank goodness.
5: What countries did you visit?
- None :(
6: What would you like to have in 2016 that you lacked in 2015?
- I think confidence, mostly.
7: What dates from 2015 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
- Faced with this question right now, none really. Haha. But I think May 30th was a good day.
8: What was your biggest achievement of the year?
- I graduated from community college!!!!!!! AND got accepted into 5 universities in the United Kingdom!
9: What was your biggest failure?
- Not actually attending a university over seas.
10: Did you suffer illness or injury?
- Nope.
11: What was the best thing you bought?
- I think this gold Macbook. Ugh, so pretty.
12: Whose behaviour merited celebration?
- Mine :)
13: Whose behaviour made you appalled?
- Mine :(
14: Where did most of your money go?
- Honestly, stationary. Panties. Random things.
15: What did you get really, really, really excited about?
- Oregon! And school.
16: What song will always remind you of 2015?
- SO many, but Classic Man by Jidenna for sure.
17:Compared to this time last year, are you: (a) happier or sadder? (b) thinner or fatter? (c) richer or poorer?
- sadder, thinner, poorer. UGH.
18: What do you wish you’d done more of?
- Everything.
19: What do you wish you’d done less of?
- Sitting around. Nothing.
20: How did you spend Christmas?
- Same as always, with my family at home.
21: Did you fall in love in 2015?
- Every single day.
22: What was your favourite TV program?
- I am actually so obsessed with so many different tv shows but the newest one would have to have been Scream Queens.
23: Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
- Nah.
24: What was the best book you read?
- I don't even think I read a single book in 2015 ;(
25: What was your greatest musical discovery?
- Bryson Tiller, TBH. Haha.
26: What did you want and get?
- To travel back home.
27: What did you want and not get?
- A lot of things, I guess.
28: What was your favourite film of this year?
- Furious 7!!!!!! (Of the films I saw in theaters)
29: What one thing made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
- School. My people. My person.
30: How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2015?
- Tacky, hahahahaha. (as I sit here wearing sandals with socks)
31: What kept you sane?
- Me.
32: Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
- I don't think I really fancied any public figure this past year, wow.
33: What political issue stirred you the most?
- SO MANY. 2015 was such a crazy year.
34: Who did you miss?
- :(
35: Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2015.
- When it comes to loving those who hurt you - love yourself more.
36: Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
- "You can be mean when you look this clean." (Still obsessed with this song, idc)

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College

Spring 2016 Semester Goals

1. Study, study, study: I've always been a real big studying nerd, but I think that my major issue with this first goal in previous semesters is that I am definitely, 100% one of those students who thinks that studying a day or two before an exam is going to cut it. It's not. It never does. And my first semester at a state university taught me this in the toughest way possible. So this is definitely goal number one because the key to getting good grades and understanding the material is to practice and study and go over lectures every day, as the semester goes on - don't torture yourself and commit to cramming and one nighters!!! Study daily!

2. Do not fall back into the habit of skipping class: I cannot even tell you how many classes I skipped this past semester. Coming from a small community college where professors took attendance extremely seriously to a giant state school with classes of over 200 students where the professors seriously could care less about whether or not your there can really mess you up! I skipped one class and it literally snowballed from there. I ended up skipping another, and then decided to skip lectures from other classes and by the end of the semester instead of looking for reasons to skip - I was looking for reasons to even go in the first place! Don't trap yourself into this!

3. Read ahead, but not too far ahead: I read so far ahead in all my classes that when I actually attended lectures I felt so bored because everything felt like a review. Read ahead so that you're not drowning in readings come exam weeks, but also don't read too far ahead that you're literally bored out of your mind come lecture time.

4. Ask for help: I have extremely bad anxiety in general, but when it comes to asking others for help I'm on the verge of a complete mental breakdown. I hate asking for help but I've learned, this past semester, that we all need it. Literally you can be in a class with complete brainiacs who are acing every test but the only reason they are acing these tests is because they. seek. help. They admit when they don't know what the heck is going on and they turn to others to help them.

5. Sit closer to the front of the lecture hall: Like I mentioned above, I have serious social anxiety. I am one of those kids who sits in the far back or in the outskirts of the classroom just so that I don't draw too much attention to myself or have to deal with awkward eye contact with the professor. But I also wear glasses and cannot live without subtitles (aka I am nearly deaf (not really, but really)) so sitting closer to the front where I can see and hear better is 100% necessary! (Also, studies show that students who sit closer to the front of the classroom get better grades and do better on exams. I'd source this information but #lazy).

And, that's it! I'm so stinking excited for this upcoming semester because I am taking some pretty cool classes! I will also be sure to update you guys when I find more/think of more keys to success (#LION) when it comes to college courses/university in general.

xo, me.

Spring 2016 Class Schedule

BIO 331 - Animal Behavior
BIO 340 - General Genetics
CHM 116 - Chemistry II
PHI 326 - Philosophy of Happiness
SOC 264 - Gender and Society

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MonthlyGoals

2016 New Year Goals & Resolutions

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LifeLately

Hello, 2016!

It's been awhile. I know that this blog has been a work-in-progress for the past THREE years now, and I know that it's my New Year's resolution e v e r y year to keep up with this - so this next sentence shouldn't surprise you...

In 2016 I will try to commit to this blog and update it as often as possible!

I feel like 2015 was just a big, fat blur that never really happened and I have a feeling that 2016 is going to follow closely in it's footsteps. I mean, c'mon - it is already 3:50 a.m. on Tuesday January 5th!

FIVE DAYS.

Five days into the new year but I already feel like it's been 2016 for ages.

I've also contemplated making separate blog posts of updates as to school, and life, and love and ya-da-da-da-da but then while brainstorming I realized that all is pretty quiet and boring... surprise, surprise.

However, there WILL be a separate post of this years New Year resolutions/goals/dreams so keep an eye out for that one ;)

Spring 2016 semester of my JUNIOR year also starts up in less. than. a. week. I'm trying to keep my cool but I seriously cannot believe that I'm already halfway through with my junior year and that this coming fall semester I will be a SENIOR! I seriously can't believe it especially because I feel like high-school was yesterday, haha.

I'm taking 17 credit hours again this spring semester so pray for this busy, busy bee!

I hope everyone has had fun, and safe New Year celebrations! Enjoy these random bullet points of what's going through my 4:00 a.m. brain! ;)

xo, me.

Brain Dump

first of all, can we talk about Target's dollar spot section right now?! I think that this is my all-time favorite dollar spot "line" (or whatever you want to call it) but then again, I think I say that every time.
i have been obsessing over foreign horror movies for the past few days/week and i don't think there's ever any going back to english-speaking/american ones! so good, seriously - you won't be able to sleep.
ALSO, i have also been obsessing over creepy short-stories that I come across on Tumblr. do yourself a favor and google "borrasca" and read through ALL FOUR PARTS of the reddit series. your mind will be absolutely blown and youll be thoroughly creeped out. do it.
for other short, creepy stories i'd also recommend looking up a user called "sixpenceee" on Tumblr and reading through the "story" tag. SO. MANY. GOOD. ONES.
I'd post the links to the stories but it's 4 a.m. and laziness doesn't sleep (me)
teen wolf comes back tomorrow......................
and PLL comes back next week......................
I'm real hyped about the above two bullet points.
I really have to do my laundry
Is anyone else really feeling this adele album like I am. like i don't even need to be sad or going through a break up to cry real big baby tears over her music
"All I Ask" - Adele.
Youtube the above song, grab a box of kleenex and a big bowl of ice cream and let it out, girl.

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Sweet n' Soft Survey

A Brain Dump

First Week Of Spring Semester 2016!

Looking Back On 2015 (A Survey)

Spring 2016 Semester Goals

2016 New Year Goals & Resolutions

Hello, 2016!

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