Finals day 3

This week kind of sucks. It's been constantly raining, I have no motivation to do any studying, and I have lots to do. Add on other personal stuff and it just makes me want to drop everything and go home. I had my mythology exam yesterday and it went alright. I still can't get Theseus and Perseus straight but what's done is done. Tomorrow will be the hardest day. We'll see how I get on with that.

I saw someone posted about the web series Dorm Life and it made me extremely sad. Maybe a week or two before I came to school my freshman year some guy (who I ended up being friends with) posted on our Class of 2014 Facebook wall about it and I spent that whole night watching them all. I was obsessed. It was so funny and it made me so excited to go to college. Watching it now makes me so unbelievably nostalgic. I've been saying how much I'm done with being here when all I want is to be that freshman about to start school here. I want to go back so badly and relive almost everything. There might be one or two things I'd do differently.

Almost four years ago today is when I found out I didn't get into my #1 pick school. Man that day sucked so much. I thought I'd never be happy at any other school (#dramaqueen) and boy was I wrong. I loved it here. I'm really happy I didn't get into that school. Yesterday I thought I couldn't be sadder than I was then and then I thought back to that day four years ago. I was miserable but look how I turned out! Everything was fine and everything will be fine.

It will be ok. I'll be ok. We'll all be ok. In less than a week I'll be on a beach. I just need to keep thinking that. This seems like a good place to end this weird rant post ramble-y thing.

Until tomorrow,

Caroline

p.s. The song Recover by Chvrches is kind of a good explanation of how I'm feeling at the moment.

spring brush cleaning

It's fitting that this post is about washing makeup brushes because it's been raining all day. April showers, eh? As a sort of therapeutic procrastination activity I decided to clean my brushes. I usually do this every 2 weeks or so. I used to have a nice little spot cleaner from Sephora that I used more frequently but that ran out about two weeks ago so now I'm stuck with this method, which isn't so bad because it is a thorougher way of getting all of the leftover makeup off of the brush. It just takes a little bit of time.

I saw Allison from Amarixe use baby shampoo to clean her brushes and I saw we had some laying around so I said, "why not!" It works really well! This was the video she uploaded:



She has a really great YouTube channel. So if you didn't watch the video here are the basic steps!

1. Find your dirty brushes! This is half the battle! Most of my brushes are Real Techniques. The black one is from elf and it is amazing (and $3!). The brush with the wooden handle is from EcoTools. It is really nice for bronzer. 

2. Get your soap/shampoo/brush cleanser. This bottle has lasted me forever.

3. This is probably the most important step. While wetting the brush you should angle it down so no water goes into the brush where the glue is holding the bristles into place. That would ruin the brush. The water should be warm, not scalding hot.  

5. Put a few drops of your cleanser in your hands and swirl your brush around in it. Then rinse the cleanser out with warm water again.

This isn't the most confusing brush cleaning method in the world but it does a great job at giving the brushes a nice deep clean. One of my favorite things in the whole world is having clean makeup brushes. Ah, it's the little things. 

The last thing you should note about any sort of brush cleansing method is the way in which you dry the brush. Like first wetting the brush you should dry your brushes angled downwards. This either means hanging them upside-down if you can or drying them on an angle. I usually dry them on a folded towel. It works well. 

I hope no one washes away in this rain!

Until tomorrow,

Caroline

I don't want to study

Finals day 1: I took my Italian exam today. I think I did alright. I know for a fact I got a few problems wrong but I'm not too worried. On the past 4 quizzes I got over 90% so they'll help balance out my grade if I totally bombed the exam.

I felt pretty crappy all day. I don't really know why. Well, I sort of do. I didn't really eat too much and then I left the library to get food and I ended up eating too much. I guess that's how things go. I have an exam tomorrow morning for my Mythology class but studying for that is the last thing I want to do right now. I procrastinated a bit but I'm going to have to do something now. I might edit my second English paper or finish my Roman study guide. Ha, I'm going to procrastinate even more by studying. That's not so bad, right?

Ok, I'm going to go try and do work. Wish me luck.

Here's a cute little art history poster to get everyone in the mood for my upcoming art history finals. 

Until tomorrow,

Caroline

FINALS

Tomorrow starts finals week. I begin the week with my Italian final. I am pretty positive I will do great on everything except the material we just learned recently. I will probably not do so well on that. Next I have my mythology exam Tuesday, which I will probably get a B on. Finally, my last two exams are both on Thursday. Joy. I have my Roman final at 3:30 (I think) and my Asian art final at 7 (I know). They are going to be very hard.

I've been studying all day/errand running/making food to write a great post so you're all stuck with this one. It's going to be a hectic week but I am still going to post everyday. Some might be at 11:45 at night and some might be more around the middle of the day but a post will be written!

My sister is currently constructing my graduation announcements and they look so cool. I got a little preview not too long ago and I am really excited to see the end results.

That's about it for today. More to come tomorrow. Maybe something kewl.

Until then,

Caroline

I did it!

Today I ran my final! I ran the half marathon! It was tough though. I had a pretty bad blister on my left big toe and it burst while I was running. I took off my shoe when I got home and it was gross. I won't go into more detail. Although this running has messed up my feet maybe for life it was definitely rewarding. I feel better about myself after running. I think most people feel better about themselves after exercising. Because, you know, exercising gives you endorphins, endorphins make you happy, and happy people just don't kill their husbands. As long as I keep running, I won't be killing anyone. 

I took a picture of my watch after we were done running. I ran with my running buddy from class. Thank goodness for her. She and I are actually running twins. Or soul mates. Or sole mates...ha ha see what I did there? We run at the same pace, we don't mind silence (I learned to not mind so much), and we both wanted to get Gatorade after we ran. I am so thankful I randomly asked her and another girl to run with them in the beginning of the semester because that worked out so nicely. 

Ugh, I love this watch. I have to return it on Tuesday.

I'm not going to give up running now. I might take it easier for a bit but I want to keep this going. Before 2015 I want to run another half marathon. Or I guess I want to run my first official half marathon. 

I hope you had a good day. 

Until tomorrow,

Caroline

  

I am sort of Twitter famous

When I say I am sort of Twitter famous I actually mean not really famous at all. I just like to pretend that I am, sort of. I like to watch the Nationals every night and I like to tweet about the games. Sometimes I like to tweet to players (sometimes they respond and it is SO COOL) and sometimes I like to tweet to player's beards. The other day Jayson Werth was being interviewed after he helped us win over the Angels (which, is a super cool thing that we were playing the Angels, I won't go into that now) and he told the reporter something like, "We'll be back again tomorrow night!" So I went over to the Twitter and tweeted something like, "'We'll be back again tomorrow night!' - Jayson Werth, I think he meant himself and @JWerthsBeard". Jayson Werth's beard retweeted it and not too long after I had around 8 favorites and 5 new followers. I was tickled! I never get more than 5 favorites! I was on my way to becoming Twitter famous. 

Oh look, there's my Twitter handle! And what I actually tweeted! If there was some way to just tweet about the Nationals for a living I would totally be after that job. I'm going to look into this. I hope if I keep up the tweeting during games I'll be retweeted more and then more people will see and then MASN will see and be impressed and offer me a job and I'll be happy forever. Wouldn't that be perfect?

Well it's Friday and you know what that means...

Likes:

1. Stay With Me - Sam Smith

2. Devil Goat Day! 

3. The Needle Drop reviews

Dislikes:

1. Blisters

2. End of classes

3. Having no food in the apartment

I guess I should get some food. ALSO tomorrow morning I am running my half-marathon final exam. I'm so nervous but my running buddy said she would run with me so I am feeling a little more confident about this. I'll probably write all about it tomorrow!

Until then,

Caroline 

the end isn't here...but it's near

Tomorrow is my last day of classes before finals start. I can't believe it. I've been going to college for 8 semesters. Tomorrow marks the end of my undergraduate career.

Tomorrow also marks my last Italian class. I think it was a really good idea to take a second language. I wish I signed up for Italian right after I finished Spanish but can't really do anything about it now. I guess I'll save up to take classes at NOVA or someplace. Rosetta Stone? Live in Italy? Bueller? Bueller? It really helps how close to Spanish it is but there are still so many differences. I really love learning languages. Eh, well, I wrote an English paper not too long ago where I had to try and figure out Hebrew and that didn't turn out so well. Man, that is a confusing language. Kudos if you can wrap your head around it. I think I'll stick with the romance languages.

Tomorrow also means I have to start studying for finals. Studying? More like stuDYING, right??? Ha. It's going to be tough, and I'm going to not get a lot of sleep, and I'm going to cry the whole time. I say that like it's bad but I know I'm going to miss it. It is a bleh time but it's also kind of a fun time. Everyone is in the library, there's lots of coffee, people like to ask you how your studying is going!!! You know you secretly love it too.

Ok, well I have to get back to Italian homework. My last homework assignment. Aw.

Until tomorrow,

Caroline