The Fall 2010 semester starts on Thursday at the University of Kansas which means that since the middle of last week and more recently this past weekend, the college students have been pouring in. You can tell the difference in town when everyone comes back from summer break because the traffic gets backed up and it takes you about 10-15 minutes to get across town. I don’t mind it as it is something I’ve gotten use too and I once was one of those college students too. It feels strange to not have to prepare for a new semester; the feeling is bittersweet. I was excited when I graduated in May and felt a sense of relief when I knew it was all over but at the same time, I was sad because as much as I didn’t want to go to class most of the time, I did enjoy it. I definitely didn’t light up a fuente cigars as I left that to my dad when he celebrated my graduation and I won’t light one up any time soon. Hopefully though these feelings won’t last long and I’ll be able to call myself a student once again when I enter graduate school. I am in the process of getting all my application materials in line and getting letters of recommendation. I have until February of 2011 to apply for the Master of Social Work program at KU and I would start in the Fall of 2011 if accepted. I am looking forward to the future in regards to my school situation and will be keeping my fingers crossed that it all works out. Until that time, I will be working full time and try to occupy my time with hobbies that I haven’t had much time for like photography!

Since last Sunday, we’ve been under an excessive heat warning with temperatures getting up to 100+ degrees with the heat index ranging from 110-120 degrees. Needless to say, it has been HOT and that’s an understatement. I’ve been keeping cool by staying inside and only going outside during work outs if needed, to walk to my car to go home and to take the dog out. Today, however, or at least right now the weather is awesome. The breeze is blowing and the skies are clear, it feels like fall weather but we’re not quite there yet. I am going to gather up Bella’s toys and treats and probably head to the dog park for a few hours and enjoy the weather. I really wanted to bring my SLR camera but when I pulled it out of the bag I noticed the batteries are dead! I may or may not get batteries before I go but Bella has been off the wall hyper as of lately that I may just skip it and head out to the park without the camera. I hope the nice weather continues because I’m personally tired of the heat.

I need a vacation. I want a vacation. I wouldn’t mind going to Hawaii. I lived there for 3.5 years when my dad was in the Marine Corp and it’d be cool to go back and visit all the places I use to go to as a kid. Unfortunately, neither Alan or I have the money to go to Hawaii let alone to South Carolina to visit family! We plan on going to the Bahamas next year in November (2011) because his dad and step-mom have a time share there and they told us all we had to do was pay for the plane ticket and bring extra cash for spending money. I really hope we get to go as I’ve never been to the Bahamas and I think it would be a great experience to go at least once. It would just be great to get away for awhile and be a tourist, buying custom travel mugs and enjoy the scenery versus going for x, y or z reason and not really getting to enjoy the surroundings!

It never seems to fail, no matter how hard I work I never have any money. I took a summer temporary job that pays $12/hour and gives me full time hours so that I could quit my part time $8.75/hour job after I graduated college. I have so many bills that I never have any left over money after I am done paying everything. No matter how hard I try to pay off everything, the bills NEVER seem to go away.

Just last week I had to go to the doctor because I kept feeling sick every time I ate. That doctor visit probably will cost me $60 plus the $24 prescription I got from Wal-Mart. I have no health insurance and no health savings account so when I do have to go to the doctor, it comes out of pocket. My job ends this coming Friday, I interviewed for another job last Wednesday and hopefully will find something out about it this coming week. But even so…I feel like I’ll still be broke. When and how will get I get out of this rut!

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This weekend has been a completely lazy weekend. I literally slept all day Saturday and Sunday. I don’t know what is wrong with me; maybe it’s because it’s the week before my period starts or maybe my exhaustion from work has finally caught up with me, either way it was both nice and bad. Nice, because I needed it and it felt good to just SLEEP! Bad, because I didn’t do anything else this weekend and I hate when I feel like I waste the day away by sleeping. Alan and I did get one thing done this past week. We signed a new lease for our apartment, well not THIS apartment we are currently in but a one bedroom within the same complex. My mom is planning on moving back to Kansas from South Carolina and when she does, my brother will move in with her so we weren’t going to pay almost $900/month for a two bedroom apartment when all we need is a one bedroom. Unfortunately, things haven’t gone as well as my mom had hoped in terms of getting out here in the next month or so and my brother couldn’t make up his mind as to whether he was going to stay in KS or move back to SC so the apartment complex put our apartment up as available and someone has already signed a lease for it. Oh well. I am excited about moving into the one bedroom; it was the model apartment so it is in great condition plus it has one wall painted. I actually want to decorate this time around; our current apartment doesn’t have ANYTHING on the walls…so it should be fun! I just need to start saving up some extra spending money so I can buy some really nice wall decor items and such. I’ll definitely be saving the money I get from fat burner reviews and other assignments. OH! And once, I pay off my furniture which hopefully won’t take too much longer, I plan on buying a nice SLR digital camera so I can start bringing pictures into my posts!

I was reading up on some Kardashian news earlier – I love that show, Keeping Up with the Kardashians – on the sisters websites when I saw a link for their PerfectSkin product. I decided to check it out considering I’ve suffered from acne for a long time now. The product looks exactly like ProActiv, which claims to be one of the best acne treatments ever, and comes in a three step system with each step having a different job. I looked through the site for PerfectSkin to see if it might be linked to ProActiv in some way and didn’t see any information about it, however, it this product seems geared more towards cleansing and repairing the skin versus being for acne. Also, the pictures on the testimonial page look completely fake. Have you ever heard of PerfectSkin, if so, have you tried it or know someone who has? What was your/their experience with it?