a flowery, life update-y kind of post

well, it's been quite a while (okay, like a week and a half) since i've talked to you guys and it's been cr-a-zy moving across the country into my very own apartment and starting official graphic design-y classes which is quite thrilling for a young (?) girl/lady/person of 19. i'm still very much in my not-quite-girl-not-quite-woman but having my own apartment with my own set of pots and pans to share with a roommate is one step closer to womanhood. eh, if you can call it that.

so today's post won't feature a recipe. i know, i'm actually really bummed, but the culture shock of not having a well stocked kitchen threw me off (miss you, mom and dad) so i haven't done any recipe testing...or anything close to cooking what i usually do at home. i didn't realize that $70 worth of groceries really didn't get you much besides a 5 pound bag of rice, celery, panko, chicken breasts (6), erm, zucchini, canned fruit and veggies, and whole wheat angel hair. so, this little bit helped me appreciate my parents a looooot more and motivated me to get a membership card to my local grocery store. and lugging 4 bags of groceries is NOT a good idea to do when you're crossing a major street and 3 of the bags decide to break when you're dashing across the crosswalk. 

meanwhile, i've started my classes, which are surprisingly (not really), very work-intensive in and out of class. 2,000 photos taken by wednesday? yep, you bet. 3 critiques by the 2nd week of school? hah, done. crying after seeing your receipt when you hit the nearby art supply store (plus, i even used two discount cards, and half of the things were already on sale). guilty. they were little tears though.

today was my third official day of classes and after consoling myself during a coffee break with half a blueberry scone and a small hot chocolate (coffee wimp, woe is me), and eating the rest of the scone with a mug of warm tea after a crazy day, i got some alone time to just relax and calm down. i'm going to admit to you that i freak out a lot when it comes to stress and the impending stress i know i will face head-on and so on and so forth...but sitting here, while juggling five things (drinking tea, eating the last of the scone, listening to an online lecture, taking notes, and...breathing) i feel pretty darn accomplished. really. i even posted a somewhat content status on facebook about it.

now that it's been twenty minutes since i posted that, i can't even remember what character i had in mine. definitely someone klutzy and scatter-brained like me. let me know if you know any book characters like that. but it's really good to have some meditation time (my version of that is blogging while doing a kajillion other things at the same moment) and appreciate everything. particularly my parents (yes, i'm still thankful!)

anyway, hopefully i can drag myself to the grocery store and get some more foodsy stuff so i can eat a well-rounded meal and then make something great to share with you guys! otherwise, expect to see a tutorial on how to master ramen or something sad like that.

hope everyone is well and please, enjoy good food for me.