Back at School

Oh my gosh, it feels like we just jumped back into a semester. It seriously goes so fast, you have no idea. I was in ballet today, during piles and I just realized that I have a year left. 3 semesters including this one. That is crazy to think of. Especially because I remember my freshman year being in the same ballet class and wondering how I made it into this college class. Just so excited to spread my wings down here.



I don't know if you knew, but we're pretty cool here at PPU. The staff just loves having inside jokes, and having a good time.



So many of my friends went back to school the week before I had training. And I think that would be too early to go back, but at the same time, I really missed my friends over break. These pictures just prove that.



We're just so damn cute! I just loved having a jam packed weekend of fun with everyone. I got a little knitting done, and not a ton of sleep, but totally enjoyed myself.



This weekend was a great time and it barely feels like we started classes, but I do know we started. It's that delayed reaction of realizing, but totally the realization of the time that has passed. Besides all the nonsense of time, I am glad to be back on campus. I've got my Judy-Mom brownies in hand and ready to take the semester by storm.

I'll post pictures of my knitting in a little bit, the squirrel socks are almost done!

Until next time,

<3 Carly

Snowy Tuesday

Yeah yeah, I realize it is Wednesday, but yesterday was so fun. Look at the snow!!!



I get made fun of all the time from my friends that the snow is such a hassle I get asked, "are you happy?" and my answer is yes. I love this snow* it's gorgeous and so breath taking. Literally though, you know that feeling when you're going too fast down a hill when sled riding- it's so cold you can't breathe? It was that cold yesterday and it just makes me smile :D

Now another thing that makes me smile are these cookies my friend and I made yesterday.



The orange ones are GINGER mustaches, the turquoise ones are for MERMEN! Hahaha- and if you can see that white one with Xmas sprinkles on it, that's from Santa not cleaning off his mustache- hehehehe



Do you like my SALT 'N PEPPER STACHE!? Hahaha- these are so much fun.



Hope these were as enjoyable to witness as they were to make :)

<3 Carly

AH- almost forgot. My mother wants to show off the XMAS tree-



Enjoy the SNOW*

Long Break

I am so excited that it has finally snowed. And how fitting that it has snowed on the day of the Winter Classic (GO RANGERS!). I remember last year watching the Winter Classic, and then 2 years before that my senior year of high school with the Pens playing- oh my gosh, just a great start off to the year to watch a hockey game outdoors. Next time the Penguins are in that, I'm totally going! :)

Now the reason I am calling this post Long Break is because I just feel lonely. I love living on campus and being able to see anyone whenever I want and it just really sucks having really good friends live so far away. My bestest friend in the entire world lives in Michigan and although I could drive, she could drive, we both have worrying mothers that would kill us if we took the car and drove that far away.

This break has allowed me to get a lot of knitting done though, not going to lie. I have gotten 1 complete Squirrel sock done for Nicole :) .



Aren't they GORGEOUS!? I know they're a little big for her, but she tells me she'll love them just the same :)

Now onto my baking. I started out with my mom's favorite Coffee Toffee Bars- she hogged them and we ate them all here. Next I made some very Christmasy Sugar Cookies, with a little help from a tall lad ;-) . And tonight I have made my chocolate craving of brownies. I must admit that I homemade the first two, but brownies I just can't make from scratch. I can never get them with enough chocolate, or enough moisture in them.



I even got the box with extra chocolate bits in it! And I could not resist, I had to have the first ones with ice cream :)



I thought about making these a little mine by doctoring them a little but I would just ruin them, haha-

Now you all must be wondering how I got these LOVELY pictures with a broken camera, well my Aunt and Uncle got me a new one! Here's a great picture of us by the tree :)



And lastly, a beautiful picture of my baby. She had to have a little photo shoot with the new camera ;-)
By the way, the blanket that my beautiful baby is on is that blanket my mother has been working on since I was 17. She didn't run out of yarn, she didn't finish it properly. We held it up Christmas night, or the day after and realized that she has been dropping stitches and the blanket is getting skinny. . . It totally fits my bed and Pudge loves her new thrown- haha



Until next time-
<3 Carly

*BREAK!

Oh it's nice to be home and sleep in (and stay up late too ;-) ). I've already baked some coffee toffee bars. You all know what those look like. I've also been knitting away and finished Christmas gifts just in the nick of time. I'm working on my friend Nicole's socks now. They are toe up and are a little difficult at the heel part right now. But once I'm past that it will be smooth sailing.

Still no digital camera, so I will take pictures once I get to Best Buy and buy one. I so want to take a picture of my NEW beautiful YARN BOWL! I have a knitting bowl- it's so cool. It holds my yarn while I work on a project and I just love it. My mommy got it for me for Christmas and a matching mug :)

Now with a stupid little sore throat I had on Christmas, I have been drinking the tea away. Glad I got some nice flavors for while I am home :). Going to keep drinking that as I make some more baked goods. SUGAR COOKIES! I'm actually excited because I haven't made these before, at least not from scratch. I will be making my favorite though tomorrow night, the raspberry crumb cake, OMG YUM! Haha- stay tuned and hope to put up pictures soon!

<3 Carly

Procrastination

This is my favorite time to blog, or the time I most frequently blog.

It's finals week. I need to do my papers and study and I just don't want to. A person can only do so many all nighters and actually focus! Power naps are a different breed and when you are already running low on sleep, it just doesn't work.

Where is that easy button? Where did all the time go? Why are movies so addicting? Why are none of my usual tricks to get things done working? It's frustrating.

As I yawn, I go back to that work. I look forward to baking sweets and snuggling my cat over break. Oh yeah, and knitting :)

<3 Carly

November Break

Oh hey everyone. I love getting a full week off for Thanksgiving, but oh my gosh the amount of homework I have to catch up on. It's not even a break if I have that homework to get done. So I've been focusing on not focusing for the first few days, and now I really need to get my a$$ into gear and get this $hit done.

BUT what I did before hand is pretty sweet ;-)



I am a blondie again. I mean I have always considered myself a dirty blonde but now I'm pretty much a blondie. :) Haha, I like it =)

Well I'm distracting myself currently by my blog and laundry. I always try to focus when I'm doing laundry though. I find laundry relaxing. A lot of people hate to do laundry, but I so don't mind. I love it and having everything clean. Call me nuts, go ahead, but it's how I am ;-)

Maybe I'll squeeze some more knitting in between all my distractions and what not.

Have a great Thanksgiving!

<3 Carly

October

I feel so bad I don't blog as often as I'd love too. It's this damn thing called homework. There are so many chapters to read and things to site and read and site and read and read and oh my gosh thank goodness for classical music and score music or I'd just fall asleep the entire time.

I love reading, don't get me wrong. I've probably been over this before, I love to read, on my own. But when I'm forced to read (or highly encouraged) I just don't enjoy it as much. I also just want to knit lately. . . You get very addicted, and I'm sure all knitters can agree the "one more row" syndrome is hard to shake off. I just want to knit! I want to be able to write a paper and knit at the same time. I have so many projects I want to do for Christmas gifts but it's impossible with all this homework. I want breaks so that I can knit, but I'm being such a procrastinator that I'll probably have to use those breaks to focus on papers and homework/big final projects. It's so annoying to have to schedule time to knit, but thank goodness for the knitting club I created. I can knit with all my friends! It's very fun to share such a great hobby :)

Ok, I went shopping this weekend and got some beautiful yarn. Soon to be gorgeous projects.

Back to homework :-P

Be back soon I hope-

<3 Carly