drinking from a cup half-full

It's hard, sometimes, to keep a positive mindset about things. When you have to force yourself to wake up at 7am to take a one-hour bus ride to a one-hour session about the rest of your life (aka, information about teacher's college), it could leave one to just bury herself in her blankets, refusing to come out. Still, I tried to be a soopa trooper (as The Boy called me on the phone) and decided to go out to this Q&A session about the teacher's college I hope to go to next year. It's so hard for me to take steps forward in life -- but that's the only place to go: forward. I ended up learning lots, and although the application process is going to be uber hard, I'm going to try my best. That's all you can do, right? Try your best(est)?

So, to help myself be a cup-half-full kind of girl, I went to the university bookstore with my amazing friend and we got ourselves some necessities:

I got myself a mug with Shakespearean love quotes on it! There was also one there with Shakespearean insults, and on the web I've found a naughty Shakespeare pillow which had me laughing for hours on end. My obsession with Shakespeare started this summer with my course, and now continues with this mug that will inspire me with such quotes as, "O Spirit of Love, how quick and fresh art thou!" I also got myself an album to put in all the photos I've printed out, while my friend got herself a Thyme plant and a moleskine for her sketches. Altogether, successful purchases, I'd say!

And now I really have to go to the washroom but I'm in the secret lab for Multimedia and I happen to have lost my electronic key and instead rely on sneaking in with other people and can't bear to leave my stuff here and hope to get in. BUT I REALLY HAVE TO PEE! ... errr, TMI Thursday? LOL. I promise I'll have a better story next week.

Then this weekend, me and The Boy are planning to go to the local Halloween costume rental store to find our perfect duo look. Last year we were a school-girl and a school-nerd [I'll show pictures next post if you'd like!], and we've gotta top that this year. And ideas [besides salt & pepper, electric plug & socket, please]? Thanks in advance!

And thanks again to Diamonds In The Rough for having me on their amazing blog -- and hello, new readers! :)

Have a beautiful Thursday ... hope your weather is a lot better than the dreariness in my city! I'm off to catch up on my Google Reader ... unless my bladder explodes!