And Don't Forget to Hold Back Your Thoughts and Live Like Robots

'Cause we all know what goes on / Reminisce on the memories 'cause we're gone / We're gone / So gone (Jonas Brothers)

Things are a little stressful and people aren't all in the best of moods or mental states, but I think despite all the sad things and whatnot, I should try to keep strong. Sad things are only beautiful from a distance, but distancing myself isn't going to make them less sad. And I can't really get away from it either, but that's okay. Just like I can't get away from the wind and the constant bouts of drizzle rain, that beat at the windows at night and make the drapes billow and sends whistles through the halls. Yes. Time for miscellany!

 It's the start of December, and I figure I could join in the spirit of things and bring some winter cheer to these last few weeks of school with these earrings that my grandmother gave me. Inexpensive, but quite shiny and fun to wear. Haven't felt this much weight on my ears in a while!

When I went home for Thanksgiving I finally relocated this card to keep the SD card slot on my laptop clean and closed, hehe. It was in such an easy-to-access place, too! =_=;;

As you can see... My habit for overdoing things without thinking ahead got the better of me when I was borrowing things for my paper, hehe. ^^;;

Remember that hand-turkey-making day that I wrote about? I finally took the time to take pictures. Time being just before I started writing this post, haha.

Made from the various scrap papers left after our turkey endeavor. DISCO PARTY TURKEY, yeah, time to get down an funky after Thanksgiving is over, yeah!

Claire's awesome hand turkeys!

My mad chemist turkey lost a fing-I mean, feather. Lab accident. Reaction? "Caffiene!"

Our full door! (So far =D)

On one of the days this past weekend when we got home, we opened the box of Pillsberry Crescent things that we had bought from Costco on sale and used them to not only make normal crescents, but these tiny ham wraps, using the instructions on the box for the little pigs in blankets. Now I know how Grace's mom makes such wonderful food to snack on!

These aren't fully grown, but my mother opened up another package of those wonderful, colorful magic water growing balls. It's pretty amusing just to see them grow, and to swirl them around. Hehe.

We're heading into the week before finals, meaning major study week, aka turn into a robot and constantly feed myself information and to shut out distractions and turn off emotions and desires. If this is the way to success, so be it! Besides, I'd very much rather to problems repetitively than have to write papers and do research. Sigh.

Also, I forgot. I have recently taken to the Hitchhiker's Guide's "DON'T PANIC." It is up on my refrigerator and on my manila folder filled with miscellany. That shall be my chant for the rest of the semester. That and CALM DOWN. Yeah. Forget FOCUS. It is not a matter of focusing problems. It is PANICKING and thus doing things to relieve that panic that occasionally pulls me off track. Here's to not panicking and coming out of everything well. Good luck!