Marathon Monday!?

What a ridiculously awesome holiday. Thank you, Boston, for being so freakin' cool! I stood amongst literally thousands of drunk college kids screaming for people they didn't even know. It was awesome, like the Mardi Gras of Beantown!

These pictures are from during the huge crowds of slightly more than averagely awesome runners who weren't in the front or the back of the race. whatever. Unfortunately, it doesn't really show legitimately how many freaking people there were. SO MANY. and probably more police. 

GO BOSTON!

PS Sorry that I haven't posted in a month and a half. I'm a loser with school things to do. Also I rediscovered The Big Bang Theory, so I've been watching that since the beginning of season 3. 

Simmer Down, Y'all.

So. Snowstorms. Every week? More like super weak. Everyone needs to calm down about the snow. This is New England. It's not a big deal.
Personally, I'm getting pretty sick of people complaining about "how much snow!!" we're getting in Boston. 21" is not a lot of snow. My sophomore year in high school, my town got 186" of snow. For those of you who can't do math and/or don't have a calculator handy, that's 15.5 feet. That means your first floor is now just about as bright as a root cellar and the plows don't even bother. But you know what? People suck it up and go where they need to go.
So basically, when we're talking about 2 feet, it's like calling a bittersweet nonpareil a three-tier triple-chocolate cake of evil. Or complaining about a breeze to someone who lives in a freezer.
tl;dr: Calm down and quit pretending you're so busy all the time. Why do you walk so fast, anyway? You're not going to die, you're probably just going to get school off because Boston is super inefficient with snow removal. Or you might get stuck on the T... but you still wouldn't die.

Be-Boppin on Photoshop

So recently it's been ridiculously cold in Boston. (I got back on Monday night and it's been snowing like crazy almost the whole time!) This coldness makes me very unmotivated to go out and around and take pictures for you guys, unfortunately. So this weekend I decided to learn more Photoshop techniques. I'm pretty proud of most of them, so I'd like to share my progress with you guys! Hopefully soon enough I'll be taking pictures again and actually edit them before I put them on here so they don't look so stupid.
I made a Flickr account, which I should've done under the name BeeSweezy, but I forgot, though I did remember in time to make my photostream link for your ease and viewing pleasure.
Please enjoy! Comments, suggestions, or tutorials for me to try out would be greatly appreciated!! :D
http://www.flickr.com/photos/beesweezy/
Later,
BeeSweezy

Merry [Early] Christmas!!

Hello everyone! So this is the official BeeSweezy Christmas Edition!! YAYY! It actually snowed a considerable amount last night so it was a white [early] Christmas here at home, which made it super awesome. We did our family's Christmas early because we'll be traveling until two days after real Christmas to our extended families. 

Anyway, such an early Christmas requires early preparation; wrapping! I decided to go with a color scheme this year: blue/silver for the boyfriend and red/gold/green for the family. 

The blue collection!

I got really into wrapping the presents and made fancy little flourishes to each one. They may have ended up looking slightly garish, but hey, I tried.

Boyfriend's present with weird silver leaf thing

 My cat, Sarge, decided to help with the wrapping, or rather, he chased the ribbons around until I had to banish him from the room.

The un-helper of the event

 After all the presents were under the tree it was super awesome and actually started to feel like Christmas, so here's a little photo to help spread the joy of the season :)

Super-freakin' Christmassy!

No matter what you celebrate, I hope you have a great winter break [YEAHH!]!! I know I'm looking forward to sleeping in and playing video games and drinking hot cocoa and watching terrible reality television! Woo! <3

Ho Ho Home for the Holidays!

So I haven't posted in a while, even though I've been home since Saturday afternoon. Sorry about that :( This actually won't be a real post either because my pictures are on my camera at home and I'm elsewhere until Thursday night or possibly Monday, but HANG TIGHT because it's going to be a superChristmasholidayaganza!!!!!
That's right.

So far I've decorated three trees, drank two cups of hot cocoa (not enough by far), and wrapped about 7 presents. And a partridge in a pear tree. Plus I did my laundry today, so bonus points for me! Speaking of bonus I just figured out (finally) how to get the basic Microsoft games onto my boyfriend's computer (helloooo minesweeper!) which weren't installed for some stupid reason (damn you Windows 7), which basically means that I searched "why don't I have basic Microsoft games on my Windows 7" and read the first answer that came up. I lovee Google. [Sidenote: I'm not using his computer to ignore him, he's wrapping my present and obviously I can't be there so I'm bored and am super addicted to finding those mines!]
Aaanyway, on the agenda still: wrapping about 10 more presents, baking/decorating/devouring Christmas cookies, seeing Tron (unrelated), drinking more hot cocoa, some egg nog, taking a last-minute trip to the mall, opening presents, and making a real blog post.

Hopefully those things will go smoothly, and you can expect some real stuff /potentially/ on Thursday night after fambly Christmas is done. Happy Holidays!! <3

Goin' International!!!!

It has come to my attention that this blog has, for some reason, become nearly as popular in Germany this week as it has been in the U.S.! Sweet! Vielen Dank! Other international readers that deserve to be mentioned are from Canada, Greece, and Croatia! So that's awesome :)
Thanks everyone for reading, and I'm sorry that this isn't really a real post by any means, but right now I'm focusing on studying for my Architecture final that I have tomorrow morning. Once I go home for the holidays you'll get more real stuff to read/look at :3
Toodles!
P.S.!!! The blog now has over 500 views!!! YAYYYY!! :D

A Guide to Studying for Finals

Today marks the first day of the study period. I guess technically it started on Saturday, but who seriously studies on the weekend? No one. Unless you're like my suitemate and had a final this morning. Yuck!
Anyway, This terrible day means that I actually have to stop procrastinating and start studying for my Thursday and Saturday finals (but guess what I'm doing right now by posting this... yeah). I have three finals coming up and far too much time to study for them, which means that I'm probably going to be not very productive. Oh well. I'm going to try, though, don't get me wrong. I even made out a list of my study tools to walk you through my study process.
Step 1. Assemble supplies:

• Enriched Calculus textbook
• History of Architecture textbook
• Fifth semester French workbook
• Fifth semester French reading

• Notebooks containing the notes you've taken for the past 3.5 months in class
• Planner
• Folders containing worksheets/essays/graded work/tests/etc.

• Monstrously gigantic laptop
• Assorted pens, pencils, highlighters
• Large eraser
• Post-It notes
• iPod (not pictured)
• Index cards (not pictured)

Step 2: Study...?

Note: This will be a tedious process. DO NOT get frustrated and smash aforementioned computer. Work MUST be done at desk, where ethernet cord cannot reach, otherwise you WILL get distracted by playing typing games or solitaire or Facebook. 

Step 3: ?

Step 4: Profit.

Well, not really, but hopefully good grades :) <3