Today was my birthday! And it was great! It's so funny, all my birthday presents (and most of my christmas ones!) match! I clearly have two color pallets- black, grey and red with beige and white, and bright jewel tones (magenta, teal, etc). I love it! I feel almost fashionable!

Michael was really sweet and made us a nice french toast and bacon breakfast, and the flat watched Kung Fu Panda while I repaired some ripped shirts (I know, riveting!). We went out for an early dinner to a cute little local restaurant, and spent the rest of the evening at home, watching Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter and The Pirates in an Adventure with Scientists. Got some stuff that needed doing, done, but mostly it was a relaxed day- and absolutely NO schoolwork! That was lovely!

Our dresser drawers have broken for the fourth time, personally I'm all for giving up and just asking the landlord if he can switch it with one of his unoccupied properies' dressers. He's come in to fix it 3 times, after I tried and hurt myself the first time.
But besides that delay, the room is almost done. I spent hours organizing all my school stuff, receipts, other paperwork, etc. Into boxes with notebooks or labelled folders. I know if I leave it any longer, this semester's papers will never ever get organized. shelves and storage is mostly organized, although I'm starting to wonder if we actually have ALL our clothes clean, if the drawers will just expode or something. I had no idea just what a VOLUME of laundry we accumulated while our old machine was dying.
I'll going to decorate whether it's clean or not, I wanted it really thoroughly cleaned before classes, but the laundry/dressers make really vacuuming or cleaning a bit of a challenge. But I should be able to post pictures of the room with my own decorations up by the end of next week! (Although maybe not thoroughly cleaned *sad face*.)

It's back to work tomorrow, but I'm not 100% sure of what I need to be doing. I'm doing research for my proposed dissertation topic, and trying to look up general reading for my upcoming courses. But, it feels oddly simple after all the papers and working non-stop, but I'm enjoying it while it lasts. :)

I'll post again soon! <3 Hugs!