Book Unhaul (3)

After I finish a semester, I always end up cleaning my room, getting rid of old stuff that I don't use anymore and donating clothes and books that I don't want anymore. There were quite a few books that I felt like I wouldn't read any time soon because I lost interest in them, so I decided to donate all of these books to the library recently. However, there were a couple of that I donated that I had already read but decided to donate because I didn't want to keep them anymore; I felt no desire to want to keep them anymore since I did not want to reread them in the future.

• Blood Ninja by Nick Lake
• Nevermore by Kelly Creagh
• Unearthly by Cynthia Hand
• Hallowed by Cynthia Hand
• Wildefire by Karsten Knight
• Truancy by Isamu Fukui
• Truancy Origins by Isamu Fukui
• The Way of the Dragon by Chris Bradford
• Glass Houses by Rachel Caine
• The Way of the Sword by Chris Bradford
• The Way of the Samurai by Chris Bradford

• The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May, & June by Robin Benway
• The Last Seer and the Tomb of Enoch by Ashland Menshouse
• Tales of the Madman Underground by John Barnes
• Split by Swati Avasthi
• Psych Major Syndrome by Alicia Thompson
• I Am J by Cris Beam
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
• Leaving Unknown by Kerry Reichs

A relaxing past few weeks

It's been a relaxing past couple of weeks just chilling at home or hanging out with friends that I keep on forgetting to blog about it.

David, Alec, and I went to go watch Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 the Monday after it came out. It was so good! Less humor but more plot this time, and I was not prepared to get so many feels at the end with all of the character development, lol. However, the best part was baby Groot, lol. He was so cute and angry, lol.

Later that week, Mikey and I helped Alec make homemade gnocchi at his house as part of the dinner we were going to have later at Harrison's apartment, where we were going to swim and grill chicken and vegetables at the grills near the pool. We ran a little late making the gnocchi and grilling in general, so the sun was already setting by the time we finished eating, which made swimming pretty cold. As such, Mikey, David, Jerry and I just sat around the pool while Alec, Harrison, and Kim swam and goofed around in the pool. Lol, Mikey had Harrison do a bunch of different dives into the pool, most of which looked really painful, all so he could put it on his Snapchat.

I walked during my graduation two weeks ago and had a graduation party the next day. It was a long event, lol. Graduation involved a lot of sitting and waiting, and the party was fun but exhausting because we essentially had a mini party in the afternoon and a full-sized party at night. I had to take a lot of pictures with everyone wearing my cap and gown, hood, tassels, and medal, which was super hot after the first five minutes, lol.

I got mad at David twice last week, which kind of accumulated to the point where I kept on wondering if maybe it was time to breakup since he kept on making the same mistakes and I just kept on getting angrier and angrier every time it happened. I talked about it with my friends though and realized that we really don't have a bad relationship and that sometimes you get in a slump in your relationship, and that it's just something that you go through.

But yeah, we ended up having a Wine Night with Shanice and Meethu, since Shanice was heading back in town last Friday. We ended up talking about relationship problems for a while along with job oddities and just catching up in general. It was really nice since I hadn't had a chance to really talk with them for a couple of months now.

This past Sunday, Victoria completely forgot that we were working out that day and slept in, so while we were waiting for her for 30 minutes, we made plans to go to IHOP for breakfast instead, lol. She messaged us to tell us about how she never even set an alarm the night before when we were almost done with our meals an hour later, lol. Afterwards, we made plans to meet up at one to hangout some more later after we showered and stuff.

We planned on kidnapping Kim and teaching her how to drive since she really needed to practice. But before that, we ended up watching how food was made while waiting for Jerry to show up, since he was still napping by the time we all met up. We drove over to the old mall in town that was bought out by the hospital nearby, since the parking lot was empty and easy to navigate for a new driver. We spent the next hour and a half--I think--teaching Kim the basics of the driving test and had her do all of the drills with Alec as her main teacher, since he's always the one explaining things in our friend group.

After that, we went back to Harrison's apartment to figure out where to go eat for dinner. We decided to go to Sushi Thai again since all of the other places we were interested in going to had already closed for the day or was closed on Sundays in general. -__-" We finally had Josh as our waiter, who has been trying to be our waiter and friend for a while now, lol. He ran into David a few weeks ago and asked for his number to try to be hangout with our friend group, but he's only been able to go to one of our workouts so far.

Then, Kim and I had to rush back to her house because I was supposed to go to pick their sister up from Macon with David 20 minutes ago, since Steph needed David drive her and her friend to Atlanta to one of her friend's apartments because they were all going on a trip to Costa Rica early the next morning. Basically, they couldn't park Steph's car at her friend's apartment, so David had to drive the car back home after Steph drove us up to Atlanta. Since we were near GA Tech, we decided to stop by Sublime and get some donuts, because I really love their fresh strawberry and cream donuts. :D

The next day, I hungout with Cam and Jessica until midnight because Cam's boyfriend decided to leave him while he was gone on vacation for a week with his family, so Jessica and I came over to cheer him up. Man, I love hanging out with them because it's basically endless hilarious story after story, and if it isn't hilarious, it's some type of crazy that's vastly entertaining, lol. Crazy stuff happens to them all of the time, and we don't hangout enough to catch up with each other like we should, so everything builds up in between hangout sessions, lol.

But yeah, that's basically all that's happened for these past few weeks. I hungout with David a lot in between everything, and we talked about a lot about our relationship and seemed like we were on the verge of breaking up once or twice, but I think we're working things out.

I also regret not reading any books these past few weeks when I actually had the time to crack open a book. Instead, I watched a lot of anime and read manga. I feel really guilty about not reading any of my bajillion books when I actually have the time to do so, but I think that's actually what's holding me back from reading them; I feel obligated to read them, which makes me not want to read them. -__-"

I start summer classes tomorrow. I'm not excited at all. I actually forgot to order my textbook until last week, but even then, I didn't have my mom's card to order it until today. I'm just really waiting for these next eight weeks to pass, because I really don't want to go to school anymore. I'm really to find a job and move out and start being an adult, lol. I'm tired of classes and homework and tests and all of the stress that comes with it.

Weekly Haul (94)

These are all of the books that I bought in the past two months. It's a pretty random haul, but I've been wanting to read all of these books for a while. That and because they were all on sale at one point or another lol.

Bought: 

Overlord, vol. 1: The Undead King by Kugane Maruyama & So-Bin

Rogue by Julie Kagawa

Platinum End by Tsugumi Ohba & Takeshi Obata

Big Mushy Happy Lump by Sarah Andersen

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The semester is over!

I finished my last final for the semester last Friday, and I have been enjoying being stress-free for the past couple of days, lol. Actually, I've been hanging out with a lot of people for the past week or two in between stressing out about possibly failing my accounting class. -__-"

I worried for nothing. I had a low C average in the class before the final, so I was really worried about failing the final, since the final also included past topics that the class as a whole did poorly on in previous tests. So not only did I need to study the new material, I also needed to figure out what I did wrong in the past tests. However, I ended up with a B in the class because he made it so that he either dropped your lower grade or averaged the two grades together for the topics that were from previous tests. Because I made a higher grade on most of the previous topics on my final, my average went up!

Two weeks ago, when I just finished my first final and was about to start stressing about my accounting final, I found out that my friend from high school, Tyler, was actually in town and has been for a while now. He's been in the navy for the past couple of years, so I never knew where he was, so it was a surprise to find out that we've been in the same town for the past couple of months, lol. We hungout for a while, ordering pizza and watching Dave Chappell and Kevin Hart's new shows on Netflix and just catching up with each other.

The Friday before the last, I hungout with David and one of his friends. We went to Cheddar's for lunch and then went to Ice Queen, a new rolled ice cream place in Macon, afterwards for dessert. David and I have been wanting to try it out for the past few months since it opened, so that day was a good opportunity, lol. I got this matcha with real strawberries flavor, which I really liked.

Last Tuesday was Carina's birthday, so she threw a little bonfire party in her backyard that we went to. It was fun to catch up with her and make s'mores and just generally be pyromaniacs, lol. We literally made flaming hot cheeto puffs by throwing them into the bonfire, lol. Alec brought sprinklers as well, so we had fun lighting those up, too. It was also nice just laying around outside on soft blankets because it was a little cold, but the fire kept us warm, and the company was good.

Then, last Friday, I got to hangout with Cam and Jessica before I had to take my final. Jessica was in town for an internship with Geico, and Cam didn't have any finals that day, so we went to get lunch and dessert at Ice Queen because Jessica wanted to try it. We went to this Mediterranean place next to Ice Queen, which was pretty good and ended up talking for two hours there, because we all had so much to catch up on, lol.

Later that night, to celebrate finals being over for David and me, we went out to buy alcohol with Alec and had a drink at my place. Alec's last final was the next day, but he already had plans that night, so we celebrated it on Friday, lol. It was definitely interesting. We're always trying different beers when we're with Alec. I'm never totally sure if I like most of them, lol.

Today, the three of us went to go watch the new Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 movie, which was so good. I didn't like the soundtrack as much as I liked it in the first movie, but the movie was hilarious like I expected, and Groot was so cute! God, he was so adorable! Definitely stay until the end of the movie, because there are at least 4 scenes during the credits.

But yeah, things have been busy, but I'm not complaining. :)

Books I Want to Read This Month

I have three weeks of freedom before my summer classes start, so I'm really going to try to read some of these books during this time! I really need to, lol. All I've been reading recently is online manga, which is not good, since I still keep on buying books even though I haven't read a physical book in months. -__-"

1. The Vegetarian by Han Kang
2. Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
3. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
4. Blood of My Blood by Barry Lyga
5. A Midsummer Nightmare by Kody Keplinger
6. Seraph of the End vol. 1 by Takaya Kagami & Yamato Yamamoto
7. Seige and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
8. Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
9. The Princess Saves Herself in This One by Amanda Lovelace
10. Never Fade by Alexandria Bracken
11. Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari
12. Scarlet by Marissa Meyer
13. Cress by Marissa Meyer
14. I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
15. The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman

April in Retrospect

I procrastinated a lot towards the end of this month, which is why I ended up reading a lot of manga and started watching anime and kdramas, lol. I'm not proud of myself. I will be done with finals this week, and I'm so ready to start my summer so that I don't have to feel bad for binge-watching a series in two days and not have to worry about homework. :D

I read:

• My Hero Academia vol. 12 by Kohei Horikoshi
• My Hero Academia vol. 13 by Kohei Horikoshi
• SSG - Meimon Danshikou Keppuuroku vol. 1 by Morishita Suu
• SSG - Meimon Danshikou Keppuuroku vol. 2 by Morishita Suu
• SSG - Meimon Danshikou Keppuuroku vol. 3 by Morishita Suu
• SSG - Meimon Danshikou Keppuuroku vol. 4 by Morishita Suu
• Kanojo Ni Naru Hi vol. 1 by Ogura Akane
• Kanojo Ni Naru Hi vol. 2 by Ogura Akane
• Kanojo Ni Naru Hi vol. 3 by Ogura Akane

I watched:

• Fairy Tail (2009)
• Sword Art Online (2012)
• Power Rangers (2017)
• Kiss Him, Not Me! (2016)
• Yamada-Kun and the Seven Witches (2015)
• Dear White People (2014)
• Princess Lover! (2011)
• Aoharu x Machine Gun (2015)
• Kevin Hart: What Now? (2016)
• Strong Woman Do Bong Soon (2017)