School Shopping Amongst Other Things.

Today started off as an early day for me. I was woken up around 8am, took out the trash, got dressed, and set out for a day spent on the road.

My baby brother Steven just recently turned 1 and is having a party on Saturday, so we had to pick up food and everything else.

Then we headed off for Tyler, a nearby town with a great shopping center. My step mom had some business to do in town concerning the Chamber of Commerce, so after she finished she took us to a nearby Goodwill where we made some excellent deals!

I picked up a pair of jeans, and orange undershirt, and a really cute cotton floral print skirt! I also scored some really awesome slacks for Debate! One dark blue, the other black.

Another cool find, courtesy of my stepmom was a spacious black leather backpack type bag which will most likely be used to haul around my books and other things for Debate. The best part though, was the fact that the bag was in mint condition!

Anyways, after we left GW, we headed for the mall where I shopped at Wet Seal and Sears. I was hoping that Hot Topic would have some Harry Potter shirts on sale, but alas, they didn't. I picked up a bunch of stuff, and I made some sets on Polyvore to show you guys two of my outfits I have. I would have made more sets, but I'm lazy :P

new debate stuff by Bookish.Spazz featuring Debenhams jackets

This is one of my Debate outfits. I got this really cool yellow undershirt, but I couldn't find one on Polyvore that matched it exactly, but oh well, you get the idea! The shoes I have are that exact same style, but the brown is actually gray on my shoes. I really wanted to follow Alex's advice and get a blue suit, but we couldn't find the exact cut of suit we wanted in blue... however, I am keeping my eyes open, in hope of finding it! For now, I'll just have to deal with the blue slacks I bought.

Scholarly by Bookish.Spazz on Polyvore.com

I'm really excited about the moccasin shoes I found at Wet Seal! They were exactly what I was looking for :) Also they were having a great sale, "Buy 1 item, get the other for 1cent" I got the shirt for $9.99, and the pants for a penny! Also, this is the black leather backpack thing I was talking about. I was surprised that Polyvore actually had this up there!

So after loads of shopping, and bags full of clothes we stopped by the Great American Cookie, picked up some cookies to munch on, and headed home.

I had to clean the van once we got home, but oh well, it needed to get done eventually. My dad has the habit of drinking stuff, then discarding the container on the van's floorboard. He's an internal litter bug.

I'm rambling. I should end this post before it gets any longer. But before I leave I'm going to share my friend Celery's latest Chronic Insanity video. Warning, it involves dousing someone in pee.

What can I do with this?

(click to view larger :P)

For a while now I've been thinking about college and whatnot. My majors, the many different universities I want to apply to, scholarship opportunities and such.

From the time I was in second grade on up into mid 8th grade I wanted to be a Trauma Nurse. However since then I've had a change of heart.

As I got older, different stuff started to interest me, like art, design, philosophy, and theology.

In fact last year when making my high school plans with my counselor I seriously considered philosophy as my major in college, but now that I think about it, there isn't really a large job opening for people with philosophy majors.

It would be so much easier to major in philosophy if I was a trust fund kid or something, but I'm not. I come from a middle class family with four kids. My parents make good money, but they also have to put four kids through school and college.

So the question pops up: Should I be pragmatic, and choose a more open major, or should I be happy and pursue what I find interesting? I don't know. As much as I love art, I don't think I could ever major in it. I've met too many people with degrees in Fine Arts who had to get a job far away from the art industry for that career to ever interest me.

Political Science has for instance, always been a pragmatic college major choice for me because I could always double major or minor in philosophy, however if I choose to double major, am I just wasting time and money on the study?

I don't know. I still have about two or three more years before I have to make a definite decision.

Obama-bashing = No.

So it's been a while since I've written something politically oriented. I blame summer, it has made me lazy and less likely to watch CSPAN and CNN.

Plus with all this MJ hullabaloo in the news, why would I watch?

Anyways, is anyone other than me tired of listening to conservative republicans gripe about Obama? It seems as if they've taken up the sport of Obama-bashing.

Even though personally I would have liked Ron Paul to have been elected, I think Obama is doing the best he can with what he's been placed with.

Although I don't agree with all of his decisions, he's doing a lot better than McCain could ever do. Especially with Palin as the potential VP.

Living in Texas can be quite annoying sometimes, especially when you have southern grandparents who still think Obama is a Muslim stealing our money and trying to convert us into an Islamic nation. No lie. I have to put up with this every time I visit.

But I digress, Obama is not our saviour, but he is in progress of doing great things for our country. Sure, taxes may have gone up, but when you think about it, they would have gone up regardless who are president is. Also, the individuals in the upper part of society with a 6 figure income have to pay higher taxes whereas middle and lower class don't have to pay as much, with McCain, there would have been no tax raise, therefore less money for the government.

Also, please disregard anything Fox News and Limbaugh has ever told you. The government has very little control over the economy. We have a Free market system(even though the bailout contradicts that... but we'll talk about that another day)and FYI Free Market = little to no govt. assistance.

Obama is not superman, nor is he God. He can't fix all our problems within less than a year of being in office. Be patient all you dear conservatives in America.