Freebie Haul

I wish I had more to update, but not much is going on in my life right now. I'm trying to finish my project in lab this week, but some of my bacterial strains are not cooperating so it's a two steps forward, one step back sort of thing that basically sucks up a lot of time and spits out just enough results to keep you suckered in & motivated but nowhere near feeling at all rewarded. I understand this is what graduate school will feel like 100% of the time.

I logged onto my email this morning to find a super huge cellphone bill for this month. Turns out I didn't bother to throw Rogers any cash for June. WHOOPS. It's the first time I've missed a bill in over 2 years, but it happens. I don't set up auto-payments with the fear that the day they debit is going to be the day before payday when I have $0.86 in my account and then it will bounce and I will incur penalty fees from the bank and cellphone company alike and blah blah blah blah blah. Anyway, so sometimes life tricks me into thinking I'm more on top of things than I actually am, and that is what happened here.

I biked to my grandma's house yesterday, which was a serious 40 blocks from the university. Amazingly, I didn't even find it tiring.. but I did skip the ride back and took the bike on the train instead, I'm not crazy athletic you know. She did what Oma's do best, which is feed me cake. She also gave me loads of free stuff. I guess some neighbor she has is ridiculously wealthy and always chucking perfectly good clothes, and I made out like a bandit this time. Only last week I threw out half a dozen t-shirts that were worn and full of holes, and was planning on replacing them with a trip to the mall this week, but now I am spared! Look what I got:



In addition to all the clothing being in perfect (I would even wager mostly unworn) condition, it's not shabby either. HELLO HOLT RENFREW!



My favorite of the lot though is a white leather Kenneth Cole bag. Oh, I am a lucky girl.



So... good week so far, no?