Lately I’ve been trying to do all the things. It’s tiring. On Saturday night, we went to a BBQ and I fell asleep on the couch at 9:30. Normally I’d feel bad about that, but everyone else had fallen asleep too. That’s how you know we’re getting old.

Things at work have been pretty stressful lately. The other day, my boss actually insisted I have a margarita because he thought I needed to calm down.

My parents take St. Patrick’s Day a little too seriously. We went there for dinner, and they were dressed head to toe in green ridiculousness, and made me put on a leprechaun hat.

As you can tell, I was pretty impressed.

My mom made Lexie wear one too. I think it looks better on her than it did on me.

I bought a giant pictures from Ikea a week or so ago. I was pretty impressed with myself this weekend when I managed to get it hung up by myself. I only had to call my mom once to ask about nail placement. It hasn’t fallen down once.

Tonight I’m going to Trader Joe’s with the boyfriend. He’s never seen me in a grocery store before, I have a feeling it won’t take long for him to start wondering what he sees in me.

Remember a couple weeks ago when I when I said I was failing miserably at the whole balance thing?

It hasn’t really gotten better.

I’m not too sure if school is getting harder, or I’m getting lazier (or both), but I’m having a really rough time this semester.

I’ve been trying to get everything done, but it hasn’t been going all that well. I even needed supervision last week just to make sure I got my essay finished.

 I finished it, but it wasn’t even close to my best work. I feel like I’m burning out, so I haven’t been giving my all to anything for awhile.

See, the thing is, there’s just so much else I would rather be doing. Like taking the dog for a long walk in the trails with a boy . . .

And then giving her a bath when the trails made her smell awful.

And then watching her as she punished me by rolling around in my laundry after said bath.

Or having a girls night that involved way too much food, and Magic Mike.

All these things are way more fun than sitting around and reading my text books. Which is why I’m sucking so hard in school right now.

Last year, I was so inspired and excited to be in school, but this year, I’m just tired of it. It’ll be fun to see how I get through the next 3 years (or so). Hopefully I’ll get it together sometime between now and then, because seriously, my slacking is getting seriously out of hand.