just another saturday

homework day tomorrow...ugh.

*warning:
the following post is extremely long. leave while you can.
also, the photo quality in this entry sucks. i brought my compact camera around today because it's much less cumbersome :P
thus: unfocused, blurry pictures.

the PLAN (practice ACT) test was this morning from 9-12.
time limits are so stressful; i probably bombed the science portion of the test. i mean, who can process 30 questions' worth of information on things such as pollutants and their effect on daphnia and celiodaphnia growth/offspring in 25 minutes?
the english/reading and math sections were easy though.
hooray. it's comforting knowing that i at least have grammar and arithmetic to fall back on while i continue to discover my various shortcomings.

afterwards we headed over to yuri's house for lunch, and then to the second harvest food bank for volunteer work. it was supposedly a key club event, but it ended up just being yuri, ellen, diona, and me.
it was actually really nice though. i felt productive. ellen & i mainly worked on taking apart boxes (recycling purposes), while diona & yuri constructed new ones for the assembly line of other volunteers.










yuri should be in the picture but she left a bit early and i didn't have my camera with me because we left our bags in the office :/

in-n-out afterwards.




ellen and i then proceeded to go to tj maxx and take silly cliche camera-whore-esque pictures of ourselves.

they have some good selections though.
shoe lust. omg. i wish i could wear heels :P
too bad they're basically knee suicide.



i was going to get the middle pair to match with my dress for winter formal but i doubt i will have a date and there isn't really a point to wearing heels if i don't, since i won't be taking one of those professional couple picture thingies & i'll be changing to sneakers anyway to walk around the park in. (woodbridge's wf is held at knotts every year!)

anyways.
their furniture section is to die for.
i was seriously so excited. excited enough to walk around for about an hour and a half just exploring the aisles of centerpieces, [fake] plants, pots, globes, frames, artwork, couches/chairs, drawers, etc etc etc., instead of giving my knee a much-needed rest. (i'm icing it as we speak.)

they had various santas throughout the store. whether they were for display or for sale remains unknown...i wonder who would buy a life-size santa.

then we went to target! but the starbucks in it ran out of peppermint mocha :( and i've seriously been craving a peppermint mocha frapp for a few days now.
got some sweatpants. and a kingsize peanut m&m package. 480 calories, which i consumed in about 20 minutes. yum.


HAHAH guys' underwear section.

and thus concludes my longest entry ever, and also my first what-i-did-today entry. (although it actually should be what-i-did-yesterday, since it's 1 AM now.)
these things are exhausting.