Who saw this coming?

CollegePrep, the wonderful blogger from Georgetown is hosting another

GIVEAWAY!

^Seriously, how cute are these flip-flops?

So, enter the Giveaway and win some adorable stuff from the Tipsy Skipper at

www.thecollegeprepster.com!

Happy shopping :)

LOVE this book!

I discovered it one afternoon going through my late grandmother's attic since then it has been my prep bible.

Thankfully, according to lillypulitzer.com, I found a more updated version!

It's neat because it's by the same author as "The Official Preppy Handbook", but it's a more up-to-date version. I must get my hands on a copy, but Mommasan said I need to wait until my birthday. Which isn't too bad as it's in just over a week.

Happy reading Preppies!!

Diving?!

That's right ladies and gents, this Cadet will be

starting off her sophomore year of college as a part of the

Potsdam Women's Swimming and Diving Team!

(go bears!)

I cannot WAIT until the real season starts. Currently, I can only

dive off the board with no coach (don't fret, he sits on the deck and watches), but

he can't actually begin coaching me (and the other divers) until the 20th! <-EEK!

Diving is SO scary, flipping off a board is something I never saw myself

doing. I also have to get used to the spring in the board...further eek moment. I've landed

on my back on the water too many times to count! Let me tell you, it *hurts*.

I've just been getting back up, which I guess is kind of the point.

Kudos to divers from my high school, I had NO IDEA how hard it was to do this!!

Anyway, since I'm going to be on an official NCAA DIII team, I won't have to

go to typical PT (insert tiny HOOAH here). I'll still go in to take the

APFT (hopefully I pass), but other than that, I'm gold!

This is going to be a very VERY welcome thing since the PT+Swim/Diving practice has been killing me. (Since the season hasn't started yet we've been doing

captain's practices.)

Off to start my homework, second week of college and I'm already wishing for Christmas break :P

Quick, quick, quick post

Hi all! Just had one heck of a workout at PT this morning thanks to one of the MS4s!

It occurred to me as we were running down a hill with what seemed to be a vertical drop that this is something I really need to be consciously doing every. single. day. I've been doing doubles, don't worry, but evidently not to the standards expected of me.

PHEW! PT is tough, but as I may have mentioned before, I'm trying out for the swim team at Potsdam, so that *should* (coughcough gods of PT hear me please coughcough) help me pass the APFT come September 22.

*APFT=Army Physical Fitness Test

Females in my age group (17-21) must do:

• 19+ push-ups
• 53+ sit-ups
• and run 2 miles in under 18:54

Trust me when I say it shouldn't be this difficult (it is, which is a BLATANT indication that I'm seriously out of shape).

Good luck cadets!

Crafts and Headbands and Belts, OH MY!

It's been a long time coming that I've wanted to start being a crafty girl.

I have tried scrapbooking in the past, and I think I may have just been too young because it led me to believe that I wasn't A. very good at crafts, or B. very interested in crafts.

Little did I know that Mommasan would come to tell me that I could make my own accessories!

GASP! <-who would have thought this to be possible!?

(clearly a lot of people, ribbons, bows, d-rings, and headbands abound at Michael's craft store in Victor, NY)

This one is one of my favorites! Argile-esque print is so preppy, and I love how it alternates between dark and light pink! Naturally, I had to add a bow to this one. :)

Believe it or not, this one has ladybugs on it! So cute, right? I'm not sure if it'll turn into a present for my friend Grace (she's 8).

I'm a lover of all things footwear. I own easily 30 pair, and work in the footwear dept at LLBean. So when Mommasan found this beauty, I knew it had "Belt" written all over it!

I loved this ribbon! I cannot wait to wear it, mostly because it's adorable, but also because I'll wear it almost every day.

CadetPrepster's craft excellence.

This was an excellent way to relax. No stress, because until everything was glued down, everything could be changed.

First Day!!

It's the first day back at school, and I couldn't be more excited!

I'm taking really fun and interesting classes (plus two intro classes, which should be very meh).

Intro to International Politics

Politics and the Judicial Process

Imagining Asia

Intro to Literature

Military Science 2

It's turning out to be a pretty exciting year!

SO! CadetPrep and Queen d'Clarinet thought a lounge room would rock.

Little did we expect Potsdam to accept too many students.

Hence the need to triple with LadyFunk. I'll admit, I'm the one who didn't have to bunk the bed, but it's with good reason: I'm going to be swimming at 5am 6 days a week.

This way, I won't bother them as I sneak out the door every morning. Let's face it, roomies that wake each other up, SO not kosher.

Believe it or not, I have less room (spatially speaking) than either of them.

Here's a close-up of my little section

My desk area...Queen d'Clarinet's desk is opposite mine :)

My bed, with an LLBean puppy named Mozart.

Gotta use under the bed space too, and i left enough room to access all of the stuff toward the back

This is my section in its' entirety, it's quite small, but livable.

Ciao :)