Best news ever!!!

Life: Okay, so this week I decided I just needed to suck it up and take my car in to get the air conditioner fixed.  I called my dad and left a message asking him where I should take my car.  He texted back saying we'd talk about it when I got home later.  So later that evening when we were taking our dogs out my dad asked me what exactly I need to fix in my car.  So I told him and then he replied with this, "Well, as you know we got your sister a car for graduation.  We've also put some money into your car.  Here's my idea, you can either trade in your car and we'll give you $8,000 toward a new one, or you can keep your car and we'll give you $8,000.  Well.... I chose the second option.  I'm using some of the money to get my car all fixed up and then I get to do whatever I want with the rest!  While most of it will go into savings, I'm using about $2,000 to buy myself a Canon Rebel T3i along with a standard zoom lens and a macro lens.  I'm soooooo excited!!!!! I've wanted this camera for about a year now and I've wanted a nice camera for as long as I've been taking pictures!  I cannot wait until December when I get the rest of the money and I can buy the camera!  I'm so incredibly grateful to my parents. :) I love them so much! Ahhh!!! I'm just so excited!

How gorgeous is this camera?!!

Okay, so as far as school goes: I just checked my grade for the first history test and I got an A! :)  So for the first round of tests I got 3 A's and a B.  I'm quite pleased about this.  I wrote a paper today and turned in a paper on Thursday so when I get the grades for those I'll post them. 

Friday, I got to hang out with Kyle for a bit and then met up with a group of friends for some delicious Chinese food.

Yesterday, my mom decided that we had not spend enough time together lately, and took me on a lunch date. :) It was wonderful.  We went to Red Robin and chatted about life.  We also finally got to talk about the wedding and that was so much fun.  The only downside to yesterday, was that it was day one of a cold...I felt awful toward the end of the day and today I don't feel much better... Hopefully this will be a short-lived cold because I have a lot to do this week!

Wedding:  So, this past week my mom surprised me with tickets for myself, herself, and my sister to go to the Bridal Bazaar on October 28th! :) I'm so excited for that!  Hopefully we'll get lots of great ideas as well as the names of a bunch of bridal stores in the area.  Oh! And my mom also gave me the song that she would like played at the wedding. :)  I'm really happy that things are finally starting to happen.

Weight: Okay, I was doing really well this week until Friday night/Saturday when I started to get sick.  I was in no condition to go on my walk yesterday and also, did not feel like eating a bunch of healthy foods.  I didn't gain much, and what I did gain I am going to blame on the pint of mint chocolate chip ice cream I ate last night because that was the only thing that made my throat feel better... :) 

I did get a chance to go on two 5 mile walks this week though, so that was good.  And up until Friday I was doing really well as far as healthy eating went.

Starting weight: 144.4 lbs

October 7th, 2012: 143.9 lbs (+0.3 lbs from last week)

I think I shall spend the rest of the day on Pinterest getting wedding ideas, while snuggled up in bed trying to recover from this cold...