All in with Althea

Hi everyone! I hope you all are getting through this week. I am so ready for this week to be over, and then I can go home and enjoy my break. I know for me that the week before a break from school drags on.  My plans for Thanksgiving break include first getting some hours at work because I desperately need money. I also plan on catching up on my senior thesis/capstone because that presentation is quickly approaching and I honestly have neglected this project which believe me I know is pretty bad.  My more fun plans include going to see the new Wicked: For Good movie with my mom and Ruby which I have practically been waiting for all year since the first movie was released last November. I also plan on seeing my childhood best friends Ashley and Alli. Our plan at the moment is to watch the Dancing With the Stars finale. This Sunday, my mom also found cheap tickets to the Broadway show Some Like It Hot which is touring and will be in Columbus for a few days and although i have ye...

Hi everyone! I hope you are all doing well and staying warm in this snowy weather.  This weather has definitely got me in the holiday spirit. With the snow on the ground I am so ready to go home and decorate my room for Christmas, bake cookies, build gingerbread houses and watch holiday movies. Another thing I love about this time of the year is the holiday menu at Starbucks. I personally could drink an Iced Cookie Latte with Oatmilk all year but it being a limited holiday drink makes it more exciting and special. I know that Thanksgiving has yet to happen so maybe I should slow down on my excitement for the holidays but I wanted to talk about some of my favorite holiday memories.  My sister Ruby and I are typically the only young people around on Thanksgiving due to the fact of my cousins living in New Jersey and my dads sister doesn’t have kids so that means Ruby and I are usually bored out of our minds. So we've created a tradition these past few years of eating Thanksgivin...

Fall break was wonderful. I was productive, and I got to relax and spend time with my family. I started my break by heading out of Ada around 10:30 am since it's only a one-and-a-half-hour drive home. During the drive, I was of course listening to the new Taylor Swift album, The Life of a Showgirl.  Once I got home and got some coffee, I went to pick up my friend from her house. We got to hang out all day and catch up on what is happening in each other's lives.  Saturday was my productive day of the break. My mom and I decided that my room and closet were out of control, and normally I wouldn't agree, but this time I did easily agree. We deep-cleaned the entire room and closet, including vacuuming, dusting, and quite literally took everything I owned out of my room to figure out how we should organize my space, and it only in the end took about three hours, which I would say isn't too bad.  On Saturday, I was also able to get some errands done, which felt nice to comple...

As it turns out, as excited as I was for the homecoming festivities, I ultimately had a spur-of-the-moment decision and decided to head home this past Friday. I don’t normally talk about my mental health, but the past two weeks have been rough mentally with my anxiety. So I decided it was best that I go home this weekend and hang out at home and see my parents. I think, although I had some FOMO, I made the decision that was best for me at the moment.  While at home, I got to enjoy many things I miss about home, including a couple of home-cooked meals, time with my parents, and the comfort of my own bed.  During my trip home, I also got to see the new Taylor Swift mini-documentary. This documentary was only in movie theaters this past weekend, so when I figured out I was going home, I asked my mom to join me. The documentary ran about an hour and a half with no previews beforehand. It started by premiering her new music video to “The Fate of Ophelia" and then ran through every ...

     Over this past weekend, my sister drove up to Northern and we had a BLAST! She happened to have a long weekend for Presidents Day so I asked her to come visit me.       As she starts to now look at colleges as a junior in High School I wanted to show her what an average weekend in college looks like for me.       She drove up early Friday afternoon due to the snow starting. Once she got here we first unloaded her car because I had her bring me some groceries from home. Once we did that we moved her car to the visitor lot and got an early dinner at WOW because again I wanted Ruby to really get the collage feel.  We pretty much just hung out around my room and the Theta house over the weekend especially since it was FREEZING and snowing. She of course ended up getting the worst weather of the season while being here. The weather definitely gave her that Northern feel and I think gave her some insight into the college re...