Oh yeah, it’s my 18th birthday today. I can legally see strippers! Haha.

THREE NAMES THAT FRIENDS CALL YOU
1. Nicole
2. Nicolio
3. Nicola-Mola

THREE MOST IMPORTANT DATES IN YOUR LIFE
1. Sept. 12Â
2. Feb. 12Â
2. Jan. 10 

THREE THINGS YOU’VE DONE IN THE LAST 30 MINUTES
1. Played Beatles Rock Band with my sister and dad
2. Got three “happy birthday” text’s
3. Took a shower

THREE WAYS TO BE HAPPY
1. Squish a kitty <3
2. Have a smoothie
3. Play an old N64 game that you’re good at

THREE GIFTS YOU WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE
1. A giant bean bag chair thing
2. A pet bunny
3. World peace :3

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES
1. Web design/codingÂ
2. Photography
3. Shopping

THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO FOR VACATION
1. Japan
2. Australia
3. The Carribean

THREE FAVORITE DRINKS
1. Water
2. Iced tea
3. Vanilla Italian soda

THREE THINGS FOUND IN YOUR HANDBAG/BAG
1. Cell phone
2. Wallet
3. Spare chapstick

THREE FAVORITE COLORS
1. Pink
2. Orange
3. Everything else

TOP THREE WHO YOU THINK WILL ANSWER THIS SURVEY
1. No
2. One
3. Lol

TOP THREE “THINGS” SPECIAL TO YOU
1. My stuffed teddy bear from when I was born
2. My boyfriend’s calss ring
3. My N64

TOP THREE REASONS THAT MAKE YOU HAPPY LATELY
1. My boy <3
2. My awesome family
3. Life

TOP THREE REASONS WHY YOU ANSWERED THIS SURVEY
1. I like doing these random things from time to time
2. I wanted to post something on my birthday so I could show off that it’s my birthday
3. Pie (:

THREE JOBS I HAVE HAD IN MY LIFE
1. Haha
2. No really
3. Ha-ha

THREE PLACES I HAVE LIVED
1. In my mommy’s womb
2. My uncle’s house with all my cool cousin’s
3. Our current house

THREE OF MY FAVORITE FOODS
1. Sushi
2. Mexican
3. Chinese

THREE PETS THAT YOU HAVE OWNED
1. Nibbles the bunny
2. Kero the hampsterÂ
3. Various fishies

THREE FAVORITE SPORTS TO WATCH
1. Ice hockey
2. Baseball
3. Figure Skating?

Well, if anyone wants to do this, too, go ahead. Post a link to your blog in the comments so I can go spy on your life, though, ‘kay? (:

Anyways, the title of todays post has a few different applications (the obvious one being the new layout). It’s that time of my life when I move off away from my family and start my path along “high education”. That’s right, college. I’m split between excited and scared, but I think it’s a little more on the excited side. I’m mostly nervous about being on my own and alone and such, but even that’s not too bad. A lot of my mom’s friends and family lives around my campus (UC Santa Cruz) and one of my friends from high school is going there. It also really helps that (here’s what I’m really excited about) the campus is surrounded by red wood trees and is right on the cliff above the ocean. It’s beautiful up there. I’m living on campus my first year, which I wasn’t too excited about at first, but I’m a lot more warmed up to the idea now (I kinda have no choice at this point though, haha). I figure this way I’ll be closer to other people and can hopefully make more friends (basically, I won’t be as lonely). Oh, and it helps that I have my own room. No room mate, no sharing lights and plugs and such, all the privacy I have here at home. I feel so lucky.

So, going along with the post title…What else is new? For the first time last week, I had a computer problem. It was actually a hardware problem, so at least I didn’t mess anything up. Anyways, I called Dell support and was on the phone with some tech guy for almost an hour. The result? He said he’d send out a technician to replace my CD drive (which I knew needed to happen in the first place) and he pretty much f’d up my whole hard drive. For the first time ever, my computer got the blue screen of death. And who’s fault was it? The Dell guy on the phone (he was doing that remote assist thing where he can control my computer from his). Not only was that the first time it ever happened, but it happened twice during the little session on the phone. Then about an hour later, I got the stupid blue screen again about 5 times in the span of 20 minutes. It took forever to actually get my computer to fully start without getting the blue screen so I could perform a system restore that thankfully fixed it all. I was incredibly annoyed though. I really wanted to call Dell and have that guy fired. He was horrible. Luckily, the technician showed up the next day (yeah, actually came to my house; I didn’t have to ship my computer away for a week!) and replaced my CD drive, so all is good now.

So, last topic…More new things I’ve bought. Sadly, I don’t have any pictures yet….But I’ll take some in a day or two and post them up (there’s some clothes and various things I’ll need for my dorm room). Bye for now! <3 See? Like I said, in a day or two. Anyways here’s the pictures, just to spice up the long blob of text..

Okay, so the last one is just a cute picture of our two boy cats, but I couldn’t help posting it. I love my kitties <3

So, as the title says, I went to Anime Expo this year (again..I went last year for the first time, too). I think it’s pretty funny that even though you pay money for your pass, you end up spending billions more in the exhibition hall buying the amazing things the stalls have to offer, haha. I wish I had spent more time in the artists alley…I’ll have to go there more next year! My mom and sister said they’d wanna go, so maybe we’ll go for a couple of days then. So, like anyone who goes to these things, of course I bought things.

I also got the second Case Closed manga (Detective Conan in Japan) and a pair of awesome pink cat ears for my sister. Maybe I’ll get a picture of those at some point, but I didn’t think about it earlier, haha. Anyways, I’m gonna be excited to go next year. I can get even more cute stuff and hopefully I’ll make a costume before then so I can cosplay as somebody! (some people who cosplay are really scary…Especially when they’re large or crossdressing…Or both x_x )

Well, I think I’m done rambling for now. I’ve got a cruise to go on tomorrow, so I have to make sure I’ve got all my stuff together. Happy late fourth of July!