H&M haul

Two pairs of sweatpants (so comfortable! My favorite sweats ever)

Mittens

Tank

Yummy meal - Seafood pancake

Sephora Mini-haul

Dior 5 Colour Eyeshadow Palette in Smoky Design

Pangea Organics Japanese Matcha Tea Mask with Acai and Goji berry

Samples: Givenchy Photo-perfection, Supergoop, MBMJ Lola perfume

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Whole Foods Fruit custard cakes

Whole Foods has the most amazing, delicious, soft cakes ever.  I could eat their cake every day. I have sometimes downed half a cake in one sitting. :(

I've never tried the cakes on the right, but they look pretty delicious too!

Maxwell Brenner's fudge fondue

White chocolate, caramel, and milk chocolate fondue.

Sides with strawberries, bananas, marshmallows, and cookies.

Marshmallows were my favorite :)

Yummy meal - sushi

Cucumber wrapped roll & two salmon rolls

gyoza & shrimp sumai

Yummy meal - Mackerel & Rice

Mackerel & Rice

New watch + Nike running shoes

I won a $100 giftcard from Kohl's recently, and stopped by Kohl's to pick up a much-needed watch.

I've been lusting after a watch for quite some time, but since I tend to treat my belongings very poorly, and I hate having to buckle my watch every day, I decided to get a budget watch that I can just slip on. The result: Timex T2H351 Easy Reader Gold Expansion watch. I have a tiny wrist so it's quite loose, but I like it that way.

The watch was only around ~$40 so I still had some leftover. I debated getting some Flirt! lipglosses, which are so cute:

The packaging is HUGE but it's so cute...it's a bit pricey though, at $15.50

Eventually, I decided to go for a more exciting purchase: Nike Dual Fusion sneakers. They are HOT. Some seriously sexy running shoes. WOOT!

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Yummy meal - Cobb Wrap

This is my favorite meal to get at one of the restaurants on campus.

Cobb wrap!

It has bits of bacon, guacamole spread, grilled chicken, and lettuce.

Super delicious AND healthy.

Training for a marathon!

After years of being a potato couch, I've just decided to train for a half-marathon. For me, I need a big goal to make me work hard :P A marathon is 26.2 miles, so too big of a goal for me, but a half-marathon, at 13.1 miles, sounds much more manageable. Actually, I'll probably have to try a 5k first, but whew, wish me luck!

Fun fact: The origin of Marathon came from ancient Greece, during a war in which all the states on the Greek island lined up to stop the formidable Persian empire from taking over. After the Athenians (one of the states of Greece at the time) won a crucial and decisive battle, the Battle of Marathon, against the Persians, they sent a runner named Pheidippides to notify their city of the victory. He ran from Marathon to Athens without stopping, a route that was a total of 22-25 miles. Upon arrival, he exclaimed, "Νενικήκαμεν" (Nenikékamen, 'We have won.') before collapsing and dying of exhaustion. In his honor, they celebrate his run every year by holding marathons of approximately the same route, from Marathon to Athens. Interesting right? The author Haruki Murakami talks about his experience running this route in his autobiography, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (which is excellent).

Anyhow, to help my running, I stopped by Dick's Sporting Goods and picked up some goodies:

Camelbak Better Bottle 24 oz.

Detour Protein Bars

Muscle Milk in Vanilla Creme

Nike wristbands

Nike headband

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