Hey guys!! Welcome back to the blog. Can we all take a second to admire my newfound graphic design skills?? Lol! I mean seriously, look at this cover picture!!!!!
I wanted to try something new this week and post a weekly recap. This past week was a very exciting and busy one so it seemed like the perfect time to try this out! If I like how this goes, you can definitely expect more weekly recaps coming to ya in the future!! :)
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8TH
This was my first full day back on campus! I woke up in my dorm room bed and began remote classes. Bucknell's COVID cases have risen so we spent this past week fully remote, as well as this current week.
The most exciting part was the new food on campus. The food last semester was packed to-go and they had extremely limited options. After lots of complaints, the dining hall opened many of its usual dining stations back up. There's a made-to-order salad bar, pasta bar, pizza bar, sauté station, vegetarian/vegan station, an entree station, and so much more. On my first full day I met Brenna to get lunch and I got this veggie stir-fry with tofu, spinach, asparagus, cooked chickpeas, brown rice, and soy sauce! I was absolutely blown away. I totally customized my bowl and there are still so many options I have to try!
I spent the rest of the afternoon on classes and doing homework. Then me, Brenna, and Emerson grabbed dinner and watched the Bachelor in Emerson's room!
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9TH
Tuesday was a pretty boring day, I did my morning classes and then went to the gym with Brenna. I was always super intimidated by the gym last semester so I would walk for an hour outside and do workouts in my room. Now that it's freezing all the time, I knew I finally had to venture down to the gym. Brenna and I went down at 12 and did the 12-3-30 tiktok walk challenge. You walk for 30 minutes on an incline of 12 and a speed of 3. It's actually way harder than you'd think. Then we attempted to complete a butt workout Brenna also found on tiktok.
I really don't have much else to say about Tuesday haha, I basically was sitting in excitement and getting ahead on homework for Wednesday!!
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10TH
Wednesday was my 19th birthday! I feel like a hag. But this day was one of my favorite days ever! I took my early morning class and then my mom came up to take me to breakfast. It was very special that she came up even after she had just driven 7 hours total on Sunday bringing me and dropping me off! But she insisted that she saw me on my birthday.❤️
We went to eat at this sketchy place, that ended up not even serving breakfast. We ended back up at Gram's, my favorite breakfast spot in downtown Lewisburg. After that we went to the town nail salon and got mani/pedis together! It was so much fun and super relaxing. That's when I got my Valentine's Day themed nails done haha.
My mom sadly dropped me back off at my dorm but gave me some more birthday gifts to open even though I got my main gift weeks ago! I wish we would've taken a picture together but we completely forgot. Then she headed back home and I came back up to my room, with this surprise from Brenna waiting on my bed:
I took my afternoon class and then FaceTimed Andrew to open my gift from him. He got me a Michael Kors fanny pack, which comes with a hilarious backstory. There was also a box of chocolate covered pretzels, which have since been devoured. I opened up all my cards and my gift from Olivia she mailed. Thank you to everyone for the happiest and sweetest birthday wishes! 💖
I got ready for the night and 3 of my friends came up to my room to hangout for a little. We took pictures before meeting up with some more girls to go to dinner. At the time, we could only have 4 people in a room at a time, so we had to split up. We took the cutest pictures, I'll share some here.
Then we all met and bundled up to walk to town! We went to my favorite restaurant, Brendan's Town Tavern, and were the only ones in there for a little! We all ordered food and had so much fun. A huge crowd of older college kids came in for the bar after a little, making a super exciting and hilarious environment. I wore a birthday crown, so everybody in the bar was wishing me a happy birthday. The food was 10/10 as always, I was torn between the pesto tortellini or an impossible burger, ultimately choosing:
I meannnn😍😍😍😍
After we ate and spent time hanging out, we headed back up to campus IN THE SNOW at 11pm. We picked up a package on the way back, my mom had sent me the yummiest cupcakes ever. Brenna and I both had one on the floor of my room when we got back up!! How freakin cute are they?! They even came with rainbow pastel candles.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11TH
Thursday was a much more boring day compared to Wednesday, hahaha. I pretty much laid in bed and ate my chocolate covered pretzels while attending my 2 Thursday zoom classes. It was a very relaxing and cozy day. For dinner I was so excited to go and get a grilled cheese and tomato soup! It was delicious.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12TH
Friday was a really great day! Brenna and I went to the gym again between our morning classes. We even found a top secret workout room! We met up with Emerson to get lunch after.
If you know me, you know I love hello bistro. They made the senior dining hall on campus into a hello bistro express! So we all ordered our custom salads on an app and picked them up to eat! Look how yum:
While we were eating, I got an email that I had a perishable idem down in the mailroom to pickup. Andrew sent me the cutest Edible Arrangement for Valentine's Day. It's full of mini brownies and cheesecakes!!!
I FaceTimed my grandma because it was her bday! Then I took a shower and did my afternoon class. Then I relaxed in bed for awhile and talked to Andrew!
We planned the cutest and coziest Friday night - which worked out perfectly because we got an email that day about stricter rules and another increase in cases on campus. Brenna used Instacart to order some groceries and ordered us the cutest heart shaped pizza. We walked down to Emerson's building and got our adorable and yummy pizza! Then we headed to the ~lovely~ Vedder kitchen to make some cookies and chocolate covered pretzels and strawberries. You can see my attempt to make them heart-shaped below hahaha. We enjoyed all of our yummy food and watched Runaway Bride in Emerson's room! On my way back up to my dorm room I stopped in my friends' room in Swartz and hung out with them for a little too.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13TH
I laid in bed for awhile on Saturday, haha. I got an email saying I had a package and another perishable item to pick up. I got ready and headed down to student mail. My mom/family sent me the prettiest flowers for my birthday that finally arrived for me. They are so beautiful and are still looking gorgeous currently in my Starbucks cup on my desk, LOL. She told me the other thing she sent was a Valentine's Day gift, but I had no idea what she could've sent because she gave me a little Valentine's gift bag when she was here Wednesday. I opened it up and it was the Kate Spade Valentine's Day pink heart purse.
In order for you to understand how shocked I was, here's the backstory: I showed my mom this pink heart Kate Spade purse that I was seeing everywhere on TikTok. She agreed with me that it was the cutest thing ever. She asked if I wanted it for my birthday/Vday, but I said no because she had already gotten me a really nice purse for my birthday. She agreed, saying I probably wouldn't use it any other time of the year. I said I probably wouldn't, even though I just couldn't stop thinking about how badly I wanted it. If you know me, you know I'm a crazy bag lady who names and adores each and every one of her purses.
I have seriously never been so shocked over a gift! So for the millionth time, thank you mom!!! You really got me with this one, talking me out of wanting it definitely fooled me, haha. I still haven't named it. I'm trying to think of some sort of Valentine's Day kinda name, like Love or Rose or something. I like the idea of choosing a flower/floral name. We will see. Look at her!! 😍🤤 Anyways... love you mommy!
After my thrilling mail experience, I headed to the library to meet Brenna and Emerson. We stayed there for hours and tried to knock out all of our homework for the weekend. I did most of mine and then headed back here to relax before getting ready for another fun night!
I got ready and Brenna and I headed down to Vedder to get Emerson. We took some cute pictures with Valentine's Day sunglasses and headed back to out fav spot: Brendan's!!
Brenden's was so fun again this night. We ordered mocktails and got pirogi appetizers! I order tortellini again because it was amazing on Wednesday. I definitely have to get the impossible burger next time though!! Another 10/10 night.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14TH
I had such a nice and lowkey Valentine's Day. I slept in and laid in my bed all morning, then talked to my family on FT. I opened up the cute little Valentine's Day package my mom gave me full of lots of chocolate and a Starbucks VDay cup! I literally spent the entire Sunday in bed on the phone. I had a birthday cupcake and mini brownie for lunch. I heated up tortellini for dinner. And then it was time for my Valentine's Day Zoom/Hulu date with Andrew. We go on a Zoom meeting and then make the other half of the computer screen a Hulu watch party so we can watch movies/TV shows on Hulu at the same time and still talk. We did that for a few hours and watched a bunch of episodes of One Tree Hill!
That is about it for my weekly wrap-up! I hope it wasn't too all over the place, even though it's pretty much bound to be. I actually really liked making this post and I'm looking forward to making more in the future. Make sure you guys scroll to the bottom here and let me know what you thought of it!
Talk to you next time!! And as always, thanks for reading.
xo
Bella
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