it's christmas-y around these parts.

hey ya'll!

it's getting rather christmas-y around these parts and that means one thing.

FINALS.

or for me, the last week of school. 

aww heck yeah. 

yeah yeah yeah.

*turns on music*

*dances around the coffee shop i'm sitting in*

*gets kicked out of said coffee shop*

just kidding. but, that is EXACTLY how i picture that kind of incident to play out. exactly.

if you, you reading this, are finished with the semester, yay!

i envy you in the best possible way. 

i am almost done.

i smell the finish line. i can taste the sweet victory.

and then some more christmas festivities can begin. 

and maybe i'll be all sorts of awesome and share them with you.

happy post thanksgiving.

hope everyone out there in the blog-sphere and the cyber-world had a great thanksgiving!

i sure did; i was able to spend it with a bunch of awesome people that God has brought into my life. technically i had two thanksgiving's this year, one with some family friends and one with my sunday school class/ bible study group.

 so thankful for all of these people!

my friends younger sister made these cute little place cards!
aren't they darling?

"Cara is thankful for Cara"

now, i am currently sitting at home, in the floor of my room, recovering from a nasty stomach bug (one that came in like a wrecking ball-see what i did there?- around three thirty sunday morning.) and working on a paper.

being sick is the pits, especially when there is vomiting involved. but i am much better today (by much better i mean no more puking) but not 100%.

oh well.

again, i hope everyone had a wonderful thanksgiving!

a little coffee, a lot of Jesus, and people who get it.

we could call this the definition of my life lately.

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on an unrelated note, super thankful for this girl.

there are not many people that understand what goes on him my head. 

she's one of the few exceptions.

this week.

*watching a lecture on biblical counseling/ the coffee product i'm addicted to/ i've become a pro at making pumpkin spice lattes/ i got a bunch of new guitar picks, suited for my needs, that i'll probably lose in a week/ the cover of my developmental psych book is horrifying*

this has been my week.

 snuggling up with a pumpkin spice latte, doing homework.

 and with the recent temperature drop here in beaufort, the whole snuggling-up-with-a-cup-of-coffee thing can actually be a thing.

i think i have re-fallen in love with the colder weather.

what has your week been looking like?

i did a thing: hair.

i did a thing. i colored my hair. 

it's the first time that i have done it since the spring?

shameful i know.

these ladies helped me.

technically, footsie pajamas (danielle) decided she was going to bed. so it was just pink shirt (cara) who colored my hair. 

we learned that night that my hair now requires two boxes of color. yikes.

so here it is!

i dig it.
i think i'll keep it.

any excuse to post a clip from the office.

i'm going to throw something out there that i have yet to mention:

i am a die hard the office fan. 

this has been yet another psa.

i also happen to currently reading in my developmental psych class, about Pavlov and his classical conditioning theory/ experiment.

have you heard of it? i hope so. it's rather fascinating.

but if you haven't heard of it, this is the best explanation: 

a clip from the office.

enjoy!

p.s. 
my apologies for jim's mouth at the very beginning.

real talk: on taking your lady out to dinner

i want to address something that has me a bit peeved. 

consider this a psa.

i observed last night at a restaurant a young man who had brought his lady out for a meal. upon finishing their meal and paying, i happened to notice the gentleman hand the waitress a ten dollar bill and a debit card saying, 

"put ten dollars on then pay the rest with the card."

*insert face palm*

now you're probably thinking,

dang caroline. stare/eavesdrop much? 

yes actually.

 just kidding. 

sort of.

my beef with the above mentioned story is the fact that we all know good and well that if he paid for their bill with cash AND credit, he most definitely did NOT leave that waitress a tip.

now let's be straight up for a second. here's a new "rule of thumb" to add to the already huge list that the world has made.

if ya ain't gonna tip, take your lady to a fast food joint.
they get paid minimum wage. 

waitresses/ waiters get paid waaaaay less an hour.

end. of. story.

and that's all i got to say about that.

#realtalk.

ps. 

i was also told that my standards were too high for the guys in my age group. 

well too freaking bad. 

there is no excuse for situations like said story or lack of manners in general.