So maybe not quality pet time, but seeing the container stuck to her head made me laugh. I really needed that laugh, so I’m sure she’ll forgive me. Or she’ll get all passive-aggressive with her farts. I’ve lived through worse.

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Finals Week + No Sleep = Insanity & Torture is a post from: Sarah Bellum's Tales of Wit and Charm. Click here to read comments!

Normally I’m not a lipstick person. If you open my purse you’ll find Hello Kitty glitter lip-gloss and my standby Dr Pepper Lip Smacker. Shut up, it tastes good and the color is pretty. Today, however, I wore real lipstick. Not necessarily because I wanted to, but because my DP lip-gloss was missing.

I forgot about my heavily made-up lips and went to school.

As I was leaving the paid parking lot I put the parking slips between my lips. I needed both hands to rummage through my bag for money. I handed the parking slip and a twenty-dollar bill to the middle-aged parking attendant. The guy who flirts with every day, which I blatantly ignore. He looked at the parking slip and spotted what looked like an intentional lipstick kiss.

“Oh Sarah, thank you for the kiss. I wondered when that would finally happen.”

Oh God.

This sucks on so many levels. Now, in an effort to avoid him, I’ll be forced to park in student parking. Which is good, I guess, since I drove off without my change. College educations are so damn expensive.

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Someone owes me $17… I just need to decide if it’s the University or Maybelline. is a post from: Sarah Bellum's Tales of Wit and Charm. Click here to read comments!

Over the past year I have neglected my friends and family, gained weight and stopped dating altogether. My free time was limited and I had to spend most of it studying. At least once a week I wanted to quit school. I missed my friends. I missed hanging out with my brothers, and I definitely missed having a real paycheck.

I constantly questioned whether or not finishing my degree was worth it. Today I received my graduation evaluation, and quickly realized it really was worth it.

BOO-YAH! I’m almost there!

I’ll be the first grandchild in the Nielson clan to graduate from the University of Utah. Cousins have graduated from other great schools, and even the much-hated BYU. However, I’ll be the only one to graduate from the same school that my uncles and father graduated from. This gives me a huge sense of family pride AND something to hold over all the cousins who graduated years ahead of me, which was really the end goal.

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In January I’m going to spend all my free-time GLOATING. is a post from: Sarah Bellum's Tales of Wit and Charm. Click here to read comments!

The older I get, the less I want to spend money. Soon I’ll be cashing in on Sizzler coupons for a steak and casing the streets for junk people are throwing out.

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That’s What She Said… about Graduation, Nut Rolls, Purses and Australia is a post from: Sarah Bellum's Tales of Wit and Charm. Click here to read comments!