Life with Madi

 Basically what happens is that Old Town Fort Collins becomes this music hub for two days, and 300+ bands come and play at different venues all over the city.  Me, the roomie, and some of her friends basically just hopped from place to place and caught about 4 or 5 bands last night.  It was so great.

So, since the current side of the dorm building that we live on is about to go under construction, we get to move to the other side of the building that is newly renovated.  We even got the chance to pick fourth-floor rooms, which are basically the mansions of Parmalee (not really, but that metaphor got out of hand).  They've got vaulted ceilings, freshly painted walls in nice colors (tan and light olive green, so soothing), and a bathroom that looks like the inside of a Holiday Inn.  And I LOVE the Holiday Inn.

We got the chance to go up there and check it out, and oh my damn...that is some spacious shit.  It got the cogs turning in my head, thinking about how I'm going to decorate my side of the room and I found some pretty beautiful pictures for inspiration on Pintrest:

It's because I've been so busy, I promise.  In fact, I've been having quite a battle with a beautiful pair of green jeans:



Enjoy, and have a happy week!  I, for one, cannot wait for Thursday to come...that's when I leave for home and get to see my family for the first time in nearly three months.  YAY!

Adieu,
Cooper

Lately, I've been covering dorm life via vlog for CSU's paper, The Collegian.  I wanted to share my YouTube channel with you so you could catch all my lovely adventures here in Parmalee.  It's a magical, magical place....


Life With Madi

Proof; that's college life for ya there.

Happy Sunday,
Cooper

it's been a while since I last posted!  I suppose I've been busy...there's been meetings, and NBC Thursdays, mug painting, and movie night with the suite mate (I finally watched The King's Speech; it was great).  Oh, and there was this:

Everybody please watch my sister be adorable and teach people how to be gorgeous.  She's so great, and so is her vlog.  SO FOLLOW IT OKAY?

Speaking of vlogs, remember my last post? When I mentioned that the Freshman blog advisor was going to meet with me to see if I wanted to do my vlog regularly?

Well, on Friday he took me and the Collegian's blogs editor out for pizza and they talked to me about making this vlog weekly and eventually doing other topics besides dorm life.  Basically, I might get my own, seperate, Collegian vlog.

I am so excited- I can't believe they liked my videos that much and it means so much to me that they'd actually like to work with me on this.

It's surreal, and it's great, and I just can't believe it's all happening so fast.  I love CSU, and I love this September, and I love Fall.  I love, love, love.

Next week, my mom's coming in from Texas and I'll be sure to take tons of pictures of our tons-o-fun girl's weekend together.  I absolutely cannot wait to see her.  It's been a month!!! That's crazy!!!

Until later,
Cooper

A video of me acting incredibly ridiculous (click here to experience the magic) was published on a website, for real people to look at and laugh at me being completely ridiculous.

And now, according to my advisor, I may be doing it regularly.  Geesh.

Here's proof for all you non-believers out there:

Oh God.  The screencap just had to be of me lifting up my sweater.


I'm going to go huddle in a ball of self disgust now.  Just kidding.  I'm actually really excited.

So long,
Cooper

So I have to do a blog (a different blog) for my media based first year mentoring group for the university, and I've decided to do videos.

Yeah, because my first one went so well.....  No worries, this one is much shorter and BETTER.  It includes dancing and chunky sweaters, and in the second one I dance while eating food.

So pretty much just a whole lot of dancing.

Here's the first one:




And the second:



Enjoy dorm living, folks. I'll be sure to post a link to my first CSU blog post when they get put up :)

I've finally gotten around to uploading the pictures of my dorm, and lo and behold, I found some great pictures of move-in week as well.

Thank you, Olive and Maggie, for posting it on facebook which therefore led to me watching it and consequently laughing and consequently putting it on my blog.  Okay.

It's my second day at CSU and so far things are bittersweet.

Let's start with the bitter (it's always best to end with the sweet):

1. I miss my southern hospitality!  People aren't exactly rude here, but they're content in their ways.  I guess if someone opens the door for someone else and they don't say thank you, it's not a big deal because it's just...expected?  I don't know what I'm saying.  Is it too much to ask for a simple 'thank you'?!

2.  Being far away from family.  I could not get to sleep last night because I was going back and forth in my mind about being so far away for so long.  It was awful!  I think it was just me being me, though- over-thinking something to the point that it makes me upset.  I need to get used to this enormous adjustment but it's going to be really hard at this point.  I've realized that, in entering adulthood, instead of taking baby steps I've taken three gigantic hops.  This could end well or very badly.  I'm hoping for well.

3.  I obviously don't know how to take care of myself very well when I'm not at home.  I took a shower last night and woke up this morning with my hair greasy and disgusting- I left conditioner in my hair.  GROSS. There are also still boxes and piles of clothes shoved into my closet that I desperately need to unpack.  I'm hoping all of this stuff is just going to take time- time to get adjusted, time to get used to things, time to get used to being far away.  BUT HOW LONG AM I SUPPOSED TO WAIT?

And now the sweet:

1.  My dorm is adorable.  I'll post pictures later, but with my family's help and my inspiration, Secrets of a Stylist, the place turned out awesome.  It's so country vintage (hahaha).

2.  The roommate- not anything like Leighton Meester in The Roommate (whew).  Much less creepy and super friendly- in fact, we're a lot alike in a lot of ways.  Luckily we like the same music and the same decor and she's not a partier or anything like that.  It's going to be nice.

3.  This campus is gorgeous.  I got lost today (it's so big- sort of a bitter but sort of a sweet, too) and just walking around aimlessly I realized how beautiful and green it is.  I love it!

4. I've got Netflix on my computer and there's always Hulu.com, so whenever I want to watch my favorite shows to keep me company, I can.  There's nothing like a good Pushing Daisies marathon to keep the pangs of homesickness at bay.

Those are my first impressions so far.  This college experience has been a bumpy one, but I'm expecting to get stronger and to adapt more to Fort Collins (and especially to the distance, yikes).  I mean, it's only been my first two days!

Until later,
Cooper

I've been driving myself INSANE lately, which I imagine is a common action being performed by all soon-to-be college students.  Things need to be packed and sorted, including emotions, and I've got to start preparing myself for a change of lifestyle very soon.

That all sounds very dramatic, mind you, but I can't help but be dramatic as I am a nervous wreck.  In fact, the only thing keeping me together right now is thinking of all of the things I'll get to look forward to in the upcoming year.  In fact, there are both pros and cons to becoming a college student in Colorado (or elsewhere, but for blog's sake let's say CSU) and leaving your parents far, far behind, and that, folks, is how you transition into your blog post entitled:

Typical sisters.

Moldi Minute: Part 2 of Packing/Decorating from Madison Scruggs on Vimeo.

My sister and I are starting a web show. Not a crazy, post-every-week web show, but we just love to talk and such and thought we'd do it in front of a camera. We call it the 'Moldi Minute' (Moldi= Molly+Madi).

THIS WEEK: Packing/organizing/decorating tips for dorm living! ENJOY!

Moldi Minute: Packing pt. 1 from Madison Scruggs on Vimeo.

It's called Houzz.com.  You can go and look through pictures of houses and the decor inside, garnering inspiration for your own decorating projects.  And THEN you can create an Ideabook of pictures that you like and want to group together for an upcoming renovation/decorating change/etc.  Here's a few of my favorite pictures: 








This last photo is going to be the one I base my dorm off of. I love the idea of mixing pure whites with wood and other dark, boho textures. I can't wait!

I'm getting way too excited about this. But it's fun. So I refuse to chill out.

Happy Monday,
Cooper