breathe

Friend

Wake up, the sun says.

I'm trying to warm you. 

It's going to be okay, the sky says,

I've stormed, too. 

Come this way, the road says, 

I know where you're trying to go and I'll help you get there. 

Be well, I say,
forgive all that's gone wrong because you still shine bright to me.

Need sleep

Hi I'm stressed. I don't have time to blog. But I say that and then I'm sitting at brunch until 4 pm on a Sunday wondering where all my time went. So much to do. To think about. To worry about thinking about. I'm in denial. More like fight or flight response. Doing a bang-up job fleeing. Now it's time to fight. Deadlines? Make them. Work? Master it. Free time? Control it. Spring break is two short weeks away and you deserve this. So work hard, remember to sleep and for goodness sake stop talking to yourself on your blog. Or don't. Whichever gets you moving like the queen of your life you are.

minute enthusiasms

Stacy's gingerbread pita chips from Christmas taste better mid-February. More crunch.

My advertising textbook's definition of social media just gave me the invaluable perspective that it works. So I think I'm ready for this exam.

1 banana, 3-4-8 scoops of chocolate ice cream, ice, milk in a blender for an after-school life escape.

Ellie Goulding turned all the way up is choice therapy for any mind gone mad.

Lent

No social media. You have things to do. Like make DIY bracelets. 

Sometimes

Sometimes, not being chosen over other people to hang out is ok.
Just like going for the last four and finishing off a whole row of girl scout cookies in one sitting is.
Just like cleaning the entire apartment by yourself again since really you're the only one who actually lives here anymore is.
Just like deciding not to be lonely and working on your grad school application instead is.

Sometimes it's just not your day and you feel like being dramatic and that's ok too.

yep

Maravillosa

Campaigns 2013

So there's a designer. And then there's a video. And yea I think that's how love works.

DKNY


Target

I'm happy because I'm wearing denim on denim on denim even though I'm not supposed to but I like breaking the rules. Also because my coffee has cocoa an brown sugar in it and well that just tastes good. It could also be that it's Thursday and I'm sleep deprived but still love drunk from Tuesday and overly excited for this weekend. I have bed head at work and my foot is still sore but hey, I've got cocoa and brown sugar in my coffee so bring it

Wednesday

I put more than enough ketchup on my plate just so I'd get to eat more tater tots. And then I ran out of ketchup but still had 3 more tater tots. So I squirt more ketchup.  And the cycle continued until I was like ok 42 tater tots is enough stop now and I just had to suck it up and eat the last 3 dry tater tots without ketchup and they tasted like burnt crust.
MY LIFE IS SO HARD BUT SO TASTY

Happy happenings

If you happen to love music:



And if you happen to be interested in how my photography class is going/how my roommate is doing:

And if you happen to crave summer just as much as I do:


Daydreamers bracelet, $30, Kristin Cavallari for GLAMboutique

Cheese and Pasta

I destroyed my left foot this weekend tripping over a small stair. Like, perpendicularly jammed it into the step right in the part I had surgery on and face-planted on the ground. It hurt so bad I can't even walk normal and thought wearing uggs today would be comfortable and protective, but I just ended up tripping over my bear paw feet more than usual.  In other news I put lotion on my face after I got out of the shower and maybe I didn't dry my face of all the way but it's running into my eyes, stinging like lotion should when it gets in your eyes, and making me squint fiercely at the computer screen. 

This song would come on in Conad (the grocery store in Florence) last semester and I am feeling extra nostalgic about last semester today. The walks home from class, in particular. I would be so hungry and know I didn't have any food at the apartment so I'd stop in just for stuff to make dinner that night. Sometimes I'd get a muffin at the bakery on the way in because I'd be too hungry to wait til I got home to eat. There were 'albicoca" muffins which were like buttery vanilla with a little mango filling and white chocolate shavings on top. And there was also chocolate. I got the albicoca more times than I'd get the chocolate, but both were delicious.

Inside would be crowded and chaotic and foreign and scary and I couldn't use my vic card and I never, ever thought I'd miss it like I do. And I mean Harris Teeter is nice and has clean floors, packed full with all the good brands and I can actually see what kind of cheese I am buying like Sargento or the colby-monterey jack kind instead of just picking one that seemed somewhat provolone-like. But I miss when I had to pick a random seran-wrapped block of cheese from the pile of assorted blocks of cheeses and it ended up being the best cheese I ever had. It sliced nicely and tasted not too sharp, not too mild. And all my roommates would agree about how good it was. But when we wanted to go get more of it, we couldn't remember what the make-shift label had said, much less be able to pick it out again. So that would be the first and only time I'd ever have that cheese again. And we'd say stuff like "remember that cheese you got that one time that was so good!!" and next time anyone went grocery shopping, try to pick out the same kind of cheese. I'd pick one up and hold it in my hand like "hm, was this it? I don't know! What if it's not! I hope it is!" And it usually wasn't.  But then that time I'd pick out a different brand of pasta, and it'd be this thick, homemade kind that filled me up with one bowl. And the next day I'd be so excited for dinner to go home and eat more of this good kind of pasta. So it didn't matter that I didn't get the good kind of cheese that time because the kind of pasta I happened to get was so good I didn't care about what kind of cheese it was.

I'm still squinting from this god forsaken lotion in my eye. Gotta go wash this out.