A little reminder after a not so great week

Things We Forget

Happy Birthday to Me...

Buy for me Here

Oh pretty pretty pretty please for my birthday! CUTEST DRESS EVER!

Sometimes you win, sometimes you don't

Sometimes what you need to nix a day full of icky feelings and sadness is a good night of plans with friends. That's exactly what I have. Well today (and yesterday) we filled with those icky feelings, but tonight is filled with watching Whip It (I love Roller Derby, definitely my new obsession) and relaxing at a friend's house. Home isn't feeling like home the past couple of days so having somewhere else to go is nice to.

In other news... found on You Are My Fave

This adorable skirt... Anthropologie

AND...


this gorgeous jacket can be found at Boden USA.

Too bad I'm broker than broke. It's all good though, I am broke because I bought this lovely:


Seriously my new bestest friend.

Still hoping for Portland for my birthday but I may have to push it back a bit.
Goodness I miss you Portland friends and weather.

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Started and finished Dear John yesterday. The scenes are still with me. I guess it didn't help that I was listening to Taylor Swift's Fearless album which goes well with the book, or at least some of the songs do.

Either way, I enjoyed the book... going to see the movie. Possibly alone so my friends won't tease me about the tears rolling down my face. Cuz it will happen. I cried through the second half of the book.

I haven't cried in a while.

Sometimes it's nice.

Someday they tell me

I'd like to know what this feels like.





Sources: We Heart It
These are random pictures I've saved for myself while looking through WeHeartIt or other blogs, if you know who to give credit to please let me know!

Where I Want to Be

Or

Both from here

Somewhere with snow. Somewhere with loads of books and time to read them and drink coffee then go play in the snow then come inside to sit by a fire to warm back up with another book.

Things to do at night

I'm so excited, first off today is blustery and there are tornado warnings abound and it's amazing! So excited. Wish it would keep pouring.

I don't mind the weather, I've got scarves and caps and sweaters

it was so appropriate for that song to come on at work today. :)

I'm also excited because I signed myself up for TWO swaps. One is a valentine's swap!

(I would love for you to be able to click the photo for the link, but let's be real I'm still real new to this, so click the link above.)

THEN I signed up for a book swap.

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I get to send someone my favoritest book with a little message in it! SO AWESOME.
I've been feeling a little lost lately I think. Maybe just confused. Or not creative. I haven't really put my mind to serious work and that I think is a problem.
So this will be good, I will be creating and via snail mail I will be meeting new people and receiving pretty things! It will take the sting out of another Valentine's day without a lover. Although you never know what could happen between now and then. maybe I'll meet someone. I wouldn't be opposed to the idea. But if I don't there is always next year.

Anyway, before I get caught up in the "lonely" thought I'm going to stop myself and just be excited for everything that is good. The swaps, my new lovely camera, the weather...

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I might be a tad over emotional today because my head hurts and it's rainy but when I saw the cover of this magazine I wanted to cry. I wanted to cry for girls that think they aren't good enough. She was beautiful and amazing before she got any surgery. She looked like a plastic doll the first round and now I just don't even know what she looks like.
I get it, she was made fun of as a kid and on tv, but why don't you work on your mind and not your body. See a counselor. Know that your husband (whom I absolutely detest but that's a different story) chose to be with you before you changed.
People are making fun of her now. How is this different? We all need to work on our lasting childhood insecurities.

This just makes me so sad. She's completely unrecognizable. Love what you've got.

I got it! I wanted it and I finally got it! Yay for my pretty (and huge) camera.
That is all for now.

Oh please

From an article concerning the Pope's opinion and distaste for Avatar.

The pope explained in the message that while many experience tranquillity and peace when coming into contact with nature, a correct relationship between man and the environment should not lead to "absolutizing nature" or "considering it more important than the human person."

Source

Wait, what about that part where it is... where nature is more important than the human person because without it we can't survive. I'm almost positive this world would be doing a whole lot better surviving without us. The earth doesn't need us, we need the earth. That makes it far more important than we are, especially each individual human.

Please Pope... give me a break. You aren't as important as you seem to think.

Champagne Tuesday?

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Sometimes I wish I could say I just have no interest at all in alcohol. I mean, for the most part it is true. I don't drink very often, but every once in a while I just can't help but want a champagne night.

Oh Zooey. I know you understand

The List

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Starting to make my 25 to do before 25 list... I missed out on the idea for 24. Should I make a list of 24 semi easy things to do before my birthday? It's really soon, like a month and a half away. I'll give it some thought through the day, see if I just want to make a 25 before 25 to start on the glorious day of my birth.

The picture has something to do with my 25 before 25, if I find myself in more money or able to save it might have two things to do with my 25 before 25. I'm not being clear. I'm sorry, the idea isn't fully clear in my head.

I'm just excited. I take my birthday more serious than Jan.1st.

A missing piece I'm not 100% sure I have room for yet

*source unknown, most likely weheartit

Sometimes this is how I feel. Not that I've lost anybody or that a love is gone, but more so that I just have an empty space where a warm, loving body should be. I'm going to stop their with the sad tone, I don't mean to be sad or melancholy... I'm just thinking. I will be the first to admit my hesitation (to say the least) to commit to anything and more importantly anyone. I'll commit to day plans, or short term jobs. I'll commit to chores (sometimes) or exercise routines but that's about it. I don't always stick books through to the end, my shelves are half filled with books who's beginning pages I have read but then soon put down for one reason or another. My latest huge commitment would have to be my job. I still squirm at least once every two days about committing to a 9-6 job. Not because I don't like what I do, not because I don't like having money and not because I have any other grand plans that I am making myself miss out on. I squirm because I feel confined. I don't mind working and I don't mind having responsibilities, in fact, I feel much better about myself when I am doing something that I consider at least a little challenging to the norm. What frustrates me is that if I wanted to, I could not leave early one day, I could not go take a nap for an hour or two and pick up and start again later. I have to stay the full amount of time regardless of if I have finished my to-dos for the day or even the week.
What does this have to do with the picture, alright, I'm roping myself back in, sorry. So what I mean is, I'm not sad that I don't have a significant other. Well, sometimes I am. Sometimes I feel a pang of emotion that just fills me for a second and leaves me wishing I had found someone I could stand to keep around as more than a friend. But the truth is, I haven't. As much as I would love to find someone I can connect with in many different ways AND be sexually attracted to for more than a month, I just haven't found someone. So that is why there is a space on the side of my bed. That is why I sometimes feel like the space should be occupied by another person instead of me spreading out over both sides.
Sometimes.
But not all the time.
Cuz if there were someone there I wouldn't be able to shift to find the cool spots under the sheets.

New BFF?

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I love Lauren Conrad's style so much> i just think she is one of the prettiest little things ever! Lauren, if you ever stumble upon this blog, let's be besties please. I think you're just amazing.

Oh goodness me

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EDIT: ADDITION!!!!

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I want! I want! I want! Must make more money... but how???



(not sure where I found this one, I'm assuming We Heart It)

Lunchtime Special

Decided to add a few more likes that I found while perusing other blogs during my lunch break...


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Unfortunately this little baby is sold out. :(


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And this one is out of my price range, but it is completely adorable and makes me want to make super cute things.

And lastly:


I want a Fujifilm Instax 7s soooooo bad. Then I would be able to do this to my door too.

All images were found through Smile and Wave

Such pretty bedroom things

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If I hadn't already decided on a royalty/princess theme for my room I would have loved this Duvet. And I've found a new inspiration catalog... Serena and Lily. Gorgeous colors, patterns, ideas. All too expensive for my meager salary but still a girl can dream, and create.

Happy 1st Monday of the new year AND a new Millennium!

Space to breathe

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I want a headboard. I want my room to be a little more interesting. Right now it is sorta plain. I mean, the colors on the walls are nice, but there's nothing else. I also need a pretty molded mirror for my princess desk. Oh need need need, money money money. Sigh.

I found an article on how to make a tufted headboard, I would love to do it but the size of the project itself would almost make it impossible. Where am I going to find a big enough area to cut and shape wood? Who has a workshop/art studio they want to let me use?

Love this picture

I think I found this on We Heart It

Someday I'll blog about this. But for now I think it just is what it is. Or maybe that's what it has always been. Life just is as it is. 1st day of 2010. My my my what a year this is going to be. I'm going to be okay. This I know. And I'm going to be happy.