10 to 1

10 to 1 Survey

10 favorite musical artists:

• Band of Horses
• Skrillex
• Jack's Mannequin
• Coldplay
• Ingrid Michaelson
• Needtobreathe
• Jaymay
• Fun.
• Metric
• Death Cab for Cutie

9 things in your purse:

• wallet
• phone
• debit card
• sunglasses
• gum
• planner
• water bottle
• pens/pencils
• keys

8 places you want to visit:

• Amritsar, India
• Chicago
• Las Vegas
• New Zealand 
• Spain
• Oregon 
• Greece
• Puerto Rico

7 movies you love:

• Chicago
• While You Were Sleeping
• Hot Rod
• Mulan
• Tangled
• Amelie
• Count of Monte Cristo

6 favorite hobbies:

• Music (piano, ukulele, harmonica?)
• does psychology count?
• working out
• reading
• outdoorsy stuff (hiking, kayaking etc)
• DIY

5 favorite fruits/vegetables:

• Broccoli
• Fuji apples
• Artichokes
• Peaches
• Asparagus

4 favorite colors to wear:

• green
• dark red/purple
• greige (greyish beige)
• black

3 things that stress you out:

• Finals 
• dealing with money issues
• waiting...whether it be waiting to hear back from places I applied to or waiting to see what i got on a test.

2 things you say too much:

• sounds good! (seriously if you look at my text messages... probably about 1/4 of them say that)
• really??!

1 favorite dessert:

• ooh tough choice... i'm gonna go with Sammys coconut cupcake shake. 

If

If

By Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you   

    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,   

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

    But make allowance for their doubting too;   

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

    Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,

    And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;   

    If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;   

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

    And treat those two impostors just the same;   

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken

    Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

    And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

    And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

    And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

    To serve your turn long after they are gone,   

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

    Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,   

    Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

    If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

    With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,   

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,   

    And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

Close your eyes

Close your eyes you might see something beautiful

'Cause it's not not all pitch black in the back of your mind

So close your eyes, you might see something prettier

You pick a dream right out of the night.

(Haji Ali Mosque, Mumbai India)

Will someone please tell me what the world is like?

I feel my perspective constantly changing, my opinions and viewpoints always shifting...so much that I never have a grip on what his world is all about.

I want to go everywhere. No really, I want to cover every inch of this earth meeting people and seeing things. I want to read every book ever written. I want to listen to every song, swim in every lake, ocean, and river, hike up every mountain -big or small, sit in the shade of every tree, smell every flower, try every type of food until i'm old, happy and tired. I never want to stop.

I want to feel epic. I want to stand on a stage in front of thousands, run an ultra-marathon, scuba dive through sunken ships, drive the fastest car, skydive and bungee jump and hang glide, ride a wild horse on the beach with my fingers tangled in its mane, my bare feet clinging naturally to its side, I want to feel what its like to fight for what I love. 

But I also want to experience everything that is so beautifully normal. I want to draw pictures in foggy bathroom mirrors, eat peanut butter from the spoon, I want to jump in a pool and feel the immediate shocking woosh of cold water on my face, I want to feel my husband's strong hand rest reassuringly on the small of my back, I want to feel his eyelashes on my checks when he kisses me. I want to feel my baby's breath on my coller bone as they rest in my arms. I want to teach my son how to do math problems and make the perfect snowball, catching the love and wonder in his sparkling eyes. I want to run in the crunchy fall leaves and feel alive.

I want muffin-pan dinners and spontaneous flour fights and sheets fresh out of the dryer, I want someone to hold my hand and hold my heart and bring me flowers and tell me I'm beautiful. I want to work so hard every day that I fall asleep in my clothes on the couch and my husband has to carry me to bed like my dad used to do. I want to wake up with the sunlight in my eyes and keep it there until I close them again at night. I never wat to stop singing when I do the dishes or wearing weird grandpa sweaters on sunday afternoons or hoping for the window seat on every flight. I want to try new recipes and cry to stupid songs with my best friends and remember the funny parts of every inside joke I ever had.


I guess I just hope and pray and believe that life will be beautiful despite the inevitable struggles and chaos. Please let me be strong and make it beautiful.

June 18 4:08 PM

I probably deserve the 'worst blogger ever' award. seriously, its been forever.

Despite the lack of updating in the past few months, today's post is about random stuff. I guess sometimes we all just need to get our insignificant thoughts out, rather than focusing on the deeper, more important ones. I promise i'll be better with updating and pretty soon i'll be making my study abroad/india blog that you all can follow! :)

I. My hair is getting really long. Do i want to cut it? no. Will i probably just leave it till I get back from india looking like one of those women who probably use their hair to wipe their counters? maybe.

okay okay its not THAT long.

II. Someone confused my 15 year old sister and I for twins again today. Come on now. 

III. I just started reading Little Bee by Chris Cleave -- heard it was really good and eventually caved in to peer pressure. 

IV. Playing piano both comforts and challenges me. I think everyone needs a hobby/talent that they can do and entirely lose track of time. Everyone needs a little passion in their lives. 

V. As for my harmonica skills, still embarrassingly rusty. But that's okay :)

VI. I'm lovin so you think you can dance this season. Especially when i watch it with Brittany Wood and we skip all of the judges comments and watch the dances twice. Reminds me why I love dance. In fact, (this is kind of embarrassing) sometimes when I'm watching dancing shows, my feet twitch every couple minutes. Weird but true, maybe it means something! 

hmm. maybe not.

VII. As you already know, I love yoga. This summer I've gotten more into hot vinyasa yoga (where they turn the temperature wayy up). So basically its a room full of sweaty people doing strange poses and breathing like darth vader. Somehow its still pretty relaxing. Try it!

VIII. Most of the pants I own currently either have chalk or bubble soap on them from all the babysitting I've been doing recently. Time to do some laundry. 

IX. July 8th - Jack's Mannequin & Lady Danville. So stoked. 

X. Its SO nice having my brother home. Even though he's back to school in Provo now, I love being able to talk to him whenever I want. Look how much he grew up!

before:

after: 

XI. I love owls.

Till Next time.

lovekel.

pretty distractons

I'm currently putting 98% of my brain power into studying for my gender psychology class, but I wanted to take a break and blog about something fun and lovey. 

Even in my mental cloud of assignments, finals, reading, and making study guides, I've started to notice some of the first signs of spring. It gives me hope, and reminds me that I won't be living in the library forever. In fact, I'm leaving provo in 6 days, and won't be back until January, 2012. So, in light of the one thing keeping me sane right now, this is my picture list of things I love about spring. :)

You better believe i'm gonna try to replicate that owl easter egg :)

love kel

Songs for a rainy day..

When its been rainy and cold for a couple days straight, when you're still a solid week and 4 days away from home, and when you feel like putting on sweats and a big sweater and curling up in a ball, theres nothing that feels quite as perfect as some sad mello music.

Now I hate to brag, but my roommate Emma and I have pretty much mastered the art of sad songs & mellow atmosphere. We should win an award or something. Not everyone appreciates purposefully listening to songs that make them cry, but for us, if we're not going to be giggly and happy, we might as well be super emo. I'm not ashamed to admit that I have no less than 4 "sad songs" playlists on my itunes.

typical.

Anyways, I was feeling really mellow before I found that picture. Now I can't stop laughing to myself. But I still want to provide a solid list of sad songs that are Kelly classics (I've liked em for years). If I were to write them all down, it would just be obnoxious. here it goes..

1. Throw me a rope- KT Tunstall 
2. Fix you, the scientist, green eyes & till kingdom come - Coldplay (those are 3 seperate songs)
3. Hammers & strings- Jack's Mannequin
4. Almost anything by John Mayer
5. Just a Dream - Carrie Underwood
6. After the midnight show - the academy is
7. I will follow you into the dark - death cab for cutie
8. Nightminds - Missy Higgins
9. Samson - Regina Spektor
10. First Day of My Life - bright eyes
11. See you soon - coldplay
12. You are Goodbye - Holly Conlan
13. Getting into you - reliat k
14. You belong to me - Jason Wade 
15. The Best Deceptions - Dashboard Confessional
16. Near to you - a Fine Frenzy
17. Vienna - The Fray
18. Angel - Jack Johnson
19. Giving Up - Ingrid Michaelson
20. Details in the Fabric - Jason Mraz
21. Tired Magician - Lady Danville
22. Car Crash - Matt Nathanson
23. Painter Song -Norah Jones