habits

What I'm listening to lately...

 

And much more..those are just my favorites of the moment :)

have a lovely tuesday!

lovekel,

turqoise

I'm resolving to blog more. hold me to it people..don't let me fail! 

Well today was the first day back from thanksgiving break, which was interesting to say the least. It started off so beautifully...having michael here was amazing. The time flew by all too quickly. Good thing winter break is coming up soon.

 

 Following that I had some good times with my grandparents, watched a lot of sports, and made it to Moab in the -14 degree weather.

I also was missing my immediate family hard core..but unfortunately 1 of them is still busy being a missionary in Texas..and the other 3 decided to go on a cruise without me. No worries! Still love you guys :)

I absolutely love this picture..i probably use it way too much :)

Less than three weeks till I get to be back to my home in Virginia. I am SO siked. ah.

and i get to see this lovely lady! just look at her!

For now, I just gotta make it through the finals and the snow and the craziness. i can do this!

And now for more cheesy lovey pictures that i happened upon in the past little while.

 

i really want this sweater. weird?

lovekel.

In attempt to define

So many reasons to be happy today :) I thought i'd share some random pictures in celebration. 

Have a lovely weekend

lovekel.

And she's back..

So sorry its been a while..had a little bit of a rough case of mono. Seems like this is the time of year where everyone gets sick. Not fun..but i was sitting in Humanities class today, learning about hell from dante's inferno, and I realized that there are a lot of good things going on lately, despite the mono and the fact that I left my computer charger at the hotel this weekend. Everyone appreciates a good list, so here it goes, the random good things going on for me right now:



1. I really love all of my classes this semester.  I don't know how I got so lucky, but i honestly love every class that I'm taking this semester. I never dread going to any of them, and several of them I even look forward to.  Crazy eh? It makes such a difference when you have really great professors, a rockin awesome schedule, and interesting material to ponder outside of class. I know..i'm such a nerd.

2. It is November 8th..which means I am in full swing of my annual obsession with the band The Early November. Fitting right? True, in a week or so i'll move on to something new or different, but its always nice to appreciate some of my all time favorite songs that haven't hit any of my new playlists in a while.


3. Michael is coming in 10 days!
Words pretty much can't describe how excited I am to see him. :)

4. This week, i'm pretending like I don't have mono. I mean..i'm still gonna take care of myself (don't worry mom) but basically I won't have that 'i'm sick' mentality. It gets kinda lame after a while anyways.  Maybe that whole self-fulfulling-prophesy thing will work and I'll just end up totally better!


5. I got a position as a research assistant last week! I've been totally wanting this for a while so I was really excited when the opportunity came up. This is a really important step for eventually applying to grad school, so i'm feelin pretty accomplished/excited. I'm still working out exactly what i'll be researching..but its gonna be great:)

6. Even though I live only about 40 minutes away, I haven't really spent that much time in downtown salt lake city until this weekend. I've been there a bunch of times but never really spent time just 'hanging out', so I never really learned to appreciate how AWESOME it is! I feel like it totally fits with the urban/indie yet outdoorsy/granola and artsy vibe that I love. Goal of the rest of college: find more excuses to spend time in Salt Lake City.


7. Two weekends ago, I went with my roommate to get our eyebrows threaded. Not waxed, not plucked, but threaded. We went to this really cute Indian woman's house...and I'm still not exactly sure what she did, but it involved some threads, a decent amount of pain, and lots of loose eyebrows all over my face. However, when it was all over, I was pretty pleased with the results. True, my eyebrows are now about half the size they used to be, but i'm likin' it! I might have to go back when they start getting crazy again. :)

8. As stupid as it can be, I absolutely love saturday night live..and now its back in season. Kristen Wiig, Andy Samberg, Kenan Thompson..ahh i can't get enough :)


9. While I was realizing my new love for Salt Lake City, I also realized my love for ivy...especially ivy in autumn when its all red and cool and stuff.  It was growing on a lot of the buildings downtown and looked so pretty! When i have a house of my own, its gotta have at least a little bit of ivy growin' on it.

10. Only about 6 weeks left until I go home to Virginia!! I love school and I love it here in Utah, but theres nothing like my home land and my family and the holidays. can't wait :)

I miss my little freak

lovekel.

life's an hourglass

Okay class, raise your hand if you've ever had a weird, random, even frightening dream that seemed totally realistic...

all of you? i guess i should've known.

Marsha Norman once said...
"Dreams are illustrations...from the book your soul is writing about you."

that sounds all nice and inspiring and lovey...but oh my goodness. if this is true I am in serious trouble.

They say that your dreams are supposed to mean something..or tell you something about yourself..or summarize the main things that have been on your mind recently. Well if that's true, then can someone please explain to me why most of my dreams lately revolve around 5 seemingly random and unrelated things:

1. India and indian people

I pretty much have the whole spectrum of dreams in this category..marrying old indian guys, scary indian guys chasing me, living in india, painting scenes from india etc.

2. strange combination animals (like catdog..but weirder)

these just keep coming back! And its not just the rabbit/dogs either. I've seen everything from an owl/monkey to a llama/anteater. strange...very very strange.
3. my brother, scott

Its pretty much always the same with this guy. in one way or another..its usually me seeing him for the first time after he gets home. Sometimes realistic, sometimes just really unusual.

4. babies

the other night I had a dream that I was riding my bike with a baby on a seat strapped to the back of it..and after like an hour of biking i thought maybe I should look back and check on it and it had totally fallen off. I pretty much felt horrible. However, the next night i had a babysitting dream where i was singing Celine Dion to the baby and that was much much better. :)

5. mace

I've both sprayed mace and eaten mace in my dreams. Seriously...someone actually convinced me to spray it on my pasta at a restaurant. oddly enough..in the dream it didn't really make the pasta taste any different. I'm just going to assume that in real life..that would not be the case.


I mean..really? I wake up almost every day wondering what the heck is wrong with my brain.
If anyone sees any correlation in these..let me know.

What kind of weird dreams do you have? They're always really entertaining to hear about. They always remind me how much we have in our brains that we don' t really think about that often that sometimes finds its way into our heads as we sleep.

Till next time!!

lovekel.

Don't let me fall

First of all---last night was awesome.

Kickin' it with Iyaz, B.O.B. and Jason Derulo
(respectively)





The concert definitely re-ignited my love for hip hop/ dance- type music and muscular black guys who can dance really well... just sayin.


emma, mikyn, and i
definitely worth humbling ourselves enough to show our faces at UVU ;)

now for part two...

Something today reminded me of all the little random things I really want to do in my life. I feel like everyone should have a list like this. Mine grows and shrinks, gets lost, and completely changes all the time..but i thought it would be interesting to include just a few of my current future aspirations..however trivial they are..just for the fun of it:)

1. Set foot on the BYU football field legally for a legit reason
2. learn how to play harmonica well enough to be able to improvise
3. win an essay contest
4. come within 10 feet of an actual owl in the wild
5. Visit Athens
6. be an extra in a movie
7. go vegetarian for at least 1 month
8. write a song and perform it in from of at least 20 people
9. learn the art of fung shui
10. Be flexible enough to do the splits all 3 ways
11. Complete a triathlon
12. learn how to back flip on the trampoline
13. participate in a humanitarian project
And now I will leave you with some B.O.B. lyrics

If you asked me whats on my mind you probably won’t believe it

Cause if life was one big pool I’d be in the deep end
So I play my role and never ever speak it
Like a secret
And all the while you just just to figure me out
But you can’t see past my shades


lovekel.

genius for now...

Random Good Things:

1. We actually won our homecoming game on saturday!
2. I got A's on both tests I took within the past 4 days
3. hiking the y tonight

Random Pretty things:






I see these little things everywhere..and occasionally i pick them up and make wishes on them. Cheesy?

weird sweater..but i'd totally wear it :)


Random post that didn't really make sense..but thought i'd at least post something!!

Lovekel.