February 2012
5 posts
getting out of bed on Sunday’s is purely optional.
Things I Will (Probably) Regret Not Having Done If...
in no particular order.
1. getting a tattoo
2. dyeing my hair red
3. jumping out of an airplane
4. going on a date with a complete stranger
5. having a full conversation with someone in another language
6. reading all of Shakespeare’s goodies
7. mastering ice skating
8. going camping
9. re-learning how to do a cartwheel/handstand
10. creating something I can be proud of
January 2012
5 posts
2 tags
Books I Read: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Oh. My. God.
No book review this time, just two simple words I pray you follow: read this.
2 tags
and then, it occurred to me.
last night, I curled up on the couch with my two very best Ireland girls, some caramel apples, and Sleepy Ned stretched across our laps. we sat down to watch the movie we’ve been talking about since we met, P. S. I Love You. it’s about love—but what resonated with us was Ireland. always, always Ireland.
it was Whelan’s. and it was the Wicklow Mountains. and it was...
my dear brother,
you’re going to move very soon, and it is breaking my heart.
for 21 years, you have been the best mentor, the best consultant, and the best friend a younger sister could ever ask for, and the notion that you’re not going to be right by my side anymore is .. too much.
i’ve had to do so little things in life without you there — either paving the way, or going at it right...
dear future husband,
if you don’t love Lord of the Rings at least half as much as I do, then you’re doing it wrong.
(source)
December 2011
2 posts
for the new year:
1. fix two important things I broke
2. graduate
3. get myself in better shape
4. find big girl job somewhere grand
5. not panic too much about the million things that are changing in life
6. embrace everything while it is all still here
happy soon to be 2012. let’s all make it a resolution to be happy, to love, and to eat too much (but like…not have it count towards your calorie...
“I understand feeling as small and as insignificant as humanly possible. And how...”
– Iris in The Holiday (2006)
via angelashetler
November 2011
7 posts
hi, followers.
I’ve decided to take a break from blogging.
I’ve lost my sense of drive and purpose for starting this blog, and don’t find it useful in my life anymore. This used to be a place where I wanted to share everything, but now I do it because…well, just because.
I want to find my creative center again, that passion for creating and sharing and being in this space. So for now,...
(Pray for You - Jaron and the Long Road to Love)
adventures in hair: the college years
I realized while going through my pictures that I’ve changed my hair an obnoxious amount of times in the past three years. Observe:
19th birthday party with JARMK. long, blonde blonde blonde blonde.
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later that summer 2009. trampolining with JARMK brunette, and cut several inches shorter.
...
dear sirs and madames in congress,
i rather like my internet. please don’t censor it.
love, lo
OH MY, WORLD!
Would you look at that! I am happy.
I am sitting here, and I am thinking about all the truly, truly lovely people in my life; the the wonderful people who have been my rocks throughout various things. These are the people who have stuck by me. Who have treasured me as a person, not as a convenience. Who have loved me, and accepted me for who I am, and have made me a better person...
something to remember that I keep forgetting:
if someone wants to be in your life, they’ll make an effort to be in it. so don’t bother making room in your heart for someone who doesn’t want to be there anyway.
October 2011
7 posts
“there will come a time you’ll see, with no more tears.
when love will not break...”
– mumford & sons, after the storm (via walksinbeauty)
After working at the school today, I thought to myself
1. I love kids. I want to be a teacher.
Then I slapped myself.
2. Get over yourself, stupid. You don’t want to be a teacher. 3. No, you don’t. You like editing. And books. 4. I need to read “The Blind Assassin” by Margaret Atwood. 5. And my psych book. 6. Lol. Like that’s going to happen. 7. But you’re...
four.
(photo credit : lansing state journal)
(photo credit : lansing state journal)
Four times. Four years.
Fo(u)rever a Spartan. Go Green.
my life lately in pictures.
bethany jane continued to be more awesome than me and got an industrial bar piercing.
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we celebrated bethany jane being old by eating lots of sushi.
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then my awkward brosefs, mommmmmaaaa, padre and I all went out to eat to celebrate brosef1 being old.
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then bethany jane’s mommy threw bethany jane...
September 2011
9 posts
Dear Followers,
Hello! How are you? I haven’t heard from you in a while. Talk to me.
How am I? Well, I am in a consistent rush. I imagine part of this is due to the fact that I’m a senior and the world is spinning so rapidly and I only have x-amount of weeks to complete them (26 left of actual schooling…WHAT). I also imagine part of this is due to the fact that I’m taking 12 credits, have...
in the past three weeks, i had forgotten what it was like to be truly, genuinely, perfectly happy.
until tonight, where i laughed so hard i cried, and i spent it with some people who are kind, gracious, and good to me, and where i felt loved and included.
and then, as soon as i came home, i was instantaneously angry. i curled back up into my shell and now all i want to do is leave this place...
one month.
it’s been one month since i last left the second most perfect place on earth.
(james and I)
and a lot has changed. i’ve moved back to school in an apartment infested with ants and roommates i’d rather get away from than live with. i’ve landed myself another internship…and then a job…and then another internship…at the same time (and maybe another job??)...
ten years later.
When I was eleven, I didn’t know what a terrorist was. I didn’t understand the word “hijacker.”
I understood Barbies. And endless summers. And wanting a kitten. And feeling safe, because I lived in America and we were invincible.
And then the school janitor poked his head into my sixth grade classroom, and whispered anxiously that the towers had been hit.
In an instant,...
A Weekend in Review.
(my super handsome/tan brosef 2, my awkward and hilarious dog, and self)
(all of us, via oil painting.)
home sweet home.
LO. FOCUS.
I know there is a lot on your mind, but think about the task at hand. You’re starting to make me worried.
August 2011
7 posts
First Day of Work Blues
So. It’s your first day of work.
How’d that go for you, champ?
If you’re like me (on Aug 30, 2011), then you’ve come home feeling a little deflated, your ego a little bruised, and your psyche similar to the Little Engine That Couldn’t.
Dear Self (& others because I’m posting this on the WWW, after all), I’d like to direct you to your life about 5...
“After you’ve been to bed together for the first time,
without the...”
– Life Story
by Tennessee Williams
I just love this.
(Listen to this being read aloud by Garrison Keillor. Skip ahead to the 2min mark.)
For some of us, books... →
For you →
3 tags
Books I Read: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor... →
July 2011
4 posts
“The shortest horror story ever:
The last man on Earth sat alone in a room....”
– Fredric Brown (via innernet)
June 27 - The One About Home
(a copy of a post that i made in my dublinternship blog)
When Lo is away, the family changes everything.
I try to email my parents pretty regularly. This is to give them updates on what I’m doing (everything fantastic), and also to hear about what is going on at home in Michigan so I’m not entirely out of the loop. We skype occasionally, but the emailing is an easy way to give a...
June 2011
1 post
Your significant other wants to "take a break"...
butthetruthis:
But the truth is…
They want to fool around with someone else without feeling like they’re cheating on you.
(Submitted by: mylifeaserinmarie)
Photo by: http://www.flickr.com/photos/blahafotos/4530027230/
May 2011
4 posts
I'm Here!
I’m here in Ireland, but my computer is broken. I’ll be sure to update when it is fixed. Send lots of love and prayers to the people at the Apple stores so they fix my baby quickly!!!
“When I meet people now they say “God, you’re so much shorter than I...”
– Daniel Radcliffe. Genius.