Winter Break Plans

Read This:

Watch These:

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Visit Here:

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(I'm particularly excited about these plans)

Make things for this

(it's slim pickings! I need to knit!)

aaaand watch some more of my favorite fictional couple of all time:

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Ok, maybe not my favorite ever ( i'm sure there are more reputable literary romances)

But who am I kidding I really love them.

5 more days, 5 more days, 5 more days...

What's Making Me Happy This Week.

Pop Culture Happy Hour

I've been listening to the podcasts while I run, and people in my neighborhood/along the road I run down probably think I'm crazy, because i'm constantly grinning and laughing despite running moderately long distances. 

 They discuss everything from Lady Gaga to Fall TV to Zombies, and their childhood fears. It's great. They also have regular features to the show like "What's Making Us Happy This Week" (thus the name of the post) - which is pretty self explanatory and yet wildly entertaining. And the "Regrettable Television Pop Quiz" in which they play clips from truly awful television and try to guess the show it's from.

So what's making me happy this week (besides this entertaining and often intellectual[ish] podcast)?

My new running kicks!

Now I don't feel like I need a knee replacement after every run!

And Starbucks Peppermint Mocha - The obvious king of all holiday drinks.

So delicious!

Blog World is Amazing

One of my favorite favorite and inspirational bloggers (Biscuit) is having THE MOST EPIC GIVEAWAY EVERRRRRRR. Seriously, check it out, it's awesome. There are so many ways to enter and so much stuff to win.

 Pleas visit her giveaway post  and learn about all the amazing things she has to offer (her blog is totally rad too!).

I think blogging is so cool. It is literally its own world, there's so much to do and discover, it's overwhelming!

Speaking of overwhelming, I should get back to my 12 page psyc nursing paper of Oppositional Defiant Disorder....

December where are you?

Too True

P.S. How have I not fallen in love with this album sooner?

(Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago)

Listen here

Buy here

I feel trapped...

And I want to be

Here

(John Muir Trail in CA)

Or here

(63 days is just too long)

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Or here

(Summer plans?)

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May just can't come soon enough...

Beach

Driving home from school the other day I had my windows open and caught a whiff of this mild, sulfer-y, salty smell as I passed a farm. I was immediately reminded of the beach in St Petersburg, FL my family used to travel to every year. Unfortunately it's been some time since I've visited. . .

 Despite the glorious 80 degree weather, and the sun and sand, the thing I miss the most are the smells that are there. Not just the beach smell, but the smell of my grandparents's porch, their house, the ice cream shop we frequent, and the air outside long bridge on the way to the beach. I love it, and I miss it. 

They say smell has a huge effect on memory. I can totally attest to this. The second I smell something similar (like the farm of my way home) my mind is flooded with childhood memories. 

Fall is great (and has plenty of wonderful smells [I could probably write like 8 posts about smells {weird? maybe?}]) But I could totally use a beach day and the warmth and welcome of those favorite smells. 

I'm Baaaaaaaack!

It has been quite some time since I've last posted... The last few months have felt like a whirlwind of events, but in the same sense some parts feel like forever ago. . .

So, here it goes, RECAP:

1. SUMMER: spent at Bil-O-Wood! (where else?) I had my most favorite girls in the whole world again, many of which received their Voyageurette Hat. 

(I'm so proud!)

 I met some new (and old) aussies

Had some fun times in the great Canadian wilderness

(L! is for the way you look, at meeee!)

And had an all-around awesome time with friends, family, and the people I love.

2. SCHOOL: ugh. Stress to the MAX. But I still love it for some reason...

So far this semester I've seen a baby come into this world, 3 babies being pulled out of their mother's womb and into this world (aka C-section aka kinda icky), I've hung out with some schizophrenic and bipolar kids, and survived the first round of test-mania (for some reason all of are exams are within hours of each other this entire semester).

3. SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN: I feel like I've been exploring a lot the past few months, and will continue to do so in the coming ones. New churches, new faces, public radio, a trip to England, and an Etsy Shop are just a few of the things that have been on my mind lately...