Heat wave

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.

~Jane Austen

My J.Crew light tissue tee is not thin enough and my side braid is looking a bit droopy. 82 in April in Chicago? I hear you Jane.

Do it now!

Lately I have become a total mantra person. I get this phrase in my head and it's like I march to its beat until a new phrase comes along. Right now:

Do it now Do it now Do it now!

I'm fairly certain that this came off my Lululemon manifesto water bottle (I spend a lot of time staring at all the sayings when I'm bored, although the "Children are the orgasm of life..." one bothers me slightly). I have such a bad tendency to take off my clothes at the end of the day and toss them on the desk or dresser and say, I'm tired I'll get them tomorrow. At the end of the week I literally pick up piles and piles of clothes to put away. This awful habit makes my "cozy" apartment go from cozy to cramped really quickly though. So lately it's "do it now!" Get a mantra, it will make your life good.

{His Master's Choice, Etsy}

Slow down

Do you ever just miss a time and a place so much that it hurts? It happened to me as I was getting on the train today- I had just finished a particularly long and fairly mundane day and I was starving, and with all my might I wanted to be back in college, going home from class to meet my roommate to spend an hour or so at dinner together. That hour was the most relaxing part of my day, when everything else disappeared except for the space we were occupying. That hour felt like one giant exhale and the world wouldn't start again until the next morning. Since leaving, life kind of feels like a never ending inhale.

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Ashes to ashes

I admit, I have been avoiding my blog. I like to think of it as "saving up" for the next 40 or so days, as my Lenten promise is to give up reading others' blogs and write in mine more. I always try to give up something I really love and will be a challenge (in the past I have given up sweets multiple times and chocolate once- it was pretty awful), and blog reading has really taken over my evenings. Therefore, I will focus less on others' wonderful lives and more on my own equally wonderful life. I'm slightly worried that my fashion sense will suffer and my home decorating ideas will wane, but no big deal. It looks like I will be spending Easter with a chocolate bunny and lots of blog catching up!

Pasión

Today was the first day of my LAST semester of school woo hoo! No more letters after my name thankyou, I'll stop here. I can't believe that I'm about to dedicate a post to limited liability corporations and partnerships, but I'm doin it. No, don't stop reading. One of my new professors today was just so excited and passionate about limited liability that I couldn't help thinking, "if we all loved anything half as much as this man loves limited liability then the world would be a wonderful place." I consider myself a pretty passionate person, but I'm more like easily excitable love everything deeply until I get tired of it. This man was like talk for hours and hours about a subject and not realize what time it is or where he is and that he is talking to himself. If only we could all be so passionate...

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Keeping my feet on the ground

I have an irrational fear of flying accompanied by an irrational obsession with the airport and watching planes take off and land. Though dropping a dear friend off at the airport tonight fulfilled that quirky desire, I always hate to hug goodbye.

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Never have words been more true...

"A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world."

-Lois Wyse

Home again

Wow, I haven't been here since last year! Happy New Year! I am not going to follow the spirit of the blog world and list out resolutions though; I much rather prefer to be in a constant state of trying to improve myself and not just cram it all in during the first week of the year. My absence can be explained- I went on a long and unsuccessful quest for warmer weather in Florida. We still had a fabulous time though (and my skin finally got its true color back, thankgoodness). It is nice to be home, even though Lake Michigan has dumped almost 2 feet of snow on us, and back with some good friends while we go through a sad time together right now. I hope to post more regularly now that I am getting back onto a schedule.

“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”

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Afternoon thoughts

"I was born with an enormous need for affection,

and a terrible need to give it."

~Audrey Hepburn

Reunited and it feels so good

My working computer and I are back! Thank goodness for Apple. If you haven't backed up your computer, DO IT RIGHT NOW, and save yourself a mini-heart attack in case something happens.

I have had big plans to get a lot done and be very crafty lately, but alas I have been SO unproductive. On my to-do list, and to be posted soon (I hope):

*Makeover the corner cabinet in my bathroom with some black paint and pretty black and white paper for the shelves

*Line my mini-blinds with ribbon

*Sand and repaint a mirror for my bedroom

*Oh, and possibly begin the horrible process of studying for finals next month, which will inevitably take me away from my sweet blog again : (

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Waiting...

I had a big event today that I will find out more about in two weeks. Until then, cross your fingers for me!

“ If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.Lao Tzu

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Thought of the day

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