grumpycounty.

i came to a realization...

I HATE HOLIDAYS.

literally, i hate them:

birthdays, christmas (although i do love christmas season, the actual holiday is just never what it's cracked up to be), new years, valentine's day (but really, who likes valentine's day?),

which brings me to the 4th of july.

seeing america in a state of permanent drunkenness for the day is just not appealing to me, call me crazy.

and what makes people think it's okay to post pictures of them with alcohol on facebook?

YOU'RE A SOPHOMORE IN HIGH SCHOOL, CROP THAT VODKA OUT OF THE PICTURE.

don't get me wrong, it's not the underage drinking i'm annoyed with, it's the stupid display of it all over facebook.

being a drunken whore is actually not cool, and putting it on facebook just furthers the embarrassment you should've felt in the first place when you fell into that bush.

anyway, sorry for being a little pessimistic over here.

holidays just make me grumpy.

so you know what?

happy july 5th...cheers to no holidays today.

 

but anyway, [on a lighter note].

i might be grumpy, but i'm still following the sun.

and the other day i bought a charm necklace that says:

delight in the day.

many people were questioning me on exactly what that meant, and i made it very clear that i think it's a more innocent way of enjoying your day.

you know, the little things like...

picking the dandelion on the side of the road to make a wish.

eating min's kitchen or trader joe's crispy pasadena salad.

wearing a daisy in your hair.

petting a cat.

holding hands.

dancing to your favorite song.

etc. etc. etc.

so i'll end on that note:

don't forget to not only enjoy your day, but also

delight in it.

[photo credz].

dressed like a wedding cake.

well, unfortunately, i have gotten sick again.

so, in an effort to cheer myself up, i am making a list of...

things that made me happy yesterday:

1. the hour long adventure i went on last afternoon to find my cell phone - including a baby and ending in success.

2. discovering [this gem].

3. a barbeque in honor of my best friend jeffrey - more to come on that subject.

4. spilling mango twist juice all over my shoulders and hair and laughing instead of getting upset.

5.standing in my kitchen, eating chocolate cake and chicken, and talking to the people i love most in life.

6. "gardening" with k8.

7. sniffing lemons.

8. making my top 5 movies ever list:
1) into the wild

2) the fighter

3) almost famous

4) sunshine cleaners

5) saw

(yes, you read that correctly...saw is in my top 5)

9. continuously falling in love with adele.

10. the idea of evolutionary telephone: one time, i talked about how we probably remember less than a quarter of all the thoughts we have. so because of that, it would make sense that our minds have adapted to this, and formed a method of remembering as much as it can by tweaking thoughts together to form one. there also has to be endless amounts of information in our subconscious that actually comes from someone else's ideas rather than our own, we just don't remember hearing it. in other words, there's more than just a possibility that all of our ideas are ones that have been passed down since the beginning of time, just tweaked a little by our subconscious.

11. finding happiness all over the internet:

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☼
ps happiest of birthdays to jacob! knock the socks off of all those byu-ers.

white blank page.

sometimes, the out of focus pictures are the best.

girl talk: 3-21-11

yesterday, i was having the worst day.

by about 6:30 in the evening i was ready to collapse and go to bed because the saturday karma felt so wrong. so as i drove to a friend's house, i started listing, in my mind, all the things that had gone wrong so i could explain why i was so grumpy when i got there.

but in an effort to be a somewhat positive cece, i forced myself to come up with a few 'buts', if you know what i mean.

in other words, "____ and ____ and ____ went wrong, but at least ____."

{a prime example of when ifs, ands, and buts can be okay}

so as i'm driving along chevy chase, i start with one 'but'...and end up with 10.

then 20.

one thing leads to another, and i end up counting my blessings.

 and do you know what?

i arrived at that house smiling.

in conclusion, count yo blessings because, really, what do you have to lose?

also, i am in amore with [bon iver]'s lack of typical structure.

no chorus?

i'm cool with that.

(i'm trying new methods of saying 'in love' because i realized it's become a recurring theme over here. i guess i'm just easily won over. good or bad thing? you decide.)

4 days, 38 minutes, and 30 seconds until peru.

~too bad i know about 6 words of spanish~

 

at least i know
adios