it's friday!

and my favorite things of this week have come in the form of the thing that has my heart, the one and only music. My ratio of albums that I buy and think are just okay to albums that I buy and like every single song is about 5:1, so purchasing 2 within 3 days of each other where I love every single song feels like Christmas morning. Open your iTunes now and purchase. I believe that they're so good, I'll even burn them for you. Do it!

Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More

Standout songs: all of them + "Timshel" "Cave"

Adele - 21

Standout songs: "Someone like you," "Set Fire to the Rain"

And just when I was starting to think I was doing this regularly

I went and took a week and a half off.

So many wonderful things have happened in the last 10 days. Most (but not all) revolving around 3 days, 46 hours, and 9.5 million dollars, but I'll post about that this weekend.

Hints: I didn't win, steal, spend or find 9.5 million.

Although there has been one 'low' for the past week and a half. I have heard of it a lot before, although it never affected me until now -- senioritis.

Ugh, that scary word that makes me melt into a ball of laziness and apathetic-ness. I don't, at all, want to do school work. I was lucky to have an extremely light course load this semester, the perfect way to end college, or so I thought. And while I enjoy not staying up cramming until 5am two nights out of the week, since the classes I'm taking don't matter towards my career I am finding it impossible to find the drive to do the work. I have never been as "ehh, whatever" as I have this semester. The downside of all of this is that I can't even find joy in not doing work -- I feel guilty all the time and small little assignments are constantly hanging over my head. Not fun.

But, spring break is just around the corner and I'll be spending mine in sunny and warm Jacksonville, FL. Someone pass the SPF and an epic driving playlist please.

Random side note, while in the midst of my senioritis I've been daydreaming about what my post-grad home will look like, assuming it's not in my high school bedroom of course. Check out my musings below.

Happy Thursday -- the weekend will be here before you know it!

because it's valentine's day

and because I love 'love,' I'm combining a valentine's day tribute with music monday.

If you know me, you know that I have a deep and real love of Taylor Swift (I don't care what you say -- I love her) and my favorite song on her new-ish record is Enchanted. It's sweet, precious and frankly, enchanting. When the song came out, rumors flew around that it was written about Adam Young from Owl City.

Well, it turns out it was, and he has, for Valentine's Day, given her a song response and it absolutely melts my heart across the floor. It's equally as sweet, equally as precious and equally as enchanting.

Enjoy these songs. 

Let them melt your heart as they did with mine. 

Tell the ones you love how special they are-

today, tomorrow and everyday after. 

Happy Valentine's day!

I have a super busy week ahead of me and therefore have to hibernate from most social activity these next few days to get work done, meaning I have to miss the grammy's which is a huge bummer. I don't think I've missed them since 5th grade.

Who are you rooting for? My fingers are crossed for Michael Buble, Sara Bareilles, Norah Jones and Florence + The Machine.

I'll be anxiously looking for winner updates online all night. For those of you not busy, pour yourself a glass of wine, snuggle up in comfy clothes and enjoy the performances! I'll be youtube-ing them tomorrow

friday favorites

It's Friday, and a new weekend is upon us. 

with my senioritis hitting me harder each day, weekends seem sweeter than ever

besides the upcoming weekend being my favorite thing about Fridays, 

here's some more of my favorite things in honor of my favorite day of the week. 

Vanilla candles, can't live in a house without them

watching [personal] classic movies all weekend

 Coffee, cute mug and my initial rolled into one -- nothing better

($6 at anthropologie, hello, what could be better?)

Spoil yourself and think about the little things in your day that make you happy and feel good. When we are able to identify the good things, instead of focusing on the bad, being thankful and living in a happy state of mind becomes much easier. I might have a 'packed-tight with obligations weekend' ahead of me and a huge exam on Monday, but I'm drinking out of my J mug with my vanilla candles burning, and I know I'm living la dolce vita

It's freezing outside. 

But don't be discouraged; let this inspire you

The warm weather is only a couple more months away!

 

don't you just feel warm looking at this?

why did I go through 22 years not knowing about this?

Well, probably because I didn't like vegetables for the first 20 of them.

My new favorite thing on an english muffin

happiness is the little things in life, like really delicious cream cheese