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“It is when we stumble or hesitate or lose our words that we reveal ourselves to each other.”
-Sherry Turkle
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lately i’ve been feeling really inspired by travel journals. they seem like such a lovely way to capture a trip artistically. And also just a perfect place to collage your photos, ticket stubs, and other save-able objects. luckily i’ve just made the decision to visit to one of my very best friends who is studying in spain for the semester so i might actually have a reason to make one! the thought of galavanting across europe for a few weeks sounds absolutely blissful, so i’m crossing my fingers that it works out!
photo credit here
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and now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good- john steinbeck
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oh, life. it seems to just get in the way of everything. even this blog that i swore i wouldn’t ignore. it seems i just haven’t found the time…but i’ll be getting back to regular posting real soon. for now i guess i should do a little catch up.
well for one, i have moved into my new place! and i couldn’t be more happy with it or my roomie. i still can’t believe how wonderfully it all worked out.
i also have been seeing enormous improvements in my health. as in, i can now take laps around tj maxx & the grocery store (two very important places) without wanting to collapse and die. latest i’ve learned from the docs is that some of my vitamin levels are low (namely b12 and d—big surprise since i’m so white you can see through me) and i tested positive for an autoimmune marker. but luckily all the additional tests for that came back negative. next up is an appointment with a surgeon to decide whether or not my gall bladder should stay or go. i’m pretty indifferent either way. for awhile i was horrified by the fact that i would be lacking an organ…ahh! but then i realized it’s pretty useless anyway and has been causing me lots of problems…so it’s fine by me. maybe i’ll throw it a going away party or something. teehee
otherwise i’ve just been trying to really enjoy life. margaritas with the girls, pasta and wine nights, baseball games, coffee and lunch with mom, lots of madmen and reading in the sun… so i really can’t complain. i have incredible friends and a wonderful, supportive family. and really i consider myself lucky. despite the unbelievable disappointment that this semester brought, i feel so grateful to have such a fulfilling life.
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i hope you live a life you’re proud of, if you find that you’re not, i hope you have the strength to start all over again- f. scott fitzgerald
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there has been lots to be excited about these past few days! besides the fact that I found an apartment and a lovely roommate in lincoln, my latest blood test results came back normal, and Courtney is still in the running on the Bachelor! hooray! also, these miu miu bags are just delightful…i couldn’t help myself from posting! Find more of them here.
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and so my heart beat faster. every speck of feeling i’d ever felt rushed inside my body with infinite power, bouncing angrily through every part of my soul, slicing through every memory. in that moment, nothing could stop me. i sparkled. i flew. i was beyond.
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it’s weekends like these that allow me to step back and breathe in the good. yes, i’m basically surviving on hydrocodone and can barely withstand a half an hour worth of shopping without passing out on the nearest clothing rack. but the sun still shines, coffee still brews, fingernail polish still lines the cosmetic aisles, and silly nothings still make me smile. so although i am very much living in pain, i have many many things to be grateful for and, for the time being, i’m trying to focus on those, and those alone.
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those brilliant waves of color are actually terraced rice fields in china…just more evidence that our world is one incredible place. check it out @ national geographic.
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the only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
-albert camus
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a few decorating ideas that are swirling around in my mind…
paint color/chevron stripes/light fixture/corkboard/polaroids/settee
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some pretty mixed media collages to admire…via trendland
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—rumi, excerpt from love is a stranger
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“Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.”— Richard Brautigan
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