Lately

I've been completely negligent lately, so here is a clusterf*ck of my life lately! 

S.J. 

Truly the most wonderful munchies ever...
Chocolate chip cookie dough icecream with nutella and peanut butter!!!

I have beautiful friends :)

Portugal. The Man 

The Fourth!

So I'm definitely more than a few days late... but here's some photos from my 4th of July celebrations!  There's nothing better than family, food, and fireworks!

(Yay for alliteration)

It's Friday and I'm in Love...

...with Los Angeles! 

As much as this city pisses me off with its seemingly never-ending traffic and sometimes stifling heat, I love this city! Hope you have a lovely weekend and a happy Friday! xo

Perfect Days

I believe that everyone deserves to have at least one perfect day in their lifetime, more if they're lucky. There's just something about the perfect that is completely and utterly life-affirming. It makes all the other not-so-perfect days worth it. No matter what happens on every other day, you can always look back and remember what it felt like for everything to be right; literally for not a thing to be wrong. Some people might not believe in the perfect day, they might say that it's simply a wishful but useless hope, like Santa or 24 hour lipstick that doesn't end up all over your date's face or feel like silly putty on your lips. But to all those naysayers, let me tell you: I've had a perfect day, they exist. Believing in the perfect day is like believing in love or the good of humanity, no one can present a scientific proof of its existence... you have to see it for yourself.

And once you've had a perfect day, you know what happiness really is.

The Things We Do

Today I've thought a lot about the things we do to make ourselves feel better. We find things to hold our attention long enough to stop our feelings from coming to a head and to stop ourselves from acting on those feelings and possibly doing something insane. Some turn to vices like drugs or overeating, while others choose healthier obsessions such as exercising (wish that was me haha). For me, I choose retail therapy. However, while we think throwing ourselves into these new obsessions will make us feel better, perhaps we are acting more insane by doing this than we would be if we simply dealt with whatever it was that caused our negative feelings in the first place? I say this but even I can't take my own advice, maybe one day I'll learn how to do that. 

In true retail therapy style, my latest shopping obsession is with the Frye Melissa Button Boots. I can't get over how beautifully constructed they are and I've been looking for a pair of black riding boots for a while. Perhaps I shall have to buy them ;)

Frugal? No. Effective? Maybe. 

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Today I feel heavy in all meanings of the term. But Milan Kundera doesn't lie, and despite my feelings of significant weight I cannot escape the fact that my existence in unbearably light. Being is hard sometimes; getting on can be stiflingly painful. But at the end of the day we must all come to terms with the fact that at any moment this arduous task can permanently be taken from us. Our lightness is in our mortality and our humanity, it is in our desire to help others and it is in our fleeting breaths. Yet the things that make us heavy try their best to hide our true, airy nature.

Even a heavy sky is unbearably light in the end--spilling over the tops of solid mountains like water in a bowl with insubstantial walls. 

Daddy Day!

Hello everyone! I hope you have all had a wonderful Father's Day! Even though I couldn't be with my daddy on his special day (he's currently travelling for work), it was still so fun to spend it with my Grandpa and family members! 

Since Father's Day is such a fun and summery occasion, this morning I thought it would be fun to make special dessert pizzas to celebrate the day! I used these two fabulous recipes that I found here and here. They turned out simply wonderful, such a great summer dessert! 

Berry and S'mores pizza paired with bright flowers and loving family makes for a perfect sunday afternoon!

Happy Father's Day Daddy!!! I'll always be your little girl :)

Hope you all had a wonderful Sunday!

In A Rut

After a few days of feeling like I was finally on the mend, my progress has fallen two steps behind. I've spent the past two days wrapped in the fluffy, wonderful cloud that is my bed. Yet despite my love for my bed, I am now completely bored out of my mind. Even Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda can't hold my attention anymore; I love you ladies, but after 10 consecutive hours of watching your escapades, you're actually starting to piss me off. (I know, blasphemous.) The weather has been beautiful, the sun has been shining, my friends have been living life and functioning in society... and I've been drifting in and out of sleep, desperately trying to find sufficiently mushy foods to consume. I've done my nails twice in the past 12 hours, I've spent way too much money online shopping, and I really do think I've reached the end of the internet. I'm in a rut, albeit a 500-thread count rut.

Ah well, I guess I should just be grateful for this downtime. I know when I'm swamped with school and work and rehearsal again I'm going to be cursing the fact that I ever complained. It's funny how things work out like that, isn't it? We always want what we don't have. 

We Heart It

We Heart It

We Heart It

These past few days would have been a lot more bearable if I had one of these little guys to snuggle up with though! :) Happy Saturday!

Ombré, Okay?

Yesterday I got a little restless and decided (at 6:30 am, thank you tonsillectomy medication) that I wanted to do something different with my hair! I have been lusting after ombré hair for a while now, so I decided I should just woman-up and go for it! It was surprisingly so easy to do at home! 

Thanks to this extremely helpful youtube video, as well as this one, I was able to ombré my own hair and not completely mess up! I must say, I'm really happy with the result! It came out a little brassy and orange, but for the summer, I think it works nicely! 

I bought this highlighting kit after reading that it is better to use a highlighter rather than a blonde hair color. I'd definitely recommend this product! It was simple to use and left the ends of my hair surprisingly soft (for having just bleached them haha)

Before!

After!

What are your thoughts? Would you/have you ever put bleach on your hair? 

Happy Thursday!

>^..^<

A year has past.

So it's been a year since I graduated from high school. Today I watched as my two best friends received their high school diplomas in their caps and gowns, all the while feeling a mixture of happiness and sadness. I suppose graduations are the types of affairs that induce such emotions...

Congratulations to the Class of 2012!

Goodnight kittens!