Friday Confessions.

Confession #1: I've listened to this song approximately 3,000 times this week.

Confession #2: I've listened to this one just as many.

Confession #3: I stayed up til 2:00 am to finish reading Frankenstein after reading an essay about the monster in Volume III. I've never felt like such a nerd in my whole life--and I loved it.

Confession #4: I've kept a fake engagement ring in my purse since I served a strange table a couple weeks ago. When I realized they were in my section last night, I may or may not have put the ring on and made sure they saw it. Sorry dudes, I'm not your "perfect woman," and I'm only bringing you the sandwich you requested because it's my job...#sorrynotsorry

Confession #5: I shamelessly stalked Awkward Girls for a long time in order to find some kind of outfit inspiration. All I found was a ton of clothing I didn't have, but seem to need.

Confession #6: I made a countdown on my phone for the Katy Perry concert. The amount of fangirling my big and I are going to do is unreal. [241 days. I also may have tried to talk myself into dyeing my hair that color.]

Confession #7: I ugly cried for a solid six minutes and 42 seconds while I watched this video. 

Confession #8: I scoured Pinterest and Etsy for far too long trying to find something that combined giraffes and Audrey Hepburn in a way that wasn't atrocious. Nothing. 

Here's to one of my favorite weekends of the year...because for some reason, the SuperBowl is the only day I feel like I can eat whatever I want and not have it counteract everything I've been doing at the gym. 

Happy Friday, folks! 

I can do it too.

This whole moving out thing has done wonders for my creativity. [Just kidding, it's really just motivated me to get a start on the projects on my "Someday When I'm Creative" board.] I have a rather large collection of earrings, and there was no way I was going to have room for a jewelry box in my dorm room. So using a post I found, (you can read it here) I made my own earring-display-holder-thing-a-ma-jig. It was super easy, and only cost me around $10--which could have been way less, I was just OCD about having colored wire, and that ended up being more expensive.

I bought a frame, mine's 9 by 13, and removed the glass, backing stuff, and everything that was around the wood. Then I took these little eye screws and spaced them down the sides of the frame. 

(The other tutorials had staples or nails, this is just what I had on hand.) 

Then came m multicolored wire. I cut a length of wire that was double the width of the frame, plus a little bit so that I could twist and knot the wire. I twisted the wire in between hooks to allow "slots" for the earring posts to go in, but you can always do a single wire and just hook them over it.

Finally, I just had to narrow down my collection to the "bare essentials" of my earrings. Ummm, yes, I may have a problem. It's alright. Really. Super easy to make, and it coordinates with my jewelry tree that will be holding my bracelets and necklaces. (No, that collection isn't any smaller. Yes, I'm aware it's a lot of stuff.) 

So basically, contrary to popular belief, I can be crafty! Also, the fact that I'm moving in a week is weirding me out. My "college corner" is rapidly growing, and the amount of stuff in my room is shrinking, drastically. I still have to write my essay for my intro class, and finding a job would be nice. Any suggestions for awesome places that are hiring, let me know. Because I need a job. 

My parents are leaving on Trek on Monday, along with Britt and Ry. Which leaves me home with the babies, and we've got adventures aplenty to go on. Stay tuned. 

Aimer et etre aime.

Love and be loved.

Easier said then done, right?

Especially when it's something you want...but you have a hard time pursuing it.

Let me elaborate.

Your past has a way of effecting the way you look at things in the future.

Sometimes, you lose something, and that makes you feel incapable of finding something like that again. Even when it's staring you right in the face.

You feel...not unworthy, but undeserving (?) of feeling that way again, and you can't give in to what's right there.

I have no problem loving others. [There's only one person in this entire world that I hate. But more on that later.] I love people, love getting to know people, and constantly surround myself with people.

But letting people get close is another story. I have a huge group of friends, but very few of them do I trust with everything and know everything about me. And I'm okay with that.

Oh well. Everything works itself out in time, right?

I have a board on Pinterest that's entirely full of quotes, and I'm only partially obsessed with a majority of them. My favorites?

Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes...because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones that do.

Every girl deserves someone to remind her that she's beautiful.

People will always stare. Make it worth their while.

Everyone wants happiness, no one wants pain. But you can't make a rainbow, without a little rain.

So this is my life. I want you to know that I'm both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.

I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

Remember kid, there's heroes and there's legends. Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.