Things I'd Like to Try

*please note that the following is a self-indulgent list which you neither have to acknowledge nor  comment on. 


tribal! i want every and anything tribal "give it to me now!"



i'd like try eye-makeup. eyes wear glasses (please tell me you got that?) so normally i only wear mascara, i think i will try this...


swirly, twirly nails! don't they just look awesome!



high heels...correction HIGH heels.


the end.

Rut to Gratitude

the other day i got stuck in a rut. i started feeling all "woe is me", "my life has been so hard", and "i'm so unhappy". i don't know how common this is for any of you, but it seems to come every now and again for me and i hate it. i'm not saying that i'm a perpetual optimist, but i do believe that life is inherently good and those moments when the sum of my imperfections presents itself are incredibly difficult. so i started listing things that i am grateful for, here are the pictures.

so what are you grateful for?

Paradise

i'm a huge fan of the Coldplay original. that said, this guy is amazing.

Update

that last post was written on my birthday. it was a fantastic day. i'm 22 now. remember when you were a little kid and you thought that whatever age you are right now was old? do you still feel that way? that is how i felt about being 22. there is so much that i thought i would have done by this point, but  haven't. i'm not saddened by the thought of it not having been done...a check list, incomplete. i know that i am right where i need to be; improvements and changes to be made in their own time.

i've decided to take a new approach to blogging; less writing, more pictures.
today's theme is Nauvoo, Illinois.

to quote a song a friend wrote "...racing toward a sunset..." 

Mississippi

"Devil went down to Georgia..."

The strength of a leader, of a man, can only take you so far...