Can't.Stop.Listening.

To be honest, I'm not even sure that I know what having "moves like Jagger" means. But don't worry - that doesn't hinder my enjoyment of this song.

Summer Playlist!

I need inspiration! My current summer playlist, in no particular order and full of throwback jams, is now accepting recommendations & suggestions:

1. Hey | 3OH!3 with Lil Jon :: not gonna lie, this song makes me want to get loooooose.
2. Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say) | Lady Gaga :: this is my favorite Gaga. current Gaga can go diaf.
3. Love and Memories | O.A.R. :: ahh, senior year..! ♥
4. Starry Eyed (Remix) | Ellie Goulding :: what? you didn't think I was OVER Ellie Goulding, did you?
5. The Best of Me | The Starting Line :: appropriate, as this summer marks the end of long distance with Boyfriend! :]
6. Bulletproof | La Roux :: I could listen to this song everysingleday for the rest of my life and probably still love it.
7. Hummingbird Heartbeat | Katy Perry :: normally not a KP fan, but if I ignore the lyrics and forget who is singing, love!
8. Till The World Ends (Remix with Nicki Minaj & Ke$ha) | Britney Spears :: Nicki kills it. and I will always love Brit Brit.
9. Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger | Daft Punk :: a sentimental jam.
10. Tell 'Em | Sleigh Bells :: still the only song I listen to off "Treats." I'm getting to it!
11. The No Seatbelt Song | Brand New :: another nostalgic tune. so good for late night summer driving.
12. We Are Stars | The Pierces :: discovered this gem on GG this week. Louis or Chuck?

What's on your summer playlist?

Things I Love Thursday

♥ making plans ♥ VW's Preppy Princess ♥ my penguin Pillow Pet ♥ craigslist ♥ Nature's Wick at Target ♥ sliced apples ♥ Immortal Technique ♥ new blog love! ♥ Sally Hansen's Lovely Lilac (diggin' the urples lately) ♥ iced coffee ♥ my CamelBak Better Bottle ♥ Wikipedia ♥ suburban school districts (YEAH I SAID IT) ♥ being okay with it ♥ free stuff ♥ feeling welcome ♥ new Uggs ♥

A little short this week but I've been a busy bee! What do you love this week?

TiLT #17

♥ Adele ♥ my 3-hole punch (I'm not trying to be ambiguous.. I really love owning a 3-hole punch) ♥ Aubrey Organics GPB conditioner ♥ health insurance ♥ Fringe ♥ Prednisone (heaven-sent, etc.) ♥ Etsy ♥ early bedtimes ♥ Despicable Me ♥ memory foam ♥ Click (not vegan but absolutely delicious; any vegan suggestions?) ♥ cardigans ♥ reassurance ♥ felt tip pens ♥ Starbucks salted caramel hot chocolate (also not vegan) ♥ the feeling that you're good at something ♥ the upcoming anniversary of my birth ♥ getting mail ♥ Tumblr.. always Tumblr ♥ Post It flags ♥ lace & doilies ♥ Kelle Hampton's blog.. it makes me want a bb in the worst way (sorry Boyfriend) ♥ lip gloss ♥ PBS ♥

P.S. My 150th blog post will be coming up before I know it and I want to do a giveaway - what do you want to win!?

Loving this song..

A little obsessed with Ellie Goulding in general.. how cute is she!?

TiLT #13

♥ First things first: FINISHING THE SEMESTER! ♥ Mani/pedis ♥ Gala's Ultimate Playgirl Gift Guide (shame she didn't post this a month ago - sooo many additions to my wishlist!) ♥ Lip gloss ♥ My grad friends! ♥ Diet Dr. Pepper ♥ Off-street parking ♥ Wegmans' naturals section ♥ HTC's Droid Incredible (f'real.. it saved my a$$ on my video project) ♥ Obsessing over my Netflix queue (I might be 12 years old) ♥ Reading for pleasure ♥ The knitting project I've been working on since 2008.. when I learned how to knit :oops: ♥ My favorite F+tM song this week ♥ A good night's sleep ♥ Sephora samples ♥ Christmas cards ♥ Starbucks peppermint mocha ♥ Kiss My Face olive oil soap ♥ Compulsive post-semester cleaning & purging ♥ Google Chrome for Mac ♥ Snow ♥ Tomato soup ♥ Twitter conversations ♥ NOT talking on the phone ♥ Catching up on Boardwalk Empire ♥ Warm mist humidifiers ♥ Borrowing books from friends, professors, etc. (it's like the library without fines) ♥ Holiday themed anything ♥ Boyfriend in one week ♥ Being in law school vicariously (ask me about torts!) ♥ Serendipity Peppermint syrup ♥ Christmas tree smell ♥ Tori Amos' "Winter" ♥ Cats (no, not the musical) ♥ Optimism over realism ♥ Throwback jams - Saosin? Cursive? Meiko? Yes, yes, yes! ♥ The Help by Kathryn Stockett ♥ Having health insurance come January 1st ♥ Ryan Reynolds (dibs) ♥

Phew! What a week. And it's only Thursday..! But I've got a wonderful, relaxing day planned: a mani/pedi, catching up with an old friend, and a hairs cut. I never make the time to do these things during the semester. How do you relax?
An unrelated question: are you a spender or a saver? If you're not naturally a saver, how do you make yourself save? If you're a saver, what kinds of things are you willing to splurge on? I spent wayyy too much on Christmas.. time to buckle down again!

TiLT #8

Having Someone to do things For You. ♥ Like a Good Boyfriend, mine likes to do things For Me; I've been known to tell him that I can do it myself because.. well, I can be a brat sometimes.  On Tuesday I really needed someone to do things For Me.  I accidentally took my antibiotics on an empty stomach, giving myself a terrible horrible no good very bad stomach ache. :( I put myself straight to bed, but I really could have used a Handsome Boyfriend to rub my back and kiss my hair and pull the covers up when I got cold.

The tellyvision. ♥ So good!!  I finally got around to watching this week's episodes of GG & Glee and all I have to say is - it's Brittany.. bitch.  I've always loved Brittany because she's dumb hilarious but oh. my. god.  Girl can DANCE.  And I will be very disappointed if she doesn't present the promised Ke$ha song next week.  Ms. Spears' cameos were nice but her acting was so bad.. so, so bad... And speaking of bad, could the teaser for next week's episode of GG have made it any more obvious that Eva is a porn star?  (My apologies to those that hadn't figured it out.  Go watch again and tell me if you agree!)  I just can't figure out what Juliet's deal is.. and it's driving me crazy!

Music that makes me feel like fall. ♥ Sigur Rós.  The Pride & Prejudice OST.  Yiruma.  Detektivbyrån.  Yann Tiersen.  matt pond PA.  Band of Horses.  The Album Leaf.  This Will Destroy You.  Explosions in the Sky.  Contemplative and quiet.  Good homework music too!  Always open to musical suggestions.

Petits Favoris. ♥ Half coffee, half hot chocolate (must. stop. drinking.) ♥ Buying perfect gifts for P (time will tell if they're really "perfect"!!). ♥ Reading Gala Darling's weekly favorites - she is, after all, the original Thursday Lover! ♥ Getting an amazing hairs cut from a fellow Curly Girl. ♥ Finally finishing two weeks of antibiotics. ♥ Productive rainy days. ♥ Still missing London. ♥ Painting my nails! ♥ Taking a "day off" and not feeling guilty about it. ♥ Outlawing negative attitudes and comments on my blog (As my wise and lovely sister says, "I will not expend my limited energy on hostile interactions with close-minded people.") ♥ My intense crush on Gossip Girl - I mean, Kristen Bell - and excitement for her new movie. ♥ Okay, actually all the fresh movies coming out this fall. (And some that have already come out, too!)

TiLT #5

♥ Finally getting a tan.  I know it's unhealthy!  But it makes my teeth look whiter.  And I'm storing up vitamin D for the winter, when I'll really need it. :grin:

♥ Nutritionista. Tumblr is basically a microcosm of the Internet.  It has naked girls, fashion, cupcakes, emo teenagers, celebrities, and baby animals.  And Nutritionista.  She recently posted two articles that I've found extremely helpful; the first was titled Your Hunger Is Not An Emergency which was kind of a "duh" moment for me.  The main point that Nutritionista makes is that hunger is not the same as a desire to eat and we often confuse the two.  The second helpful article she recently posted was about Honest Cravings and when (and how!) to listen to what your body tells you about what it wants.  Both of the articles might be a bit obvious, but they're reminders that we all sometimes need.

♥ Nail polish!  Remember when I said that it only takes 21 days to break a habit?  That must mean that I am addicted to nail polish because I could not wait to paint my nails after my No Nail Polish August.  Unfortunately, I decided to paint in a poorly lit room and told myself that because I chose a light color - well, I could go a bit outside the lines.

Sometimes I really have to wonder who put me in charge of myself.  (That's Essie's Rock Candy, just for the record).

♥ Order tracking.  I haven't figured out yet why some companies don't give you tracking information for your order.  I know I'm not the only person who obsessively follows their stuff.  I've even been known to track my order before answering the doorbell just to make sure it was the FedEx man.  (You're right.  That might be pushing it.  I won't do it again.)

♥ Honorable Mention. A full tank of gas; waking up naturally before your alarm goes off; pretzel Goldfish; seeing old friends (the first week of classes is so much fun for this reason!); Cee-Lo's new song "F*** You!" - it's been stuck in my head all week; long weekends; trading in my glitchy BBerry Tour for the HTC Incredible; Arizona's instant pomegranate green tea (I know these are full of artificial sweetener but I can't help it); the naming system for hurricanes and tropical storms; having a smart nerd for a Boyfriend; external hard drives; learning curves, Gmail's new Priority Inbox.

TiLT #4

♥ 70º F. I've decided that this is my optimal temperature. I could go a few degrees cooler, but right around 70º is ideal.  If I could find a place that was 70º year round, I would be the most pleasant person on Earth.  (Boyfriend knows how cranky I get if I sweat when I'm not exercising.  It's not pretty.)

♥ Running buddies. Lots of Thursday love for Kristen at the Seredipity Diary for being a kick in my butt and my West Coast running buddy!  Sometimes you just NEED that spark to get you started again.  I love it!

♥ Finding out that your favorite band is playing your city.  In terms of Best Feelings and Most Excitement, I think this is probably topped by "I'm Pregnant" and "We're Getting Married."  I might also be biased, but that's another story ;) I'm so excited to see one of my favorite bands, matt pond PA, later this autumn that I'm even willing to go to the show alone if I can't find anyone willing to pay the $13!  Now if only Wilco and James Taylor would make stops soon...

♥ Reading.  For some reason, I've been spending way more time reading now that I'm back in New York.  I flew through an assigned book in 24 hours and am now s l o w l y making my way through Mockingjay.  I'm kind of worried I won't finish the book because I don't want the series to be over!

♥ Honorable Mention. Two hour lunches; lazy late summer days; finding sweet deals at Marshall's; Skype dates; PaperBackSwap.com; to-do lists and crossing everything off (2nd honorable mention appearance); Katy Perry's new album "Teenage Dream" (can you believe she used to be a Christian artist?!); autumn to-dos: apple picking! pumpkin patches! haunted houses!; the Great New York State Fair; obsessively cleaning and organizing; my glorious new French Press coffee maker; the organic fair trade shade grown coffee I bought for my first cup of French Press!; York peppermint patties (do they put drugs in those?  I could eat them all day).

Circa 2003

Of the two of us, Boyfriend is definitely pickier.  He is very particular about just about everything, which is mostly okay with me - "Sure, sure, local pasture raised grass fed organic is FINE.. you're paying, right?"  I do tend to be a bit of a music snob, but it hasn't always been that way (nor is it still.. the Jonas Brothers' discography holds a special place in my iTunes library).  Our musical preferences a frequent topic of conversation and I volunteered to make him a mix of my.. interesting music favorites from high school.  It turned out as strangely as you'd expect (and I had so much fun making it!), so I decided to share it with you all too!

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I think my high school self would approve of this shoddily made hot pink graphic.  Even though I thought I was really punk rock and wore embarrassing things like plaid pants, I could still appreciate irony.  I tried to be true to the time period (yes, I graduated from high school in 2003 :oops:); some of these albums came out in summer '03 but I still associate them strongly with high school and / or I listened to the band heavily in high school so I included it anyway.

What did YOU listen to in high school?  Is it drastically different from what you listen to now?  Mine is!  I would love to see what you guys come up with!  (I mean, high school is weird and kind of awful for everyone, right?  But it's fun to remember! ;))

King of Anything

I'm probably late on this, but I can't stop listening to this song.

TiLT #1

If anyone reads Gala Darling then you know that Things I Love Thursday is a Gala tradition.  This is my first week participating, hooray!

♥ Fluffy bunnies.  The Daily Bunny is like crack for me.  I most especially love these two mischievous buns. I have loved bunnies since I was knee-high to a grasshopper, but my mother insists that they are rodents (false) and would never let me have one.  Wah.  >:(

♥ The overturning of H8 & the upholding of Love.  Yesterday Federal Judge Vaughn Walker overturned California's voter approved (and highly controversial) Proposition 8, which banned same sex marriages, ruling that it violated the U.S. Constitution. Love is love, y'all.  More love for everyone ♥!

♥ Pretty Little Liars.  Okay so this is a two part love - I love the show and I love the books.  And I can love them both equally because the show isn't really following the books' story line.  Five friends are torn apart when one of them goes missing and turns up dead. It is 100% mindless trashy summer fun.  Plus, all of the actors are good looking (And who knew Aria could sing!  That name's not for nothin!).

♥ Taking care of myself. I get a weekly e-newsletter from my favorite running shop that inspired my 21 days post and since then, I've been really into making changes.  It's only been a few days (okay, two!) but reminding myself that it only takes 21 days to form a habit is great motivation.  I've been eating better (an apple a day!) and going to the gym every morning, and I even took my nail polish off and have been flossing too! :mrgreen:  Good for me.

♥ Reconnecting with Old Friends. Letting go just feels so much better. We could all use a few more friends, couldn't we?

♥ Honorable Mention. Green Goodness (helping vegetable-haters like myself get servings of vegetables!); making my bed every morning; vitamin E lotion, even though it smells like old ladies; the new Arcade Fire album, "The Suburbs"; having routines (does that make me a little neurotic..?); Sub Zero water bottles; complaining about how long it takes for BlackBerrys to start up but never ever having iPhone envy; mid-afternoon naps with Neko cat; fresh laundry smell; quitting Facebook; chocolate milk; True Blood; allergy medication that works (is there such a thing?); Shark Week.