ya know?

Its times like this you wish punching people was an appropriate pastime. 

Times when people say rude things online [DUMB] about something you hold so near & dear to your heart, but KNOWING retaliating would be just as tacky, times when you find out about 34423434 more lies you wholeheartedly believed, times you're still up at 1:30am when you know you have to be back up at 7am, times you wish you could put a sweet friend in a do-the-right-thing coma so you don't have to see them hurt, times when you're hungry and you're out of WW POINTS for the day, times when everyone is breaking up or getting married, times when you have been exposed to scabies but you won't ACTUALLY know if you have them until 21 days from now when they HATCH buhhhhhh, [LONG STORY, maybe I'll explain later] times when your living room is freezing but your bedroom is Africa, times your BFF just moved 35 hours&39min/2403.5mi away, or times when you can't sleep and there are no more Parenthood episodes on Hulu.

These are those times. BUT -

“I am not afraid of tomorrow, 

for I have seen yesterday, 

and I love today.” 

- William Allen White

I will conquer this 'Negative Nancy' spirit by quietly dancing to the new Sia album I downloaded illegally. See? already beating the system.

I JUST CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF THIS SONG

Katy Perry

Its been on repeat for the last week and I still love it

Dear future Kathleen,

Listen.

Its going to be an incredibly busy semester. And you're going to be tired. [You're probably tired right now.] You have SO MUCH to do and enough time to do it if you plan well... BUT wait - before you start hyperventilating... I want to remind you that YOU'VE MADE THE RIGHT DECISIONS.

Committing to being a dedicated SGA member is the right choice for you.
Committing to being a hardworking Madrigalians member is the right choice for you.
Committing to being a Vocal major is the right choice for you.
Committing to being an Art Therapy minor is the right choice for you.
Committing to look for a mission position after college vs. 'a real job' is the right choice for you.

Choosing to get a job this semester is responsible.
Choosing to have an extra semester before graduation is responsible.
Choosing to take a semester off from the Theater Department is painful, yet also responsible.

Remember that excitement and inspiration from this time last year?
GO FIND IT. DON'T LET IT GO.

Do your homework. Keep up your progress with WeightWatchers. Get up for church on Sundays. Make the Dean's list. Play your guitar. Exercise. Get that tattoo. Pray. Practice for seminar. Love on people. Laugh more than you breathe.


p.s. please don't try to live off only chicken noodle soup. It won't work.

I was wrong

and I'll try to never do it again.

i will tell you this -

eating this...

  while watching this in theaters... 

 
was one of the best decisions i've made in my life.

in other news, tomorrow is my last 'official' day of summer.
I plan on drinking a lot of homemade lemonade.

there is a bluebird in my heart

i'm ready.

“Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love at all is to be vulnerable.” 

- C. S. Lewis

mirror, mirror on the wall

i'd give it 

6 more months.

till you come back home to me

¿Cómo estás?

last night, I went to Walmart.
and as usual, a few Mexican men looked me up and down.
One spoke to me. And I said Hola back... but then he kept talking.
And I stopped.


Why did I assume he's a dirty Mexican pervert?
He did nothing to make me feel that way...
all he did was say hello.
But I stopped talking.
Just ignored him.
I was rude.


I've been to Mexico.
I did not meet a single person who
I thought might want to hurt me.
They were some of the most incredible people i've ever met. 


I made a racist generalization in the frozen food section,
and I can't stop wishing I'd just said something back.
I'm sure he was just being polite?

I'm itching for football season...

this is tacky

I just want to know why you can be sweet as pie to her, but you were a complete jerk to me when I did nothing wrong and was totally innocent throughout the entire situation? p.s. a situation that had NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU.

step back and look at yourself. You make no sense.