back to school

Spring Break went by wayyyy too fast.  The first part was a lot of work since we picked up shifts in order to get shifts covered while we were cruising in the Bahamas!! :)

It was so much fun to just have a cute little mommy & me + Kelcy vacation.  My favorite day was probably when we docked in Nassau.  We had day drinks at Senor Frogs, went over to Atlantis and snuck into the aquarium/pool area/beach, took a taxi back to the ship, had our formal night dinner onboard, and then went back out again to party at Senor Frogs...complete with karaoke and conga line-ing !

And now for the pictures ---->

<3 <3 <3

How were your Spring Breaks?!

the painted veil

Has anyone ever seen "The Painted Veil" with Naomi Watts and Edward Norton?  I hadn't even heard of it until I went searching for the origin of a quote I found on tumblr.  

"Il y a longtemps que je t'aime, jamais je ne t'oublirai"

or, in English,

"I've loved you for a long time, never will I forget you."

It's a beautiful song lyric, in a beautiful language.  Just imagine hearing those words coming from the voice of the person you love.  

summer internship

Yayyy!!!! I will definitely be interning at L.A. Models this summer!!

It's amazing what a random airport meeting can do to your future.

I'm so excited.  I'll be 2 miles from Kelcy's internship, right across the street from a Chipotle, and working with Kimberly (the girl I met at the airport) who is so funny and awesome.  This is going to be the best summer ever! :)

favorite photos

Day 11: Post your favorite picture ever taken of yourself.

This one's a tough one.  Not because I think I look amazing in every picture that is taken of me...but because I take SO many pictures.  Lately though? 

My favorite picture is of me and Kelcy in New Zealand.  We were driving to another town, when the traffic suddenly stopped.  Why? Because there were hundreds and hundreds of sheep crossing the road!  They were beautiful.  So we hopped out of the car and Mom captured the following image.  Now when looking back at the photo, it takes me back to that exact moment.  And that's probably why it's one of my faves.

me on the left and kel on the right :)

After looking at the "New Zealand" album, it looks like most of my favorite pictures are from that trip.  Maybe it's because it was so green and vibrant there, compared to Arizona especially haha.

Favorite picture I've ever taken (of Kel):

And my favorite picture I've ever creatively thought about:

unwritten law

Saturday night I left the house for work thinking that I was going to meet up with the girls after and go to a party in Tempe.  But what ended up happening was sooo much more exciting.

my pretty friends <3


It turns out that while I was at work, Kelcy, Heather, Leanne, and Olivia went to Ra Sushi and the lead singer of Unwritten Law invited them to his show at the Marquee that night! VIP. And only an hour after dinner...he texted them inviting them to come hang out in the tour bus before the show.

Heather and Leanne watching
from backstage since they were 21!
I met up with them about ten minutes into the show. We got into the show without them checking our bags (since we were VIP and all), and the show was awesome.  After the show we walked right back to where the busses were.  We had to deal with some "groupies" that kept calling us names, but Scott invited us into the bus and we just listened to music and talked for the next couple of hours.  

It was a blast and such an adventure :)  Check out some of Unwritten Law's music on youtube and myspace!  They're really good, and I especially like the acoustic versions.

flip a coin

"When faced with two choices, simply toss a toin.

It works not because it settles the question for you, 

but because in that brief moment when the coin is in the air,

you suddenly know what you are hoping for."

I hope everyone's been having a good week.  It's midterm season for me, but Spring Break is next week!! :)

spring cleaning

My closet feels a little bit dated.  I have those clothes that I absolutely LOVE and probably over wear.  But I also have those clothes in my closet that I never wear...and they're basically taking up good hanger space.  I also LOVE my shoes...and I have a lot of them...but some are a little "high school".  

One of the few times you'll see my
closet looking fabulous :)
So...I'm going to do some spring cleaning to my closet.  I will take the clothes I never wear to Buffalo Exchange and other consignment shops, take the shoes I never wear to the same place, and with the money I make (and a little from my bank account too) I will go shopping for some new classy clothes (and shoes) that I can wear in both LA this summer and in Milan this Fall :)   I have a feeling the clothes I will be buying will switch up my style a bit, but change is good.  

What do you all think are some must-haves I should buy?!

milan: fall 2011

I got into the study abroad program in Milan this Fall!!!!!!


I was getting ready for work yesterday morning when I opened up my email and read the amazing news.  My heart was beating so fast.  I didn't want to wake Kelcy to tell her, but I just had to.  She was so happy for me, which made me even more excited and relieved.  I was in an EXTRA good mood all day at work, and was in disbelief all day.

I'd like to thank all of you that sent me good thoughts <3 Even I doubted myself (since there were only two spots in the entire program), but with the good vibes sent from my family, friends, and blog friends, I will be living my dream in six short months!! :)

More news to come, but I just wanted to update you all on the most amazing news that I've heard in all of 2011!!  (Except of course Kelcy's acceptance into her internship program in LA that guaranteed the two of us an AMAZING summer.)

washington's birthday

Yesterday was a really feel good day.  And it wasn't just me.  Kelcy felt it.  Olivia felt it.  Paige...not so much because of this horribly rude guy in her class that she always has to partner with.  But anyways...the following events were AMAZING to me.  Hopefully you can all understand, and if not, I hope you had a feel good day too :)

1) So all of Kelcy and my classes are in the business building.  There is a parking structure right across a tiny street that is covered.  It is ALWAYS full.  Last year was no problem because of the times of our classes.  This year? It's been full every day we've tried to go since the semester started.  So we end up having to leave for school an hour early just to get a spot at the outdoor lot wayyy down the street.  But yesterday...we pulled into the structure with no problems at all!

2) After my hectic and amazing weekend, I had no time to do my readings for the week on Monday like I normally do.  There's always a quiz at the end of my Legal and Ethical Studies class, but I assumed that we'd go over the material in class like we always do.  Turns out, we didn't this time.  We just talked about the Martha Stewart case.  Quizzes were passed out, and I was getting pretty nervous.  People started to look confused, and it turns out the TAs passed out last weeks quiz!  So we were instructed to simply fill in our names and ID numbers on the scantron to get full credit!

3) We NEVER get out of Real Estate class early.  And it just so happened that I still had articles to read before my International Business class right after.  But, because it was Kelcy and my lucky day, we got out 15 minutes early.  It was incredible.

Hopefully this whole pattern of lucky helped out on this International Business test...but I guess we won't know until the grades come.  I'm crossing my fingers <3

the valley

So my weekend in California was so ridiculously amazing!!  I'm so glad I went.  There was seriously something to do every hour, and because of that...I've been catching up on my sleep the last couple of nights. 

 Some of the fun things we did : 

Aroma Cafe with Livs, Loren, and Randi

Manicure with Livs (and the lady remembered from summer and asked where Kelcy was!)

Brent's with Livs and her Daddio

My first sake bomb for Jin's 21st

Dance party at Philip's

Relaxing movie day to recoup

Calabasas with Livs, Loren, and their Momma

Nap time hahah

Party at Philip's for the birthdayS

Family gathering at Olivia's cousin's house

Via's house for a kick it

3 hours of sleep...

and a very early flight home

And now for some pictures thanks to Deborah's amazing camera <3

had to get our bathroom pic hah

got to see my friend elliott!

classic dance line up

spontaneity

One of the things I love most is spontaneity.  Sometimes it's hard to actually go with it because of work, school, and other responsibilities...but when it works out?  You just have to do it.  

Olivia has been planning on going back home to California this weekend for one of her friend's weddings.  Then, we all got an invite to a triple birthday bash at her friend's house in California the same weekend!  I looked in my planner and saw that my only responsibility this weekend was an on call shift at work.  So, naturally I was thinking to myself, I have to go.  I texted Kelcy to see if she would try and get her shifts covered, but being the responsible girl that she is, decided that she has too much going on this weekend (work, interview, internship) even though she really wanted to go.  She assured me that she'd be fine if I went without her since "it was in the cards" for me...so I bought a plane ticket.  

I'm so excited!  It'll be another adventure with Livs, and Kelcy will be free from me and my annoyances for a few days.  Too bad it's going to be 55 degrees and raining, but luckily Kel was sweet enough to offer some of her cute winter clothes she got for Minnesota to me :)

[   And speaking of adventures with Livs...it ALWAYS reminds me of the time we were walking from tailgating to the Mike Posner/Far East Movement concert and really had to go to the bathroom.  So we stopped outside these luxurious condominiums, buzzed a random tenant, told them our names and asked if we could please go to the bathroom.  So a nice kid let us in, and that picture was taken in the lobby restroom haha.  ]

lock and key

I love reading the stories on Le Love.  Of course there are those stories that are a little much and you just wish you could knock some sense into these girls.  But then there are ones like today, that make you tear up and truly believe that love exists:

I've always hated Valentine's Day. It seems senseless to me to have a day devoted to making singles feel lonely, and couples feel obligated to buy each other chocolates and say I love you. I figured this Valentine's Day would be the same. A skype date from Connecticut to Virginia over bad internet connections. He surprised me though. He changed my conception of Valentine's Day, and love, and grand gestures. The kind that I was positive only really existed in cheesy chick flicks. You see, the only thing I ever really fell in love with before him was the city of Paris. Without speaking a word of French, he posted to Craigslist a call to the romantics of Paris. He enlisted two French women to place locks on Pont des Arts, the bridge of love locks, where I had put a lock with my friends a year ago. These women had no idea who he was, but they believe in the power of love, and a good love story. Each one went and bought a lock, wrote our initials in a heart, and threw the key into the Seine, documenting it with pictures. All they asked for in return was to be invited to our wedding, one day in the future. Apparently true, crazy, I would do anything to see you smile kind of love really does exist. Happy Valentine's Day.