Procrastinating

19 Things To Do Other Than The One Thing You Actually Really Need To Do

1. Eat pez out of a batman pez dispenser

2. Make jewelry (lots of it)

3. Eat a banana with nutella on it

4. Check facebook

5. Check facebook again

6. Knit

7. Organize recently taken photographs in their own individual labeled albums according to which camera they were taken with (I'm not OCD I swear....)

8. Make several itunes playlists

9. Write a letter

10. Journal

11. Contemplate doing the thing you need to do then decide against it

12. Look through yarn for a good color for a new hat

13. Paint nails

14. Paint toes

15. Catch up on blogs

16. Listen to Please Don't Go by Mike Posner three times and dance around the room

17. Eat more pez

18. Make bed

19. Write this blog post

Daddy's Girl




This is one of my favorite pictures of me and my Dad. Unfortunately, at a very young age, I thought it was necessary to cut it into this awkward shape so as to fit it into a very tiny awkward frame. I should clearly have not been left alone with a pair of scissors.
(Also apparent on a separate occasion during which I cut a chunk of my own hair off of my own head. Again, I was very young...)
Anyway.
Today is the day we celebrate our Fathers. And I'd most definitely like to celebrate mine because he is something else.
I love him very dearly and can't really express enough, in any amount of words, what a great Dad he is.
I have so many things to thank him for.
One of which is for instilling in me a love for music. All music. Some of my favorite memories growing up are of my Dad cranking up the speakers really loud and blasting whatever record he was playing at the time (anything from Miles Davis, Frank Sinatra and Al Green to The Cure, U2, New Order and General Public) and grabbing me and dancing around the room (as seen above), swinging and bouncing everywhere and singing along to the music very loudly and passionately.
I always loved it.
Even when I got older and was saying "Dadddyyyyy" in pretend embarrassment.

So Daddy, thank you.
Thank you for always telling me I'm the best, for all those cardboard houses and forts you built, for being obsessed with sailing so we have fun adventures, for instilling in me a love for dancing and music, for pushing me to fight for my dreams and what I want and encouraging me to always do my best, for loving me unconditionally, for teaching me right from wrong, for forgiving me when I did wrong anyway, for being a shoulder to cry to when I needed it and for raising me with a love for my savior who is my ultimate Father and who blessed me with you in the first place.
I love you.
Happy Father's Day.



Getting Things Done


Today I am going to get.things.done.
While listening to Lady Lamb the Beekeeper.
I have many things to do and very little time to do them in.
My computer will be closed except for itunes being open to eliminate virtual distractions....

On another note, last weeks street style post is up.
As well as an album on my facebook page with some of my favorite pictures around RVA.

Ok. I'm leaving. For real. I'm getting off the computer. This is it. Goodbye.

*Edit also one of my photo's was featured on RVA News! Check it out, it's the one that was submitted by From the Runway to RVA.


This Is A Story of Boy Meets Girl


Watched 500 Days of Summer today for what is probably the 45th time. One of my favorite movies. I mean awesome soundtrack, fantastic wardrobe, Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt.... What's not to love? And so many great lines....

"Just because some girl likes the same bizzaro crap you do, doesn't make her your soul mate"

I love it.
And if I'm ever sad, this video does wonders to cheer me up. How could it not? I mean best song ever.
So happy.

Also, I had a funnel cake today. This also does wonders for my happiness scale.
Fried dough never tasted so good.

I hope you're having a lovely weekend and find time to do some things that make you happy too. Despite life's craziness.