Here's to the weekend!

My last weekend as an under-ager...to be exact.

It is suppose to get down to 30 degrees here because of this dang cold front! Woah! I don't know if I can handle 70 down to 30 in one day. It's gotta be gradual, come on. 

But honestly, as much as I would like to think I'll just snuggle up all day and hibernate, I know there will be plenty of time for that come the actual winter where we are snowed in days at a time. So this weekend will be spent playing with puppies at the humane society (eee!), hiking and photographing the beautiful changing of the leaves, farmers market visits, and drinking pumpkin ale. And probably a bit of homework too...

Hope you have a wonderful, Autumn-y weekend as well!

(I am not sure the source of that picture...but I sure didn't take it, although I wish I had)

When a list is just the easiest thing to do

I am a list writer, and this week has been filled with lists of things to do, groceries to buy, finals to study for, professors to suck up too, and pretty much all lists I would rather tear up and put through a paper shredder than actually attempt to accomplish. 

and between all that list writing (which I know is going to get worse before it gets better, a week and half left!) I just wanted to write a list on my blog. This blog is kind of already in list form, lists of happy things, ya know? 

but this is different, this will be put in a different list genre. This is a list of me.

1. It may seem like I use the word love too much, but I would NEVER ever say it without meaning it.

2. I LOVE anything that's in baby size. 

i.e. baby Dairy Queen blizzards, baby animals, just anything that is smaller than its normal size

3. WILLIAM AND KATE ARE GETTING MARRIED! big. WHOOP.

4. I love adrenaline. I'm not a meat head or obsessed with lifting weights, I just love to exert my body and push the limits. Rowing was good at letting me do that.

5. I miss year round swimming, not only for the great workout, but because in a pool there are no distractions and you don't need music. 

6. My bike is my pride and joy. The. End.

7. I find a lot of solace in drawing and painting.

8. I laugh a lot, but it sometimes seems like I am laughing harder than I should. Its usually not because of what someone said but what I pictured in my head when they said it.

9. I am talking myself into attempting to deep clean my closet this summer. Never wearing something I HAD to have has GOT to stop. 

10. Breakfast food is better than any other type of food.

11. I don't miss meat.

12. I talk faster than I can produce words. 

13. I don't remember the last time I was genuinely angry.

14. I wish I could explain why I love scrabble so much, but I can't. It must be a complex.

15. I love knowing people, and by that I mean really knowing them. Life is all about the relationships you have with people, and I live for that.

16. I wish I could quote the literary classics like it was part of my vocabulary. 

17. There is nothing I want more in life than to run through a lavender field in southern France, or sit by an open bay window with tea and a book in Italy and listen to the people speaking Italian on the streets below.

18. I drink black coffee like its water. I am working on getting off of that.

19. I reference Harry Potter more than necessary. 

20. I use to never remember my dreams, until just recently. Now I dream 50 crazy things a night. Someone wanna tell me what's going on in this brain of mine?

21. I don't allow myself to stress or get nervous. It just makes whatever I am stressing or nervous about that much worse. 

22. I said "aminal" until I was about 7 years old. There are much more confusing words out there, so I don't get why that one was so hard for me to get a grasp on.

Make a list for yourself, of things that aren't screaming at you to get them done in a timely manner. Just one you can look over and happily reflect on. 

Cuteroulette WILL rule the world

I have an obsession with baby animals.

Mostly bunnies.

...but pretty much anything in baby size.

Two Christmas's ago one of my best friends, Julie, who knew how much I loved baby animals and how they make be squeal, gave me a 400 page coffee table book titled Baby Animals.

Needless to say, I look at it ALL. THE. TIME.

She really gives the best presents. 

Anywayssss...

a couple nights ago I received a text message from her that said "CUTEROULETTE.COM GO NOW!"

and I was on my way to sleepy town, so I just responded with gibberish and kind of forgot about it.

That is until I remembered today and decided to see why she HAD to text me in the middle of the night about something that probably resembled chatroulette (which definitely isn't worth ever getting on).

So I typed in www.cuteroulette.com and DEAR SWEET BABY JESUS. this website was meant for me.

I seriously squealed, awed, goshed, smiled til it hurt, and gawked at the cuteness of the wonderful baby animal videos that were at my finger tips. Instead of creepy rando's popping up on my screen like chatroulette, adorable baby animal videos popped up and when I was done watching one video I could click "Next Cuteness" and there would be another one! An endless supply of cutieness!

I will begin and end every day with at least two of these videos from now on.

Seriously, if you are a baby animal lover, or just have a heart at all, you HAVE to check it out.

okay, the end.

Here's some perfectness for your viewing pleasure : I am not sure who the original sources are...

Rainy mood thoughts

By March 2012, the first year anniversary of this blog, I will have been blogging while living in three different places. That's pretty weird to think about...that's a lot of moving. 

A lot of decisions, some not as life changing as others. 

I don't think I could handle them all being life changing.

Milledgeville, Savannah, and Boone are all very different places though.

With different people, different landscapes, but all lovely none the less.

Good thing I like change.

and new people.

and new places.

and new thoughts and ideas.

and more than all those things I love learning.

and there will be lots of that going on.

So maybe all this moving won't be so bad after all, I am actually really looking forward to it!

and I desperately wish it was raining right now.

Instead of practicing useless tasks that won't get me anywhere in life A.K.A. homework...

I skype my best boy, Wes...

and we create masterpieces, such as this...

school, shhmool.

Me-mornings

Ya know, nothing is better than "me-mornings." Those mornings where I spend time with myself are just so vital to my existence. My "me-mornings" usually consist of waking up an hour earlier than I would any other morning, doing about 20 minutes of a light yoga practice, taking a shower (making sure not to rush myself), eating a good breakfast, and then getting ready for my day. Sometimes you add in a little Louis Armstrong and scripture reading to the mix and it's seriously the perfect beginning to a day that can only get better from there. These mornings, that usually happen two to three times a week, assist me in having a healthy outlook on life and really center my thoughts and plans for the days ahead. Try it out sometime, do something for yourself, whether it be just giving yourself quiet time, learning about what makes you happy, teaching yourself new things, or all of the above. 

Reward yourself with happy living. 

I WILL conquer this cold....

no matter what it takes! 

Eating garlic, inhaling steam from a boiling pot of water, drinking antioxidants out the wazoo, getting 9 hours of sleep every night, downing a gallon of OJ, taking Theraflu, blowing my nose in the middle of class, maybe I'll even invest in a netipot...I don't care what I have to do....I just can't handle my nose right now. 

Wish me luck!

but looking at the glass half full or whatever, its a beautiful day outside and I may even suck it up and go for a run. 

Dumb pollen. 

New discovery...or maybe just oppressed characteristic

I am a hopeless romantic. There. I said it. As much as I have always said I hate mushy gushy romance, over exaggerated ridiculous love stories, and "meant to be" theories, I have come to realize that it all makes me giddy and I am just a straight up romantic. I don't necessarily wear my heart on my sleeve, or even remotely close to it, but I guess admitting that I do love romance is the first step in some kind of direction...maybe the right one? 

This realization all came about when I realized I can finish a love story in book form in less than a day and think about it for the next week straight, and watch Breakfast at Tiffanys, Pillow Talk, Casablanca, The Notebook, Pride & Prejudice, When Harry Met Sally, or any other classic love story over and over and over again.

I love LOVE.

Maybe I laugh too much? Is that possible? Maybe things are really that funny...

I have laughed until tears were rolling down my face 7 times in the last 24 hours. My eyes are actually feeling kind of swollen, like if I had been crying, but in reality it was from laughing. That's pretty funny in itself, and obviously the people I surround myself with are too good to be true.

I am trying to compile the pictures I have of my friends and I laughing. Be looking out for that post in the near future...the amount of goofiness may send some chuckles your way too.

yes there are rules...

Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff

Rule #2: It's all small stuff

oh and love people.

that's it.

My heart aches for Savannah

Not only am I a Savannah, GA native, I am a die hard St. Patrick's Day lover. Seriously. I cried this morning, not only because of stress and walking into a huge midterm exam, but because it was the second year I have ever missed St. Patrick's Day in Savannah (the first being last year, my freshmen year of college.) It just so happens that Georgia College and State University hates me participating in all things fun, so they have midterms the week of St. Patty's day. I may have been stressed, grumpy, tired, a cry baby, and just all things unpleasant, but I was not letting anyone keep me from celebrating St. Patty's Day....so as I walked to class this morning with my study guide in hand, I sang "It's St. Patrick's Day in Savannah" for all to hear. It wasn't easy on the ears, mind you, but it lifted my spirits, and hopefully a little luck came my way just in time to take that precalculus exam. So here's to everyone having a beautiful start to spring break, and a wonderful St. Patrick's Day, even if you can't be in Savannah, New York, Chicago, Boston, or Ireland.

(and I couldn't find any old St. Patrick's Day pictures, but here is a beautiful summery Savannah picture)

and another...

My pretty ladybug friend

I spotted this little guy..or maybe its a gal?..on my blinds this afternoon. It sure is a sweet little reminder that it's almost spring!

and a lovely Tuesday it was...

So last night I finished that paper, watched a disc of the first season of Lost (oh my gosh, it sooo good, but I'll get to that!), went to bed, then awoke this morning to a wonderful e-mail from my professors assistant saying "class today is cancelled!"

Not only is a cancelled class the greatest thing in the world, but it was my ONLY class today and the one that the paper was due in! Huzzah!! So today was spent grocery shopping, cleaning the apartment, drawing, baking Nutella cupcakes, and watching Lost. It was quite wonderful, and I didn't have to step one foot on campus.

and now to talk about my new obsession, Lost.

Two years ago I got the flu and spent the three to four days that I was home sick either sleeping or watching the first three seasons of How I Met Your Mother and let me tell you, I was hooked. I was also really medicated and just really felt like I was best friends with all the characters. I'm not comparing HIMYM to Lost by any means, I'm just comparing my obsession with both shows. I love HIMYM, but Lost is just TOO GOOD! It's so suspenseful, not overly romantic, and I can't wait to get further into the series. I just love EVERY character, I don't dislike any of them, except for "the others." People just talk it up so much and I know its just going to get better, but I can't even fathom how much better! I know I sound like a Lost amateur and am probably offending all the people who read the Lostpedia and know the show like the back of their hands, but I am just so excited about this show! okay, I'm done.

I hope everyone else's day was as happy as mine!

Eek this first blog post is making me happy!

Hello all! So this is my first blog post, yikes! Kind of intimidating...but I think I'll catch on quick! Alright, the premise of this blog is to reflect on the things that make me happy. Which covers a lot of ground and hopefully enough to make a blog about them. My friends and I began keeping journals of events, quotes, people, places, and things that just make us smile throughout our day. Our inspiration was this wonderful book! It became a necessary part of my evening routine to sit in my bed and reflect on my day and write down every moment that made me happy in some way...it forced me to see the good in things that maybe would just be easier to just sulk about. It's like a journal, but simpler. The blog came about because I am constantly told "you look like a blogger" and to tell you the truth...I love bloggers. I love "blog hopping" and find them quite inspiring and a better creative outlet than say...Facebook. Oh, and getting a blog was the perfect excuse to use my artistic voice and appease my mother, who misses stalking my photos on Facebook since I had it removed from the cyber world. Here are just a few things from the past week that had me smiling from ear to ear...hope you enjoy! Cheers to being overly positive...if that is even possible!

-Hannah

Yummy Banana Cupcakes with Honey Cinnamon Frosting

 Fresh daisies in my window sill accompanied by 70 degree weather

 Homemade granola and a perfected recipe of homemade chai tea

 A reason to have a pot luck, funky stitches, pastels, homemade hand delivered invitations...what more can you ask for?