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Hair Post.

September 5, 2011 · LIFE · Leave a Comment

Recently, I’ve found this new enjoyment of playing with my hair. Not sure if I would ever brave this and wear it outside my house, but I kind of like it! It’s definitely different, but whatever. The only sucky thing about curling my hair here is the darn humidity! 

can’t really tell what I did with my hair, here.

I wish I had an actual picture of what I did to my hair. I put it in a low side ponytail, parted it in 3 sections, fish tail braided each, teased the ends of each, fluffed out the braids, and pinned it up for an updo. And curled the bangs, I have a 1.5 inch barrel curler, which makes it extremely hard to curl my bangs, but I like how it turned out for me.

I think I’m going to try out different hairstyles every week and post them {maybe}. Doing my make-up & hair here has been a fun adventure for me.

Until next time.

No Matter What …

September 5, 2011 · LIFE · Leave a Comment

there will always be something missing.

When I was at home, I had everything, but the boyfriend. Now that I’ve moved, it’s just me and the boyfriend. And there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that, but it will always feel like little pieces of me are missing. With that in mind, that’s the big barrier I have to personally get over … all on my own.  I have to stop being in the past and missing what I was comfortable and familiar with. Moving here was a great decision for many reasons, I get to finally be with my boyfriend, the months of being apart for nearly two years was enough for us ( and we know it’s not over, thanks to the Navy ). I’m figuring out my independence here, making decisions on my own, just being away from familiarity. I’m growing up here, doing the adult thing, I guess you could say. And of course, life just isn’t easy. Everyday is a challenge and for the past month it’s been a struggle to figure out this one out. I’m very hesitant about doing things on my own and hopefully I get over that fairly soon cause it’s really holding me back.

Next week, I’ll be heading home back to Washington to get my license, hopefully that’ll be the big door opener. I’ll be able to get a car and finally get out of the house on my on accord. A lot of things can/will happen for me once I get that car. Hopefully a job follows suit, I seriously need/want one.

Until next time.

My Ambitions.

August 31, 2011 · LIFE · Leave a Comment

whatever they may be; it comes in spurts & at different moments.

It’s usually something that I’ve been longing to do or saw something years ago and just been hankering to do. Let me just go on about my current ambitions.

Top : { RSVP Shindig } { James Christianson Photographer }
Bottom : { Lisa Vorce } { Elizabeth Messina }
calligraphy.

This style of handwriting is simply beautiful to me and it’s more common to see it on wedding invites, which is part of what feeds my wedding fever. I would love to produce this beautiful writing out of my hand, I love calligraphy, it’s so elegant and timeless. And that’s why I had the boyfriend purchase some calligraphy pens for me, hopefully the saying “practice makes perfect” works out in my favor. I’ve done very little with my pens and paper, but I’ll make something of it.


music + viola + piano.

It’s music like this that make just fall in love with the piano and a bunch of other ones as well, can’t forget the classics. The video about is the making of Muse’s song United States of Eurasia, the lead, Matthew Bellamy, does amazing things with the piano. Songs like United States of Eurasia & their Exogensis Symphonies are some of my favorites from The Resistance album. I’ve been around classical music for most of life, started playing the viola (originally wanted to play the cello, but my brother picked it first .. Malia, forever trying to be different) in the 5th grade and stopped right when I graduated from high school. Despite one of my teachers, I loved playing in orchestra .. I just loved playing. Okay, so we weren’t the greatest, but I’ve got to play along side some pretty awesome people (well at my school). I knew if I practiced more, I could have made something of it, when I head back home, I’m seriously thinking about bring my viola with me. I want to pick it up again. Along with that, learning how to play the piano has always been on my list of things to do. My favorite orchestra teacher convinced me that I don’t have to take lessons to play the piano, he gave me this sheet of paper and said this is all you need to know. I’ll go ahead and listen to the wise; I just want to learn my favorite piano pieces, there’s a long list of them, and you can be that I’ll learn em all. (Yes, the songs by Muse are on the list!)

Top Left { Wisteria Invitation • Available At On Paper }
Right { Nautical Invitation • Elum } { C Studios }
Bottom { Truly Smitten }
letterpress.

Can’t quite remember what got me so interested in letterpress, but I’m sure it’s wedding related. And it just grew bigger when I stumbled upon my friends page, she’s a photographer and designer for invites and such. Letterpress is so neat to me and I really hope that it’s something I can get into. I’m pretty determined to find a letterpress and give it a go.

My original plan and still want to follow through on it, is to take online art school for graphic design and in hopes of starting a small home business and be a freelance graphic design. The possibilities can be endless. For me, I just want to find something that I’m happy and passionate about, no matter the pay. That’s my goal. Ever since I was little, I lived a busy life and now I wouldn’t mind finding something that I can do on my time, whenever I feel like.

Hopefully in the near future it all works out, for now, it’s figuring out how to get there.

Why Don’t I Post That Often?

August 25, 2011 · LIFE · Leave a Comment

cause I don’t really do much, so I don’t have much to share …

Lets see, today I wrote a lot of emails for the wedding inspiration site I help run, it’s weird, I love writing emails. To me emails are just as great as snail mail … well only the ones that pertain to the site! It seriously makes my day, when people email us back right away. And with me constantly connected to the email through my mac and phone, it’s like happy dance all day long.

Other than doing stuff for the site, there’s been a great amount of cleaning going on & a lot of daydreaming. The boyfriend is gone from early morning (five or six in the morning) to six – seven thirty-ish in the evening. And it’s all confidential, the most he can share about his day is if it was a good or bad one, how well he did on a test, and that’s pretty much it. One day he came home and said his day wasn’t very good, and it sucked because he couldn’t tell me about it. And normally, one of the best ways to ease out your issue is that you talk about … yep definitely could not, but that’s just how it is. All you sub SOs, just a heads up, the most time you’ll spend with your man during the week is at night, unless you wake up early in the morning to make him breakfast or something. And some possible vegging as soon as he gets home is a guarantee, it’ll be draining for him once he starts school. Just be supportive as ever and try not to whine about things … hehe (I’m getting better about it … la la la).

The weekends is definitely the best time you should try and utilize all the time you get with him, pretty much every weekend, we go downtown. He heads to his services near the evening time and I’ll wander around downtown for a hour until he’s done. I LOVE wandering & walking and downtown is definitely the place to do it. Last week was the first time I did it, I  had my headphones in the entire time because I’m kind of big on drowning the sounds of my environment, very anti-social I know, but I can still hear everything, so no worries. It’s a big college town, so people are definitely drinking, possibly drunk by then. Thankfully, some stores don’t close til 9, which is more than enough time for me to wander wherever.

The nightlife is definitely my favorite in Downtown Charleston, there’s so many different bars/clubs that’ll fit anyone’s scene. And there’s live bands in almost every bar, it’s awesome! Some of them are actually pretty decent … not too shabby! I already have some of my favorites, yet again I haven’t been to very many.

So definitely make the most of your weekends together, I try to get out of the house every chance I get, even if it’s a little grocery/errand run with the roomies. And they’re nice enough to even ask me to tag along, I appreciate that a lot! My roomies are great and always entertaining. Like today for example, we had our first outing tooooooooooooooooo … wait for it … the tennis court! Awesome, right?! Well I thought so because I got out of the house 😉 . It was fun to watch the boyfriend and roomies play tennis, quite entertaining really.  Since there’s no furniture in our house, except for our rooms, we eat around the island in the kitchen and … we stand. I guess it’s good for the digestive system and all, but I’m not all that great with standing for too long.

Okay, well that’s enough babbling for the night.

he started school …

August 11, 2011 · LIFE · Leave a Comment

& I’m quite acquainted with the household chores.

I’m determined to brave the humidity & hot weather and walk out of this development onto the main road. And then I’ll have to learn the bus system they have here. I’ve yet to thoroughly explore Downtown Charleston, I love the atmosphere there. The nightlife is definitely something to experience, plenty of places to go for all types of scenes.

I’m currently in the process of applying for jobs, hoping to snag something, but I’ve heard nothing but negative things about the job world. People haven’t been getting hired … It’s time like these that I wish I still had school to look forward to. Originally my plan was to enroll in art school (online), but I don’t have the funds, so that’s on hold. Hopefully I can get a job soon and start! I really want to get into graphic design, hoping that’ll open a door for a little side job at home.  With the Navy, it seems like the best option, until I discover something else that’s worth a try.

For now, it’s lots of cleaning and learning how to cook !

it’s been nearly a month …

August 9, 2011 · LIFE · 1 Comment

and changes have happened in my life.

Going off my last post, “packing/sorting”, I have finally moved to my new home (for now … until we move again in a year or so) in Charleston, South Carolina. Saying my farewells to my family, especially my parents, was definitely such a hard thing to do. The image of the moments at the airport will stay with me forever, keeping the true emotions behind our smiles, and turning away and tears start coming down our faces. It’s never easy to say good bye to the ones you love the most and nor will it get any easier. I miss them everyday that I’m away, but I know I’ll see them again soon.

I got a letter from my mom and video from my brother, I saved them for the plane ride because I knew I’d be bawling my eyes out and sure enough I did, for a while too. As the weeks go on, it gets a bit easier to adjust to this new environment. The first week was definitely the hardest, but I made it through okay. Time goes on and it gets better.

Charleston is definitely a place to get use to, I’ve been at home for most of it, most of it is on me, I guess you could say. There are some things that I should have taken care of, but never did, now I’m paying for it here. We can’t be dwelling on it now.

It’s hot and humid here, the first week I was here, the AC wasn’t circulating to our room very well, so it was horrible trying to sleep at night. I have no idea how the boyfriend managed to sleep in this condition for so long, but then again, he can handle just about any kind of weather, this I’m quite certain of. Driving in the car with the windows down in high 90 degree weather, he’s crazy! And I’m sure he figured this out already, but the hotness and humidity can make me a bit grumpy.

Until next time.

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