shelbyisms

up, up, and away

2012-01-31T00:38:00.008-06:00

this semester is truly great. and by great, i mean fantastic. this semester is already almost 25% over, and as much as i love it, i'm ready for summer.

school is finally challenging in a good way. mostly, anyway. i have a physical geography exam in the morning that i could care less about, but my upper-level classes are really interesting. last week i got to volunteer with special needs children, and it was incredible. for the first time, i actually care about what i'm studying, and that's just really, really cool.

i also feel productive this semester, in a way that i totally would have rejected in the fall. not only am i finding time to work so that i feel financially stable and able to afford the wanderlust-y lifestyle that i think we're all prone to in the spring, but i'm going to the gym and taking yoga classes and enjoying being awake. this is all very new for the stillwater shelby. it's nice.

and since i'm not spending quite so much time taking naps and watching old episodes of gossip girl on netflix, i've finally found time to read. which, honestly, has probably been the best thing. last week i read a loss for words, which was both wonderful and horribly sad. i'll be done with epilogue tomorrow (which is so, so good!), and i plan to start the hunger games by the end of the week.

sam and i have been trying to decide on a destination for a spring break trip, and i think we finally decided on albuquerque. honestly, it probably has a lot more to do with finding the house in breaking bad than actual scenery, but you know, whatever. these things happen.

twenty things to do before i turn twenty

2011-12-10T18:50:00.024-06:00

1- finish my spanish minor

2- learn how to drive a stick

3- buy, use, and develop at least ten disposable cameras

~~4- take a yoga class~~

5- read the hunger games

6- go skinny dipping

7- take a spontaneous trip

8- lose fifteen pounds

9- learn how to amateur bartend

10- swim in the ocean

11- put my hair in heidi braids at least once (even though i kind of

look like a viking when i do so)

12- drink more water

13- cook at least five meals from scratch

14- meet the blogger family

15- make the transition from pc to mac

16- learn how to properly apply eyeliner (it's really quite tragic)

17- have a garden of my own

18- learn how to bake an apple pie from my grandma pally

19- read more books

20- go camping

archive

2011-07-19T12:29:00.007-06:00

i have been blogging since the age of fourteen (i am now nineteen), but prefer to periodically "hide" my old entries from the public. i know that it's silly, that no one is actually reading what i'm writing, but it's nice to have a part of it just for me. i used to delete them, up until the summer of 2011, when i realized that years from now, the older, wiser, and hotter me would be devastated about the fact that even though i'd technically kept a diary for most of my adolescent and 20-something life, there was no record. i guess this is my way of turning the page. have an excellent day.