i love this print and this print from inslee

in my eyes, scott eastwood can do no wrong 

the “friends” scene that defines friendship

love this evil eye manicure

the comfiest looking sweater that is perfect for fall

i am way too excited for macbeth to come out (i love you, michael fassbender)

such a pretty way to store jewelry 

things to do in new york in september

a recipe for some of the most delicious ice cream i’ve ever had

a list of food you have to cook in september 

want to take this cake decorating class so badly

this article is for you if you love breakfast sandwiches

i’m back at georgetown for my senior year… seriously when did that happen? more than just when, but how? it seemed like yesterday it was the summer before my freshman year of college and i was making my way through every episode of “sex and the city”, imagining how i wanted my life to be. i had this scenario of how i thought everything was going to be and how i wanted to channel different characters as i started off this whole new chapter. i know, i know, such a cliché, but it’s what to be expected from someone like me. now that i’m in my last first semester and in my senior year i don’t really know where the time went. the girl who was watching “sex and the city” before starting georgetown seems like a totally different person than who i am today and i’m more than okay with that. i may have had this idea of what i wanted my college life to be like and some of it came true and some of it was different than i expected and so far i love how it worked out. there have been ups and downs (especially this past summer) and every moment has made me who i am. yes that last line sounds like something you’d read on a hallmark card, but i love cheesy lines and it couldn’t be more true. so here i am starting my senior year and watching the series finale of satc as i write this blog post, which seems very fitting, and i decided to finish up with a very cheesy carrie line… “as we drive along this road called life, occasionally a gal will find herself a little lost. and when that happens, i guess she has to let go of the could, shoulda, woulda, buckle up and just keep going.”

yesterday when i heard that robin williams died, i was so shocked and saddened by the news. he’s someone that has created such good memories for not only me, but so many people, but the fact he was hurting so much is what really gets me. this summer i lost someone very close to me, and it’s a loss i’ve been trying to deal with everyday. words are something i struggle to come up with when i think about this person who is so blatantly missing from my life, and i think it’s because i still can’t believe that she’s missing. the fact that she’s even missing sucks, and “sucks” is really one of the only words that i can come up with. this is something i wasn’t going to originally share on here, but my absence for the last few months was because i didn’t feel like writing for a while. how could i write something that had nothing to do with what i was feeling? i just couldn’t. so when i found out robin williams died i went online and watched one of his clips from dead poets society (one of my favorite movies) and one of my favorite movie scenes, the “oh captain, my captain” scene. if you haven’t seen it, i recommend you do. it’s something that stays with you long after it’s over, and the same goes for the actual poem that inspired this scene. i’ve been watching this amongst other videos from robin williams, and before i went to sleep last night i saw that his daughter posted something on twitter. it’s from the little prince and it seems to capture the words that i have been at a loss to find for the past few months. when i think of my aunt, my godmother, my friend, and someone who felt like my second mom, and feel sadness at the realization that she’s no longer physically here, this is what i am going to think of. although she may be gone, she isn’t truly gone. i don’t believe that. i know she’s here, and i know she’s with me, just as i know there are an infinite number of stars in the sky and she is in every one of them.

“you- you alone will have the stars as no one else has them. in one of the stars, i shall be living. in one of them, i shall be laughing. and so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night. you – only you – will have stars that can laugh.” – the little prince 

so… here i am! i’m back after a long, long absence. the longest i’ve ever taken on this site actually, but all for good reason. after coming home for my junior year the the best way to explain my “pause” in blogging is that life got in the way. no matter how much i love blogging and working on this site i needed a break. the whole point is that blogging is supposed to be something you love doing and i feel like i lost that love for a little while. that sounds so dramatic and i’m not trying to be dramatic at all (even though i’m a dramatic person) but i needed to get excited about blogging again. i have so many blog post ideas saved up and pictures waiting to be posted, but never got around to posting them. all i have to say is that’s going to change now. there have been so many times where i’ve taken a break with this blog and come back, but this time my “return” is really going to stick. for everyone who follows me i’m going to ramble on and on just like i usually do, but this time it will be with a lot more frequency. i was going to try to come up with some kind of cheesy joke to finish this all off, but i couldn’t really think of anything… so instead i’m going to cut myself off here and keep it plain and simple: “see” you guys soon (a.k.a like tomorrow)