If only I had a Royal Wedding hangover

I was ready. I had prepared all week for the main event. I decided to stay up and watch a movie to calm my pre-wedding nerves beforehand but what do I do....no I didn't google pictures of Ben Affleck...that was another time. I fell asleep!! Full blown, head on a pillow and drooling (just kidding about the drool, I promise I don't drool). I had high hopes for the evening, I was rather excited but apparently my small little body couldn't handle the royal wedding.



If Harry can't have me, I hope he can at least have Pippa (Kate's sister) she is way too cute



They are so adorable, I saw this picture today in the news of them outside Buckingham palace the morning after

Pippa, why are you so precious?!

How stunning was Kate Middleton (I'm sorry, I should be proper and say Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge) in her wedding dress? I just want to be her. She is glamorous, seriously toned (if I was a guy...) and has handled herself with such grace. They are too cute for words. Congrats Will and Kate (we are close, personal friends so don't be alarmed when I use their names like this, it's fine).

PS. Wills and Kate...I'm still waiting for you to call me back about setting me up with Harry since my invite somehow vanished in the mail...still waiting...

I think it's infected...can you take a look?

I think I have it. My heart is floating in my chest, my palms are sweaty and my arm pits are tingly (fun fact: when I get nervous, scared, or excited my arm pits tingle...like seriously tingle. It feels like needles). Is it allergies you ask? No...but I may have surpassed my sneeze quota for the day. Is it love? Well....sort of. This may shock you, but it probably won't. I have....Royal Fever!! That's right. I said it. Don't be alarmed friends, I have Royal Fever. It comes in spurts, but it's mostly always there. It makes me google members of the Royal Family, research the history behind Westminster Abbey, and read articles about the fabulous Kate Middleton.

How adorable are they?!

I have a confession...don't laugh or shake your head in dismay. Ok, here it is...I plan on staying up to watch the Royal wedding on tv. It starts broadcasting at 4 am on this side of the pond, which means 1am in California! Am I crazy or am I crazy? Hey you! I said don't shake your head at me. It's funny, when my mom was my age, she was obsessed with Lady Diana Spencer's Wedding to Prince Charles. Now times have come full circle and I am obsessed (read with emphasis) about Prince William's nuptials to Kate Middleton (the coolest girl ever...besides me of course, but that would be narcissistic).

So, I plan on plopping myself on the couch, drinking some tea (I need to be British after all) and enjoying the spectacle that is called the Royal Wedding. Like every little girl everywhere, I will be radiating jealousy for the girl that is about to become a real life princess.

Congrats Wills & Kate....PS... I think my invite got lost in the mail, no hard feelings though. I do have a paper to write so I wouldn't have been able to make it anyways. You can make it up to me though, just set me up with Harry.

Summer and Conspiracies

Well folks, my wonderful spring break is coming to a close. I'm entering into crunch time now with school, but soon enough my peeps....I'll be on break for summer! I can hardly wait. I'm ready for laying in the sun, going on runs in the early afternoon when the heat is still bearable, eating fresh fruits and veggies from the farmers market and fruit stands. I'm excited to finally have some free time to tackle the long list of books that I've been dying to read; trust me, my heart has been aching to feel the crisp pages of a novel between my fingers again.

Today, my last day of break, has been spent writing a paper for one of my history classes. Coincidentally enough, I turned on the History Channel (yes, I'm a true history nerd) for some background noise when I sat down to write my paper on Fascism and The Nazi Party and what is on TV....you guessed it, Nazis. The fall of the Third Reich to be precise. I powered through the paper, well maybe not powered through, I was getting sidetracked...that pesky Hitler sure knows how to demand attention.

Speaking of History, I went and saw the new movie The Conspirator with my pops a few days ago. You know the one, it's about the conspiracy behind Abraham Lincoln's assassination and the trial of one Mary Surratt (she was the owner of the boarding house where the plot was thought out). It stared James Mcavoy as the Lawyer that defended her; let me tell you...I love me some Jame Mcavoy (admit it...he had a little somethin, somethin as Mr. Tumnus in Narnia...the goat feet did not deter me). Overall, I really liked the movie; there is something about the presidency, the Civil War, and the justice system that fascinates me and this movie had all of the above. If you are a history nerd like me, check it out

Say Goodbye to Hollywood...

I miss it. The smell of the sea brine, the way the breeze carried the ocean mist and the light smell of salt. It was perfect weather. Light and a little cloudy, but warm enough to wear a swimsuit and lay on the sandy shore. The sand was warm and I laid there, enjoying the way that the sand formed around my body. I miss spring break. 

Lighthouse at Point Vincent



Ok, technically I'm still on spring break and don't go back to school till Tuesday morning but I'm faced with the daunting task of having to write four papers (the life of a history major). I want to go back to spring break when I was drinking coffee on a beach at night in LA with my friends. The only thing that remains from that trip down south are the pictures stored on my computer, the sand in my purse, and the lovely glow of red that radiates from my body like a neon sign (to which my mom says, "I thought you said you never got sun burned" as she laughs in my face).


Brittany (FLeft), Megan (BLeft), Me, and Emily (FRight) starting the journey



Road trips. Half the fun is getting there. When I was a child, I always thought college was about road trips on spring break with your best friends. It wasn't until this year, my second year in college, that I was finally able to go on a road trip with my college friends and let me tell you, it was all that I thought it would be. The junk food in the car on the way down, the endless stream of picture taking, the beach, staying up late at night, and the laughter was exactly what I always hoped my spring break would be filled with. The only thing that was missing from this college spring break trip was a girl taking off her bikini top...oh wait, that did happen (and it was me. Not intentionally, don't worry grandma if you read this, it was a huge tsunami waves fault...stupid faulty bikini top!)

I love my friends. I can't help but feel like I'm closer to all my friends now. I love all the girls that I live with at Jessup, they each bring something special to my life and all teach me so much about myself and about others. I thank God for bringing them into my life, they are all so unique and I can't imagine how my life would have turned out differently this year if I had been placed with a different set of girls. I love you all ladies, I'm sad that the school year is winding down, but I know that next semester, we'll still be friends and I can't wait to see where life leads us.



yes...that is my boyfriend Humphrey Bogart. Too bad the walls in Hollywood smell like pee









 





Cheers to spring break 2011 socal style! And here's to another spring break in 2012, I look forward to the mayhem that I will get into with my girls next year!



It's like a Harry Potter nerds (me) mecca!



Franky Baby! outside the Chinese Theater





My mother just kindly told me that I look like a man...thanks mom.







can you feel it?!

Can you smell it also? The scent of new flowers and the light musk of early spring. Can you hear it too? The gentle whirl of lawn mowers, awoken from a long winter's sleep. Can you taste it as well? The sugary sweet first bite of early summer fruit. Can you feel it like I can? The glorious easy breeze that linger in the air and makes the day cool. Today, was the a perfect spring day in Lodi. I love this time of year, when all the flowers begin to bloom and fruit begins to turn vibrant reds, blue, orange, and pink. I love the early days of spring, when the air is sweet and cool.

True to form (and my addiction to all things Parisian) I just had to share a picture of the beautiful Luxembourg gardens in spring. Doesn't it just create a desire to lay on the grass and write poetry or something equally soulful?

This evening I helped my dad clean the kitchen while he grilled some vegetables and chicken outside. We ate outside tonight and let me tell you, I plan on doing that a lot this summer when I'm home from school. If this day was any indicator of how Spring Break is going to be, I can tell I'm going to have a very relaxing break. Dinner was a lovely affair, we sat outside and felt the breeze, my dog ran around the table begging for scraps (what else is new), and my dad put his ipod dock outside so we could listen to music. As I heard Michael Buble singing me sweet nothings into the evening air (if I closed my eyes I could almost pretend it was really him) I realized just how much I love coming home from school.

Tonight, after all the dishes were washed and leftovers put in the fridge I decided to go for a walk. Because my gym is in Sacramento and my body was aching for some exercise, I would usually go for a run but I wanted to enjoy the sights and sounds of early spring, so a walked seemed like just the ticket. On my walk, I began to think that I only have three weeks or so left after spring break till I'm home for the summer. I can't wait! I have big plans for this summer and I can't wait to finally start on them.

Tomorrow I leave for my road-trip with some friends from college, so check back here in a few days to read about the crazy antics of four college age girls!

The wildflowers that we planted (irony?) a few year back for my high school graduation always seem to have a clever way of coming back every season. I love their consistency.

the start

I'm sitting on my bed at my parent's home (how weird is it to say "my parent's home", because I really don't live there anymore) reading blogs and cuddling with Satan my cat. I left school last night to embark on this week long extravaganza known as spring break. It could not have come at a better time. Well actually, a few weeks ago, before my brain had exploded from exhaustion, would have been better. I'm in desperate need of some R&R, and I know just the ticket...put me on a warm beach in socal with my girls and call it a day. I'm leaving Sunday morning to take a road trip down to LA with some friends and I could not be more excited. I just cringe when I think of my white fluffy body in a bathing suit...yikes! It's my goal to get some color (don't let my pasty ivory skin fool you...I really don't burn here people!)

Whenever I think of Summer and beaches, I'm always reminded of Grease and that scene with Sandy and Danny...you don't do that too? Oh...this is awkward... I try to live my life like a musical, sometimes it doesn't work

I know this is a short post, but I really don't have much to say today. I think this is a lazy day, which calls for me to get off my lazy bum, go downstairs to make some coffee, and spend the rest of the afternoon watching the original Oceans Eleven and reading my books. Ta-ta for now folks! enjoy this lovely day :)

Is it finally here??

lovelies, if you are a fellow jessupite reading this, you can rejoice with me that we are finally (or at least a day away) to being on spring break! Can it be? I thought spring break this year was just a cruel rumor circulating (like those days in high school....but I digress) that we would never actually get to taste, smell, touch, or hear! But it turns out that this little beauty is actually true and actually upon us now! I'm so excited. I've been feeling very lethargic lately and very much like a sleepy cat that sits inside on the windowsill and begs for sleep (all that I've wanted to do is sleep in the sun, the warm, warm sun that has finally begun exclaiming its presence). Obviously I have not been able to lay in the sun all day and be a lazy bum...I do have to have some type of standard I keep in school. But those days that I have been able to stretch out on the lawn with some friends and read my book (I'm currently reading Maus: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman, a fabulous graphic novel about his father's time in a concentration camp during WWII....I highly recommend it. But enough about the book, the history major in me is beginning to blab on) have been glorious. Who knew that a little sunshine, good friends, and a good book would bring me such joy? I highly recommend it.



My lovely graphic novel- Maus: My Father Bleeds History



School has been hectic lately, I have so much to do that I can actually feel the hairs on my head turning white. While I do plan on having fun this spring break, I'm going to Los Angeles and San Diego (most likely) with my roommates and dear friends from school, I also plan to use this time as a catch up on all that I need to do. Talking to my friend Alyssa last night on our trip to the gym really made me realize how little time I actually have left in the semester. In just a few short weeks school will be over! Where did the time go? I have too many papers than should be legally allowed and I have tests to start studying for (or at least pretend to be thinking about studying for). Time is a fickle thing, you either seem to have too much or too little...when it comes to school and homework and projects it seems we always fall in the latter category. In all honesty, I'm excited for the fall semester. Last night, we registered for classes and picked the apartment that we're living in next year! It all seems so surreal because it's hard to believe that this year is nearly over and we're going to begin a new year. When did this happen?!

On a different note, one that doesn't make me want to have a panic attack and punch my roommate (or a small child) in the face to release my anxiety, last weekend I went to Old Town Sacramento with some girls from school. Let me tell you, I love Old Town! It's so much fun and adorable! We went to look for some masquerade masks for some girls because our school was putting on a Masquerade Ball (which was AMAZING! Good job Jessup!). I've been wanting to go there for a while now because one of our friends is from Oregon and had never been there before. If you've never been, GO! It's a cool experience and a real treat. It's an old historical place, very old west feel (the historian in me loves it). Last weekend was one of the best and most relaxing that I've had in a while; I needed to de-stress and regroup and my girls did the trick last weekend. Thanks ladies!


Megan (left) and Me (right) walking into Old Town as seen from the angle of our friend Rose



So, now that you know my Spring Break plans, what are you planning? Or if you're not on spring break, what will you do this weekend to relax and let go of all that stress from the week?



I just find this hilarious. It's the nerd in me...what can I say?!