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September 28, 2015

project life 2015 // week fifteen.

April 6 - April 12.What went on this week: This week I was in San Francisco for job training, which was so fun. I got to meet all of the editors who work out there, and check out a bunch of cool SF spots. My best friend Mathew's birthday was the day I got back, so we had a fire in his backyard, and on Sunday, my two best friends and I signed a lease on an apartment. Big. Week.Details + interesting tidbits: I ate a lot of amazing food on my trip, so I kid of highlighted that on the entire righthand page, and stuck with a typical-of-me color scheme on the other side.Photo Breakdown: phone photos: 11 // DSLR photos: 0 // polaroid photos: 0. Taken by me, the self-timer, and shutter remotes.

Materials Used: PL Core Kits: seafoam edition (week card), Studio Calico PL kits: camelot (explore, map); far far away (triangles); carolina moon (about you card), less is more stampsheidi swapp date stampfiskars corner rounderfiskars paper trimmerstaz-on jet black ink, zig photo signature pen in black (on photos), zig writer marker in black (on journal cards), canon selphy wireless printer, canon selphy ink + paper kit.
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Project Life is a simplified solution to scrapbooking created by Becky Higgins that helps you record everyday memories. Document your story either physically or digitally along with me and so many others. Find out more here, how to start here, & see all of my PL 2014 posts here, and 2015 here. Some links may be affiliate links.

September 4, 2015

friday link love | 13.

This vine cracked me up (as did my coworker's commentary on it), and it only gets funnier and funnier the more you watch it.
Binge watching Friday Night lights, so therefore need this sweatshirt.
Do not drink a beverage, or have a full bladder when you view this video — I had two very close calls.
Absolutely loved this article that shed light on a serious matter with immense humor.
Aaaaaaand this is my life -__-
Despite being in mourning over One Direction's hiatus new, they released this video, which gets my heart pumping. Mmm.
This was the best thing I've ever read on HuffPo.
And this might have been the worst — you can't remake Robin Williams, and it's going to be awful.
I don't ride the subway often, but when I do I can relate to all 25 of these people (and am kind of a couple of them myself, whoops).
Some gems from my coworkers: a rad dad, john oliver on sex education, and signs you're addicted to chipotle.
And from me: a tiny zumba master, a story about my stuffed animal, the sneakiest twin babies, and newborns in camera bags.

September 3, 2015

project life 2015 // week fourteen.

March 30 - April 5.What went on this week: This was my last week with the nuggets, which was bittersweet, but it was a great week. I took Max for a haircut where he let the hairdresser use the buzzer for the first time (which for him is a huge deal), and there were a lot of snuggles and kisses between all three of us, which is my fave. My friends and I tried bringing lunch to the beach on a sunny Saturday, and that ended up as eating lunch in the car and taking selfies because it was freezing. We tried.Details + interesting tidbits: I used the journaling cards to talk about Max and Sky, which isn't that different from normal, but because it was our last full week together, I had a lot to say. I liked the pink, blue, and yellow in all of the photos, so that color scheme for the cards worked out so well.Photo Breakdown: phone photos: 11 // DSLR photos: 0 // polaroid photos: 0. Taken by me, the self-timer, and shutter remotes.Materials Used: PL Core Kits: midnight edition (week card), Studio Calico PL kits: odyssey ("I can't even" card); cirque ("remember this" sticker); far far away ("&" card), lisse street ("story of" card), less is more stamps, elise joy stampsfiskars corner rounderfiskars paper trimmerstaz-on jet black ink, smash date stampzig photo signature pen in black (on photos), zig writer marker in black (on journal cards), canon selphy wireless printer, canon selphy ink + paper kit.
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Project Life is a simplified solution to scrapbooking created by Becky Higgins that helps you record everyday memories. Document your story either physically or digitally along with me and so many others. Find out more here, how to start here, & see all of my PL 2014 posts here, and 2015 here. Some links may be affiliate links.

September 2, 2015

hawaiian grilled cheese.

Even though I don't have it often, I love Hawaiian pizza. I was craving grilled cheese the other day thinking about this one I made, and also thinking about bacon, because I'm always thinking about bacon, and so this all just happened — boom.Ingredients:
// bacon, cooked crispy
// crusty bread, toasted
// cheddar cheese, heated until gooey
// pineapple chunks, sliced thin
*all can be changed, but this is how I made it/like it. :)After cooking the bacon and slicing the pineapple, I toasted the bread a bit first, then put them butter side down in the pan and layered the cheese on top. Once the cheese got melty I piled on the bacon and pineapple with one more piece of cheese on top to kind seal it all in, let it all heat up for a few minutes, then took them off the stove and smashed the halves together. Cut in your desired shape (triangles are normally my jam, but this bread was weird), and take a photo of it super quickly because you'll be drooling by that time.

September 1, 2015

july/august book report.

Everything I Never Told You. This book was not my favorite. It's probably the most disappointed I've been with a book all year. It's posed as almost a mystery novel in the beginning, when you find out that a mixed-race family's oldest daughter has been found dead in the lake near their house, but it ends up being an account of how truly messed up this family is. For me it felt like a competition to see which parent was worse, and which one of the kids is going to end up the most dysfunctional, and it didn't entertain me — it just made me feel really bad. I couldn't relate to any of the characters, and nothing about the writing or story was so great that I'd look past the crumbling plot. This was a rough one.
“The things that go unsaid are often the things that eat at you — whether because you didn't get to have your say, or because the other person never got to hear you and really wanted to.”

What Alice Forgot. This was a quick read that was really though-provoking. If you hit your head and couldn't remember the last ten years of your life, who would you be as that person thrown into today's world, with everything you've said and done in the last decade remembered by the people around you? After a gym accident Alice thinks it's 1998, that she's pregnant with her first child, doesn't know why she'd ever be in a gym in the first place, and has found out that for some reason, her and her amazing husband who she loves so much are getting a divorce. Alice has to try to navigate this "superwoman" life that she's created over the last ten years, with her sparkly and untainted personality from ten years prior, and it just makes you think about the person you were and the person you've become and how you want to approach life and love with a mix of both.
“They would think she was savoring the taste (blueberries, cinnamon, cream-excellent), but she was actually savoring the whole morning, trying to catch it, pin it down, keep it safe before all those precious moments became yet another memory.” 

The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes. Though this got a little bit slow at times, I enjoyed this book. It's unlike anything I've ever read before, and it was just enough panicky suspense, love story, and plot twist for me to enjoy it fully. CeeCee Wilkes falls in love and makes a questionable life choice when she's 16, only to have it follow her around for the next three decades in her mind. Then, she is forced to face the reality of the aftermath of that situation when new evidence is revealed, and the life that she's built for herself is flipped upside down. Really makes you think about the gravity of your choices.
“I think the important thing about making a decision is just to make it. Otherwise you can go nuts thinking about the pros and cons . . . So, when it comes to making a decision, look at both sides, listen to your heart, then pick one and dive in.”

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. I had super mixed feelings about this book. At first I was really into it, then I got a little bit bored and had to bring it back to the library, so when I picked it back up I was convinced I was going to give up on it. But I was 60% through so I kept going, and I'm glad I did. This is a weird story that includes actual events as well as made-up ones, but in order to not give anything away, I'll just say it's about a very interesting family and a unique pair of sisters who grow up very close until they are torn apart. It's a very emotional book at times, but very quirky and simple at others. I recommend it with the warning that it's takes a while to get through.

The Scorch Trials. I loved the Maze Runner, and wanted to read this second installment right after but got distracted. I saw that the movie for this one is coming out, so I took it out of the library and finished it in about three days on the train to and from work. It was very different from the first one, as they're no longer in the maze, but the characters are familiar, the action is for sure revved up (the movie is going to be intense), and there were a couple of new characters that I ended up liking a ton. It's definitely still full of mystery, and like the first one, the way it ends just makes you want to read the next one right away. So I did . . .

The Death Cure. Part of me wanted to save this third one for another time, but I needed to know how Thomas's story ends and what happens to all of his friends and the people at WICKED. If you're into these books, this one might make you a little annoyed as it did for me, because almost too much seems to be going on and some of it doesn't feel totally necessary, but in the end, I think the story is wrapped up in a satisfying way. I felt a lot more emotional while reading this one, so when they make the movie for it in the next couple years, I'll have to bring the tissues.

Three Wishes. This is the third or fourth book I've read by Liane Moriarty, and maybe my favorite so far. Australian triplets — two of whom look like twins — go through a series of dramatic life events that threaten to challenge the closeness they've felt their whole lives. The one-liners are hilarious, their personalities are all relatable, and one character, Michael, had me laughing out loud. Recommend.

That's 24/25 and I'm loving how close I am to going over this goal — last year I had the same goal and didn't get there, which was a bit pathetic considering how much I love reading and making time for it. Next up is The Nightingale and The Invisibles (for book club).