Breakfast in Bed

What I want for breakfast right now:

{Wouldn't this best the best Monday morning?}

Listening to: "Maybe I'm Amazed" Jem
Thought of the Day: "A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." -Herm Albright

{Image via I heart stolen images}

Happy Friday!

Happy Friday! I'm going to be volunteering all next week at a camp so I won't be around, but I have some scheduled posts for you to enjoy! I've never been to this camp before, so wish me luck! The tree houses in the picture above is from the camp that I absolutely loved in junior high. Camp Ondessonk was the best ever and I am so excited because Pete will be going there for the first time this summer too!
I hope you have some lovely weekend plans and have some time to be outdoorsy :)

Listening to: "If You Leave" -Nadasurf
Thought of the Day: "One can acquire everything in solitude - except character." -Marie Henri Beyle

{Image via: Camp Ondessonk}

Defining Pretty

So, I'm sorry for all the videos lately... I don't know what's up with this new addiction, but here's one more.

A couple of days ago, I was watching While You Were Sleeping on Oxygen, trying to keep my mind off my sore throat. Usually, I just mute the commercials and they don't phase me at all, but since my 10 year old brother Pete was in the room too, I started to notice more of what was being advertised. I know Oxygen is a "women's channel" but still, their commercials were crazy - almost every single one was for a diet plan, exercise machine, or some other product geared toward making women thinner, tanner, and more "beautiful". I'm all for being healthy, but do we really need this overload of the extremes? And then I saw this Dove commercial. It's scary to think of what little kids who watch this TV are thinking.



Listening to: "Wedding Dress" Taeyang
Thought of the Day: "What you do, the way you think makes you beautiful." - Scott Westerfeld

Making Four-Eyes Cool

I'm getting over strep throat right now and since I've just been laying low, I've been wearing my glasses a lot. And while they aren't ugly glasses that cover your cheeks like those ones I wore in grade school, I still feel weird wearing glasses all day. Maybe I should blame it on that Arthur book where Francine called him "four-eyes" or the fact that I have the worst eye-sight in the world without actually being blind. But then I saw this adorable video over on Kaylen's awesome blog, Happy Notions, and I love it and it made me feel so much cooler wearing my glasses.



I can't wait to see The Girls with Glasses' future shows which you can check out here on their website, their blog, and their vimeo site. Enjoy!


Listening to: "California Song" Brooke White
Thought of the Day: "Now I know why someone from our past has to come back... to remind us how much we've grown." -Paano Na Kaya

p.s.! - want to see the coolest glasses ever? Check out Warby Parker. Not only do they donate a pair for everyone you buy to someone in need, but also you can "try on" every pair online! So much fun! Read their story too - they're trying to keep the price low (only $95!) to work against artificially high prices. Oh, annnddd they sell monocles (which are "the perfect accessory for budding robber barons, post-colonial tyrants and super villains")! They're pretty cool in my book.

World Cup 2010

I don't understand how people can watch most sports on TV. While I like watching in person, the idea of watching 2+ hours of basketball, football, golf, etc. on TV sounds like death to me. But I make a major exception for soccer. I used to be super obsessed in junior high and high school, but since we didn't have cable, it was really hard to watch any games other than the major ones. I have to admit though, I haven't watched much soccer since then, but I'm getting pretty pumped for the World Cup this summer, especially after I saw this awesome Nike ad, "Write the Future". Check it out:


Listening to: Katy Perry "California Gurls"
Thought of the Day: "We need men who can dream of things that never were." - John F. Kennedy

Please Mr. Postman

I've been home for a little over 2 weeks and I really really miss my friends. It's weird to think that I will never be able to have almost all of my best friends within a 2 block radius, but yet, it's also strange to think that a thing like college exists where we can have such an amazing time surrounded by so many friends. Anyway, one of my worst faults is my inability to keep in touch with people. I'm going to be trying my best to turn this around, especially in August when I leave for a year as a Jesuit Volunteer in Los Angeles. I hoping to have a blog chronicling all of my thoughts and experiences, but I also want to get much better at letter writing to keep in touch with friends and family.
Maybe something like these adorable envelopes will help me out. On this website, you enter your location, either a specific address or a landmark, and they create a printable envelope with a Google Earth picture of where you are (like Hawaii... I wish!) and a little message like "Wishing you were here with me :("


I found this idea on Black*Eiffel along with some other cool options of map envelopes.

Listening to: "Polaroid" Shwayze
Thought of the Day: “When you're young, your whole life is about the pursuit of fun. Then, you grow up and learn to be cautious. You could break a bone or a heart. You look before you leap and sometimes you don't leap at all because there's not always someone there to catch you. And in life, there's no safety net. When did it stop being fun and start being scary?” -Sex and the City

Finally Summer

Some things are just meant for summer. Just like that rule about white and Labor Day, it seems wrong to enjoy snow cones anytime other than summer. This past weekend, packed with baseball, snow cones and friends was the perfect way to usher in the season.

{St. Louis Cardinals game}

{Tropical Moose snow cones - mine was pink champagne fizz with nerds!}

{swinging in the park - not just for little kids}

Listening to: Robin Thicke "Sex Therapy"
Thought of the Day: "To those we love the best, we say the least." -John Ray

{Images via: Cards, snow cones, swings}