Drizzly Daze

First of all, only one week to fall break.  Heck yes!  I'm in love with this season.  I love everything about it.  The changing leaves, the cozy sweat-ahs, the new candle scentsy scents, the wonderful rich food.  One of my favorite things about fall though, is the candy.  Maybe it is because Halloween is just around the corner.  I don't know but I love fall candy.  The other day I went to walls-mart for conditioner and I left with not one, not two, but three bags of candy.  I recommend you try candy corn M&M's and pumpkin spice Kisses.  In my defense, I got the third bag of candy for baking purposes. 

 

 

I'm starting my seventh book since I started school.  What have I been reading you may ask? 

Katherine's Reading Recommendations

 

The Dressmaker of Khair Khana 

by: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

 

The Secret Garden

by: Frances Hodgson Burnett

 

Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man

by: Steve Harvey

 

Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home

by: Kim Sunee

 

Suck Your Stomach In and Put Some Color On

by: Shellie Rushing Tomlinson

 

The Little Prince

by: Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 

Girl, Interrupted

by: Susanna Kaysen

 

 

 

 

 

 

My dad came to visit last night and surprised me with a trip to the bookstore.  My dad has always shown me the importance and value in a good book.  In the south, men are expected to wear boots and be rugged and muddy.  My dad isn't that.  My dad doesn't lie in his recliner watching sports and he doesn't get his gun when it's deer season.  That's what I love about my dad.  He has been through alot.  He is stronger than any "manly mountain man" will ever be.  He has overcome so much because of Jesus and His provision.  I love my dad.  I am able to talk to him about anything.  He taught me to read, love art and culture.  He taught me to be open-minded and to not have prejudices.  I'm luckier than any other girl because they don't have a dad like mine.  Anyway, my dad bought me Girl, Interrupted and three Moleskine journals. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have a story to tell and I can't wait to share it.

I'm Falling for You

I'm a planner.  It's what I do.  I can be a problem.  Whatever.  This is all to say that I'm planning something great.  Something grand.  Something fantabulous.  I'm planning a camping trip.  Some of you (oh so devoted readers) might not know this but I love camping.  My grandparents have taken me on camping trips since I was a wee little tot.  Most of our camping adventures have taken place in the summer when I was out of school.  However, my favorite time to go camping is in the fall.  Guess what?  Fall is in 5 days.  Five days people.  5 daze.  So, here are my epic camping trip plans.

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So, who's with me?

Party Time

Saturday was my roommate's birthday.  So we celebrated as best as we could when one is required to attend a tailgate and Preview Day on their birthday.  We had a surprise dinner and cookie cake complete with party hats and those little blow-thingys.    

Happy Birfday, Roomie!

Septimberz

 

 

 

 Sometimes, roommates just have to have matching leopard pants

I've been reading...

 

 

 

 and reading...

 

 

 

meet my new bed for the year

cake pops in Fondren

 

Twenty-five

I'm a list maker.  I make lots and lots of lists.  A little over a year ago I started a list called twenty-one before 21.  Now that I'm twenty-one, I'm going to make twenty-five before 25.  

Twenty-five before 25

Read 5 books within a month

Visit France

Go back to East Fremantle, Western Australia

Be a bridesmaid

Get a book published

Learn some barista skills

Go white water rafting again

Purchase first house

Make friends with people from other lands

Go to the zoo

Sleep under the stars

Find my life-long adventure partner

Plant my first successful garden 

Graduate college

Live in New Orleans

Find best job ever

Make a quilt

Spend 5 days camping straight

Get better at photography

Form new friendships

Climb a mountain

Re-visit the MoMA

Ride in a hot air balloon

Sew my own dress

Create online store

Comment away.

Twenty-one

Do you remember my 21 before 21 list that I made Spring of 2011?  If not, go check it out in the above tabs.  I turned twenty-one the fifteenth of August.  Woot woot.  So here is my list below and here is what I actually accomplished.

Twenty-one Bay-bee

1) work out 5 days a week for an entire month 

2) make a quilt

3) spend the night with a homeless person

4) have tea (or beignets) with a stranger and share life stories

5) go to Africa June 4, 2012  

6) make a dirty chocolate souffle

7) make my own bead curtians (psychedelic)

8) have a booth at the Ole Brook Festival selling my art  

  

9) re-read Redeeming Love completed May 27, 2011

10) see a friend get married completed May 12, 2012

11) have an old fashioned picnic

12) live in New Orleans (for atleast a short spell)

13) make atleast 10 recipes out of my french cookbook

14) get an adventurous haircut

15) make new life friends  completed October 2011 (love my wolfies!)

16) start my own business selling my art 

17) make and drink exotic tea for afternoon tea completed May 23, 2011

18) have a herb garden every spring  (I had mint this spring but the 'rentals killed it)

19) bond more with my sister completed Summer 2012

20) dive deeper into God's word and meditate and memorize like never before never complete

21) grow closer to God never complete either

Okay, so eight out of twenty-one.  That's not that bad, right?  Right?  Okay, so time to start my 25 before 25.   

(living da life)

For the Love of Donuts

(we aren't those practical and sensible type of girls)

I know I've kinda been MIA.  I'm so sorry devoted readers.  You know, since I have so many devoted readers.  Hi mom!  I just needed a blogging break.  I forgive myself.  Since I last blogged, I turned twenty-one and moved back to school for my senior year.  There have been a lot of other changes in my life also but I plan to keep some of my life somewhat personal.  Exciting changes have been going on and I'm kinda starting to feel like I"m growing up.  Nah!  I have more things to blog about in the near future like my 21 before 21 list and my new dorm room and my favorite obsessions of the moment and how I'm taking a french class. Oui oui.  So, stay tuned for whole new adventures with me. 

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