i hope i don't jinx it

Considering I live in a town that last year, got more snow than parts of Alaska, it probably is a little too early to be excited for spring, but I can't help it.  And if I'm getting too excited God is encouraging it because this same town that got all that snow last year was running balmy 67 degrees yesterday!  This morning I couldn't help but break out my very summery boyfriend pants (my only pair with holes in them).

I sadly could not get a shot of my entire outfit before I left this morning but here are a few more things I'm excited for this spring...

Getting all my colorful keds, oxfords, and flats out-- I'm okay with putting my boots in the trunk for a while.

 All the spring magazines and catalogs that just came in that I can read on the beach, and start my spring shopping lists.

 My favorite picture of spring break three years ago, which will hopefully prove as a model for how this spring break is going to shape up!


Last thing, here's a few pictures from a couple weeks ago (I ended up leaving my camera at home. oops.) I'm also excited to spend some time with the crazy family for a couple days.  So much to look forward too!

I'm definitely going to try to get a full outfit shot in before I leave for spring break at the end of the week.  It's been way too long.  Until then, Happy early spring!

Cheese, Cheese, & Cheese

As I'm sure the rest of the blogs of the world are doing, I've come up with several things that I am going to attempt to complete/ do over the period of the next 365 days-- or I guess 364 days.  I guess I better step on my list. 
Last year (2010) I did a couple new things, some that worked out great, some not so much.  These things included but were not limited to:

1. transferring to Appalachian State University (worked)
2. dying my hair brown (didn't)
3. dying my hair back to blond (worked)
4. started a blog (still working on that one)
5. started running
6. moved into my own apartment with some awesome roommates (i hope it worked)

So my list for this year (2011, for those of you who forgot the year as their attention was more focused on watching Snookie like a hamster inside the clear plastic dropping ball of the MTV New Year) includes but once again is not limited to the following:

1. run a half marathon (that's 13.1 miles, people)
2. get a summer internship in the fashion industry- if anyone wants to help me out on that one, I'm open to anything
3. go on a road trip with just my sister and brother
4. read 20 new books that I haven't read yet
5. go to new york

the countdown starts

This summer, for me, has been extremely packed and crazy.  Between work, my friends, and my side projects I've created for myself, there has barely been a moment to relax.  I have only watched one full episode of Wipeout, just to give you an idea (and if you have never watched Wipeout on abc, you've been deprived of a real ab work out). 

Even with all the business going on, this past week, I started getting this feeling that I couldn't identify.  It started with wanting to find new restaraunts that I've never been to, and ended with me going to a consultation appointment at my salon for dying my hair!  (Still debating the latter...)  As I talked to one of my close friends, and then my sister about the same thing, I realized that haunting feeling is restlessness.  With all the pretty big changes I am making in my life, I'm waiting for them to have some major effect on everything else.  Especially after finally deciding what I want to and where I want to go, I'm ready to begin all those things now! 

This past year, some one told me the patience she had to have while waiting for their boyfriend (now fiance) to "court" her was one of the hardest things she had ever done.  She also claimed it was the most important thing she had ever learned.

I could definitely take a lesson from her at this point.

Last thing, promise.  Here's just a few pictures, a couple from Norman Jean Roy, and most of them from, my favorite, Teen Vogue!

Happy Hump Day (: