happy hump day!
today I am:
- trying to soak in these beautiful last bits of fall
- sipping coffee courtesy of a very sweet friend of mine
- planning christmas gifts ahead of time (for once)
- watching the food network wishing I had money to cook brilliant meals
- attempting to study spanish & history
- listening to this song on repeat
- dreading going into work, but thankful for a job that pays me well
- sort of freaking out because I just registered for classes and made my perfect schedule for in the spring (which will be my last semester at community college before I graduate and transfer!!!)
oh, and not to mention I totally just threw my whites into the washing machine without looking to see that there was a dark grey rug (go me!) already in there waiting to be dried. needless to say, when I returned to the washer half my garments were turned a lightish blue. thank God for bleach and the hot water setting.
xx, Charity
well well well, november, you certainly snuck up on me this year, goodness! it feels like my birthday was last week, not nearly a month ago.
I am both happy and sad that fall has been flying by and the cooler air is blowing in (quite literally here in virginia, I might add, it was extraordinarily windy today). I love cold weather clothing, fireplaces, hot chocolate, baking extravaganzas, etc, but alas, with the change in the physical season comes a change in mental season.
for the past few years winters have been both good and bad. and they almost never can out-do the other. while I think december is quite a happy month (for the most part), once that's all over I tend to fall into a deep depression. I really can't explain it, but I know it's not uncommon. do any of you ever struggle with seasonal sadness?
my goal, however, this season, is to try and combat that sadness as well as I can. I truly want to make the most of it. more than ever this year, I feel like I'm learning more and more just how fast time flies. this is my last year in my teens, my last semester (hopefully) living in fredericksburg and going to school here. next year, I'll be knee deep in my major studies and that old phrase "carpe diem" keeps coming to mind.
I don't want to always look back on winters with sadness tainting them. I really want these to be good and wholesome times. especially considering it's during one of the biggest breaks you get in college, for cryin out loud!
yes, I fully intend to make the most of it. and if I get sad sometimes, that's perfectly alright, but I would much prefer not to wallow in it. in the meantime, I'll be making the most of the rest of this beautiful month.
xx, Charity
p.s. I did, in fact, purchase my very own copy of tswift's album a few nights ago, and dear god it's something else. literally cried while listening to wildest dreams and this love in the car. yup.
Today was a pretty average thursday.
I got up, drank coffee and called the dmv to get my license all situated (long story), ate an apple with peanut butter (and maybe a few chocolate chips), and proceeded out the door to get to spanish on time.
spanish was long and laborious and not over soon enough. after this, I went to the doctor to get a breast ultrasound (TMI?). bet you didn't know those existed. and if you did, well, you're really awesome because I certainly had no clue whatsoever and was petrified at the thought. and as I came to find out it was pretty much just as uncomfortable as I had imagined, but it did end.
immediately following this, I had to head back to campus to finish up my long day. not without a stop to wawa, of course, to grab a $1.99 dulce de leche latte (how do people survive w/o wawa's???).
on this drive I finally started listening to the new Taylor Swift album via short, itunes samples, which I know many girls have already gotten their clutches on, but yet is still becoming more and more uncool. fooey. it felt nice to sort of be taken back. I had no interest in Red, even though Fearless and Speak Now were the anthems of my life back in high school. even though the sound is nothing like the "old Taylor" as some like to describe her, I think it's neat to see how she's sort of changed and evolved as she's aged and had different experiences. it's pretty comparable to how the average young human's life is. so, yeah, even if it's lost some popularity to like Taylor, I still love her and this album. my favorite song so far on 1989 so far is Wildest Dreams and I'm planning a trip to target to purchase it as I speak (or type rather).
now that I've lectured on that...
my us history II professor is probably one of my favorite profs ever. and his alma mater happens to be the school I so dang wanna transfer to next fall. I literally don't want to leave his lectures. that's saying something if you ask me.
I came home after my last class and catching up with a few friends on campus, cleaned up my room, folded laundry, and called my mom.
yes, it was a pretty average day, but at least there's Taylor, and lattes, and us history.
xx, charity
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